Mark Rhodes
@cartomark.bsky.social
Geographer, Musician, Gardener. Associate Professor at Michigan Tech, IASH Fellow at University of Edinburgh, & Schuman Fulbright Scholar looking at heritage institutions, memory work, and cultural landscapes. Darmok and Jalad on the ocean.🖖 views=mine
It's been two years since Kenny tragically passed away over break. I'm touched to see this posthumous publication of his senior thesis in memoriam to him and his family. We lost a student, a friend, and a damn fine archaeologist. @michigantech.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Multiphase salt making at Nakuukuwidish/Holman Springs, a Caddo and settler salt-making site in Sevier County, Arkansas
Colonial/settler saltworks, particularly in rural or border settings, are less frequently studied archaeologically and historically than are larger-scale, industrialized saltworks. Using historical...
www.tandfonline.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
It's been two years since Kenny tragically passed away over break. I'm touched to see this posthumous publication of his senior thesis in memoriam to him and his family. We lost a student, a friend, and a damn fine archaeologist. @michigantech.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Today’s Reinterpreting the Country House workshop focused on books& libraries.
We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more.
Lots of fun!
@archpbu.bsky.social
We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more.
Lots of fun!
@archpbu.bsky.social
December 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today’s Reinterpreting the Country House workshop focused on books& libraries.
We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more.
Lots of fun!
@archpbu.bsky.social
We considered bookplates, marginalia, subscription lists, bindings, women’s book ownership, Welsh books, gifting, inscriptions, the book trade, education, multilingualism & much more.
Lots of fun!
@archpbu.bsky.social
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Give the gift of heritage this year with an annual subscription to NINNAU & Y Drych, North America’s Welsh newspaper.
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#welshheritage #welshdiaspora #Cymru #Wales
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December 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Give the gift of heritage this year with an annual subscription to NINNAU & Y Drych, North America’s Welsh newspaper.
Subscription Rates:
$30 🇺🇸
$40 🇨🇦
£30 🏴🏴🏴
Advertising Inquiries: [email protected]
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#welshheritage #welshdiaspora #Cymru #Wales
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For some reason, I don't think people have the EU Anthem playing in the background when thinking of "promoting European greatness."
🎵Speed the slow, and check the eager, help the weak, and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, none shall let another fall.🎵 youtu.be/qJHh6UX87Gg?...
🎵Speed the slow, and check the eager, help the weak, and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, none shall let another fall.🎵 youtu.be/qJHh6UX87Gg?...
All Men Are Brothers
YouTube video by Paul Robeson - Topic
youtu.be
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For some reason, I don't think people have the EU Anthem playing in the background when thinking of "promoting European greatness."
🎵Speed the slow, and check the eager, help the weak, and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, none shall let another fall.🎵 youtu.be/qJHh6UX87Gg?...
🎵Speed the slow, and check the eager, help the weak, and curb the strong. None shall push aside another, none shall let another fall.🎵 youtu.be/qJHh6UX87Gg?...
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News | Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums
Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure
Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure
Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums - Museums Association
Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure
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December 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
News | Dumfries and Galloway Council proposes closing four museums
Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure
Sixteenth-century Castle of St John in Stranraer is among the sites at risk of closure
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Call for applications - Become DePOT's new Artist in Residence! CA$ 16,000 in funding is available for an artist or group of artists exploring this year's theme of Deindustrialization and the Environment - Apply by January 15!
Artists in Residence – Deindustrialization
The DePOT Artist in Residence (DePOT AIR) program supports creative engagements with the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization. We are interested in proposals that range across…
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December 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Call for applications - Become DePOT's new Artist in Residence! CA$ 16,000 in funding is available for an artist or group of artists exploring this year's theme of Deindustrialization and the Environment - Apply by January 15!
The ignorance and blatant racism being leveled at Americans of Somali descent and Somali refugees in Minnesota should never be tolerated. Glad to see the St. Cloud community, that I lived in for 4 years, coming together to show their solidarity.
More than 100 people gathered in St. Cloud on Wednesday for an event aimed at showing community solidarity, following President Donald Trump’s disparaging remarks about Somalis.
‘We are here’: In St. Cloud, Somali community pushes back against Trump’s ‘garbage’ comments
More than 100 people gathered in St. Cloud on Wednesday for an event aimed at showing unity and solidarity. Somali residents and other community members said they felt compelled to speak out against w...
www.mprnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The ignorance and blatant racism being leveled at Americans of Somali descent and Somali refugees in Minnesota should never be tolerated. Glad to see the St. Cloud community, that I lived in for 4 years, coming together to show their solidarity.
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Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social!
Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️
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Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️
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Editorial Assistant for RGS-IBG Journals | Job vacancy
An exciting opportunity to develop a greater understanding of the academic peer review and publishing process. Part time, six-month fixed term contract.
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December 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Come & work with me at the @rgsibg.bsky.social!
Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
Closing date for this fixed-term Editorial Assistant role is 11th December - get in touch with any questions ⬇️
www.rgs.org/about-us/wor...
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Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month.
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory!
Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Never believe the fuckers who say "why bother, they already won"
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This Friday!
Join our Deindustrialization and the Environment working group for the last DePOT roundtable of the year!
Join our Deindustrialization and the Environment working group for the last DePOT roundtable of the year!
Roundtable - Research from Energy In Society
Join DePOT and Energy In Society as we talk extractivism, energy transitions, and degrowth!
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December 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This Friday!
Join our Deindustrialization and the Environment working group for the last DePOT roundtable of the year!
Join our Deindustrialization and the Environment working group for the last DePOT roundtable of the year!
Love to see the @naaswch.bsky.social shoutout! It was great to be there in-person for the recording. The more we can dissolve the incredibly sticky Madoc Myth the better. No, Indigenous Peoples in the Americans didn't learn how to fish or speak from the Welsh
From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales
Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!
nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...
Yr Hen Iaith part 75 – The earliest Welsh-American literature
Jerry Hunter The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the United States. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immig...
nation.cymru
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Love to see the @naaswch.bsky.social shoutout! It was great to be there in-person for the recording. The more we can dissolve the incredibly sticky Madoc Myth the better. No, Indigenous Peoples in the Americans didn't learn how to fish or speak from the Welsh
Over 40 years, National Museums Scotland published 1000+ places to @visit-scotland.bsky.social. Shout out to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & @amphilpress.bsky.social for support building this unwieldy database. A pie chart won't cut it... too bad there's no other way to map spatio-temporal data. 😏📍🗺️📍
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Over 40 years, National Museums Scotland published 1000+ places to @visit-scotland.bsky.social. Shout out to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social & @amphilpress.bsky.social for support building this unwieldy database. A pie chart won't cut it... too bad there's no other way to map spatio-temporal data. 😏📍🗺️📍
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A study from a Welsh university has shed new light on the stark legacy of deindustrialisation in Wales and its impact on the mental health of the population
Study reveals stark impact of deindustrialisation on mental health in Wales
A study from a Welsh university has shed new light on the stark legacy of deindustrialisation in Wales and its impact on the mental health of the population. The paper, by Dr Christopher Saville of Ba...
nation.cymru
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM
A study from a Welsh university has shed new light on the stark legacy of deindustrialisation in Wales and its impact on the mental health of the population
I've managed to get through 3000 books in the past 3 months forming a massive database of books published by or in association with National Museums Scotland and its predecessors. So much to say on museology and nation-building from the perspectives of this now-defunct (as of 2025) national press!
November 26, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I've managed to get through 3000 books in the past 3 months forming a massive database of books published by or in association with National Museums Scotland and its predecessors. So much to say on museology and nation-building from the perspectives of this now-defunct (as of 2025) national press!
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Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
November 19, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Call for papers!
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
We invite proposals for a special issue addressing historical animal geographies, co-edited by Karen M. Morin & Alice J. Hovorka.
Abstract deadline 15 Jan
Accepted submission deadline 15 Jun
Details here: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/327592/historical-animal-geographies
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History has many painful lessons.
October 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM
History has many painful lessons.
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#OpenAccess in Area:
'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button
This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button
This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
October 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#OpenAccess in Area:
'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button
This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Confluences of art and research: Reflections on curating an art exhibition as interdisciplinary method' by Helen Underhill & Cat Button
This paper reflects on 'curation-as-method' in relation to the 2024 'Confluences: Water and People' exhibition.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!
October 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Just received my copy of the open access Promise of Cultural Geography edited by @vickiezhang.bsky.social & @benandersongeog.bsky.social. Happy to have contributed!! Honestly, I'm surprised it survived the post, though: they saved me the trouble of opening anything 😄!
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We're hiring!
Join us at Landscape Research Group as our new Director of Communications & Membership (3 days/week, remote). Lead strategy, comms, membership, events & much more. Apply by 22 Sept.
Learn more and download the full pack here: landscaperesearch.org/comms-vacanc...
Join us at Landscape Research Group as our new Director of Communications & Membership (3 days/week, remote). Lead strategy, comms, membership, events & much more. Apply by 22 Sept.
Learn more and download the full pack here: landscaperesearch.org/comms-vacanc...
September 8, 2025 at 4:16 PM
We're hiring!
Join us at Landscape Research Group as our new Director of Communications & Membership (3 days/week, remote). Lead strategy, comms, membership, events & much more. Apply by 22 Sept.
Learn more and download the full pack here: landscaperesearch.org/comms-vacanc...
Join us at Landscape Research Group as our new Director of Communications & Membership (3 days/week, remote). Lead strategy, comms, membership, events & much more. Apply by 22 Sept.
Learn more and download the full pack here: landscaperesearch.org/comms-vacanc...
Mae'r gwaith yn iawn araf.
September 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Mae'r gwaith yn iawn araf.
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#OpenAccess in Area:
'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al.
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al.
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
September 18, 2025 at 2:28 PM
#OpenAccess in Area:
'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al.
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
'Participatory collaborations between geographers and performance artists: Taking urban renewal histories to the street' by @aledsingleton.bsky.social et al.
This paper is part of an ongoing Special Section on 'Participatory Historical Geography'.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
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Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime (Published 1939)
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:15 PM
I've spent the past two days tracing the last remaining elements of Amgueddfa Cymru's presence in Caernarfon Harbour while they owned and contributed labor, material, and financial resources towards the operation of the Seiont II and Nantlys ships @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I've spent the past two days tracing the last remaining elements of Amgueddfa Cymru's presence in Caernarfon Harbour while they owned and contributed labor, material, and financial resources towards the operation of the Seiont II and Nantlys ships @amgueddfacymru.bsky.social
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Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
Assistant Professor, Human-Environment Geography
The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) appreciates your interest in employment at our growing institution. We want your application process to go smoothly and quickly. Final applications must be submitt...
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September 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
