Colin Rose
@crosehistorian.bsky.social
early modernist | 16th and 17thC Italy | HGIS | history of violence and justice | assoc prof @ BrockU | will do peer review | loud Canadian
Sounds like a great book and I can appreciate solid reviewers!
I received the reader reports back for my book manuscript. Thank you (you know who you are) for the most generous, supportive, & helpful comments!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
I guess this book thing is happening! Look for Doctoring the West: Women Physicians and the Politics and Practice of Medicine sometime next year!
November 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Sounds like a great book and I can appreciate solid reviewers!
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A shameful day for Ontario.
November 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
A shameful day for Ontario.
So the idea behind Pluribus is that we are supposed to empathize with the AI right? It’s just trying to make us happy. Am I too much of a crank?
November 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
So the idea behind Pluribus is that we are supposed to empathize with the AI right? It’s just trying to make us happy. Am I too much of a crank?
I actually love titling things. If there’s an obnoxious acronym I can make, even better.
Q: What’s the hardest part of writing a book?
Some thoughtful person: The inevitable gap between the dream and its expression — you stretch your human capacity to the fullest in composition but there remains something elusive and uncapturable you will always mourn.
Me: The goddamn title.
Some thoughtful person: The inevitable gap between the dream and its expression — you stretch your human capacity to the fullest in composition but there remains something elusive and uncapturable you will always mourn.
Me: The goddamn title.
November 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I actually love titling things. If there’s an obnoxious acronym I can make, even better.
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Does anyone recognise this scene in the background of a print I am using? #SkyStorians #c18th please help! 🙏🏻
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Does anyone recognise this scene in the background of a print I am using? #SkyStorians #c18th please help! 🙏🏻
Hell yeah love to see some merciless and non-sensical abuse of the semi-colon #grading #realstudentwriting
November 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hell yeah love to see some merciless and non-sensical abuse of the semi-colon #grading #realstudentwriting
Today in ‘they didn’t understand the source materials’
TIL that I can add another to the surveillance collection that includes palantir and anduril. Meet ..... SAURON
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I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
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I'm just disappointed that there isn't a mobile version called Nazgul
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November 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Today in ‘they didn’t understand the source materials’
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ONTARIO'S AUDITOR GENERAL->Labour Minister Piccini's "Skills Development Fund" gave $126M in training money to 64 organizations that used lobbyists to push applications ranked “low” and “medium” in a process that was “not fair, transparent or accountable.” www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli
Low-scoring applicants averaged the highest payouts from Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund
Groups with the worst-ranked applications seeking money from Premier Doug Ford's $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund got, on average, the biggest payouts, according to a Star analysis.
www.thestar.com
November 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
ONTARIO'S AUDITOR GENERAL->Labour Minister Piccini's "Skills Development Fund" gave $126M in training money to 64 organizations that used lobbyists to push applications ranked “low” and “medium” in a process that was “not fair, transparent or accountable.” www.thestar.com/politics/pro... #onpoli
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
A good parenting rule of thumb I’ve developed around toys, especially stuffies, is that if it connects to the internet, it ain’t coming in my house.
Run these freaks outta town.
Run these freaks outta town.
"Powered by OpenAI’s GPT-4o model by default...tests repeatedly showed that the AI toy dropped its guardrails the longer a conversation went on, until hitting rock bottom on incredibly disturbing topics."
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children
FoloToy says it's suspended sales of its AI-powered teddy bear after researchers found it gave wildly inappropriate and dangerous answers.
futurism.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A good parenting rule of thumb I’ve developed around toys, especially stuffies, is that if it connects to the internet, it ain’t coming in my house.
Run these freaks outta town.
Run these freaks outta town.
Ford dumping tax dollars into ‘hide the hike’ electricity rebates while our public schools and universities crumble. Incidentally they don’t turn on the lights in my office hallway until noon to save on hydro bills. Remember that austerity is a choice not a dictate. Fund education now. #onpoli
Just a reminder what happens when @Fordnation shuns cheap renewables and doubles down on U.S. gas and U.S./Japan nuclear: Ontario nearly doubles household electricity rebates to cover surging hydro prices www.thestar.com/news/ontario... via @torontostar #ONpoli #
Ontario nearly doubles household electricity rebates to cover surging hydro prices
While the net result on residential hydro bills is minimal, the increase in the rebate will cost taxpayers an estimated $2 billion more per year.
www.thestar.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Ford dumping tax dollars into ‘hide the hike’ electricity rebates while our public schools and universities crumble. Incidentally they don’t turn on the lights in my office hallway until noon to save on hydro bills. Remember that austerity is a choice not a dictate. Fund education now. #onpoli
I went to one of these, I think the last year that AHA permitted the practice. 2015? It was not great.
I thing I sometimes thing about is that university departments were still doing job interviews in hotel rooms in the mid aughts
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
I went to one of these, I think the last year that AHA permitted the practice. 2015? It was not great.
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Heads up: the first Discworld book, The Color of Magic, is on US ebook sale for $2 right now. I am *not* getting any copies; this book is the reason I stayed away from DW until Small Gods came out. Other people feel differently, and it is, after all, a Terry Pratchett book.
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Heads up: the first Discworld book, The Color of Magic, is on US ebook sale for $2 right now. I am *not* getting any copies; this book is the reason I stayed away from DW until Small Gods came out. Other people feel differently, and it is, after all, a Terry Pratchett book.
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
November 13, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.
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“Everybody’s chasing AI skills, and now judgment is priceless.”
He then goes on to say judgement is not a skill and how do we teach this???
My dude, may I introduce you to the liberal arts?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMvpgyfb/
He then goes on to say judgement is not a skill and how do we teach this???
My dude, may I introduce you to the liberal arts?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMvpgyfb/
We don’t talk about judgement enough #ai #learn #chatgpt #learnontiktok
TikTok video by Nate
www.tiktok.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:28 AM
“Everybody’s chasing AI skills, and now judgment is priceless.”
He then goes on to say judgement is not a skill and how do we teach this???
My dude, may I introduce you to the liberal arts?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMvpgyfb/
He then goes on to say judgement is not a skill and how do we teach this???
My dude, may I introduce you to the liberal arts?
www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMvpgyfb/
Seeing the impoverished literacy of some of the most powerful men around is helping me to understand why ‘it helps me write emails’ is something people think is a legit positive.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Seeing the impoverished literacy of some of the most powerful men around is helping me to understand why ‘it helps me write emails’ is something people think is a legit positive.
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Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
November 12, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
So much work remains to be done.
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Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
Prosopographia Imperii Romani
pir.bbaw.de
November 10, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Students & researchers have a tough time keeping the names of Roman emperors and elites straight. But we do have a database to help name and number each. It is called the Prospographia Imperii Romani (=PIR) and has 15061 persons, of which 1932 are women. Please use the database! pir.bbaw.de#/search
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History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
What Comes Next After the 2025 Elections
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:32 AM
History has taught us that this is precisely when Donald Trump is most dangerous — and when Republicans turn to voter suppression, election subversion and worse. With the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, Trump is already plotting his next moves.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Here’s what we all need to prepare for.
Today in important #GreatLakes #Maritimehistory
How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’ #Science #Other hashtag 1: #EdmundFitzgerald 2: #MaritimeHistory 3: #GreatLakes
How the Witch of November doomed the ‘Edmund Fitzgerald’
On the afternoon of November 9, 1975, when the SS Edmund Fitzgerald set out on its 746-mile run from Superior, Wisconsin, to Detroit, Michigan, Lake Superior was mostly calm. Even so, the crew likely...
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November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Today in important #GreatLakes #Maritimehistory
Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Ontario’s government is nakedly corrupt, and working aggressively to defund and destroy the twin pillars of public health care and public education that sustain Canadian civil society. We must not allow these national treasures to be degraded like this. Where is the credible opposition?! #onpoli
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Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Modernists: I’m looking to find more secondary scholarship about the bombing of southern Italy—particularly Naples—in 1943/1944 to get a better appreciation of how those events shaped cultural heritage (archives lost, art destroyed, etc). Any ideas?
#skystorians
#skystorians
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Every school and college that cheerfully mainlines Open AI chatbots into their students' devices and browsers and brains through MS or other platforms, really should be planning for some tough legal battles in the years ahead. It's going to get so much worse. But they could just stop doing it now.
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Every school and college that cheerfully mainlines Open AI chatbots into their students' devices and browsers and brains through MS or other platforms, really should be planning for some tough legal battles in the years ahead. It's going to get so much worse. But they could just stop doing it now.
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What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.
I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs
Extralibrary Loan: Making the Civic Infrastructure We Need
Amid a war on public knowledge, libraries are pushing outward, enlarging the commons through new configurations of civic and creative life.
placesjournal.org
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What if we could work with our public libraries to create + sustain convivial infrastructures for local news, local 🎶, digital equity, and more? I wrote abt lots of communities that are doing this work, bldg networks of solidarity + resistance, modeling alternatives to extractive commercial systems.