American Journal of Public Health series on Ultraprocessed Foods: My Editorial The American Journal of Public Health has just published a series of papers on ultraprocessed foods to which I contributed this editorial.  These papers are released today as part of the launch of new initiative, Fed…

In Shanxi, the Yongle Palace Murals turn Daoist heaven into a world you can almost enter. Across more than 1,000 square meters, Yuan dynasty painters filled the temple walls with gods, immortals, musicians, attendants, and traces of ordinary life. Lu Dongbin 1/3 #Daoism #art

Please join our experimental workshop @warburginstitute.bsky.social on the global history of science this Thursday: Beyond Strategic Essentialism: Reimagining Global Knowledge through Asian Universalities 🕑 4 Jun 2026 14:00-17:00 British Summer Time  📍London & Online 🗃️ #C19th #History #HistSci

The first-ever Scientific American Summer Reading Challenge is here! 📚☀️ All summer long, we’re reading nonfiction deep dives, page-turning thrillers, and fiction that sparks scientific curiosity. (1/2) #SciAmReading #SciAmSummerReading

At the start of my terrorism studies course, I ask students what most terrorists have in common. They always say: 1- Mental illness 2- Religion. They are, of course, wrong. The two most common traits of violent extremists are: 1- Gender 2- History of domestic violence and online mysogyny.

Republicans say James Talarico ordered a vegan taco. Democrats say that it wasn't vegan because it had both egg and cheese—doubling down on the cultural elitism that has cost them so dearly in recent elections.

I, a philosopher of disability with a disability, tend to tell my students in Disability Studies that any benefits disabled people get from "innovations" by tech bros is purely accidental and an epiphenomena of their capitalist intentions. They'd eliminate us all if they could.

(totally still, jaw slack, eyes vacant, coming out of multi-hour reverie) i don't know enough about the 1600's

A reminder that The Broken Machine is available open access through @mitpress.bsky.social Direct to Open platform. You can access it here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon.... #sts #histtech #histsci

AI is created from and reflects a world where systemic sexism already exists … what’s it called again … of yeah, patriarchy … so an inbuilt function/impact of AI is to reproduce patriarchy (other biases, racism, classism, etc will also be inbuilt). Welcome to the brave new world-same as the old one!

The American Historical Association urges historians, researchers, educators, and advocates for preservation of and access to historical records to speak out in support of the National Library of Medicine (NLM). #histmed #skystorians www.historians.org/news/action-...

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

Reading this extraordinary book now. Got it from the library. If you aren’t reading U.S. history written by Black Women, you should ask yourself why you’re reading U.S. history at all. I can’t recommend this highly enough. 10/10 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. #BookSky

You won't want to miss this deep dive into the porno-political memeplex that has colonized the right. Cameron Cummins-Smith gives us essentially an explainer, but one that is so necessary because this stuff is so embarrassing to think about, let alone write about.

This is brilliant: the re-introduction of beavers in the nature reserve next door has basically eliminated flooding at Greenford station on the Central Line. They could perhaps now set the furry engineers to work on getting the station’s inclined lift to work more reliably.

Did I do it right?

Web history disappears when it can’t be preserved. Today, many publishers are blocking the Wayback Machine from archiving parts of the public web, putting decades of digital history at risk. Tell publishers: don’t block the #WaybackMachine Sign the petition ➡️ www.savethearchive.com/newsleaders/

Plus the all-important "Oxford" branding. As Christina and Gideon say, this isn't science. And there's no law against any random outfit calling itself "The Oxford Institute of Clever Stuff".

“The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1973)

do solo acts and DJs count as bands? and is it weird that years later I'm still salty about missing a P-funk show bc it was 21 and up? Red Elvises Neil Young & Ben Harper Throwing Muses RJD2 Tori Amos Pam the Funkstress Ani DiFranco Pearl Jam Deadmau5 & Justice Cake

I am not remotely a lawyer, but I think if you agree to review a manuscript for a press and then feed that manuscript into AI without the permission of the author, the author should be allowed to sue you into poverty.

you want people to learn “knife skills?” the thing murderers use???

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

Jailed in Taipei on trumped up treason charges, a young woman judiciously wrote to her family in Tainan, producing a prolific 68 letters over the course of 19 months behind bars. Although two Christmases came and went, the 30-year-old hoped to be reunited with family by the next liturgical feast.

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

The perpetuation of AI hype and boosterism is predicated on easy compliance. Refusal -- individually and collectively -- matters.

Read the headline. And now read the subhed. This is why every college/university needs to ramp up their teaching in global history, w/ a HUGE component of food domestication history. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

"Only about 12 percent of trustees at American colleges & universities have professional experience in higher education. If it seems odd to imagine 88% of the directors at, say, investment banks having no particular expertise in investment banking, that is the situation in the field of higher ed."

A job in the global history of science at UCL. FT, permanent, starting at £54k, closing early June. A rare post in this area and a great department from what I hear. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP512/l...

I'm in the homestretches of dissertation and every month my heart sinks feeling that my fully bespoke, painstakingly original thought and human edited prose are relics of bygone days. But I'd rather be slow and steady than a talentless clown willing to outsource my own intellectual labor. 🐢

"The decline of faculty governance and the corresponding ascendancy of corporate dominance of higher ed undermines the long-repeated canard about radical dominance of the university."

“99.2% of GPS patients who received gender-affirming medical care continue to identify as transgender into adulthood. Of the remaining 0.8%, most did not regret the medical treatment they received.” This is why transphobes are terrified of youth care, and why youth care should be legal everywhere.

Do you have a copy of the contract language? Can faculty demand it (or use open records stat)? The OpenAI contracts are full of conditions that no sober university counsel could accept. I can share our detailed analysis with you/your faculty governance. See also this thread/paper more generally.

As a legume connoisseur, I approve this, but : 1) yet another sign of a recession damn near depression because they don't gaf about our health 2) beans are becoming more expensive because agriculture, climate, tariffs, etc. Now add demand (yaay/booo). Also, follow #BeanSky & share bean thoughts. 🫘

Live now: 24 hour ‘filibuster’ reading of the Epstein files. Part protest, part fundraiser (for RAINN & World Without Exploitation), the marathon seeks to apply pressure to investigate the crimes and allegations in the files. I’ll be reading at 9am tomorrow. epsteinfilibuster.com

this is a cat checkpoint. relinquish the most recent cat photo on your phone.

📢 Call for Abstracts 2nd International Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Technology 📍 Maastricht University 🗓 Oct 26–28, 2026 Theme: National and Cultural Traditions in the Philosophy of Technology 📅 Deadline: May 25, 2026 #philtech #histtech fasos-research.nl/history-of-p...

"208 agricultural projects across 52 countries, involving 9 million farmers, found yield increases of 50-100 percent for various food staples, including cassava, sweet potato, millet, maize and sorghum, when environmentally sensitive agricultural techniques were applied."

I really like this advertisement for 廣益書局 at the back of the 元亨療馬集, which lists the types of books they publish and where their offices are situated. Using writing utensils as a backdrop frames this dry information quite playfully! #ChinaBooks #Sinology

#Job Postdoctoral Associate in Intersectional Feminist STS at Yale Univ Preferred focus areas: critical computing/artificial intelligence studies; labor and automation technologies; medicine/alternative medicine; chronic illness and/or disability studies. #sts #histsci #philsci tinyurl.com/mpksedcv

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

There are 119 issues of the 1892-1898 journal 家庭雑誌 (there is more than one journal with that name) on Internet Archive for reading and download. archive.org/search?query...

it's Friday Night

"Three postdoctoral positions on early history of smallpox and meales on the current Wellcome funded project 'Pustules, Palaeogenetics and Pandemics from Galen to Rhazes: How to do the Early History of Smallpox and Measles’, (PI Professor Rebecca Flemming)." Only 5 days left! #histsci #histmed […]

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

there's something so gutting about how she got the world we all wanted so bad, the one we're fighting to create for the younger generation - an early transition supported by a loving family and circle of friends - and then got cut down anyway

When people tell me to get over institutionalization, that it was so long ago, I want you to realize that while the boxes for disabled children in this story are unique, solitary confinement is not. Physical assault is not.