Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching

Durba Mitra got denied tenure???? WTAF??? What else was she supposed to do, Harvard?

If anyone is curious why New Hampshire isn’t in, I would recommend reading up their bear problem newrepublic.com/article/1596...

Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a standing order that serves as a prescription allowing anyone to get a COVID vaccine at a pharmacy or clinic. The Maine Bureau of Insurance also issued a bulletin reminding insurers that they must fully cover the vaccine under state law.

***Job Opportunity*** Assistant Professor, Early Modern European History, Brown University 43/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69085/b...

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

!!!!!!!!!! So excited!!!!!!!

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

An absolute barnburner by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social! www.thenation.com/article/soci...

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

I’m so sad I am not teaching Frankenstein this semester. This is too perfect.

I’ve found my personal inner circle of hell

I would like to know this too; I guess I'm also curious what the platform for a formal response *to* the AHA might look like

This ‘blue states closed schools too long’ narrative is becoming increasingly entrenched in the Polite Center but it’s arguable at best. Republican states had far more deaths during COVID and their students have roughly comparable learning loss.

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Apparently Ana Marie Cox feels like reporting on seeing a glimpse of a candidate’s boxers IS essential because she blocked me over this tweet. This is the story I’m talking about: newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Platner comes across really well in this story — the closing quote is a banger — but Jesus this is some condescending reporting. Was it necessary to include her glimpse of the waist of his boxer shorts while he was working? Was this her first encounter with people who do manual labor?

This framing is total nonsense (Boston is a safe and clean city! Including South Station!). But my question is, who buys this rhetorical framing? Justifying military occupations because of “cleanliness”? They’re really flailing.

Someday I want to see a historian pretend to be a scientist and get published in Nature, a magazine that is very good at publishing scientists pretending to be historians.

This is such a no-brainer that the lack of a coordinated response feels deeply damning. A Democratic leadership team that can't mobilize an instant all-hands-on-deck effort on RFK Jr. isn't a leadership team at all.

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

Loving this episode so far BUT there's a bit where they lump in people worried about receipts being toxic with general overblown fears about chemicals and such. However, AFAIK, the receipt thing is real! Thermal paper is coated in BPA and BPS and you absorb it through your skin very quickly.

We can’t find the money to save children from drowning but there’s always plenty for ICE, military parades, and making the White House uglier.

The New York Times thought "Harvard President Might've Paraphrased Instead of Cited Many Years Ago" was the biggest story in the country for multiple days, requiring numerous top headlines and follow-on pieces. Then, as now, a noticeable variable was Black Woman in Prestigious Job.

Actual evidence about the 50 words some think tank wants Democrats to stop using (spoiler: they never really started)

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for: 1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature. 2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

Is this…supposed to be impressive? Because, listen, if anyone ever posted a video of me performing such mediocre feats of athleticism at this tortoise pace, they’d be my enemy for life.

It’s August in Maine, which means the whole state is swarming with tourists, and I just want them to all go away.

The #AHR is seeking proposals for a special issue on methodological approaches to archival silences in early history. Visit our website to read the full call for proposals and learn more about the guidelines for submission. Proposals are due September 16.

Do any #HistMed #HistSci #Museums people know how large #EarlyModern apothecary storage boxes might have been? @rouge1767.bsky.social and I are wondering...

I have something controversial to say. Andor is smarter than Wednesday but Wednesday has better writing (and definitely better editing).

This is a risky fight to pick IMO, because I’d wager that there’s no group of doctors more beloved than pediatricians. Unlike, say, epidemiologists, parents see pediatricians regularly and get to know them very well. So, yeah, we’ll see how this goes.

Just sharing the “Xtreme endnotes” assignment @parisnoire.bsky.social mentions here in case anyone else finds it helpful as we begin a new academic year. FWIW, it’s a purely analog exercise in an AI-freaky world & my students have never not had fun doing it.✌🏽 www.historians.org/perspectives...

Reviews by my children (8 and 10) of big summer movies we saw this year: 1. Superman: doggo!!!!!!! 2. Fantastic Four: it was funny when the baby had a dirty diaper. 3. Jurassic Park (1993): loved it!!!! 9/10, loses a point for being “so so so old, like Mom and Dad”

having thought about this for three days, my current status is: what the FUCK are we doing trying to ban social media for kids and not banning AI use? we are literally telling them not to use the computer to talk to their real friends but instead to the imaginary technology monetisable 'friends'.

Please imagine my astonishment when I went to open a chapter I thought I hadn’t touched since October only to discover that I revised it substantially in February, while preparing a talk on it.

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And speaking of Sara Gideon: please let her be a cautionary tale. So many people were rightly upset with Collins donated to Gideon's campaign. Maybe she was always going to win, but she had SO much money as a result she didn't really participate in the primary: no debates, no real engagement.

The absolute whiplash this gives me from the last Dem to run for Collins's seat! www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpWw...

I’ve written extensively about the epidemic proportions of Victorian syphilis/its effect on children—and how it inspired Dracula (the embodiment of a predator that sucks the life of women and children). I cannot believe we are seeing it rise again. There is a #vaccine in development.. or. There WAS.

Also, why the hell would I be mad at someone for living in a rent stabilized apartment??????? Everyone should be able to live in rent stabilized housing!!!! That’s the whole point!!!!! OMG!!!!! I’m going to snap!!!!!!