My U of MN department has launched a scholarship fund to honor Alex Pretti (BA '11) who got a Geography degree before becoming a VA Nurse. Here's how to give. The money goes to support students in our department. Thanks! makingagift.umn.edu/give/fund.ht...

I've never actually dug into journal rankings before to realize how much the positions and publications of the editorial board actually matter to the metrics. The constant spam requests at least make more sense now.

This week on Wonkhe: The peer review system is at risk of being overwhelmed. Bashir M Al-Hashimi calls for a culture shift to address the growing volume of artificial intelligence-enabled research outputs

Talk about articles written for very different futures! We submitted this in July '24. How can we physical navigate sustainably through challenging heritages as this administration dismantles nearly all forms of public service? Nevertheless, Amtrak offers options. openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3...

Well, this is a first. Just received article proofs back with entire swaths of AI-generated material. Important data and citations cut, phrases washed out, and paragraphs of fluff added. I'm shocked...and waiting to find out if this from Taylor & Francis copyeditors or the journal. Heads up!!

First time using ArcPro... same amount of yelling at my computer as always, BUT, now I have a draft map of every place (580 unique sites!) recommended to visit by National Museums Scotland Publishing! @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk @tourismgeographies.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social

Got a paper back a couple months ago from a middling journal with 3 rejects/major revisions. One of the best pieces of publishing advice has been from @dhkaplanoh.bsky.social: don't change a thing...reformat and send it back out. Just received 3 accepts/minor revisions from a top journal.

I'm very excited to be able to kick off the semester here at the University of Padova/Padua for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master's in Techniques, Heritage, Territories of Industry (TPTI). Time to talk about the diversification, deromanticization, and present absence of industrial heritage!

Reminder as you file your taxes, Intuit, the parent company of TurboTax, reported a total annual revenue of $16.3 billion for fiscal year 2024, representing a 13.34% increase from 2023. Hashtag lawyers, lobbyists, and corporations. www.forbes.com/sites/kellyp...

Not just most, nearly all 97%! Now, let's compare those figures to other groups. Are our trans students welcome? Our Indigenous students? Do our international students feel safe?

Thank you Seren - I'm incredibly pleased and excited Muslim Wales is available for purchase. I really want these stories out there, for the names of Welsh Muslim pioneers to be known, and for Wales' Islamic history to be celebrated. Please do buy, order into libraries, and share with friends.

Yachts are rich people's carbon bombs. Yachts are a policy failure. We should put a 100% luxury tax on yachts, and put the money into green infrastructure that cuts carbon pollution and protects coastal communities from floods.

This Sunday: The Welsh-American soldiers of the Cambrian Guards 🗓 Sunday, Feb 22, 2026 ⏰ 1pm CST/ 7pm GMT Online lecture about the Welsh-American soldiers of the Cambrian Guards - a unit of the 22nd Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. 🔗 Zoom link: zoom.us/j/9217471692...

A historical marker commemorating literary icon Toni Morrison was unveiled in Ithaca, New York, on what would have been her 95th birthday, February 18, 2026. It stands in front of the house where she lived while a graduate student in American Literature at Cornell University in the 1950s.

National Parks Service workers began rehanging the display panels Thursday morning after a court order mandated they be reinstalled by 5 p.m. Friday.

I'm very excited to be a part of the revival of the Cornish Studies journal by the Institute of Cornish Studies. We are currently looking for submissions for our first issue, especially from ECRs! Check out details online: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen... #Cornwall #Cornish #Kernow #Kernewek

Wrapping up my first major fieldwork of my Fulbright on EU industrial heritage policy. I started in SW Sardinia where the exciting Mines.B slow tourism mining routes initiative was born alongside their own Cammino Minerario di Santa Barbara and the first UNESCO Geopark.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I'll ditto that! 5 classes I took in college: >Intro to Ethnic Studies (required for all freshmen!) >Minnesota (pre-1858) >Europeans in Indian Country and Indians in Europe >Castles, Crags, and Coastlines >Immigrant America

I've had a rocky relationship with my alma mater this past year, but SCSU has shown its quality over the past month in the face of overwhelming adversity and violence. Very proud to see the new president take a non-negotiable stance protecting and supporting students. @scsualumni.bsky.social

I'm in a border district. My people in the U.P. can't see a doctor or afford housing. Some are living in bitter cold without heat or hope. D.C. continues to treat this xenophobic immigration hysteria as a legitimate priority while my people's basic needs are forgotten. That is utterly enraging.

Today marks the end of my fabulous APS (@amphilsociety.bsky.social) Fellowship at IASH (@iashedinburgh.bsky.social). What began as an empirical assessment into National Museums Scotland's books has instead revealed the relational, emotional, and fluid dynamics underpinning our national museums.

Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library. Details in link. Please share :)

Looking to explore a career outside academia? Recent PhDs: apply by March 11 to be an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow! Put your humanities PhD skills to work at mission-driven nonprofits across the country. Learn more: www.acls.org/LeadingEdge

50 years from now we'll be visiting the Minneapolis Homeland "Security" Shootings Site wondering how we could have let things get so bad and vowing "never again" while the next demagogue plays upon the nation's fears and vulnerabilities for their personal benefit.

We will need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission when these cruel, lawless people are out of office. They must be held accountable in order for our nation to heal.

an administration staffed to the top with degenerate liars

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey: "I just saw a video of more than 6 masked agents pummeling one of our constituents and shooting him to death. How many more residents, how many more Americans need to die or get badly hurt for this operation to end?"

What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

Our school is growing. Three tenure track hires this academic year, two hires last year, probably two more hires next year. Come join Silicon Valley’s only public university!

Illegal action is illegal... Who knew‽ Howabout we enforce our own laws?

@mprnews.org has been ON IT the past two weeks. Maybe it's time Minnesota takes some pointers from Catalonia and summon their fire fighters to help maintain the law and order that these federal forces show zero regard for. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Today's victory is being able to use an interrobang in an interview transcription. Exciting‽

Can’t argue with that logic! #YanquiStayHome www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Master’s & Doctoral students at universities in the U.S.! Apply today to be considered for an award of $2,000 to support your #geography #gis #geospatial research. Projects with a fieldwork component will be prioritized. Email the proposal materials below to [email protected] before Jan. 16th.

Happy New Year!🎊 Read our latest blog post by Melissa Meade from Seton Hall University. Learn about how public memorialization struggles to center workers in the narrative of industrial history.

I've seen so many calls that the #Smithsonian is "changing history." History is always changing and is always political. The question and concern should lie with how power is shaping those changes. Luckily, we have the Citizen Historians tracking this... www.citizenhistorians.org/exhibit-chan...

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

An excellent warning to higher-ed administrators and politicians. Don't mess around with free speech. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

Perhaps @npr.org's best journalism yet. It says something that they're willing to put so many resources into mapping out an attack on our government even after our government defunds them. apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/

The destruction doesn't make for a photo-op like tearing down the East Wing of the White House or bulldozing the Rose Garden, but it's every bit as bad. Generations of American children learned to spell and count, learned the Preamble to the Constitution, from watching shows produced by the CPB.

As nationalism grows ever more central to international politics, the Vienna-based Central European University department that studies it is on the verge of extinction. So what would be lost if this small but scrappy program disappears?

Time to break out this old playlist that I've tweaked a bit since grad school. open.spotify.com/playlist/1zY...

For when I inevitably ask you to review a paper for the re-awakening North American Journal of Welsh Studies... #Wales #Welsh #peerreview #publishing #highered #academia

This has been a good year for books, and especially for Welsh poetry, despite a steady decline in public funding pretty much everywhere. Book of the Year for me, though, is more poetry reported than poetry itself ✍️ Peter Finch

A lecture and Q&A about a south Wales excavation that unearthed groundbreaking evidence for the area's ancient history will take place this month

Just got in this year's slew of graduate letters. One asked me to rank their lab experience/research. What even is that? Their ability to follow directions? And when did every university decide they need an exact percentage tier of our students' skills? A range is fine...but 3%, 1%, really...?