Republicans have long claimed a monopoly on “values” issues. But this year, we’re witnessing a renewal of our tradition of moral engagement with our common life, the economy, social justice, technological revolution — and what we owe each other. My column www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/o...

OK #MedievalSky and #Skystorians: early career job klaxon! A post on my new project 'Strange Geographies: Spatial Imaginaries of Medieval Britain', 30 months (with poss. of extension). Details at jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @royalhistsoc.org @memorients.bsky.social @imc-leeds.bsky.social

This is a really lovely interrogation of the use of AI in astrophysics that gets to this fundamental question—are we doing science because we want to know the answer (by any means) or because we like doing science? + www.science.org/content/arti...

Read this article in the Chicago Sun-Times all the way to the end.

Reupping: "Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice." ---Trump on 1/13/21, after the House impeached him but before the Senate had voted on whether to convict.

in dealing with a quasi-king, one king (also head of a church) and the pope (also head of a state) have performed better than others

King Charles:“Distinguished members of the 119th Congress, it is here in these very halls that this spirit of liberty and the promise of America’s Founders is present in every session and every vote cast. Not by the will of one, but by the deliberation of many”

Beautiful rendering of a familiar figure.

Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science are now on Bluesky! 🔭📚 @hpscambridge.bsky.social

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Micheál Martin to Donald Trump: “You cannot be a rogue state with a nuclear weapon.”

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

Fantastic kicker from @oliviacgeorge.bsky.social here: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Time: Asked if Americans should be worried abt attacks at home: I guess. Daily Mail: The White House blocked release of FBI/NCTC warning of elevated risks.

Nicolaus Copernicus was born 19 February 1473. @karlgalle.bsky.social's biographical sketch of his life & work #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/05/24/p...

A giant wind farm in Wyoming died after facing permitting delays. In Indiana, a solar project stalled after the Trump administration blocked it from using a taxpayer-funded database. A federal permitting ‘blockade’ is hitting renewables projects hard. Story with @bradplumer.bsky.social:

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

A DHS statement claimed “an individual approached US Border Patrol officers” with “a handgun” in the Alex Pretti shooting incident. A Bellingcat analysis of the footage appears to show that a gun was taken away from where Pretti was situated by an agent just before the first shot was fired.

Just shared by Samuel Gessner @sgessner.bsky.social via the Rete mailing list: The great programme of the international conference “Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in #Libraries”, 14–15 January 2026 at @mhngeneve.bsky.social. #histstm #histsci #medievalsky @stephenaj.bsky.social

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

There's room for another historian (or anthropologist) at @girtoncollege.bsky.social ! 3-year postdoc research fellowship, apply by 12 January! www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Today, the AHA & CREW filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit against the federal government over the university’s ability to host foreign scholars and students. The brief conveys the importance of international scholars and students to American higher education. 🗃️

Of 107 democracies studied by @pewresearch.org, only one other country uses the same redistricting approach as the US, that is, single-member districts drawn mainly by state legislatures: the Federated States of Micronesia, with a population of around 100,000. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Good first take on the rumored successor to Cardinal Dolan as archbishop of New York.

A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.” It’s almost as if there were signs!

Print dictionaries: the original large language models 11/18/25

A judge ordered agents involved in the Chicago deportation blitz to have "visible identification … prominently displayed." But they've been missing in dozens of @chicago.suntimes.com photographs. From @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social, Anthony Vazquez and Ashlee Rezin: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.”

“[T]o those immigrants without documents. Most of you have been here for years. You have worked hard. You have raised families. You have contributed to this nation. You have earned our respect.… You are our brothers and sisters. We stand with you. God bless you all.”

*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels

we can destroy that (aspirational)

Full homily text. adw.org/news/wdmr-ho...

US Magistrate Judge Vaala trying to untangle Lindsey Halligan's first adventure in indicting someone:

Celebrating 40 years of Music and Poetry of the Kesh by Ursula K. Le Guin and Todd Barton. 4pm this Wednesday afternoon at the IWA in UL. Tower Seminar organized by Dr Aileen Dillane. www.ul.ie/irish-world-...

You can search the Museum of Northern Arizona collections online. Go to musnaz.org/collections/ and tap the Collections Online button.

Gonzalez’s art is “a way of pointing out the hypocrisy within a sector of the population that is anti-immigrant yet considers themselves Christian.”

Well done Senator Gallego.

Book review: The history of science in Islamicate culture #histsci thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/t...

US colleagues in #philsci #sts #histsci #histmed, please encourage your students to consider the Gates Cambridge Scholarships. Deadline for US residents is October 15th. They need to first apply for admission to the Department of HPS for MPhil or PhD (2026 entry) www.hps.cam.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Is Connecticut’s experience with privatized hospitals a foretaste of what West Virginia looks forward to? governor.wv.gov/article/gove...

The Hopi Tribe in Arizona has to tell 650 households that the electricity they were getting through the $7 billion Solar for All program was canceled. "It feels like we stepped back 100 years," Hopi Chairman Tim Nuvangyaoma said of the government's broken promise. tinyurl.com/ym959wcu

“The president, she said, could end up playing a role like that of Boris Yeltsin, who brought on the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. ‘Trump is deconstructing the United States, just as Yeltsin deconstructed the Soviet Union.’”

“As an experienced papal diplomat told me a few weeks ago: ‘What is happening in the U.S. today reminds me of Cuba.’ Making America ‘great again’ is not a response to external threats but rather a campaign against internal ‘enemies.’”

kind of Ordo amoris according to Vatican II (from Orm Rush’s 2019 book)

“The influential writer William F. Buckley Jr. once defined a conservative as someone standing athwart history and yelling, ‘Stop!’ Mr. Trump seems to be standing athwart history yelling, ‘Go back!’”

Republicans may lie about what's in their budget bill but the numbers sure don't.

@padilla.senate.gov Thought you’d be interested in this.

Too soon, too close.

Modern miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.