“Stop worrying and love the bomb”

“Perhaps the cruelty is the point. Afterall, we’re not talking about a lot of money. Let’s add up the Budget 2025 cuts…” buttondown.com/leftcoastdis...

My hour has come

Library and Archives Canada to cut 56 positions

In time for Nova Scotia’s Heritage Day, my article on race in the Helen Creighton collection of NS folk culture is now open access: www.erudit.org/en/journals/... #cdnhist

In light of recent news about federal cutbacks implicating history-focused organizations, CHA president Colin Coates has sent a letter to the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, the Hon. Marc Miller. #cdnhist

Archives matter - but not to the Carney government. Canada has only ONE federal funding program for community archives, and they just killed it. Gone. @wgreaves.bsky.social www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

The Queen's Journal just broke how, behind the scenes of its Bicentennial Vision process, Queen's admin have been working with external consultants planning massive restructuring for years. It's so bad. Worse than you think.

Queen's has released its Bicentennial Vision document today, a strategy for what the university will be as it enters its third century in 2041. The terms "arts," "humanities," and "social science" do not appear anywhere in this document #cdnhist

signal boost for folks working on folklore and/or Newfoundland!

💿In Ethnomusicology Vol. 69, No. 3, @chrisgreencorn.bsky.social (@queenshistory.bsky.social) reviews "A Survey of Traditional Music from the North American Traditions Collection." cc: @sem-office.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/arti...

This is very prominent billing for a review (the dividend of being one of relatively few ethnos on bluesky?) but nonetheless, new publication alert!

Excited to be sharing my research at Memorial next week!

Federal and Provincial Own-Source Expenditures in Respect of PSE Institutions, Canada, in billions of $2023, 2007-08 to 2023-24 Can anyone see where the nasty Harper regime in Ottawa ended and the cuddly Trudeau one began? Anyone? Anyone?

Recommended if you can make it to either this event in Guelph or the one in Montreal on Thursday - a fantastic contribution to Canadian music history, now available in English (and I produced the index!)

Last week we published Taryn Goff's analysis of plants in the first five years of Folklore magazine. But did you know that @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social made the Folklore archive open access?! A rich and largely untapped source for Saskatchewan history! niche-canada.org/2020/04/27/f... #cdnhist

"The cliché of judging people by the standards of their time, by working to exempt people in the past from the critical eye of the present, simultaneously obscures other historical figures who we might appraise more positively, especially knowing the context in which they were making their choices."

Very happy to share that I’ve been awarded the inaugural Herbert & Violetta Halpert Research Fellowship from @munfla-archive.bsky.social, to conduct dissertation research there this fall. Looking forward to a two-week deep dive into their folklore collections! www.mun.ca/munfla/news-...

My article on Nova Scotian folklorist Helen Creighton's collection in African NS communities - including Africville during its relocation - appears in this year's edition of MUSICultures, published this week. Read more (and available soon via Érudit): journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MC...