The word for this, kids, is fascism.

Is the irony of this posting not lost on anyone?

Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities.

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

Beyond Mike's very good thread I love this point because it highlights how bad ideas spread. Vanderbilt is qualitatively worse off because of this fella.

Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.

Posting this without (much) comment, but suffice to say that (1) I am not impressed with the justices' use of history (on either side), and (2) I worry greatly about the ideological priors of my field. #history #supremecourt #law www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

What the fuck is a Gugarati Muslim? I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?

Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know. nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...

My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com

me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.

TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:

In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing.

"Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad." That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming.

This is the argument that Jiseung Yoo and I have been making. Personalized learning presumes a theory of personhood, which most education (and especially AI-based education) utterly lacks. #education #philosophy #AI www.unesco.org/en/articles/...

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Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability. Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings. #literacies #iteachenglish #edusky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful

This article by @ykarenkwon.bsky.social is so important. Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).

Man on the street making his 10 seconds of airtime count🔥

Israeli sport psychologists have published a paper comparing the trauma experienced by *ISRAELI* athletes during the genocide to the experience of Covid. The focus of their 'intervention' is to mitigate "the impact of the current conflict on sports and athletes" in *Israel.* I kid you not.

If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.

Thanks to the Flathead (Montana) Beacon for sharing this essay about my dad, and federal policies we all depend on to live.

The Shryock Medal goes to the best histmed essay by a history grad student. Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Shryock Medal for her oustanding essay, “These ‘Children Won’t Become Women’: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service." Congrats, Emma!

This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...

I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group.

may he have painful and violent diarrhea

FT Alphaville is undefeated. The disdain for Altman is palpable and deserved.

Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong!

Pope Trolli VI

Happy to announce that I’m hanging up my shingle at Schotland Education! I focus on middle school and high school humanities and STEM tutoring, essays and personal statements, and test prep. If you happen to know anyone who could benefit, I’d be most appreciative 🙏 . www.schotlandeducation.com

I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12. 1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co. 2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require. & 3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵

On Richard Dawkins’s latest release, by @archivesrx.bsky.social

Could Florida’s attack on AP courses become a national trend? Advocates warn that legislation to slash funding for Advanced Placement could make educational disparities worse for already underrepresented Black students. wordinblack.com/2025/04/coul...

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

Thank you to Larry David for this artful, effective public rebuke of Bill Maher. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

For a sincere Catholic, having the frail, elderly Pope drag himself back from the brink of death to summon you to his office for remedial catechism would result in guilt so powerful that they would have to invent new physics to sound its depths.

TODAY! 170+ campus communities across the nation are building a powerful movement in defense of higher education and our democracy. See you out there!

Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new.

Happy to announce that I’m hanging up my shingle at Schotland Education! I focus on middle school and high school humanities and STEM tutoring, essays and personal statements, and test prep. If you happen to know anyone who could benefit, I’d be most appreciative 🙏 . www.schotlandeducation.com

Teacher training programs are changing, moving towards a model based in evidence that looks more like medical residency. Better preparation helps students but also helps teachers—giving them more confidence and making it more likely they'll stick w/teaching. www.the74million.org/article/trai...

Wherein the author (me) tries to use the limited tools of social media to question the concept of IQ, but instead finds a surprising number of ppl want to share their SAT scores. 🤦🏻🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏻🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏻 I think we need to be on the watch for eugenicist thought EVERYWHERE.