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Dorothy Berry @dorothyjberry.bsky.social · 6d

I will never stop being tired of Digital Humanities professors who never approach archivists as peers deeming fit to tell archivists how and why to do their jobs differently. It happens time and time again, rarely with a spirit of collaboration and often with an uncomfortable tech-disruptor energy

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 9d

Indeed! I hadn't thought about it before, but I think that one of the reasons that the critiques I looked at got so much traction was because there was already discourse on the economic relationship that politicians and political commentators could build on.

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 15d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 15d

We went to the zoo this weekend, and the teenager taking tickets for the carousel was casually reading Claudio Saunt's West of the Revolution.

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 15d

Julie Reed's Serving the Nation has some good citations on mission schools (and is overall a fantastic book) - www.oupress.com/978080615224...

Serving the Nation - University of Oklahoma Press

Well before the creation of the United States, the Cherokee people administered their own social policy—a form of what today might be called social welfar...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24d

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 23d

Yes. And, some of us who teach in CS-like fields are *also* teaching kids not to use AI, because it turns out that you need a basic understanding of how computer languages work before you can "vibe code" effectively.

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · 25d

I am in a meeting about whether the cemetery board should hire some goats - and one sheep - to mow. This is the best meeting I have ever been in.

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Kevin Kenny @kevinkenny.bsky.social · 26d

Video of our launch of Rituals of Migration @gihnyu.bsky.social @nyupress.bsky.social is now up on YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Qh1...
@irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social @appalachianphilly.bsky.social

Launch of Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move

YouTube video by Glucksman Ireland House NYU

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Andrew Mountcastle @mounty.bsky.social · 27d

NPR reports that "The Science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear."

The blessing and curse of the scientific method is that it reflects a commitment to skepticism and constant re-evaluation of knowledge. There is ALWAYS room for doubt.

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NPR @npr.org · 28d

The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.

When it comes to Tylenol, what are parents to do?

The science on Tylenol and autism isn't clear, despite President Trump's claims. Here's what parents need to know to make their own decisions about acetaminophen.

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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 28d

Now DATA EMPIRE is US official!

Publisher's Marketplace screenshot: DATA EMPIRE
By Roopika Risam
Imprint: Harper, Transworld
Associate professor at Dartmouth College Roopika Risam's DATA EMPIRE, a
history of 11,000 years of data collection, from ancient cave markings and
knotted strings to colonial censuses and modern digital surveillance, showing
how it has always been used to shape civilizations, uphold empires, and
control lives, to Sarah Haugen at Harper, in a pre-empt, for publication in July
2026, by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency (NA).
Rights also to Alex Christofi at Transworld (UK).

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 28d

NJ PBS shutting down next summer.

“15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.”

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New Jersey PBS shutting down in July - New Jersey Globe

New Jersey PBS is expected to cease operations in July 2026 following WNET's decision not to renew its agreement, the New Jersey Globe has learned. The

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · Aug 28

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make.

2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 28

Historians may have words to say about this.

An abiding mystery of the French Revolution is solved — by epidemiology

The period of panic and unrest called the Great Fear was triggered by deliberately spread rumours, according to methods borrowed from pandemic playbooks.

www.nature.com

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 20

Today I learned that John Gillis - author of Islands of the Mind, a text formative of my approach to Atlantic history - also wrote books about early modern marriage, which I'm now reading to help a friend craft their wedding ceremony.

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we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social · Aug 20

welcome home, we here press ❤️‍🔥 we're honored that our inaugural project will be to publish @dorothyjberry.bsky.social's ***the house archives built & other thoughts on black archival possibilities*** coming october 2025 www.weherepress.org

We Here Press

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 17

I've been critical of the U(C) as an institution, but I am also incredibly grateful for the education I received there in the early 2000s. The current institutional approach is a betrayal of the life of the mind ethos that drew me to UChicago in the first place. www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump

The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 14

Starting this new project by pretending like I'm doing comps again - making lists, taking notes in a template, reading in all kinds of weird poses.

Book, blurred in the foreground. Two bare feet propped on a windowsill underneath a wall calendar in the middle ground. Suburban houses through the window in the background.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Aug 14

continue to collect best e.g.s of assignable articles, especially shorter than these great ones!

will compile, along with assignment prompts, this week

Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · Aug 14

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students.

1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.

The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn’t tracking and consider where it’s heading next.

www.technologyreview.com

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 14

Related: "Can't you just use some family money until you get a job?"

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations! What fabulous news!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 12

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study

Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

www.bloomberg.com

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Aug 12

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 5

We've packed up our Maine house and relocated to a small apartment in NJ for my year of sabbatical. Any #skystorians advice about starting a whole new project with a year of unstructured time? Alternately, any academic writing groups in the NY/NJ area open to a new member?

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Greg O’Malley @gogogomalley.bsky.social · Aug 5

Tenure-track African American history job (19th c.) at Bates College in Maine, for those on the market.
Go get it, and good luck! #bskystorians
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Anelise Hanson Shrout @anelisehshrout.bsky.social · Aug 5

Hang out with super-cool @nolauren.bsky.social! (I know you know this already)

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