The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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

Also for some reason I was thinking the 40 pages was on research alone, so I retract my extra question marks. :)

Got it! Thanks, always interesting to see variations in that kind of thing. I don’t even think we have a word limit, but each new person tends to model after previous cases and so we usually have 4-5 page research statements, and slightly shorter statements on service and teaching.

📢NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship
📌Applications due Nov 15

The NACBS-Huntington Library Fellowship aids dissertation research in British Studies using the collection of the library.

More info here: www.nacbs.org/fellowships/...

Today is @bfworld.bsky.social’s 11th Podversary. The first 4 episodes debuted 11 years ago.
So it’s fitting we have a great new episode to celebrate!

How did Northern manufacturers support Southern slavery?

Seth Rockman joins us to talk about “plantation goods” and slavery’s hidden supply chain.

What???? In my quarter century in academia I have never seen a narrative that long! Very curious what the reasoning is? I have served on the social sciences divisional committee for years, I like the short narratives when I review cases but maybe I am missing something?

I’m speaking at Fordham University at 6pm on Thursday for people in NYC! Lincoln Center campus, the talk will be on Indigenous tobacco epistemologies and poetics in the long 18th century.

It's easy to love fresh hop beer season in the Pacific Northwest, but a bit harder to see the labor and communities that make it happen.

For @vinepair.com, I offer a taste of the multicultural history that roots PNW hops, and the mistakes we can't seem to learn from.

vinepair.com/articles/wor...

What an amazing book. Just incredible

The Free Library has a nice little exhibition about microfilm, one of my favorite media formats! 😍

Ok this history is way more fascinating than I expected, and also involves carrier pigeons and something called “ultrafiche.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microform

I have never heard of microstrip either, but did have to look up the fiche/film distinction (Yale just happened to be the first one that appeared).

Following, as I spend the morning reading this book, working on my handweavers v powerlooms manuscript...

Without a doubt, if they are a good student, my colleague Barbara Hahn's book is terrific.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

#foodhist friends: I have a student working on a capstone about food culture in Florence. Student has a great start on secondary sources and good collection of images to use as primary. Any other thoughts on other primary sources to explore?

Thanks so much, Mary! Deadline 10/10 to apply for the free seminar for junior faculty and grad students on Native peoples and the Constitution.

Bakers and cooks, Penzeys is having a 50% off sale on everything that starts with C and M, including cocoa, cinnamon, cloves, and all the chili mixes (and "Mexican Oregano" counts as M). Code is SOS.

www.penzeys.com/shop/spices/...

As bad as this headline is, the details are worse. Russel Vought is trying to roll back SS for the elderly, the disabled, the widowed and orphaned and FURTHER cut food stamps. Make sure to read and share this gift link: wapo.st/4qa8yoq

2 additional slots just opened up. Come walk with us tomorrow. The day is supposed to be beautiful weather wise.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.