Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social

Humanities Digital & Analog. Space & Place. World & Chinese History. Water & Climate. Academe. @WHCPitt Director. @WHGazetteer PI. @pittfacunion. Free 🇵🇸.

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

In #worldhistory next semester, I'll cover medieval (Byzantine to Mamluk) #Palestine. I'm looking at Masalha (Palestine), Cobb (Race for Paradise) and primary sources like Benjamin of Tudela, Ibn Jubayr and al-Maqdisi. Any other suggestions for good undergrad friendly resources?

[Daniel Alves @DanielAlvesFCSH]

Deadline approaching! Send us your research on AI and Digital Humanities. Share widely. Guest-edited by @javiercha and @migueljogja.
@RuthMostern @mayadodd @ngueum @iridium @luhar7 @tiffanyspadoni @GrandjeanMartin @jenguiliano @IanNGregory @hild_de @FerlaLuis @lornamhughes

[Wen-Yi Huang 黃文儀 @WenYiHuang1]

@RuthMostern Hi Ruth. Plz search “environmental history starter pack” there

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

Pittsburgh! The @WHCPitt GLobal Justice Activism Intergenerational Roundtable and Pedagogy Workshop is coming up on Thursday. We will be hearing from a lot of amazing people, and you should come! https://t.co/53929zTx1o

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

Hello friends! I am testing the water over at Bluesky. Who should I follow for world and Chinese history, space and place, climate and environment, and left and liberatory politics? I'm at @rmostern.bsky.social over there.

[New York Times Tech Guild @NYTGuildTech]

To everyone standing with us by breaking your streaks, thank you! Here's today's strike-friendly Connections board we made for you #Breakyourstreak #nocontractnogames https://t.co/PF9YjBLgDQ

[New York Times Tech Guild @NYTGuildTech]

Thank you to everyone honoring our NYT Games picket line and breaking your Wordle streaks! We're so grateful that made you a strike game! Play today's union-friendly connections here: https://t.co/xiizig4iNt

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

Oof, this one hurts me. Goodbye (or perhaps in honor of Wordle, I should say adieu) to my 800+ day crossword streak, and no pausing from doomscrolling during this most anxious week to do the Spelling Bee. But, as they say, "break your streak, don't break the strike."

[Jon Schleuss @gaufre]

We’re on strike at the New York Times. No playing Wordle, the crossword or any of the games. Stand with @NYTGuildTech in demanding a fair first contract! https://t.co/fJM6iwL81W

[BBAW @bbaw_de]

#Veranstaltungstipp Heute Abend spricht Ruth Mostern im @MPIWG über "The Ecology of the Political Landscape in Eleventh-Century Shaanxi: The Environmental and Spatial History of a Multiethnic Borderland". https://t.co/E5lIjDdqu1

[ETBHpodcast @EdutobeHuman]

A clip from our latest #episode w/@RuthMostern. Tune in to hear more on how naming streets, cities, landmarks shapes our environments & what the @whgazetteer hopes to offer those seeking justice in the naming of places https://t.co/rIzcVFuuww #podcasting #podcasts #history #names

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

Link to the video here: https://t.co/zfJLN6mQj9

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

I'm honored to have helped bring this video into the world. I learned a lot from @flodin_ali, Calum Matheson, Tony Novosel, Mrinalini Rajagopalan, and @dr_anasekulic about about how to discuss difficult topics in classroom settings.

[World History Center @WHCPitt]

We are thrilled to share “Pedagogy in an Age of Religious Nationalism” a video featuring 5 scholars sharing strategies for fostering constructive classroom experiences. This project was supported by @PittProvost Year of Discourse & Dialogue!

Learn more: https://t.co/nyMzPKZmE3

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

This was such a fun conversation with @lpetrides from @iskme !

[ISKME @iskme]

Ep. 3 of our @edutobehuman #podcast is live today. Host @lpetrides speaks w/historian @ruthmostern about @whgazetter and explores how our understanding of history, culture and identity is tied to our perceptions of place and how we view the world https://t.co/6HfDl0exiD

[Daniel Alves @DanielAlvesFCSH]

Doing research with AI tools and methods in digital humanities? This cfp is for you! Send us your paper by January 15th. #DH2024 @javiercha @migueljogja @mayadodd @RuthMostern @ngueum @jenguiliano @lornamhughes @GrandjeanMartin @luhar7 @iridium @tiffanyspadoni @EdinburghUP

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Tim Walz was one of the first politicians to call for an immediate ceasefire & release of all hostages. And when asked about the Uncommitted Movement, did NOT condemn them or demonize them. Instead, he said "they're civically engaged & should be listened to."

Now he'll be VP.✊🏽

[the hot dam historian (phd) @hotdamhistorian]

as a history teacher I AM SO INSPIRED RIGHT NOW

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

You know you're done with what you're writing when you look up an abstruse loose end and you're directed to your own prior publications about the topic.

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

It is time to wish Karl a joyful retirement. I'm grateful that he will still be involved with the project and that Stephen Gadd @docuracy is transitioning into Karl's former role. We have great things ahead for the WHG! Read more here: https://t.co/Ve3Ram8DL6. (2/2)

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

A great good fortune of my career in the last decade has been the opportunity to work closely with Karl Grossner @kgeographer in his role as Technical Director and Lead Developer of the World Historical Gazetteer @WHGazetteer. Now, with all my esteem and friendship (1/2)

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

Moral Economy of the Peasant set my intellectual course as an undergrad, Seeing Like a State anchored my dissertation. For the last decade, Jim was one of the wisest and strongest supporters of my work. His forthcoming book about the Irrawadi River will be terrific. What a loss.

[Karl Jacoby @karl_jacoby]

Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."