So thrilled to announce that the Community Histories Lab (co-directed by Marco Ramos and I) has been awarded a Digital Justice Seed Grant to build the People’s Health Archive of New Haven!

The letter comes after the U.S. Department of Justice accused the Yale School of Medicine of illegally discriminating against white and Asian applicants.

The AAUP, AFT Connecticut, and the national AFT call on Yale University to reject any negotiated settlement with the Trump administration that would compromise academic freedom, shared governance, due process, or institutional independence. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

Fellow Yalies, the Yale College Council has put up a petition for us to sign to tell the university not to cave to Trump! Get on it!!! actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

🚨🚨URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Calling ALL Yale Students, Alumni, Faculty, and Staff!!🚨🚨 According to The New York Times, Yale has reportedly entered settlement discussions with the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations involving admissions at the Yale School of Medicine.

Consider joining one (or several!) of the big, national membership groups consistently pushing back against fascism in the US. A few for your consideration: @indivisible.org @demsocialists.bsky.social @workingfamilies.org

This picture speaks VOLUMES

SCOTUS had me in a chokehold this morning and I kinda hate it

The Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab is the Institute for Advanced Study is seeking an 18-month Civic Science Fellow. PhD in social sciences, humanities or sciences and experience w/ research and writing on the social & democratic implications of AI. jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/679200/c...

Grateful to @chrisgeidner.bsky.social and @lawdorknews.bsky.social for keeping us informed of the nightmares!

Historians of science (particularly antiquity), come through!

Go work at my alma mater!

I really need Muppet Les Miserables

This is aggressively accurate and I feel attacked lol

We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship

Get in loser, we're going to AAHM

This!! As @nccomfort.bsky.social has told me for years, clear writing is clear thinking

I followed these instructions to comment on the new proposed (disatrous) OMB rule - super helpful! Please take the time to write a specific, personal comment!!!

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

🚨”Presidents of University of Texas System universities can more easily eliminate academic programs and cut faculty positions in “extraordinary” circumstances, after UT System Regents approved a policy change Thursday.” www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Take action by May 26. The NIH is accepting public comments on its FY 2027–31 Strategic Plan. Tell the NIH to support the National Library of Medicine through investment in research infrastructure, digitization and preservation, and stewardship of medical history. Submit comments:

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-...

If you do one thing today, do this: @nationalbailout.bsky.social

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.

Want to hear me talk/rant about eugenics? Come through!

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