Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

I am saddened and angered to hear this news. “Indian Sex Life” is a game-changing book in the history of sexuality, and Mitra deserves a secure place from which she can continue to develop her already-field-defining scholarship.

It’s true. Annie offers more proof.

I am trying to prioritize my own writing more, and Annie is good at encouraging me. #blackcat #caturday

"Thank you to Carolyn Strauss, Hannah Bos, and Paul Thureen who wrote a show about connecting and love in a time when compassion is seen as a weakness." Congrats to Jeff Hiller on his win for Somebody Somewhere, a which centers on finding your family and loving them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlCo...

Girl’s night in with Annie. #caturday #blackcat #catsofbluesky

Hanging out with Annie on #caturday. #blackcat #catsofbluesky

Looks good to me. #booksky #academicsky (image is of a square room with the main area labeled “library” and three much smaller rooms within it labeled “bedroom,” “bath,” and “kitchen.”

Women’s health: who cares? Reproduction, resistance and reckoning Sabina Dosani mh.bmj.com/content/51/3...

I just finished my Indiana University colleague and friend Don Maxwell’s book “Unguarded Borders” published by @rutgersupress.bsky.social. We had a writing group in graduate school, and it is great to see his ideas on citizenship and belonging come to fruition. #booksky

To explain this photo a bit more: back then, most programming was done on paper (sometimes on special coding sheets), then punched onto cards/tape, then fed into a mainframe to be tested (& if necessary debugged). Counterintuitively, needing LESS computer time was the mark of a better programmer!

Annie is five years old today and celebrating how she knows best: hiding under the bed and sleeping. 🖤🎂

#blackcatappreciationday is every day around here. #blackcat

5. Historians cannot be restrained by the rigidity of citation management software

… if you pay attention to their materiality, unofficial archives can be a window into the soul of an organization and its relationship to its past.

Street kitty (who likely has a home due to being in good condition) asking for pets on #caturday.

Finally received my own copy www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

Congratulations to @drkyliesmith.bsky.social, @cethompson.bsky.social, and their coauthors on the publication of “Do Less Harm!” Annie approves.

This story beautifully illustrates how war haunts lives and relationships long after the action takes place. It’s also a story of persistence, Internet cooperation, and archival care. The final photo is stunning.

I was just at a women’s salon recently and talking about menopause and it really hit me how awful it is that society looks down on a stage of life that so many women before us weren’t even lucky enough to get to.

Out now: the third volume of the History of Modern Germany Series @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social: Andrew Bonnel‘s book on revolutions (following @katielmsutton.bsky.social’s „Sexuality“ and my own „Technology“). www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/th...

At the Met yesterday and enjoyed seeing these nineteenth-century animal friends in “The New Art of American Photography” exhibition. I bet @catsofyore.bsky.social will like them too. #catsofbluesky

Annie was not pleased by the fireworks last night. 😾 #caturday #blackcat

I’m in shock at the devastation to higher education in Indiana that is being committed in this list. Mike Braun and his wrecking crew should hang their heads in shame.

My book now has a cover! "Standardizing Sex" is the first book to trace the emergence of trans medicine in Scandinavia from the 1920s onwards. It explores the construction and negotiation of medical expertise among medical professionals, patients, and activists in press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

My one and only author/editor copy of #dolessharm has arrived! 368 pages of goodness put together by me and @cethompson.bsky.social and 27 other fantastic authors. Thank you @hopkinspress.bsky.social ! Buy yours here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The open access version of Selling Sexual Knowledge is out (hardcopies coming shortly)! Reposting this little thread from December where I take a break from chowing down on holiday treats to talk a little about what it's actually about and why I wrote it.

This news out of Bloomington is so depressing. All of these programs have value by teaching and producing knowledge.

This man is laser focused on vacating any rights to medical privacy and reproductive autonomy.

It was delightful to speak again with @k8lister.bsky.social on her podcast Betwixt the Sheets about Alfred Kinsey and the Kinsey Reports. Have a listen here. #histsex @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

#caturday timeline cleanse courtesy of Annie. 🐾 #blackcat

So excited for this book! #histsex

Feeling this energy right now. ☝️

Donna Drucker joined Betwixt the Sheets to discuss her book "Contraception" and how the pill has transformed sex, gender, and reproduction since its introduction in the 1950s: shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-... @histofsex.bsky.social

Love a bodega cat, especially one as sleepy as this sweetie. 🧡🤍 #bodegacat #caturday

This is the highest salary I have ever seen in twenty years of reading the H-Net ads. Whoever is eligible should go for it! www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

Saddened and angered that state legislators and Indiana University's own president disavow the value of any degree that they _perceive_ does not have financial return. Shame on them. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

It’s been a bit since I shared this one, pub’d in Feb—A HISTORY OF TRANSGENDER MEDICINE IN THE US, from @sunypress.bsky.social. 794 pp of empirically grounded info, personal experiences, & trans history BY trans ppl, physicians & scholars. Now 30% off w/ code SPRIDE25. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Hi...

This article may have convinced me to give "Northanger Abbey" another go this summer. It's been a while since I picked it up. 📚 www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Thank you to @drcamillam.bsky.social for this thoughtful and integrative review of my work on #contraception and that of three other historians I greatly respect. #histsex #histmed

Come and join us as a journal editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social!

#histsex and #histmed friends—newly translated book alert.

Annie birdwatching at her nana’s house on #caturday. #blackcat #catsofbluesky

I very much enjoyed talking with @k8lister.bsky.social about the effects of the contraceptive pill on sex, gender, and reproduction from the 1950s onward. Please have a listen. #histsex #histmed shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

I very much enjoyed talking with @k8lister.bsky.social about the effects of the contraceptive pill on sex, gender, and reproduction from the 1950s onward. Please have a listen. #histsex #histmed shows.acast.com/betwixt-the-...

Annie and her nineteenth-century lookalike together on #caturday— only one is watching a feather toy. #blackcat

I had the pleasure of attending the master’s thesis presentations of the School for the Visual Arts last night. Fun fact: Wham! was the first Western music group to tour in China after the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1985. The lyrics of “Wake Me Up before You Go-Go” were translated & replaced.

Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social for the shout-out of my books and four others on similar topics: mitpress.mit.edu/books-for-un...

#caturday with Princess Annie. 🖤 #blackcat #catsofbluesky

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is standing strong for health equity research. Bravo!