Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
@jlphistory.bsky.social
Disability-based historian who is excited to be teaching some amazing students about dead people. Ask me about my dogs!
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Teenagers, Deaf People, & Archives! - A Book Haul for Teaching History (I know ALL the historians)
YouTube video by Joanna Loves History Books!
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Why do historians buy so many books? Is there an "end" to Canadian history? What does it mean to "do history" and why are edited collections an important part of that? What my first book haul video and find out!
#History #c19th #HistoryBookChat #disHist #HistChild 🗃️📚💙
#History #c19th #HistoryBookChat #disHist #HistChild 🗃️📚💙
Mood crashing so hard tonight. The highs of living, of loving dogs and people and songs and yarn and knowledge and books, do not seem worth these crashes. It's 7:30 at night and it feels like the demons of hell are after me.
November 27, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Mood crashing so hard tonight. The highs of living, of loving dogs and people and songs and yarn and knowledge and books, do not seem worth these crashes. It's 7:30 at night and it feels like the demons of hell are after me.
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The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
November 26, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries!
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out!
archive.org/details/usda...
🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration
Yesterday i felt I couldn't get anything going because I was too depressed to do more than the basic tasks of living, but today I Just don't wanna do it. On the outside these look the same, I know, but inside it's a very different feeling. Anyway, I'm doing things I don't want to do now.
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Yesterday i felt I couldn't get anything going because I was too depressed to do more than the basic tasks of living, but today I Just don't wanna do it. On the outside these look the same, I know, but inside it's a very different feeling. Anyway, I'm doing things I don't want to do now.
Y'all, a spectre is haunting me and it is called York.
Support unions.
Support unions.
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Y'all, a spectre is haunting me and it is called York.
Support unions.
Support unions.
Has google llm learned how many r are in strawberry?
November 26, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Has google llm learned how many r are in strawberry?
OTOH I did not get the grading done I intended to do today, but OTOH I did write a much better lecture about eugenics and I have tomorrow morning off from teaching so I can probably do a bunch of it then. It's not much but it's not nothing.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM
OTOH I did not get the grading done I intended to do today, but OTOH I did write a much better lecture about eugenics and I have tomorrow morning off from teaching so I can probably do a bunch of it then. It's not much but it's not nothing.
Y'all, I'm so enjoying writing this lecture that it's everything I can do to stop myself from live skeeting the whole thing. It probably says something awful about me that I really really enjoy teaching about eugenics in Alberta and its connection to first-wave feminism & fertility.
November 26, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Y'all, I'm so enjoying writing this lecture that it's everything I can do to stop myself from live skeeting the whole thing. It probably says something awful about me that I really really enjoy teaching about eugenics in Alberta and its connection to first-wave feminism & fertility.
Y'all, I think it's possible this book series from 1908 is really really really anti-immigrant.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Y'all, I think it's possible this book series from 1908 is really really really anti-immigrant.
Trying to find the exact right version of Bread & Roses for class tomorrow is just like finishing the lecture on women workers, right? right?
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
November 26, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Trying to find the exact right version of Bread & Roses for class tomorrow is just like finishing the lecture on women workers, right? right?
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
God I get emotional when I sing this song. My poor students. They suffer through a lot of singing. A few weeks ago it was the Gambler.
Despite my best effort I have not been productive today. OTOH it's only 5 pm and I could turn it around. But it's dark and there are wolves and the wolves are all in my brain and eating my soul.
November 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Despite my best effort I have not been productive today. OTOH it's only 5 pm and I could turn it around. But it's dark and there are wolves and the wolves are all in my brain and eating my soul.
I got out of bed, I put on clean clothes, I prepped for and had both of my student meetings and they were both fine. I am going for coffee before I dive back into cleaning up the mess I've made.
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I got out of bed, I put on clean clothes, I prepped for and had both of my student meetings and they were both fine. I am going for coffee before I dive back into cleaning up the mess I've made.
Reposted by Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
I continue to be deeply unwell. I convinced myself that telling my boss would make it better and it did in the sense that someone knows but it's awful because I'm not magically cured like I hoped.
November 25, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I continue to be deeply unwell. I convinced myself that telling my boss would make it better and it did in the sense that someone knows but it's awful because I'm not magically cured like I hoped.
Reposted by Joanna L. Pearce, Ph.D.
After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
November 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
After having another run on our archaeologists, we put out calls on social media and emails, and once again, against all odds, got every damn LEGO team matched with an archaeologist.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
This brings us to 803 teams/classes matched with an archaeologist this semester. That is absolutely bananas.
I did talk to my boss about the mental health crisis and how far behind I am and how I'm caught in the shame spiral. He was extremely understanding and also emphasized that they're more concerned about my being okay than they are about anything else. I'm going to keep it at that for now. 💕💕💕💕
November 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I did talk to my boss about the mental health crisis and how far behind I am and how I'm caught in the shame spiral. He was extremely understanding and also emphasized that they're more concerned about my being okay than they are about anything else. I'm going to keep it at that for now. 💕💕💕💕
My mother decided Footnote needed her own bed. Not Index though, because Index gets the couch.
November 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
My mother decided Footnote needed her own bed. Not Index though, because Index gets the couch.
So many great Kate Beaton strips in this thread but I think all the time about how I want to go to the moon and blow up the earth, like all proper feminists.
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
So many great Kate Beaton strips in this thread but I think all the time about how I want to go to the moon and blow up the earth, like all proper feminists.
As I am once again struggling to write a lecture (tomorrow is about women immigrants to Canada - they have wombs, as you know, which could make great Canadian babies or could make terrible foreign babies [1910]), I am wondering how people write lectures. I feel this is something no one talks about.
November 24, 2025 at 5:02 AM
As I am once again struggling to write a lecture (tomorrow is about women immigrants to Canada - they have wombs, as you know, which could make great Canadian babies or could make terrible foreign babies [1910]), I am wondering how people write lectures. I feel this is something no one talks about.
Ok, I'm going to my boss tomorrow to tell him I'm in a mental health crisis and I've been shitty at my job for the past few weeks because of it. I am terrified even though my boss has given no indication that he'll be a monster about this, but shame is a huge part of it and I'm so scared.
November 23, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Ok, I'm going to my boss tomorrow to tell him I'm in a mental health crisis and I've been shitty at my job for the past few weeks because of it. I am terrified even though my boss has given no indication that he'll be a monster about this, but shame is a huge part of it and I'm so scared.
I'm not doing well.
November 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I'm not doing well.
If you're wondering how it's going I'm listening to the 988 hold music. Please clap because this is hard.
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you're wondering how it's going I'm listening to the 988 hold music. Please clap because this is hard.
My brain is extremely actively trying to kill me and I would like it to stop. This is unbearable.
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My brain is extremely actively trying to kill me and I would like it to stop. This is unbearable.
Wrote the first bit of the lecture, decided the lecture was terrible, threw it all out and now I'm starting a different lecture. I am going to cry.
November 22, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Wrote the first bit of the lecture, decided the lecture was terrible, threw it all out and now I'm starting a different lecture. I am going to cry.
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put dino in to ro/ar! inside very Soft and Comfort dino ro/ar soundly put dino in Pelican Mouth. Put roar In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. friend pelican
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
pelcan Mouth perfec t size for put dino in to ro/ar! inside very Soft and Comfort dino ro/ar soundly put dino in Pelican Mouth. Put roar In Pelican Mouth. no problems ever in peliccan mouth. friend pelican
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It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.