When researchers are getting arrested, that's how you know you're in a very nonfascist, healthy democracy www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

The action taken by Steven Kahn, MBChB, Aaron Kelly, PhD, Desmond Schatz, MD, Justin Ryder, PhD, & Irl Hirsch, MD at the #ADA Annual Meeting, was EXACTLY PERFECT. They used their position to do something reasonable & got an outsized reaction. NOW EVERYONE WALK OUT OF THE MEETING.

Oh I am so sad. #persepolis

Combining digital innovation with community-led Gaelic transcription, this project opens up new possibilities for language and cultural heritage research. Congratulations to Opening the Well / Fosgladh an Tobair, the joint winner of Best Novel Use of a Digital Method! Find out more: edin.ac/4auiORY

Love to see places spending money on half measures and saying that pedestrian safety is too intrusive to homeowners

Even worse situation at Hampshire than previously disclosed: plan had been to close at the end of Fall 2026 semester but now the college is saying they may not be able to afford to even do that.

Ah, I wasn’t looking over HERE. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Never underestimate #longcovid. Good thoughts to all those who know it and their loved ones.

Thrilled about the new President @ubuffalo.bsky.social She names her post-doc and graduate researchers in her lab - but also the undergraduate and high school researchers. So excited to see the support for research across disciplines and career stages!

What Shouldn’t We Be Worrying About

Perhaps he was recruiting the attendees for a certain cage fight. I laugh at this but it is so dispiriting.

Reviews In DH journal for reliably awesome digital humanities work across many fields & practitioners—written about accessibly, engagingly, concisely (& of course: free+OA!):

For no reason at all, today we're reupping this post on its two-year anniversary: a Last Week Tonight parody about the use of the "Lightning Process", a form of neurolinguistic programming, in #MECFS and #LongCOVID. How is This Still a Thing?

This creative-critical project is finely researched and deeply moving. It was a privilege to see @katewilcox.bsky.social develop this wonderful work and I recommend this short piece to everyone. #history #family #creative #WW2

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

To state the obvious: many military families include Democrats, and the president just insulted them in his Memorial Day message.

I see a future textile project: the sycophants’ tapestry. #dhmakes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A moving post on Memorial Day, Decoration Day. My mother usually visited her family’s graves this weekend and left flowers, tidied them with my sister. This year we buried our parents remains to join them in that small town in Pennsylvania. See you next Memorial Day. May 23, 2026

“A smart countermovement should take motherhood seriously, not as rhetoric but as policy and vision. Surely the other side can do better than “underbabied”?” The Moms Delivered for Trump. Now He’s Scamming Them. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/o...

Happy #caturday from this guy Mo. who just likes to have a spot by a window, even if it is on top of the dog bed.

“An artist in London plastered fake OpenAI ads inside city subway cars calling attention to ChatGPT’s close ties to a series of youth suicides. The artist Darren Cullen,… has conducted many similar “subvertising” campaigns before.” I salute you, sir

I like books! Tea! Science! Not sourdough bread, but that’s okay.

“The delay in confirming the outbreak was in part because samples were taken to the national lab in Kinshasa, Congo, at the wrong temperature. That task previously would have been managed by U.S.A.I.D.”

Intellectual freedom means forcing people to believe what you believe.

Game 6 Day, y’all. Will they fight? Will psycho Alex Lyon show up and the first line magically reappear? Or is this as far as the unlikely renaissance of the Buffalo Sabres goes? Also, imagining November me being pissed at the prospect of getting knocked out in game 6 of round 2 of the playoffs

With @hcrichardson.bsky.social , @pkrugman.bsky.social is crystal clear and makes for bracing morning reading. A Failing, Flailing President Supplicates Xi open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Crystal clear. Along with @pkrugman.bsky.social, @hcrichardson.bsky.social is my bracing morning reading.

Fashion tip of the day: To deal with clothes moths, fill your wardrobe with thousands of tiny spiders, the moth's natural predator. To deal with the spiders, fill your wardrobe with scorpions. To deal with the scorpions, fill your closet with RFK Jr. This way, you avoid harmful chemicals.

"The Trump administration has laid off thousands of CDC scientists and public health professionals, including members of the agency’s ship sanitation program..." www.huffpost.com/entry/expert...

Get your subscription and listen to this episode, to gain some strength against feeling hopeless and powerless. @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app @dahlialithwick.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

He also distorted reproductive health history in Dobbs, so not surprising

Perhaps some academics would settle for a small medal for reaching the end of the semester.

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

Gotta get my new office art framed (from @wolfproofpress.com)

A thread on problems in how archaeological research is communicated to the public 👇😵‍💫

“But this is only the latest stage in the corruption of U.S. politics by fossil fuel interests. When we decry the Supreme Court’s destruction of the Voting Rights Act, we should always remember that the Koch brothers and other fossil fuel oligarchs essentially created the Roberts court.”

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

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I recently learned a local institution has woodcocks nesting among the solar panels. I hope the kildeer might find their way to ours in a field that gets mowed.

So much lost in understanding modern responses to epidemics by prohibiting discussion of AIDS. Wrapping up my “Plagues and Pandemics” course in the next week and a half with HIV/AIDS and Covid-19. Not to mention lost opportunities to show some empathy and compassion.

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.

More than a few rules limiting choices. Baby food that mixes ingredients, like apples and blueberries already combined. Moralizing restrictions.

I began my career as an asst prof at Buffalo & know from those yrs how vulnerable the SUNY system is to state-imposed budget cuts. So I'm all the more impressed by King's courage & integrity, & all the more embarrassed by the compliance & cowardice of the fancy-schmancy institution I teach at now.

My “Plagues and Pandemics” students created a choropleth map and StoryMaps on Buffalo’s 1899-1900 measles outbreak. Check out their maps and description of our sources and methods. #measles #arcgis #storymaps #dhmakes @ubuffalo.bsky.social @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social @ubuffalohistory.bsky.social

um wat

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging