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Helping the #Ontario majority that wants Ford gone to #vote strategically #onpoli rabble.ca/politics/can...

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Hey. If you are Ontario get out and vote. #ontario #electionday #onpoli #vote

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Voted. 🗳️ In and out in less than 5 mins! #OntarioVotes2025 #onpoli

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Please, Ontario! Don’t let this weather stop you from voting today!!!

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“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus” Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV on.ft.com/3QX1HhP

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Today has been a long year for the U.S.: - flu vaccine meeting cancelled - SSA layoffs - DoJ nominees saying they don't necessarily have to obey court orders - trans military ban - SCOTUS taking the USAID cuts - first death from measles in ten years - oral COVID vaccine scuttered

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It’s bad everywhere, for slightly different mixtures of essentially similar reasons

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#VoteFordOut #onpoli

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Bonnie Crombie 🇨🇦 No @brittlestar, we won't build a big dumb tunnel. But we will get you a family doctor. Vote for one on Thursday. #cdnpoli #onpoli

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No woman in Ontario should vote for Doug Ford! This is what he thinks of women! 👇👇👇 #cdnpoli #onpoli

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“My vote doesn’t matter.” In 2022, 56.5% of Ontarians didn’t vote. Doug Ford won a majority because 18% of Ontarians voted PC. “I don’t know what the issues are.” Talk to people you trust to find out. “It doesn’t matter who wins.” It matters very much to someone you care about. #OnPoli

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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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A pendant ear ring from 17th century Greece (British Museum)

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Not everything is worth debating. Let alone your imminent annexation by a fascist.

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#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed, alongside her brother and a friend, for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 #EuropeanHistory 🗃️ 1/2

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For @thelocal.to I wrote about Doug Ford's record on colleges and universities. Ontario has the lowest funding in the country. Without immediate investment, we are compromising a generation of students, including skilled workers needed to build key housing, transit, infrastructure projects. #onpoli

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Early voting has begun in Ontario. You can find early voting locations in your riding with your postal code here: voterinformationservice.elections.on.ca/en/election/...

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In February 2024, KU Leuven and the Flemish Community purchased a special 2nd edition of Vesalius' “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” with personal notes by the humanist for a 3rd edition that never appeared. A video made upon its arrival is now available. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk5B...

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With a little more than one week to go before the provincial election, Toronto District School Board Trustees are calling on party leaders to prioritize students and properly fund public education in Ontario. Read the news release: bit.ly/3EIMOgd

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Our next session takes place (in person @UofT) on Feb. 28, 4-6pm EST. Dr. Elizabeth Vlossak (BrockU) will present a talk entitled "The French Pastry Chef, Or: The story of an Alsatian forced conscript in San Francisco." To register, munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/french... #FrHistory 🗃️

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Rejoice! The seminar for #EarlyModern Europe and the World @ihr.bsky.social has joined #SkyStorians! We're leaving twitter on the 21st, following @royalhistsoc.bsky.social's excellent example.

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Glad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?

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Ford government’s chronic underfunding of education is creating compounding issues for staff and students “Students are basically being left behind and we see an education system that is frankly in crisis.” pressprogress.ca/ford-governm...

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We don't have winter elections for a reason, Doug Ontario: Check the weather, look up where you can vote, and have a plan. Make sure your neighbour has a plan too #UniteTheVote and chip Ford down to a minority Sign the Pledge act.notoneseat.ca/UnityPledge #onpoli #onelxn #notoneseat

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When my friend and #HIstSTM colleague Ann Johnson passed away in 2016, she had this book in progress. I'm glad to see that with some co-authoring help, it's out in the world via @mitpress.bsky.social mitpress.mit.edu/978026254823...

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There’s no way this can be anything bad, right?

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Yesterday I couldn't get the link to work, but today I was actually able to look at the site and Y'ALL y'all y'all - this is so cool. So many stories! So many different fields! Women at sea is a very exciting thing to be studying! hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/whats-on/rew...

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Join us in 90 minutes — 9am EST/2pm GMT/3pm CET!

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A video about some of the useful things USAID does: youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8?...

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I’ll be sharing evidence of some of my favourite figures from this project— a wealthy young South Asian woman and a poetry-loving carpenter whose paths seem to have crossed at sea. Please join us! (9am EST)

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I am going to say this again because I am venting, using LLM generative technologies, what people call AI, is not some new skill that universities need to embrace, it is deskilling the basic skills of reading and writing that are fundamental to thinking. www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/09/auto...

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Sarah A. Bendall & Serena Dyer's edited volume, 'Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe' it out now! The volume focuses on #embodied knowledge to ask how processes of making illuminate #earlymodern understandings of #material life. 📚🪡✍️ www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

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(If folks would like a distraction from ... everything ... I'm presenting online next Monday morning, Feb. 10.) #maritimehist 🗃️

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Regrettably, this event has been postponed due to illness. We will circulate a notice once it gets rescheduled. Merci.

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Prompted by @18thcenturysam.bsky.social, I just looked at the Rambler's Magazine ca. 1785 & saw this love letter, supposedly from a bookbinder, "Timothy Catchword," to his "dearest Duodecimo." 💌📕 Early Valentine's Day content to cheer up my #BookHistory & #18thc mutuals (b/c, lord, life feels grim).

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I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources: DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...

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#maritimehist ?!

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LGBTQ youth are calling crisis hotlines in record numbers Fears have escalated with the Trump³⁴'s anti-LGBTQ actions and the release of his J6 goons onto our streets Image below has hotline numbers that can help We have to stick together. We must remain visible. We can not obey in advance

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"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

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Please share our CFP for the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History. Submissions due by 15 March 2025. oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

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