Asteri’s Aftermath: Displacement, Dangerous Conditions and a ‘Predatory’ Cash for Keys Scheme After being abruptly displaced from the Asteri building due to safety concerns, residents are returning to their apartments while navigating temporary housing, cash-for-keys offers and ongoing uncerta...

Some seriously good reporting from the Cornell Daily Sun about Ithaca's increasingly dire housing situation.

We need real accountability on the local level when developers fail this badly.

www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

Tomorrow! We're so excited to have Greg O'Malley coming to Syracuse to talk about his EXCELLENT book! Free and open to the public! 👇🗃️

Opinion | Just Because I Wrote This Doesn’t Mean I’ll Be On Your Panel About A.I.

“Everybody’s using AI for everything nowadays, and if you don’t, you’re a misfit outsider who should be stoned to death in the town square, and then resurrected virtually from your data so you can be stoned to death in the virtual town square, for infinity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

God bless you @colsonwhitehead.com

"Do you realize how much water and power it’d take to replicate the average writer’s narcissism, self-loathing and despair? It’d drain the Indian Ocean. You could light up Times Square for a year. We can’t afford it."

I’ve done the calculations and I believe there are only five days left in the semester where I will have to wear nice pants.

Associate Professor (297742) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology Job title: Associate Professor (297742), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Sunday, May 3, 2026

My old university NTNU in Trondheim is finally! recruiting a fully tenured associate professor in modern environmental history. This is a great opportunity for the right person. #envhist

Struggling with the work/WW3 balance.

I am not one of those who believes that history repeats, but consider the following from Herodotus: the Oracle at Delphi told the fabulously wealthy King Croesus that if he invaded Persia he would "destroy a great empire." Croesus invaded and lost--the empire he destroyed was his own.

Oh no! Now I'm all weepy before a morning meeting! This is such a wonderfully kind thing to say! 🥹

Speaking of churning out first rate scholarship - I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on Connections: The Making of American Methodism in the Revolutionary Atlantic World!

Final Call: Nominations for the Society's next President and Vice-President are due TODAY! 🗃️

Never used genAI for writing, brainstorming, inspiration, or research, or anything else (yes I know "AI" a marketing term; it's not machine learning).

The point of being alive is to not ask a garbage machine questions.

The point of being alive is not to delegate being alive to a garbage machine.

We still have money & space for educators to attend our our virtual May 30th workshop on Teaching Gun Violence in World Historical Context! New deadline of April 12th. Join us, learn, and get a $300 stipend. #earlymodern @thewha.bsky.social #worldhistory @pernilleblues.bsky.social @historians.org

Supreme Court Rejects Colorado Law Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’ for L.G.B.T.Q. Minors Colorado and more than 20 other states restrict therapists from trying to change the gender identity or sexual orientation of L.G.B.T.Q. clients under the age of 18.

Breaking nyti.ms/414Jyna Supreme Court rejected a Colorado law banning sexual orientation or gender identity conversion therapy for LGBTQ minors.

That's such a good idea!

Ooohhh - I can't wait to hear about what you're looking at in TNA! ☺️

A solid third book title! I'm imagining a box set in the future...

It's a different feeling to go back to the archives after finishing a book and realizing how much my old ways created a lot of unnecessary work. Hopefully some of these tips can streamline the process a bit!

Or: The More Predatory Sea? 😅

Hahaha! Opus 2 is a good enough working title! 😅

I would love advice on how you organized your Scrivener. I've dabbled with it for years and have never quite figured out how to use it well. And I've got two projects going at the same time, so it feels like organization is going to be key!

Haha! I might just take notes by hand now.

Oh, thank you! That sounds better than my haphazard iPhone to PDF routine!

Making my list of things to read in the archives this summer for book two and I can barely contain myself!

Any new tips for taking and organizing archival photos? 🗃️

#books #reading #writingcommunity #wolves #funny #booksky

The Predatory Sea – Penn Press A new interpretation of captivity, human trafficking, and colonization in the seventeenth-century CaribbeanA century before the height of the Atlantic slave ...

Check out the Founders Day sale at @pennpress.bsky.social!!! 50% off all books, including this one! 🗃️

www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

I had a wonderful time with this podcast! Check it out to hear @harryrob1996.bsky.social's smart questions and close reading of The Predatory Sea!

Haha! 😂

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator YouTube video by Forbrukerrådet - Norwegian Consumer Council

youtu.be/T4Upf_B9RLQ?...

Accurate.

Putting together a panel for LASA Africa 2026 (Dakar, 4–7 November) on colonial legacies from a transatlantic perspective — slavery, capitalism, memory, museums, and literature. Deadline: May 7.

If relevant to your work, feel free to send me a DM 👇

africa.lasaweb.org/es/call-for-...