Great topic! I hope that people submit pieces to the blog series (I'm not intending to as I've already written for this blog entitled "What is a Heritage River?" niche-canada.org/2023/10/30/w...

#deepseamining

It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.

As you look up to the skies 🚀, don’t forget to look down to the depths
🌊🦑
#DefendTheDeep

Here is some video

youtu.be/XlM9sBhhx1g?...

Are You Coal or a Horse? How to guess if your job will exist in five years

Knowledge workers are all wondering if AI will replace their jobs, Annie Lowrey writes—"but there’s a better question for white-collar workers to ask themselves: Am I coal, or am I a horse?”:

No performative stuff here please! Time for a change in content. No word salads. I'm going to discuss the Republic of Letters which I've noticed - it exists!

I discovered that the Republic of Letters was alive... so I wrote about it...
aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/no-perform... #knowledge #friendship #community

Rachel Nolan · The Grandson of Estela: Las Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo Week​ after week, year after year, members of the collective formed in 1977, during the Argentine military...

A really moving text on the Argentinean dictatorship highlighting both the horror inflicted, the (deeply human) contradictions present among the victims and a crucial mention of the contemporary defenders of inhumanity, political violence and never-ending trauma.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Neolithic trackway discovered amid mission to recreate ancient wetlands They say pollen, plant remains, insects and microscopic organisms were preserved underneath peat.

📰 6000-year-old #Neolithic trackway uncovered in Somerset, England, preserved under layers of peat.

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via BBC News

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bold at whatever size Tackling authenticity - the larger Brigadeiro? More chocolate?

Another substack post entitled: Bold at whatever size:
Tackling authenticity - the larger Brigadeiro? More chocolate?
open.substack.com/pub/aliciajm... #chocolate #authenticity #brigadeiro #cultural

America first is letting foreign companies come into the US to mine copper?

Authenticity and Tourism Who gets to define authenticity?

Another substack: "Authenticity and Tourism:
Who gets to define authenticity?" aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/authentici...
#archaeology #authenticity #tourism

Stukeley documented many ancient monuments across Britain in unprecedented detail, such as this illustration of the linear earthwork monument of Wansdyke, Wiltshire, crossed by a Roman road.

Learn more about Britain's linear earthworks and antiquarian legacy in Antiquity 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

What's the future for understanding the past? Has the ship sailed regarding the oversight of AI in the interpretation of the past and 'art'?

Another substack post! "What is the future for understanding the past? #history #archaeology #AI #artificialintelligence
aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/whats-the-...

GEN AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum What's this? Is there much more that's behind those AI generated photos posted by the British Museum late last month?

Well, I decided to write about Generative AI, Archaeologists and the British Museum #generativeAI #AI #archaeology #britishmuseum
aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/gen-ai-arc...

An uneasy relationship Or is the Boundary Waters area a place of relaxation, water, biodiversity or deep mining for iron ore?

New substack post: An uneasy relationship....
#US #Canada #BoundaryWaters #mining #biodiversity

aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/an-uneasy-...

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

The Emperor's New Clothes is digital Or is AI the tool of choice in the definition of the definitive interpretation of the past, heritage and 'art'?

aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/the-empero...
The Emperor's New Clothes are Digital: Or is AI the tool of choice in the definition of the definitive interpretation(s) of the past, heritage and 'art'? #art #heritage #past #history #AI

Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...

Do you appreciate that we take the time to highlight the latest journal articles coming out in environmental humanities and social sciences across Canada and beyond?

Donate to our fundraising campaign so that we can continue to devote time to this work.

fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

#envhist

Thank you for posting my piece. :)

Is knowledge power? The emphasis on the performative stymies new work. It discourages intellectual risk-taking.

I ask the question is knowledge power? aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/is-knowled...
#knowledge #university #highereducation

Interview with Briana Gervat Doesn't everyone want to ask why an author wrote a book - Well, I did! I spoke to Briana about her new book "There Will Come Soft Rains".

Interview with Briana Gervat about her book which I read earlier this year about her walk where she walked the Western Way, in France. It's thought provoking and beautifully written #history #worldwarone #belleepoque #gildedage #literature #art #France #wlk open.substack.com/pub/aliciajm...

Another substack post - and some musings entitled "What's in a label: Pictographs as “Art”?" #rockart #pictographs #CanadianShield #PrecambrianShield #Canada #archaeology #anthropology #art #anishinaabe #Alongonquian #Cree #Ojicree #Ontario

aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/whats-in-a...

Another substack post! Let's unpack a grey drawing by Maitland.....not this one of the seashore - which one? Check out my substack post: aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/what-can-o... #drawing #Indianact #arthistory #art #janeausten

Attention! Uwaga! Uzmanību! Meet the cactus-man. We’re launching Issue Nine on 4 September. Blue, this time with a layer of aquamarine.

Right now it’s still at the printer’s. We will not dare rob you of that first-look moment — more soon.

Yikes

Some thoughts on images by Banksy.. "or the power of the image" I've borrowed the title from an exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, London. Is Banksy seeking to make us collectively reflex, check our ethics and go into a foetal coil?

aliciajmcolson.substack.com/p/some-thoug...
Some thoughts on Banksy's work... if you're wondering why this post....it's the precursor to my next substack post on the label "Palaeolithic art" #art #images #banksy #label #archaeology #anthropology #worldview #power

Petroglyphs of pecked footprints at Umm Huwaiwitat.

Do these petroglyphs, from Umm Huwaiwitat near #Petra 🇯🇴 depict footprints? 👣

They likely date long before the #Nabataean and #Roman periods, displaying the importance of examining under-investigated periods at famous sites 🏺

🔗 from 2023 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

This is grim news if AI is being given preference over homes. AI uses a lot of electricity!