Just leaving this here for #earlymodern #skystorians

The link between gluten & Celiac disease was established in the 1950s Renée Richards was playing women’s professional tennis in the 1970s RAIN MAN won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1989 Willful ignorance of the past is the glue that binds modern conservativism together

Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

The first step of course is to watch this wonderful video by @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxfx... >

I mean, it's seriously delusional, but I suspect I am not the only historian interested in the vaccine that is a time machine so I could go back and talk to some of the people I study! What did I get wrong, William? Peregrine, what did you really think about the Verneys?

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

Whenever I read stuff like this, my first and overriding thought is that the man who wrote this hates most women.

I think white people tell each other racist lies to get out of telling each other hard truths, and that's a problem. I could easily have developed a racial grievance in that moment, and I think many racial grievances come out of that kind of experience.

"Starting 01/21/2026, AI Companion features will be automatically enabled for your account." Zoom is planning to auto enable AI on all accounts in January. You CAN disable this tech now and you CAN click a setting to not auto-enable it in the new year. Check your Settings.

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

"Speaker Johnson, a member of your own caucus has denounced the president's Truth Social post and challenged anyone to defend it. What do you say?" [TooBusyToHaveSeenThatParticularComment.wav] "Oh, I thought so, that's why I have it right here for you."

You’re about to get brain surgery. Your surgeon is ‘inexperienced and unqualified’ Is That a Good Thing?

'All states and territories in Australia should review the legislation underpinning universities “to ensure the primacy of public research and education”, a Senate committee has said.' Very relevant to UK. 1/3

My heart goes out to the Brown University community who are sheltering in place, incl. my dear friend Mia Tretta, who balances being a Brown student & gun violence prevention advocate after being shot at her CA high school at age 15

“Most of us live off Hope” Ever true 💔

The shooting at Brown sounds terrible. Thinking of all the faculty and students. And I know how profoundly these events affect a campus.

Will it be ever thus?

The situation at Brown is very serious. We have multiple crews on scene and are continuously updating this story. www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...

I’m going to keep saying it: both the “male loneliness epidemic” and the techbro obsession with AI are, at their core, about a complete lack of distress tolerance for the messy business of relating to other people and a terror of vulnerability/interdependence.

Olive trees can live and bear fruit for centuries.

His corrupt desire to suppress dissent and violate the First Amendment by intervening in mergers is a direct attack on the rule of law and our fundamental democratic values.

Next Monday, the Prize Papers Talk is hitting new waters, as Eleonora Rohland's talk dives into climate history: The Doldrums is a belt-shaped weather phenomenon near the equator, where winds are very weak, trapping sailing ships inside. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

IT NEVER WORKS. NEVER. EVER. NEVER WORKS. IT HAS NEVER WORKED. AUSTERITY LEADS TO ENROLLMENT COLLAPSE LEAVES TO UNIVERSITY CLOSURE. EVERY TIME. ALWAYS.

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Not speaking about anyone in particular here. Generalizing. But: IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING “HOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.

If you're not already up on the latest "Black Death and the Volcano" story, this newsletter/blogpost is an excellent entry point. W/ bonus observations on how the scicomm industry works. And how it can work differently in the hands of skilled analysts like @killgrove.bsky.social. #MedievalSky

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Newborn hepatitis B vaccinations prevent acute AND chronic illness AND save lives. 90% of hepatitis B infections in kids become chronic hepatitis. Chronic hepatitis causes 60% of liver cancers. Hepatitis B is NOT just sexually transmitted, it’s spread through direct contact with bodily fluids. 1/

"Librarians teach students how to navigate databases, locate and interpret scholarly content, evaluate online information, and understand the ethics of research and citation. These are skills students carry into every discipline — and well beyond college." scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/12/02/g...

This whole thread. She needs to listen to the part of the old @npr.org Morning Edition potluck Thanksgiving when Julia Child arrives with the potatoes and discusses how much butter and cream should go into mashed potatoes.

Question for @hyundaiusa.com: Please settle a disagreement: should a plug-in hybrid take 3-4 miles to function in EV mode in cold weather? Or should it function in EV mode immediately in any weather?

Reading an article for a journal, and I realize I really am a social historian. I mean, sometimes peoples perceptions are are a response to what's happening, not just a mental landscape.

Trump has done so many worse things that tear down the East Wing of the White House but each time I'm reminded of it I revert to WTAF fuck mode and think he !!!!demolished the East Wing of the White House!!!

A movie about Anne of Cleves as the hero. She bravely escapes being married to Henry the VIII, doesn’t have to go back home to get remarried, and just lives her best fucking life in a castle for the rest of her life. She outlives them all.

“From the night of the massacre onward, Ms. Fletcher was never again able to sleep comfortably in a bed, she wrote… “When I sleep, it is never very deep or for very long because of the anxiety and the things I see,” she wrote. “Imagine having the same horrible nightmare every night for 100 years.”

One Small Guardrail Finally Held Up Against Trump talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/linds...

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“One thing that stuck out to me was [Bondi’s] insistence that we served at the pleasure of the president and that we were enforcing the president’s priorities. We swore an oath to uphold the Constitution.” #nokings

Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

The replies make it clear that the 5 is not beloved. It is helpful in getting from A to B, but it's generally miserable.

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

Some of the inflatable participants (and good signs) at Merced #NoKings

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

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Inflatable animals and eucharistic processions do different things and reach different audiences and communicate different messages and it's all important. This feels like one of those moments where people need to remember not everything is for them, specifically.

On 24th November I'll be giving a free talk in central London on the English Hospitallers in the countryside and all the feuds and fights they got into. #medievalsky www.orderofmalta.co.uk/events/chapt...

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