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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Canadian Historical Association | Société historique du Canada @cndhistassoc.bsky.social · 15h

Vous pouvez maintenant accéder au numéro de décembre du bulletin d'information numérique de la SHC, La rubrique Histoire! #histoire #cdnhist cha-shc.ca/fr/publicati...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15h

WIC reduces birth weight disparities between black and white babies.

www.nber.org/papers/w34521

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erikprawitz.bsky.social @erikprawitz.bsky.social · 17h

Happy to announce a 4th edition of the Workshop in Economic History in Uppsala, with the great @essobecker.bsky.social as keynote! Workshop takes places on May 28-29, 2026, in Uppsala. Apply by January 31, 2026.

Here is the Cfp: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6xdmp...

www.dropbox.com

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Dominik Steiger @dominiksteiger.bsky.social · 18h

Fascinating article looking at respiratory viruses in a Swiss school setting finds that bad air quality in the classroom, not close proximity, is the dominant driver of viral spread.

Close proximity: RR 1.16
Shared classroom: RR 3.17
Suboptimal air quality: 1.90

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ben Fletcher-Watson @bfletcherwatson.bsky.social · 1d

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

"Years and years ago, there was a production of The Tempest, out of doors, at an Oxford college on a lawn, which was the stage, and the lawn went back towards the lake in the grounds of the college, and the play began in natural light. But as it developed, and as it became time for Ariel to say his farewell to the world of The Tempest, the evening had started to close in and there was some artificial lighting coming on. And as Ariel uttered his last speech, he turned and he ran across the grass, and he got to the edge of the lake and he just kept running across the top of the water — the producer having thoughtfully provided a kind of walkway an inch beneath the water. And you could see and you could hear the plish, plash as he ran away from you across the top of the lake, until the gloom enveloped him and he disappeared from your view.
And as he did so, from the further shore, a firework rocket was ignited, and it went whoosh into the air, and high up there it burst into lots of sparks, and all the sparks went out, and he had gone.

"When you look up the stage directions, it says, 'Exit Ariel.”

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 1d

Theres now also a substack version of my review of this great Dutch book about medieval bathhouses that needs to be published in more languages!

‘Het middeleeuwse openbare badhuis’ by Fabiola van Dam (2020)
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/book-revie...
WP:
fakehistoryhunter.net/2024/07/15/b...

Book review: 'Het middeleeuwse openbare badhuis' by Fabiola van Dam (2020)

I recently read ‘Het middeleeuwse openbare badhuis’ by Fabiola van Dam, I read it twice.

fakehistoryhunter.substack.com

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Shirley Tillotson @stillots1.bsky.social · 2d

It's finally here. A history of the Nova Scotia lobster fishery.

Morton is truly an historian's historian, and from the installments I've seen, the book is going to have riches of social history, politics, economics, and even some marine biology.

share.google/J3GYgjTkjV9I...

Screen capture of a book cover. It's a white background with a picture of part of a multicolored lobster dominating the bottom 2/3 of the cover. Book title is Contested catch: lobster, localism and Canada's Atlantic coast, 1870 to 1970

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Stephen Clarke @stephenclarkenz.bsky.social · 3d

Congratulations Erik Olssen — 2025 New Zealand Historical Association Award for Contribution to New Zealand History. #NZHistory #HistoryMatters #history @universityofotago.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 3d

Today we have "On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency" by @forrestpass.bsky.social

“When European settlers arrived in the region in the nineteenth century, they found the groundwater perplexing.”

niche-canada.org/2025/11/28/o...

On Drought, Dowsing, and Deep Drilling: Thinking About Groundwater History in an Age of Climate Emergency

Canada’s 2025 drought exposed groundwater precarity; in the past, Ottawa Valley settlers adapted to this precarity through dowsing, augers, and evolving well technologies.

niche-canada.org

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 3d

useful reflections in this thread

Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

I had an interesting set of interactions w AI-generated content that I think is instructive. A very bright student made a claim in an essay that struck me as outlandish, so I searched the question on Google which turned up that phrasing the search a certain way makes the AI summary agree w the claim

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

I had a great conversation with a librarian last year where she said the instability and general inability to reliably trace bots as a reference source are sort of a perfect storm. Students "research" w the tool, but repeating the search doesn't yield a stable output.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3d

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Victor Seow @eastasiascitech.bsky.social · 4d

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗮 𝗟𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗮𝗶𝘄𝗮𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗰𝘆? 🌾

Join us for this 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 talk by Yitang Lin!

Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia

#histstm #histsci #envhist 🧪

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 5d

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure invites applications for a two-week Summer School on ‘Micro-Census Insights into Historical Households, Mortality and Fertility’, held at University of Cambridge from July 6-17th, 2026. Application deadline February 2 2026.

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge » Events

www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 6d

Hot off the press! What was the Cold War and what are its consequences? 10 articles and 3 comments in a delightful new issue of Social Science History @socscihistory.bsky.social offer fresh perspectives. Organized by Mitchell Stevens and Ioan Sendroiu, and introduced by Silvia Pedraza. Open access!

Social Science History: Volume 49 - What Was the Cold War? | Cambridge Core

Cambridge Core - Social Science History - Volume 49 - What Was the Cold War?

www.cambridge.org

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David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social · 6d

A student is working on detecting gaps in text transcriptions. Does anyone in #DigiClass or beyond know of open transcriptions of ancient Greek inscriptions, in EpiDoc or otherwise, similar to papyri.info ? I've worked with literary texts and papyri, but I'm stumped on this.

papyri.info

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Rohan Alexander @rohanalexander.bsky.social · 6d

Very happy to host Chris Barrie tomorrow at noon EST on "Reasoning models and synthetic data generation".
All welcome.
Zoom: utoronto.zoom.us/j/4784708970
Details: rohanalexander.com/tdw.html

Wednesday 26 November 2025, noon (EST)
Christopher Barrie, New York University
"Reasoning models and synthetic data generation"
Christopher Barrie is an Assistant Professor of Sociology, at New York University as well as Core Faculty at CSMaP and a Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. His research interests include computational methods, generative AI, political attitudes, communication, protest, conflict and MENA. He holds a DPhil in Sociology from Oxford.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 6d

Prasad previously announced that he intends to start with the conclusions he wants and work backwards to produce the "evidence."

sciencebasedmedicine.org/pbem/

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The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social · 6d

Stockbridge & New Town Orchestra 30th anniversary concert, Sunday 30 Nov 2025, 3:15pm. 🎻🎶
Includes: Mahler, Grieg - Peer Gynt, Sousa - Liberty Bell, Skating with Mr Gow. Family friendly.
Stockbridge Parish Church, Saxe Coburg Place, #Edinburgh. £7.50 at the door.
#concert #music
www.snco.org.uk

Orchestra playing on a platform at one end of a church. Tall female conductor. Christmas tree at the back. Dawn to dusk series of paintings on the curved back wall.

Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 6d

Big thank you to Diana Magnuson!

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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 7d

Could be true. I started writing circa 1952, still at it, still here. Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges theconversation.com/writing-buil...

Writing builds resilience by changing your brain, helping you face everyday challenges

Resilience is often presented as feats of bravery and endurance. But everyday practices like journaling, drafting a text or even writing a to-do list are manifestations of a capacity to adapt.

theconversation.com

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 7d

“Experimental data from largest online survey of Irish Americans reveal learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry reduces prejudice among white Irish Americans who identify with Irish American identity, and effects are mostly driven by Republicans…” www.jasmineenglish.net/uploads/1/4/...

Title page)
Title page with centered serif text reading “Close Race: Harnessing Multiracialism to Reduce Racial Prejudice*”. Below is the author name “Jasmine English†” and below that the date “October 31, 2025”, all centered with white background.

Screenshot of the paper’s abstract in serif font. The text explains that multiracial populations are the fastest growing in the U.S., and the paper examines how learning about African Americans with Irish ancestry influences racial attitudes among white Irish Americans. It reports experimental findings showing that such information reduces racial prejudice, especially among Republicans and those with higher baseline prejudice, and suggests multiracialism may reduce perceived racial distance.

Figure 1: Racial Resentment)
Coefficient plot titled “Treatment Effects: Racial Resentment.” The x-axis is Coefficient Estimate with a dashed vertical zero line. Four rows correspond to Treat, TreatLinked, TreatClose, and Treat*Important. The interaction terms show larger negative estimates (around −0.05 to −0.18) than in Figure 2, indicating stronger reductions in racial resentment. Model estimates are color-coded and labeled in a legend at bottom left.

Table 7: Reduced Racial Essentialism
“I was actually very surprised, it’s a much larger percentage than I realized. I
guess I’ve been raised that white people are much more likely to be Irish.”
“I was really surprised. I honestly had no idea and just thought, like me, Irish
is basically white.”
“I am surprised, as I think of typical Irish Americans to be very white.”
“I was surprised - I had no idea. Usually when I think “Irish” I think of very
fair skin, red hair, and blue eyes (like my mom)”
“I was surprised! The term African American makes me think their lineage
would be purely African, but I suppose no one really has ancestry tied to one
place and one place only.”
“I was surprised as I believed that Irish people were overwhelmingly White. It
makes me more course to know about how such a high percentage of African
Americans came to have Irish ancestry.”
“That is surprising to me. I always picture people with more fair skin being
Irish.”
“I was surprised, but once I thought about it made sense. Eventually all of us
will have a little bit of all ancestries in us.”
Notes: Open-ended responses that illustrate a shift away from racial essentialism among treated respondents.

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John Fallon @john-fallon-econ.com · 7d

I'm John Fallon, a labor economist on the job market. My JMP uncovers something wild: when chiropractors got licensed in the early 1900s, medical boards responded by making it HARDER to become a doctor.

Why would competition lead to stricter regulations?
🧵

john-fallon-econ.com

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Line graph showing cumulative state adoption of chiropractic boards over time

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 7d

Do you work on #domesticabuse #divorce #economicabuse #childcustody in the third sector/policy? Then we have the workshop for you! 'Archives to Action' is a free 1-day workshop exploring the important role archival research can play in policy reform. Details 👇
www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 7d

Wow! @lollardfish.bsky.social & @profgabriele.com going all in on a new study using pollen to document biodiversity at & around the Abbey of St Gall in the Carolingian Age. buttondown.com/ModernMediev... #MedievalSky #interdisciplinarity

Carolingian Biodiversity

How Interdisciplinary Can and Should Work

buttondown.com

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 8d

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*

Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca

doi.org

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Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social · 8d

Carolyn Swope received the Founder's Prize for her article “The Spatial Configuration of Segregation, Elite Fears of Disease, and Housing Reform in Washington, D.C.’s Inhabited Alleys” published in SSH 48(2). shorturl.at/eVz4A Congratulations! #sociology #history #segregation #housing #epidemiology

shorturl.at

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Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social · 8d

“Mosaic Database: Consolidation, Innovation, and Challenges in the Comparative Family Demography of Historical Europe,” published in SSH 49(1), won the 2025 Louis Henry Award given by the European Society of Historical Demography. Congrats to the authors! shorturl.at/OWQts #sociology #demography

Mosaic Database: Consolidation, Innovation, and Challenges in the Comparative Family Demography of Historical Europe | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Mosaic Database: Consolidation, Innovation, and Challenges in the Comparative Family Demography of Historical Europe - Volume 49 Issue 1

shorturl.at

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Office of Mayor Michelle Wu 吳弭 @mayorwu.boston.gov · 9d

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜

🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 9d

George Alter & Sam Williamson discuss the 1st pensions for Pennsylvania RR workers at the 50th anniversary SSHA meeting. Men in strenuous occupations often shifted to less demanding jobs as they aged. Late retirees lived longer. Locomotive engineers & conductors were well paid for travelling work.

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