The second Starter Pack includes #History societies and associations working internationally beyond the UK and Ireland go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc. Please share, and let us know recommendations for both the UK & Ireland and RoW packs so we can further develop these lists. Thank you. #skystorians

Our third Starter Pack for historians lists institutes and research centres based in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm This now includes over 90 centres with BlueSky accounts. We also welcome recommendations for additions to this pack. #skystorians

In honor of women’s history month, the biographical database Orlando is open access. Wish I’d found out sooner, but good to know. view.updates.cambridge.org?qs=02674e9ef...

Since joining BlueSky we've been building a Starter Pack to highlight the work of fellow historical societies and associations. We've now reached our 150 limit, so have divided the list into 2 packs: the first covers societies in the UK and Republic of Ireland go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd ... #skystorians

Navigating a Troubled Funding Landscape for Development in Southeast Asia: Panel Talk 📅 18 March 2025 🕗 5:30- 7:00 pm 📍 SEA Junction, 4th floor, BACC Please read ➡️https://seajunction.org/event/navigating-a-troubled-funding-landscape-for-development/ #funding #USAID #civilsociety #southeastasia

This IS the norm.

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

I wish I could repost this more than once.

Can confirm, having gone through the process recently myself. Folks, if you don’t know much about these processes, seriously, get to know and talk to someone who is experiencing it. It’s incredibly frustrating to listen to conversations by folks who have no idea what it entails.

The Guardian view on Modi redrawing India’s electoral map: deepening a dangerous north-south divide| Editorial

Stand Up for Science Burlington, Vermont

If we lived in a world that was half just, this would be the official leader of the Democratic Party.

BREAKING: In response to our lawsuit, the National Endowment for the Arts will no longer force grant applicants to certify that they won't promote "gender ideology." This is a big step toward defeating the NEA's unconstitutional censorship.

This is it, right here. They have always hated us, and your compliance only increases their contempt for you.

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!

1. Today, powerful speeches from trans representatives in Montana SJ Howell and Zooey Zephyr flipped 29 Republicans, killing anti-trans bills. While some Dems like Newsom abandon trans people, these reps show the power of representation. Watch their speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

You know what I think the worst part of this might be??? That the “fighters” we’re supposed to “choose” from in this headass meme are largely WOC who the party doesn’t ACTUALLY BACK UP in any fights. AOC is in a unique position as resented token for the party’s left AND WOC and that’s it.

Me, this morning.

An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

Some things never change. For instance, UK universities decimating education, restructuring and running unis like businesses. Same story 10 years ago when I was part of UK academia. Join @ucu.org.uk.

“If the BBC or John Lewis was cutting 5,000 or 6,000 jobs, we’d hear all about it but what we’re seeing in universities isn’t being noticed//…//.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Eye bleach

why does this look like the behind the scenes of the trolley problem

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

Maybe stop voting to confirm his nominees

@liasciortino.bsky.social Hi Lia! Lovely to see you here. We worked together in Bangkok a few years ago with Rebecca. Hope you are well!

There it is.

Excellent post

More pro-life actions unfolding

I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.

"Harvard University has laid off its staff in the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, the unit of its $100 million Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative tasked with identifying the direct descendants of those enslaved by Harvard affiliates."

I am seeing cancellation of similar initiatives at other higher ed institutions as well.

cool how Judith Butler said the gender critical movement is ideologically incapable of offering resistance to the coming fascism and got pilloried for using big words, and now official GC organisations are releasing statements of support for Trump's first acts as returning president

Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)

Sunday’s Zoom with @hcrichardson.bsky.social was full of wisdom on how to navigate 2025—focus on what you can control, find your people, and never stop learning. So, what’s your game plan to make it through the year?

I want to see how universities are responding to this.

NIH funding supports the vast majority of all biomedical research in the United States. Virtually every advance in American medicine and biological science comes from NIH. This is a blow against American science. Call Congress, 202-224-3121.

Trump has signed an executive order eliminating all funding for diversity and inclusion in the federal government, sending home DEI staff who will then be laid off. The historical echo for this is when Woodrow Wilson resegregated the federal government in 1913. We have reached the second nadir.

A lot of public universities will not survive the Trump administration—or, in Canada, the coming Poilievre government, which has promised to do much the same thing.

Today’s #photo. Your literal moment of #zen. #photography #Buddha #calm #serene #peaceful

It’s going to be great to see all those Asian Americans who have been silent on genocide become very vocal about citizenship and belonging (to a nation that endorsed genocide).

Hats off to all who have dedicated themselves to exposing the facts of that dreadful day. Your work has mattered, still matters, & will matter. Don’t despair.

I’ve done the same. Her work is a must read.

The cruelty is the point.

These executive orders on banning federally funded entities from recognizing trans people or disallowing them from using the bathroom are not self-executing or immediately enforceable. They require formal rule making at a minimum. They are a scare tactic. Ignore and do not comply in advance.