AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

The first English language account of traditional Native stories written by a Native author, by David Cusick, a Tuscarora.

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

FREE #Heiresses event in #Edinburgh TONIGHT!

#histnursing WW2 nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi occupied France

When I ask ChatGPT to infer height and weight from historical photos it seems to do it well, and even gives its degree of confidence. Is there a systematic analysis of performance on this task?

Looking forward to teaching this class at @rfberlin.bsky.social ❤️

🚨Deadline for submissions is today!🚨

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

For the AI-curious, a colleague recommended Future House www.futurehouse.org, which limits its searches to scientific literature. It's built for Chemistry but works surprisingly well for History, and it's free.

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

There's a really nice new study using phone data from Americans who relocated from one city to another to look at the effect of walkable environments on physical activity. E.g., people move TO New York and walk more, they move FROM New York and walk less www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

This just confirms for me what me and my academic colleagues have seen with our students: AI helps those who already know what they are doing (e.g., double-checking facts or knowing how and when to implement advanced writing/rhetoric). It does the opposite for amateurs (such as most undergrads).

useful🧵from @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social reminding us of deadly vaccine politics in 1885 & drawing on M. Bliss, Plague: a history of smallpox in Montreal (Toronto 1991) & J.M. Berman, “When antivaccine sentiment turned violent: the Montréal Vaccine Riot of 1885”, Can Medical Assoc Jo 2021: E490–E492

"What is so worrying about these scientistic studies of portraiture is not simply that they distort our understanding .. Just as alarming is the message they send both to the casual reader of the news reports that hype them and to the students whom their authors teach: that representation is reality

Great article by @deenamousa.com on why AI hasn't replaced radiologists. If anything, demand for them has actually risen. www.worksinprogress.news/p/why-ai-isn...

This is a masterful and subtle discussion of the idea of "settler colonialism" by Aziz Rana in the fall @dissentmag.bsky.social - both in the ways that it can be misused, and the reasons that it remains a meaningful concept www.dissentmagazine.org/article/whos...

Professorship of Economic History University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOS980/p...

Does anyone know of any *panel* data that has a question asking people to compare their *subjective* SES to that of their parents? I’m using some WVS/EVS data with an item like this right now but the repeated cross sectional design is… less than ideal for my specific question

📣 It's publication day! 🔥Burning Swamps🔥 is out with @universitypress.cambridge.org ! My book tells the forgotten history of peat in the context of Russia’s industrialization & electrification and points to the lingering presence of past extraction 1/5 #envhist #energysky

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

One of my favorite things about being an editor at Vaccine is that I get to read really cool papers like this about the history of vaccination in different social and cultural contexts around the world 👇🏻

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Gilles Postel-Vinay et Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - A Capital’s Capital Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris À paraître en février aux Princeton UP

For anyone looking to do textmining on EEBO-TCP texts, this is a brilliant resource. #EarlyModern

A short 🧵 so everyone can learn that political violence is nothing new in America. Of the 1,331 Black officials who served during Reconstruction, 158 (10.4%) were subjected to political violence. 1/7

Vidi pyramidas sine te, dulcissime frater/ et tibi quod potui, lacrimas hic maesta profudi… “I saw the pyramids without you, my dearest brother, and here I sadly shed tears for you, which is all I could” trans. Hobel Lien Foubert has a great article on the epigraphy & experience of ancient tourism

An amazing headband made of dyed porcupine quills by an Indigenous person in the Great Lakes region around 1760. It is in such remarkable condition because it was kept in a Scottish castle for 250 years.

Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs. “Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.” worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...

The @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy working group is seeking submissions for our upcoming Spring 2026 meeting to be held on March 27, 2026. The submission deadline is December 11, 2025. The call for papers is here: www.asc.ohio-state.edu/logan.155/pd...

Biographies linked with publications show that mothers reach peak scholarly productivity later in life, declining until children reach school age, while fathers experience no change. The time costs of raising the baby boom generation led to a loss of female scientists thru failure to achieve tenure.

Very excited to see this published today. global.oup.com/academic/pro... I have a chapter on “medieval inheritance”. Huge congrats to @loughnrv.bsky.social and Will Sharpe for marshalling this beast into print!

Four years ago, I asked historians about their most bizarre and profound archival finds and wrote this for The Conversation, which seemed to be a popular piece! theconversation.com/i-asked-hist...

Today’s post, by June Chow, explores the preservation of Chinese Canadian records at Library and Archives Canada. It is a sequel to a previous post by Chow published in March.

Happy Pythagorean Theorem Day (3-4-5) -> 9/16/25 When all else fails, math. www.npr.org/2025/09/16/n...

We have a full house, but here's the registration link for Thursday, September 19 @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social ⬇️: as.nyu.edu/research-cen...

The sky was on fire tonight

My new blog post is about great books on TB! A Plague That Refuses To Go Away: Spotlight on Great Tuberculosis Books communities.springernature.com/posts/a-plag...

Well, this is an exciting – and somewhat scary – day for me: my book is now available for pre-order (with release in early October): aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/he-puawai/ All the details are on line here.

New exhibition - Women's Business / Businesswomen 9 Generations of Stories in Publishing House and Home museumplantinmoretus.be/en/Womensbus... Museum Plantin-Moretus / Prentenkabinet, Musea Antwerpen 13 Sept 2025-11 January 2026

Perfect academic collab: @tudelftme.bsky.social & #Pastei worked on the #Richthofenkolleksje, @tresoar.bsky.social's medieval @unesconl.bsky.social heritage. Result: Frisian law from the #Ommelanden unveiled in 15C and 16C MSS by new HSI techniques. Read all about it! www.nature.com/articles/s40...

Excited to share this essay on racial violence, civic apology, and the elusive dream of racial reconciliation. www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

#ESHD2025 Today's Keynote speakers Martin Dribe, @lunduniversity #Mortality Inequality from Industrialization to the Welfare State More info 👉 eshd2025.eshd.eu

#ESHD2025 AWARDS!!!!! The Tamara Hareven Award has been established by the ESHD to recognize the best PhD thesis. Björn Quanjer @Radboud_Uni "A Tale Of Tallness. A household perspective on early life determinants of male height within the Netherlands between 1850 and 1950"

#ESHD2025 AWARDS! The Roger Schofield Award has been established to recognize the best paper presented by a young demographer at the ESHD Conference Emma Diduch Work,Marriage & Motherhood In Derbyshire:Event History Analysis Of Women's Employment & Fertility Histories,1881-1911

#ESHD2025 Awards! The Louis Henry Award has been established by the EDHD to recognize methodological innovations in data collection,visualization or analysis Mosaic Database by Szoltysek,Ogórek, Gruber & Poniat Social Science History @CambridgeCore 2025 doi:10.1017/ssh.2024.18