Had fun thinking about these questions from @jakobburnham.bsky.social with @rouge1767.bsky.social. Our thoughts on the wonderfulness of collaboration in writing history. nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...

No regrets, cuz it was 🔥… but I stayed up too late and now I can’t sleep 🫠

People, I’ve done it! Cannot remember when the last time I was ~this~ excited for something.

I can make it 5 more hours until bed. I will not go to sleep before I see the first two episodes of my lil gay hockey tv series! I can make it!

Need some light reading for the evening? Check out @jakobburnham.bsky.social's recently published interview with @nursingclio.bsky.social 2025 Article Prize winners Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive, who wrote a fab analysis of medical businesswomen in 18th c France 🇫🇷 nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...

Today for NC, @jakobburnham.bsky.social interviews our 2025 NC Prize winners! Read the fantastic interview here: nursingclio.org/2025/11/26/i...

The tech-weirdos are mere weeks away from a “think piece” on why it’s logical to give human rights to a machine before giving actual, literal humans bodily autonomy or equal rights.

Treating myself to a 3:30pm gimlet at a hotel bar cuz it’s Thanksgiving brea but I’m still working! 🍸

I have a really intense craving for a fajita…

Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively. Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠

My inbox is at zero! Can’t wait for the impending onslaught of H-France messages to ruin it :)

He’s listening to “Lux”.

Not a dig, but a mantra: I will not feel guilted into working because how I organize my time is different than you.

Whiplash from American politics tonight: Trump and Mamdani besties? SC continues its efforts to erode the constitution. MTG resigns from congress?!

Look out, y’all: I’m actually “researching” today instead of instruction or service work 🥰 might even mess around a writing something!

We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.

I don’t know what is worse: the high today being 84° or that it’s ONLY 6:45pm. It’s mid November, and it’s been dark for 195 hours already. It’s all malarkey!

Publication!! Parution!! The newest edition of French Colonial History (vol 23-24) is now available! La dernière édition de French Colonial History (vol. 23-24) est maintenant disponible ! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55916?...

The AI bubble cannot burst soon enough.

If I get one more email asking me to donate to the university where I work, I’ll scream. Don’t “brag” about paying us “almost 90% of the national salary average,” then ask for some of it back. Go hound the worthless senior faculty member who does nothing and yet somehow makes 4x what I do.

Gerrymandered Texas congressional district maps struck down, judge tells Texas schools to remove 10 Commandments displays... is ... is woke back? Yee fucking haw. 🤠

The fact that he is allowed to remain in the classroom/teaching is just a point of how little higher education values/supports education in the classroom compared to the industrio-capitalist machine of the “Institution”

Wow. A surprise medical bill and passive-agressive messages from multiple family members. 32 is starting out super great, yall!

Happy birthday to me! Send money for Champagne and to help me pay my speeding ticket 🤪 venmo.com/u/JakobBurnham

Me, so glad I can rest and not work this weekend Also me, taking 6-hour only driving course to get my speeding ticket dismissed 😑

Whoever invented “email” better watch their back… Hills and Bill both got beef with them now!

♏️ You love control, Scorpio, but today's asking you to loosen your grip and let someone else take the wheel, even if they drive slower than you'd prefer. The real lesson here is that leadership isn't about perfection, it's about trust.

Sad to report that once again, despite majorly overextending myself with commitments, everything is going to get done. I will continue to learn nothing from this experience.

Not the point, but those emails are generally so poorly written that I can barely comprehend them. And as we all know, I’m the King of the Typo, so that’s saying something.

Deadline Extended!! You can submit through 1 December 2025

Apparently “sorry, officier, the black-cat goalie was about to say I love you for the first time to his golden retriever hockey coach” is *not* a legitimate excuse for not paying close enough attention to my speed…

Undoubtedly, this new system will be something to be thankful for!

It’s 57° in Dallas and I’ve seen like 6 people in winter coats 🏂🧤❄️

Being an adult in America means endless fighting with your insurance company. It’s every freaking month with some inane, unexpected change or billing irregularities. I don’t get to choose where my PCP sends my labs, like why was the cost $3 in Sept and then $203 in October?!!?

6:23am: I’ve already finished a quint-shot latte and 12oz of drip coffee. Please tap the glass when I inevitably feel like a panicky void of twisted goo this afternoon.

God. The burnout hit HARD today. 🫠

Learned two things today at my annual physical: 1) I’ve lost 26lbs this year; 2) I have the highest testosterone level my clinician has ever seen without a medical issue or artificial intervention (i.e HRT or steroids) (Number 2 is particularly funny for anyone who knows me)

Did Women Ruin the Workplace

Maritime colleagues: was it common to omit names of women travelers - specifically wives - when mentioning passengers onboard? Asking in context of ships coming from England to colonies in early c17th. Can't prove this man's wife went with him, but his young son did (who are both mentioned by name).

Based on the current population of 342,783,738 each person would have to lose an average of 393 pounds to reach Dr. Oz’s estimate.

Hello. Here we are. Been tossing and turning for an hour. Ugh.

Also, the “Fall Back” has trashed my sleep cycle so I’m back to being up at like 3:30am and fall asleep at 6:15pm 🫩🫩🫩

Wow! Today has been a wash work-wise. I cleaned out my inbox (yay) but everything else just ate up time and energy and crossed nothing off the list.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats have broken the Republican Party’s supermajority in the Mississippi Senate. Democrats flipped two GOP-held Senate seats and one House seat in the special elections. buff.ly/nTvLlFI

Oof — just had a minor heart attack cuz I thought I sent that post from the account of the professional, academic society I manage… 😅

Another man called me a twink?!? I didn’t think we’d have this kind of interpersonal violence in Mamdani’s America!

You ever just think about a wedge salad? Or a nice cobb?!

I got caught up on all my grading, zeroed my inbox, finished all my house chores (except grocery shopping), and figured out my costume for the evening. I am adulting!

Going to have an ice cream sandwich to fortify myself to grade a few more of these essays! Only 13 (of 34) remaining…