Join the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental #DH Seminar on March 11 @ 3pm UK (online) for a talk by @jimclifford.bsky.social & @historyjacob.bsky.social:
"Solving OCR: Using olmOCR to Follow Commodities across the British World"
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solving-oc...
#dhist #ocr #envhist 🗃️
Paddington in The Secret Agent (2025)
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1817
Oh yes.
Look it up OAS and FTAA. They are not a EU version for the Americas, but their complicated history show how hard it t would be to implement such a thing.
You are probably right about the effect of the pandemic.
Source: transparencia.metrosp.com.br/sites/defaul...
The São Paulo metro area, the largest in the Americas, went from 269 transit rides per capita in 2017 to 216 in 2023, a decline primarily due to the growing use of ride sharing options, despite solid subway and bus line growth in the period.
If you care about nature in urban areas, you'll want to read this new roundtable at @tnoc.bsky.social on how we can "give wildlife a place as stakeholders in decisions about urban planning", which has essays from 22 contributors (incl me) from 18 cities around the world! Come join the conversation.
Brazil has named açaí a national fruit to push back against biopiracy.
The move is mostly symbolic, but aims to reinforce açaí as part of Brazil’s biodiversity heritage and make it harder for foreign companies to claim exclusive rights as global demand grows.
It actually originated with the Spanish crackdown to the Cuban independence movement in 1896, a few years before the British set up their own camps in South Africa.
We had an incredible time at the "Envisioning Urban Futures" event at Hunt Library!
Dr. Matthew Booker spoke on the intersection of history, food production, and ecology in our cities. Dr. Tate Paulette gave a crowd-favorite expo presentation. Dr. Fred Freitas joined the fun!
O bico do carcará muda de cor conforme o estado de espírito. Quanto mais calmo, mais amarelo. Quanto mais irritado ou estressado, mais chega perto do vermelho.
Esse aí tá claramente irritado vendo como carioca dirige.
gah look at this! Look at the photos! and then read the interview because it's also amazing: globalvoices.org/2026/01/08/w...
“No vemos ningún intento, ni siquiera un tema de debate, el desmantelamiento de la Fuerza Armada Nacional Bolivariana. Esto sería una tarea mucho más difícil para Estados Unidos. Realmente parece que Trump solo quería atrapar a una persona, Maduro,” le digo a @eldiario.es
You only revise twice
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
A Review to a Kill
Front page of 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' Comment article, title 'The Historian in the Age of AI', by Chris Campbell. Full abstract: "This comment interrogates the methods and conclusions of Working with AI, a recent report conducted under the auspices of Microsoft, which identified historians as the profession with the second-highest ‘AI applicability’. It finds that the authors’ conclusions are based on an erroneous simplification and misrepresentation of a historian’s typical professional tasks, which have been publicly amplified by extensive media coverage. This comment then offers a wider provocation about the report’s conception of a professional historian, and whether it is related to the public application of ‘historian’ to a number of different practitioners with varied training and qualifications. In particular, it seeks to highlight a paradox which the report exposes: that we cannot defend the specialist training and expertise of professional historians against the encroachment of AI without also separating the academic skills and qualifications of historians from those engaged in more popular forms of historical writing and communication. The comment questions how we might grapple with this paradox without reverting to academic elitism."
What does Gen AI mean for the work of the historian and the value of historical experience, skills and craft?
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social.
New Comment article now available in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
Isso é nome de dupla sertaneja.
@jacobblanc.bsky.social
Brannstrom notes that @fredericofreitas.org and Blanc are among the most recent scholars to focus on the dynamics of sertão, concept in Brazil’s historical geography, and welcomes their endeavor to better understand the relations beyond Brazil’s coastal settlements.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...
‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures (with Emine Saner for the @theguardian.com; #photography, #skystorians). www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
A black and white picture of the St. Mary's Church’s tower perfectly aligned in front of the TV Tower in Berlin in an overcast day.
Berlin this afternoon.
Tem o Q do Luther Blissett que trata dessa mesma revolta anabatista em Munster.
www.amazon.com.br/Q-Ca%C3%A7ad...
Best thing I saw online today, by a mile.
Ele é meu primo, o Sérgio.
#workshop: "Teaching on Latin America and the Environment" Online Pedagogy Workshop, org. Emily Wakild & Frederico Freitas (RECSLAC)
Deadline for registration: October 10, 2025
Info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
@fredericofreitas.org
#envhum #envhist #pedagogy #ecocriticism #teaching
Acabei de sair do ato dos 35 anos da abertura da Vala de Perus:
blogdaboitempo.com.br/2025/09/04/d...
#DesarquivandoBR
Recebi salário em três moedas diferentes.
I just finished Lewis Mumford’s magisterial exploration of city life.
Published in 1962, it has some of the sharpest takedowns of car-centric society I’ve ever read.
Mumford: “We have sold our urban birthright for a sorry mess of motor cars. As poor a bargain as Esau’s pottage.”
Choice bits 🧵
