If we're talking about the last book I finished, that would be a murderous Victorian governess.

Too early for #ValentinesDay2026? Here's a life-size papier-mâché heart by the French anatomist Louis Thomas Jérôme Auzoux from the 19th century. Photo: Alex Peck #medicalhistory #medhist #histmed #skystorians #history #med #sciart

The beautiful Tolkien-esque 13thC door to St. Edward‘s Church in the Cotswold village of Stow-on-the-Wold in Gloucestershire.

Knives out: the upper middle class are squabbling vicious children who do not deserve their inheritance Glass onion: the new elite are the stupidest murderous cunts alive and deserve your scorn Wake up dead man: those preaching anger as salvation are leading you to death, hope and kindness matter

This year we launched a two-year project aimed celebrate women in surgery. The project launched with an exhibition exploring the history of women in surgery and a commissioned artwork representing eleven remarkable surgeons. You can read more here: surgeonshallmuseums.wordpress.com/2025/04/04/a...

These parents killed their child and we need to say it

There is not a facepalm big enough for RFK Jr claiming the 1918 flu was a lab leak. We didnt even know the flu virus existed in 1918. It was not in a lab! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ Good thread tho

The real harsh truth is those covid revisionist authors and the book critics cheering them on all support eugenics. They think that the suffering of Long Covid will never happen to them because they have better genes.

I have often found, actually, that I can tell everything I need to know about whether or not a cis man is a real one by whether he maintains a juvenile mockery towards menstruation well into adulthood or whether he takes the many, many aspects of menstrual justice seriously

Pretty quiet Christmas over here, so here's a picture from my annual Christmas run.

Christmas can be a difficult, sad, disappointing, or frustrating time for so many of us, but remember you're not alone. I've been quietly hiding behind your sofa until it's over.

This whole discussion has me thinking about how a full chapter of my dissertation (and a later article) grew out of a *single* periodical reference to a memoir written by a female physician involved with the Red Cross in the lead up to WWI. One sentence birthed multiple publications!

Research is about discovery. THE FACEMAKER opens with the story of Private Percy Clare, who's shot in the face in WWI. I found his handwritten diary at the Imperial War Museum, which led me to connecting with relatives of his who were able to provide further documents & details about his life.

Fully agree with 'only cite stuff you've actually read' re: AI in academia, but it needs to be paired with 'give folk proper time to read & reflect'. The pressure to read/write/produce can drive shortcuts. Primarily thinking students here, but also academics, who need proper (paid) research leave.

2/ The Danish head of its CDC is like: are you fucking crazy? We are a small country with universal healthcare. You shouldn't do what we do. We should do what you used to do.

1/ RFK Jr is determined to kill more children. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

I *may* have lost my mind this afternoon and made four different kinds of cookies for my family cookie exchange.

The “most transparent administration in history,” everyone!

I fear ending up on the No Fly list more than death. But this… this would make me risk it.

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

One thing that absolutely definitely happens for real in the academic job market is that when you do not get a job, the Dean calls you and explains why you didn't get it. This is extra-super true when the explanation is something legally actionable on its face.

NEW: The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.

periodically I'll see a backlash that goes a little too far or seems kinda unfair. i never say anything because i think we need to be kinda unhinged and zealous in our response to this shit. I'd take an honest-to-God crusade against this stuff over letting it proliferate.

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

Hooray, it's here!

Hint: It's not the one that would prevent 15 million Americans from losing healthcare next month.

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Also, I don't know if it's having me as a prof, but about a third of my grad students decided to write about horror topics. I love it!

Am I grading to the excellent Frankenstein soundtrack? Why, yes, I am!

I also feel like his body of work really disproves the persistent claim that joyful, hopeful, funny, romantic or lighthearted stories are inherently intellectually lesser and can't be Real Art

I was waiting for someone to acknowledge the beautiful disaster that is Rob Reiner’s North (which I unironically loved as a kid), and this thread does just that!

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

A midterm ad for Dems that just says, “Measles, people. Honestly. Measles. Come on.”

I hope all of us university instructors in humanities fields can find the energy and the joy to take students‘ education seriously. Don’t give up. Do what you can to set frameworks which enable rigorous study and which disincentivize dishonest work. Hold onto the students who appreciate the effort.

i'm sorry but the right way to wear jncos is dragging on the ground so they get both soaking wet and torn to shreds

Butlerian jihad when

The more I have looked at the artist’s other work, the more I have become convinced that this is probably awkward and fake-looking on purpose.

What a great piece! This just gets better and better as you read. prospect.org/2025/12/11/s...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

I can wholeheartedly recommend My Secret Santa, the Netflix holiday version of Mrs. Doubtfire.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

I thank my lucky stars for my faculty union in a lot of cases, but especially in face of potential chicanery like this.

Apparently, the latest Word update for our enterprise software removed the option to disable Copilot and added a floating button on top of EVERY document. Luckily, I still have an old personal account that I can use to finish grading, but I'm actively seeking new options for next semester!

I exist outside of time.

Some More Font Upgrades, After Yesterday’s Calibri News www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Who could have predicted this?! Oh, right. apple.news/APUxe70JxQE-...

mood

Alexander Wood was born #OTD in 1817. Wood devised the first syringe for the injection of a local anaesthetic in 1853. He used an opium preparation -the antecedent to modern morphine. Wood used this syringe for the first subcutaneous injection of morphia in the UK.

So jargon in the humanities is taken to be unnecessary, stolen valor, hiding the simplicity at the heart of the endeavor And therefore if the aforementioned physicist can't understand history, it's the fault of the historian *and* the historian is *morally* at fault