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Minerals
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This is the profile for the Research Ireland-funded project, Minerals, led by Associate Professor Sarah Comyn at University College Dublin
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snarlsdickens.bsky.social
The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum
A flyer for the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize, announcing a call for papers under 3,500 words on ecological thinking in the Anglophone world 1750–1945 by Ph.D. students or scholars <3 years out from the Ph.D. Papers should be sent to kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu by February 15, 2026.
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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gigitang.bsky.social
I was funded by the minerals project to visit Museum Africa to consult its fascinating postcard collections on SA’s extractive histories. The postcards discussed in this article offer a glimpse into how this highly commercial medium shaped global perceptions of mining capitalism and abstract labor.
sarahcomyn.bsky.social Sarah Comyn @sarahcomyn.bsky.social · 15d
You can read @gigitang.bsky.social excellent article in full here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

And find out more about Gigi's broader case study for the Imperial Minerals project here: imperialminerals.ie/team/ge-tang/
January 20, 2026 at 3:11 PM
imperialminerals.bsky.social
@gigitang.bsky.social article, 'Race, Postcards, & the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines' has been published in Victorian Studies! In it, Gigi compares how 3 SA postcard publishers represent the arrival of indentured Chinese workers👇
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Imperial Minerals — Race, Postcards, and the Visual Politics of Chinese Indenture in South African Gold Mines
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January 20, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
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January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
When the active shooter on campus is the Israeli state, does anyone offer thoughts and prayers?
nkalamb.bsky.social Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29d
This image is from Birzeit University in the West Bank which was raided by Israel today using live ammunition and tear gas.

Over 40 people were injured, mostly students.

More than 8,000 students are trapped inside.

But it’s controversial to talk about scholasticide.
Blood on pavement at Birzeit University today after it was raided by Israel
January 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
imperialminerals.bsky.social
You can also listen to Assoc. Prof Tom Nurmi's brilliant keynote which opened the symposium. In his paper, Tom engages closely with previous Minerals roundtables and provides a philosophical exploration of minerals in our contemporary era through Emerson's poetry
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December 19, 2025 at 10:17 AM
imperialminerals.bsky.social
Read @gigitang.bsky.social reflection on the brilliant Critical Minerals symposium she & Katie Donnelly organised for the Minerals project. The symposium was generously supported by UCD College of Arts & Humanities seed funding & @ucdhumanities.bsky.social imperialminerals.ie/2025/12/19/c...
Imperial Minerals — Critical Minerals Symposium Reflections
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December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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sarahcomyn.bsky.social
I'm giving a public talk at Universistät Konztanz's ZKF on Wednesday at 5:30pm. I'll be talking about my @researchireland.ie Imperial Minerals project, Illicit Diamond Buyers, Zama Zama, Koleka Putuma, William Kentridge, and more. You can join online! 👇

www.uni-konstanz.de/forschen/for...
ZKF Public Talk: The Carceral and Geopower Logics of South Africa’s Mining Imaginary
www.uni-konstanz.de
December 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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kitdewaal.com
Check it out!! Hodder & Stoughton have an open submission window for all fiction genres.

Get in quick.

Details in link.

Please share :)
HODDER & STOUGHTON OPEN SUBMISSIONS
Visit the post for more.
www.hodder.co.uk
December 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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miriamposner.com
Weird situation. AI adoption in the work world is stagnating, while higher-ed institutions are rushing to embrace it so that students will be prepared for…the work world?
tnewmsblues.bsky.social Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · Dec 4
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
erinbartram.bsky.social Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Nov 24
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Great to see this out in the world
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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drbibliomane.bsky.social
Look at this excellent handkerchief from 1769 at the V & A museum: a showcase for #18thc practices of remediation. Made to imitate a quodlibet/medley print, a genre that itself aims to simulate, in a trompe l'oeil idiom, a scatter of small printed papers.
Imagine blowing your nose on that!
#scraps
Red and white printed square handkerchief, designed to make you think you are looking at an untidy heap of printed papers: a playing card, a receipt, portrait engravings, a play, sheet music, positioned every which way.
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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mkirschenbaum.bsky.social
This is a 52-pound 9000+ page accordion-bound artist’s book of Donald Trump’s lies, conceived, printed, and bound by Jill and Ray Nichols of @leadgraffiti.bsky.social in Delaware. Each of the 9000 pages has the text (per the Washington Post) of one or more of Trump’s lies; none are repeated.
The 9000-page 52-pound book, entitled LIAR, LIAR, on display today at the University of Maryland. Sample interior page. Front of a postcard describing the project. Photo of postcard describing project: “9,296 pages document 3o,573 false or misleading claims by Donald Trump from his first day in office, 2017, to his final day on January 20, 2020, when Joe Biden was sworn in as the country's next president. All that verbiage is s3" thick, weighs 52 pounds, and it started like this. The disolution of the Delaware College of Art & Design, to whom Lead Graffti had donated 1oos of design books over the past decade, brought an invitation to redaim them. We found a few, which brought us another interesting find — a blank Coppic-stitched book with a spine about 36 inches wide bound by Ema Ishii Holdredge for her BEA show at the Corcoran School of Art in 2008. That book haunted us for several weeks, and we decided it was too audacious not to give ita Lead Graffiti shot. For a while, we pondered how to fill a several thousand-page book with content that made a serious point. The notion of the presidential untruths came to mind, so maybe there was some documentation we could "borrow?" Sure enough, in a few Safari minutes, we found a downloadable PDE from The Washington Post that we could massage into a typographic form we could use. We were off. Ray undertook the ink-jet printing of the pages, folding and inserting the red cover-weight sheets for structural support, and gathering and punching the folds for sewing. Jill did 99.8% of the sewing. At a 3o2 United gathering, we encouraged attendees to give the book a stroke. Shown at right is the head of the Delaware ACLU, who has excellent technique. LEAD GRAFFITI | NEWARK, DELAWARE| LEADGRAFFITI.COM|RAY@LEADGRAIETTI.COM”
November 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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sarahcomyn.bsky.social
5 Academy in Exile Fellowships-Deadline Extended, 30 November 2025. Eligibility: scholars with PhD in the humanities, social sciences, law, who are at risk because of their academic work/civic engagement in human rights, democracy, & the pursuit of academic freedom. www.academy-in-exile.eu
Academy in Exile
www.academy-in-exile.eu
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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kbruisch.bsky.social
🔔 Admissions are open for the M.Phil in Environmental History at Trinity College Dublin. Come and join us - or recommend our course to your students! #envhist #skystorians

More info here 👇
www.tcd.ie/courses/post...
Screenshot of the admissions website of the Environmental History M.Phil at Trinity College Dublin
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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davidnaimon.bsky.social
Congrats to Omar El Akkad & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson both shortlisted for the 2025 Writers' Trust Hilary Weston Prize for Nonfiction
ICYMI here are my 2025 conversations with each
Omar: tinhouse.com/podcast/omar...
Leanne: tinhouse.com/podcast/lean...
@biidaasamose.bsky.social @haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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rcolesworthy.bsky.social
It’s that time of year friends! Thanks to @erinbartram.bsky.social and our friends at @contingent-mag.bsky.social, Laura and I are putting together a list of 2025 articles & books by contingent & indie lit critters. DM, reply, email me @ suny press. And spread the word!!
hartmann-villalta.bsky.social Dr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · Nov 9
We are at it again! Myself & the wonderful @rcolesworthy.bsky.social😍

Seeking pubs -- articles, book chapters, monographs -- by contingent lit scholars for the 2025 list 👇👇 please spread the word!!!

contingentmagazine.org/2024/12/08/2...
2024 Literary Studies Book and Journal Article List
A companion list for lit studies scholars.
contingentmagazine.org
November 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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mininghistory.bsky.social
Fitting advert in the airport in Zambia's biggest mining region:
Large advert billboard on a wall. The advert shows a map of the world with the slogan "Thanks to Minerals Today you Fly"
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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annaalexandrova.bsky.social
A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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ucdlibrary.bsky.social
Wonderful to host the launch of "Creative Pedagogies in Practice: Case Studies from Creative Futures Academy at University College Dublin", with essays reflecting on how creative pedagogies foster critical thinking in teaching & learning.
@artshumanitiesucd.bsky.social @creativefutures.bsky.social
Attendees at an event in the James Joyce Library, UCD. Book cover shown, titled Creative Pedagogies in Practice.
October 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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alanmaceachern.bsky.social
"Climate & History," @nichecanada.bsky.social's Canadian History & Environment Summer School, 29-31 May 2026, on Prince Edward Island.🦞

Apply now to attend! The deadline is 30 Nov, but we'd much appreciate early apps.

#envhist #cdnhist #chess2026 #gojays

niche-canada.org/2025/10/20/c...
CHESS 2026: Climate & History - Call for Participants
We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.
niche-canada.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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gigitang.bsky.social
📢Registration is OPEN! Join us at UCD on 7 Nov for the Critical Minerals Symposium – insights & networking all in one place! Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-m...
October 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
imperialminerals.bsky.social
Registration is now open for the one-day symposium on Critical Minerals being organised by @gigitang.bsky.social and Katie Donnelly on 7 November.

Featuring a keynote by Associate Prof. Tom Nurmi, 'Quarry of Thought: Minerality and AI'

More details 👇
imperialminerals.ie/events/regis...
Imperial Minerals — Register now! Critical Minerals Symposium
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October 20, 2025 at 2:09 PM