👋🏿 Next week is my VERY LAST in person lab exam and I'm $905 short of the coin needed to get me there/back cause Oct. gigs were iffy. Thank you for rocking with me through 2.5 yrs of continuous calamity. This is the last 13.8% of this campaign. Every bit helps.

Some of Britain’s biggest investment groups including Schroders, the state-backed Nest pension platform and the giant universities retirement scheme voted against Elon Musk’s $1 trillion pay packet, it emerged on Friday

They were ready to use bayonets on Black citizens. The photo is good to remind some* people how Black folks fought for rights that some so carelessly relinquished. And how that bravery and sacrifice is being eraced.

That is reporting by the press, not making the analytic data available to the scientific community. The point is that only through seeing how certain mutations and clusters of mutations are spreading and accumulating can you handle on what is the next meaningful wave.

Thank you for keeping on him, I'm one of the 813,000 in Arizona District 7 WITH NO REPRESENTATION SINCE MARCH! Sorry for yelling, I'm pretty hot about it.

Historians of medicine & science, take note! #histSTEM #histmed

I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear: This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited. The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.

The most incredible library in the world, @bodleian.ox.ac.uk opened to OTD 1602, through the energy, money & commitment of Sir Thomas Bodley. It began with 5k books, & now more than 22m, with 2m+reader visits a year, & multi-million online users across the globe. Privilged to be its 25th librarian!

If only the Speaker put half as much energy into governing as he does into avoiding work. He still hasn’t sworn in Representative-elect Grijalva, people are hungry, planes are grounded, and Republicans are on vacation. They’re showing you exactly who they are. Believe them.

Her role as one of the first structural virologists is underappreciated.

BREAKING: A federal jury in Brooklyn awarded our clients — 674 immigrants unlawfully jailed by the Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office — $112 million. Could not be more proud to work at @latinojustice.bsky.social and to partner with the talent of Winston & Strawn.

Just reminded of this bit I had in my notes, where Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani's (d. 1449) Merits of the Plague says this about Ibn al-Wardi's plague treatise. These chains of transmission are how we will show how Ibn al-Wardi's maqama came to have the influence it did. #histmed #MedievalSky

And it's not just the student readings that are available. There are also materials for instructors: PowerPoint slides already prepared & tied to the lessons; guides for individualizing your lesson plan; & assessment exercises. Register here: www.history21.com/wp-login.php.... And again, all free!

That's what the teaching module is for! You can find a summary of the Big Bang Theory in Lesson 3, pp. 6-8. An analysis of Ibn al-Wardi's maqama ibid., pp. 2-3. And an analysis of what an earlier chronology means for Black Death persecutions in Lesson 4. www.history21.com/owit-module/.... All free!

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

In a previous article that we published in 2019, we showed evidence that: "Donor exits can create shocks to a country’s health system—affecting human resources for health, service delivery, medicines and technologies, and health financing" 3/n journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Mexique : après son agression, la présidente lance un plan national contre les violences sexuelles

The pope has signed on to the STS agenda.

Measles outbreak on Utah-Arizona border continues to grow. Latest from Arizona Republic: www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

#MedievalSky #histmed

Thank you and @monicamedhist.bsky.social for this work and for sharing this open access. It's supremely helpful to have comprehensive but manageable works for those of us teaching outside this field. I look forward to reading this in full & updating my lecture

Ironically, many Mongolists are trying to argue that this displacement of the bacterium did not take place during the 13th century invasions and migrations but somehow later in the 14th century through trade networks (many of which were collapsing), a point made by Norris in 1977 4/4

and her and my joint article which introduces the concept of the prodrome of the pandemic www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 3/4

For the most up-to-date assessment of that taking into account historical documents, genetics and archaeology, check out (both open access): www.history21.com/owit-module/... 2/4

Thanks for engaging. Actually, @monicamedhist.bsky.social 's point is that the Mongols unwittingly displaced the bacterium in the 13th century during their mass movements and invasions. That is the origin of the BD and not mid-14th c. 1/4

The arc of history is a foot-long, but it bends towards justice.

Are they really going to let jurors take unauthorized replicas of the weapon into the jury room???

The latest Pasts Imperfect is out! @rhigarthjones.bsky.social discusses Ottoman receptions of Roman antiquity. Then, Black Death mythbusting; wampum beads in Canada; celebrating Native American Heritage Month; ancient Mexican coprolites; ancient world journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more!

Sandwich Guy jurors had a question for the court: “How is injury different from bodily harm?”

 After some debate, Judge Nichols told them that "injury" and "bodily harm" mean the same thing. “Good luck with the continued deliberations," he said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Well, some of it was likely slow & incremental. And other parts were likely aided by human transport mechanisms. Several of us historians of medicine have been laying this argument out incrementally for the past 5 years. The problem of reliance on the 15thC historians has always been clear.

Thrilled to have this piece by Omar Muhammed & @fancynahyan.bsky.social out now. I'll be using it tomorrow in a talk at UC-Merced on "Where Do Pandemics Come From? Using Black Death Narratives to Rethink the Origin of Pandemics." Or the question we really need to ask: when are pandemics? A quick 🧵.

Reposting this 🧵 on the crucial importance of knowing where our pandemic narratives come from. #histmed #MedievalSky #EpiSky 🧪🗃️

Well worth your time for a quick read: Maria A. Nieves-Colón, "Commentary on Special Issue: “Towards a Biocultural Synthesis of the Peopling of the Americas”, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... A field transformed!

BREAKING: Book banning extremist group “Moms For Liberty” LOST ALL 31 of their races. Moms for Liberty is now 0-59 in contested school board races since 2023. This is what happens when communities have had enough and say NO to book bans!

Nancy Pelosi will not seek reelection

I associate lions with Africa. A creature of the Serengeti. And I wouldn't be entirely wrong: of the ~30,000 wild lions on Earth, /almost/ all are in eastern & southern Africa. But Hercules slew the Nemean lion in GREECE. Let's talk about the ASIATIC lions of INDIA.

cc: @thirdactaz.bsky.social

She knows it, and it has been acknowledged several times, but I can still never thank @monicamedhist.bsky.social enough for all her work, help and conversations over the last 13 years in transforming my work, generally, and more specifically related to plague and disease history.

THIS is why a healthy society doesn't censor political cartoonists.

Thanks to @mollyglick.bsky.social for this write up of our recently published article on plague maqamas for @nautil.us #plague #histmed www.yahoo.com/news/article...

German article from Oct 28th on the new climate justice case of 43 farmers from Pakistan against companies RWE and Heidelberg Materials. Really pleased that the district court OLG Hamm had ruled in May that damage attribution and suing for €€ recompense is possible under German law. Elsewhere too?

We are in a Republican health care crisis.

‘At the mercy of nature’: How the Caribbean is dealing with the unprecedented Hurricane Melissa

WCK Founder José Andrés spoke with @cnn.com's David Culver on the importance of moving quickly to support Jamaican families impacted by Hurricane Melissa. Aid is needed urgently as communities begin rebuilding & WCK’s #ChefsForJamaica teams are doing everything we can to reach people in need. (1/2)

From the Guardian. Cartoonist Ella Baron.

Finally, this map of Belmont reveals even more destruction. The impact of Hurricane Melissa is immense, and this imagery offers a clear look at the storm’s power. Full Map👉 : soaratlas.com/maps/139613?... Use the transparency slider to compare with the basemap and see the changes for yourself!

🚨 Alongside 100+ Vantor maps, you can now explore high resolution aerial imagery from NOAA, captured after Hurricane Melissa. This area shows a solar farm where strong winds damaged and stripped panels. Look at the detail! Full Map 👉 : soaratlas.com/maps/139591?... #HurricaneMelissa #Jamaica