Anyone know a good/reasonably priced web designer? Squarespace just announced they’re raising my website subscription by 58%, so it’s time for us to part ways. I need someone to help me migrate my existing site to a good long-term platform (recommendations welcome).

A thing that’s great about this job is how we sometimes get to see far away friends like @meghankroberts.bsky.social in wonderful cities like Dublin and eat and drink and laugh and check the score in the first minutes of the game to see that Dembélé has already scored TWICE! #fchs26

Danish reporter Rasmus Svaneborg grills NATO's Rutte over his silence when US President Trump talks about conquering Greenland and lashes out at Spain. "Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit next to him like that and say nothing?"

me discovering theres no games today at the World Cup

the nerve of that racist Paraguayan senator to demand an apology from Mbappe

Now imagine what they do if the speaker you’ve invited isn’t a US citizen 😬

There is something deeply early-modern-historian-funny about Spain's path through the knockout rounds involving Austria, Portugal, and Belgium in succession, with either France or Morocco waiting in the semifinal if they advance.

Mbappe fires back at the racist Paraguayan senator who said he grew up with chimpanzees

The game is over and yet I am still swearing. What the everloving fuck was that?????!!

I literally cannot believe what I just watched

Usually my 9yo tries to get me to curb my profanity but even he gets that this France-Paraguay game calls for it

Yesssssss, this is exactly how I want to spend the 250th 4th of July.

It's not as damning as the >500,000 child deaths per year that Elon Musk personally caused, but, yes, he also personally caused our weather forecasts to be worse. All to run a larger deficit than 2024 when Biden was still President—which was intentional too, MAGA is 100% cruelty and theft.

No meme format dropped

you just know whichever suit is responsible for putting Alexi Lalas next to Thierry Henry and Zlatan Ibrahimovic has Big Thoughts about DEI and that's super funny to me

at some point before the end of this World Cup I want to hear Zlatan tell Alexi Lalas what he thinks of him on air and I think there’s a nonzero chance that happens

Honestly it’s amazing the US has any soccer fans given how much we all hate Alexi Lalas.

When you are told you have to work with Alexi Lalas for a month

You have to admire the poetry of the Knicks winning at just the right time to suck all the oxygen away from Trump’s silly little cage match. And <chef’s kiss> he tried to ride on their coattails and literally that was the one game they lost in the series. All he got were boos. Just beautiful.

I LOVE tailgating and I say this as someone who otherwise hates American car culture with a white hot passion

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

I too made this mistake once upon a time and oof

My feed is full of people half-heartedly defending Zotero (eg “I don’t use it but I guess it’s fine if you do”) and so let me say that I love Zotero utterly and completely and I’d be lost without it

Anyway idk why we’re picking on Zotero when EndNote is right there (sorry 2 my EndNote pals)

Using LLMs for translation can be so problematic, not only because of everything that @dgtam86.bsky.social so thoughtfully points out but also the historical policy of linguistic erasure and assimilation of Koreans under Japanese colonialism

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

This image is meant to be hyper-masculine and yet suggests Trump doesn’t know anything about soccer OR basketball. lol, what an amazing own goal

oh my gosh this looks incredible! And diamond open access as well! #EarlyModern h/t @wellreadnaturalist.bsky.social

Russell Vought at the Office of Management and Budget wants to destroy US science. It's time for Congress to step up. Biomedical research and innovation used to be a bipartisan issue--it must be again. Vought is a menace. www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...

It's June 1, which means the AHA election opens today. Members should keep an eye on their email for info about how to vote.

I just made my AHA ballot suggestion and wow I am so impressed by Wayne Zhang (candidate for the teaching division). Chicago public school teachers are just the best ♥️

I’ve long been skeptical of the claim that handwritten notes are better for recall than typed notes (I fare much better with a searchable digital note system). It seems like the 2014 study everyone cites has not been replicated? www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/wri...

Don't write your manuscript reviews using AI. DEFINITELY do not feed someone else's manuscript into AI and have it write the review for you.

This coming Monday! Very excited to have teamed up with the French History seminar for a discussion of Mélanie Lamotte's By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (@harvardpress.bsky.social) MON, 18 May, 17:30, zoom & in person @ihr.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians

In honor of e-publication week, Chris and I have launched a Substack. Follow for more than you ever wanted to know about the ivory sporks, wildly inaccurate maps, and emetic recipes that didn't make it into the book. #earlymodern #frenchhistory #skystorians open.substack.com/pub/frenchat...

What does a university have that Google cannot offer its workers? Art History departments, Classics departments, History departments, Music Theory, etc. The humanities are what distinguishes universities in an AI economy. Universities defunding the humanities are digging their own graves.

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

If you missed my RHS lecture last week, then you can catch a recorded version on the Society's website: see the link below :)

When a @rpanchasi.bsky.social essay comes out, you drop everything and start reading, and you admire the prose, learn new things, and come away with ideas that will sit with you for who knows how long. Same routine as usual here....

An absolutely fab essay by Roxanne Panchasi about the novel “History Lessons” and, more broadly, the stories we tell about academia

I will die on the hill of never doing this. I know about AI. I know about all of it. But I once did a (faulty!!!!) seminar where the leaders made this choice and imposed it on all of us, and I *hated* it.

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

“Edinburgh’s Unruly Women” is coming out in paperback this summer 😎 You can preorder here: www.routledge.com/Edinburghs-U... for hundreds of case studies of individual women who navigated their local church courts 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🩵📜 @routledgebooks.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @voicestcd.bsky.social

The hero we need in the last week of the semester

The hero we need in the last week of the semester

Mary Wollstonecraft warned you that women who are only objects of pity and love, due to their “fascinating graces,” their “soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, [and] delicacy of sentiment” — in a word, due to their weakness (and not strength) — “will soon become objects of contempt.”

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

I am finishing up a book on early modern news in Europe, and I think I am aware of most research published in English, French and German. But I want to cite, mention and refer to much more relevant literature done in Europe on the topic. So, #skystorians communities with knowledge of ... 1/2

Insane byline. What's the opposite of nightmare blunt rotation