“High technology is often as socially regressive as it is technically revolutionary or progressive.” Referencing the wonderful @histoftech.bsky.social, this critical piece on the uncritical adoption of AI in universities pulls no punches.

f you’ve ever wondered whether your project needs a theoretical, analytical or conceptual framework — the answer is: yes, but not in the same way. I show you how to tell them apart in my post. www.raulpacheco.org/2018/09/writ... #RPVSky

Next time I need to build a similar atrocity I’ll ask the Bluesky hivemind first - stellar work everybody 🙏

Sunday greetings. I’m in hell.

Vast ten overvloede, maar bij deze FYI @lizetkruyff.bsky.social

"40h pro Woche arbeiten. Das ist doch weniger als ein Viertel! Da geht doch mehr!" Man hört das Argument von Wirtschaftstreibenden, jetzt auch vom deutschen Kanzler. Das Missverständnis dahinter: Viel arbeiten ist in erster Linie ein Privileg - das für viele einfach außer Reichweite liegt (Thread)

What a phenomenal conference. Fascinating papers and keynotes, lovely friends, excellent food and a dream location. Huge thanks to @doravargha.bsky.social and the #EAHMH25 team for their stellar organization. Can’t wait for Prague 2027.

“…my friends say…”

Julia Cummiskey on 'Ugandan Virus Researchers and the Localities of Global Health' at #eahmh25

I can't believe this idea that's been in my head for ten years is finally a thing in the world. @uchicagopress.bsky.social #histmed #EAHMH25 #sts #histsci press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Fascinating talk by Laura Smith on J. Marion Sims and the mechanisms by which he “whitewashed” the Black enslaved patients he experimented on in his medical publications #EAHMH25

Maxime Guttin argues that notions of degeneracy in brain studies were linked to the development of racialized categories of difference between 1750 and 1840 #EAHMH25

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

And now for another keynote by one of my absolute intellectual crushes @historyelaine.bsky.social #EAHMH25

The perks of a #histstm conference in Germany: Kaffee und Kuchen #EAHMH25

Another packed panel on “Medicalizing and the Unconscious” with Josephine Selander, Laurence Monnais, Flavio Rossi, Roman Mamin, and Lukas J. Meier #EAHMH25

Forgot that this is a conference in Germany and made the grave mistake of turning down the complimentary #EAHMH25 conference fan 🥵

Standing room only for this morning’s panel on Political Epistemologies with Sophie Franklin, @engelmal.bsky.social and Krittapak Ngamvaseenont #EAHMH25

Welcome to Bluesky @eahmh.bsky.social !

It only took 200 years but Berlin finally changed the name of its Mohrenstrasse. Next stop: the Sarotti logo 🙃

Tired: “stop food insecurity!” Wired: “stop *saying* food insecurity!”

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

POV: I’m sure that thing that I’ve written some time ago made some sense to someone at some point; I just don’t think it was me #writinglife

"the Smithsonian Institution is not, and has never been, under the authority of the Executive Branch"

Stop offloading cognitive tasks to "generative AI." Stop using systems w/ "AI" features either inextricably woven through them or prominently displayed at the top to nudge you into their use. Stop *Designing* "AI" tools & integrations that way. Stop building or using "AI" like this. Fucking Stop it.

I need a “most shaded route” option for google maps

I’m a historian of medicine AND a medical doctor and I have absolutely no idea what the hot water and towels are for in *every* historical birthing scene (especially the ones not involving instruments) just stop it

One-month fellowships for mid-career (6+ years post PhD) or senior scholars "working on any aspect of history of science, medicine, and technology across the Mediterranean" to be based at the Science and Research Centre (ZRS) in Koper, on the coast of Slovenia: #HistSTM

⏰ #histstm #medhums Postdoc ⏰ 3-year position in Public Engagement at Medical Museion Copenhagen in a research project on personalized medicine employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

Dear #histstm colleagues, please consider taking action on behalf of one of our own. It only takes a minute ⬇️

‼️ JOB ‼️ in #foodstudies at the University of Toronto: Associate Professor/Professor in Sustainable Food Systems, specifically policy innovation, sustainable energy and sustainable food systems jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Fucking bingo "We argue that the expectation on tertiary students to assume responsibility for their so-called ‘tutors’ and ‘collaborators’ is pedagogically perverse, amounting to a demand that students take sole responsibility for the accuracy of claims they are not able to properly assess."

Another paper to cite to show the negative cognitive effects of LLMs. www.media.mit.edu/publications...

"There is nothing that I do in my professional capacity [as a historian] with which generative AI can help."

Good morning to the @newyorker.com and the @newyorker.com only www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...

“Higher education has always had a problem with handing out massive amounts of money for technical solutions.” Interesting article on how US professors are fighting back against the AI onslaught (scroll down to find article) www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-bub...

I’m not entirely surprised by this, but the numbers are still startling: Discrimination felt by foreign-born people in the Netherlands higher than in any other EU country (18 vs 7.7%) Figures higher for non-EU nationals than EU nationals www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/fore...

Our group is delighted to have 2 pieces addressing women's healthcare and women's health research in @bmj.com Editor's choice this week @jocalynclark.bsky.social. Globally, we may be going backwards, but many of us are determinedly working against the current. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here. We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥 📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations @brunostrasser.bsky.social and @thomasschlich.bsky.social! #histstm

Look what came in the mail #histstm 👀

“That’s what history as-a-process-of-finding-out-about-the-past actually is: a series of constant shocks and disorientations. You thought you knew something …, but you are repeatedly confronted with you own ignorance and forced to adapt your ideas.” 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/g...

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you wcaleb.rice.edu/syllabusmake...

I don't want to sugarcoat anything but it bears acknowledging loudly that day in & day out, despite literally everything, scholars keep researching, writing, & publishing work that, in ways big & small, implicit & explicit, via its sheer existence, is a defiant F U to the current administration.

I hear we are not posting cat pictures on this app anymore, so from here on I will be focusing on my reading sessions and the excellent catering of my favorite cafe #caterday

“This ecosystem has become, effectively, an essential tool for defending men accused of sexual violence or harassment, for it can generate a rabid kind of fandom that’s hellbent on defending them.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people. Try this safer topic. Try this approved topic. Try this unobstructed topic"

This seems fine, and like a technology we should totally trust to run our educational system and other parts of our society.