Boosting this Atlantic History position at the Université du Québec (Trois Rivières campus), since Canadian jobs often fly under the radar Language of instruction is French; adequate knowledge or commitment to acquire it in post required; support provided for language training. Deadline May 15

Just two more days before the SWAAN Project's Workshop on Women and the Sea! Check out our amazing program of speakers and sign up online! The first of two events focused on women and other marginalized identities in seafaring, past and present. #maritimehistory #skystorians www.swaan.org/program

Keen to meet a new generation of historians researching British history in the (very) long 18th century? Join us for our annual Lightening Talks presentations and Q&A on 29 April at 5:30pm. All welcome. Free. In person at the Institute of Historical Research in London or online on Zoom. #Skystorians

Hey! Look! A maritime history workshop on women and the sea, with online registration open, happening next week! www.swaan.org/registration Check out the program! www.swaan.org/program #maritimehistory #swaanproject

Online registration up for SWAAN workshop at Mun’s Maritime History Archive! Program available too. swaan.org/registration

#OTD 15/4/1953 #RememberRCN -HMCS CRUSADER destroys three Chinese supply trains in 24 hours off Tanch’on, Korea. Bringing the destroyers total to a record breaking four trains destroyed. To honour this accomplishment, her UN code name was changed from "Leadmine" to "Casey Jones."

This is a wrestling promo.

What a day to be followed by the study group of prisons and punitive institutions.

Watched the Ken Watanabe Godzilla last night and I’m sorry to say it still slaps and people were wrong. I love it so much. It’s very funny to me that it shares many of the ideas of Godzilla 1998 but doesn’t squander them.

I remember how exciting it was to read Animorphs and have a great respect for Applegate, who took her readers seriously and went so hard with her stories, but Ryan Coogler exec producing a new show hopefully means poor Cassey might get to shine more than she did in the books.

Watching a 90s Martha Stewart episode from the nineties that makes an omelette with TWENTY-ONE eggs.

Ok my important take about men's sports is that there should be no sans-culottes in baseball.

If there was a way to strap a nuke to a man, the Americans would have invented it in the 1950s and called it the Davey Crockett.

Today feels as good a day as any to talk about anteater vaginas! So let's take a look at the uterus, uterine tubes and vaginas of giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), in both females and males. Because both sexes of anteater have these organs...

Some cat café has the chance to do the greatest prank ever for April 1st.

This is (I think) a Greater Blue-Eared Starling (Lamprotornis chalybaeus) & the amazing chrome job is their super-power. They've evolved to manipulate light in VERY specific ways, attracting mates, intimidating rivals. Let's look at the nanostructures that bring this bling into being.

Is Atlantic's pearl budget huge or do they just pass around the same necklace to clutch one at a time?

A visit to Crystal Palace Park to see work on the 1854 dinosaur models. I'm just as interested in the fabulous mudscapes created as their setting. Amazing to recall that Benjamin Walter Waterhouse hosted a dinner *inside* the Iguanadon before it was revealed to the world. What a publicity stunt!

You know Jimmy Carter is floating through the White House at night moaning about gas shortages and leaving a little irradiated trail of crushed peanuts in his wake.

In 1818, John Williams was prosecuted for stealing 50lbs of rags “for the manufacturing of paper” from a Boston stationary firm. He probably planned on selling them to a different paper maker. Here’s a close up of the watermarks and chain lines on the rag paper used for his indictment documents 🗃️

#NavalHistory people! Help! Our local museum has a life raft we're trying to research. Does anyone know anything about it? It is triangular, and is stamped with a 1940 date.

Realized the other day that a Punch Romaine is just a rich man’s Newfie slush so now I’m trying to Newfoundland the whole first class menu from the Titanic.

The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below… www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

Sometimes notes in your archival file are written on interesting scrap paper.

A heaven that accepts and forgives victims of suicides does not exist, says Baywatch, in an episode whose B-plot confirms the existence of mermaids.

Paying homage to the crinoline, Dior’s 1954 collections included this emerald taffeta, a flourish of big skirt and form fitting bodice for Saturday shenanigans #NewfieldsToday #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Some more commensal brittle stars (Ophiothela mirabilis) on a purple octocoral (Leptogorgia rigida). Playa Balandra, La Paz, Baja California. 🦀🦑 #baja #tidepool #echinoderm

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

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

Male historians think logistics are gay was the thesis of my phd.

Who ain’t a slave? Tell me that.

are they not monsters?

Someone convince him he should be king of Mars so we can send him into space.

Oh man oh jeez

There are some historical events where I recall the feeling of learning about them, the gut-punch of “how could I not know this?” MOVE, Tulsa, Cap Arcona … I remember reading about Khmer Rouge for the first time in an Air Canada in-flight magazine. But MOVE was the most uncanny and so revealing.

Hey! Guess what? The CFP for the SWAAN Workshop about women's involvement in maritime life, hosted by the bangarang Maritime History Archive in lovely St. John's, Newfoundland is open until January 31st! You've got time! Submit! And Please Circulate this post!🙏 www.swaan.org/workshop

Well, get out a lettuce: the spectacle of a woman’s death and then tanking the economy is definitely some Liz Truss energy.

It’s like living in a world surrounded by thousands of idiot Isildurs refusing to chuck the ring into Mordor.

#OTD 10/01/2025 #RememberRCN -HMCS MARGARET BROOKE departs Halifax on a scientific expedition to Antarctica. This is the first RCN expedition to the South Pole and will be the furthest south any RCN ship has travelled. (RCN Photo)

Well he is driving Droits de l’Homme into the rocks.

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary

I need one of those peanut hankies !

Drop him into the rankor pit Jabba.

Nobody understands the meaning of “Gilded Age” even though they only need to know one of the two words means “looks-like-gold” (derogatory).

Crew Agreement Advent Calendar, Day 6: "Atting" I said I would try to get a little more into this, but we would probably be dissatisfied with the answers, and what can I say, I delivered on this promise of dissatisfaction. The situation remains weird, but that's about it. #crewagadvent25

When I was a kid a cow on our farm hot-wired a tractor and let the whole barn loose when it crashed through a gate, so yeah. I agree. Cow tools.

In St. John's? Come to our event! ISER Inventories of Life: Material Culture and Life, Death, and Medicine at Sea, death inventories from merchant vessels, 1860-1955! Get a preview of the findings and a personalized tour of the documents from the students who did the research! #researchweek2025

Starting my yearly relisten to You’re Wrong About’s unfinished masterpiece on the OJ Simpson Trial.