New publication for reading lists! "Displacement and Resilience: Scottish Highland Communities in Nova Scotia" with @jich.bsky.social. if you don't have institutional access - please let me know and I'll share another link. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
How can academics push back against dis- and misinformation? One way is to use academic freedom responsibly: present evidence clearly, and resist the urge to offer personal opinions that muddy the facts. Now more than ever we need to build public trust in research. council.science/blog/scienti...
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Lt. F. J. MacCharles’ #WW1 papers. Baddeck, #NovaScotia. Song about Cape Breton soldiers with #Scots words. Letter from his brother- 6th Reg. Cdn Mntd Rifles- criticizing Sam Hughes (Minister Militia & Defence) "If old Sam could hear these fifty thousand Canadians curse him" & photo of MacCharles.
Thursday, Feb. 26: Reimagining Resilience in Bay of Fundy Dykelands 🌊 Join us for this friendly fireside chat with SMU researchers Dr. Danika van Proosdij and Dr. Jonathan Fowler. All are welcome, 6-8:30 pm in SB 422 and online via Zoom. Learn more: loom.ly/frzoba0. #NovaScotia #ClimateResilience
OOOOOOOOH, news of our third Jenny Wormald Lecture has dropped just in time for the weekend. Are you excited? See more information below:
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Congratulations to the newly elected Fellows of The Royal Society of Canada, including Dr. @karlykehoe.bsky.social of @historysmu.bsky.social! 🙌 Read @src-rsc.bsky.social's announcement: bit.ly/3JZLfga #SMUHistory #AtlanticCanada #rscBRAVOsrc #artswithimpact
The #Eigg Mountain settlement - near Antigonish #NovaScotia. A “wilderness lands" settlement. Photos: last original house, foundation from a MacDonald house & engraved stone from house of John Gillis - an original settler. Thanks to Charlie Teasdale & Laura (descendants) & Shamus MacDonald.
Thanks so much to the Chestico Museum and Archives in Port Hood, NS, for hosting my talk, “Scotland Displaced: Resilience in Cape Breton’s Backland Communities.”
The best audience with the most informed questions. And pretty great brownies and biscuits too! ❤️🇨🇦🏴
This article is a historical intervention in understanding the roots of socio-economic exclusion by interrogating the links between people’s displacement from three of Scotland’s Western Isles – Ba...
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In this blog series, members of the ISC’s Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science share their reflections on the questions surrounding trust in science, particularly in the context of poli...
2026 Scotland-Canada Academic Partnership Lecture!
Join us virtually on Tuesday 10 February at 1pm (EST)/6pm (UK) on Zoom for ‘’Nova Scotia and the Imperial Strategies of Highland Scots", delivered by Professor Karly Kehoe, Saint Mary's University.
FREE Registration: bit.ly/S-CAPLecture...
We are proud to introduce the new RSC Fellows & College Members! This exceptional group will be officially inducted into the RSC on Nov 14 at #COEE2025 in Montréal. Register at bit.ly/COEE2025 🎉
Meet the Class of 2025: bit.ly/3JZLfga #rscBRAVOsrc
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