Nothing to see here other than a university telling its research community that AI can appropriately be used to "generate first drafts." unbcloud.sharepoint.com/sites/AI-at-...

I do not get to practice my speciality as a migration historian too often these days. But today I'm re-reading Leslie Page Moch's excellent book Moving Europeans in preparation for a lecture tomorrow & I am very happy ❤️ #academicsky #migrationhistory #museumlife

OK; I've downloaded Libre Office after another excellent blogpost from @domford.bsky.social, my colleague at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social about how to exorcise Big Tech from your worklife. domford.net/posts/exorci...

Metrics in science: A not-so-novel pain in the ass dontbelievehype.co.uk/life-of-a-sc... I recently got invited to take part in a study relating to creating a "novelty" metric for research, as part of The Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge, run by UKRI Metascience Unit & Uni Sussex 🧵

Anyone familiar with the project? #academicsky

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

Why Spain is breaking the mold in Europe - choosing regularisation instead of MAGA mass deportations!! Two reasons: morality & pragmatism. 🙏Spain showing us another, better way is possible www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...

The @norskfolkemuseum.bsky.social has been celebrating #saminationalday all week, and it has really been a highlight and a joy of an otherwise way too busy time ❤️

new article (paywalled this time, any support appreciated!) open.substack.com/pub/weirdmed...

Lest we forget, this technology is unethical at its core

*drum roll* Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026! I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...

Hi Folks! Lots of Derbyshire folklore in the latest episode of the Tales From Antiquaria podcast; Household Tales & Traditional Remains from 1895. You can hear it on all major podcast platforms and also on the link below! talesfromantiquaria.com/episodes

📢📢 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 📢📢 for "International conference: Ethnography of silence(s)"! The 𝘿𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝘼𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝘾𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙨 is proud to host the international conference “Ethnography of silence(s)” at the Faculty of Humanities, 𝙐𝙣𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙋𝙧𝙞𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙠𝙖, Slovenia. 🔗 See more details here:

If you're interested in AI and in Bergen you should come to the UiB AI seminar on Friday, Feb 13th from 10-12, featuring @hannaroine.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi, Scott Rettberg and me from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! If you're not in Bergen, you can sign up to watch it online. www.uib.no/en/ai/181273...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Spending the day with my old friends in social sciences, celebrating 10 years of SVA at @oslomet.bsky.social ❤️

#WyrdWednesday In 1584, in Somerset, Margaret Cooper was possessed by the Devil and took to her bed. One night after weeks of torment a phantom headless bear materialised in her room, grabbed her, shoved her head between her legs and rolled her round like a hoop for 15 minutes.

Today I will be talking about the Kraken! #museumlife

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the racist murder of Benjamin Hermansen. He was killed by members of the neo-nazi group Boot Boys. The fight against racism and neo-nazis in Norway is far from over and continue in the name of Benjamin and all those who have died at the hands of the far-right.

Today I am participating in a three-day course on labour organisation offered by my union. Feels so good to be part of a politically active and large community, from all kinds of professions ❤️ (Especially with how the state of the world is right now.) #academicsky

Super interesting read!

Today I'm playing with this thing (and cannot find it in the catalogue). #museumlife

looking for any and all microhistory* recommendations for books on the period 1850-1950, any geography *let’s say focused on a court case, or a non-elite protagonist, or a community etc. i know the term hasn’t always travelled that well outside of its origins in early modern european examples 🗃️

This made me happy today.

Our stave church looks good even in snow. #museumlife

Grateful for the streaming from Bergen Global's seminar on the uses and abuses of #migrationstudies

Today in #museumlife: finding tiny numbers on tiny cars & checking them against the register.

Eg sit på bussen inn til byen og høyrer på folkloristkollega @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social snakke om når jula slutter på NRK Hordaland. Kjekt! Er det 13. eller 20. dag? Eller er det Kyndelsmesse? samla.no/viewer/image...

There honestly cannot be a satire cutting enough to make fun of Americans. What the fuck do you mean the highest colonial ideal you could imagine was a parking lot with McDonald's on both sides

Please welcome . . . the UIP Spring/Summer 2026 Catalog! go.illinois.edu/SS26Catalog ✝️🍎🦊🪕🏢🌳🛩️💍🖌️🎥

Being an adult in academia means constantly pretending to feel totally comfortable and absolutely cool with talking to my heroes from my studies [I will never get used to this) #academicsky

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Can't they please just go back to talking about colonising Mars, for everyone's sake. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You can keep your festive decorations up until Candlemas Eve - but no later, or you’ll get possessed by goblins. Not my words, the words of @englishheritage …

FINALLY! UiB employees can apply for permission to remove Copilot from Word, Powerpoint and Excel! Of course, using LibreOffice is probably an even better idea, but at least there's now an opt-out - complex as it may be. hjelp.uib.no/solutions/op...

We are working on a new exhibition for children, and considering animals as one topic. This dog was the very good doggo of poet Wergeland... but probably too scary now for the kids 😳 #museumlife digitaltmuseum.no/011023128033...

Stephen Miller logic is to walk into a bar holding a loaded AR and telling them to give you all their money. It’s not a robbery, because you’re not pointing the gun rifle at them. They will of course give you their money, because what are they going to do? Fight you? Silly.

It’s fucking absurd to talk about NATO at the same time as you’re talking about annexing a part of a NATO member. This only makes sense to a fascist.

"Over and over again, journalists report breathlessly about a historian who has 'discovered' or 'uncovered' or 'found' something exciting" [leaving out that the discovery is only] "because it was appropriately described by a cultural heritage institution and made accessible to them"

Stop right there! Your 2026 has been blessed by the most perfect little creature in our collection - made by 8-year-old Berkshire student Lynn in 1969 and collected for the museum's School Loans service. Form: flawless. Technique: masterful. Heart: 100000/10 😺 2012.686.2

Happy New Year to everyone and a very happy 75th birthday to @themerl.bsky.social, which came into being officially on 1 January 1951 (the same day as the first national broadcast of The Archers).

This article analyses AI-generated lesson plans and finds that they predominantly emphasize lower order thinking and passive citizenship (lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy) and lack multicultural content - e.g. lesson plans about US civil rights that don't mention any Black civil rights leaders.

Historians: how do you arrange your books on shelves? I have stacks on the floor from a book edit and still some piles from general exams. They all need a home. Thematically, then by author? Just by author, because the themes all bleed together? Is there a masochist out there who uses ISBN?

Today, this made me happy 🥰 @brimwats.com #museumlife

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

Two books on Venzuelan civil-military relations I urge journalists to read. John Polga-hecimovich's chapter in the edited volume is an excellent summary of the Chavista era. Trinkunas' book is authoritative on the pre-Chavez era. I also urge folks to read articles on the topic by Deborah Norden.

I just deleted a post because I am in the USA for another few days. What an insane world.