So if you liked DOGE using AI as a permission structure for eviscerating research funding, boy will you love the bottom falling out of the research community when scholars themselves use AI as a permission structure for cutting corners in their research and mentorship. bsky.app/profile/sonj...

#tdih 1959, 26,000 high school and college students came from all over U.S. to D.C. to demand 1954 Brown v. Board implementation. Speakers included Daisy Bates, Harry Belafonte, A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Rev. Martin L. King, & Roy Wilkins. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/sc...

Holy SHIT that opening story

This is Rex. He found a missing child in 12 minutes on his first tracking mission. "He’s kind of a triple threat," his handler said. He's trained as a therapy dog, explosive detection canine, and missing person tracker. When the girl was safe, Rex shifted to comfort mode. 14/10 (IG: arapahoeso)

NEW: In the middle of the night, the House tried to pass a bill that would have given President Trump and Stephen Miller the power to spy on Americans without a warrant for years to come. It failed due to pressure from the public — but they plan to vote again in just 2 weeks.

www.cbc.ca/news/indigen... More context

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

#tdih 1835 "Instead of attempting to remove the honest misapprehensions of the people, they cater to their prejudices, and take advantage of them, to gain low, dirty, temporary, local triumphs." -- Thaddeus Stevens, in speech in defense of public schools ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Man, we have the same conversations every time a major story like this breaks. It’s exhausting. It is SO HARD to publish a story about gendered violence for a whole host of reasons, a main one being that victims (rightly so!) don’t want to talk.

Highest-yield intervention on flights is masking. A well-fitted N95/KN95 (no gaps) during boarding, flight, and deplaning is one of the most effective tools you have.Transmission risk is highest during boarding/deplaning.Aircraft ventilation works well in flight, but not as well on the ground.

Here are my top 10 WORST dogs!

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

The incredible team at @inquirer.com continues to be all over this story. The revised approach the administration proposes here is very typical in recent years, qualifying statements about Washington’s enslaving by pointing to his statements in opposition to it. (Gift link) share.inquirer.com/tkvteN

A perfect snapshot of the MAGA GOP attitude towards democracy: “In North Dakota, Utah and South Dakota, legislatures are sponsoring measures on the November ballot that would raise the threshold for approving citizen amendments to 60 percent, not a simple majority.”

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

Excellent news for the field www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

tuscaloosathread.com/lawmakers-al... #alabama #SB580 #tenure #facultygovernance #highered

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments about birthright citizenship. Here, for the NYTimes and with Kate Masur, I offer a view of what those of you who think historically should be listening for. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Trump is flat wrong when he claims that birthright citizenship was intended only for the "babies of slaves." Martha Jones and I have the receipts. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

Returning to this as the ignorance takes my breath away. I'm a literary #translator. This means is that I know a number of #authors. Some I count as personal friends. Most of them don't make enough money from writing to write full-time. They fit writing round their "other" job – evenings... +

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

The study has been published in Vaccine. YES, it is PEER-REVIEWED. • www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... NOTE: THIS IS PRECLINICAL. 🧪🧵⬇️

Further reading on the Fourteenth Amendment and the contemporary constitutional politics to alter birthright citizenship without amending the Constitution: @bostonreview.bsky.social bit.ly/RTJones @motherjones.com bit.ly/3CHNu4a

The case challenging President Trump’s unilateral effort to alter birthright citizenship will be argued on April Fool’s Day. Here’s a quick explainer of the Fourteenth Amendment I did with Zinhle Essamuah of NBC News. #BirthrightCitizenship #SCOTUS #FourteenthAmendment

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23. She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24. Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method." It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

The United States voted against a United Nations resolution to formally recognize the trans-Atlantic slave trade as the “gravest crime against humanity.” Israel and Argentina also voted against the motion, which was adopted. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/w...

b.) as we see focus on the Epstein files reveal the extent to which sex trafficking undergirds the corruption of the global elite;

Shall we have a No Kings thread? Japan⬇️

Senator Warnock addressing #nokings #atlanta @warnock.senate.gov

#erasemace gave some love to Lindsey Graham’s Charleston office yesterday. While this chicken hawk calls for our children to sacrifice their lives to enrich him & protect pedophiles, we decided to let him know what we think about his war mongering. #lindseygraham

No Kings Nashville. Sic semper tyrannis, y’all.

✊🕊️ BIRMINGHAM. MONTGOMERY. SELMA. Alabama — where the movement walked across a bridge and changed the world. Where Bull Connor turned the hoses on children. Alabama knows what authoritarianism looks like. It marches today. #NoKings #Alabama #Birmingham #NoDictators #March28

For those want to participate in the #NoKingsRally today, but can't physically attend an event due to any number of hurdles/challenges, #StandUpForScience has organized a virtual rally you can join online. ☺️ #NoKings #March28 #Protest #Resist www.standupforscience.net/sufs-nk3

“Teacher free” is the most important part of this to its supporters. They’d like to get rid of a lot of people’s jobs, of course, but they seem to be particularly zealous about eliminating good-paying jobs that aren’t coded white and male—after all, how hard can they be if those people can do them?

This "service" is scraping not just webinars but also private zoom meetings and posting them online. They access them through extensions like Auto Join for Google Meet. Basic registration requirements don't seem to deter them. Take careful precautions if you're hosting things!

"Some affected organizers also retroactively identified unfamiliar registrants who had joined their session using anomalous email domains, such as @bestwest[.]space, which has been observed in at least two separate incidents."

This happened to me yesterday when this company secretly recorded a scholarly seminar I hosted on Zoom and posted it. I was able to get it removed, but WTF.

UN votes to describe slave trade as ‘gravest crime against humanity’

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

"Very young girls who have survived significant trauma do not represent a gray area in medicine."

"I am writing this because children are being harmed on purpose, right now, with federal authorization, and I am so angry I can barely see straight." dissentinbloom.substack.com/p/is-stephen...

On this day in 1942, the United States evicted Japanese Americans from their homes in Washington and forced them into internment camps.

News of Washington's will and its emancipation provisions leaked out before it was even filed at the courthouse. Just two week's after Washington's death, Richard Allen, the formerly enslaved minister and founder of the AME Church in Philadelphia, was the first to publicly share the news. /5