Continuing to have fun with our pediatricians patient portal language choices.

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.

Gonna wear my "Wisconsin: Center of the Women's Hockey Universe" shirt in Las Vegas to remind the other 3 schools there that they are inferior for not having women's NCAA programs.

In 2006, Wisconsin hockey pulled off the double natty. We're very much alive for that again 20 years later.

If it helps enhance the happiness of the moment, Stephen Miller went to Duke.

Fascinating article - not only because I went through 10 infertility treatments to achieve a live birth myself, but methodologically in relation to my dissertation. How do historians study things that people don't want to talk about?

Happy Robyn to all who celebrate

As a huge Station Eleven fan, this is so exciting!

This free #online session from the research team at The National Archives explores the complexities of working with records related to medical scandals, terrorism, and personal trauma. Suitable for the archivist, researcher, or heritage professional 📆Weds 15 April 🕰️1:00 - 2:00 pm GMT+1 #histmed

“Title IX” was right there

I'm already getting posts on my algorithm touting how SFO doesn't have long security lines because they already privatized their security screening. The messaging has started.

RT with Alttext ✍️📷 #Project2025 calls for privatizing #TSA. That's why they're not funding.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

Wow, this looks like a cool job for the right person!

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

Good time to check your streets sewer drains and make sure they are clear of last fall's yard waste!

Accidentally oversleeping due to the start of Daylight Saving hits different when you have to get a kid to school.

Just your yearly reminder that Daylight Saving is neither plural nor possessive! (looking at you, Strands)

This morning I encountered the third different cafe in the past few months telling me they were out of Earl Grey. Are we in an Earl Grey supply chain crisis?

I can only imagine what dosage you would need for shingles (which I have also had - but a very small case while on a research trip where I couldn't access health care)!

Our director, Nick Bassill, was happy to chat with Aylin Woodward at the WSJ about our nor'easter, which will be remembered for a long time.

Such sad news. A kind and brilliant man. I love his essay on the use of phones in 2000s Filipino political culture and mobilization, “The Cell Phone and the Crowd;” it’s powerful for its rejection of technological determinism, and its nuance and subtlety. Rest in peace, Vince.

Obviously, turning down Trump's invitation could have been done out of spite, but I prefer the more likely reason - these women really ARE too busy with their actual jobs and schoolwork, because female athletes have to hustle just to play their sport.

Teaching the history of science is fun because you get to pull up images like this and be like "let's unpack this"

I knew about the merging of departments, but not about the closure of the advising center. Our university would collapse without our academic advisors!

If you want to know when Trump will start bombing Iran, he is waiting for the Olympics to be over. Dictators always wait for the Olympics to end before they attack other countries.

I love how at least one competitor stated that she just assumed she was hallucinating - that's how intense the sport is.

The women's free skate and hockey final are at the same time, which should be illegal.

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?