I saw a presentation today that pointed to problems with the costs of AI (clearly extracting resources is its goal) but reframing around this question is essential: who owns the AI dividend

There is a suit against Trump to prevent him from painting the stone-exterior Eisenhower Executive Office Building white. That structure is not much beloved but at least shows off its expensive quarried wall materials, which are low-maintenance and require only repointing and cleaning.

i really do love reading my undergrad public history students’ final self reflective essays on how their understanding of the field and their goals has shifted throughout the semester. it is a true joy and important to remind myself about, especially when so much can drain the joy from teaching

just watching ds9 again. someday i’ll get off of the comfort rewatch train and watch some of the great new shows out there, but today is not that day

i know we can increase voter percentage over last year! have you voted yet, ncph members?

Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.

No one in my Bluesky circle needs to hear this, but Black history is American history. The Greensboro lunch counter is a place where brave Americans defended freedom and equality against bigotry. It represents my patriotism; it is patriotic to demand and shape an America that lives up to its ideals.

Also on 4/30! "A Conversation with Harry S. Truman Library and Museum Director Mark Adams" at 6pm ET. Join Mark Adams for a conversation about #PublicHistory jobs and museum education. Register at community.ncph.org/events/Event.... #Museums #PublicHistoryJobs #MuseumEducataion

i’ve been excited for this keynote and two minutes in, Dr. Tara White has me tearing up. talking solidarity at #NCPH2025 “until i close my eyes, i’ll be doing history”

if you haven't been to the MEM yet, entrance is free with your NCPH badge! They are open late tonight as well #NCPH2025 their website: memmtl.ca/en/

join us for our working group this morning in drummond west: Public Historians, Empathetic People: Building Humane Leadership and Work Cultures #NCPH2025

post lunch session on Climate History/Climate Hope #s16 #NCPH2025, starting with temp check about who has experienced climate events, do audiences and colleagues ask/discuss issues?

settling in to my first official #NCPH2025 session — #s27 on queer oral history and the archives; lots of questions to discuss, even more than when the session was proposed

anyone created an #NCPH2025 feed yet? to be clear i don’t know how to do that lol

The historic preservation field has adopted a specific advocacy approach, but as Brad White questioned - is it the right approach? Is this the approach we should continue to utilize as threats to cultural heritage work emerge? #HistoricPreservation #PublicHistory www.sarahmarsom.com/news/2025/2/...

Once again, please immediately stop feeding your cats any raw food— no raw milk, no raw meat. This includes commercial diets, homemade diets, and freeze dried raw treats and meal toppers

i’m really going to need every weekday to stop feeling like some horrible combo of both monday and friday vibes at the same time. i can’t take it

hi, are you doomscrolling? So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.

P.S. There are avian flu outbreaks in many countries right now, and yet most (I did not say “all” because I haven’t done a survey of the 100+ countries with outbreaks) do not have the runaway egg prices that we are seeing. This is illegal price fixing. It’s just happening in the US.

I wish more people were talking about egg prices as less of a “muh egg prices!” thing and more about the fact that there is an organized egg cartel that is illegally price gouging and almost certainly illegally price fixing and reaping massive, gigantic profits.

spending today (and last night) at boone docs, a festival of southern appalachian short documentaries. if you’re looking to deepen ties in your community, i highly recommend attending a similar event near you

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

watching a sport and that guy shows up and they keep featuring him. just a note to stations, i’m switching off every time this happens

Hey #HistSTM #HistSci colleagues - got someone looking for intro texts on non-western contributions to western science (and their erasure/appropriation) through ancient/early modern period & on decolonising the story of the scientific revolution etc. pls offer reading recommendations! 📇

The new Trump administration has illegally removed far more people from their jobs because of speech and beliefs in the last month than the entire list of cancelled or pressured people (many of whom were criticized, not fired) compiled by FIRE and others over years. It’s not remotely close.

What we’re seeing is not the pendulum swinging back toward the right after the left went too far. We’re seeing a moral panic, a society-wide assault on a phantom leftist who wants to ban Dr. Seuss and arrest you for using the wrong pronouns and put kitty litter boxes in classrooms.

I don’t remember mass action from STEM folks when Jeff Sessions attacked the NEH in 2015 and I’m still mad about it. But. That’s not gonna stop me fighting for the NIH and NSF.

#OnTyranny #Resist #DoNotObeyInAdvance Source: "On Tyranny" by @timothysnyder.bsky.social

just makes me want to weep. i can’t stop thinking about all of the federal employees and the important jobs they do

it is wild to me that people still genuinely believe that organizations or even individuals can be apolitical. i’m a baby gen x-er who grew up working class, and all of my education has taught me otherwise

Targeting trans people, Black people, immigrants etc is not a “distraction” from fascism, it IS fascism. It lives in complementary relationship to destroying democracy, because democracy is inherently about participation of minorities.

genuine question—people are resigning in protest of some federal orders, but would it not be better for some (if they have the privilege and i know that’s a big if) to stay and just not follow orders that are illegal? i’m seeing people calling these resignations a win, and i’m not sure i see it?

i’m looking forward to this one too! congrats @hngreen.bsky.social!

The removal of a transgender reference from the National Park Service’s Stonewall website wasn’t done by NPS staff. Elon, care to elaborate?

ASL interpreters who work in the arts (concerts, opera, theatre, etc) deserve to be valued as artists too. it takes so much skill to be this good at capturing the FEEL of music beyond just translating the meaning of the text and it’s an invaluable accessibility service

Same, Bus. Same.

while watching, i said, even if people aren’t into the music; they can’t deny this is art—just look at it!

no crypto commercials. replaced by ai commercials. no other parallels, huh?

genuine question here, because i’ve missed this somehow—when did congress’s right to set tariffs move to the exec branch? i know it has happened over time but now the exec can just say: “tariffs,” and they happen immediately? or is this a blustery longer term plan?

There are countless oil and gas leases sitting unused on the market because even corporations don’t want to drill. Keep your hands off our public lands. #FactsMatter

my students are shocked to learn in an introvert and i’ve worked hard to be comfortable in the classroom

i thought if there was a chance any of these noms would be stopped, it was defense, though i knew that was a slim one

sunday scaries that last all weekend in spite of the horrors in the world? must be the weekend before classes start

fun lil weekend activity for ncph members—vote in this year’s elections! voting closes wednesday & we want you to choose folks that support your vision of the org! members have voting links in their email 🗃️ #skystorians #PublicHistory #ncph

if you’re headed to #NCPH2025 in a couple of months, have you voted in this year’s @ncph.bsky.social elections? take a few minutes to dig out that email and vote!

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

ok but the last two eps of lower decks were basically perfect #startrek #lowerdecks

gasp. rude

i’ve finished my most recent #tng rewatch and today was mentally very tough, so obviously i’m now watching the emissary #ds9