Sophia Nicolov

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

No, Tasmania's salmon industry shouldn't be protected from environmental challenges — it prioritises profit over nature 'To undermine and ransom nature by prioritising the profits of multinational industries is not alright.'

'It’s not alright to amend and ram through an environmental law for political gain. Laws should naturally hold democracy within them. In changing the law to favour big industry, Labor and the Liberals are ignoring vast numbers of their people, both Tasmanian and the wider Australian population.'

A large leather medical bag. The top is open to show a glimpse of the medical instruments inside

A photograph taken from above the medical bag so the contents can be seen. A fabric pouch lies on the top and underneath can be seen some syringes and various other fabric pouches containing instruments

Medical bag of Henry Lillie, surgeon to the Scottish whaling fleet. He highlighted cruelty to whales and campaigned for new whaling laws. His book The Path through Penguin City (c.1955) is one of the most influential books in whaling conservation tinyurl.com/4mbnz87h

#ArchiveConservation #Archive30

Keep in mind: the NEH’s budget is 0.01% of the entire federal budget. This is not about savings - it is about the destruction of the Humanities and the critical thinking abilities that they teach. 🗃️

Book cover of book titled 'The History of Railway Thieves in India'.

Call for Papers: 'Mobilising Imperial History: Crime, Policing and Control in the British Empire' bit.ly/3Ye0Pco

Dr Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (Kent) will host a workshop on 15 July. Calls for papers are now invited. This event is supported by the Society's Workshop Grants scheme for 24-25 #skystorians

My brilliant colleague @richardfallon.bsky.social at @nhm-london.bsky.social has a new book!

Congrats Richard! The cover looks amazing. Looking forward to dipping in to it at some point

Box of copies of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935, sitting on a bench.

It's here.

A faded drawing of a woodpecker on an old plank of wood

The now extinct ivory-billed woodpecker, as drawn on wood by an Indigenous person in Florida around the year 650 CE.

"Can you imagine that some dude just wrote an answer with this level of detail? Raw, without any AI? And for free?" from nmn.gl/blog/ai-and-... this quote via @rwpickard.bsky.social brought home to me the huge loss enshittification enacts. We already had access to detailed, kind &thoughful expertise

Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949 "Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949" published on 24 Mar 2025 by Brill.

Our new edited book 'Forced Migration' is out in ebook form, with hardcopies coming very soon! Many thanks to my tireless co-editors @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social & @evansmithhist.bsky.social - check it out here: brill.com/display/titl...

@dgb-history.bsky.social

‘A Scheming Unprincipled Native and Notorious Mischief Maker’: The 1882 Ngāpuhi Petition to Queen Victoria and Settler Disinformation in the Late Nineteenth-century British Empire In light of the inability of most late-nineteenth-century Indigenous petitions to the British Crown to achieve their stated objectives, many historians conclude that the rise of settler self-govern...

Check out our latest OA article '‘A Scheming Unprincipled Native and Notorious Mischief Maker’: The 1882 Ngāpuhi Petition to Queen Victoria and Settler Disinformation in the Late Nineteenth-century British Empire' by Darren Reid. This is part of an upcoming special issue: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

More new collections added

• Scandinavian anarchist press
• Freedomways (US civil rights)
• Tribune Socialiste collection (France)
• Sources on the Development of the Socialist International 1907-1919
• Vietnam Courier (late 1960s)

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...

History as a university subject for all is in deep peril. By the end of this Parliament you might need a row of A*s to study it, in just a handful of elite institutions. Is that what you really want?

THIS! 👇🏽👇🏽

Past lecture from SEA US 2022- the lectures series @UNESCO Chair 🌊“Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change”
by Paul Montgomery @PMonty18 @TCEHTCD
YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQN...
#fishweirs
#OceanDecadeHeritage #MaritimeCulturalHeritage

Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds Vast majority unaware how many people were enslaved and for how long, although poll finds support for reparations is rising

One element of this problem is the widespread inability/unwillingness to distinguish between the slave trade and slavery. So many people (including students, broadcasters etc) conflate the two, and then magically abolish slavery as an institution and practice in the British colonial world in 1807.

The impatient writer Most writers struggle to a greater or lesser degree with the blank page. In a newsletter post titled “Perfectionism vs Impatience”, the academic and scholarly writing coach, Jo VanEvery, deals with…

I have often reminded clients that what makes something a contribution is that it inspires others to take some of the ideas further.

I really enjoyed reading where Clare O'Farrell took my thoughts on impatience.

clare-ofarrell.com/2025/03/25/t...

A French lithograph of the First World War entitled La Tradition. It shows a French WWI soldier embracing a soldier of the French revolutionary wars. René Georges Hermann-Paul La Tradition, c.1918 Hand-coloured woodcut Art.IWM BUTE 290

Delighted to announce an exciting collaborative PhD studentship at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and the Imperial War Museum in London.
The project is entitled "Lithographs of the First World War: printmaking, propaganda and mobilisation" and funded by the AHRC.
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warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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The Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships - Collections Connections Communities The Leverhulme Trust has opened its second round of applications for Visiting Professorships: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/visiting-professorships If you are interested in applying to the above Visiti...

🚨Are you a professor from overseas, interested in working with Cambridge collections to bring expertise, skills & knowledge in an underrepresented area?

We would love to hear from you!

Check the latest Visiting Professorships scheme @leverhulme.bsky.social
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
#GLAM

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

Multi-Country Outbreak of Cholera, External Situation Report #24, Published 20 March 2025 - South Sudan Situation Report in English on South Sudan and 28 other countries about Coordination, Health, Epidemic and more; published on 20 Mar 2025 by WHO

Crises don’t pause just because the world looks away.

Cholera deaths jumped 32% in February, driven by conflict, displacement, and climate disasters. Weak infrastructure & limited healthcare mean a disease is killing people that clean water and sanitation could prevent

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Cover of John Kinder's book "World War Zoos" showing monkey

World War Zoos, my new history of #zoos and World War II, has hit the warehouse.

Much more between now and release date: April 22.

Hit me up for interviews, visits (live and Zoom), podcasts, etc. -- I am up for any chance to talk zoos, war, politics, & animals!

@uchicagopress.bsky.social

Tan Book cover with green and brown text. Upper right corner has a seventeenth century engraved image of a Black body that looks like classical sculpture with a white head. It is holding a sheaf of cane.

Feels wrong to celebrate while academia is on 🔥, but this week I got the lovely cover for my long overdue book *The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean* forthcoming from UPenn Press!

#RaceB4Race
#RenSA2025
#RSA2025
#Shax2025

Third Annual Mosse Lecture. A Lecturer by Mirjam Brusius with Respondent Prf. Avinoam Shalem. Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today) Thursday, March 27th, 2025 from 6-8 PM With a reception to follow Hosted at Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St Mosse Lectures Columbia | Germanic Languages Columbia | European Institute Columbia | MESAAS Institute for comparative literature and Society Columbia University The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University

It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.

Map of Chasm Island (Anindilyakwa: Burrabarra or Barrubarra). Google Maps.

William Westall (1803) Chasm Island, native cave painting, 1803, watercolour. National Library of Australia

Images from #ChasmIsland (Anindilyakwa: Burrabarra or Barrubarra), #GulfCarpentaria #Australiahome to #IndigenousPeopleslike #Kurtijarand the now extinct #yalangalanguage. Showing images of hunting from #boats or #canoes for #turtles, #dolphins & #dugongs.
1/6 #coastalhistory #maritimeheritage

Wow, this is stunning. Glad I stumbled across your post - must make a visit!

Me, a very light skinned Black woman in black wire glasses and big hair holding up a black poster that says "THERE IS NOTHING MORE EPHEMERAL THAN A WEBSITE" in gold ink

Now more than ever