Remember Rev. David Black, the Chicago pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls? If you haven't heard him speak yet, listen to this. To ICE: "You can repent"

Lydia Pyne on Yvette Borup Andrews' photographs from the American Museum of Natural History’s First and Second Asiatic Zoological Expeditions of the 1910s: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/yvette-borup-andrews-photographing-central-asia

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

These cases are nightmares. Many people had removal proceedings “administratively closed” for years; the case is off the docket and the person can stay indefinitely. Now, suddenly, ICE is restarting them. And if they miss a physical letter, they might get ordered deported without their knowledge.

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

This is the stuff I’m here for

Uhh.. Did we ever get a follow-up on this? And were Jewish Americans even informed about it?

No Noise November. everybody shut up

📣 SATURDAY KEYNOTE ANNOUNCED: Inside Amundsen's House with Anders Bache! Step inside the historic home of Roald Amundsen, as curator Anders Bache invites us on an exclusive tour of his amazing recent discoveries. 🤩 ❄️ Register now: www.eventbrite.com/e/terror-cam...

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Mamdani missed a chance to mispronounce “Cuomo” in his victory speech

Not the biggest story tonight by a long shot but I opened YouTube and was hit with one of my former professors doing a Wired video youtu.be/ur9mtU-iY6Q?...

I'm excited to share my piece in Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, which examines OpenAI's claims about ChatGPT's creative writing skills, Big Tech's weaponisation of grief and nostalgia, and the collapse of the academic humanities. lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

i owe so many video game designers an apology

If you were ever wondering what we're up against, this is a website book banners created to train people to get books banned in their own communities. I found my kids' school in here, and the books this website suggests I get banned from their library. www.takebacktheclassroom.com/school-detai...

"Though Canada now looks to the Inuit to shore up its Arctic sovereignty assertion, its claim also needs to be supported by building in a region long an afterthought for Canada." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

This is just reporting. This is what headlines in the New York Times and your local paper should look like every day. The New Yorker should be publishing stuff like this, only with an umlaut thrown in occasionally for some fucken reason.

I will never understand the pundit obsession with getting Democrats to solve "political division." Not only is this what they're already doing, but Klein admits that Republicans will never do the same. So elections will remain constant GOP smears and simping Democratic promises of bipartisanship.

The ISS Archaeological Project studied the phenomenon of crew-created visual displays in two articles (both open access): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... and www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/11...

You can't make this up.

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

I'm VERY excited to be joining the @terrorcamp.bsky.social crew next month for this online event!

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

We saw actual video of ICE seizing an entire apartment building in Chicago They arrested dozens of people-including citizens And detained children after binding their hands with zip-ties Yet, in Orwellian fashion, Kristi Noem tells us to reject the evidence of our eyes and ears

They're calling him the most French man in history

Today we have "Digging Ditches, Reworking Labour: Fairhaven and Davidson" by Rowan Goldman This is the third post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/30/d... #envhist

I have a new piece up at The American Scholar on a little discussed facet of the Salem Witch Panic: Cotton Mather didn’t start out a fire-breathing zealot condemning witches; he spent the first half of 1692 urging caution and restraint. What changed his mind?

"Violence of Melt: Visual Infrastructures and Erasure in the Arctic" by Audrey Medaino-Tardif is the second post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/27/v... #envhum

Kat is being federally charged by the FBI for protesting at Broadview. This is a flagrant political prosecution by the Trump administration, which is trying to prevent free speech and free association. I am proud of Kat. Her movement is being targeted by the government. She needs your support.

The FIFTH part of our popular Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series, led by @issygapp.bsky.social, launched last week with series co-editor @sarahmpicks.bsky.social's reflections on this year's theme, "New Research in Arctic Pasts." niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i... #envhist #envhum

First morning at Shackleschool, listening to @spacesword.bsky.social talk about Robert Falcon Scott’s scientific management

Time for @terrorcamp.bsky.social at Shackleton Autumn School, kicking off with the brilliant @tchotchke.bsky.social ❄️🐧

Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...

🚨NYC is showing us how it’s done! ✊🏼 1/2

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Four words of advice to #Iceland : KILL. THEM. WITH. FIRE. At some point there were only three in Finland too… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Menswear guy has spies everywhere. Doesn’t matter if you’re showing collar gap in the Twin Cities, being rude to service workers in Charlotte, or wearing a raggedy white t-shirt to eat at an expensive place in Malibu, he *will* know about it and burn you if you force his hand.

My latest for @blockclubchi.bsky.social Chicago Cyclists Are Buying Out Tamale Carts To Keep Vendors Home And Safe From ICE blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/17/c...

I know I just shared something about not pursuing an academic career but this sounds like a pretty cool 2 year position if you are looking for one and study food and wine: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07364

Thinking about the tenured faculty member I got into a fight with last year because I told him that I could not in good conscience recommend to undergraduate students to pursue an academic career.

A double challenge I see

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

I’m late getting myself together for HSS in Edinburgh but is anyone still looking for a panelist or chair? Polar science, history of exploration, material & visual culture, history of skincare, working outside the academy, etc!

"Think of this as the equivalent of participation in a faith community that meets to worship—a regular practice to guard against loneliness and despair, and check in with others going through a similar experience.”

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

The head of the Explorer's Club saw Hamish a few weeks before he died and BEGGED him not to go, telling him "You will die. The Operator is insane." It was pure ego and horror.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart: