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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦
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History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host. .. more

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Daniel Robert Woolf is a British-Canadian historian and former university administrator. He served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a position to which he was appointed in January 2009 and took up on 1 September 2009. He was previously a professor of history and the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. He was reappointed to a second 5-year term in 2013. In late 2017, Woolf announced his intention not to serve a third term and to retire from university administration at the end of his second term in 2019. He was succeeded by Patrick Deane, and became Principal Emeritus. .. more

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 9h
What on earth do barnyard animals have to do with Christmas? Oh. Wait.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 1d
Horns and angry face suggest the ox as the Devil realizing the jig is up.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations to María Inés; the Element is free to download at Free to download till Jan. 7 at doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Gender, Theory, and History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Gender, Theory, and History
doi.org

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 2d
Just in time for the holidays, I'm pleased to announce the last new title for 2025 in @universitypress.cambridge.org series Elements in Historical Theory and Practice: María Inés La Greca's "Gender, Theory, and History: on the Knowledge and Politics of Bodies". 1/2
Gender, Theory, and History
Cambridge Core - Global History - Gender, Theory, and History
doi.org

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 3d
Born OTD 100 years ago, steady supporting player in movies and tv Harry Guardino (d 1995). In film best remembered as Clint Eastwood's boss in the 1st and 3rd Dirty Harry films; on tv as DA Hamilton Burger in 70s rebooted Perry Mason. Star turn as a deranged officer in S1 of the Outer Limits ('63).

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 3d
It ain't Christmas till Hans Gruber flies.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 4d
Layla the Mighty Huntress decides to teach her stuffed bunny who’s boss, clearly enjoying doing it on camera.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 4d
and Dean Martin; Canadian chanteuse Carol Welsman; new releases from Darius de Haas and 90 yr old Herb Alpert; and the Uptown Vocal Jazz Quartet. We close out with some non-jazz from Chuck Berry and Ray Charles. New shows return Jan. 19. Thanks for listening and happy holidays.
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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 4d
On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses, our last new show for 2025, and Yule love it--the annual Xmas special. We open with a triptych of Oscar Peterson (who left us 18 years ago tomorrow. Then an assortment of holiday themed jazz from oldies (Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton 1/2

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 5d
Marking the winter solstice with the last menorah lighting of Hanukkah 2025.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 6d
the starter packs allowed one quickly to replicate closely one's prior Twitter communities.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 7d
In what is surely the most original answer I've seen yet to a question on my medieval England exam asking students to define good and bad kingship, a student has likened the evaluation of Anglo-Saxon kings to Major League Baseball scouting, with contemporary chroniclers as the scouts.

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Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 9d
Congratulations to David MacDonald on his new title in the @universitypress.cambridge.org Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series "Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Reconciliation in Canada and Other Settler States doi.org/10.1017/9781.... Downloads free till 31 December.
Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States
Cambridge Core - Global History - Myths, History Wars, and Indigenous-Settler Relations in Canada and Other Settler States
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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 11d
Born OTD 100 years ago, Kasey Rogers (d 2006); best known for tv roles from 60s on (including a recurring role on Bewitched), she had a late 40s and 50s film career under the short-lived stage name Laura Elliott; notable turn as doomed wife of Farley Granger's character in Strangers on a Train.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 12d
Lit our first night of Hanukkah candles in the shadow of the awful news from Australia.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 13d
Happy 100th birthday to actor and comedian Dick Van Dyke. A presence in tv, theatre and films since the mid-50s. My favourite Van Dyke performance, the overlooked mid-60s comedy The Art of Love with James Garner, Angie Dickinson and Elke Sommer.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 18d
On this cold and snowy day ,🥶 an all-CDN edition of @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses, leading off with Jane Bunnett; some vintage Oscar Peterson; Charlie Biddle and Oliver Jones; 2 Alberta acts: P.J. Perry, and the A/B Trio; we close out with @jodiproznick.bsky.social's album Sun Songs.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 18d
Born OTD 100 years ago, song and dance man, actor, and celebrity Sammy Davis, Jr., d. 1990. Despite losing his left eye to a car accident in 1954 he had a long career, including as a member of the "Rat Pack" and helped break several show biz race barriers; his song Candyman was a big hit in 1972.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 22d
Being in your later 60s is being genuinely excited when you can find the socks you took out of the drawer 30 seconds previously.

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Dr. Amanda J Summers @amandajsummers.bsky.social · 23d
In cooler happenings, The Saint Louis University Center for Iberian Historical Studies is hosting this awesome thing in Madrid for junior scholars new to the archive.
www.slu.edu/arts-and-sci...
Madrid Research Workshop
The Saint Louis University Center for Iberian Historical Studies (CIHS) promotes advanced research and scholarly conversations on any topic related to Iberian studies and analyzes them through a histo...
www.slu.edu

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 24d
Just received in the mail today, this new collection of verse from poet Billy Collins. I am looking forward to reading these as a break from term-end grading. Layla (right) notices a kindred spirit on the cover, doubtless a portrait of the modernist poet and critic Ezra Hound.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 24d
Born OTD 100 years ago: multiple Tony winning stage actress Julie Harris (d 2013). While the theatre was her preferred venue, she also had a career in movies and TV, notably as the love interest of James Dean in his debut East of Eden, and a late career regular turn on Knot's Landing.

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Pru Madeley @prum.bsky.social · 24d
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 25d
The Petersens, The Vitamin String Quartet, The Pentatonix, and Italian solo pianist Costantino Carrera. We'll close with Winnipeg's jazz guitarist Jocelyn Gould. Tune in at 2 EST.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 25d
On today's @cfrcradio.bsky.social Dark Glasses we salute Cassandra Wilson on her upcoming 70th birthday with 3 tracks, and mark the 50th anniversary of Queen's Night at the Opera with 4 different takes (across 4 distinct genres) on their classic Bohemian Rhapsody by: 1/2

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 27d
Me responding to reviewer 2.

#cogsci #philosophy #philsky #philosophysky #budapest #academicsky #academia

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 28d
of course, but I didn't include that simply because it's "Queens" not "Queen's"

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 28d
Released OTD 50 years ago, Queen's (the rock band, not the university) masterpiece A Night at the Opera with its immortal and much-memed signature track Bohemian Rhapsody.

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · Nov 25
Layla takes a cuddle break and fully ‘enhounds’ me which is always delightful but does somewhat inhibit my grading of papers for which 2 free hands and the computer, all of which she’s leaning on, are required.