Protest posters are cool. Want to know what's also cool? Adding in alt-text so people who use screen readers can know what they say.

Boo NBC www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay... NBC News eliminated teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino and LGBTQ+ groups as part of its layoffs of abt 150 staffers on Wed...a significant culling as the Peacock network separates from its sister news network, MSNBC.

Reading Flee North: A Forgotten Hero and the Fight for Freedom in Slavery's Borderland Book by Scott Shane about how a freed slave Thomas Smallwood & Charles Torrey (white) created & named the Underground Railroad. #Skystorians #BookSky

Had a great time at @ncph.bsky.social Grumpy Hour! Found some new UMass friends who keep popping out of the woodwork.

Listening to Robin Wall Kimmerer's Serviceberry. Started with Braiding Sweetgrass a few years ago and again last semester. If she isn't already, she should take up a career in narrating audiobooks. I'd listen to her read the phonebook (do the still have those?) #BookSky

Finished a fellowship application. Need to start another couple travel grant applications. Luckily I have some time. I need a break. #PhDLife #AcademicSky #Skystorians

Enjoying a documentary on Viking raiding and evidence of their living in Dublin (which is apparently from a Viking word). Was not expecting to hear that a #UMN #archeology team worked on a site in Roscam. Alas, finding little info. #AcademicSky #Skystorians www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUDJ...

No idea why but I have a tab open for a journal on invasive species with article titles like "Gerbils without Borders: Invasiveness, Plague, and Micro-Global Histories of Science, 1932-1939" and "Furry, Feral, Foe: Temporalizing Heath and Invasion on an English Chalk Stream." #AcademicSky #EcoSky

1/3 A "I swear I'm doing this for a class paper" post. No I don't condone this. My Bioethics class watched a video on U.S. eugenics, incl how it influenced Nazis. It explained that sterilizations peaked during the Depression b/c of the cost of caring for institutionalized ppl. Only info I can...

Small world! I made a new friend at the UMN American Studies/American Indian Studies gathering last night who is also a PhD student and UMass Amherst grad.

That'd be great. Then I can block them since they clog my feed and I am uninterested in sports. People were good at that on Twitter.

Please include alt text on your images. You frequently post images of text, vital information, and yet only a fragment of it is relayed in a way that screen readers can interpret. The full text should be in your Alt Text. Otherwise, you are, repeatedly, saying that some people don't deserve access.

Dear journals, please stop printing your articles in columns. They're hard to read and highlight. Thank you. #DisabilitySky #AcademicSky #WritingSky

Greatly amused that everyone from @denshoproject.bsky.social to the #UMN is discussing Taylor Swift. I haven't listened to anything since Red, I think. Assume I should remedy that.

Please join and share widely! #AAPI #PublicHistory

Thank goodness I can get a COVID vaccine.

"Both their construction and maintenance [of golf courses] are detrimental to the environment. For a course to be constructed, the ecosystem that once stood must be destroyed to make space for the putting greens. The machinery that does this emits greenhouse gases." mndaily.com/295449/opini...

A reminder to follow journalists, today and every day. If you say you're going to have disability representation in an article on a disability topic, interview a disabled person, not a non-disabled parent. Their perspectives don't count as disability representation.

Not only am I rdg similar texts for 2 disability classes, I'm rdg diff chapters of the same book(s). Like rdg Sony Coráñez Bolton's Crip Colony: Mestizaje, US Imperialism, & Queer Politics of Disability in Philippines for my disability & Am Studies courses the same wk last yr. #PhDSky #DisabilitySky

Toward the end of the #FarmAid40 concert and I've only recognized one song ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right") which I'll have stuck in my head now, though a different tune.

Congratulations to Heart Mountain! Thrilled to be working on this amazing project.

The hazards of taking similar classes with similar readings. I was trying to find a quote for my bioethics class and eventually realized it was for my critical disability studies course. -.- #AcademicSky #DisabilitySky

I am delighted to announce that I have received the Robert and Elizabeth Dole Archive and Special Collections Travel Grant! I will be researching Bob Dole (and others') papers on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for my dissertation. #AcademicSky #DisabilitySky #skystorians #PhDSky

Listening to book version of Ken Burns's "Country Music." They're discussing "Streets of Laredo" AKA "The Dying Cowboy", derived from The Bard Of Armagh. I know the tune but the words I know have something to do with a horse or pony but I can't find it. Any help? #MusicSky #AcademicSky #skystorians

Wait, you have to download student ALL students' submissions on Canvas instead of looking at them on the website and grading them there?! #AcademicSky #PhDLife #PhDSky

Heard about this from a classmate this morning. Surprised and disappointed how silent my union is about everything.

TAing for my US Since 9/11 course especially today will be tough. I'm the only one old enough to remember aside from the prof. Everyone else was born between about 2002-5. I was angry that people were comparing it to Pearl Harbor and wrote about it which the teacher shared w/other w/o permission.

1/2 For #museum & #PublicHistory folks NPS sites are becoming ground zero in a growing battle over historical memory. Signs w/QR codes invite public to report “negative” or “unpatriotic” portrayals of American hist. On the surface, these codes claim to ensure “accuracy.” www.janm.org/democracy/ev...

I do not believe that completing a public history project or portfolio rather than writing a traditional MA thesis is a barrier to entry into a PhD Program. Am I wrong? Please share your experiences.

Listening to Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt. Picked it up without thinking about how relevant it is. #BookSky #AcademicSky

About time! "After years of offering few on-demand or short-notice transportation choices to ppl w/disabilities, more transit & transportation COs are touting the kinds of quick-turn errand options that more able-bodied folks have long enjoyed." #DisabilitySky www.startribune.com/its-about-ti...

Had my first (TA-ing) class of the semester (The US Since 9/11). All I did was sit in class and I'm already tired. Also, these kids were born around 2005 and I feel old. #AcademicSky #PhDSky

It's really weird to see my research cited or linked by institutions or have people tell me they've been following my work and are inspired by it and/or want to collaborate and use my work for something they're doing. #AcademicSky #Skystorians #DisabilitySky #PhDSky

It's really cool when people email to say they follow and are inspired by my work on Japanese American mixed race and disability history. #Skystorianns #history #DisHist #MixedRace #disability

Rdg The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne by Chris Sweeney re: 1st forensic ornithologist who investigated murders, plane crashes etc. (learned about a new a job!) Delighted to find @samueljredman.bsky.social quoted re: the Smithsonian! #Skystorians

Watching "The Long, Long Trailer" with Lucile Ball and Desi Arnaz. It's making me so anxious.

I petted a bumble bee today. And our postal worker took the kids books out of my Little Free Library not 5 minutes after I put them out. Now if only people would take the others I put out.

Listening to Andrew Carroll's "Here Is Where: Discovering America's Great Forgotten History." Never thought I'd hear "adult movie day at the Supreme Court." #Skystorians #history

Historians, we’re interested in publishing responses to the White House plan to “review” Smithsonian exhibits. DM us if you’d like to write something! 🗃️ #publichistory

Scholarly orgs based in the U.S. that purport to be "international" are going to need to come to terms with what it means to continue holding their in-person gatherings in a country many people cannot travel to or no longer feel safe visiting for all kinds of reasons.

So tired of writing like this: "I liked them and wore them and I liked wearing them" & “If I’m honest, there were times when I liked the idea of wearing them more than the actual wearing of the actual shoes.” Just say, "I liked wearing them" and "I liked the idea of more than wearing them." #BookSky

Seriously #PublicHistory feed, what is up with all the garbage and non-public history (or even history for that matter) posts the last few weeks? #Skystorians #AcademicSky

100 times this. I should start unfollowing people who don't. Also alt text is NOT the place to put emoji or comments.

The giddiness of a historian and the family genealogist watching a program on the Doomsday Book only to see my family name on a page. #Skystorians #AcademicTwitter #genealogy #history

Yes! Took long enough! "There’s nothing quite like a warm bowl of pasta, topped w/your favorite sauce & maybe a sprinkle of cheese, to make you feel happy & satisfied. But did you know that there’s scientific evidence to suggest that pasta can make you happier?" www.zeppolis.com/blog/pasta-i...

Is there a resignation in music from the mid-ish 90s? I'm hearing a lot of music from roughly my teens in stores.

Now, a team of evolutionary biologists and genomic scientists has traced the origins of this starchy staple to a chance encounter millions of years ago involving an unlikely plant relative: the tomato. www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/s...

Taking my first Critical #Disability Studies course this fall. So much @drsamischalk.bsky.social and others who I've been wanting to read since taking my first disability studies course last fall. #PhDLife #DisabilitySky #AcademicSky

Listening to The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service by Laura Kaplan. Very poignant given that history is repeating. #AcademicSky #women #Skystorians

Anyone else's #PublicHistory feed full of spam and unrelated accounts the last week or so?