Tina Adcock

This is the beautiful thing about history. We are never alone, because whatever horrors or sadnesses or joys we feel are shared with countless other people across time.

The Carney government is also cutting prison librarians to save…$2.5m. This is now a theme with the federal budget - it’s not about cost savings, it’s about destroying access to knowledge and information. #Cdnhist

Default opt-in is one of the key weapons of exploitative tech. The bros aren’t good at informed consent.

Grammarly should get fucked

Working on my next talk and found this source about Dr. James Barry, trans man and Inspector General of Military Hospitals in the Province of Canada. In it, Barry insists on being "rolled in the sheets in which he was lying and be buried without further disturbances."

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

Learning from the Lives of Threatened Plants Whose lives count in the modern history of extinction? Sadiah Qureshi considers what historians can learn by paying attention to the remarkable lives of plants.

“Paying attention to plants challenges historians to radically rethink common divisions of time and place, and assumptions about whose lives are historically interesting or significant.”

@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social on what we can learn from the lives of endangered plants such as the Wollemi pine.

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THIS is the take on LLMs and the job market. They can probably do some jobs, which will worsen millions of people's lives. But much more than that, people who don't understand your job will assume that it is worthless, even more than they already do.

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

teewatterss on Threads: “losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

10/10 take. no notes

This is the story btw (this report is fine, but is being decontextualized and amplified on X). It's reserve land, the 50 year lease is expiring, the Nation has previously warned they may not renew, they are now giving 2 years notice and waiving pad fees until then

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Low-carbon energy does not have the same energy security risks as fossil fuels Fossil fuel inequities are a risk to energy security. Mineral inequities are a risk to the energy transition.

still true, still important.

This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)

If you're an editor or journalist looking for experts who can speak knowledgeably about previous oil crises, the program from this 2024 conference has a great list.

I’ll be presenting Montreal After Dark at the @utoronto.ca on March 11, 1-3 PM (Sidney Smith 2098).

Then at @mcgill.ca on March 17, as noted here.

Very much looking forward to the conversations.

My friend
the climatologist
tells me
what worries him
is the climate.

My friend
the epidemiologist
tells me
what worries them
are infections.

My friend
the historian
tells me
what worries her
are the people
who aren’t worried.

How DARE you come into my house and look at my shelves of notebooks?!

It’s tiring that we are increasingly stuck organizing our intellectual lives around arguing for the value of having an intellectual life

A picture of PEW poll on global attitude survey, saying the % who rate the morality and ethics of people in their country as good vs bad, where the US has the worst rankings and Canada the best

Americans: we live in a fallen state—embroiled by sin, cheating, lying, and evil. You cannot trust anyone, not even those who claim to know you best

Canadians: I love my neighbors and my friends!

Trying to stay in academia has been so demoralizing even without [waves hands]. And yet every time I log onto this website I'm met by a diverse community of scholars working in a broad range of fields, all of whom believe in and fiercely advocate for a better academy. What could be more hopeful?

I’ve had whole courses with this dynamic and it is, indeed, glorious to behold ✨

I met four members of the British royal family at two separate events on the same day in 2010.

Welp: ZERO takers on the Trump administration's first lease sale for oil and gas development in the Cook Inlet, Alaska. Bidding closed today with no bids.

The lease sale was supposed to spark new interest in oil and gas development in the region. It doesn't seem to be working.

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.

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Christina Olsen's fonds at the Provincial Archives of Alberta offer the extremely rare prospect of a trans energy history. Materials still accruing! #envhist #envhum searchprovincialarchives.alberta.ca/christina-ol...

Can we fill the TL with suggestions of untapped archives/collections? That would be a lot of fun! I think there's quite a bit of material in the Gregory Bateson papers at UCSC Special Collections that has yet to be written about.

there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read

This is a really thoughtful and thorough review of *A Cold Colonialism.* Many thanks to Heather, and to Daniella for commissioning it! #cdnhist @ubcpress.bsky.social