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Kris Inwood
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
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Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Editing Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev & directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com. .. more

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Prof. Dr. Michael Hö (Sinologist) 何彌夏 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇭🇰 @medievalchina.bsky.social · 14h
Has anyone ever attempted to georeference the maps from Tan Qixiang's 譚其驤 Zhongguo lishi ditu ji 中國歷史地圖集?
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 21h
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 23h
Love this new post fr @mollyhardy.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social about the need for x-discipline data curation and preservation! Plus, love the 1790 census jug as the exemplar of thinking across domains. 🤓 scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/10/08/g...
Guest Post - Rethinking Disciplinary Data Regimes - The Scholarly Kitchen
Between a political policy environment focused on defunding and deleting data collections – an environment in which little can be trusted – and an onslaught of new AI tools that feed indiscriminately ...
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paulseesequasis @paulseesequasis.bsky.social · 1d
Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was
The vibrant colors of George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted)
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 1d
The spatial pattern of voting at 1500 individual New South Wales polling booths does not support conventional thinking that manufacturing interests favoured the 1901 Australian political union with its promise of tariff protection, according to Alexander and Hatton in the latest Asia-Pacific EcHR!
The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?
Between 1898 and 1900, six British colonies held referendums on whether or not to join together as states in a federal Australia. We focus on New South Wales, which was pivotal to the affirmative res...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of Ukrainians (and Poles) in Canada

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 1d
Wikipedia says Rzeszów is a transshipment hub for supplies to Ukraine
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 2d
Chinese cotton textile production & consumption changed during the early 20th century with growing demand for finer yarns & direct purchasing of long staple cotton by Japanese companies, according to Masataka Setobayashi in the Asia-Pacific EcHR
📉📈🗃 #history #HistIR #AcademicSky #polisky #sociology
Globalisation and the development of Chinese cotton industry in early 20th century
Following the establishment of the Treaty Port system, trade in imported cotton products—including manufactured cloth, finer yarn, and long-staple cotton—between the west and China began, though it e...
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 2d
MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 2d
#JobFairy - if you really are looking to get out, get away, the University of the South Pacific is looking for a historian. 5 years in the first instance, looks like mostly remote teaching though?
recruitment.usp.ac.fj/job/e57a20fd...
LLS006-Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History - University of the South Pacific - The University of the South Pacific | Careers
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 2d
This is a useful conversation
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d
I guess most of us would like our research to have an impact. What role, if any, social media should have is an open question. I'm interested to hear more from those who explicitly aim to use social media to make an impact. For example, I think @drjenndowd.bsky.social has been very successful.
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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 3d
My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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School Story Lab
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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · 3d
I regularly get folks interested in economics or public policy PhDs who are not able to be in-person full-time; where offers good economics (especially development econ.) and policy PhDs that are remote or part-time or only sporadically in person? #EconSky #PoliSky
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 3d
Did food supply in 18thC China decline dramatically & push down pc income? Tom Rawski questions the strength of existing evidence & recommends an open mind until new sources are investigated. OA in the Asia-Pacific EcHR
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Weak data nullify bold claims about economic trends in Qing China
Recent quantitative studies find steep reductions in Chinese per capita real GDP during 1700–1850, challenging long-standing views of eighteenth-century prosperity. While evidence surrounding likely ...
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Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social · 3d
Did I mention this?

🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨

For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃

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SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025
Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d
I guess most of us would like our research to have an impact. What role, if any, social media should have is an open question. I'm interested to hear more from those who explicitly aim to use social media to make an impact. For example, I think @drjenndowd.bsky.social has been very successful.
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 4d
Dan Li, Hao Tang & Yajie Wang follow the British Empire's retreat from China in the weekly spread btw Chinese bonds & British Consols 1898-1938. The retreat from gunboat diplomacy is first visible in the financial markets with the launch of the 1926 Northern Expedition. New in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!
The onset of the British Imperial retreat from China: Evidence from the Chinese sovereign bond market in London
This study explores the British Empire's retreat from China through the lens of London investors in Chinese sovereign bonds (1898–1938). Using structural break analysis on weekly spreads between Chin...
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Bryan White, MS Bio, MPH 🧬 @crvscience.com · 4d
Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth
Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 5d
Maritime irony! Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture argues that the first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev
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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 6d
"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 6d
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families
(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...
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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 6d
As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers”

#earlymodern
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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 6d
”There is a dramatic change when women become mothers while nothing is happening to the fathers. Motherhood penalties around the world account for much of the gender pay gap in advanced economies.”
Professor Marianne Bertrand delivering this year´s Gunnar Myrdal lecture.
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Marianne Bertrand explaining the
Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, held a lecture at Stockholm University last week, in front of an audience of around 150 people includin...
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Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 6d
The first English language account of traditional Native stories written by a Native author, by David Cusick, a Tuscarora.
The title page from an old book dated 1828
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Bethlehem Tekola @bethlehem.bsky.social · 7d
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured
Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d
Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
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Ehud @duhe.bsky.social · 9d
When I ask ChatGPT to infer height and weight from historical photos it seems to do it well, and even gives its degree of confidence. Is there a systematic analysis of performance on this task?
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Sascha O. Becker @essobecker.bsky.social · 9d
Looking forward to teaching this class at @rfberlin.bsky.social ❤️
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ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 Only a few days left to apply for the next RFBerlin Masterclass!

Join @essobecker.bsky.social for two days of in-depth teaching on the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens.
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"Forced Migration and Human Capital: Insights from Economic History" by Sascha O. Becker
This masterclass, led by Sascha O. Becker (University of Warwick, Monash University, and RFBerlin), explores the economic consequences of forced migration through a historical lens. Building on influe...
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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 9d
Same for most economics MA/MSc programmes in Canada
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 9d
Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 9d
For the AI-curious, a colleague recommended Future House www.futurehouse.org, which limits its searches to scientific literature. It's built for Chemistry but works surprisingly well for History, and it's free.
FutureHouse
FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...
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