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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · 12d

Civility Is a Fantasy, from Roxane Gay www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · 12d

CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference | Faculty of Arts | UNB

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · 16d

Join us in Fredericton in June 2026 to discuss Margaret Cavendish and politics.

International Margaret Cavendish Society @marcavsociety.bsky.social · 27d

Call For Papers Reminder! Margaret Cavendish Society Conference! www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference | Faculty of Arts | UNB

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · 16d

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Video: Opinion | America Has Entered an Entirely New Situation

Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension exposes a chilling new reality of the media bowing to political pressure from the Trump administration, the New York Times Opinion columnist M. Gessen argues. “The only way f...

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Aug 24

nbmediacoop.org/2025/08/19/b...

Black New Brunswickers erased. Again.

The Arena I hate this. There are dozens of places I’d rather be. Hundreds of activities I’d rather be doing.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Aug 11

Pls stop what you are doing and read this entire report on Israel's murder of journalist Anas al-Sharif and five colleagues in Gaza City.

"He characterized Israel’s threats as 'Silence or Death,' and he vowed not to be silent."

It ends with his final message. www.dropsitenews.com/p/anas-al-sh...

The Israeli Assassination of Journalist Anas al-Sharif and Five Colleagues in Gaza City

“We understand these are our last days.”

www.dropsitenews.com

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Aug 1

More evidence that the US is a threat to Canada’s borders and people

Cole.notcole @colenotcole.bsky.social · Jul 24

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BREAKING: Quebec Fisherman Says U.S. Coast Guard Caused His Boat to Capsize in Canadian Waters

A 60-year-old Quebec man says he was fishing 15 kilometres north of the U.S.

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Malak❤️ @malak1nash.bsky.social · Jul 30

Maali is paralyzed and suffers from painful bedsores.
Now, diapers are completely unavailable.
We're forced to use cloth strips instead, which increases her pain and risk of infection.
Please help us provide her with diapers and food🥹💔
@mommunism.bsky.social
@nora.zone
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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fredericton Youtuber Shana Boudreau is making some of the pre-1800 recipes in our Early Modern Maritime Recipes Database. In Shana’s first video she makes a Plumb Cake recipe from the Almon papers (Loyalist Halifax doctor & family). Follow her for more to come from EMMR! youtu.be/K9K0cRCZ-NQ?...

Plumb Cake #1 (1780-1800)

YouTube video by Shana Boudreau

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Jun 19

You may remember our discovery of the library of early modern book owner Katherine Blount. Today, in a must-read post, @tarallyons.bsky.social uncovers a library of books belonging to her daughter! earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/j... #HerBook #EarlyModern

John Raymond’s An itinerary contayning a voyage, made through Italy, in the yeare 1646, and 1647 (1648)

When I tell people about the Early Modern Female Book Ownership blog, I often mention the case of Katherine (Butler) Blount (1676-1753) and the series of posts (by Sarah Lindenbaum, Sophie Floate, …

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · Jun 11

Congratulations to Hillary Nunn on the publication of

Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England & British North America
Domestic Medicine, Mobility & Manuscript Culture
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
@amsterdamupress.bsky.social, 2025

It appears in "Connected Histories in the Early Modern World."

A book cover that features, in the top half, a manuscript of a 17th-century recipe as the cover image.

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Jun 12

Yum!

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spooky•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · Jun 9

for no reason, an excerpt from "let this radicalize you"…

"Violence" in Social Movements • 111
They Will Call You Violent
If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because "violence" is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo. Conditions that the state characterizes as "peaceful" are, in reality, quite violent.
Even as people experience the violence of poverty, the torture of im-prisonment, the brutality of policing, the denial of health care, and many other violent functions of this system, we are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating. When state actors refer to "peace," they are really talking about order. And when they refer to "peaceful protest," they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state. The more uncooperative you are, the more you will be accused of aggression and violence. It is therefore imperative that the state not be the arbiter of what violence means among people seeking justice.

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Jun 8

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Fired US librarian of Congress details callous dismissal in new interview

Carla Hayden, first woman and African American to serve in role, details firing by Trump administration to CBS

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Jun 6

Come join us in Fredericton to talk about Margaret Cavendish in June 2026!

International Margaret Cavendish Society @marcavsociety.bsky.social · Jun 4

We are very excited to share the CFP for the Margaret Cavendish Society Conference which will be held at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, 17-19 June 2026!

Call For Papers: International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference 2026 17-19 June, Fredericton, Canada

Cavendish Conference PosterDownload Join us at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, Canada!

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · May 21

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 21

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage at University of Oxford

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other acad...

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · Apr 11

Poetry: Caution Required !
#English #Literature #poem

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Apr 15

CAUT is advising academics in Canada against non-essential travel to the US www.caut.ca/latest/2025/...

CAUT advises academics against non-essential travel to the U.S.

Given the rapidly evolving political landscape in the United States and reports of individuals encou

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · Apr 1

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Mar 30

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Mar 28

Canadian researchers are being asked politically charged questions when trying to secure U.S. grants

Academics asked to confirm that their work doesn't deal with 'gender ideology,' 'environmental justice'

'Most unusual' questionnaire sent to Canadian researchers receiving U.S. federal grants | CBC News

Canadian scholars who receive some of their funding from the U.S. government sources are flagging a troubling new questionnaire they have been receiving. It asks political and ideological questions ab...

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E.L.Snook @pamphilia2.bsky.social · Mar 28

Timely!

Robbie @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · Mar 24

Examples of tupilaq, originally carved by Greenland Inuit as avenging monsters to curse and destroy their enemies.

Ivory Inuit carvings of 3 mythological and fantastical beings with a fearsome appearance

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Mar 28

Colleagues are cancelling their US work trips. I worry that international colleagues in the US are at risk if they collaborate with us on certain topics.

I've written a new post about the increasing danger of being a foreign scientist in the US.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/trumps-att...

Trump's attacks on universities get ever darker, with the shadows reaching our shores

The US has become a hostile and authoritarian state to foreign scientists and is choosing ideology over science.

christinapagel.substack.com

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