Euthanizing? Try murdering. Bet he won’t be fired, though.

How to opt out of AI summaries of your work on academia.edu

Got the first of what is sure to be an avalanche of mail on Newsom’s redistricting plan. Of course it totally misrepresents the plan. Funded by Charles Munger Jr, son of Dormzilla.

Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History): memorients.com/news/pomona-...

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester: memorients.com/news/researc...

It's Mel Brooks' 99th birthday, so let me recommend his autobiography ALL ABOUT ME, which is hilarious and filled with inside details on all his films.

A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students. The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

The National Archives is full of old fossils. No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty. Either that or a REALLY big bison. #MastodonPosting CO 700/Virginia18

"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..." "The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..." www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

CLARIFICATION : The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline. They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY So spread this around They can be texted. They can be called.

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Anybody have info on ostriches in London before 1650? Harvey has access to more than one, including observing ostrich sex, and I am wondering where they were. #earlymodern #histsci #histstm

#journalissue: "Animal Mobilities" (Osiris, Volume 40, ed. Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg) Available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2... #envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #animalstudies #histstm #hstm

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Academia informing me that they had made, via AI, a 5-minute podcast of one of my articles. Has this happened to anyone else? What are my rights here? They want to post it on my page.

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?" www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live − and where they’d rather not theconversation.com/where-tomorr...

Leaving this here: www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-...

all right everybody, here we go links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

Pause for a minute to appreciate the valiant Program Officers still at NSF, who are doing their utmost to preserve what they can. They’re in the stinking rotting belly of the beast, laboring on our behalf. ❤️❤️❤️❤️ to them

Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH. Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH. HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH. 99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH. Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees. I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New National Academies report out, "Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science" nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2789... These reports are always useful resources & free to download, and have concise summaries as well - Highlights PDF here nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/278...

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

This is appalling. Call your reps.

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

We’ll be marching to the ICE field office in downtown LA on Saturday to demand the return of our students’ visas at 3pm, following the AOC/Bernie rally. I’ll be tabling at the rally, in case you want to say hi. All extremely welcome, including students and member of the public.

Criterion channel is free April 8th -14th. I don’t know if it’s their scheduled films, their vast collection on the app, or both. Either way it’s free! #CriterionChannel #TCMParty #FilmSky📽️ #MovieSky

A natural experiment in Wales provided the best evidence to date that shingles vaccination may reduce the risk of Alzheimer's disease. By @rachelnuwer.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social: www.scientificamerican.com/article/shin...

Without fishery scientists there is no US seafood future. www.intrafish.com/opinion/musk...

The administration is removing phone support for Soc Security recipients. Making it more difficult for seniors to get their checks. It’s a back door way to cut SS benefits. Horrific. If you know anyone who is impacted, please help them get online to get their benefits approved

HHMI kills inclusivity program in STEM education | Science PRIVATE $$ stop backing equity /strand postdocs in the middle of their careers. Disappears website info. #womeninstem #blackinstem #science #LGBTSTEM @hhmi.org FEEL FREE TO OFFER THEM FEEDBACK www.science.org/content/arti...

We need your help TODAY to tell your governors and key members of the House and Senate that federal funding for libraries - the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) - needs to be preserved! action.everylibrary.org/emaileo2025

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

Given the number of French historians who follow me, it'd be remiss of me to not share this wonderful resource: a frequently updated map of all the bean-to-bar chocolatiers in metropolitan France and the overseas departments. Spectacular chocolate can be found in some surprising places!

Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1 www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

Spring program for the Instructing Colonial Natural History Seminar Series. The first seminar is by the wonderful @nickytheprof.bsky.social on Wed 26 Feb, 3-4 pm C.E.T: The Land of True Britons: Edward Lhwyd's Survey of Wales.

In France, we have a specialty. We like to cut off crowned heads. We can help you.

Please circulate widely: We are hiring two Ass Prof tt at the Institute of #ecology and #evolution at @unibern.bsky.social in conservation biology; mathematical & computational ecology We are committed to diverse, inclusive and equitable leadership in research and education tinyurl.com/IEEjobs

⚠️ Effective Monday 2/10/25, NIH indirect rate capped at 15%. Applies to existing & future grants. —> Deep budget cuts & program closures coming to a university near you. Is this the break the glass moment for university administrators who have been silent so far about the attack on science?

🚨JOB ALERT 🚨 Are you a social scientist (broadly construed) with expertise in race and science? We are offering a 3.5 years postdoctoral position at Egenis (University of Exeter). Applications due February 27! Please share widely! #STS #philsky jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

American science and medicine has been thrown into chaos and uncertainty over the past week. Here are some stories to get up to speed. 1/12