I'm particularly impressed that when Ford reduced/froze tuition fees, he decided that the policy corollary was "let's cut student aid" Now that tuition fees are going up again, the policy corollary is "let's cut student aid!" Nothing if not consistent.

"The human analogue is called tacit knowledge. Chicken-sexers are people who rapidly sort newborn chicks into gendered bins." Comparing weights to tacit knowledge is an incredible leap in logic.

"The existence of talking machines—entities that can do many of the things that only we have ever been able to do—throws a lot of other things into question." A cement mixer also does work that was unique to humans at one point. But we're not asking general contractors whether they're conscious.

🎟️ This Freedom to Read Week event is free, you can register on Eventbrite: buff.ly/xkzvAAg

Everyone should go read "More Work for Mother," by Ruth Schwartz Cowan.

I love this bowl not just because it is stunning but there’s an entire history of the Indian Ocean inscribed in it.

Here’s my contribution to the Super Bowl- an example of 18th C Goan silver work mounted on a coco-de-mer shell. This is now in a private collection but you can see other examples if you visit the Menezes Bragança house in Chandor. The shell is from a palm that grows on only two islands in the world.

We look forward to our next (in-person) seminar, Feb. 27, 4-6pm @ UofT. Prof. Andrew Jainchill will present on "A Radical Reformer in the Old Regime: the marquis d'Argenson." (More details & registration coming soon.) #18C #frenchhistory

See you this afternoon! Nous vous verrons cet après-midi !

All going well w winter weather, etc., next week I'll be presenting new research at the Huntington: some material #maritimehistory that inverts our view of European-Asian trade. If you'd like to attend in person on Feb. 6, rsvp by tomorrow! calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e... #18c

How do you transform a fragile book into carefully maintained digital images & provide free, round-the-clock access for anyone, anywhere in the world? On January 28 at 11am (CT), join us for “The Extraordinary, Ordinary Work of Building a Digital Library,” a free, virtual program: hmml.org/events

HYBRID LECTURE! "The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky February 12 @ 5:15pm EST More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN

Save the Date: the New Netherland Institute's 2026 Annual Conference, New Netherland and the World, will be in Albany, New York at the New York State Museum on November 7-8, 2026. We'll have a Call for Papers out in the next couple of weeks! Travel funding will be available for presenters.

Livestream will be here: #bookhistory #earlymodern

The most exciting #BookHistory talk of the season is coming up next week! Join us @ransomcenter.bsky.social or online as Ann Blair delivers the 2026 Pforzheimer lecture. This talk has Erasmus, Gessner, and volumes both large &small! Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/pforzheime... #booksky 🗃️📜📚

Hey #maritimehistory and #historians more generally. I want to make sure I'm not missing anything in the realm of modern seafarers' burials, or even maritime burials more generally. Anyone have works they like, consider essential, or otherwise want to talk up about death and maritime culture?

Revolution! Riots! A wealthy boss trying to cut workers' wages! Join us for a close reading of the 1789 « affaire Réveillon » by Pascal Bastien @pbastien.bsky.social. In person @UofT, Jan. 30, 4-6pm EST munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/lorage... #frenchhistory

Excited for this spring's Rosenbach Lectures by historian Joan Judge

Hey Everyone! Two Things! Reminder: Accepting submissions until Jan 31st! Still lots of time! Correction: Nobody noticed the email was wrong on the CFP!🥴 I apologize deeply for the error, and if your email went awry, please resubmit to swaanproject[at]gmail.com or j.connellstryker[at]gmail.com

I love these folks at the Jackman, a cosy corner of @utoronto.ca . They bring Humanities research to the fore! Some of their events are online, just in case you don't fancy a visit up here to frozen Toronto. ☃️🌬🎓

🤩 The #LowCountries seminar programme is up! Would you look at this exciting line-up! Fridays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... (you don't have to register if you come in person, but if you do it helps with showing numbers so appreciated!) #SkyStorians

Two more things.... (1) IP rights have to be part of the convo on genAI. (2) There is a big problem with the umbrella term of AI. It's hard to be precise about AI w/ a character limit. Saying we don't want writing undermined is not the same as saying we don't want improved cancer detection.

You all, after YEARS of archival research and writing, my book is out in exactly ONE month and it’s my job to promote it. Please help me spread the word!! 😀📚#booksky

This will set tongues wagging www.bbc.com/news/article...

The research is the point. The reading is the point. The indecipherable handwriting is the point. The marginalia is the point. The weird quirks of penmanship are the point. The finding of the thing you didn’t even know you were looking for is the point

I consider myself a baby DH-er — learning as quickly as I can so that my project can get out in the world. I teach some aspects of DH in all my courses. So I am not refusing everything computer aided — but when it comes to reading & writing, I am increasingly vocal in my refusal.

It's backup day! 📂🎉 Back up your art, your writing... everything! Repost to remind a friend!

Where does this leave those of us who do not want to "use the latest paid models regularly"? I was more open to learning about gen AI a few years ago but...

This is a good argument for withdrawing entirely from using institutional LMS’s.

Our tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis, in the Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte. Please share widely! www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700." Apply by March 1. 🗃 #arthistory #LatinAmerica www.rsa.org/page/keberfe...

The @contingent-mag.bsky.social ’s book list 2025 is now published and it includes e.g. @mtoiv.bsky.social ’s ”Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka” and Brian Harnetty’s ”Noisy Memory: Recording Sound, Performing Archives” to name 2/39 🤩

The New Netherland Institute announces a new, semester-long fellowship to study the Dutch in/and the American Revolution. Applications are due 2/1/26. For more information and to apply, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/application/... Image: St Eustatius, View of Fort Orange, ca. 1860.

Thank you to @belovedofoizys.bsky.social for the latest 'Academic process and Digital Humanities' Post where she discusses her use of GIS in her archaeological studies

I really loved this two years ago, but last year I didn't get enough messages to make it happen. Don't be shy! Tell me about the best history book you read this year for the year-end episode.

The winter holidays are here, and PEN America is ready to celebrate them in our favorite way — curled up with a good book! But this year — as our holiday season Banned Books Reading List shows — even heartwarming holiday tales aren't safe from bans: bookshop.org/lists/happy-...

Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.

Amsterdam in the seventeenth century is a city where women are the true backbone. They keep the city running while men are at sea or abroad – as labourers, businesswomen, caregivers, regentesses, artists and also as sex workers. #Amsterdam #newcanon #amsterdam750 www.amsterdam.nl/stadsarchief...

I took a detour to the edge of the city to take a picture of these amazing sundogs over Winnipeg caused by ice crystals blowing around in the sky.

My worry here is that tabular, numerical info is much easier to decipher and standardize, so it gets turned into a dataset without…

Next Monday, the Prize Papers Talk is hitting new waters, as Eleonora Rohland's talk dives into climate history: The Doldrums is a belt-shaped weather phenomenon near the equator, where winds are very weak, trapping sailing ships inside. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 10: Disappearance I promised it would get worse for our poor seafarer yesterday. #crewagadvent25 #maritimehistory Previous entry was fro Feb 3, 1869, buddy had been sick since Jan 17th, next entry comes Feb 6th: "Last night Carl Fred Johannsen had the cook

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar '25, Day 9: Vignette Just a little story from the logs today, because it's been one of those days. Not as bad as this guy's day will get tomorrow. #crewagadvent25 Wed Feb 3rd, 1869, from Antwerp to Callao: "Carl F Johansen has been off duty since the 8th January he

Please share widely, & consider attending, all levels of training & fields of study welcome - you don't have to be a 'maritime historian'! We also welcome those interested in marginalized identities broadly conceived - gender is just one intersectional consideration! See the CFP: #maritimehistory

Announcing a workshop on women and the sea, taking place in St. John's, Newfoundland, April 29th-May 1st, 2026! www.swaan.org Supported by a Lloyd's Heritage Foundation grant, the SWAAN project focuses on women in ocean industries in history and today. The workshop is the first of 2 gatherings...

Solidarity with British Library workers on the picket line!

this is what i propose: we get a lot of huge funded projects to use AI but actually use the money to pay historians it’s the perfect scam

Next week, Séverine Angers will present her research on women's patriotism during the American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars, based on letters from military families. Sign up for the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition with the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven with the link below!

t's #DigitalFriday ! This is my routine appeal to #skystorians and all other academics prepping for teaching to share any software, hardware, online resources (primary, secondary, teaching tools, blogs) tips and tricks that they've found useful this week! #AcademicSky 🗃️(pls boost to relevant feeds)