"Survivors will face a poisoned environment—a toxic biosphere of war—for just about forever." "No life without water: How Israel’s actions in Gaza echo past genocides," by Mark Zeitoun, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Danilo Türk, and Reem Abu Shomar.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️‍🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:

THIS WEEKEND!! Friday: The Death and Life of Canadian Social Democracy (an @albertaadvantage.bsky.social intervention) www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv... Saturday: panels by @cjsw.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @briarpatch @theorchard and more www.eventbrite.ca/e/progressiv...

I was way ahead of my time

It's almost as if the two are connected somehow; probably just a coincidence

Looking forward to this!

We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃

This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r

Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.

Remember the deadline on April 4th for sending in your abstract to this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference, "Children and Climate Change"!! Conference dates: 25-27 June Place: Aarhus, Denmark Keynotes: @sheinalew.bsky.social and @kalexand.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025

We are all under attack and we are fighting for our universities. This week @tungohan.bsky.social raises the alarm about the neoliberal, right wing attack on higher education in the wake of program suspensions at York U. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig... #AcademicSky #dei #reconciliation

Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too). 📆Conference dates: 25-27 June 📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April 👩‍🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...

This Canadian historian would love it if these "you're erasing #history" folks asked themselves why they're so locked in on erasing JAM's violent #colonial legacy. It's like, getting weird at this point nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

À lire ! mouvements.info/la-resistanc...

if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives

The NEH has decided to comply with fascist dictat. www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

"Historians should make it more difficult for students or the larger public to naturalize inequalities of wealth and privilege, or romanticize the poor and oppressed, who, depending on the circumstances, could become the oppressors — these, alas, are not fixed categories."

@annettejosephg.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & I are seeking submissions for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "Children & Childhood in the French-Speaking World." We are esp interested in contributions that deal with race, empire, and colonialism. CFP here: bit.ly/3EIeVvE

Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25

The Childhood & Youth Network of @socscihistory.bsky.social (co-chaired by our members @kalexand.bsky.social, @edillenburg.bsky.social & Mary Jo Maynes) invites session/paper proposals for the SSHA conference. Proposals due 1 March. The conference will be held in Chicago in November.

Shame on the American Historical Association for vetoing a motion, passed overwhelmingly by members, to condemn scholasticide. You would think that the deliberate annihilation of every university in Gaza would contravene the highlighted text below. www.historians.org/news/busines...

Continuous publication & open access & online-only, oh my! The new year is bringing exciting changes to the Journal of British Studies. Read more about these new developments here. www.nacbs.org/news/news-fr...

BONUS CONTENT: Read an interview in SHCY Digital Childhoods with the new Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth editors, Julia Gossard and Holly White shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/julia-go...

Great program. Especially excited about week 2, which started as a strand of the @hexhistory.bsky.social conference on children, experience and agency. @kalexand.bsky.social @slowhistorian.bsky.social @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social

Elsevier, Wiley, et al have found ways to “ethos-wash” open access and make it profitable! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Great interview with @kalexand.bsky.social and Simon Sleight. Check out their open access volume, part of the 6-vol Bloomsbury Cultural History of Youth.

Pals! Ca. 1930 - 1940. digitaltmuseum.se/021018469767...

Really important thread on how Nova Scotia benefitted from plantation slavery - elsewhere. (Lit in #cdnhist emphasizes that yes, there were enslaved people in Canada but slavery was different in the colonies of British North America. This work shifts our attention and focus in crucial ways).

And here, about the pedagogy of wonder — and helping students understand the politics of acquisition / procurement, how collections are built; and the economy of (non-extractive) learning

New entry in the HEX Handbook by @kalexand.bsky.social , Karen Vallgårda and me on voices and sources.

IHR Lifecycles seminar, Tuesday 26th. September: Book Launch! To hear Simon Sleight and @kalexand.bsky.social in conversation about their new (open access) book, either at KCL on The Strand in London or through Teams. Event starts at 17:30 BST bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...