Brian Leech

Online tomorrow Monday, 16 February 2026:
Greenhouse book talk with Kip Hutchins @songsforhorses.com on A Song for the Horses: Musical Heritage for More-than-Human Futures in Mongolia (University of Arizona Press, 2025) at 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST.

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Check out William W. Culver's review of Christopher L. Carter's "The Long Shadow of Extraction: The Origins of Indigenous
Autonomy Demands," published in 2025 by @princetonupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #extraction
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Check out Eric Clements's review of William Willingham's "Oregon Gold: A History of Mining from the Civil War into the Progressive Era," published in 2025 by @osupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #energy #envhum #extraction
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Check out @brianleechphd.bsky.social's review of Martin Stupich's "Ore and Empire: Conquistadors to Guggenheims on the Camino Real," published in 2025 by @unmpress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum #envtech #extraction
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Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums Encountering Extinction in Museums

Headed over to UK for a week of giving talks on encountering extinction in museum.
Did you know that if you are in UK, you can order Ghosts Behind Glass from uk.bookshop.org for only £16?!?

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Join us online for Chris Jones discussing his book The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion (Univ of Chicago Press, 2025) in the Greenhouse #envhum #book talk series tomorrow (Monday, 2 February 2026), 16:00 CET / 10:00 EST.

To avoid accusations of AI cheating, college students are turning to AI Students are taking new measures, such as dumbing down their work, spying on themselves and using AI “humanizer” programs, to beat accusations of cheating with artificial intelligence.

“Amid accusations of AI cheating, some students are turning to a new group of generative AI tools called ‘humanizers.’ The tools scan essays and suggest ways to alter text so they aren’t read as having been created by AI. Some are free, while others cost around $20 a month.”

Call for Participation: Food in Collections Survey We are a group of archivists and librarians at Oberlin College working to quantify the impact of food in collections. We are asking you to consider participating in a brief Qualtrics survey about f…

Food in Library Collections! 📜
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Calls | ICA Mobile Current calls at the ICA Mobile Communication Division

Final call for Abstracts and Workshop Proposals for the 22nd Annual ICA Mobile Pre-Conference 2026 in Cape Town: "Mobile Communication and Inequalities in Context." Deadline 1/30/26.

@icahdq.bsky.social @icacat.bsky.social @icamobile.bsky.social

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Dig dig dig through the archive with Mining Danger project's Heather Green as she seeks elusive traces of coal miner's black lung in the Nova Scotia coal industry @nichecanada.bsky.social
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Two weeks left to apply for a postdoc position on my project!

I'm looking for historians, anthropologists, STS and Global Health researchers with a broad interest in #Brazil, #rural populations, #health, #medicine, and #zoonosis.

For more information👇

Book cover depicting a map cartouche of four Indigenous people--two on land, two in a canoe--and a snippet from the map of yellow, pink, and green watercolor borders drawn by John Povey, clerk to William Blathwayt, on Robert Morden and William Berry’s A Map of New England New Yorke New Iersey Mary-Land & Virginia (ca. 1676).

Holidays are over, and I'm motivating myself through the marking and emails by sharing the cover for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic with @pennpress.bsky.social. Please indulge me! www.pennpress.org/978151282925... #skystorians

🧵One of the more dangerous Terminally Online Types are people who think that all human knowledge (raw or processed) is on the internet and the only question is how to access it.

Thus, history, for these folks, is neither the seeking of new information nor the asking of new questions.
#genAI

#ScholarSunday Thread 255 (12/21/25) – Black and White and Read All Over Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please sha...

Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️

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Me to elementary kid: How was your last day of school before winter break?

Kid: Great! We did no learning!

Customers safely remove deer from Menards A deer was removed from a Menards store Monday after it ran into the building.

A deer carries out of my local Menards? Hard to think of a more Midwestern news story.

Five ways to keep your home warm this winter If you live in a poorly insulated home, and many of us do, you could spend thousands this winter on energy bills. But our ancestors had many ways to keep snug at little or no cost. Now, thanks to mode...

If you’re looking for a good excuse to buy books as gifts or for yourself, just know that bookshelves full of books are among the best insulators for homes. So you’re actually saving money every time you buy a book.

Today's the final day of our holiday book sale! Get 40% off with promo code SNOW at ohioswallow.com. Orders $50+ qualify for free US shipping!

Historians - What are your top assigned reading recommendations for a grad level 20th century US History seminar? 🗃️

Augmenting Christmas: Artificial Trees and the Lure of Perpetual Nature Artificial Christmas trees evolved from feather and aluminum novelties to plastic simulations, revealing desires for safer, cleaner, “better” nature and modern convenience.

I heard @historiamagoria.bsky.social talk about this research at #eseh2025 this summer, wonderful to see a post on it before the holidays! #envhist

Great piece, Dan. I can confirm: Over the years, this has indeed been a longstanding problem. I've helped fund numerous projects over the years trying to address handwriting recognition and it is exciting to see what we can do today.

According to this article their student regent’s votes don’t actually count either.

BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.

The statistics faculty reviewed the metrics being used to justify the elimination of their department and found those stats to be highly misleading if not outright wrong, with decimals in the wrong places, for instance. Good thing they’ll be eliminated to save later embarrassment.

Assistant Professor Environmental and Natural Resources Policy and Governance Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...

The School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University is hiring an Assistant Professor Environmental and Natural Resources Policy and Governance. More information here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...

Interested or know someone interested in doing a PhD on environmental histories/materialities of zoonotic or infectious animal disease as part of Transformative Humanities @durham.ac.uk Then please get in touch by Dec 8th! @pollenetwork.bsky.social @emilywebz.bsky.social @rgs-agwg.bsky.social

Remember when media organizations had editors?

Wow. Quite the contrast!

And now I need to hear some Mongolian coal mining music. Suggestions?

"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

I get what the WSJ is trying to say about a more fractured FOMC but the chart they use in the story sure seems to contradict their premise. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...