This is what happens when brilliant faculty follow their curiosity for decades. 🎥 Watch this stunning trailer from @greggmitman.bsky.social - we cannot wait for the full film this September. vimeo.com/1159253143 #HealthEquity #Overburden

I've been a big Jessie Diggins fan for a while now - I admire her outreach on eating disorders, she trains in my home state of VT, and just seems like a delight of a person. This past summer we were camping in VT & sat just a few feet away from her at the 4th of July fireworks!

The final three skiers in the women's 10km cross country (free) skiing race were from Brazil, Iran, and Mexico and the women who came in first, second, and third were there to meet them and congratulate them. Jessie Diggins literally took the Mexican racers boots off for her. #olympics

SHORT-LISTED! So proud to learn that AAHM has short-listed "Starved for Light" for the George Rosen Prize, along with books from @bethlinker.bsky.social , @rachellouisemoran.bsky.social , @xtinaramos.bsky.social , @travisaweisse.bsky.social , and Harry Yi-Jui Wu. histmed.org/2026-george-...

Babe, wake up, new sarcastic but entirely worthwhile internet abbreviation just dropped

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

Also, the suite was the one Michel Foucault lived in while doing a residency at UVM, so I always got a chuckle out of using the bathroom and thinking to myself "I'm using Foucault's toilet."

That is such a wonderful commercial summing up her uselessness.

I was in the first cohort of the honors program at UVM in the 90s. One of our courses was to read The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. We did read some related works but basically just read it a few chapters at a time & met in a Living & Learning suite. It fueled my interest in the history of medicine

Changed my zoom background to something more... private. Might stay for two weeks.

When even the WeRateDogs guy is compelled to speak out about your product’s dangerous normalization of surveillance that may be subverted by the state, you’ve clearly crossed the line.

Congratulations @travisaweisse.bsky.social !!! (His "Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness" is shortlisted for the AAHM George Rosen Prize)

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

Search/Contribute to this open-source project mapping license plate readers. deflock.org

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Dinosaur Convention Bans All Paleontologists Named in Epstein Files www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

"Real feel" of -11? Great morning to make bread...

THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH A HISTORY MAJOR

A lot of people were worried about Italy executing the Olympics, but I've been really impressed by the mechanics (how they got the parallel giant slamon snowboarders back to the top so fast?). NBC's coverage? Not so much - anyone else notice all the (I assume) AI generated errors?

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

what a shot

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

I'm kicking myself now for not checking to see if "French, Middle" was also an option.

My daughter's pediatrician updated their patient portal and they allow "English, Middle (1100-1500)" as one of the options for "Primary Language." #medievalsky

Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50 Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it

HSS Dissertation Travel Grant to support travel to sources for PhD students in history of science and technology working on their dissertation. Grants may be up to US$2,500. Grad students from any university are eligible Deadline Tuesday, March 31. hssonline.org/page/dissert... #HPS

“All over my neighborhood we keep finding empty cars, the glass shattered into diamonds on the snow, the people missing. Tiny private automotive kristallnachts, everywhere and ongoing.”

Another ski lesson, another good book to read in the lodge.

Trump confirms he has nominated Kevin Warsh as Fed Chair. Warsh is married to Jane Lauder, the billionaire heiress to the Estée Lauder cosmetics company. His father-in-law is Ronald Lauder—a longtime friend of Trump and close ally of Netanyahu—who has reportedly pushed for annexation of Greenland.

They are all Black journalists and Black politicians. Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are journalists. Trahern Jean Crews ran for Minnesota's House District 66B. Jamael Lydell Lundy is running for Minnesota Senate District 65.

BREAKING: Judge dismisses murder, weapons charges against alleged UnitedHealth CEO killer Mangione reut.rs/45Fin56

For the weekend that's in it, why not read a Life of St Brigid, or, Betha Brigte. An Leabhar Breac (RIA MS 23 P 16) contains a copy of the Life on starting on p. 61. You can see the "incipit" (Latin for "beginning") outlined in red pigment here, with Brigte spilling over from one line onto another.

The climatologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The epidemiologist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The activist told me historians will wonder why we didn’t do more. The historian told me that nobody listens to historians.

Thinking about how many Americans feel this way about at least one family member right now.

Fully Funded PhD in Climate Change – ETH Zurich, Switzerland. PhD role in atmospheric & climate science modelling Eligibility: Master’s in meteorology, climate science or related field Deadline: 14 Mar 2026 Apply: higherjobz.com/fully-funded... #AcademicJobs #ClimateScience #PhD #HigherJobz @ethz.ch

People act like northerners who shovel themselves out are so tough, but we literally get fined by the city if we don't. That being said...

Get yourself the kind of neighbors who exchange snowblowing you out in exchange for fresh baked sourdough.

Solo parenting in a snowmageddon - it's started...

Every time there's a major weather event on the way, I'm reminded of the brilliant work of my friend Angela Frederick. A crucial discussion of how disabled people are made more vulnerable in disasters, and what disabled people do to survive in spite of it.

Proud of our MHB faculty Dr. Pablo F. Gómez! His new book Bloody Numbers reveals how the Atlantic slave trade invented modern ways of quantifying human bodies. Stunning cover, essential read, coming June 2026. go.wisc.edu/utf88a. #MedicalHistory @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Job at my beloved undergrad alma mater: VAP in #histsci #histmed at UW-Madison, due Jan 28. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/visitin...

The Shryock Medal, given for the best unpublished paper written by a graduate student, is also still accepting nominations: histmed.org/shryock-medal/ #histmed

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left. See? We just need to talk to each other.

Hello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social

Heated Rivalry (1935)

Mamdani & Hochul just announced a universal pre-K expansion. What are these stories?

This reminds me of the websites you can use to calculate the cost of a meeting based on the time and salary of the attendees.