Make Americans Even Stupider #maes www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rest in power Norma Swenson, one of the early authors of Our Bodies Ourselves and tireless advocate for women’s reproductive health and rights. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/b...

Not every day one finds oneself in the Tehran Times… media.mehrnews.com/d/2025/06/11...

Spent my time doing this today, instead of tackling my mountain of paperwork... theconversation.com/trumps-use-o... @uk.theconversation.com

Keep America Stupid Forever www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Really good stuff from Natalie Zacek!

This is not hyperbole. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o... (gift share for the first 50 readers)

The Trump doctrine: maximize US corporate profit from all misery foreign and domestic www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

Family mourns grandfather’s death as Israel brings Gaza tactics to West Bank // The world watches on while Israel murders Palestinians in the West Bank. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The most unbelievable bit so far of Apple TV’s Prime Target is the part where the two main characters are granted access just before closing time to archives in Paris, and without the required paperwork. Zero chance of that ever happening. #livedexperience

This is the modern version of book burning. No, I am not being hyperbolic. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Tricky to change the meaning of “subject to the jurisdiction of the US” without inplications for tax law and prosecuting non-citizens committing crimes in the USA. www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/31/...

Just off the phone with lovely — and entirely worn out — #IrishFerries staff. Just a shout out to all of these people trying to help people get here and there over the festive season, solving problems that are not of their making.

Finally my main research interest turns up in the @nytimes.com crossword...

Me & @fdelond.bsky.social watching latest ep of Bad Sisters. Karaoke scene: “That is the capsule of irishness: death, abortion, infertility, alcohol and the cranberries.”

Really rooting for Claudette Johnson for this evening’s Turner prize announcement @tate.bsky.social. Bookies’ favourite is Jasleen Kaur, arty insiders think Pio Abad will win, but Johnson really deserves it for her outstanding contributions to art in the UK

Nom noms of the past :-) Nice thread here from @historywo.bsky.social

#archers people: do you all think there is a single person behind these fake bookings? Somebody with a vendetta?

MORE CAT: you have forgotten: there are no deadlines, human. There is only cat. #academicsky #timelinecleanse

If you’ve not been to the Zanele Muholi exhibition at @tate.bsky.social, well, you’re missing out. www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

History UK's Academic Job Boot Camp is back (11 Dec 2024). If you're an early career historian and want feedback on your academic CV/cover letter, interview and presentation, apply to take part. For more information visit their website: www.history-uk.ac.uk/academic-job...

And this is why I pay a yearly contribution to support the Guardian newspaper. Journalism is never perfect, but if we rely on clicks to determine what is published, well, we can see what happens... www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

Spent a half hour today pootling around this new place, and am starting to properly disentangle myself from the other place after dragging my feet for the past 10 months or so

Vacancy - the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) is seeking a new section editor with expertise in post-1800 Irish history https://buff.ly/4dzSNzv Closing date: 13 December 2024

How they said "this meeting could have been an email" in 1824 #skystorians

Anyone got a good list of history feeds? (Is that how this works?) advice on building networks here gratefully accepted!

So is this where everyone is now?