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jefra @osasjefra.bsky.social · Sep 22
I will definitely send a reminder then.Thanks for the consideration.
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davidpretel.bsky.social
📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
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January 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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susannequitmann.bsky.social
Together with my wonderful colleagues Clemes Finkelstein (@clemensfinkelstein.bsky.social) and Aliena Guggenberger , I’m organising this years’ gd:c summer school.

‘Worlds in the Lab’, July 20-24, 2026, Munich; applications due March 1.

More information: www.globaldisconnect.org/01/09/20-24-...
January 12, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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dailymemphian.bsky.social
Cava in the Mid-South? And, The Artist Table hosts an all-you-can-eat ramen dinner to send off its first chef-in-residency.
A buzzy, fast-casual chain could be "considering" a Mid-South Location
Cava in the Mid-South? And, The Artist Table hosts an all-you-can-eat ramen dinner to send off its first chef-in-residency.
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December 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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dailymemphian.bsky.social
Cava in the Mid-South? And, The Artist Table hosts an all-you-can-eat ramen dinner to send off its first chef-in-residency.
A buzzy, fast-casual chain could be 'considering' a Mid-South Location
Cava in the Mid-South? And, The Artist Table hosts an all-you-can-eat ramen dinner to send off its first chef-in-residency.
dailymemphian.com
December 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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menysnoweballes.bsky.social
CFP: www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present, a 2 day workshop (15-16 June 2026) 🗃️Please share - and submit an abstract!
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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urbanstudiesfoundation.org
📢 Call for Papers now open!

Seminar Two: Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Cotonou, Benin
📅 16–20 February 2026
Part of the #USFSeminarSeriesAwards "Urban Politics and Negotiated Stateliness: Comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe"

🔎 CFP (EN/FR): ow.ly/AxLy50XBGig
Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. Deadline: December 31st, 2025 Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou" or a picture taken by the Organizers. Flyer with USF logo for the event "Making connections: Learning from Elsewhere, Theorising from Africa" and the text "The workshop in Benin will focus on how tracing connections from African contexts can help to build comparative insights on urban developments there, and how this methodology might be used to expand the conversation between scholars in Africa and Eastern Europe. Deadline: December 31st, 2025 Civic Academy for Africa’s Future (CiAAF), Benin, Cotonou" or a picture taken by the Organizers.
December 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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gustavelester.bsky.social
I am organizing a workshop on “critical mineral histories” in March 2026. If you or someone you know might be interested in participating, please see the following CfP for more information on the concept and how to submit a proposal (by 10 January, if possible). Thanks! www.kth.se/anthropocene...
Workshop: Critical Mineral Histories | KTH
www.kth.se
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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rc02-isa.bsky.social
CfP: Workshop 'Reimagining informal economies and practices across Africa', Casablanca; DL: 09 January, 2026
Read here.
December 11, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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annamariasenuysal.bsky.social
CfP! 🎉

germanic.osu.edu/umwelt/junio...
The Umwelt Center invites submissions for its 2026 Junior Scholars Workshop, open to untenured professors, advanced graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and independent scholars working in the fields of Germanic Studies and Environmental Humanities. 1/3
Workshops | Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
The Umwelt Center hosts an annual workshop in the spring semester. Please see below for further information on past workshops. Workshops CfPs are updated each year in the fall here.
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December 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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povertyscholar.bsky.social
As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.
A Toni Morrison quote embedded in a yellow, black, and white graphic design reads: "I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.’”
January 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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nichecanada.bsky.social
6th Annual International Sustainable Development Dialogue (ISDD) – June 2026

Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria

Call for Papers – Deadline February 15, 2026

niche-canada.org/2026/01/03/c...

#envhist #sustainabledevelopment #globalosouth
Call for Papers - 6th Annual International Sustainable Development Dialogue (ISDD)
6th Annual International Sustainable Development Dialogue (ISDD) - June 2026 Global Affairs and Sustainable Development Institute, Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria Call for Papers - Deadline Feb...
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January 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
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maxweberstiftung.de
#CfA: Joint #Scholarship Programme for young scholars from South Asia

📌a three-month #fellowship | start in #April in #Heidelberg | organised by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @unihd-sai.bsky.social

📅 Deadline: 11 January 2026

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#CfA: Joint Scholarship Programme for young scholars from South Asia 📌a three-month fellowship | start in #April in #Heidelberg | organised by @mwfdelhi.bsky.social, @uniheidelberg.bsky.social and @unihd-sai.bsky.social 📅 Deadline: 11 January 2026 🔗https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/58ee8d95ebf5768bebfc4f4d6f12025e875da7730
January 6, 2026 at 10:29 AM
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levkeharders.bsky.social
Am 15.1.26 in Linz Workshop "Aktivierte Wissensspeicher. Gendergerechte Zugänge in Archiven". #GenderHist: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve....
Aktivierte Wissensspeicher. Gendergerechte Zugänge in Archiven
Am 15. Januar 2026 findet in Linz der Workshop „Aktivierte Wissensspeicher. Gendergerechte Zugänge in Archiven statt.
www.hsozkult.de
December 19, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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levkeharders.bsky.social
CfP (English and German): #HISTODAY 2026. Workshop in Berlin in May 2026, Deadline 15 January 2026: www.stiftung-evz.de/assets/jubil...
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January 2, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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yesthattoo.bsky.social
📢 Apply by Feb 12 to join our #CHI 2026 workshop, Speech AI for All, where we'll discuss inclusive speech tech for people with speech diversities. Researchers, practitioners, policymakers, & community members welcome! speechai4all.org

[I'm an organizer because #AAC.]
Image advertising the Speech AI for All workshop at CHI 2026, application deadline of Feb 12. The information is in an off-white box over a photo of probably last year's workshop, washed-out towards the same color.
January 5, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Dec 17
New today in Transactions: 'Teaching History Inclusively: A Pedagogical Case Study from an Institution Shaped by Empire' bit.ly/4pHzECD

Eleanor Newbigin and Sarah Tucker on the value of developing critical pedagogies in history for HE education @soashistory.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2
Front page to the Transactions article: 'Teaching History Inclusively: A Pedagogical Case Study from an Institution Shaped by Empire'. Abstract in full: 'The Royal Historical Society’s June 2024 Update to the ‘Race Ethnicity & Equality in UK History: A Report and Resource for Change’ notes some important progress in terms of increased ethnic and racial diversity amongst history students and staff but acknowledges that more work is needed to both sustain and further advance these changes. In this Comment we argue that colleagues and the RHS should prioritise the development of critical pedagogies in history university education and evidence their impact on student outcomes. We share reflections on and data from our collaborative work between September 2021 and August 2024 developing an innovative module with the highly diverse history student cohort at SOAS, University of London, to help colleagues consider how they might undertake related projects in their own institutions.'
January 3, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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ryancordell.org
I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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sicilyfiennes.bsky.social
Proud to have my photo essay out in the publication Current Conservation. I got really into photography during my PhD including using a film camera. I hope it conveys some of the visual experience of being in a bird market and the sense of place. Enjoy 🐦

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Visual stories from a bird marketplace | Current Conservation
Current Conservation Visual stories from a bird marketplace
www.currentconservation.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
Last of the year’s W. S. Merwin, enjoy
The Wild Geese It was always for the animals that I grieved most for the animals I had seen and for those I had only heard of or dreamed about or seen in cages or lying beside the road for those forgotten and those long remembered for the lost ones that were never found again among people there were words we all knew even if we did not say them and although they were always inadequate when we said them they were there if we wanted them when the time came with the animals always there was only presence as long as it was present and then only absence suddenly and no word for it in all the great written wisdom of China where are the animals when were they lost where are the ancestors who knew the way without them all the wise words are bits of sand twitching on the dunes where the forests once whispered in their echoing ancient tongue and the animals knew their way among the trees only in the old poems does their presence survive the gibbons call from the mountain gorges the old words all deepen the great absence the vastness of all that has been lost it is still there when the poet in exile looks up long ago hearing the voices of wild geese far above him flying home
December 21, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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inverting-vision.bsky.social
Scientists studying reindeer/caribou early in the Cold War made a startling discovery. It led to a major public health investigation, turning Canada and the Arctic into nuclear spaces.

#histSTM 🗃️

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The Radioactive Reindeer Problem - JSTOR Daily
Cold War nuclear testing left troubling levels of Cesium-137 in caribou, prompting years of research into Arctic fallout and its risks to human health.
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December 25, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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chrismey2203.bsky.social
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"mortgaging future cognitive fitness for short-term ease […]"
"A recent MIT study […]" quote from the article on AI, link is in the skeet attached to my skeet. "Author and podcaster Cal Newport calls this 'cognitive debt' - mortgaging future cognitive fitness for short-term ease […]" quote from the article on AI, link is in the skeet attached to my skeet. "[…] we are approaching educational bankruptcy […]" quote from the article on AI, link is in the skeet attached to my skeet. "That kind of education—the open, affordable, meaning-seeking kind—once flourished in public universities. […]" quote from an article on AI, link is in the skeet attached to my skeet.
December 8, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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primrosepress.bsky.social
📣 I'm excited to share that I will be teaching the Texture & Collage Printing workshop at Penland School of Craft Summer 2026. Can’t wait to dive into printmaking techniques while playing with texture + collage with you. Details: bit.ly/4pZoCsH

🖼️ Tia Blassingame, Schoolhouse, pressure print.
December 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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newjerseystage.com
(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre presents Grease weekends from January 9 through February 1, 2026. With a hip-shaking rock 'n' roll score featuring hits like "Summer Nights," "Greased Lightnin'" and "We Go Together," Grease celebrates 50s high school, romance, and coming of age.
Music Mountain Theatre presents "Grease"
(LAMBERTVILLE, NJ) -- Music Mountain Theatre presents Grease weekends from January 9 through February 1, 2026. With a hip-shaking rock 'n' roll score featuring hits like "Summer Nights," "Greased Ligh...
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December 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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kcau9news.bsky.social
After 2 summers of opting not to participate in the federal Summer EBT program, which helps families feed kids when they are out of school, Gov Kim Reynolds announced Monday that Iowa would take part in 2026 after receiving approval from USDA to apply its own Healthy SNAP guidelines to the program.
Iowa to participate in Summer EBT program with new nutrition guidelines
After two summers of opting not to participate in the federal Summer EBT program, which helps families feed kids when they are out of school, Gov. Kim Reynolds announced Monday that Iowa would take…
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December 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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miasa-ug.bsky.social
Call for Applications for MIASA Publishing Workshop on 9-10 March 2026 at the University of Ghana, in cooperation with CJAS (Institute of African Studies) and @africaspectrum.bsky.social @giga-hamburg.de.

Application deadline: 19 December 2026

More info: miasa.ug.edu.gh/event/cfa-pu...
Call for Applications: MIASA Publishing Workshop on 9-10 March 2026 at the University of Ghana (Application deadline: 19 December 2025) - MIASA - Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa
Call for Applications
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December 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM