Colin Rose
@crosehistorian.bsky.social
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
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Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
pir.bbaw.de
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
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History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Today in important #GreatLakes #Maritimehistory
How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ #Science #Other hashtag 1: #EdmundFitzgerald 2: #MaritimeHistory 3: #GreatLakes
How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’
On the afternoon of November 9, 1975, when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out on its 746-mile run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Detroit, Michigan, Lake Superior was mostly calm. Even so, the crew likely...
purescience.news
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Today in important #GreatLakes #Maritimehistory
Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
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Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
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Every school and college that cheerfully mainlines Open AI chatbots into their students' devices and browsers and brains through MS or other platforms, really should be planning for some tough legal battles in the years ahead. It's going to get so much worse. But they could just stop doing it now.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Every school and college that cheerfully mainlines Open AI chatbots into their students' devices and browsers and brains through MS or other platforms, really should be planning for some tough legal battles in the years ahead. It's going to get so much worse. But they could just stop doing it now.
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
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Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street
Not good.
The Canadian Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research is launching a US-style attack on EDI in Tri-Council funding.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
As part of this attack, they are demanding disclosure of confidential demographic info + reviewer comments of all Canadian researchers who have applied b/w 2000-2025.
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Not good.
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It's been three hours and I'm still thinking about this:
"The role of the teacher is not to be replaced. That role will be transformed to focus on the social and emotional motivation side as opposed to the academic part. I believe we're going to get to a point where a billion children around the world will be able to take this type of education."
October 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
It's been three hours and I'm still thinking about this:
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Self-identification as LGBTQ in the USA has risen from 3.5% of the population to 9.3% in only a little more than a decade.
In the UK, over 10% of under-25s do, tripling in the same period.
Bigots see that as a crisis.
It's the duty of every decent person to understand it as a liberation.
In the UK, over 10% of under-25s do, tripling in the same period.
Bigots see that as a crisis.
It's the duty of every decent person to understand it as a liberation.
Nearly 1 in 10 U.S. adults identify as LGBTQ, Gallup survey finds
The percentage of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ or something other than heterosexual increased to 9.3%, from 7.6% in 2023.
www.nbcnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Self-identification as LGBTQ in the USA has risen from 3.5% of the population to 9.3% in only a little more than a decade.
In the UK, over 10% of under-25s do, tripling in the same period.
Bigots see that as a crisis.
It's the duty of every decent person to understand it as a liberation.
In the UK, over 10% of under-25s do, tripling in the same period.
Bigots see that as a crisis.
It's the duty of every decent person to understand it as a liberation.
Change one letter, ruin a candy
Sure I am not coining ‘shittles’
Sure I am not coining ‘shittles’
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Knickers
Knickers
Change one letter, ruin a candy:
Gummy Beard
Gummy Beard
October 29, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy
Sure I am not coining ‘shittles’
Sure I am not coining ‘shittles’
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Look, the Humanities and the critical reading skills they impart are again proven essential here.
It was, after all, the gentle hobbits and not the 'hard men' who were the heroes of Tolkien's world.
Not through violence and antipathy, but compassion and camaraderie.
It was, after all, the gentle hobbits and not the 'hard men' who were the heroes of Tolkien's world.
Not through violence and antipathy, but compassion and camaraderie.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Look, the Humanities and the critical reading skills they impart are again proven essential here.
It was, after all, the gentle hobbits and not the 'hard men' who were the heroes of Tolkien's world.
Not through violence and antipathy, but compassion and camaraderie.
It was, after all, the gentle hobbits and not the 'hard men' who were the heroes of Tolkien's world.
Not through violence and antipathy, but compassion and camaraderie.
If we are going to insist on using British fantasy writers to model how we want to be in the world, Pratchett gives us a way better vision than Tolkien.
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
If we are going to insist on using British fantasy writers to model how we want to be in the world, Pratchett gives us a way better vision than Tolkien.
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If you know ancient graffiti, you know Rebecca Benefiel is an impeccable scholar in the field. Her new article does not disappoint—and it’s open access. www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/w...
Writing and Personal Religion in Pompeii and Herculaneum
www.mohrsiebeck.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If you know ancient graffiti, you know Rebecca Benefiel is an impeccable scholar in the field. Her new article does not disappoint—and it’s open access. www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/article/w...
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
October 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Folks on the @rsaorg.bsky.social mailing list: check your email! @cathfletcher.bsky.social and I are doing a webinar, "Pitching a Nonfiction Book for General Readers," free for members.
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
Nov 6, 12pm ET (recorded).
💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern
Join/renew your membership to register.
www.rsa.org/events/Event...
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Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
October 18, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Our new volume 📖 , Writing Enslavement, is out now—physical and digital. the editors, @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and @illdottore.bsky.social, put an amazing amount of work into a volume that is both slavery studies and book history. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Canadians here saying #UhOnlyLargelyCeremonialAndConstitutionallyConstrainedKingsButReallyWePreferredTheQueenAndThisNewGuyIsPrettyIcky
October 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Canadians here saying #UhOnlyLargelyCeremonialAndConstitutionallyConstrainedKingsButReallyWePreferredTheQueenAndThisNewGuyIsPrettyIcky
This stands out in an already maddening article. Gosh, are there any disciplines - perhaps ones that we’ve spent decades gutting because they encourage these very habits - that could effectively prepare students for this apparent Value(s?) Migration?
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
October 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
This stands out in an already maddening article. Gosh, are there any disciplines - perhaps ones that we’ve spent decades gutting because they encourage these very habits - that could effectively prepare students for this apparent Value(s?) Migration?
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
www.forbes.com/sites/shanno...
I grew up skiing on the Niagara Escarpment on the shores of Georgian Bay. Winters were the very soul of those communities. It’s a fundamentally different rhythm we live now.
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
Warmer weather is leading to vanishing winters in North America’s Great Lakes
Warming winters are impacting lakes globally. However, most monitoring in the Great Lakes occurs during warmer, calmer weather. A new report highlights how policymakers can improve winter monitoring.
theconversation.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I grew up skiing on the Niagara Escarpment on the shores of Georgian Bay. Winters were the very soul of those communities. It’s a fundamentally different rhythm we live now.
Waiting for a historian or lit scholar to work themselves up to saying ‘yeah… but philosophy…’
Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.
October 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Waiting for a historian or lit scholar to work themselves up to saying ‘yeah… but philosophy…’
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The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
www.usatoday.com
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.
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I know sports fan/"stan" culture is toxic because Diane died and people are saying "She was iconic AND defended a child molester" and people are nodding along like, yes!Both are true!
Meanwhile, I tweeted "Don't forget Kobe was a rapist" and got so many death threats, cops told me to go into hiding
Meanwhile, I tweeted "Don't forget Kobe was a rapist" and got so many death threats, cops told me to go into hiding
October 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I know sports fan/"stan" culture is toxic because Diane died and people are saying "She was iconic AND defended a child molester" and people are nodding along like, yes!Both are true!
Meanwhile, I tweeted "Don't forget Kobe was a rapist" and got so many death threats, cops told me to go into hiding
Meanwhile, I tweeted "Don't forget Kobe was a rapist" and got so many death threats, cops told me to go into hiding