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Pleased to see the whole of @historyaustralia.bsky.social forum on truth telling in Australian universities is now online, open access. This powerful essay by Prof Marcia Langton will follow my introduction when published in the first issue this year #history #Indigenous @austhistassoc.bsky.social

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Reupping for today. Please consider applying and being my colleague!!

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theaha.org.au/wp-content/u... Australian History Association statement on the new Universities Australia Definition of Anti-semitism. @auspolicyhistory.bsky.social

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Is anyone interested in reviewing Emotional Labour in Oral History Research: The Hidden Toll by Jennifer Harding and Verusca Calabria for our journal 'Studies in Oral History'? feel free to send me a PM if so! #oralhistory @ohcollective.bsky.social @oralhistoryvic.bsky.social

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Nice. So the NLA has cancelled all my #Trove API keys because of the work I did recently trying to help researchers & communities more easily use the rich collections of periodicals uploaded through the National eDeposit service (described here […]

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Happy to have contributed to this large new volume: The Palgrave Handbook of the Catholic Church in East Asia. My chapter is on the 19th Century interactions between missionaries and local peoples in Japan: link.springer.com/referencewor...

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'Gaza now looks like Nagasaki after the war'. Remembering genocide means remembering all victims of genocide.

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#Jews against #genocide. youtube.com/watch?v=Posm...

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The deadline for JPP's Spring 2025 Project Funding applications is only 2 weeks away! 🚨 JPP Project Funding offers up to $10k support to develop new public-facing resources in the Japanese humanities created by diverse teams around the world! japanpastandpresent.org/en/funding/j...

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Deadline coming soon. I highly recommend!

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This was the scene on the wharfs of Arikawa this am - I said can I take your photo, sure, he said, and chatted about the types of fish they catch with these nets, usually at around dawn, he says.

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Had to get through snow in Nagasaki but the ferry was running this morning so I made it to Nakadori Island this afternoon

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BREAKING: The Los Angeles Lakers have acquired Luka Doncic, sources confirm to The Athletic. LA is sending Anthony Davis, Max Christie and a 2029 first-round pick to the Mavericks for Doncic, Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris in a three-team deal involving the Jazz.

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Recommended if you are dealing with zucchs of the non-fb variety! (Common garden types)

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Sick of #insiders? From Feb 16, you will have an alternative! @theshot.net.au is launching The Sunday Shot - join @davemilbo.bsky.social & me & some of Australia's best independent journalists at 9am every Sunday as we dive into the key issues of what is going to be a volatile election campaign.

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Monstrous www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

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Wtaf are these job ads when good people have just been made redundant ejgl.fa.ap1.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Holding a walk next weekend. Long-term Japan residents who are interested in lesser known historical places are especially welcome. www.ycaps.org/plum-blossom...

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I'm gonna need every university leader talking about how we need to teach with AI because it's a given in our students' future work to read this, and take a good hard look at themselves. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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MJHA is thrilled to announce that the 2025 Modern Japan History Association Book Prize has been awarded to Ryo Morimoto's book "Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone"! @ucpress.bsky.social mjha.org/Book-Prize

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Recently, UNC Press authors have had their US visas revoked and talks canceled. For over 100 years, we have stood for academic freedom and open discourse, and continue to do so. Read more on the UNC Press Blog ⬇️

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My introduction to a forum on university 'truth telling' in @historyaustralia.bsky.social, now online, open access. Worth reading the multiple contributions. Especially as US and other universities cowardly withdraw from any truth telling... #history #histstm #sts @humanitiesau.bsky.social

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Hi Bluesky! The Australian Academy of the Humanities here. As the national body for the #humanities in Aus, our Fellows provide evidence-based advice to ensure ethical, historical, creative & cultural knowledge shapes better outcomes for all. Follow us for news, research, opportunities & awards. 💙

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3 days! Still time...

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Just under a week remaining for the CFP for JSAA 2025 October 2nd - 4th, either online, or in-person abstracts welcome. #AcademicSky #JapaneseStudies #Japan @jppinfo.bsky.social 🗃️ (See website) 😀

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🚨 Full time permanent lecturer position in Japanese culture and language (literature, film, performing arts, art, visual/material culture) at ULB in Brussels. Deadline: March 1, 2025. Candidate must be able to teach in French within 3 years of hiring. cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modul...

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Just under a week remaining for the CFP for JSAA 2025 October 2nd - 4th, either online, or in-person abstracts welcome. #AcademicSky #JapaneseStudies #Japan @jppinfo.bsky.social 🗃️ (See website) 😀

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I teach Jewish history in to 6th graders in a Hebrew school. And this photo could stand in for many scenes from what I teach (or for that matter, movies like “Prince of Egypt” and “The Ten Commandments”). It’s a photo taken today, of Palestinians returning on foot to Gaza. That should bother us.

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And one last one, Reach out, Build up, Send Back - any interest in reviewing this title? 🗃️

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I'm still looking for a reviewer for Oral History at a Distance! any takers? 🗃️

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Anyone interested in reviewing 'Cruel Care' for our journal? Let me know.

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The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip teach us what it means to return against all odds

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And here is an open source short article I wrote on how the Batman treaty, if honoured would’ve returned $68 million annually to the Kulin nation honesthistory.net.au/wp/knapman-g...

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After spending more than an hour on the phone with Microsoft Support, I have learned: 1. It is impossible to disable Copilot in OneNote, Excel, PowerPoint, or Windows itself. 2. It will not become possible to do so for another month AT THE EARLIEST. (1/?)

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