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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · Nov 8
How’s your TBR stack? We have episodes featuring the authors of all of these books, sharing their work. 🎧 📚💙⬇️

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 5h
Registration and housing are open for #AHA26, which will take place in Chicago from January 8-11, 2026. We look forward to seeing you there! 🗃️
Annual Meeting - AHA
Join Us at the Annual Meeting Connect with Your Community Since 1884, the American Historical Association annual meeting has been the premier gathering for historians to come together to share researc...
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 11h
***Historians***

We're halfway through October and there's more than 70 postings in History and History-related positions!

#skystorians #wha2025
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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 14d
***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for October 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · 10h
DEADLINE EXTENDED! PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSALS BY 31 OCTOBER 2025!

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Association of Caribbean Historians @achconference.bsky.social · Sep 9
The ACH Executive Committee announces its 57th Annual Conference at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, from May 24-28, 2026. (There will be an optional field trip on Friday, May 29.) #skystorians #caribbean

Call for papers! associationofcaribbeanhistorians.org/annual-meeti...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10h
#SkyStorians, question: are there small pots of money out there for non-affiliated historians to apply to to support their research project? Most of what I can find are full postdocs or small grants for people in a post to buy them out a bit.

With jobs going, some more of those funds would be good?
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · Dec 17
Have we overestimated what #AI can do, while underestimating where it’s already embedded?
What you need to know about the limits & the reach of AI. ⬇️ 🎧
📚 Artificial UnIntelligence
@mitpress.bsky.social #AcademicSky #BookSky #WomenInSTEM
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Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World
Podcast Episode · The Academic Life · 09/26/2024 · 50m
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · Jan 5
🎙️Feeling worn out by the work of resistance? How do you persevere? ⬇️🎧
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📚Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day by Kaitlin B Curtice

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 9h
It’s a fascinating book! 📚
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 9h
How are the micro-wild, elections, old diaries and America’s founding fathers entwined with the history of apples?

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#BookSky #nonfiction
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 13h
Get even more
content at Christinagessler.substack.com for free, or pay-what-you-like.
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 1d
After 158 years of publication.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d
UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director By IDS staff Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision. Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d
We can be.
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Positive Black Content @miiriya.com · 2d
A man named Nicky Crawford transformed a school bus into a mobile laundry service for the homeless called “Flowing with Blessings” He teamed up with Georgia Tech engineering students and created the bus, which provides free laundry, showers, haircuts & meals for the homelessness
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d
Yes, it’s yet another good moment to ask Blue Sky for an edit button.

Also: 🤷🏻‍♀️ annoying typos increase post engagement. So, hello!!
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 1d
What is development editing? How does it improve your work? Laura Portwood-Stacer explains⬇️.

📚Make Your Manuscript Work
#nonfiction #AcademicLife @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social

🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-academic-life/id1539341620?i=1000730954206
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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 2d
I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 2d
When people tell you that founders as enslavers was something we should see "in the context of their time." Great piece fr @katytelling.bsky.social abt a wealthy 18hc Virginian (and there were others) who thought Washington and co. risked their honor and more. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/10/13/a...
A Great Reputation Among Men: Race and Contested Masculinities in the Early American Republic
By Kathleen Telling In 1785, Robert Pleasants, a wealthy tobacco planter, abolitionist, and prominent member of Henrico County’s Quaker community, penned a letter to Virginia’s most famous son, Geo…
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 11d
If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Oooh, that sounds really interesting! 📚📚
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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 7d
This is your every now and then reminder that if you got to @uncpress.bsky.social website and enter 01HATM30 you’ll get 30% off of any title. I don’t get anything for it, but it’s a nice thing for my readers and the #HATM community.

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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Happy publication day! 📚 Can’t wait to read this!
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Writing Africa @writingafrica.bsky.social · 2d
Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
#LiteraryAwards #Fiction #Nonfiction #SouthAfrica #NoDNAJustRSA
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Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists announced
The Sunday Times Literary Awards 2025 shortlists were announced in Johannesburg, South Africa on Sunday, October 5, 2025.
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 2d
Have tried that with a few books (and movies) (and a tv series).
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · Aug 3
PBS gave us Mister Rogers and Officer Clemmons in the 1960’s.
PBS showed the world what love & equality looks like, during a time when people were actually dumping acid into pools where Black kids were swimming...
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Academic Life 🌎📚 @academiclife.bsky.social · 3d
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