Who Digitized Your Sources? Exploitative Prison Labour and the Hidden Costs of Online Archives Kristen C. Howard In today’s increasingly online world, historians, researchers, and students want and expect online access to historical documents offered by galleries, libraries, archives, and mu…

Kristen C. Howard explores the ethics and practices of exploitation and labour in the digitization of heritage materials and sources.

CFI is recruiting Programs Officers!

Join a team that helps build Canada’s research infrastructure. Support national funding programs for universities, colleges and research hospitals.

📍Ottawa (hybrid)
🗓 April 26, 2026
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Some interesting research from PhD candidate Andy Lopez and professor Mike Schutz. Using collections of everyday sounds they’ve demonstrated that the beeps that are used for auditory research don’t reflect sounds in the real world – and that has real consequences. news.mcmaster.ca/dont-keep-it...

McMaster signs Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) McMaster has signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) as part of an institutional commitment to advance meaningful ways of recognizing and rewarding research contributions. S...

McMaster has become the first university in Ontario to sign the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, more familiarly known as DORA, which will allow us to better assess research contributions in terms of societal and community impact. news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-sig...

Congratulations!

My first ever interview in Turkish for International Women’s Day on the threat of anti-gender policies to democracy.

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New online portal with documents on the post 1945 German far right. radikale-rechte.de

Why do I love teaching at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social? Well yesterday a biochem major who’s taking my 18th-century lit class came to my office hours to talk with me about MY BOOK which she IS READING out of SHEER INTEREST ✨

"Smiles on faces" is right! Thanks to all our musicians and out conductor, Joe Resendes!

Why Iran keeps turning off the internet during mass protests By cutting internet access during uprisings, the Iranian regime turns connectivity itself into a mechanism of control.

“For authoritarian regimes, internet blackouts are a powerful political tool of repression that conceal state violence,” says Communication Studies and Media Arts PhD candidate Niloofar Hooman. Read her timely analysis in @ca.theconversation.com: theconversation.com/why-iran-kee...

Alexis-Carlota Cochrane, PhD candidate in Communication Studies and Media Arts, calls for an “enforceable, survivor-centred, AI-aware online safety framework” in response to new digital tools harming women and gender diverse people: news.mcmaster.ca/ai-generated...

Episode 1 of Generations Ahead, a new podcast series produced by the Wilson College of Leadership & Civic Engagement and The Walrus Lab, is out. Sam Reusch (Apathy is Boring) and my colleague Sara Wolfe discuss youth civic engagement during a critical time for democracy.

Opinion | Time to Say Goodbye

David Brooks’ last opinion piece for the NYT directs Americans to re-embrace their humanity, and he calls on universities to lead in this work. At Mac, the Faculty of Humanities and Wilson College, co-led by the Faculty of Social Sciences, do this every day. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/o...

Opinion: An AI future demands liberal arts agility Graduates have the ethical and creative thinking skills that the AI-driven jobs of tomorrow will demand

A key point in this editorial, by Mount Allison president Ian Sutherland and student Lucas Orfanides, is that, along with possessing relevant (and essential) job skills, liberal arts grads are uniquely well positioned to deal with AI's ethical shortcomings.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

McMaster seeking international academics for new Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program – Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University

Excited to announce that McMaster Humanities is looking to recruit established international researchers to our institution. Please see the following link for details of the government of Canada’s Impact+ program and reach out to me if you are interested. www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/2025/12/22/m...

Even when some of those records illuminate shameful deeds and beliefs.

Hot to Trot 🥵🤒 | 💀 BURPS, BUTTS AND BONES 🧪 | Answer Questions About The Human Body | TVOkids YouTube video by TVOkids

Excited to share my acting debut with Ontario's public broadcaster TVO (@tvodocs.bsky.social @therundowntvo.bsky.social & more). I was in an episode on fever for the TVO Kids series 'Burps, Butts, and Bones' (do they know their audience or what?). I learned about acting from the +++talented Ryan.

Well done, McMaster scholars Melinda Gough and Peter Cockett!

Call for Application: Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary History @unibayreuth.bsky.social

McMaster expert unveils blueprint for climate justice at COP30  Professor Bonny Ibhawoh, chair of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development, will share recommendations from a study conducted with the support of McMaster students and researchers at the global climate summit in Brazil. 

Professor Bonny Ibhawoh will share recommendations at the upcoming at COP30 Climate Change Conference from a study conducted with the support of McMaster students and researchers.
news.mcmaster.ca/bonny-ibhawoh-climate-ju...

Tenure track philosophy job in Canada

Western University’s Department of Philosophy seeks to hire a Asst Professor with an area of specialization in one or more of metaphysics,
epistemology, and logic, broadly construed). The anticipated start date is July 1,
2026

www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

Wowza! Congrats, Jen!

I know plenty of colleagues in Hum and Soc Sci disciplines who are trying to leverage AI in their research or integrate AI in their teaching in ways that support learning.

Ayobami Adebayo, A Spell of Good Things. It's fiction, but I still felt I learned a lot about Nigerian culture. Added bonus for you, Alex, the educational system is critical to the narrative.

TOMORROW: LBI London Summer Lecture 2025

Hitler’s Mein Kampf: Reflections 100 Years On
Dr Lisa Pine
Tomorrow, Thursday 10 July 2025, 5:30pm–7:00pm
Senate House, London
Free admission

Sign up: lbilondon.ac.uk/pine

@ghilondon.bsky.social @lisapine.bsky.social

Impending and Exciting News! Job Opportunity as a Research Fellow for my Wellcome Trust Research Project in Medical Humanities and HPSM at the University of Leeds soon to be posted!

I will be in Berlin, but not until later in the summer. Does your US tour in Sept, include GSA? Or... do you want to come to McMaster en route to see your sister?

Happy day! Book tour?

Cultural groups across U.S. told that federal humanities grants are terminated Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

📣 Reminder for Canadian university students! Applications due Monday, March 31st! More details below. ⬇️