"These colleges... pushed the bounds of what education is, who it is for + how it should be taught. These institutions have been the [R&D] labs for the Ivy League + beyond. They helped develop + legitimize interdisciplinary fields, such as environmental science, Indigenous studies + media studies."

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

A brilliant article on queerness, power and privilege in Edwardian Chelsea. I loved working on this with @jo-bd.bsky.social!

Oh noooooo

Still true. 📕

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

The Religious Right is desperate these days to pretend that "Christian Nationalism" is (1) a recently-invented term and (2) a pejorative invented by their enemies, but neither of those claims is remotely true. Here's a short thread, but I'm sure other historians will have examples too.

I just finished reading The Hot Zone by Richard Preston and yeah…this is not good

Carney announces environment to be eliminated as cost-cutting measure

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

adding a new feature to bsky called "yikes"

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

tired: jury of your peers wired: bench trial inspired: bench trial by all of your fellow adult citizens

The police in Greenland are investigating the case of an American man who locals said had offered money to Greenlanders to sign a petition about joining the U.S.

Moms deserve ALL the flowers, but flowers & chocolate can’t fix the disastrously falling dominoes that start the moment a person becomes a mom: Republican leaders must stop undercutting moms & end the affordability crisis. @msnownews.bsky.social   www.ms.now/opinion/moth...  #HappyMothersDay

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️™️ 🧵 Black history reaches farther than most people imagine — including the Arctic Circle. Long before the U.S. bought Alaska, Black whalers were already there. True story, fam. Pull up a seat.🪑(cont) #ProudBlue #ResistanceRoots #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

“How do you go to a new city without becoming a bumptious tourist yourself? Some, such as the philosopher Agnes Callard, argue that it is impossible. 'Travel turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best,' she wrote several years ago."

A huge congrats to Kaitlyn on her contributions to the recent ID of the remains of FOUR (!!!!) new Franklin Expedition men, as part of Dr. Douglas Stenton's research team. Full scientific paper in the thread. For access to Kaitlyn's 2025 TC presentation, please email command [@] terror dot camp.

Breaking news: Indiana University plant microbiologist Roger Innes has been locked out of his laboratory by the school in response to a request by one of his federal funders. The move comes after Innes complained about the government’s prosecution of Chinese postdocs. https://scim.ag/4tsDqRr

Another real one born on this day: Sophie Scholl

"We know that all of the dogs used in the 1857-59 McClintock Expedition to find the missing Franklin Expedition were acquired from Indigenous communities in the Arctic. They were mostly sourced from Greenland and parts of Northern Canada..." - Celina Lee niche-canada.org/2023/09/27/e...

We are so excited that our book is currently being sold at the British Natural History Museum Gift Shop! 🥰🐧 #envhist #histsci #antarctica #polar

SHD STUDENT PRIZE. Further guidelines and submission here: discoveryhistory.org/student-prize

Once again, the ghost of Vilhjalmur Stefansson is so pissed he wasn’t consulted

This Arctic Atlas Shows Where Oil and Gas Activities Overlap with Wildlife and Indigenous Communities eos.org/articles/thi...

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Gross www.latimes.com/science/stor...

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

A new piece on sea ice, material agency in the Arctic and James Cook’s third voyage: www.bssi.org.uk/reetta-sippo...

I also chuckled, because I know the etymology of "checkmate" (Persian: "shah mat")

Okay but who in previous generations would have fallen hook line and sinker for AI nonsense? I think Shelley but not Wordsworth (on BSky, being tiresome about why not); Byron would say he's using it ironically while getting into increasingly long conversations about his own brilliance.

amazing that our own small creations connect us directly to the moment of our universe erupting out of nothing and the unfathomable power of existence itself and yet we look at our drawings or stories and are like 'this is bad.' bud it is not bad it is the leading edge of a billion years of beauty

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

The green dragon wishes you all an excellent #weekend BL Add 16577; Festival prayer book, Italian rite; 3rd quarter of the 15th century; Italy; f.44v @blmedieval.bsky.social

Also, can we all take a moment to realize how amazing it is we have a clip of Conan Doyle speaking? Love that accent!

A journal kept by Sybille Noel during a journey across Sikkim and Tibet offers a previously unknown account of the famous 1924 Everest expedition. Learn more about what it reveals with Jan Faull in our free lunchtime lecture. 📍 London and online 🎟️https://bit.ly/3QIi70r

This is obscene. Trump orders safe conduct for Alexei Mordashov's $500 mn superyacht, Nord. Mordashov is a key Kremlin henchman who has expanded his fortune building bombs Putin dropped on hospitals and nurseries in Ukraine. He is a war criminal. But Trump just loves him because of his ostentation.

"29% of respondents in states w/ a 'divisive concepts' law said they had altered their research & 10% said they were looking for a job in a diff state. Researchers in education & nursing were among the most likely to have altered their research." www.chronicle.com/article/near...

Uber for submarines

wow, a typo machine: mashable.com/article/sinc... I have an inkling that the machine made typos will feel different than the real ones

I’m thrilled that this article is now out through Endeavour! Please give it a read if you are interested in continental drift and colonial geology

Commentary: You Can’t Even Watch A Movie Anymore Without Seeing Some Theme Explored https://theonion.com/you-cant-even-watch-a-movie-anymore-without-seeing-some-theme-explored/

Jewish communities are living in fear amid rising antisemitism, including these appalling arson attacks. We must confront this. At the same time, antisemitism is being weaponised to shut down criticism of the Israeli government. Both are true. Both deeply concerning. Both Antisemitic.

“There’s just a gigantic amount of people that need to be made fun of that haven’t been touched yet." The Onion CEO @bencollins.bsky.social, a Mass. native, on why the satirical news site kept fighting to take over Infowars. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/22/b...

Happy Earth Day

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Please check out this *fascinating* programme for next week. I'm really looking forward to attending online as much as I can. There are some really neat talks that are going to be there, and lots of friends of @globalmarhist.bsky.social like Meaghan Walker and Seth LeJacq