Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Kris Inwood
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One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths
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A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths
We have a brace of very contrasting but equally fascinating new articles for you today. First, John D'Amico with "Business Organization in Early Modern Japan," exploring how merchants in early modern Japan created large-scale enterprises in the absence of formal legal institutions. Open Access here
I wrote a short essay for the @nichecanada.bsky.social series on Canada and the Great Acceleration.
niche-canada.org/2026/06/16/w...
Ouverture de poste Maître assistant-e en économie politique et/ou histoire économique pour une période de 3 ans renouvelable. @dehes.bsky.social
Candidature à déposer avant le 1er octobre 2026
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This is an important day in the history of football, and of soccer too: Alan McDougall kicks off a new book. 👟⚽
"Cold War Football: A History in Ten Matches" is co-authored by Tony Shaw and published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
For more info: www.uoguelph.ca/arts/history...
So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Doug Mack
Enterprise and Society
Today is the US launch of my book, The Hobo: A History of America's First Climate Migrants!
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I'm really vibing with this collection of essays on the Future of Quantitative Social Science. It flat out has me buzzing.
As Kevin Munger says in Chapter 14:
"But AI will soon make it impossible for us to ignore the absurdity of the status quo..."
rohanalexander.github.io/notes_on_the...
'Transcribe Bentham began in 2010, and another 20,000 or so manuscript pages require transcription. We’d like to invite your readers to help us complete the project and to explore the writings and correspondence of a figure of enormous historical importance.' #Skystorians
Letter: Dr Tim Causer invites readers to help complete a transcription project and to explore the writings and correspondence of the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham
Free research idea for anyone who wants to test this
Per Engzell
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
