cms

"The arts are not a luxury good. They are a fundamental asset to any city or community," writes Sébastien Labelle.

"The arts should not be treated as just an expense, but rather as an investment that yields strong returns, and can actually help fight a budgetary deficit."

Low Carbon Research Methods Making Equity and Epistemological Gains Through Decarbonising Academic Work

Our book is out OPEN ACCESS. Please enjoy a FREE BOOK on how we could remake academic research methods for climate action, and fix a lot of inequities in the process. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

When I give talks about the exploitation of GLAM by the AI industry I’m always asked “how can we defend ourselves from bots scraping our metadata?” I have no idea. That’s a question for an engineer. What I can and do say is that we shouldn’t be supporting this industry in the first place.

More on archives. Recent cuts to public archives in Canada, and other countries, by governments, may seem inconsequential in light of recent world events, but they serve a purpose, allowing the state to control its past, erase ‘inconvenient’ histories, set new myths in place: In May 1933, Nazi-led student groups organized public burnings of “un-German” books, including those held in the library of the Institute for Sexual Science.

More on archives. Recent cuts to public archives in Canada, and other countries, by governments, may seem inconsequential in light of recent world events, but they serve a purpose, allowing the state to control its past, erase ‘inconvenient’ histories, set new myths in place: In May 1933,

Library and Archives planning deep cuts to access to information team, document shows — The Globe and Mail Cuts will put at risk ability to comply with access and privacy laws, department acknowledged in a document

In a world in flames, archives might seem inconsequential, yet they represent our collective memory, and their erasure also is a political act.

apple.news/A_Mlcl43oQNm...

Hey #envhist! Parks Canada is ending its library services+ “decommissioning” its collection. We stand to lose a valuable set of materials that reveal if and how the Agency fulfilled its mandate (or didn’t). Read more here+write the Minister @juliedabrusin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/03/10/c...

“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say.
Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing.
These people are fools!

I am once again asking heritage organizations to pay a living wage. The JBC is asking quite a lot from people they want to pay $20/h -who also have to supply their own work equipment and get no benefits. Brutal. www.junobeach.org/were-hiring-...

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

How are historians rethinking environmental and social history via improved OCR of imperial archives?

Join us this Wednesday 3pm UK time to hear from @jimclifford.bsky.social and @historyjacob.bsky.social - registration link below.

Of Light and Coal: Resources, Materials and the Definition of 'Nature' at the Crystal Palace, c.1851–1854 This article examines changing attitudes towards nature through a revised architectural history of the Crystal Palace, built in 1851 for the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations in...

New in Architectural Histories 👇

1) "Of Light and Coal: Resources, Materials and the Definition of 'Nature' at the Crystal Palace, c.1851–1854" by Hugo Betting: doi.org/10.16995/ah....

Cultural industries must be protected from 'danger' of generative AI, says report - Museums Association Government urged to create a ‘fair and inclusive UK licensing market’

News | Cultural industries must be protected from ‘danger’ of generative AI, says report

Government urged to create a ‘fair and inclusive UK licensing market’

Budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten Arctic science For decades, ECCC research scientists have been integral to the work of the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme.

Another blow to climate science: budget cuts at Environment and Climate Change Canada threaten long-running Arctic monitoring programs, some with >50-year datasets.

The Arctic is warming ~4× faster than the global average. Cutting the science that tracks is…

theconversation.com/budget-cuts-...

What an embarrassment. A transfer of funds to private interests likely not benefitting the community served

We also need to know whether AI was used to select the target. WaPo is reporting Anthropic and Palantir tech were used to identify 1000 targets in Iran 24 hours. Who vetted those targets? Who pays for errors? It's possible they weren't involved in this strike but this we need to know.

Collections Lab: Building Stones: collections as resources for sustainable construction - Collections Connections Communities The John Watson Building Stones Collection at the Cambridge University Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences comprises of approximately 2,500 specimens of building stones, in extensive use throughout Brit...

There's lots of talk about the growth of Cambridge. But what materials will the buidings be made of?

This @camglamresearch.bsky.social roundtable is focusing on the potential of local stone and the university's collections of natural materials.

📆 27 March 2026. 12.00 - 2.00

Please share!

👇👇👇👇👇

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

g-ehr.com/submit/

Cultural sustainability and cultural leadership: Miranda Massie (founding director, Climate Museum: in conversation) Over the past two decades, cultural heritage experts have increasingly called on museums to mobilise their audiences and resources towards inspiring urgent climate action. One institution leading t...

I hope you'll find our conversation as galvanizing as I did! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TG6QM...

"As a species, the challenges we face now are much more acute than those we faced ten years ago. Unspeakably, tragically, and needlessly more acute. This makes the work that we're doing here today, and that the Climate Museum does, all the more urgent." - Climate Museum founding director Miranda Massie

What role do culture and museums play in tackling the climate crisis? It was an honour to explore this question and more with the Climate Museum's founding Director, Miranda Massie, in our latest interview for Cultural Trends. Gift link below! 👇🏻

Israeli map showing all of southern Lebanon in red with yellow arrows pointing to north of the Litani river

The IDF just ordered the *entirety of south Lebanon* to be forcibly displaced.

They are emptying the land of its population, creating a massive crisis, and will now proceed to further annihilate large parts of Lebanon.

The very nation state of Lebanon is being destroyed.

The coffins of the Minab students are solemnly carried by the people.

Book cover based on stylised painted art of someone digging in a large pile of soil with a shovel.

We're delighted to announce publication of 'Grasping Soil: A Syllabus and Essays for The Environmental Humanities' (E. Brownell, ed.) – exploring #soil as a vessel of human #history and point of view for inquiry. Available print or #openaccess here: www.whpress.co.uk/publications... #envhum #envhist

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

Job opportunity! 🚨

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps and Geography @bplmaps.bsky.social

#maps #jobadvert #geography

12-month post for a Project Conservator (Science and Technology) @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social National Museum of Flight, focused on our outdoor aircraft ✈️🛩️ #museumjobs 📜 The de Havilland Comet and Vulcan need you!
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/841751

All Floods Lead to Rome: Watery Repetitions of Resistance Against Empire Rana Abughannam, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Karen Lutsky, Ozayr Saloojee, and Zoe Todd consider how imperialism in their homelands—from South Africa to Gaza to Turtle Island—are contemporary manifesta...

I'm really proud of this piece that we collectively wrote for C-Mag on refusing colonial possession. It is featured in their most recent issue.

All Floods Lead to Rome -- the violences we are facing today have a common origin in the muddy waters of Roman rule.

cmagazine.com/articles/all...

A hand holds a "water is life" sign high in the air, with a building and the CN tower in the background

Two people hold a banner that says "Toxic Toronto. Belly of the Beast for the Global Mining Industry" in front of urban buildings on snowy ground

Sunny day to protest #PDAC with @mininginjustice.bsky.social outside the Metro Toronto Convention Centre #NoToMining #MiningIsNotTheFuture

Mark Carney backs U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, calls for civilians to be protected "Canada supports the United States acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon," the prime minister said in a statement Saturday.

Carney continues to be a voice of cowardice and fecklessness when it really matters. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

IDF: Israel has the right to defend itself.

Number of students killed in Israeli attack on school in southern Iran rises to 24 We have reported earlier that an Israeli strike hit an elementary girl’s school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, killing five people. Now, Iran’s Fars news agency is reporting that the number of students killed rose to 24.

Unimaginably depraved.

Cultural sustainability and cultural leadership: Miranda Massie (founding director, Climate Museum: in conversation) Over the past two decades, cultural heritage experts have increasingly called on museums to mobilise their audiences and resources towards inspiring urgent climate action. One institution leading t...

I hope you'll find our conversation as galvanizing as I did! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TG6QM...

Many thanks to Miranda for her time and inspirational leadership, to editors Olga Kolokytha and Steven Hadley, and to Sarah E.K. Smith for encouraging this submission.