Can tell it's been a successful #BAAS2026 conference when, at the end of the final day, the pen gives up the ghost with note taking.

what it feels like to be gearing up for a new semester in the United States #academicsky

This is happening this Friday @officialbaas.bsky.social !
Come for a virtual chat over an home-brewed beverage of your choice, write, circle back.
Hosted by yours truly with the company of our GREEN BAAS members.
Postgrad students and ECRs very welcome!
Registration link below 👇

"Indeed, many of the corporate titans who dominate the American imagination live by an ideology of individualism that barely masks selfishness and an air of superiority" - we're off to a strong start, Putnam.

Today I'm casting off my cynicism (i.e., avoiding news for one whole day) and attempting to read this with an open mind:

BAAS 2025 – University of Hertfordshire 23-25 April 2025 - British Association for American Studies We look forward to welcoming the American Studies community to Hatfield between 23rd and 25th April 2025 for the 70th Anniversary BAAS conference. Alongside our usual practice of accepting work in…

The countdown to our conference in Hatfield has now begun - there are just 35 days to go!

BAAS 2025: University of Hertfordshire, 23-25 April 2025

Info/Registration:

Ethnographers:

This coming Thursday, I will be teaching a lecture (online, asynchronous) on ethnographic writing. Please recommend beautiful writing (yours included, of course).

I'd love to get a sampler across disciplines/fields/areas of study.

Re-skeet for broader samples.

"We are totally committed to moving towards gender parity in salaries, but The Hundred exists in a global landscape and we have to be competitive within that," said an ECB spokesperson. "We are excited about private investment benefitting the whole game and helping us accelerate our journey towards gender parity for pay in The Hundred".

"We can pay women less here in the UK because they are paid less in other countries" isn't the stunningly powerful argument that the ECB seems to think it is. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

AHA–OAH Statement on Executive Order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling” The American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians have released a joint statement on the presidential executive order “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K–12 Schooling.”

"We reject the premise that it is 'anti-American' or 'subversive' to learn the full history of the United States with its rich and dramatic contradictions, challenges, and conflicts alongside its achievements, innovations, and opportunities." 🗃️ www.historians.org/news/aha-oah...

This whole game is a thing of absolute beauty, but Conor Bradley in particular has been impeccable #lfc

Pleased to be joining this panel tomorrow at @warwickpais.bsky.social. I'm less pleased that we have sooooo much to talk about only 48 hours into the administration.

Never let it be said that the discourse of American exceptionalism has gone out of fashion. Though I might object to the phrasing "far more exceptional than ever before"

Abstract of published article about yearbooks in the classroom

📢 New Paper Alert!
Yearbooks have a special place in my heart. The OU Yearbook was my first job and where I met my wife. Now, my first peer-reviewed publication explores using yearbooks as archival sources for teaching about political participation. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A question for my historians, political scientists, etc on this website:

Anyone have a model - or thoughts - they'd be willing to share about an undergrad course on the Constitution: not on constitutional law as its conventionally taught, but more on popular constitutionalism/constitutional memory?

I think it maybe means to put your hands behind your back and clasp them? Would that make sense here, with "shuffling ... rear back - peck" above, like a dance move?

I've been locked out of my institutional account for five days, and though I doubt there will be anything of huge importance in my inbox in that time, the NOT KNOWING is driving me nuts! Then of course there are all those articles that I was definitely going to read this week which I now can't...

Front cover of Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate by Cassese et al

New Cambridge Element 'Abortion Attitudes and Polarization in the American Electorate' by @erincassese.bsky.social, @hondercin.bsky.social & Jordan Randall is now free to read for 4 weeks!

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#cambridgeelements #politics

Nothing like a catastrophic mix up between Chinese five spice and cinnamon to start the day - it can surely only get better?

my students in the last decade have become teachers, barristers, lawyers, civil servants, midwives, ICU nurses, journalists, accountants, academics, advertising execs, museum curators, TV producers… because we give them broad skills. If I had to train them to do *a job* they’d all be historians.

Friends, please help me spreading the word about this Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity at Penn for a scholar to work at the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies. More info here: apply.interfolio.com/160769

Christian Nationalists Are Reshaping Texas’s Public School Curricula The Texas State Board of Education will pay districts $60 a student to use a curriculum infused with Christian content.

Great article from Eleanor Bader on American exceptionalism and Christian nationalism in Texas' elementary curricula, 'incentivising' school districts with $60 per student to adopt: truthout.org/articles/chr...

🏆 PGRs/ECRs – Don’t miss the fantastic opportunity to apply for the Ellen Craft Essay Prize from SASA. The deadline is this Friday (6th)!

TRSE Call for Editor 2024 EDITOR CALL THEORY AND RESEARCH IN SOCIAL EDUCATION The College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA) of the National Council for the Social Studies welcomes nominations or applications for editor o...

We have extended the deadline for applications for the next Theory & Research in Social Education editor (@trseeditor.bsky.social). We are now accepting applications submitted before Monday December 16th. See the below call for more information.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇

Yep, we're working on 2026 @jcblibrary.bsky.social --and at Brown University-- in a big way! @theotherrbg.bsky.social is the 3 yr Postdoc Coordinator for #Brown2026. Now we're looking to appoint a 2 yr postdoc in a parallel position for the JCB. Please do share! 1/

"Twitter (and Threads) Have Made a HUGE Mistake"

I completely agree with @hankgreen.bsky.social here (come on, he's usually right) and can say my own testing has yielded the same sort of results. Give it a watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4gh...

How some Texas parents and historians say a new state curriculum glosses over slavery and racism Education officials say the materials were designed to be age appropriate but critics argue they repeatedly omit key context and oversimplify history.

ICYMI.

Brilliant tonight, Conor 👏

CFP! Submit!

I used to host a virtual craft club for academics and I miss having that community… would anyone here be interested? I’m thinking wednesdays from 730-930pm GMT. let me know if you’re interested 🥲