Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK: Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns www.timeshighereducation.com/news/humanit... #highered #academicsky

Victorian Society's Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hot-off-th... #c19 #skystorians

Also due on the 15 September are proposals for 'Terraqueous Globe: Land and Sea in the Age of Sterne' #cfp #skystorians #18thC #BSECS 🗃️ Full details at the link below: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

🎉📣 Announcing the IHR Research Training Courses for October - December 2025. Visit the IHR website to register and find detailed information on each course: www.history.ac.uk/study-traini...

First They Came For National Park Service Staff. Then They Came For the Funds. Then They Came For the Books. Where Will It End? #NationalParks #PublicHistory #NationalParkService open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

JUST IN: A federal judge has blocked the cancelation of $175 million in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, mass terminated by DOGE in April. She says the effort was transparent viewpoint discrimination in violation of the First Amendment.

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c... #science #environment #publichealth #research

This is my new puppy who visited me in my office for the first time today. She was very helpful with my research.

Meredith Martin's essay “Paradise Lost” pairs Horvath’s Room for the Lost Paradise with Vigée Le Brun’s Prince of Nassau portrait to explore rococo simulation, colonial extraction, and period room historiography: https://loom.ly/ViyGIrs #18thcentury #arthistory

Happy to announce that our essays for “Room for the Lost Paradise: A Symposium” — part of the Resplendent Dreams: Reawakening the Rococo exhibition at the IMA — are now available on Journal18 www.journal18.org/nq/room-for-... #18thcentury #18c #arthistory #art #skystorians

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

Report: National Science Foundation headquarters to be taken over by HUD, displacing 1,800+ employees #science #research

Just so we're clear... Article I Section 8: Powers of Congress The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States;

Any time press coverage slips from what happened and why, into "political strategy," and especially when it tries to show us a clever or winning strategy that may have eluded our senses... Any time that happens we are entitled to doubt it, as Greg Sargent does here. newrepublic.com/article/1966...

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference. #highered #academia #research www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

My thoughts on what’s going on in Los Angeles:

We will be officially separated from our positions simply for preserving history and culture. And for no reason at all. Because spitefulness, cruelty, and hatred have taken root at our once esteemed agency. We will keep on fighting. Our history, culture, and humanity depend on it. 🫶 (2/2)

We know we’ve been more quiet on here lately. We’re hoping for a Monday miracle today, friends. We know so many of you are as well (for various reasons). Although NEH has ceased to exist in its former glory for the past 59 days, tomorrow it becomes very real. (1/2)

IAHI-NACBS Visiting Research Fellowship Supports access to resources for scholars working on projects that bring together aspects of British Studies and Environmental Studies. Due: June 23, 2025 #history #envhist #c18 #18c #18thc #environment #environmentalhistory www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

Tool to identify poisonous books developed by University of St Andrews. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

"An oil painting of a stormy Bristol landscape has been rediscovered as one of the earliest works of JMW Turner, created when the artist was 17 years old and lost to his canon for the past 150 years." #18c #18thc #arthistory #19c #19thc www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

@isecs-sieds.bsky.social Early Career Seminar #CFP on: Reforming Religion, Morality, & Society in Afro-Eurasia: intellectual & cultural traditions in motion in the global #18thC Send 1pg proposal + CV to the following address by 1st July 2025: [email protected] 1/10 #skystorians 🗃️

Exhibition | 28/05/2025 to 28/11/2025 |Florence and Europe. Arts of the Eighteenth Century at the Uffizi #c18 #18c #18thc #arthistory www.uffizi.it/en/events/fl...

Call for papers is out for The Caribbean Digital XII. This year we're going to be hosted by the wonderful folks of the Early Caribbean Digital Archive at Northeastern University in Boston on December 4–5. Come share your work with our wonderful community of praxis. thecaribbeandigital.org/cfp/

I'm pleased to announce the new IAHI-NACBS VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP--a collaboration between the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI) and @thenacbs.bsky.social. www.nacbs.org/fellowships/... #skystorians #history #envhist #histci #envhum #humanities #environmentalhumanities

📢New fellowship opportunity 📢 We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new collaborative fellowship with the IU Indianapolis Arts and Humanities Institute (IAHI).

"The local police arrived to prevent the community from protecting their neighbor from an unlawful kidnapping. They succeeded, and in the process arrested two of the people who tried to stop it." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.

Before he was governor, Tate Reeves spoke at the Sons of Confederate Veterans' 2013 national gathering, in front of a massive Confederate flag behind him. After he congratulated the organization for “keeping history for our youth,” a speaker compared “Yankees” to German “Nazis” in World War II.

NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵

It deeply saddens me that the important work of humanists across the country has been ended in order to support this so-called "Garden of Heroes." I have little doubt that many of these "heroes" would shudder at the thought that their names will be used as propaganda... 1/2 #humanities

hahaha! Oxford Comma meets En Dash.

Job Opportunity! Lecturer in Medieval History (Education and Scholarship) University of Exeter - Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI610/l...

University of Oxford Stipendiary Lecturership in Modern History University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMN036/s...

“The termination of your grant represents an urgent priority for this administration” My NEH grant has been terminated Incredible when the funding for your book about the educational culture wars is cut as a result of the educational culture wars You can’t say history isn’t relevant

Important read. #humanities #science #academicsky #highered

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with our very own @justincolson.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palace for anyone interested #latemedieval and #earlymodern place-based histories, material histories and social histories.

📯 New publication! 📯 We are proud to share the outcomes of our NEH workshops in 2024, which brought together researchers from around the world to pilot data-driven approaches to the history of travel 🗃️ #earlymodern #digitalhumanities #digitalhistory read more here: github.com/rmidura/EMDi...

National Humanities Alliance Statement on Threats to the NEH nhalliance.org/nha-statemen... #humanities #neh

"IMLS makes up only 0.0046% of the federal budget and efficiently provides critical resources to libraries and museums in all 50 states and territories in communities rural to urban. The museum sector, in turn, generates $50 billion in economic impact." www.aam-us.org/2025/03/31/a...

Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu... #science #publichealth

“The Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing Monday that it had grabbed a Maryland father with protected legal status and mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, but said that U.S. courts lack jurisdiction to order his return...” www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

This is the sort of slow drum beat that seems like it will inevitably lead to a public health crisis in at least pockets of the US...

Twenty Lessons from @timothysnyder.bsky.social, read by John Lithgow snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les... #history #democracy

The Trump administration summarily fired the staff of the U.S. Institute of Peace late Friday night, less than two weeks after forcibly removing the congressionally funded organization’s president and installing in his place an agent of tech Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... #arthistory #art #history

Hegseth's office ordered the U.S. Naval Academy to review all 590,000 books in its library for content at odds with an executive order banning “radical indoctrination” in K-12 schools, even though it is a college. MLK, Einstein books already identified for removal www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/u...