A visa limited to just 4 years means that no international students could enroll in a history PhD program at a US university. Not to mention the postdocs and faculty who contribute so much to US higher education. Please let the federal government know what you think about this proposal! 🧵🗃️

Here we go! The Mershon Center @mershoncenter.bsky.social at THE Ohio State University is hosting the 2026 Summer Institute of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations @shafrhistorians.bsky.social - take a look, apply, all are welcome, open to advanced PhD candidate + early career🗃️

I just deleted my account from Academia.edu because they started generating AI slop - "podcasts" and "reviews" - based on my papers and profile. No notice, no message offering an opt-out. This is disgusting. FYI if you also don't want your intellectual property used for AI #academicsky #EDUsky

"Iran coordinated the attacks on the American air base in Qatar with Qatari officials and gave advanced notice that attacks were coming to minimize casualties, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the plans." - www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

Not only is this an almost impossible time to be an historian, structurally, it’s also a hugely morally distressing one. Our work is manipulated, defunded, and then ignored, and we sit here watching humanity do the same dumb shit over and over again. Thanks, I hate it.

Gift link wapo.st/3Z37N4G #skystorians #academicsky

Unhappy to confirm that the entire Historical Advisory Committee at the State Department received termination notices this afternoon (myself included). The HAC, set up by Congress, oversees the office that produces the FRUS series. history.state.gov/about/hac/in... 1/

@sinatoossi.bsky.social x.com/sima_sabet/s...

Delighted to share a piece I co-authored with @hdagres.bsky.social and Azadeh Pourzand on #Iran published this morning by @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/o...

Credible Redditors reporting The Institute of Museum & Library Services is being dismantled right now, 3/20 by DOGE at 955 L'Enfant Plaza. DHS is on-site to intimidate civil servants. No media coverage. Every library & museum system relies on these grants. Record & report if you’re in the area.

Meta used at least 16 of my books, and numerous articles, to help train the AI it will use to make billions. Authors, search your name here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

They’re just jealous. Brotherly Shove all the way! Go Birds! 🦅

For others unfamiliar with this tradition: www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1...

Go birds

Anyway, Philadelphia is the greatest city on the planet

The Eagles are headed to the Super Bowl. Here’s everything you need to know.

“am not arguing that the humanities should adopt scientific norms, but that they should have the financial means to complement, contest, or rival science in explaining people, societies, and cultures. To do this properly today, they need a step-function increase in funding.”

Thread: A great photo essay by NPR on #Iran's Bakhtiari tribe. Enayat Asadi, the photojournalist, lived with the nomadic tribe for a month to capture their rich culture. The piece also captures the outsized role played by women in this community. www.npr.org/sections/goa... 1/3

A permanent job in US History post-1865 in a great department 🗃️: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHC426/a...

Attention K-12 teachers in San Francisco - attend the AHA for free! #sschat

Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 is a searchable database of 60 years of Chicago Homicide reports. Stumbled across this doing research on detective agencies and it is really useful! #c19th #c20th #crime 🗃️ homicide.northwester...

The largest library in the UK and one of the biggest in the world has effectively been turned into a cafe and gift shop indefinitely. Extraordinary this hasn’t been a bigger story.

This @slate.bsky.social piece by @isaacbutler.bsky.social is so fascinating! I didn't watch Melrose Place the first time around, but now I want to watch it like a Where's Waldo book. slate.com/culture/2023...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman on the high court, has died at age 93.

Everyone, but especially those who care about & value higher ed, should be watching the cuts, firings, consolidations at so many universities and colleges, humanities so often on the chopping block: Miami University considers cutting 18 majors facing low enrollment www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...