And @paulecohen.bsky.social here with the essay-length explanation for why this video (m.youtube.com/watch?v=hwiR...) is such a great encapsulation of how NZD researches and why that is so invigorating. 🫶 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #NZD4Eva

Every time a media organization measures the USPS via profit/loss, I lose my mind a little bit. The USPS is a service for the American people. In the state of Alaska in particular it is never going to be profitable unless it becomes so expensive Alaskans can’t afford it.

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

Can you help a local historian locate and map examples of historic Gaelic inscriptions on Scottish gravestones? Read the latest blog on our website here that explains more about this interesting project 👇 www.scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/in-sear...

Day 23 and we've reached penultimate window of this year’s Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar! Today’s word is: 🌊 strand — 'the land bordering a sea, a shore or beach' Common to Germanic, strand being the default ‘beach’ word in Dutch, German, Danish and Norwegian.

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

You want to know about this site that lets you explore data collected by the HMS Challenger from 1872–1876, an expedition that laid the foundation of oceanography. 🌊 challenger-expedition.sams.ac.uk/explore

This year, as a Caird Research Fellow at Royal Museums Greenwich, I developed a new research project on occupational health, disability, and welfare in the British Royal Navy during the French Wars (1793–1815). Read some of my preliminary findings here: www.rmg.co.uk/stories/mari....

If your work engages with naval and maritime history, art, and culture, do consider applying. Next year’s application is open now until 18 January 2026: www.rmg.co.uk/collections/.... Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about my research or the fellowship.

#SeaScrolling #Breathe

Apart from the main point she’s making (which I agree with), this thread is worth a read because this is just a fascinating topic. This is why I do what I do. Because people are doing such amazing the and struggling to find the time to work in them.

From Nikki in the Kelp team: "Our wildlife highlight - we visited a site where kelp has survived the traumas of its past. We were mesmerised by the billowing golden kelp fronds, loved catching sight of Stingrays slinking around the seabed & shoals of young fish taking refuge within the kelp forest."

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

What historians (and other scholars do) is create knowledge. We should use that phrase more and talk about what it means. I think we don't, and it's part of why AI enthusiasts are confused when we don't readily agree that our work can be replicated/replaced by their products.

Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.

People aren't "Ctrl+F" their way through research. They read these things because it's what they like to do. Let me repeat: reading papers is enjoyable and fun. For folks who don't like reading papers: don't become researchers, you aren't cut out for it.

Am I the only one who gets a real kick out of citation chains? Reading people's writing and footnotes, and making assessments and notes, finding the sources in the footnotes and reading them yourself, and making more notes? I...love it?

This is perfect stuff

Looking for a New Year's resolution that is good for your mind and (relatively) easy to keep? Check out the Institute of Historical Research seminars for January 2026. Fourteen seminars in week 1 alone. Free, broad-ranging, open to the public and usually available both in person and online.

To echo: do not cite anything you have not at least skimmed and can verify it really exists and says what you say it says (or is about what you say it is about). Even if you collect citations from others' work (a legit practice), CHECK THEM.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

1969 Alaska Airlines advertisement, during their Golden Nugget era, when they pushed a pseudo-1890s goldrush vibe. This particular look is more inspired by movies than history. #alaskahistory #alaska

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

The Winter Solstice sunrise at Newgrange is one of Ireland’s most powerful connections to the past✨ This RTÉ Brainstorm article by Terry Clavin of the @dib.ie (based at @ria.ie) explores how archaeologist Michael J. O’Kelly rediscovered the alignment in the 1960s. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

Day 19 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 geo — a rocky gully on the coast in Caithness, Orkney and Shetland A Norse borrowing < gjá 'rift, cleft, chasm', as in the Faroese village Gjógv Formed by high-energy wave erosion along a line of structural weakness in the rock

Living With Water episode 3, Water Justice 2 youtu.be/K4x37XAgQpM

Today's task list includes writing a peer review and starting to read a manuscript for another. No AI is getting near them. There's no excuse for using it.

Share these replies with every college student and college-bound student you know. Open-mindedness, curiosity, a willingness to be surprised, these are all more important than whatever you think you wanna be when you grow up

In case you haven't already seen posts about this horror show of a publishing contract. The commentary here and in other threads is an tutorial in spotting red flags, and this sort of deal is something no author should EVER sign.

The study 'also found that AI-related water use now exceeds the entirety of global bottled-water demand.'

A personal association for #TimeTravelAdvent #Day19. I live in #Dorset, and love it when I find #fossils on the beach at #Kimmeridge or #LymeRegis. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is wrestling with this new testimony 'from scarped cliff and quarried stone', and what it means for personal faith. 1/3

On this date In the year 1981 the crew of the Penlee lifeboat, all 8 men from Mousehole, Cornwall, lost their lives in attempting a heroic rescue in hurricane force winds. In tribute to them we reproduce an article about the Newhaven lifeboat, first published in @sussexbylines.co.uk 2021

I like Oxford a lot. Its architecture, and bookshops, and cafes, plus its all-pervading ambience of history and learning, but I think what I most like about it is its commas.

Wooden and stone #fishweir/traps have been identified in the archaeological record of #Ireland from as early as the #Mesolithic. Ireland's wet climate and relatively benign archaeological conditions have been favourable for the preservation of organic material such as wood. 1/6 #coastalhistory

June 20, 1915, the view from atop a tall tree overlooking the tent city in the Ship Creek flats, what would become Anchorage. The first auction for the original townsite--modern downtown--was July 10. Via Library of Congress #alaskahistory #alaska #anchoragehistory

Day 18 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 cuddy duck — a local name in NE England for the Common Eider, a large seaduck found along northern coastlines Named after St Cuthbert, the 7th-century Northumbrian saint traditionally associated with various bird-related miracles

Gee who predicted this, oh wait most of us did. It's only going to get worse. We are passing beyond enshittification now--because the content of scholarly knowledge is now substantially digitized, generative AI is potentially going to start altering already published work, not just new work.

Ooh borders from @hookland.bsky.social Edges, edges are mighty, magical places. Watery, fluid boundaries are the most magical of all

Bird place-name of the day 120: ERIDGE (Green), E. Ssx. OE earn + hrycg. ‘Eagle ridge’. White-tailed, specifically, which is back in Sussex now (saw them again on my last visit to my childhood home this weekend just gone). #PlaceNames #birdsandplace #naturewriting

Good morning #Portsmouth Calm #WednesdayMotivation #MidweekVibes

It's beginning to look a lot like #HillfortsWednesday 🥳 Here's a glorious aerial photo of the spectacular unfinished 3.5ha Iron Age hillfort of Ladle Hill in #Hampshire 😍 ✈️ 📷 © Ginny Pringle for the Hampshire Cultural Trust For more see: hampshirearchaeology.wordpress.com/2015/11/23/b...

Day 17 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 shingle — smooth, waterworn pebbles as found on the seashore Origin unclear, perhaps imitative of the sound of water running over such pebbles. As in various coastal place names, notably the Suffolk village of Shingle Street.

AI is not our peer, so AI review is not peer review. If for some godforsaken reason the editor of a journal wanted to know what AI would say about a paper, they could do it themself.

Day 16 of the Coastal Lexicon Advent Calendar and today’s word is: 🌊 lee — the sheltered side of a ship, turned away from the wind Whence leeway — ‘the sideways drift of a ship leeward of the desired course’, and also figuratively — ‘scope for freedom of action or thought’ 📸 Dguendel (CC BY 3.0)

I've been worried for years that UK Higher Education is on the path of Australia (not the US), just a year or two behind. But if we could get a committee like this to outline the harm caused by centralisation, reliance on external consultants, and consequent failures of prioritisation I'm all in.

Blog post by me on a manuscript book I found during my Folger fellowship this summer. I was interested in what it had to say about widowhood and remarriage but it also took me down a recusant book history rabbit hole!

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Fuck. komonews.com/news/local/f...

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things