"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

I'm very excited to announce the launch of the #18thC Ecologies Network! Co-convened by myself & @calsutherland.bsky.social at @cecs-york.bsky.social , ECEN is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies of the period 🌱 Find out more: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c...

The #18thC Ecologies Network, based @cecs-york.bsky.social is a hub for researchers interested in the many diverse ecologies the period. Details of their seminar series will be published here: hzj520.wixsite.com/eighteenth-c... #skystorians #climate #environhist 🗃️

Adding immediately www.wired.com/story/chrome...

Very excited to check this out!

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

A perennial favorite!

A cool result of everything having AI in it now is there are a bunch of buttons on every application that I have to be careful to never push, and everything takes five more seconds to load during which there's an animation of bonzi buddy thinking really hard

Student asked me for more adaptations of classic novels from a WoC perspective (thinking of Wide Sargasso Sea), but prompted bc we read this (tinyurl.com/bdeshedj) and she loved the Miss Lambe character. Help?

Student asked me for more adaptations of classic novels from a WoC perspective (thinking of Wide Sargasso Sea), but prompted bc we read this (tinyurl.com/bdeshedj) and she loved the Miss Lambe character. Help?

When I’m accused of “technopessimism“ I counter that I’m not “pessimistic about technology“; I am opposed to the economic, political, and social project of upward wealth transfer that “AI” is being leveraged to bring about. If that phrasing is useful to others, then go ahead and use it.

If you even own a confederate flag you are without doubt a gigantic piece of shit. Like you are objectively just a bad person and you should be shunned from society

We're speedrunning the Andropov-Chernenko era aren't we

The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people. Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...

Some people (not me) use Sunday morning to catch up on their politics, so here was my Say No to AI piece from this week for that. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Are you a scholar in Games Studies, Museum Studies and/or Digital Humanities and want to help NMS develop research in Collecting Video Game Heritage? Come and apply to be an IASH Fellow at the University of Edinburgh! Applications Opens - Dec 25 Closes - April 26 www.iash.ed.ac.uk/iash-nationa...

"Much like the nascent fascism that it has quickly grown to be the representative aesthetic of, it feels like...the goal is to bombard you with its horrors & its excesses so frequently that you become numb to it." aftermath.site/the-alters-a...

Steak ’N Shake Employee Screams After Nude RFK Jr. Climbs Out Of Beef Tallow Fryer

McSweeney's rarely misses: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

Shore-ly you didn't miss our most recent Linnean Lens talk? It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about! Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection

C R Y I N G this is so perfect lmao x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQ7cPSf...

Eliza Haywood 😁

I'm talking about Anna Laetitia Barbauld again tomorrow! 🗣️🗣️🗣️York Georgian Society lecture: more details here: www.georgianyork.org.uk/events-1/ann...

It’s very much a prototype but I have to share a preview of the interface @djevans.bsky.social is working on for our Viral Texts data—it maps reprinting data back onto the newspaper page, allowing users to browse what reprints appeared together on each page—with links back to full reprint clusters

speaking of sci-fi, also very intrigued by WHAT WE ARE SEEKING by Cameron Reed- queer scifi marketed as for fans of Ann Leckie. seeing really good reviews and buzz. #ewgc

The White House looks like a Hobby Lobby threw up on it

Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history? Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work. fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog

Too many apps! Too many damn apps

A friendly reminder that our cfp for "Naming & Classifying in the Eighteenth Century" has an extended deadline to Nov. 30. Send us your brilliant ideas! Please share, too. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Great Barrier Reef Anemones (1893) by William Saville-Kent, from The Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Source: RawPixel / Biodiversity Heritage Library https://pdimagearchive.org/images/cb31c75a-4597-4175-aaa3-bb1e925bb3e0 #biodiversity #fish #invertebrates #australia #art #publicdomain

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

I'm thrilled to see that the special issue of ECS, "Eighteenth-Century Coasts," is finally out today! Check out my essay on coral, and many other fantastic contributions: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55889

OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models. OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so. A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧 #QueerInSTEM #DisabledInSTEM #BlackInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #CarersInSTEM #AcademicSky #HigherED

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for my seminar "Cultures of the Environment" I am working towards student spending a session mapping an #environment of their choice, as a way to kickstart discussion about selective #representation and #mapping as #environing. Does anybody have suggestions for a reading to assign to students […]

One of our Fellows has co-curated a fascinating exibition of Indian botanical art. Henry Noltie & Sita Reddy chose 52 drawings by Indian artists, and where possible identified the artists responsible. 'Flora Indica’ is on at the Sherwood Gallery, Kew until 12 April 2026. Images © RBG Kew.

The world's 10 richest people (nearly all from the U.S.) are collectively $500 billion richer this year thanks to growth in stocks tied to AI. Meanwhile, data centers are sucking up communities’ water and electricity. AI is making the rich even richer while everyone else pays the price.

Lots of wrong information coming from the Trump administration on SNAP "running out of money November 1" and the SNAP contingency fund. The truth is: 1) It *can* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. 2) It actually *must* be used to cover SNAP benefits during a shutdown. Let's dig in.

The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English. Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues! Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

I did not sign up to become a forensic expert in determining whether someone made shit up and by what means, but thanks to ChatGPT this is everyone’s part-time job now.

To celebrate #WorldMushroomDay, here's a Lingzhi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum). #SciArt by E Ovsiannikov from Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde des Russischen Reiches (1857). Digitised for #BHLib by Harvard University Botany Libraries @harvardlibrary.bsky.social www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43058694 🍄 🧪

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RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants. Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

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