Shout out to Sen Sanders. But actually AG James will do the formal swearing in: “The public event will follow, by about 13 hours, the official swearing-in ceremony ... Letitia James, the New York attorney general, will administer that oath of office at around midnight on New Year’s Eve.”

In all seriousness though - the collection was crucial for my dissertation because mothers rarely leave clapbacks at expert advice like they do in baby books.

Colleagues at UCSB's 2035 Initiative are recruiting a post-doctoral fellow in Climate & Energy Politics recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03041 #psjminfo

UCLA's biomedical library's baby book collection included the actual pin a baby swallowed, a parent's rendering of "baby's first cigarette," and mug shot themed baby announcements.

@thesquareball.net lads, another benefit of VPN's: If you set it to Albania and watch youtube, you won't get any ads, just trying it successfully now

Every time I watch a Frontline episode (the most recent one: "Growing up Poor in America") I get so depressed, but I keep watching every episode because I feel like it's a civic duty. youtu.be/WTbo4gb_c3o?...

Maple Creemees

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

One of my fondest memories of my grandmother was watching Rick Steves with her - she firmly believed that travel made you a better person.

Reading about young white women’s anti-feminism in the NYT (I can’t believe we’re doing this still/again) & feeling compelled to share this forthcoming book from @sunypress.bsky.social: WHITE WOMAN’S BURDEN, on c19/20 predecessors of these domestic femininity boosters sunypress.edu/Books/W/Whit...

Our personal holiday recession indicators: only stockings for the adults, no gifts for daughter's cousins (we used to send books from A Room of One's Own in Madison, WI), fewer holiday cards sent, Santa's gift (telescope) purchased used on FB marketplace. And we both got raises this year...

#5 is interesting because, like a good chunk of my primary sources I vehemently disagree with. Dear students, I do not endorse bloodletting, the use of mercury, or Edward H. Clarke’s theory on why women shouldn’t go to college.

I want JStor unwrapped… This year you started 36 articles and finished 2.

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

Would it be terribly annoying if I posted about things that have made my academic work more... efficient?

Adding immediately www.wired.com/story/chrome...

OMG - my post partum experience at a teaching hospital. Nurse going off shift, nurse going on shift, student nurse ditto, OB doc, OB resident, PED doc, PED resident. It was a rotating door and I had severe preeclampsia and they kept telling me to relax and rest, while interrupting every 30 minutes.

Oh no, not David Brooks! /sarcasm

One of the things I emphasize to my first year experience students is that in the age of AI, what will set their resume/interview apart is having demonstrable/measurable non-AI skills - emotional intelligence, creativity, etc.

The program looks amazing - looking forward to it!

The truly scary thing here is that this family followed vaccination protocol. They were all vaccinated and the mother had the booster. Baby was too young to have gotten the first shot. But she still ended up getting sick and almost dying. We're losing herd immunity to a lot of preventable diseases.

SSHM invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy Porter Essay Prize for the best original and unpublished essay in #histmed 🏆£500 first prize Open to all students (registered at the deadline for entries or were awarded their degree in 2025). For the entry form and rules and eligibility see👇 #histmed

I was really bummed to miss the 75th anniversary celebration of my PhD granting Department (but it was for a good reason - it was held on the week I started my new position at the University at Albany - Director of General Studies!) wmaa.med.wisc.edu/quarterly/vo...

The AHA recognizes that our colleagues in the federal govt. are facing unprecedented workforce reductions & furloughs & has compiled resources in support. We are offering one year of free membership in the AHA to former employees of the federal govt. who have been terminated or resigned since 1/20.

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Destroying our country's ability to predict severe weather just to retaliate against a state for not pardoning someone for election fraud.

And HEAP's (Home Energy Assistance Program) budget was cut by a third. Both my parents rely on that program to heat their homes in rural Vermont.

I highly recommend the book Vaccine Nation by historian Elena Conis. She has a chapter on exactly how & why people used to think measles was a harmless childhood illness and how the development of a vaccine allowed researchers to better understand how serious of a disease it is (control groups, etc)

"First-gen programs, when done right, are not remedial. They are revolutionary. They teach institutions how to become more humane, equitable and responsive. They’re not just about tutoring or financial literacy; they’re about belonging." 👇🏾

When I read "risked his life" I didn't think immediately of risking getting shot by the shooter, but that he would be caught holding the gun by the police - notice how as soon as the threat was under hand he put the gun down and his hands up.

Sounds like it's working exactly as Project 2025 hoped - forcing women out of the workforce and into unpaid domestic labor.

I made a Chrome extension that swaps Times New Roman for Calibri on every site or just .gov. It also had Open Sans and Open Dyslexic, because f**k these people. I’m waiting for Google’s approval for it to install automatically, but you can download it and install it in 90 seconds. Instructions 👇

this isn't the point but it is funny and kind of a broader point that the focus of the subhead is "architects" and then they replaced what was, in the original photo, labourers.

Enjoying Ken Burns's American Revolution? Like comics? I highly recommend Rebels: A Well-Regulated Militia www.goodreads.com/book/show/26...

If want stuff to get done - hire and promote capable women ✔️

BANANAS that academics make their single busiest month of the year (finals, grades, next term advance advising, syllabizing, letters of rec) coincide with the single zaniest month of the year for women-types (shopping, baking, gift wrapping, decorating, hosting). conclude fall term in january!

I don’t know that this will get much attention but it should

I turn 50 next year and I just realized what that means - a whole new batch of vaccines that I'm eligible for!

I recently took my father to his rural Vermont hospital and he remarked that the list of practitioners on the board at check-in was significantly smaller than it used to be. There were literally only two medical doctors listed.

“It’s really exciting to me that air quality improved throughout the entiremetro area,” said Fraser. “This tells us that congestion pricing didn’t simply relocate air pollution to the suburbs by rerouting traffic. Instead, folks are likely choosing cleaner transportation options altogether”

I don't do Spotify (see: funding war, ice commercials, joe rogan, artist compensation, algorithms ruining taste). I listen to my own music, stream radio & use the public library's Libby app 4 audiobooks. BUT I can tell you my 2025 wrapped bcuz this is the playlist my daughter made me play in the car

Curious about all the historical research and historical amicus briefs that Justice Kagan referenced at the Slaughter oral arguments? @lmillerkaralunas.bsky.social has you covered with this annotated guide and links to the key historical briefs: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

It's over. Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut. www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...

I'm having a boomer moment because I refuse to use Patreon or Substack.

This is a totally savage and fatal mauling of Big Collagen.

Some really good suggestions here that you could employ for any situation, not for just trauma survivors.

Daughter's school is cancelled for snow. Campus is not. I teach today.

View and search the National AIDS memorial Quilt: www.aidsmemorial.org/interactive-... #WorldAIDSDay