Including an image of diamond miner being chased by a police officer shouting “Hi! Waar’s yo pas” ! What you are looking for really shapes what you see.

Interesting new article about the "illicit diamond buyer" in c19th South Africa by @imperialminerals.bsky.social. A lot to learn in it. I've seen this map of claims before without fully noticing it is decorated with caricatures of African miners being chased by police. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The Commemorations Grants scheme has opened for the third year. Funded by the @deptcultureirl.bsky.social, this scheme provides between €1,500 and €10,000 per project. The deadline for applications is 29 April 2026. https://www.ria.ie/grants/commemorations-bursary/

Delighted to have an article, 'The Racialized Energy and Labour of Illicit Diamond Buyers in Colonial South Africa' published as part of this special issue edited by Michael Tondre: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... This article has come from the Research Ireland-funded Imperial Minerals project and

Nigel Biggar attacking Alan Lester and colleagues through a proxy student ‘whistle blower’ in the national media, with no right of reply. Disgraceful MAGA tactics.

Fantastic blog by my former colleague @alanlester.bsky.social forensically refuting the disgraceful attacks on the University of Sussex by the disgracefully ignorant Nigel Biggar. If you’re interested in protecting academic freedom please do read and share

And now I have a helpful 20% discount code for anyone interested too: 26AFLY1

This book has the most scathing dedication by an illustrator I have ever seen (and he is completely right) #kidlit

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

"this does not need a balm this needs an ending" --Dionne Brand, Nomenclature for the Time Being Audio: milkweed.org/between-the-...

The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum

I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.

@gigitang.bsky.social article, 'Race, Postcards, & the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines' has been published in Victorian Studies! In it, Gigi compares how 3 SA postcard publishers represent the arrival of indentured Chinese workers👇 imperialminerals.ie/publications...

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

When the active shooter on campus is the Israeli state, does anyone offer thoughts and prayers?

You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry imperialminerals.ie/podcasts/qua...

Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...

I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇 www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...

Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres. Get in quick. Details in link. Please share :)

Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?

Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.

Great to see this out in the world

Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers. Imagine blowing your nose on that! #scraps

This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.

5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu

🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians More info here 👇 www.tcd.ie/courses/post...

Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar... Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean... @biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org

It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!

Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:

A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Wonderful to host the launch of "Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin", with essays reflecting on how creative pedagogies foster critical thinking in teaching & learning. @artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @creativefutures.bsky.social

"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞 Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps. #envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...

📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m...

Registration is now open for the one-day symposium on Critical Minerals being organised by @gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly on 7 November. Featuring a keynote by Associate Prof. Tom Nurmi, 'Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI' More details 👇 imperialminerals.ie/events/regis...

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

New series just dropped! Victorian/ 19th C Global Anglophone folks, please take a look. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

BOOM! 💥💥💥 Brown REJECTS Trump’s loyalty oath! “I’m concerned the compact, by its nature & provisions, would restrict #academicfreedom & undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance, critically compromising our ability to fulfill our mission.” — Christina H. Paxson, Brown University President

Apply now for a free week-long PhD course on Energy Humanities organized by the Greenhouse and the project Energy Lives! project run by @melinabuns.bsky.social Takes place in Stavanger, Norway, 1-5 December 2025 www.uis.no/en/research/... #envhum #envhist #energy

'In a time of ecological crisis and economic inequality, the authors argue that closing off inquiry into alternatives to GDP growth is not just anti-scientific but dangerously regressive.'

In a day in which those who perpetrated a genocide and those who were complicit gather to pat themselves on the back as peacemakers, I recommend two books.

We are hiring! Prospective PhD students in environmental history, history of science, history of technology and STS interested in the climate and environmental impacts of AI look here. Please share in your networks. #envhist #histsci #AI #anthropcoene

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

Quarry Farm Symposium, my favorite event on our annual calendar, kicks off tonight with a discussion of everyday ecofascism with @aprilanson.bsky.social & Alexander Menrisky. This year’s theme is Energy Studies, co-organized with @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social. marktwainstudies.com/2025-quarry-...

The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!

The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!

Deadline today!

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess

Do you want to be a part of our mass digitisation project, and potentially have your research shared more widely? As we wrap up on this momentous project, we’re keen to showcase how Kew’s data is being used in research across the globe 🌍 Could you help us tell this story? ✨