@arnoldke
lecturer in environmental history @liverpooluni.bsky.social πΏ || writing about #germans, #collecting, #plants & #empire in 19th c. southern #africa π΅ || #nathist, #envhist, #collections, π¬π§-π©πͺ || she/her || views my own β¨
This is a companion piece to Sadiah's longer article 'The Rebirth of the Wollemi Pine: Plant Lives in Histories of Extinction' which is currently free to read in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal π±
'All major large language models (LLMs) can be used to either commit academic fraud or facilitate junk science, a test of 13 models has found.'
All versions of Claude are 'the most resistant to committing fraud'.
Which LLM is your university encouraging students to use most? Asking for a friend.
The collapse of a global news service
45 years ago today, the guardian lays out climate facts
allouryesterdays.info/2023/02/25/f...
Itβs rather depressing that when we donβt provide face to face teaching (because lockdown) students are angry, when we do provide face to face teaching, they donβt turn up/say they prefer to catch up on lecture capture/dont want to take part in seminars etc etc. We canβt do right
I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.
one of the best things I ever found online
Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social
Prof. Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB
Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
The collections at @nhm-london.bsky.social are full of glorious specimens esp the Flies. But they also come with lots of extra information
Roger Crosskey wrote down his feelings 50 years ago about this species complex - his frustration evident
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
π¨ TODAY! A seminar from the @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM group at 4pm GMT/11am EST!
Join us in welcoming @nickyrvs.bsky.social (@hunterianglasgow.bsky.social) β¨
More info & Zoom link β¬οΈ www.chstm.org/group/collec...
#envhist #envhum #museums #collections #histsci
Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
1. Forensics of Sherlock Holmes
2. German Fairytales
3. Triathlon Training
4. Contemporary Moral Issues
5. Cultures of Africa
People like to hate on pre-requisites but they were so fun.
Stack of the book βIn Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956β, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mineβs book βIn Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956β, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Anyone remember that paper by a bunch of computational social scientists working for Microsoft (lol) that proclaimed happily that a wide range of professions would find that gAI would be "applicable" to their professions, and it included everything from historian to customer service staff?
Anyway.
An email from Martin Peterson to university administrators.
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article β and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning β he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
State control of historical memory is a classic hallmark of authoritarian regimes, just FYI.
Breaking News: Senator Mark Kelly, a retired Navy pilot, sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over trying to reduce his rank and pension. This comes after Kelly reminded military members that they must not follow illegal orders.
Trump is turning Minnesota into a test case for federal abuse of power. After lies, raids, and a deadly ICE escalation, Tim Walz is done campaigning and ready to fight back.
Legislators in New York and HawaiΚ»i are considering bills that allow their attorneys general to sue fossil fuel companies if climate-related disasters cause residentsβ property insurance premiums to rise.
Aloha.
If anyone out there works for a museum (anywhere in the world) that would like to have me give a similar talk about extinction & museums with a local twist, please contact me!
Mamdani is here describing a vision of working-class consumerism that resonates with the 19th century theorists of the βliving wageβ and shorter hours movements, whom I wrote about in my first book. βEight Hours for What Will,β very much included the arts, education, and pleasure.
This is the MAGA monoculture - anti-freedom.
Renee Nicole Good may not have fit their view of what an American should be so her life is worthless to them.
The American multiculture does value Goodβs life, her freedom to use whatever pronouns she wanted and to love another woman.
Real Freedom.
The fact that four hostile drones tried to hit Zelenskyyβs plane & itβs barely a blip in the news cycle should terrify everyone. Weβve been dragged so deep into the chaos era that an attempted strike on a world leader doesnβt even break through. When this becomes normal, the world is in real danger.
This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.socialβs BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?
This is truly awful. I have served in the university media board for 3 years and saw how brilliant and committed the student editors of these magazines were to quality and integrity. This is such a loss for the university community at large. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
π¨ Don't miss the next @collecol.bsky.social CHSTM seminar on Thursday 4 December at 11am EST/4pm GMT! β¨
This month, we'll hear from Thomas Biskup (University of Hull/Herzog August Bibliothek, WolfenbΓΌttel)
#envhist #histsci #histstm #envhums #collections #plants /1
This is not true. Musk is endorsing (again) a version of the white nationalist great replacement theory, as told by Stephen Miller.
It is a conspiracy theory and it was confined to the fringes of the Internet until 10 or so years ago.
If true, Harris wouldβve easily won in 2024.