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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 11h

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 · 14h

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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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

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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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 · 1d

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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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 1d

#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?
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LLS006-Assistant Lecturer/Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in History - University of the South Pacific - The University of the South Pacific | Careers

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · 13d

Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website:

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#OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

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Charles Piller @charlespiller.bsky.social · 14d

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science | AAAS via @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror

Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help

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Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social · 1d

This is a useful conversation

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 2d

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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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 18d

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries

Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...

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Dr Susan D Blum @susandblum.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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Stockholm University @stockholm-uni.bsky.social · 5d

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

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 · 3d

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

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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 · 4d

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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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 5d

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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Helen Margetts @helenmargetts.bsky.social · 9d

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE

AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 5d

"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."

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 5d

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=...