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Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
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📝New publication!

Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate:

1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁

2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲

3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀

Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Who Should Phase Out Fossil Fuels First? A Geopolitical Approach to Determining the Sequencing of Fossil Fuel Phaseouts
Fossil fuel production must be phased out globally to decarbonise human society. Yet some countries should phase out sooner than others. Determining the order in which countries should phase out pr...
www.tandfonline.com
June 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events:

18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL
www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis...

26 June, Linnean Society, London
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu...

9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...
June 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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And so we begin: the first panel on friendship and solidarity, with papers on Portugal and Cuba, emotional work in the Zimbabwean anti-apartheid movement and women in the Uzbek Friendship Society during decolonisation.
June 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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This is a very human(e) addition about what students are being stripped of in the mad rush towards "AI". The heart of rebuttal is about those crucial things we try to educate towards: a flowering personhood, an adaptive, and curious, type of resilience. AI eats that stuff and leaves nothing behind.
May 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
May 3, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States | Annual Reviews
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
www.annualreviews.org
April 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.'

Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️
South Asian Political Blackness in 1970s Britain
In April 1979, activists and locals stood up to British fascists targeting Southall’s South Asian community. Saffron East explores the politics of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist collective tha...
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April 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:

‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’

Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!

#PhD #postgraduate

www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
www.gre.ac.uk
April 28, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
UK university redundancies: latest updates
As higher education institutions shed thousands of jobs, we track developments and bring together latest analysis with resources for affected staff and students
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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#OtD 6 Apr 1981 Operation Swamp 81 was carried out by police in Brixton, rounding up and searching Black residents. In five days, over 900 people were stopped and searched, with 82 arrests. The local area erupted into rioting, which spread nationally stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1058...
April 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Doctoral student in Economic History – Demographic Inequality
The Department of Economic History is a research-intensive department that employs about 100 people: researchers, teachers, technical/administrative staff, and Ph.D. candidates. The department has a l
lu.varbi.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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#OtD 1 Apr 1998 Christopher Alder died on a police station floor in Hull, UK. While unconscious, police failed to examine him and made monkey noises over his body. A verdict of unlawful killing was made in 2000. No officers were ever found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8041...
April 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️
April 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
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Hello everyone going to the British History Today conference at @qmcbs.bsky.social at the start of May! I'm giving a paper on young people, politics & age in late 1980s Britain at the @ihr.bsky.social
the night before! See details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/fancy... #skystorians #histchild 🗃️
‘Fancy calling an election on the day of my History "O" Level’: teenagers write about age and adulthood in late 1980s Britain
www.history.ac.uk
April 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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When I describe "AI" chatbots as plagiarism engines, I'm not exaggerating, I'm simply describing reality:
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
March 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...
PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War at University of Westminster
Find a PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view m...
www.jobs.ac.uk
March 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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This International Women's Day use the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about women’s history. In our subject tree, ‘women’ offers over 40,000 articles, chapters, and books – why not have a look for yourself? buff.ly/3L7a33B
March 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social https://buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach
26th February 2025
buff.ly
February 26, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)".
No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.
So sick of hearing "You're biased" used as a social, economic or political argument. I blame the school curriculum - we had to do a load of nonsense in history & science GCSEs about "identifying bias" in a way that left people utterly helpless at dealing with structure, ideology or epistemology.
February 17, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Academia’s “labyrinth of acronyms, endless forms, and confusing hierarchies” can be barriers for professional services staff hoping to enter the sector, according to a new book. @patrickjack.bsky.social writes

#AcademicSky #EduSky
Work of professional services staff ‘invisible’ in universities
‘Survival guide’ aims to tackle ‘age-old binary that permeates the sector’
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
He's very proud of his mudstache
February 6, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Genuine question - why won't people (journalists, I'm particularly looking at you) just use the past tense when talking about the past?!?
February 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month.

In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn.

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

#queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth

www.historyworkshop....
Queer Lives: Public History and the Queer Archive
Laura Forster is joined by Ajamu X and E-J Scott to discuss public history, the queer archive, and what it means to queer the museum.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Explore an alternative history of Cambridge 📖🌈

'Queer Cambridge' delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living for many decades in the heart of the University

Discover more about the new @cambridgeup.bsky.social book 👇
Intimacy, community and identity: an untold Cambridge story
A new book published this January, Queer Cambridge: An Alternative History, delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living...
www.cambridge.org
February 3, 2025 at 9:11 AM