The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

Submit comments by May 26 to support the National Library of Medicine! www.historians.org/news/action-...

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Infuriating

Well this is just eugenics (I use this meme way too often lately)

Many papers applauded the decision

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

Well this is not great

The Yale AAUP calls on the university to reverse its recent layoffs of adjunct faculty- "If Yale is serious about rebuilding trust, it must value the people and practices that sustain the undergraduate education by which it distinguishes itself." - Dan HoSang and Sandro Gomez @aaup.org

Watching Bill Clinton apologize on TV for USPHS Syphilis Study at Tuskegee with my grandma when I was 9. She said "this is Black history, you need to know what they did to us."

Come through to see the @nursingclio.bsky.social crew talk about the history contraception!

Sooooo eugenics to fix AI? Sounds like beginning of a mediocre dystopian sci-fi movie....

Fangirling @dorothyjberry.bsky.social so much right now!!

On April 22 some of our fantastic editors and contributors for The Nursing Clio Reader will be talking at the Dittrick Medical History Centre. It’s available on Zoom too! artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upc...

On this day in 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed while standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis. Dr. King was there supporting an economic protest by Black sanitation workers.

The NSF 2027 budget has noted that they will close out the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science Program (SBE). This is not a good thing. nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/FY-202...

This thread has me WHEEZING 🤣🤣

In October, I wrote about why spectacles of mass defiance are important, even as they are only the first step towards more concerted & militant efforts. Today is no different. #NoKings

1 Just passed through security at La Guardia. ICE entirely doing security! 100% of ID and identity checks done by ICE…Truly icky and dystopian. Some thoughts.

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I would fight someone for fries from Sweet 27 in Baltimore! @jowiph.bsky.social knows what I'm talking about

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

I'm a historian of eugenics and this is 100% correct

Today in eugenics

FELLOWSHIP ALERT: If you are faculty at an HBCU working on race, indigeneity, and/or transnational migration and you want to spend a semester at Yale next year (in a research center with me!) please apply! I cannot recommend RITM highly enough.

Trump’s bombing of Iran is reckless and a direct threat to American and Iranian lives. Launching military strikes without congressional authorization or evidence of an imminent threat is not strength. It is an abuse of power. Tell your Members of Congress to put an immediate stop to this war.

We're up over 3,000 letters sent. Can we get more than 5,000 letters sent to Senators opposing Casey Means' nomination for Surgeon General? Please sign and send a letter to your Senators now by clicking below! actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo... @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker This was never about woman's sports

McSweeneys is undefeated

The 3 million-plus people applying for immigration status changes will now be required to provide the government with their social media handles. This expansive new requirement poses a serious threat to constitutional rights. bit.ly/4aE5uKa

I didn't know I needed this

As a Hopkins alum, this is aggressively accurate

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

This is so awful! I did a lot of Model UN in high school and was an IR major in undergrad, and I used the CIA World Factbook a LOT for research. I hope it's backed up somewhere!

*screams in history of science*

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

I'm in this picture

The US Department of Health and Human Services will recommend fewer vaccines for most American children, a move that health experts fear could lead to a resurgence of preventable diseases. https://cnn.it/44UZM4B

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

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Well this is fantastic! I kinda want to play along but I also don't want to lol Happy New Year! Here's hoping there's less *gestures wildly at everything*

I won't lie, this was a tough year for democracy. But we enter 2026 with hope and optimism for the year ahead. I wish you all a happy and healthy new year.

So heinous! This would be a good time to donate to Planned Parenthood

RFK Jr.'s legacy is a sea of tiny coffins in the US and internationally. Every day he remains in office, the harm he causes grows. Call your representative — it's time Congress impeaches and removes RFK Jr. standupforscience.net/impeach-rfkjr

*laughs in comprehensive exams*

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