Heather Dalton Historian

From the Australian Historical Association: Open Letter to the Prime Minister: Restoring Equity in Higher Education
@austhistassoc.bsky.social

"We urge you to abolish JRG and to institute a new fee regime which does not punish students who choose to study the humanities and social sciences."

When I pointed out King’s will lose 90% of its AHRC student-led places under the new scheme, I got piled on by the AHRC Chair claiming I was wrong and scaremongering.

It wasn’t quite 90%.

This year King’s students got 27 AHRC student-led scholarships.

Next year they’re giving us 3.

So 89% then.

‘Love is not only purée joy, and delight, but also great and deep heaviness of heart and sorrow’

Jesus, this is horrifying

The SCOTUS has approved kidnapping people off the street and sending them to any country without due process, with no recourse. You, me, anyone.

The Supreme Court is illegitimate.

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting.

The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

CHICAGO…

#HANDSOFF #NYC

Let’s hope not. We are doomed if they are

Built to Last Don’t blame COBOL. Blame austerity.

“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”

Isn't it time to think of moving the United Nations out of the US? Why not move it to Asia - perhaps Singapore?
@un.org #trump

Jan Huygen van Linschoten (copied after), Joannes/Baptista à /van Doetechum, illustration of the island of St. Helena - rocky clifss with green tops and a few buildings, with Portuguese ships anchored off the coast in the blue sea. Caots of arms and text appears above.

📢 *NEW* Will of the Month📢

Elizabeth Thomlinson, widow of an East India Company chaplain. Her will reveals her charitable activities and her involvement in the slave trade.

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#EarlyModern #Skystorians 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social

According to a source I have at the CIA, Director Radcliffe lied today under oath. Signal is absolutely not loaded on agency computers. As a matter of fact it’s specifically prohibited as an outside app. Skype is allowed for conference calls but not Signal. He’s lying. @markwarner.bsky.social

If you're based in the UK, HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY is currently 18.89 GPB (usually 25 GBP): there's a 24% discount on Amazon.

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #politics #18thC #HAMH

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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.

As graduate programs lose spots and labs face shutdowns following Trump administration cuts to science funding, students and researchers are left to figure out what's next.

The AHA expresses its disappointment that recent policy changes at the National Library of Australia have introduced increased restrictions to Trove. It urges the NLA to reverse these policy changes and restore Trove's status as a hallmark of digital accessibility.

This is terrifying

“Golden age for whom” I always try to get my students to ask.

I’m fine re. LibGen, just don’t like my works going into the vast AI mincer to be regurgitated all over the place.

I'm still a bit flabbergasted that it's still the case that lots of people, who have never been so ill they can't work, assume everyone who claims disability-related benefits is a shirker. And this includes the benefit that offsets the extra costs of living while disabled, to help you work.

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

This is an example of how nostalgia for the old days is simply nostalgia for when you were younger.

The idea that America was a post-racial society in the 1970s/1980s only makes sense if you were literally a child at that time and couldn’t observe what any adult was experiencing.

A man slated for deportation has captured conditions inside the Krome Detention Center in Florida. He says some people have been confined like this for up to 30 days.

At least three men have died at Krome in the past five months.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8248mFR/

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests.

So, best we share all the footage we can here!

This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu.

🇹🇷 #Turkey

Perfect description of why so many historians in particular are hostile to AI

I know everyone is anxious about redundancy but honestly it’s been my norm for 10 years.