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i'm still me ... ... "If anybody would",...

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Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? Our upcoming #JCMM Lecture with Randy M. Browne shows that plantations did not rely solely on enslaved labor.

🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️17:30 CET
❕ONLINE event via Zoom

For more Info👉 buff.ly/xKU279h
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Joseph C. Miller Memorial Lecture by Randy M. Browne
Beyond chattel slavery, who really built the global plantation complex? This lecture takes a global, longue durée approach, challenging the assumption that plantations relied solely on chattel…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
What *isn't* "possible"?

What's our will for what is & isn't "possible", is & isn't "impossible"?

Eh?
November 14, 2025 at 11:23 AM
"Fore Team!" --- just another day in November
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Our 2010 "(Inter-generational cooperative) Aging Advocacy" venture was started respecting "better anticipatory intelligence", & what would be the tools, scaffolding, traction, what were & would be the gadgets & infrastructures to support "WTAF is going on?! What are we going to do?!" - True Story
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We urgently need a whole system response to address the multifaceted root causes of school absence.

Our latest analysis highlights a persisting attendance crisis, with inequalities related to poverty and disadvantage becoming entrenched.

Read on for insights and recommendations 👇

#ChildrenFirst
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What a "cover shot" for the presentation in a bit, speaking of "Dublin", actually, too,... www.possibilitystudies.net/event/semina...
November 14, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Next week I will participate with @oceaniceeu.bsky.social @h2020protect.bsky.social @crices-h2020.bsky.social + @polarres.bsky.social in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development +@eupolarcluster.bsky.social

polarres.eu/polarreseven...
Polar Science for Global Action: Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership - PolarRES
Join us for a high-level event on policy needs for the Polar Regions, stemming from the research of four EU projects — PolarRES, CRiceS, PROTECT, and OCEAN ICE. We will discuss the rapid changes in th...
polarres.eu
November 13, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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🏺🗃️ Tell me again why history & archaeology & anthropology don't matter
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975

“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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#Debate: In response to rapid climatic and environmental changes, sustainability has become an important topic for the tourism sector in Svalbard. Yet, there is room for tourism operators to engage further with the sustainable development goals (SDG) framework #SDG #Svalbard #Tourism #Sustainability
Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals in Svalbard – More Work is Needed in The Tourism Sector
Op-Ed: In response to rapid climatic and environmental changes, sustainability has become an important topic for the tourism sector in Svalbard. Yet, there is room for tourism operators to engage furt...
www.highnorthnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
www.nationalacademies.org
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Colorado’s rural school superintendents say they need more money to recruit teachers. buff.ly/vSOl0su
Colorado’s rural schools serve more than 130,000 students, and their superintendents want more pay for their teachers
Rural school leaders are most concerned about recruiting and retaining teachers.
theconversation.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
@craignorriscbc.bsky.social "Cost of Loneliness" interview just now,... & "last dozen years" or so,...
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"Anticipating" how folks might react, because folks have demonstrated some of the same patterns & behaviors before; Indeed, "called it" sometimes is not what "new leadership" has ears to take-in
"another Town Hall" 11/11
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Who can afford another 10-12 months of "more of the same", "New to it/here", or "Vet"?
"Best Comprehensive Plan" is "real & feeling=threat"?
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Likely to delete; "FYI" still:
November 13, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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Do you think it's possible for culture to be inherited and undergo evolution in a way that's meaningfully analogous to genetic inheritance and evolution?
November 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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"Historical analysis is fundamentally different and more complex than producing a mass of visualizations and statistics that are the lifeblood of many A.I. programmes."

Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social on the problematic use of A.I. within historical research.
Artificial Intelligence: A Warning for History
Does A.I. have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it means for historians facing the current H...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"*RIGHT?!*",... when some might not "fit expectations", eh?

I mean, when one is "more able" than we might want or expect, might perceive them to be,... & when some are "more disabled", "lives with dissed-ability", too, when someone "challenges our assumptions" & "makes us reflect on ourselves", eh?
November 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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Lol of course they have cancelled on me. FML have I offended a witch b/c this is feeling like a curse!
If anyone now needs a 5 min/500 word explainer on arctic shipboard food & drink in relation to Innes and Gunn’s Nares expedition arctic beer, I have actual props (yes, it’s an Allsopps stopper)
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
"There's no choice.",... is an awfully, awfully tricky "M.O" & "OS", & "for UX", to try to manifest & embody "IRL",... No?
November 13, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Some tease me, I've at times called that, "Planck Manifold",...
Where & when, how maybe Free Will & Turbulence, say, negotiate one's "North Star", "Reflexivity", "Relationship",... "Hope", "Fear", "Love", "Memory",...
Between evidence & action lies a wide, messy space — a tangle of political, procedural, human factors. It’s the space where timing, alignment, risk appetite, budgets & personalities collide. This is where good ideas live or die: the “Other Things Box" medium.com/@almero_8848...
The “Other Things Box”
Understanding and Navigating What Really Drives Change
medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Between evidence & action lies a wide, messy space — a tangle of political, procedural, human factors. It’s the space where timing, alignment, risk appetite, budgets & personalities collide. This is where good ideas live or die: the “Other Things Box" medium.com/@almero_8848...
The “Other Things Box”
Understanding and Navigating What Really Drives Change
medium.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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The High North Center at Nord University receives support for a project highlighting opportunities for young people in the Arctic.

#Arctic #youth #ArcticNext #Norway
NOK 2.6 million Project Aims to Get More Young People to Stay in The North
The High North Center at Nord University receives support for a project highlighting opportunities for young people in the Arctic.
www.highnorthnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:25 AM