Pregnant minors, detained by ICE and sent to Texas where abortion is illegal, are missing www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

One of my favorite things I saw in Dublin was this incredible sculpture of Oscar Wilde. It's in Merrion Square Park, across the street from his old home. Sculptor Danny Osborne has done something really interesting here—Oscar’s expression changes depending on the angle! #history🗃️

Today's #marginalmusicians are a bagpiping #ape sitting on a drum, a trumpeter, and a couple of dancing apes. From a #15thCentury manuscript of #Froissart's Chronicle, BNF Fr 2643 #earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday

I feel like Meta has truly gone off the rails. I don't see any of my friends' posts anymore, just random people in random groups. It also won't show me news links because they are restricted in Canada. I'm not in Canada. I live in England.

Monday morning Vagina Museum deep lore: in this display, we had a magnet which said MILF, and it got stolen so many times that we gave up. We are delighted that our MILF visitors to feel represented but couldn't afford to keep on replacing our MILF magnet.

This is Marsh's Library in Dublin. Opened in 1707 by Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, it was the first public library in Ireland. Bram Stoker used to study here when he was a student at Trinity. You can still study here--if you have a relevant research project, you can access their incredible catalogue.

I'm getting really tired of all the art I post getting stuck with "adult content" labels

And sometimes the dragon wins (for awhile). This is Two Followers of Cadmus Devoured by a Dragon by Cornelis von Haarlem (1588). Cadmus was a Prince of Tyre whose sister was abducted by Zeus. These guys need a support group, amirite? #arthistory

Such a great episode 🥃

So if my color is arsenic green, what season does that make me? Fall of the Patriarchy? Winter of Discontent? And more importantly, WHERE can I get this wallpaper? 💚

Es werde (Neon)licht. While ‘Neon Deutschland’ was a lot of fun to make, each chapter involved difficult decisions. This wonderful sign from Esslingen, for instance, featured in an early draft of the book, but sadly didn’t make the final version.

Overheard on the train to London: "Sometimes I forget Americans are real and not just the people you see on TV." Me, a real American (who is also on tv):

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing people he wasn't just a total derp

So I went to the National Gallery yesterday, and a real highlight was Saint Michael Triumphs over the Devil by Bartolomé Bermejo (1468). He's just a silly little guy. Don't you think he looks like a Muppet?

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Have you even been to Seven Dials if you haven't taken pics in the banana photo booth?

Can we all take a minute to appreciate the incredible horniness of Death and the Maiden (1912) by Elna Borch? I saw this at Copenhagen's Glyptotek and it stopped me in my tracks

Do you know someone fantastic who'd like to do a health history PhD? Get them to apply to come and work with me and @tortietabby.bsky.social at Strathclyde! #HistMed www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

🥳 I GOT MY VISA! 🥳 It has been a long, ridiculous, and incredibly expensive process, but I can finally share that I am OFFICIALLY moving back to England

If any historians want to suffer through the Florida Man Version of AP History, here's the document:

Another depiction of Judith slaying Holofernes, this one at Arundel Castle. I wish someone would do a transfer of this so I could stick it to my office window

Abortion pill manufacturers have asked the Supreme Court to reinstate an FDA rule allowing mifepristone to be prescribed by telemedicine and sent through the mail. The case could drastically disrupt access to abortion pills across the US.

For the algorithm or whatever. Saturday night tacos and chilling with Mr Finn

Hello Bluesky #BookSky! The Public Scholar is out today from @hopkinspress.bsky.social. You can buy it everywhere books are sold. Bookshop: tinyurl.com/2uj47sa7 Order from @moonpalacebooks.bsky.social and I'll sign it - moonpalacebooks.com/item/I12x_a-... You can read an excerpt here. (1)

Editor friends, etc: Would anybody be interested in publishing an article putting today's mifepristone decision into historical context? I am a historian of abortion and boy howdy, have I got something to say

Editor friends, etc: Would anybody be interested in publishing an article putting today's mifepristone decision into historical context? I am a historian of abortion and boy howdy, have I got something to say

I am so in love with my new book cover! Now up for pre-order, Forbidden Fruit: The Secret, Scandalous History of Contraception and Abortion. Coming this January from @putnambooks.bsky.social 🍎

11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies 📅 24–25 Sept 2026 📍 Berlin, Germany Early bird registrations open until 15 May 2026 🔗 genderandfeminist.com/registrations/ #FeministStudies #LGBTQPlus #GenderEquality

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

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In the dead of winter, a woman is caught in a snare, alone and struggling as a baby, bound to her, nurses at her breast. She's stuck, there's no one to save her, and if she can't break free, she will freeze to death. This 1894 painting by Giovanni Segantini is a statement about unwanted pregnancy.

Of Mice and Men and it's not even close

who could possibly have guessed

In the dead of winter, a woman is caught in a snare, alone and struggling as a baby, bound to her, nurses at her breast. She's stuck, there's no one to save her, and if she can't break free, she will freeze to death. This 1894 painting by Giovanni Segantini is a statement about unwanted pregnancy.

States are often some of the best laboratories for democracy. Here's what they've accomplished recently for women's rights:

All this looksmaxxing and what girls really want to see is boys painted gold and wearing art nouveau headgear

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Who amongst us hasn't fled screaming into the night after researching in a library? #HATM #HistorianProblems #Ghostbusters

This is an open call to any and all of my friends in academia: if you have some graduate students doing great work and you want to promote them, please hit me up & tell me about them. I want to support the next generation. This is not limited to history, science profs hit me up too!

Pretty sure I see this guy when I go too long without sleep

Some modern people have a vision of contented 1950s housewives merrily whipping up meals for their husbands from scratch. In reality, there was Peg Bracken. A busy copywriter, she wasn't the vision of the perfect housewife and knew she wasn't alone, so she wrote a book. Male editors passed.

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Have you ever seen a tandem penny farthing? I found this in an old catalogue I got at Oxfam and I can't decide if this would be safer or just a more horrible way to die

"She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’." www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...

It's 10:00pm and I'm starting a new book. I am telling myself I will just read a few chapters and go to bed at a sensible time. Never in my 40 years on earth has it ever worked out that way. But maybe--MAYBE--this will be the first time?

“The company has long supplied condoms to government-funded programs for AIDS prevention and family planning. That segment of the business took a hit last year after the Trump administration cut funding to the U.S. Agency for International Development, which supported condom distribution initiatives

SLAMS THE PREORDER this looks cool as hell

So hell seems to have frozen over "I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people." Carlson regrets helping Trump get elected www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...

Oh fuck off "Republicans have accused the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is best known for investigating hate groups, of unfairly targeting conservative and Christian organizations." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/u...