holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Excellent piece by @howrhearolls.bsky.social in The Independent.

if you're coming to our launch, you'll get the full force of "game shows are fun and Sonja clearly hasn't organized a birthday party or been in an undergrad classroom for a long time." There are only ten questions (well, 4 more if we need a playoff round). And there will be a prize, too!

when your silvery soprano sells ..... face powder? Marie Toulinguet, Newfoundland's Nightingale of the the North, in The American Druggists' Circular and Chemical Gazette, 1899

Thomas Jefferson was 44 when he started in creeping on 14-year-old Sally Hemings. And Sally, who was enslaved, shared a father with Martha Wayles Jefferson—Tom's wife. He's been dead literally centuries and the US refuses to reckon squarely with what this meant for definitions of American greatness

The CBC Poetry Prize shortlist is announced today! Congratulations to these poets. www.cbc.ca/books/litera...

This book has been a JOURNEY & it's so wonderful to be able to share some of the letters folks wrote to Smallwood alongside contemporary reflections & contextual essays. At 500+ pages, it's massive, but it can be read in bite-size pieces: there's lots to chew on, smile with, savour & enjoy. Join us!

👋 NS, NB, and PEI: Starting Wednesday, November 12, 2025 masks will be required by all patients, staff, and visitors upon entering the IWK Health facility. iwkhealth.ca/patient-and-... NS Health has not yet decided to practice infection control by requiring masks.

seen at the Colonial Building, St. John's, where (male) legislators debated women's suffrage in the early 20th cent. On Saturday @heritagenl.bsky.social officially designated the women's suffrage movement of NL as an outstanding historical event (it took several generations, so it was a long event!)

Look, just LOOK at what I have in my grubby paws: it's HERE! and it's gorgeous (and it's huge!). Book launch on November 26 at 7 pm at Queen's College, 210 Prince Philip Drive. Come celebrate with us!

A weekend full of conversations, listening, and learning about women's and gender history in NL, inspired by the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage in Newfoundland (Labradorians didn't get the vote until 1946)

landed to an absolutely beautiful, and quintessentially St. John's day: rugged cliffs, fresh snow, and big, gusty winds. Lovely to be able to spend a weekend with you again, St. John's

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

gusty in St. John's and a mix of cancellations, delays, and arrivals at the airport. Tomorrow's forecast says 'windy.' Will I make it to the @nlhistorical.bsky.social gender and history forum? Fingers and toes crossed...

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

on looking for (and not finding) a specific book, but finding lots of other stories along the way. www.storiedselves.ca/blog/books

Creating questions for our great Confederation Game Show at our book launch on November 26.

Decisions made in haste are never the best decisions. This is even more the case with AI. There's a lot at stake, detailed in the open letter. I strongly encourage govt to step back, slow down, and think things through in more detail. @mark-carney.bsky.social pencanada.ca/news/open-le...

the always sublime Suzie LeBlanc singing French baroque music. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN45...

In short, write your MP. Write them NOW. jcyliew.substack.com/p/trumps-imm...

writing and eating milk chocolate chips. And it's sunny out. Truly a great start to a Monday morning.

We already have tools that work: clean indoor air, high-quality respirators, testing, vaccination and smart exposure avoidance. The question isn’t what to do—it’s why so many still won’t do it. We downplay COVID at our peril, warns @yaneerbaryam.bsky.social 🙏 thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #LongCOVID

When buying books, you can’t always tell if you’re supporting Canadian businesses. But the Certified Canadian Publisher program is changing that. 📚🇨🇦

“... Drawing on recent popular and academic literature on genAI, we argue that the values embedded in this technology do not align with the values of critical humanities and social science pedagogy, which include originality, academic freedom, creativity, and critical thinking.”

New preprint alert! 🚨 “Let Them Eat Large Language Models: Artificial Intelligence and Austerity in the Neoliberal University”

Write something. Write it today. Write your heart out. Write something weird that only you would think of. Your enemies will not topple to your silence. Write your future and live it.

The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding. As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.

Just finished creating Confederation Bingo for our book launch! Onwards to the game show questions....

Come celebrate with us at our book launch: November 26 at 7 pm at The Great Hall, Queen's College (210 Prince Philip Drive). Readings. Laughter. Games (yes, games... with prizes!). Snacks. Fun. We'll have a grand time! Hope you can join us! @memorialup.bsky.social

Well isn’t this a literal fucking nightmare…

After a (very) long and (very) winding road, Dear Mr. Smallwood is almost here! I can't wait to finally meet this book in print in a few weeks.

clearly time to look for alternatives

COVID is all over the place, folks, and while it might be less immediately lethal than it was, there are still significant long term effects of even mild COVID. (in case anyone is wondering why I still mask indoors, over five years later)

in which I write about fine-tooth-combing when I should actually *be* fine-tooth-combing.... Dear Mr. Smallwood is out in November 2025 and I can't wait! www.storiedselves.ca/blog/fine-to...

800 detainees are missing after being held in Alligator Alcatraz in July, showing no record of their location in ICE’s database. Other detainees have been mistakenly deported or sent to detention centers thousands of miles away. The cruelty is the point.

I went from having no e-books to having five holds come in at the same time - an embarrassment of riches! I love my public library.

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

No, Adobe Acrobat, I don't want to create an AI-created summary of the 510-page proof of our forthcoming book. I want to read the whole book. And all the contributions by all 35 contributors. Because reading is what a book is for. FFS.

So on the NL Education plan errors... The fact no one has yet said exactly when these fake citations were introduced (there is a process and there are drafts) screams lack of accountability.

According to this report, one of the immediate suggestions for transforming postsec education in NL is to "embrace AI." It seems the authors did just that. Ugh. Appalling. Poor. Infuriating. Embarrassing. Just a few of the adjectives flying out of my mouth this morning. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A full page ad for Dear Mr. Smallwood that includes the names of all 35 contributors! We're two months out now - can't wait!

Surround voters and citizens with propaganda in every part of their lives - it's all part of that fascist playbook.

Emmett Till would be 84 today. Not 114. Not 104. 84. He would be my uncle. Not great-great or great uncle. One of my parents' siblings. This is why we remember.

DHS has arrested two medical personnel at a surgical center in California for demanding that the officers trespassing in their building identify themselves & provide a warrant, accusing them of another.... wait for it... ASSAULT. The case shows how DHS lies relentlessly to violate the Constitution

French President Emmanuel Macron had been pushing for France and its G7 allies, the UK and Canada, to recognise Palestinian statehood. But London and Ottawa “did not want to face the wrath of the United States”, reports Reuters. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/qep46z

A new COVID variant, known as NB.1.8.1, has made landfall in the United States, and it's more transmissible than other variants.

While I would prefer that my historical research have less relevance, please read and consider what it was like to fall ill and die before germ theory. #histmed 🗃️ nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

Finally, my story on Thursday's debate on Coun. Sam Austin's motion on strong mayor powers. ‘This is bigger than any of us’: Council votes in favour of Sam Austin’s strong mayor motion www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...