President Trump's approach to treaties is more aligned with monarchs from the Middle Ages than modern governments and risks "the death of the entire U.S. treaty system", write Prof. Duncan Hollis (@duncanhollis.bsky.social) and Prof. Gregory Fox in @foreignpolicy.com. https://bit.ly/4gFgMQN

Superb essay by @jamellebouie.net on how the hyped-up unitary executive theory is built on a distorted conception of the President’s superior democratic legitimacy, and why it’s extreme application would fundamentally upend our constitutional order. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion writer fired this month for her social media posts about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has filed a grievance arguing that she should have been allowed to share her views on news events under the company’s labor agreement and social media policy.

The Trump administration is trying to destroy the Fair Housing Act. The FHA is the third leg of the stool to social equality among the races, so it’s no surprise the white supremacist government wants it gone. It must be saved. My latest in @thenation.com

I suspect that might have been a sh*tpost intended to get engagement and possibly even vice signaling (Olúfémi O. Táíwò)*. *And not for nothing, if folks properly cited Black scholars and authors (including with their screenshots in post and/or alt-text), it might help. Citation is the issue.

"I do not know how to live and write and thrive in a world where working for decency and fairness and equity can be seen as incivility, where it can result in threats on my life, or those of my family"

Really important piece by Roxane Gay: “Civility obsessives love a silver-tongued devil, wearing a nice suit, sporting a tidy haircut, while whispering sweet bigotries.” 🎁 link: @roxanegay.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

An absolutely essential 🧵 for #AcademicSky

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?

De retour à l’antenne, Jimmy Kimmel défend la liberté d’expression face aux pressions de Donald Trump : «Le président des Etats-Unis se réjouit que des Américains perdent leur emploi parce qu’il ne supporte pas une blague»

As paper titles involving TB go, this one using the rhyming Fc is not bad... (also a good synopsis of an important paper) #IDSky #TBSky #immunosky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Check out this Smithsonian Magazine article on the Sycamore Gap Tree. It discusses solving the mystery of the iconic tree's age and the DH Lab's role in this fascinating new research www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/b... #SycamoreGap #DHLab #Digital #Humanities #DigitalHumanities #RTI #Historic

🇺🇸 "Un gouvernement qui menace de faire taire un comédien que le président n'aime pas est anti-Américain". L'humoriste Jimmy Kimmel s'est fait le chantre de la liberté d'expression mardi soir à l'occasion de son retour à la télévision. ➡️ u.afp.com/SWpU

Hard to express to those not in the weeds just how much the current state of the immigration detention system is just utter chaos.

I think…people’s obsession with “a cause”…is precisely because autism’s genetic randomness is hard to stratify by social class……………..

Another important lecture in this series: @fancynahyan.bsky.social talking on "In Ibn al-Nafis' Shadow Transformations in Medical Theory in Islamic Societies (1200-1520)," Oct. 7: csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin.... #histmed #MedievalMedicine #MedievalSky

So often I went from Berlin to #GöbekliTepe in the past 20 years or so - but finally the Tepe is coming to Berlin! 😉 🏺 www.trtworld.com/article/a7e6...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

10 days left to apply for our job in African-American History! We are planning to offer generous startup support to help our new faculty succeed on the path to tenure. Also, Kalamazoo is a fun town: this weekend is a multicultural music festival, a mac&cheese bakeoff, Emanuel Ax, & Come from Away.

It can help to assemble envelopes and forever stamps in advance, some even pre-addressed, like to a congressional delegation and state reps.

Finally reading the full Gold Card EO and wow is it wild. The order says that any person who pays $1 million is, by definition, a person of "exceptional business ability" and therefore qualified for an EB-2 visa. Does anything better sum up the Trump ethos than "all rich people are exceptional."?

Wired just killing it as most mainstream media cowers pathetically

New work on the genetic imprint of Indian Ocean slave trade on the populations of South Africa: www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltex... 🧪🗃️

Kudos to my colleagues @jimmillward.bsky.social and Chandra Manning for organizing and leading this effort. 🗃️

Look who figured out how to upload a thing to her new hcommons page after deleting academia dot edu in a huff Res humiles: Boccaccio and Biblical Allegory works.hcommons.org/records/09vx...

“The question of whether it is safe to take the pain-relieving & antipyretic drug paracetamol (sometimes called acetaminophen) during pregnancy flares up from time to time.” This sentence was written before the latest flare up orchestrated by a pair of crackpots. #IllnessPolitics

📺 Fantastic to see @spotlightcorruption.org’s research included in the brilliant ITV documentary ‘The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money’, which was screened on Sunday night. Here’s @suehawley.bsky.social explaining how much of the PPE sourced from the VIP Lane turned out to be unusable.

In happier + more PRAGMATIC news: Here’s hoping that Ms. Scott’s action inspires Melinda French-Gates, Oprah, Deb Lee, Lorene Powell to take similar action NOW 👇🏾

Looking forward! I'll also me mentioning La sfera, as the collaborative translation comes out from Italica Press on October 1!

Tonight at 7: a conversation with @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about how to go beyond a rent freeze to long term affordability. Watch here: www.youtube.com/live/W7cc19q...

REMINDER: Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period. White men saw the largest job increase 一 365,001* 一 among groups * = added Jimmy Kimmel who got his job back! 😒

We refuse to stand idly by as this administration, with the stroke of a pen, takes away good-paying union jobs from workers. We took over the House floor to call out Trump’s anti-jobs agenda and stand with workers✊

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win www.cnn.com/2025/09/22/e...

This Wednesday! macmillan.yale.edu/africa/event...

Trump again just implied that the MMR vaccine causes autism. Many studies have shown that there is no relationship between MMR vaccine and the development of autism. This one followed every single child born in Denmark from 1991 through 1998 (n=537,303). There was no association.

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

Academia[dot]edu account has been closed. See downthread for screenshots of the program. Bordeaux, 14-16 October, "Les hommes et la peste: Hommage à Jean-Noël Biraben." #Plague #histmed #MedievalSky #aDNA #PandemicThinking 🧪🗃️

Academia tries to address many inequalities in research but speaking English is one of the big ones and it's hardly ever acknowledged - in the English speaking world

We needed someone with the skill and ability to force the sides to a compromise and avoid this ending in litigation. That person’s Ted Cooke. www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Just cancelled Disney+. I've seen arguments that this could hurt good creators, and we should focus instead on taking down Iger and those fully responsible for bowing to fascist censorship. But currently, as an overwhelmed individual in another country, what else can I do to send a message?

Maybe we should refer to "generative AI" as "calculated mediocrity."

I had the great honor of representing Madagascar at the 15th International Symposium on Yersinia in Mongolia, where researchers working on the challenges posed by plague and other yersiniosis presented their work. I also presented some of the results of my PhD on the phylogeography of Y. pestis.

We found that #TB epidemics are rapidly urbanising, with profound implications for care and prevention programmes. There are big differences between countries and global regions in the timing of urbanisation of TB epidemics, likely driven by demographic changes.

Julius Scott, The Common Wind

For all who celebrate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

47 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican were digitized this week www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025... Includes another Sanvito-rubricated work, Beneventan fragments, Diaries, Classics, Philosophy, Strozzi's _Eroticon_, and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

Hahahaha Academia Dot Your Stuff Is Yours messed up so badly that Humanities Commons is currently down, lol When it comes back, scholar friends, go get yourself a profile at a place that won't steaI from you

Come share all your papers! about.hcommons.org Also, you only need an account to upload. If you just want to read and download PDFs, you don't need to register.