five shows to get to know me: ▪︎arrested development ▪︎the apothecary diaries ▪︎community ▪︎killing eve ▪︎star trek: tng

We're searching for nominations for a Treasurer for 2027–9 who needs to be a U.S. citizen, and resides in the U.S. Please nominate by April 10: www.4sonline.org/4s_nominatio...

J.D. Vance's "Ain't I A Woman?" is going to be a real coup de grace.

Every story has a quote left on the cutting room floor. For this one, it's this: Me: The U.S. has sequenced 1000 measles genomes from our outbreak. Virologist @eddieholmes.bsky.social: "This is 2026! There shouldn't be 1000 measles genomes. That's disastrous." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"A man would shelter, if he could in the nook behind this new plywood. The building, abandoned, the man is too. How I wish you'd imagine if that it were you" Seen in Rochester, New York

It takes SIXTEEN paragraphs for the New York Times to mention why the administration wanted to destroy nearly $10 million in contraception: It's because they claim the stockpile of IUDs, birth control pills, and hormonal implants are “abortifacient birth control.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...

#NewStudy: In a survey of 6,500+ college students, 36% of respondents were food insecure, while 20% were nutritionally insecure. Rates were significantly higher among students with low income, housing instability, and/or a higher number of dependents. #FoodPolicy 🔗: www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/18...

ICYMI: Boosting for the weekend crew. 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #academicsky

Some MA funding at Leeds School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science! #Masters #HistSci #Theology #PhilSci #skystorians

Care as infrastructure. Not charity, not kindness, not a nice-to-have. Infrastructure. Like roads. Like water. The reframe is everything.

This photo.

If you think protesting will be ineffective, can you imagine how ineffective NOT protesting would be?

be honest: I can't be the only academic writer still googling "i.e. vs e.g." every proofread just to be triple sure I've used the right one #firstgen #gradlife confession of the day

And for our last offering of Season 1, we present to you the other side of the academic debate between "transgender" and "transsexual": Which one is more subversive and radical, and which is bourgeois and regressive @juliaserano.bsky.social figures out the true answer with us!

📣 BSHS Outreach & Engagement Project Grants Have an idea for sharing #HistSci with wider audiences? We offer grants of up to £500 to support creative engagement projects — from events to collaborations with museums or heritage sites. Next deadline is May 15, 2026! bshs.org.uk/oec/#project...

I just learned about something called recency bias. It's my favorite thing ever.

A wonderful thread. 🧵

There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it) (inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston) williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t... 🗃️

Dear all at #STS sky! Last week we published the Winter 2026 issue of EASST Review, which comes accompanied by an EASST website renewal. You can find the entire issue here: easst.net/easst-review...

A particularly nasty one: some store brands of vinegar are now less acidic (4% vs the standard 5%), making them unsafe for pickling or canning. You have to look carefully at the label to be sure. news.vt.edu/articles/202...

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

Meta losing in court *and* OpenAI shutting down Sora??? But it's not even my birthday… 🥹

***Register for the Third IEHS-IHRC Joint Event*** The IEHS and the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) are pleased to cohost their third joint event, “The Founding of the United States and Immigration History,” on Tuesday, March 31, 4:30-6:00 p.m. EST. cla.umn.edu/ihrc/news-ev...

What were the contents used for? According to Culpeper's Complete Herbal, "[Fern] roots bruised and boiled in oil, or hog’s grease, make a very profitable ointment to heal wounds, or pricks gotten in the flesh"

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #MathSky #SciSky #HistSci #FoodSky #BookSky #womenwriters #cookbooks #cooking #food #WHM2026

watching a 15 second commercial to access a 5 second YouTube video so I can be triple sure I'm pronouncing "episteme" correctly in a talk 😬 #firstgen #gradlife problems

feeling very proud of myself after finally discovering that toggling between two Google accounts is the easiest way to swap regions in their app store. glad that only took 3 years 😅

"The main objective of the club was to seek and eat ‘strange flesh’ and chow down upon the rarest ‘birds and beasts which were before unknown to human palate’. The club met weekly and was a roaring success." Ever amazing how far back the classed roots of culinary distinction run...

"the fact that it takes three clicks to reach says something about how much Google wants you to find it."

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...

Incredibly funny that I’m not the only one to think this. Even funnier that it’s a belief held within the Vatican.

This is what I was hoping to see from influencers and independent journalists who traveled to Cuba. The impacts of U.S. actions aren't getting the attention they deserve in mainstream media. My people are being ignored in the U.S. news.

I re-released as an hour ling special an episode I did a couple of years ago about Persian Food History and Culture today. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

Another "elephant" of the past, this time from Johann Hartlieb’s Kräuterbuch (Book of Herbs), dating from the middle of the 15th century. #skystorians

For researchers: a useful list of techniques to sharpen your googling. h/t @alondra.bsky.social #skystorians #histsci #histmed #histtech

6/ Pregnancy is the only condition where Florida courts have ruled that a mentally competent patient can be forced to undergo unwanted treatment. It’s rooted in the concept of fetal personhood: that a fetus has equal and, in some cases, more rights than the woman sustaining it.

"In 2025 alone—a single calendar year—state legislatures considered 1,059 anti-LGBTQ bills, of which 111 were enacted into law. The number of anti-LGBTQ laws enacted in 2025 alone exceeds the total number of anti-miscegenation statutes that were ever on the books across all 41 states combined."

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

DEADLINE EXTENDED to the 31 March 2026! Join our PGRs and ECRs in Montpellier this autumn to discuss the theme of 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' #skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #PGR #ECR #CFP

*taps sign* China is a real place with actual people and policies, not somewhere for you to project your feelings about the United States onto.

Okay, all the obvious “wtf” stuff aside, this isn’t even what they say it is? (Good or popular) writers are not guaranteed to be good editors. In fact, most of them are good & popular because of a good editor. So it’s not offering “editing” advice. It is telling you how to mimic the writer.

Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”

A six-year-old student at the California School for the Deaf-Fremont has been reunited with his communication devices after being deported to Columbia last week.

Now out: How did earthquakes come to have a (quantitative) size? How can we quantify without experimental control? @cristianlarph.bsky.social and I answer both questions and show their implications for human science measurement. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #philsci #histsci #seismology

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

Man. The world fucking is on fire. So go be as corny and cringe as you wanna be without hurting people. Live whats left of your only life. If you can’t be free in your body at least go be free in your mind and soul. Fuck the haters.

In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says: "In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism." "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI" by Rua M. Williams

23 year old Ruben Ray Martinez’s last words? “I’m sorry sir”. ICE shot him 3 times and killed him. Renee Good’s last words? “It’s ok I’m not mad”. Alex Pretti’s last words? “Are you ok?” These are the people DHS calls domestic terrorists. Threats. Aggressors. Abolish ICE

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