James Opp
@jamesopp.bsky.social
History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees.
Carleton University
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Carleton University
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“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
“The problem is that when it is installed in a health sector that prizes efficiency, surveillance and profit extraction, AI becomes not a tool for care and community but simply another instrument for commodifying human life.”
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I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
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and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
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Plant Public History – Plants, Enslavement and Public History: Re-imagining green spaces as places of heritage and healing
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I think lots of you all will be as excited as I am to see Jess Moody’s “Plants, Enslavement and Public History” project website
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
🗃️🌿🪴
and you can sign up for the mailing list in the little box in bottom right corner
plantpublichistory.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
🗃️🌿🪴
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Today on @nichecanada.bsky.social, historian Gregory Klages discusses his latest project: publishing the diaries of Mark Robinson, who served as Park Ranger in Ontario's Algonquin Park for thirty years. @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social
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The Algonquin Diaries: Reflections of an Early-20th-Century Park Ranger
Algonquin Park Ranger Mark Robinson’s diaries (1907–1936) detail social, environmental, and moral changes, offering rare insights into early conservation, policy, and wilderness life.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Today on @nichecanada.bsky.social, historian Gregory Klages discusses his latest project: publishing the diaries of Mark Robinson, who served as Park Ranger in Ontario's Algonquin Park for thirty years. @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t...
niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t...
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It’s deeply ironic how fields like Africana studies, American studies, postcolonial studies, and frankly popular music studies get discussed as rarefied, elitist fields whereas in fact they center extremely common real world discourses.
November 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
It’s deeply ironic how fields like Africana studies, American studies, postcolonial studies, and frankly popular music studies get discussed as rarefied, elitist fields whereas in fact they center extremely common real world discourses.
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“”AI” is a failed technology. … LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.” Great article by Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com
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Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
ethanmarcotte.com
November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“”AI” is a failed technology. … LLMs haven’t met any markers of success we’d apply to, well, literally any other technology.” Great article by Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
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This is flying way under the radar. There is an open letter going around but I haven't heard anything about it from any of my colleagues.
Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications:
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
Applicant names, profiles, demographics
Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores
November 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This is flying way under the radar. There is an open letter going around but I haven't heard anything about it from any of my colleagues.
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Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Eminently reasonable proposed principles for professors’ use of AI, from a student refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...
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"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."
‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"A lot of academic research on AI currently is also funded by the AI industry, which creates the risk of distorting scientific knowledge, similar to how we’ve seen happen in the past’, adds Iris van Rooij, co-author and professor of computational cognitive science at Radboud University."
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There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
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October 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
There's so much being researched and published about GenAI that I update the 'Against Generative AI' resource list almost every day. Check it out catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
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Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
October 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!
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The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The seminar & book launch (online) for Color Protocols: Technologies of Racial Encoding in Chromatic Media (MIT, 2025) starts at 4pm – 5:30pm (UK), 12noon – 1:30pm (EST) Thursday 30th October 2025
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
Event details: colourandfilm.com/cfps/
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be still, my beating heart!
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
@apache.be you rule 🖤
October 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
be still, my beating heart!
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As the 50th Anniversary of the ACA comes to an end, our Professional Development Committee invites you to attend a panel discussion with five archivists reflecting on the past, present, and future of archives in Canada.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
October 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
As the 50th Anniversary of the ACA comes to an end, our Professional Development Committee invites you to attend a panel discussion with five archivists reflecting on the past, present, and future of archives in Canada.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
To register, please visit archivists.ca/event-6411193.
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Now is your chance to get Camera Geologica (and a bunch of other great books!) at 50%! www.dukeupress.edu/camera-geolo...
October 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Now is your chance to get Camera Geologica (and a bunch of other great books!) at 50%! www.dukeupress.edu/camera-geolo...
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CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026),
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
CfP: Tourism, Memory and Heritage Conference (2026),
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM
Amsterdam and Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Full details: lnkd.in/ebPHRqgM
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Prompted by our university system’s expenditure of $17 million on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu product amid great institutional austerity, my colleague Martha Kenney and I wrote this piece to explore the compacts that are being struck between genAI and higher ed.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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October 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Prompted by our university system’s expenditure of $17 million on OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu product amid great institutional austerity, my colleague Martha Kenney and I wrote this piece to explore the compacts that are being struck between genAI and higher ed.
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
New Research in Arctic Pasts - Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North Part V
Arctic visual studies have rapidly expanded through interdisciplinary collaboration, climate urgency, Indigenous engagement, and community-building among artists, historians, and scholars across disci...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Excited that “New Research in Arctic Pasts,” the series I’m co-editing with @issygapp.bsky.social, has just launched on @nichecanada.bsky.social, showcasing the work of 10 Arctic researchers across disciplines over the next 6 weeks niche-canada.org/2025/10/23/i...
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And the CFP for our conference is out! I'm particularly excited about the topic this year 🤓 can't wait to see all the proposals! We're a friendly bunch, and there's always a good mix of scholars at all stages from all over the world. Historians, curators, practitioners, all welcome!
We're delighted to announce the CFP for our #PHRC26 annual conference on "Photography's Tacit Knowledge". As in the past few years, it'll be a hybrid conference, online and in Leicester, o 15-16 June. Send your abstracts by 9 January! photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe... #photohist
Annual Conference 2026
Photography’s Tacit Knowledge Image: A reproduction photographer at work. 1934 (Deutsche Fotothek). Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK When: 15-16 June 2026…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
And the CFP for our conference is out! I'm particularly excited about the topic this year 🤓 can't wait to see all the proposals! We're a friendly bunch, and there's always a good mix of scholars at all stages from all over the world. Historians, curators, practitioners, all welcome!
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We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage – Semester One 2025/26
PHRC is pleased to announce the launch of Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a new, free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with pol…
photographichistory.wordpress.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We're also happy to announce the Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, which start on 30 October, 5.30 pm with none other than Martha Langford! The seminars are all free and online, and you can register here: photographichistory.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/r... #photohist
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Congrats @siobhanangus.bsky.social! 🥳
Congratulations to @siobhanangus.bsky.social, whose book "Camera Geologica" has been named a co-winner of the Universities Art Association of Canada Book Prize.
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October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Congrats @siobhanangus.bsky.social! 🥳
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Just put my thoughts together on this:
The time to reckon with AI agents in digital learning spaces is now
We need ed tech and AI companies collaborating to prevent widespread fraud
open.substack.com/pub/annamill...
The time to reckon with AI agents in digital learning spaces is now
We need ed tech and AI companies collaborating to prevent widespread fraud
open.substack.com/pub/annamill...
October 19, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Just put my thoughts together on this:
The time to reckon with AI agents in digital learning spaces is now
We need ed tech and AI companies collaborating to prevent widespread fraud
open.substack.com/pub/annamill...
The time to reckon with AI agents in digital learning spaces is now
We need ed tech and AI companies collaborating to prevent widespread fraud
open.substack.com/pub/annamill...
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Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output
October 18, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Halloween party tonight, here’s my costume as a ChatGPT output