Thanks to the panelists and @cndhistassoc.bsky.social for a great panel on generative AI!

Google maps now does air quality, how cool is that?

Famously, Einstein hired others to do his homework for him.

“There was no written document provided. It was communicated verbally.” This is the culture of secrecy in universities that needs to end. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Oh no, added to the "techno-pessimists" list, I better turn in my "AI in the classroom" qualification and stop defending colleagues who are criticized for using AI. This place, this age, so all or nothing.

Canada should apologize for interning Jewish refugees DURING the Second World War. Please consider signing the petition. #cdnhist www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

British court rules that banning Palestine Action is illegal, but allows illegal ban to remain in effect. What a world.

Very cool project in #aidhistory @dominiquemarshall.bsky.social @kevinbrushett.bsky.social

Why is racism growing so fast in Canadian universities? Rhetorical question

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

Ok friends in Europe are telling me they are worried about the bridge. And possibly the senile rapist who is obsessing over it.

yeah ok

This is what Montreal's La Presse did. Washington should try it.

"There is widespread recognition among the racialized faculty that the core problem is not so much interpersonal relationships w colleagues, students & administrators nor inadequate grievance procedures, but rather the dominant hegemonic culture of the University." share.google/fTwOKrhssfhK...

OK my kid just texted me the single word "bruh." It begins.

Canada has ALWAYS approached aid with a profit motive, as documents going back to the 1950s show.

Maybe "British, Australian and other allied" countries will actually DO something now? Or will it be another strongly-worded letter as Commonwealth war dead are plowed under? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

So the Documentary Heritage Community Programme is axed. A serious blow to #cdnhist from the Carney Cuts. RIP, it did good work. But I guess we need more American fighter jets instead. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Great advice for academic writers!

Is it wrong to be right? A CBC deep dive.

RIP Akira Iriye, one of the great historians, forerunner of the international turn, mentor to so many. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Do any SSHRC reviewers out there know if feedback is still provided? It used to be routine but my last 3 applications (1 success, 2 not) have had no words, only little x's. We always put some sort of feedback when I was on committees, so I wonder if funding cuts for SSHC staff are the reason.

Thrilled to announce my new short book — Student Power:Canadian Student Movements From the Sixties to Today. Use code PALAUT for 20% discount 1/2 link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

1776-2026. RIP.

"Thou shalt kill. Thou shalt hate your neighbour." -the cult leader that worships the golden calf

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

"I would like to praise the Brits, the Canadians, the Dutch, the Danes and other countries for their contribution. These are brave souls. They're working side by side with the Afghan forces and the U.S. forces to deal the Taliban a blow, and I've only got praise for them." - GW Bush #cdnpoli

Better to sniff Chinese shit for a few years than eat US shit for the rest of our lives, to paraphrase Ho Chi Minh

As Payam Akhavan notes, the slaughter In IRAN by the Government of Iran is a clear violation of international law. The Iranian regime must be held accountable for this despicable crime. youtu.be/TpeFLm1VMVQ?...

The irony of everyone fawning over how Mark Carney is 'standing up' for Canada is that he is simultaneously eroding the few institutions that actually distinguish the Canadian state from the US, and those which theoretically could be used to shield Canadians from the disaster area to the south.

I am trying to do too much. Which 5 things. utterly necessary to my job or sanity, should I stop doing?

Carney said what critical voices - and most of the non-West - have being saying for years: the rules-based order is structurally unjust and unequal - and is decaying as a result. Carney didn't say anything new. But he has granted the mainstream the ability to voice & accept this reality.

Truth. All prime ministers tend to visit China.

The days of easy relations between Canada and the USA are over, Lester Pearson famously said in 1951. Maybe a Cdn govt will finally act on this knowledge?

Guest speaker Danny Beaton ( Mohawk) this week at @ubishops.bsky.social Sherbrooke Quebec.

1941

I guess it is time to start reading about Sudetenland

Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil. #cdnhist

The Nobel Prize museum in Oslo subtweeting the fuck out of Trump today.

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On remercie M Legault de ses services ;)

"Canadian officials are likely overestimating the Trump admin’s ability to retaliate on Grok. If the admin wants to retaliate & engage in a de facto defence of non-consensual sexual images & child sexual abuse material, the best response is to let them." theconversation.com/why-canadas-... #BlokGrok

Now available in print EVERYDAY DIPLOMATS The Global Solidarity Movement for Timor-Leste, 1975-99 Edited by Hannah Loney, Zelia Pereira, David Webster & Rui Graca Feijo pressbooks.pub/everydaydipl...

This still matters, too.