We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Why I do what I do.

Everything is bad, but books are good. Get a book. Read the book. Cherish the book. Finish the book. Tell your friends about the book, and leave a review of the book. Hold the book close. Listen to what it tells you. Do as it commands. Place it on the dread altar and let it guide your every choice.

See you on the science and history panels! Excited to say yes to scary things (public speaking, flying) that mean I get to explore a part of the country I've never seen before.

Karen Attiah, a black woman, got fired for A: accurately quoting what Charlie Kirk said about Black women B: Accurately observing that most white Americans seem permissive of white violence. It's bullshit, but almost expected in this white supremacist country.

A deep dive into the destruction of US cancer research by @jonathanmahler.bsky.social “It’s an absolutely unmitigated disaster,” a former top official at NIH told him. “It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” Gift link: nyti.ms/48iH3Cr

Obsessed with these bronze art nouveau dancing scarf lady bookends. I'm so happy I trusted my gut and snapped them up at the thrift store. $25 is a bit more than I usually spend on my little thrift trinkets, but some googling tells me they're worth around $150 to $500.

Every pundit article: BLUESKY IS A HOTBED OF RADICALIZATION Majority of posts in my feed: Check out this cool bug/bird/random historical personage I found! Small but vivid minority of posts: Do you think Gritty and Alf are in a polycule or nah?

Had the great pleasure of reviewing @peterbrannen.bsky.social’s extraordinary new book (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/b...

Facts are the mortal enemy of arbitrary and unchecked power, which feeds on concealing reality to evade accountability. Which is why authoritarians in every era, on the Left and Right, suppress facts and attack experts at every opportunity.

We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

I'm looking for pitches for @MotherJones' print culture section, Mixed Media! These are ~2,000-word essays that combine reporting, cultural criticism, historical research, and/or personal narrative. More details in our pitch guidelines here: www.motherjones.com/contribute/w...

I feel like Chicken Little, but as a science journo, what can I do but write? open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

If you read anything I've written lately, I hope it's this post. open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

If you read anything I've written lately, I hope it's this post. open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it. Great article on the need for Democratic governors to step up and protect public health, featuring the incredible @gregggonsalves.bsky.social.

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One of my main goals as an author is to sell enough books so they'll let me write another one. Currently, it looks like that's not going to happen since my publisher is not happy with the sales of my second book. A sophomore slump. I'm open to promo ideas & would appreciate any shares of this post!

After a week off for bday celebrations, & belated after moving our son into college, here’s my 238th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from these 2 weeks. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

I may be biased but BWDR is one of the only film sites out there that lets writers - and readers - go long on their love of all the aspects of movies, from the niche to the global, from craft to theme to acting and directing to personal weird and great rabbit holes. Please subscribe!

MAHA is rebranded healthism, which has been around forever.

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

One of my main goals as an author is to sell enough books so they'll let me write another one. Currently, it looks like that's not going to happen since my publisher is not happy with the sales of my second book. A sophomore slump. I'm open to promo ideas & would appreciate any shares of this post!

But what about reading for pain?

But what about reading for pain?

How can Indigenous histories change our understanding of the medieval period? Solveig Marie Wang shows how medieval stories reveal the Saami at the heart of the Nordic world — and why recognising their history matters in the fight against racism and far-right myths.

"Book reviews are not advertisements, and books are not merely products. They are not commodities, and they are not consumables that get used up and thrown away, like face cream or paper towels. We should not judge the worth of book criticism by whether or not it moves book sales."

Buying a hardcover? In this economy? Luckily, @barnesandnoble.com is having its annual #bookhaul so you can snag my deeply researched labor of love for 50% off. The #BNBookHaul sale is in-store and online until September 1. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/sisters-in...

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

This month's roundup of books on women and science is up on my newsletter, Beyond Curie. It includes books by @melodyglenn.bsky.social, @berondam.bsky.social Hanne Strager, and Katherine J. Parkin. open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

Turn off AI in search results. I just did this in Chrome and it works. tenbluelinks.org#chrome-windows

When democracy falters, science is among the first casualties—truth silenced, data erased, expertise sidelined. But history shows us: scientists can build independent institutions that preserve truth, counter misinformation, and defend both knowledge and democracy. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

28 yrs ago as I was trying to figure out how to make a 2nd career in medicine happen, I found this. Rereading it now from the other side. Big thanks to @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social and @oliviacampbell.bsky.social for reigniting a med history interest. 🔥 London and Edinburgh are on the bucket list.

CIA approved tactics for populations under hostile occupation

Very excited to dive into "Humans: A Monstrous History" by @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

BREAKING: One of the most important and prominent reporters on the ground in Gaza has been Anas Al Sharif. He - and several other Al Jazeera journalists - have just been assassinated by Israelis forces whilst in their press tent in central Gaza. Speechless.

Ok, but Trump totally took office in Manuary.

Ok, but Trump actually did take office in Manuary.

Normalize putting lots of cute little animals in architecture

Why do think of a PhD as a general reference source useful in daily life and not an weirdo who knows obsessive amounts about the breeding cycle of the western side-blotched lizard

Snag a deal on my first book! A New York Times bestseller for only $2.99! #deals #kindle #ebook #history #nonfiction #womenshistory #historyofmedicine #stem #womeninmedicine bookshop.org/p/books/wome...

A great list! And the beautiful thing is, I can think of at least 10 more off the top of my head that could add to that list. (Vagina Obscura, Unwell Women, etc.) WOW - makes me wonder if someone has actually compiled a list like that anywhere for educators and interested people in general.

Thanks to Austin Public Library for including SISTERS IN SCIENCE on this incredible list of women in science books. Lots of great recs here! austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...

Best. mail. EVER. If you want your own NC Reader, preorder now! It officially publishes on September 9. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Everything from U Toronto Press (@uoftpress.bsky.social), including my book, is 50% in their summer sale! Code is SUMMERSALE50. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....