1) I'm excited to read in the @ceu-press.bsky.social newsletter announcements of two new book series! The first is Studies in the Global History of Central and Eastern Europe www.ceupressauthorhub.com/studies-in-t...

The Society now invites applications, from PhD students, for the 2026-27 Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History bit.ly/4xD5ZyN The Scholarship provides funding to support doctoral research in Africa and is named for the late Professor Martin Lynn (QUB). Closing date 4 September #Skystorians 1/2

A brief 🧵 for all outside the #atproto bubble on why, from a digital industrial policy perspective, this step is deeply bewildering. There's @eurosky.social – open source, non-profit, fully aligned with the EU's open source strategy. It provides all that W has, & more. And yet, the Commission...

Another terrible AI-generated image of the gynaecological anatomy. It must be a day ending in a Y. Let's take a closer look at this wholly cursed illustration of a menstrual cup via @pzmyers.bsky.social

The Tohono O'odham Nation has asked a federal judge to immediately halt pending plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to build 62 miles of border wall through their reservation. tucson.com/news/local/b...

L'historien Carlo Ginzburg est mort à 87 ans. Pionnier de la micro-histoire, il a fait de la rencontre avec l’inattendu le moteur de sa méthode et de son écriture. Pour (re)découvrir son parcours et sa pensée, écoutez l'entretien qu’il nous avait accordé en 2025. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/cPy

I just learned of the passing of Carlo Ginzburg. I was introduced to his work during my Master's, and the impact of his ideas on how I approach and interpret historical sources cannot be overstated. What an immense loss for historians everywhere. 😢

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

The single worst thing the queer community can do is give up on its revolutionary and marginalised roots and trust in corporations and states. This is stupid and a betrayal of values that have kept people like us alive all this time.

I keep seeing academics disparaging colleagues for advocacy or scholar-activism. (Feels like I am back in the 1950s or something.) You can pretend (social) science is "neutral" if you want, but given what's going on, are you really going to trash folks who want to push back against injustice, now?

Stories of enslaved Africans return to Guyana through ‘Voices’ archive, check these news about this new amazing project by historian Diana Paton, Randy Browne and other dear historians newsroom.gy/2026/06/10/s... #slaveryarchive

The framing of this story is everything that’s wrong with BBC news. The article itself says a few dozen people turned up versus thousands at the rally but look who gets the attention. Everything else I’ve seen shows the successful mobilisation of solidarity but of course the BBC see something else.

"In mid-seventeenth-century France, it turned out, female beauty, elite status, and the intertwined growth of Atlantic commerce and racial slavery registered together in all sorts of unusual places." #earlymodern open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...

The idea that Natalie Zemon Davis’ work was/is NOT political (and therefore somehow less threatening than Hartman) is absurd - NZD’s approach was explicitly feminist in how she read her sources and she was criticized exactly for ‘imposing narrative form’ on the accounts by conservative critics.

Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.

Fantastic article!

A job in modern British History. At Manchester. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

This is my new favourite game. Anthropeum.com · Jun 9 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦🟨🟦🟨🟦🟦 87.427 · top 1% of players today!

@johnkwilson.bsky.social tears apart the Vanderbilt "report" on the humanities. "If you imagine that every single academic field has the same identical ideological problem, the most logical explanation is that the ideological bias is coming from you." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

🏳️‍🌈 While lawmakers across the U.S. flood your feed with “Happy Pride” messages, here’s a reminder for them that the LGBTQ+ community is overrepresented throughout the entire criminal legal system 🧵

Very much looking forward to Jamie Gemmell (KCL), talking about John Satia and the 1731 City of London ban on Black apprenticeship @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social All welcome in person or online, but please register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Apply for the Prize of the German Historical Institute London! 📢 🎓 It is awarded annually for an outstanding #PhD thesis on - German history (submitted to a British or Irish university), - British history or British colonial history (submitted to a German university), 1/5

60% of youth in custody are diagnosed with ADD or ADHD – compared to just 11% nationally. Kids need care, not cages.

Any parent and applicant planning to attend the Sussex University Open Day today, we can save you the trouble: these are the non-answers staff is told to give you. To send your staff out with this nonsense and treat visitors to this ChatGPT approach is disrespectful to all.

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

We still have a scholarship available for History, Archaeology or Heritage (or a combination) at CCCU. Deadline 3 July. This is an open call as long as your research fits with Cultures and Communities or Material Pasts. 1/ www.canterbury.ac.uk/study-here/f...

I had the joy of meeting John Shorter of the National Museum of Jamaica yesterday and learning about the fabulous digital exhbition their website features on the Spanish colonial history of the island. Available in 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇲 or 🇪🇸🇨🇺🇨🇴! museums-ioj.org.jm/exhibition/a... museums-ioj.org.jm/exhibition/u...

They are disturbing the dead: reconstructing the site of the forgotten 1st genocide of the 20th c. ~3,000 Herero & Nama ppl died in a German concentration camp in Namibia. A exhibit in Berlin is using digital tech to unearth how colonisers scarred a community www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I have thought about this question in quite some detail too, and can safely say that TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. (If an adjective is a disqualifier, then I'd be quite worried who else James thinks he can exclude from the category of 'real women'. And don't pretend that that hasn't happened in the past.)

"...the most successful project that colonialism ever ran — convincing ... the world that Indigenous lives on the frontlines of extractive capitalism are someone else’s problem. A niche concern. A faraway tragedy. Sad, perhaps. But not urgent. I am here to tell you that is a lie you have been sold."

This Sunday marks the 105th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. Imagine the terror as a mob of more than 10,000 white people descended on this thriving Black community in a “coordinated, military-style attack.” 300 murdered. A town in ruins. Justice still denied. abcnews.com/US/fight-jus...

Valuable digital project on Suriname presented by Thunnis van Oort at this year's Association of Caribbean Historians conference 🗃️: data.surinametijdmachine.org

👀 @erikagaffney.bsky.social is launching a new book series: this time it's BRILL* 🥁 'Early Modern Visual and Material Cultures', with Allison Levy as the series editor rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModern #Skystorians

A first look through the window slats at beautiful #Jamaica. No greater pleasure than to be here to attend the @achconference.bsky.social Annual Meeting! And now excuse me, I have to finish reading the conference papers ... 🤓

Cardiff University has admitted spending more than £1m in the last year on a controversial consulting firm as part of its ongoing cuts programme ✍️Martin Shipton

If you consider yourself a feminist & the place you’ve decided to put your energy is campaigning against trans rights, then you need to take a good long look in the mirror (and at the stats for rape, domestic violence, SA, women in leadership, global slavery, poverty, women in war zones, etc etc).

My grad student João Covolan is organizing a nice workshop in Florence. Spread the word! Tuscany and the Iberian Empires. Migration and Knowledge Transmission in the Early Modern Period (30 October 2026, Florence) www.medici.org/cfp-tuscany-...

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

The Church of Scotland hasn’t just apologised, it also set up a Masters scholarship at Edinburgh. In England reparative justice is being resisted by a well-connected political lobby: alanlester.co.uk/blog/the-arg... Church of Scotland apologises for role in slavery www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

To take a page from the humanities, we are meaning-making creatures; we need a “story” to live by. The instrumentalist story of “education as making (compliant) workers” has been a dehumanizing catastrophe. We need to insist on a truer story, one of curiosity & truth-seeking as goods in themselves.

Actually, SHAPE subjects cross-subsidise STEM subjects in most comprehensive UK universities annually through differential central charge or 'contribution' models. It's another reason we're all in the current HE crisis together, whether our own particular discipline is 'at risk' at present or not.

Edinburgh University’s supreme academic body has warned of a “lack of transparency” over a £140m cuts drive Across UK higher education, decisions are taken by a small, unrepresentative circle, with scrutiny sidelined & rewards flowing upward 😉 www.heraldscotland.com/news/2611129...

“What is being unmade this time is not only the right to vote or the right to citizenship—both of which are being whittled away—but also the right to know, the right to make knowledge, and the right to tell the truth.”

🚨 Opportunity! 🚨 Want to come to York for up to a month this June, July or August? Apps are now open for our Summer Interdisciplinary Research Fellowships based in our glorious #earlymodern Heslington Hall (1/2) docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I met someone who was shocked at how rabidly I despised GenAI. For others curious why writers appear to have an irrationally strong reaction to the chatbots, a rough breakdown of why so many of us are going full luddite: 🧵

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

We're excited to announce our Summer Lecture Series 2026: "Environments of Knowledge: Climate, Risk, and Governance from the Middle Ages to the Anthropocene" The series examines how societies have understood, managed, and monetized environmental change. 1/6

Would be good if performers, musicians, writers, and other creative workers insisted on organisers not using genAI for advertising festivals, shows and events they're taking part in, in solidarity with visual artists, because it's absolutely everywhere at the moment. We need to stick together!