Thanks @suzezij.bsky.social @historicivertellen.bsky.social!

My latest on Republicans playing Russian roulette with people’s food: Let White People Be the Face of Trump’s Hunger Crisis rewirenewsgroup.com/2025/11/04/f...

This one’s for you writers - for November, a colleague and I are organizing short (30min) online morning writing sessions- just a quick (5min) writing prompt/warmup and then 20 min free writing time. From Mon-Thu 8.30-9 am CET (sorry US/Canada friends!). Message if you’d like to join. #AcWriMo

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

These GMOs are getting out of hand

You know who else liked gold

I just wanna say I'm available to consult on your next movie or TV show about academia.

❗️JOB: Assistant Professor Social Studies of Medicine, joint appointment in sociology (65%) and #hps (35%) #histstm #histmed #histsci www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Current velocity of progress towards this grant application #aclife

Eat your heart out Deutsche Bahn 😛 Dutch Trains Most Punctual in Europe, Study Finds www.expatrepublic.com/most-punctua...

I found the original Karen. She would like a word.

I was at my old high school today, for the first time in over twenty years, to talk to the teachers about how their curriculum can better support students. AI came up, and so many teachers were saying "Well it's a tool, they have to know how to use it, it's the future so we have to accept it!"

I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.

And here were the books we discussed with the authors!

⏰ PhD position ⏰ on the history of blockades in the interwar period with my wonderful colleague Samuël Kruizinga in the ERC-funded Synergy program BLOCKADE: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Congratulations @nursingclio.bsky.social !! 🎉🥳🍾

Happy cinnamon bun day to all those who celebrate! I certainly do. Let the wintering begin. #kanelbullensdag

Nothing to see here only a #foodhistory dream job at the Smithsonian... 🥦🍎🍾 trustcareers.si.edu/en/postings/...

Starting a new thread to collect critical perspectives on AI, as they are articulated dozens of times every day and appear repeatedly on my timeline. I can't read everything right away, but if, like me, you want to stay up to date, then this might help a bit:

"available data shows that ICE arrested 674 potential U.S. citizens, detained 121, and deported 70 ... true number may be even higher....neither ICE nor U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) maintain good enough records to determine just how many people the agencies arrested or deported in error"

Anyway, @tabouchadi.bsky.social is great on all of this, and I wish political leaders and the liberal / Democratic consultant class would listen. Or at least acknowledge that what they are propagating as “common sense” or "without alternative" in fact goes against all empirical evidence we have.

A disaster that Starmer insists on ignoring the mountain of empirical evidence from across "Western" democracies that adopting rightwing positions and frameworks only ever helps the Right win legitimacy and votes. An utter disaster that so many Democrats in the U.S. insist on doing Starmerism.

“Many women … will now be burdened with unsubstantiated concerns about how their choices might endanger their pregnancy. Whatever they choose, there is a pathway for them to be blamed.” I’m thankful the ever insightful @katewomersley.com has weighed in on this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“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