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I have two more papers to grade before I’m done for the evening, but only five peanut butter M&Ms. I did not ration properly.

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#skystorians help: I've got a lesson coming up in Research Methods on "how we cite and why it matters." I'd like to assign a "case study" that presents content but is also explicit in its citational politics. Any time period/topic. Suggestions? +

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Our editor-in-chief @blairstein.bsky.social introduces a new series marking the 50th anniversary of the passing of Bill C-373, which made the beaver an official national symbol. "Beavers in Theory and Practice: Beyond a National Symbol" niche-canada.org/2025/02/25/b... #envhist #cdnhist #beaver

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you mean…the five bullet points of what they accomplished last week?

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Dear manager, It’s been one week: 1. Since you looked at me 2. Cocked your head to the side and said “I’m angry.” 3. Five days since you laughed at me 4. Saying “get back together, 5. come back and see me.”

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I’ve been doing the history of Air Canada since I started grad school in 2010. I’ve been at US colleges since 2012. It just occurred to me that I might have to be careful advertising, marketing, and promoting my book when it comes out. …because Air Canada used to be called Trans-Canada Air Lines.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

plz airplanes stop crashing i really don’t want my silly little research about air travel and nation-building to be relevant stop it

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And also, if you want to learn about some OTHER Canadian planes that crashed (100 years ago, nobody died), I’ve got a post in this series that brought a bunch of Old Airplane Guys out of the (literal) woodwork and into my inbox.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Lord grant me the strength not to check my work email in this airport terminal because I budgeted my usual hour for security and customs but it only took 20 minutes and I STILL have an hour and a quarter until boarding after killing time for 45 minutes.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Two things. 1. I study the history of air travel FOR A LIVING. Flying is safer than it’s ever been, overall. You’re more likely to get into a car accident blah blah blah. 2. I had to emergency-fly this weekend for a funeral and I was Very Uncomfortable With The Idea. I contain multitudes.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

It’s Slugger’s birthday! He’s four. Can I offer you a poodle eating a cookie in these trying times?

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

maybe we can learn from the ingenuity of the tiktok youths who came up with “unalive” and “panini” to skirt linguistic algorithms (to be clear, this is very serious and bad—as a historian of science especially I recognize that this is very serious and bad. tiktok youths can’t save us now)

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twenty twenty five is a hell of a year to apply for a green card, huh?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I now spend about as much time doomscrolling on Bluesky nightly as I used to on Tw¡tter. That’s how I know it’s finally made it as a social medium. (Devastated, angry, scared, etc etc.)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

1. “Journalist” and/or “writer” and/or “teacher” 2. Journalism, concentration in radio 3. N/A — I really thought I’d make it as a radio reporter 4. History professor IDK what went wrong (or right?) in the middle there

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I’ve been back on my bullshit this afternoon (writing about trains), so maybe I should just pop in to see if there was anything noteworthy from the speeches today and I oop—

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Come one come all to @nichecanada.bsky.social’s Canadian History and Environment Summer Symposium (CHESS) at @mcmasteruniversity.bsky.social this spring! The theme is From Contamination to Rebirth and we’ve got so much nerdy #EnvHist fun planned! niche-canada.org/2025/01/17/c...

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Yesterday I made a really tasty stir-fry. Used a bunch of veggies that were going bad, made a lil’ marinade. The works. Very responsible. Tonight coming home from the gym I decided I wanted crescent roll cheese-dogs for dinner instead. So I stopped at the store and got the stuff for cheese-dogs.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I mean, mine is just a big, floppy piece of paper, so (…and that means it could take on even the strongest wrestlers in a fight. Paper beats Rock.)

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I think about this All The Time. I was a museum tour guide (pretty much history-themed stand-up) for years before grad school. And I BECAME a museum tour guide because I was a theatre kid looking for a performance-adjacent job. My classroom persona was entirely forged at that museum.

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IK there’s a lot of info (+ mis-info) circulating about the LA fires right now. I read about the Getty Pavilion, but is there some other reporting about how how LA-based museums, archives, etc. are managing? Asking for lots of reasons, but esp because one of my research methods students asked.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

IK there’s a lot of info (+ mis-info) circulating about the LA fires right now. I read about the Getty Pavilion, but is there some other reporting about how how LA-based museums, archives, etc. are managing? Asking for lots of reasons, but esp because one of my research methods students asked.

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One of my survey class sections is massively under-enrolled. My others are almost full, so idk what happened. It can’t be cancelled. Anyway, advice for adjusting a course designed for ~35 students to <10? It’s a gen ed history survey for engineers so “make it a seminar!” isn’t really an option.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

literally the doctor on this plane

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

as literally the leading historian on the history of Air Canada commercials, I endorse this evaluation

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Merry Sluggmas, happy Sluggukkah, and. Sluggy new year

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

"But why won't you, academic, help improve the World Eating Plagiarism Death Sphere, that we built to destroy your field and our world and fund it through the theft of your work? Why are you so negative about it?"

submitted 66 days ago • 9 comments

RPing for if you’re bored this Christmas eve. Tell me about your favorite uses of written correspondence, newspapers, oral histories, images/art, artifacts, population/census data, archaeological sites, etc in academic history articles! For my 200-level research methods class!

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how your email finds me this winter break

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