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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Apr 14

I use the CDNC *literally* daily for research that supports tribal sovereignty/rights claims.

This is such a vital resource with outsized impact for U.S. researchers, communities, history, etc etc etc.

Please, please, pleaseeee reshare and submit a comment!

Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · Apr 14

🚨 Funding is being cut for the California Digital Newspaper Collection!

The state budget for next year zeroes out all funding, which would put the entire site offline permanently.

Please fill out comments
- sbud.senate.ca.gov/members/subc...

- abgt.assembly.ca.gov/sub-committe...

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I write to urge you to put the $430,000 for the California Newspaper Project (CNP) back into the FY2026 budget. For more than three decades, the CNP has worked to catalog, preserve and digitize our state’s newspapers. Along with tens of thousands of other Californians, I am an avid user of their California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC), https://cdnc.ucr.edu, a free online collection of more than 40 million pages of digitized newspapers from around the Golden State. Every year they digitize millions of additional pages through grants, partnerships with private industry, and contracts with institutions around the state. No one else in California does this work and without the state support for the CNP, no one will do it. The CDNC is the largest archive of its kind in the country. This relatively small investment from the State will ensure this unique and invaluable resource remains freely accessible to all Californians.

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Christopher Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social · Apr 8

I'd also like to say a huge thanks to @tim-bird.bsky.social for producing a stunning piece of art to accompany the research. I've been a fan of Tim's graphic novels for many years now, so it was amazing to collaborate with him on this illustration! I love it so much.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Apr 8

So proud of @princessquatris.bsky.social and his crew for this amazing publication, complete with artwork from graphic novelist @tim-bird.bsky.social!!

Christopher Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social · Apr 8

🚨 I'm super happy to announce that our new paper is finally out today in @currentbiology.bsky.social! 🚨

We used the ecological approach of occupancy modelling to investigate the structure of the dinosaur fossil record prior to the K/Pg mass extinction!

www.cell.com/current-biol...

The structure of the end-Cretaceous dinosaur fossil record in North America

Dean et al. examine the fossil record of North American dinosaurs prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction. Estimates of detection probability from occupancy models decrease prior to the extinction...

www.cell.com

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Mar 30

Highly recommend!

Harvard Radcliffe Institute @rad-institute.bsky.social · Feb 24

Why did the unraveling of neoliberalism empower the authoritarian right? TODAY at 4 PM, the Cambridge history professor Gary Gerstle will explore the question, tracing doubts about liberal democratic regimes’ ability to fix our problems. Join us!

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g...

America's Authoritarian Turn | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University

Gary Gerstle, the 2024–2025 Joy Foundation Fellow, will present this year's Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities and look beyond the figure of Donald Trump to inquire into the roo...

www.radcliffe.harvard.edu

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Feb 28

@jamellebouie.net @princessquatris.bsky.social @sheahendry.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social

Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Feb 28

Bluesky community - I’m raising rapid-release funds to help Congolese friends with emergency evacuation and subsistence support in Bukavu and Goma. Many have lost work and access to aid, not least b/c of USAID gutting. Please give what you can & re-share this post! www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-...

Donate to Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders, organized by Zarinah Agnew

On Friday February 14th, M23 rebels captured and occupied Bukavu, the secon… Zarinah Agnew needs your support for Emergency Evacuation Fund: DRC Peacebuilders

www.gofundme.com

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Christopher Dean @princessquatris.bsky.social · Feb 26

Very excited to use my first @bsky.app post to announce @echinerd.bsky.social and I's new paper in Proc B! 🎉

We used a dataset of Palaeozoic echinoids from 33 museums worldwide to see the impact museum ‘dark data’ has on biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in deep time!

doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

Museum ‘dark data’ show variable impacts on deep-time biogeographic and evolutionary history | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

The age of digitally accessible datasets has transformed palaeontology, enabling previously impossible macroevolutionary insights. However, a substantial reservoir of generally inaccessible ‘dark data...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Jan 25

Important thread 👀: community.drownedinsound.com/t/joanna-new...

Joanna Newsom lyrics to Wallace and Gromit scenes

The tap of hangers swaying in the closet Unburdened hooks and empty drawers And everywhere I tried to love you Is yours again and only yours

community.drownedinsound.com

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Jan 17

Very excited to see our @historians.org article featured in the @ssrc.org monthly series, Frontiers in Social & Behavioral Science.

Doing research that bridges humanities and social science is both incredibly fun and (imo) the best way to test & refine theory and policy 🙌

www.ssrc.org/frontiers/

Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Sciences

At the 100th anniversary of the Council’s founding, we honor its founders and celebrate the breadth and depth of modern social and behavioral science. Every month we will feature an article from the m...

www.ssrc.org

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Social Science Research Council @ssrc.org · Jan 17

In @historians.org American Historical Review, @meganrenoir.bsky.social and Shelly Covert explore how the experiences of the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, a federally unrecognized nation, highlight the importance of broadening conceptions of resilience.

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Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks. For many Indigenous communities, however, there is no equilibrium to which to return. This article explores how the federally unrecognized Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT) has developed a creative strategy of resilience beyond a return to “equilibrium” in the face of their almost complete erasure by genocide and the illegal termination of their sovereign rights by US state and federal government agencies. The NCRNT’s experience reveals how activities underlying Indigenous resilience include a need for historical redress and reconciliation, thereby creating a “new normal” that is reflective of Native history as well as the ongoing social, political, and economic realities of existing within a settler state. This article bridges history and development studies, revealing how both disciplines must learn from Indigenous groups seeking restorative justice. It further employs oral histories, artwork, and documentation from the newly created NCRN Tribal archive, and so is presented as an interactive digital article.

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Jan 16

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Carol @carolzanna.bsky.social · Jan 16

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Jan 11

In 1850, California banned Indigenous burning practices.

74 years later, CA is suffering from the consequences.

Climate resilience is possible when we reckon with history.

See our 2023 report on #CAwildfires + #climateresilience + #Indigenousrights 👇

www.cdacollaborative.org/indigenous-r...

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · Dec 18

Read this online for the audio and video oral history components

American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 17

@meganrenoir.bsky.social & Shelly Covert’s “Recognition as Resilience” features the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT), a nation not federally recognized, and how their resilience creates a “new normal” that reflects tribal self-determination. 🗃️

Recognition as Resilience: How an Unrecognized Indigenous Nation is Using Visibility as a Pathway Toward Restorative Justice

Abstract. Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks.

academic.oup.com

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Maggie Blackhawk @maggieblackhawk.bsky.social · Dec 19

It is finally here! Eighty years ago, Felix Cohen crafted the first "bible" of Federal Indian Law. I long dreamed of contributing to a rare revision. Today that dream is realized: 100 pages marrying constitutional law with Indian law (mostly structural, also rights), clarifying both.

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 16

In “History on the Lost Coast,” Kathleen C. Whiteley shows how historians can use a resilience framework to highlight Indigenous agency, spotlighting the Wiyot Nation’s reclamation in 2019 of over 200 acres on Northern California’s Tuluwat Island, the site of an 1860 catastrophic massacre. 🗃️

History on the Lost Coast: Locating Wiyot Stories of Resilience in Nancy and Matilda Spear

Abstract. This essay is a response to an AHR call for works on resilience: “how to revive,” as it’s framed, “after things fall apart.” It would be hard to

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 17

@meganrenoir.bsky.social & Shelly Covert’s “Recognition as Resilience” features the Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe (NCRNT), a nation not federally recognized, and how their resilience creates a “new normal” that reflects tribal self-determination. 🗃️

Recognition as Resilience: How an Unrecognized Indigenous Nation is Using Visibility as a Pathway Toward Restorative Justice

Abstract. Resilience has been conceptualized within international development as the ability to “return to a state of equilibrium” after exogenous shocks.

academic.oup.com

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · Dec 9

Read and share this 👇 #skystorians #academicsky

Megan Renoir (my first PhD advisee!!!) and Shelly Covert in the American Historical Review on what int’l development studies can learn from one Native nation’s pursuit of restorative justice after the California genocide

Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Dec 6

I’m proud to share the news that my article, “Recognition as Resilience,” was recently published in the inaugural special issue of the American Historical Review.

It’s now available to read here: t.co/mb0OhFUoCF

@camhistory.bsky.social @historians.org

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/129/4/1567/7915265

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 6

The AHR’s December 2024 issue is now available. This issue inaugurates the annual publication of a special issue of the journal. Inside the issue authors explore how historical context and contingency shape and inflect resilience. 🗃️

Volume 129 Issue 4 | The American Historical Review | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the American Historical Association. Publishes research that brings together scholarship from every major field of historical study. Articles include original interpretation an...

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Megan Renoir @meganrenoir.bsky.social · Dec 6

I’m proud to share the news that my article, “Recognition as Resilience,” was recently published in the inaugural special issue of the American Historical Review.

It’s now available to read here: t.co/mb0OhFUoCF

@camhistory.bsky.social @historians.org

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/129/4/1567/7915265

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Syrus Solo Jin @syrussolojin.bsky.social · Dec 5

Resilience was the buzzword of 2024. But what does it mean? How do historians think about it? How can the concept, employed with specificity, expand our understandings of the past?

Very excited to share the latest issue of the AHR--two years in the making. Check it out. 👇

American Historical Association @historians.org · Dec 5

In #AHAPerspectives, read about what you’ll find in the December 2024 issue of the American Historical Review, a special issue on resilience. 🗃️

Histories of Resilience – AHA

Get a peek inside the December 2024 issue of the American Historical Review.

www.historians.org

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