Eira Tansey @archivist@scholar.social

I recently learned that environmental historian Bill Cronon has a whole website dedicated to teaching research methods - much of it is geared for undergraduates new to research but I'm still getting a lot out of it and you might too http://www.williamcronon.net/researching/

I think university administrators are completely unprepared for handling things like this, especially because for years professors researching sensitive topics have been targets for abuse, and do not always find much support from their institutions https://splinternews.com/terrifying-maga-fan-arrested-by-fbi-for-threatening-to-1834291333

I just learned there is an entire podcasting network dedicated to reviewing authors of new academic books. The New Book Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com

Having difficulty downloading some Hein database law review PDFs.... ASCII art as an error message is something I've never encountered before

Anyone here going to the Organization of American Historians? My first time and I am bowled over by some of the conference programming, hot dog!

US academics, what kind of cool sustainability things does your university do? Subsidized bus passes? Inviting you to bring hard to recycle stuff from home? An institutional mandate to buy XYZ amount of locally grown food? I am running for election as faculty rep to my university's sustainability committee and want to bring some fresh ideas.

University of California terminates Elsevier subscriptions (yes, more of this please!) https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-terminates-subscriptions-worlds-largest-scientific-publisher-push-open-access-publicly

Anyone attending the Organization of American Historians conference? This will be my first time and uh, the 150 page conference program has got me kinda intimidated as an attender of smaller conferences in my field of practice

AAUP Wright State has called off the 20 day strike after reaching a tentatively agreed contact with admin. They retained their right to bargain over healthcare, full TA'd agreement will be sent out later to the bargaining unit https://www.facebook.com/AAUPWSU/photos/a.910334269034482/2020361038031794/?type=3&theater

Did not expect this intriguing and highly questionable part of Soviet nuclear history to show up in the federal Deepwater Horizon disaster report

As someone who thinks the entire enterprise of capitalist fossil fuels is animated in large part by racism (see: imperialist military activity that saves oil fields instead of cultural heritage sites, the growth of car-based suburban sprawl, I could go on), I am 100% here for the U. Oklahoma person holding the poster "Don’t Trust an Oil Baron With Racial Justice" https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hired-to-Fix-Finances/245549?cid=wsinglestory_hp_1

Can anyone recommend geospatial humanities workshops or conferences happening in Fall 2019?

Experiencing a fellow journal guest editor in my extremely niche field going AWOL after multiple emails from the managing editor is one of the weirder experiences I've had so far in higher ed.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Would-It-Take-to-Keep/245272?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
This article from CHE highlighting the UNC system's plan to create a mobile police force is wild. I don't know where to start, but let's just say that there is no equivalence between damage to a monument and neo-Nazis running around with torches. This kind of false equivalence is exactly what happens when you hire a member of the FBI to come up with a security plan.

I am reviewing a book in my field that I have significant theoretical disagreements with. Can anyone point me to a book review in their field that demonstrates how to articulate one's disagreements well without devolving into just disciplinary smack talking?

Realized I only have 15 days left in the office for 2018, new goal is to reach inbox < 100

I just found out my institution has access to the full-text OUP Very Short Introductions series and my life will never be the same again

I am geography-adjacent but I haven't been to a geography-focused conference since AAG as an undergrad. Can any geographers recommend critical/radical/feminist geography conferences worth attending? Or is most of this work happening at AAG?

TFW you are editing a journal issue for the first time and Reviewer 1 is like THIS IS THE BEST! and Reviewer 2 is like THIS IS THE WORST! and I'm over here feeling like King Solomon