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Kristine Alexander
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"Survivors will face a poisoned environment—a toxic biosphere of war—for just about forever."

"No life without water: How Israel’s actions in Gaza echo past genocides," by Mark Zeitoun, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Danilo Türk, and Reem Abu Shomar.
No life without water: How Israel’s actions in Gaza echo past genocides
Israel’s long-term disruption of water services in Gaza redefines the limits of acceptable suffering of civilians. This weaponization of water echoes historical genocides and threatens to normalize…
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July 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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roxanegay.bsky.social
Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.
davidpham5.bsky.social davidpham5 @davidpham5.bsky.social · Jun 19
@roxanegay.bsky.social maybe you’re right.
kottke.org kottke.org @kottke.org · Jun 19
A new study from MIT’s Media Lab (not yet peer-reviewed & small sample size): ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills. [time.com]
June 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
Things are disastrous, but we’re hoping that learning together, celebrating public knowledge + the gloriously noncompliant, can be ✨✊❤️‍🩹🌱. We’re hosting our first zoom info session this Friday at noon ET; sign-up @ the bottom of the page:
June 17, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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robertalexier.bsky.social
THIS WEEKEND!!

Friday: The Death and Life of Canadian Social Democracy (an @albertaadvantage.bsky.social intervention)

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Saturday: panels by @cjsw.bsky.social @pressprogress.ca @briarpatch @theorchard and more

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Poster advertising: Progressive Publics, a two-day symposium connecting public scholarship & independent media. Calgary June 13, 6pm - Royal Canadian Legion #1 June 14, 12pm - Mount Royal University
June 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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plerner.bsky.social
I was way ahead of my time
June 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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mediaindigena.bsky.social
It's almost as if the two are connected somehow; probably just a coincidence
mediaindigena.bsky.social MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · Jun 6
“Decarbonizing” oil will work about as well as ‘decolonizing’ Canada has
ryankatzrosene.bsky.social Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Jun 4
Lots of hoopla in the news today about Carney's "decarbonized oil" statement... but just a friendly reminder the idea is not new: The Trudeau government came out with a "Roadmap for the Decarbonization of Canada's Oil and Gas Sector" back in 2023.
June 6, 2025 at 6:38 PM
kalexand.bsky.social
Looking forward to this!
histchildoxford.bsky.social Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social · May 28
Also a reminder of our upcoming colloquium, Monday 23rd June online and in person at Magdalen College, Oxford (pls join the waiting list and we'll let you know asap if slots open up). 'Becoming Human? Childhood, Development and the Human Sciences'.
June 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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lauratisdall.bsky.social
We'd love to see some #skystorians at this virtual book launch & discussion of some of the very newest work in #histchild #histyouth #histsex! Do register below, and we'd really appreciate shares/RTs 🗃
jennycrane.bsky.social Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social · Apr 2
Triple book launch for myself, @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social, and @hannahcharnock.bsky.social! Thanks to @lauratisdall.bsky.social for chairing.

Please do join if you're interested in social and cultural approaches to young people's lives and leisure spaces.

12 June, 12-1, tinyurl.com/mryazrew
Book launch poster for book launch with Jenny Crane, new book Gifted Children in Britain and the World, Sarah Kenny, new book Growing up and going out, and Hannah Charnock, new book Teenage intimacies - all in discussion with Laura Tisdall. Date is 12 June, 12-1, via teams https://tinyurl.com/mryazrew
June 4, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
This is 10-12 tenure-track assistant professors’ salaries at many places. A whole academic program’s worth of money, pissed away, In Times of Austerity, on rent-a-cops going after students who dared speak. Nobody behind this should have a career.
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Jun 6
The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless.

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June 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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shcy.bsky.social
We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Society for the History of Children and Youth's biennial conference, which is being held on Zoom from June 26-28 2025. To register, click here: tinyurl.com/4ypduv4r
June 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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shcy.bsky.social
Registration and program information for the 2025 SHCY Conference will be available soon! The cost to attend will be $50.
May 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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mathildevm.bsky.social
Remember the deadline on April 4th for sending in your abstract to this year's @sscipchildhood.bsky.social conference, "Children and Climate Change"!!

Conference dates: 25-27 June
Place: Aarhus, Denmark
Keynotes: @sheinalew.bsky.social and @kalexand.bsky.social

conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025
SSCIP 2025
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March 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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We are all under attack and we are fighting for our universities. This week @tungohan.bsky.social raises the alarm about the neoliberal, right wing attack on higher education in the wake of program suspensions at York U. www.academicaunties.com/episodes/fig...

#AcademicSky #dei #reconciliation
Fighting for Our University
(This is a reissue of the episode with audio issues corrected) Last week, at the end of the day on a Friday, York University announced the suspension of...
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February 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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sesamescholar.bsky.social
Childhood history conference in Aarhus (DK)--theme "Children and Climate Change" (other topics welcome too).

📆Conference dates: 25-27 June
📆Deadline for abstracts: 4 April
👩‍🎓 Keynotes: @kalexand.bsky.social & @sheinalew.bsky.social

conferences.au.dk/sscip-2025/c...
Call for Abstracts
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February 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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agentlazero.bsky.social
This Canadian historian would love it if these "you're erasing #history" folks asked themselves why they're so locked in on erasing JAM's violent #colonial legacy. It's like, getting weird at this point nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
Historians ask Doug Ford to save names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Ryerson, Dundas on Toronto schools
The historians are calling on Premier Doug Ford to prevent the TDSB from removing the names of Sir John A. Macdonald, Ryerson and Dundas.
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February 13, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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cathlaro.bsky.social
À lire !

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La résistance universitaire au trumpisme
L’historienne Joan W. Scott est professeure émérite à l’Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton, New Jersey. Mondialement célèbre pour avoir [...]
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February 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
if you thought archives were problematic, wait till you see no archives
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
The NEH has decided to comply with fascist dictat. www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...
6. Funding Restrictions You may not use awards made under this notice to fund: • projects that do not explicitly address one or more of the research categories, as required in the Humanities Significance section of the narrative • projects that involve data collection without analysis • projects for which a primary goal is evaluation of a single humanities program, product, or event, such as an educational initiative, podcast, exhibition, undergraduate minor, etc. • projects for which a primary goal is to curate new collections, digitize existing collections, or create inventories or catalogs of collections that do not result in substantive analyses • projects in which more than 1/3 of direct costs are for equipment, materials, and supplies costs for activities performed by federal entities or personnel promotion of discriminatory equity ideology support for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEl) or diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) initiatives or activities • environmental justice initiatives or activities advocacy of a particular program of social or political actionl • support of specific public policies or legislation • lobbying • projects that fall outside of the humanities; the creation or performance of art; creative writing, autobiographies, memoirs, and creative nonfiction; policy studies; and social science research that does not address humanistic questions and/or utilize humanistic methods
February 11, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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cathlaro.bsky.social
"Historians should make it more difficult for students or the larger public to naturalize inequalities of wealth and privilege, or romanticize the poor and oppressed, who, depending on the circumstances, could become the oppressors — these, alas, are not fixed categories."
February 7, 2025 at 5:11 PM
kalexand.bsky.social
@annettejosephg.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & I are seeking submissions for a special issue of French Historical Studies on "Children & Childhood in the French-Speaking World." We are esp interested in contributions that deal with race, empire, and colonialism.
CFP here: bit.ly/3EIeVvE
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February 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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histchildoxford.bsky.social
Excited to post the CfP for our 2025 History of Childhood Colloquium on ‘Becoming Human? Childhood, Development & the Human Sciences’. We welcome papers from any discipline or prof background & career stage; keynotes from @lauratisdall.bsky.social Bonnie Evans & Sally Shuttleworth; deadline 07/03/25
January 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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clpn.bsky.social
The Childhood & Youth Network of @socscihistory.bsky.social (co-chaired by our members @kalexand.bsky.social, @edillenburg.bsky.social & Mary Jo Maynes) invites session/paper proposals for the SSHA conference.

Proposals due 1 March.

The conference will be held in Chicago in November.
January 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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samwetherell.bsky.social
Shame on the American Historical Association for vetoing a motion, passed overwhelmingly by members, to condemn scholasticide. You would think that the deliberate annihilation of every university in Gaza would contravene the highlighted text below. www.historians.org/news/busines...
January 17, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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jbritishstudies.bsky.social
Continuous publication & open access & online-only, oh my! The new year is bringing exciting changes to the Journal of British Studies. Read more about these new developments here.

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News from JBS | NACBS
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January 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM