Brigitte Bardot, trente ans de sympathie pour l’extrême droite share.google/AoVYJOl2EkE2...

🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/12/democrat-lawmakers-fight-cancellation-of-alabama-student-magazines-over-dei-policy.html??utm_campaign=aldotcom_sf&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky  Two Alabama members of Congress are weighing in on the cancellation of two college student publications.

Irving Penn's journey to legendary photographer for Vogue forever changed the way we see clothing.  Fashion Conservatory: Preserving fashion’s past for future generations. #FashionConservatory #IrvingPenn #FashionPhotography #FashionHistory #FashionPhotograper #20thcenturyphotography

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film ‘Stars and Screen’ #Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026 Proposals Due: February 1, 2026 starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call... #CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

Gender & Women's Studies at UW-Madison is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in gender/sexuality and aging! We are particularly interested in focusing on health/aging at the intersection of sex, gender, & sexuality. Deadline: Nov 11! For more information and to apply, please visit

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review share.google/MfcwWLxzmCJs...

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. By @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social, w/ @adn.com

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

PBS News is not going anywhere. We will continue our work without fear or favor, as we have for nearly five decades on the air. We are profoundly grateful to Viewers Like You for your loyalty and unwavering support.

Ok this is bad. Legitimately really bad.

📢 Calling all researchers! Women's History Scotland offers a Research Bursary to support work on women’s and gender history in Scotland. 📝 Applications close 31 May 2025 – don't miss out! 🔗 Apply here: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... #WomensHistory #ScotHist #ResearchFunding

The University of Alabama College Democrats announced Beto O'Rourke as the speaker of their anti-Trump protest Thursday. My latest for @al.com . www.al.com/politics/202...

🩺 MedSky 🩺 President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health (NIH) effort centered on the health needs of women.

The reaction from Brandon Vick, president of the UA Democrats, comes after Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth, in a social media post, said the college organization’s reaction to the president’s visit was akin to a “childish tantrum.”

photos.app.goo.gl/9x1ET6xiwp82... "UA is not a fascist playground."

Sent today! You can too!

Hey, Congress, please stop the people with no authority to do this from doing this.

Higher ed leaders: Do Not Capitulate. They will not stop coming for you. We must fight to defend American higher education. We must resist.

Are you a history professor who has been pressured to alter your curriculum — particularly regarding the history of Black & African American people in the United States? We would love to talk to you. Send us a DM!

The Department of Homeland Security issued a statement alleging Alabama grad student Alireza Doroudi was detained because he was a “national security” concern. But his attorney David Rozas said recently that the department has not provided any evidence to support this claim. More:

Monday in DC! Details and tickets at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/prof... @franceintheus.bsky.social @dcwomenkicknass.bsky.social @nwlc.org @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social @feministmajority.org @femfreq.bsky.social @womensstudies.bsky.social @umdhistory.bsky.social

At #OAH25, Duke University’s Nancy MacLean called on historians to resist attacks on education led by Trump’s DOGE. “We can fight like the world depends on us.” 🔗 Read more from @chicago.suntimes.com: ow.ly/hOxR50VxGG6

the @chronicle.com has launched what is going to be a tremendously useful tool: a tracker of the Trump administration's activities affecting higher ed, particularly in the areas of civil rights, research, policy, and immigration. check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/trac...

dear journalists: if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU

Florida Atlantic University's police department wants a 287(g) agreement that would allow campus officers to question and detain students they suspect are in the country without authorization. FAU would be the first university with this enforcement power. www.wusf.org/politics-iss...

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

Protests are currently lead story on Le Monde's web site but not NYT

“When you dump over the apple cart, it’s totally expected to have major ramifications,” Retirement Systems of Alabama CEO David Bronner said Thursday in a statement. The RSA's benefit plans lost about $1 billion in Thursday's downturns, the system said. More:

Visas revoked for ‘small number’ of international students at University of Kentucky. @mckennahorsley.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/briefs/visas...

Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, is pushing cuts and restrictions that will disproportionately harm older women who rely on Social Security for survival.

It is imperative that grantees who have been affected by the terminations reach out to their Members of Congress directly. We can help you make this contact. Fill out this form to let NHA know about the termination & get contact info for the appropriate staffers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Today (4/3/25) we learned that DOGE has begun terminating previously awarded NEH grants. We understand this includes operating grants to the state and jurisdictional humanities councils, scholarly societies, community orgs, & individuals. Learn more & take action: nhalliance.org/federal-fund...

Please join me and #SavetheNEH! Tell your reps that funding for education, cultural centers, and public history is on the line! p2a.co/1gzPVYl?rese...

I had a lovely discussion with interviewer extraordinaire Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the "bad" girls of history. You can listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/playing-cleo...

At the 50th Anniversary Virginia Festival of the Book celebrating my wonderful colleague's fantastic new book, The Women of Rendezvous! [email protected]

CFP Histories of Disability and Living Spaces - Bodies and Material Culture workshop at @rhulhistory.bsky.social - we are looking for papers on any aspect of this topic - see events section on our website: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...

Very nice new postdoctoral gigs just posted at ND! $75K + research funds, low teaching. This year they're running it in Art, Art History, & Design; Film, Television, & Theatre; Sociology; History; German, Slavic, & Eurasian Studies; and the Medieval Institute. alresources.nd.edu/resources/pr...

Last weekend to apply for our Center for Women's History postdoctoral and predoctoral fellowships!

After the Brown v. Board decision, white people across the South opened hundreds of private schools. 70 years later, most of the ones still open in Alabama’s Black Belt remain overwhelmingly white. In this town, one school keeps kids divided. (Published May 2024)

🚨GERDA HENKEL VISITNG PROFESSORSHIP 2026/27 🚨 The @ghilondon.bsky.social and LSE are recruiting for the Visiting Professorship in the field of 19th and 20th century German history in a European, colonial and/or global perspective. www.germanhistorysociety.org/2025/02/14/g...

As called in France:

If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.

'The draft budget, on which the National Assembly was due to vote on 3 February, involves a €630 million reduction in higher education and research funding, with a €100 million cut to the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and €8 million pulled from financial support for students'. 1/3

Join our team! 📚 We are hiring a Production Editor to help bring high-quality social science research to life. If you have an eye for detail, strong organisational skills and a passion for publishing, apply today! #PublishingJobs #Publishing

New job: Assistant Professor of Teaching, Women's and Gender Studies University of Memphis www.h-net.org/jobs/job_displa...