I just deleted my academia.edu account because their new terms force you to agree to let them use "your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest in any manner."

“... the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.” Hardening schools won’t stop gun violence—it just turns classrooms into fortresses. Real safety comes from common-sense gun laws that prevent violence before it enters our schools.

We have forgotten all the ways people used to get toxins out of their food before federal regulation. It's not that food and water used to be cleaner -- it's that domestic work used to include detoxing everything we put in our mouths!

Here we go. <Elimination> of all IFLE funding. No FLAS fellowships or NRC area studies centers nationwide. Might be nice of even a single university president was willing to speak up about this disaster for R1 universities & their students. democrats-appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Another Public History Grumpy Hour is coming! Join the National Council on Public History and the Consultants Committee for a virtual night of connection and support. Register: community.ncph.org/event/Spooky... @ncph.bsky.social

Do you work in historic preservation? Sign up to chat with one of my students on zoom for an hour in September-- we pair them with people in their prospective career field so they can ask questions and learn more all the great paths and opportunities working in HP: forms.gle/fT5tPhzxAaaJ...

I'm honored to share that I received a statewide teaching award! Last week, I received the Roy E. Graham Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation Education at the Secretary of State awards dinner on Amelia Island. artsandsciences.fsu.edu/article/fsu-...

Do you have a passion for historic buildings, preservation, and telling the stories behind our built environment? The NDN Companies is hiring an architectural historian to be based in their Jacksonville, FL office.

NCPH is hosting "This is a Place We Made: Centering Place in Disability History" on July 24, 1pm ET on zoom, register here: community.ncph.org/event/Disabi... This is a wonderful program, and hope to see you there! @ncph.bsky.social

Pro tip: say no to at least 50% of requests and, whenever you decline, provide the names of two male colleagues who are shirking their share of service. (Gold star for BCCing the dean when you do so.)

Dear anxious parents of high school seniors, Are any of you wanting your senior to get a head start on their college essay? I’m a professor in the English department at William & Mary & my Summer 2 class got cancelled so I’m looking to add structure to my days these next two months.

Just heard a high-ranking administrator refer to our university as a "business." 🫠 🗃️

Graduation is always meaningful, but especially so this year after the recent tragedy at FSU. I am so glad we got to come together to celebrate these newly-minted MA graduates, and I cannot wait to see what these historians and historic preservationists will do next! @renfro.bsky.social

Big thanks to Huey and Gumbo for making our return to campus a little bit easier.

Read this again. FSU had to cancel our memorial event for a previous shooting due the mass shooting on campus yesterday. IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.

It’s horrific that there are students who lived through Parkland and are now going through a second school shooting at FSU. The government has failed our children. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Some of our students survived Parkland only to be in another active shooting at college. It does not have to be this way.

Active shooter at FSU. Please take cover immediately

Are you a student or emerging professional interested in public history and looking to share your work/research? The @ncph.bsky.social New Professional and Student Committee would love to support you! Share your work, projects, and anything else : ncph.org/ncph-student...

If you’re incredibly shocked about the president invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act— well, just wait until you find out that lawyers are still citing cases involving enslaved African Americans as precedent in CONTEMPORARY legal cases. Enjoy: www.citingslavery.org

Today is the Great Give for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center at Florida State University, and we're raising money to bring Indigenous artists to FSU! Donate: bit.ly/NAISGreatGiv...

As someone who built their career on digital programming to expand DEAI access to cultural heritage, the last 6 weeks have been brutal. I’m not just a practitioner, I’m also a researcher who craves quantitative data of what all we’re losing! Add programs you’ve seen disappear to this Google Sheet.

Just found out about the Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN), a platform to connect sustainability academics worldwide -- what a great resource!! susanhub.com

504 plans are how kids can carry EpiPens or make sure their classroom is peanut free. It’s how kids with diabetes can use insulin. It’s how kids with mobility issues can have more passing time or use an elevator. An attack on 504 is an attack on everyone. Listen to @lollardfish.bsky.social.

Public historians and preservationists--who is joining us at @ncph.bsky.social 's conference in Montreal in March? NCPH is my favorite conference for so many reasons, but it is a truly supportive community of scholars and practitioners and activists. ncph.org/conference/2...

cats and quilts <3

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care! EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

NEW: Trump fires National Archives chief Colleen Shogan, apparently over agency's role in classified-documents probe at Mar-a-Lago before she took over. Law says president is supposed to give Congress the reasons for her dismissal. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Congratulations, Paul!!!

If you've just gotten an email from the AHA about the EO on federal funding... whaddya know, the AHA *does* pronounce on controversial topics ("legality of the Administration’s order is questionable") & on the infrastructure affecting historians....

"This agreement will ensure that the Nation has a voice and an active role in protecting these ancestral lands that are so important to our people,” Tohono O’odham Nation Chairman Verlon Jose said. azmirror.com/briefs/tohon...

New database alert! "A national data set of historical US sundown towns for quantitative analysis", based on work by @rigbydavid.bsky.social and many Landscapes Labs collaborators is now available! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Today in good design: these book cookies. Congrats again, Terry!!

Here is the link to the zine to learn more! zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

Today in good design: this igloo available for rent in Tallahassee for $10

It’s snowing in Florida!

Great starterpack I’d like to boost while I sit here distracting myself tonight. (My first academic love was vernacular architecture/historic preservation, my first job with HABS/HAER. And buildings remain crucial to my work even now.)

Really enjoyed attending the Two Tribes of Florida symposium at FSU yesterday!! And got to see @kathleenconti.bsky.social

In Sept 2020, in the wake of a record CA fire season, I wrote an opinion piece for @nature.com about the need to focus on the human metrics of fire, not the acres burned. The #LAFires underscore that our obsession with size fails to convey the scope of the impacts. 🧵 www.nature.com/articles/d41....

Mellon Foundation has relaunched its annual open call for proposals to Community-Based Archives today! ** register to apply by 3/12 & submit your app by 3/28! ** www.mellon.org/article/call...

Today I found of some of my students have never heard of Outkast and …. Uff.

So excited to read this amazing piece by Alehlí Harvey on art, place, belonging, and creation at Santa Fe's Meow Wolf for The Journal of Urban History!

LA Conservancy is now maintaining a list of lost historic properties in and around L.A. which include: Ray Kappe’s Keeler House (1991), the Bridges House (1974), and the Zane Grey Estate (1907): www.laconservancy.org/save-places/...

Creating a Historic Preservation starterpack! Comment or DM to be added, or let me know if I missed anyone. go.bsky.app/D9w1NYJ

Are you passionate about Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander history and preservation? Interested in blending cultural heritage with modern technology? This paid ($5,000) remote internship is your opportunity to work with cultural heritage. apiahip.org/internship

First, all of the teachers and professors I know already do these things. Second, gee, I wonder why they can't write or communicate and lack critical thinking skills? Maybe because YOU'VE CUT ALL THE HUMANITIES INSTRUCTION THAT TEACHES THOSE THINGS.

Firaxis Games (designers for Civilization, among others) is hiring a full-time historian. #skyhistorians #publichistory boards.greenhouse.io/firaxis/jobs...

Public history job! UT Austin is hiring a nonTT position in public history, teaching a 2/2 and managing Not Even Past. #skystorians #publichistory jobs.chronicle.com/job/37764770...