9. Bluenose II (Canada 🇨🇦) #SailBoston250 #maritimehistory

#SailBoston250 (Apologies this will be a tall ship appreciation account for rest of day) 2. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter EAGLE built in Germany in 1936 uscga.edu/mission/eagl... #MaritimeHist 🗃️ ⛵️

Crime? I'd say it's the cost.. of hundreds of thousands of educators being forced to rewrite their curricula in a way that significantly harms students with the greatest needs.

1931 untitled ink drawing of a bear greeting a prospector in Alaska. by Ted Lambert (1905-1960), via UAF's Museum of the North. #alaskahistory #alaska

What is Neurodiversity? It simply means that different people’s brains work differently, and that we’ll all be happier if we respect how those different brains work—instead of trying to force everyone to behave as though all brains are wired the same way. #neurodiversity

This week we reviewed #history undergraduates' responses to the 2026 National Student Survey: bit.ly/44Xrlty Notable is the high level of appreciation for history degrees (their quality, intellectual stimulation and rigour) and the university historians who design and teach them #Skystorians

“Done is better than perfect.” Thank you @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social, that’s exactly what I needed to hear. It can be so difficult and uncomfortable to send a draft off, but the peer collaboration in the editorial process is vital and one of the really beautiful things about the profession.

Had a great time at #vpfa this year (car issues aside), but it's occurred to me that someone mentioned that a PhD student was quite keen to talk to me, but was a bit reluctant to do so. I never found out who it was. But - if you want to talk to me at a conference, please come on up...

I often have less than a month of prep for my courses each semester, and I always have multiple preps. I make notes throughout the semester, but trying to stay ahead of AI is an arduous task.

This is an excellent little blog post about rowing in skaldic poetry by @judithjesch.bsky.social. With the Bayeux Tapestry loan, Battle of Hastings 960th anniversary, next year’s Year of the Normans, and now the Norwegian football team’s “Viking row”, my own research has never felt more topical!

The only groups that need convincing of the value of history degrees are university administrators and legislators.

Our kids played on Newhaven West Beach when they were tiny - then the privatized port closed it to avoid having to fix the crumbling wall and steps. The only sandy beach in the area has been frustratingly out of bounds since 2008. c.org/PBhLJYYGH2

Why locals are breaking into their town's beach #Sussex #BBCNews

Trying to feed a gull fledgling is a challenge, esp when it won't eat or open its beak. Husband saved the baby when he saw it in the road; it had been hit by a car. B is now wearing more liquefied cat food then went down the gull's throat. Waiting for gull rescue for more help. #HerringGullRescue

Old Ironsides (USS Constitution launched 1797) going out to welcome over a dozen tall ships from around the world for Sail Boston 250. #NavalHist 🗃️

RIP. An early-'70s crush with one of the all-time great names in TV. And yes, it was real. His actual name was Randy Mantooth, which is...just...impossible. I wonder if he ever got my fan letter. www.tvinsider.com/1274911/rand...

Here are the weather stats from the past 24 hours bit.ly/4r9plan

Today's anniversary of the 1958 Lituya Bay landslide and tsunami (still known as the highest tsunami runup ever recorded) and last summer's Tracy Arm event remind us that these hazards persist in coastal Alaska. Learn more about our two varieties of tsunami hazard here: https://bit.ly/4f8Fjxg

This week on the Untitled History Podcast, I sit down with @piratebeckalex.bsky.social to explore the myths and reality of the golden age of piracy, including how pirate attacks actually worked. Watch below or listen via your pod app of choice! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXtW... #history

New book review: Heidbrink on Quigley, Killian: _Reading Underwater Wreckage: An Encrusting Ocean_. Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/

My lovely friends, I have decided to be brave and commit to doing this, but I need your help! The Wayzgoose will be an opportunity to learn more about print and print history, meet other printers and book craft folk and develop some new skills & ideas. Rewards for £10+, £50+ and £100+ in next post!

Fenland #sunset #FenEdge #TheFens #Norfolk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Does anyone have a copy of this article in their stash? The journal has been discontinued and articles are no longer available. Thanks! #NavalHistory #Naval #MaritimeHistory

I’m going back to this one this fall.

I had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.

The blackberries seem to be ripening early this year. I just had to pull my dog's head out of the bushes. She LOVES snacking on them, and manages to do it without touching the thorns.

Temperatures peaked at 35.2°C today at Coton in the Elms, Derbyshire This means 2026 has now broken even more temperature records 🌡️

Happy #Matariki! To celebrate the Māori New Year, here is some Māori #archaeology: American sweet potatoes were essential to the Māori settlement of Te Waipounamu. Hardier than native crops, they enabled farming in the South Island's harsher climate. 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

Some reading for these grim times for UK universities - on how critical thinking and pedagogy might exist outside of these crumbling institutional structures. Richard Hall, The Dissolution of the Universities mayflybooks.org/the-dissolut...

Hah! There's no mistaking the owner's sympathies! A barge operating in the River Ouse in 1803, and moored at Piddinghoe, was named 'Bonaparte's Enemy.' That's a little more imaginative than the others, named 'Chance' and 'Hazzard'. #SussexCoast #CoastalHistory

Written by Aimee Mook, the Lloyd's Register Foundation-funded Curator of Contemporary Maritime at Royal Musuems Greenwich Image Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

The Ocean Map Book invites children to see the ocean through a new lens using the Spilhaus projection - a map that presents the world's oceans as a single, interconnected system. 🪼🐠🌊 Launched for #WorldOceansDay, it highlights the vital role our oceans play in shaping life on Earth🌍

UK herding people on to the bandwagon just as it loses its wheels.

Indication of how news of natural disasters travelled in the #earlymodern period: A letter received by Samuel Pepys dated 2 March 1687/8 (N.S.) from Jamaica describing the 20 October 1687 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Peru and killed an estimated 5,000 people. #skystorians

As the one responsible for all tech in a state library/archive that's about the size & with the same remit as some national libraries, let me amplify: libraries need more funding. Tell your politicians & administrators. We are getting crushed by the fact that "digital" is more expensive than books.

The prevalence of these ads online at the moment is completely overwhelming, spoiler: no-one has created a tiny, miracle air conditioner that costs £70 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's poor feline mother is going to have a nervous breakdown when the babe first sees water.

'The cuts and the timing of the cuts mean “stress levels are high” for all staff, but he added it also has a “massive impact on research”, as academics preparing submissions for the REF “don’t know what staff will still be available, or what submissions will look like”.' 3/3

'Unions have accused institutions of making announcements at a time they will struggle to take industrial action, with the approaching end of the financial year on 31 July also likely to be influencing decisions.' Dundee, Exeter, Hertfordshire, Lincoln, Northumbria, Sussex. 2/3

'Academics fear they are being “set up to fail” after several institutions finished the academic year by announcing fresh job cuts, casting doubt over who will return after the summer break, and what courses they will be teaching.' 1/3

Rewilding isn't just happening at Knepp. Nattergal's Boothyby Wildland is proving the model can scale. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Not the sort of thing I read or write but this is so fucked up! (Also, why pay for a magazine - the story is created by AI so you can save your money and ask AI yourself?)

📣We are delighted to announce the winner of the PGR Paper Prize 2026!🏆 👉Read all about it here: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/07/08/w...

I am still keeping this up to date, if anyone wants adding/wants to share, especially ahead of the British Crime Historians conference in September. go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw

it’s hot. may I recommend a crypt for these trying times?

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This is happening with our house, 2ft thick walls only have so much stored cool to exchange with air within the house. Once they warm up they're going to want to emit that heat whenever the air temperature drops.

'An air of exchanging Oxford wisdom while few academics outside Oxbridge can count their jobs as safe. An air of fiddling while Exeter burns.' 2/2

'The lords know the problems because everybody can see the problems. Some peers are particularly astute at calculating the damage being done. Yet there was an air to this debate of a bunch of clever people discussing climate change in an air-conditioned room while it is 38 degrees outside.' 1/2

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”