Wow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf2...

AI regurgitation is the new smoking

Apropos of hearing PhD students casually referring to using Ai to "brainstorm" or to do copy editing. You are killing your brain. Copy editing is an exercise. It makes you a better writer and a better thinker. And don't get me started on 'brainstorming with Ai'...🤦‍♀️ www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

On Weds 22 October, we visit historians at the University of Suffolk and Suffolk Archives, to discuss partnership working. Our Ipswich visit includes a guest public lecture by Tim Grady (Chester) and a reception to meet fellow historians and RHS members bit.ly/4medzcd All are welcome #Skystorians

3.27 — Our session on ‘The state of our bones: mortuary practices, taphonomy, and the conundrum of commingling’ continues now (6B); where Catherine Roberts et al. are ‘Testing the waters: The effect of deposition environment on dental diagenesis’ 🌊🦷🔬 #BABAO2025

Any journalist who signs is no longer a serious journalist. "Access" isn't everything.

What the hell, @ucddublin.bsky.social? electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.

"And as of March this year, V-Dem in Sweden said that 72% of the world is now under authoritarian rule, that we are electing illiberal leaders democratically because of insidious manipulation. So they go hand in hand, money and power." youtu.be/Tsb1I7hqaJ4?...

I hate this timeline.

#BABAO2025 Poster Sessions: 3 — ‘Biomolecular analyses in bioarchaeology’ 💀⚗️🧬

I can't get over how weird this photo is. I love that someone in England captioned it: "Darling, be a dear and DO click on the floor lamp."

🧵 Thread with my favourite quotes from: 📝 Guest, O., Suarez, M., Müller, B., et al. (2025). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/🧵

"AI technology is much more akin to a ouija board than anything else: promoting and enabling mysticism, pseudoscience, and pseudo-intellectualism …” zenodo.org/records/1706... 36/🧵

The findings “suggest that medical AI tools powered by LLMs have a tendency to not reflect the severity of symptoms among female patients, while also displaying less ‘empathy’ towards Black and Asian ones.”

This is gold 😆 Well done @thedailyshow.com! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

This is gold 😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health' A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 13 October #histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

… and highest among Christian nationalists.

An Artist and a Historian Plumb Gynecology’s Hidden Histories hyperallergic.com/1040688/arti...

"Vaccine advisers" should read "team of cranks and supplement peddlers."

🚨 IOF plans to bomb the archaeological magasins of @ebafjerusalem.bsky.social! Huge respect for + immense solidarity w all the 🇵🇸 colleagues risking their lives on the daily to save what remains of their archaeological heritage from 🇮🇱 rampage & theft www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Universities certainly are guilty of political violence, like when they called in hundreds of armed law enforcement agents last spring to forcibly shut down nonviolent student protests over Gaza, resulting in injured and traumatized stu- ... oh, is that not what she's talking about?

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

In a moment when the term “woke” is wielded either ironically or pejoratively, Ken Gonzales-Day’s art reminds us that caring about those who are different from us is really a thing of beauty.

It was an absolute honour to give a talk with the fabulous @anatomicalcat.bsky.social in collaboration with the also fabulous @drtrishbiers.bsky.social in a session chaired by none other than the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social ‘s Dawn Kemp, at #iammc2025!

This child was infected with measles before they were able to be vaccinated (under 12 months), likely from someone unvaccinated. They survived the infection but years later they’re dead. The risk of SSPE for an infant infected with measles is 1 in 600, & it’s 95% fatal. Your vaccine protects others

Tfw you see your fellow goths waltzing in the breakfast room at the hotel and know they’re here for the #medicalmuseumconference 😆🖤 #IAMMC2025 #gothsinmuseums #darkacademia #spookynerds

I find their pronunciation of 'intestines' particular upsetting tbh. Almost as bad as 'urinal'. (ftr; I work in a medical museum, these words come up on the daily 😬)

🚨🚨 Over 1,000 colleagues across Health and Human Services (HHS) have signed a letter demanding RFK Jr’s resignation. When your own staff lines up to say you’re bad at your job… that’s not “health freedom,” that’s just failure. #SaveHHS #DemandRFKJrResign #USAnotRFK

And it's live! www.history21.com/owit-module/...

An estimated 450,000 people have died because of the abrupt cuts to the United States Agency for International Development. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

EIR-SAT-1 will de-orbit in the next day or two following its successful mission. http://jrnl.ie/6806180

This is not the AI boom creating a new type of work, this is a classic example of managers using automation to deskill old ones. Creative workers who once made a higher wage creating original art and writing are now paid in piecework to edit automated output. Bosses are using AI to cut labor costs.

Great work from the team at Humanists UK! #Thatshumanism Narrated by Stephen Fry (another hero of mine), this set of videos and informative posters are a perfect introduction to a rational way of living and thinking. Enjoy! humanists.uk/thatshumanism/

‘In 2009, QR codes were already being described by experts as an “absolutely stone-age” way of interacting with digital content.’ Museums love QR codes but, as Will Wiles writes, perhaps it’s time to move on?

For years, crisis pregnancy centers have been at the forefront of the anti-abortion movement’s agenda to target women navigating unplanned pregnancies. Now, the state's reproductive rights advocates are flipping the script and have opened Arkansas's first pro-choice "crisis pregnancy center.”

New research shows the human pelvis didn’t evolve gradually—it flipped its growth pattern 90° and rewired bone formation. These shifts let our ancestors walk upright and birth big-brained babies. #HumanEvolution #Anthropology #Bipedalism

Nice.

Petition to remove the aristocratic title bit from 'landLORD' and 'landLADY" to remind them that tenants are not actually their subjects. Considering landhoarder, wage-sucker, or maybe rent-leech as alternatives, but they don't quite roll off the tongue 🤔 Suggestions welcome!

Btw, it is this very rise in eugenics being peddled as even halfway legit, that makes me think it's time to talk about anthropometric collections beyond the decolonisation perspective; as legacies of a vast research project that proved that the hypothesis of white supremacy is blatantly wrong.

Somehow, putting a deranged eugenicist with a brain parasite in charge of our health infrastructure has gone terribly wrong.

The Challenges of Online #Misinformation & Menopause journals.lww.com/greenjournal... by @drjengunter.bsky.social Social media exposes patients & MDs "to misleading terminology as well as products and services that are unsupported by the literature and guidelines or, in some cases, harmful."

"We get drivers that are bringing donors to us that are like, 'Oh, who are all these ladies?' We are not here for you to ogle at, we are scientists!" www.wired.com/story/your-n...

This 🧵is what happens when a medical history nerd is confronted with a meme like this one.

We're doomed.