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Anita Guerrini

@nickytheprof.bsky.social

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Writes, hikes, cooks, reads a lot of old books. Historian of (mostly) #earlymodern science, medicine, environment, animals, food. Cranky old cat lady. Editor in chief, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal for the History of Science. SoCal .. more

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · 26d

Euthanizing? Try murdering. Bet he won’t be fired, though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Aug 20

Whoa! Thanks for the tip. For other folks wanting to do this, here are screenshots of what I just did. Start by going to you "Account Settings." Then follow the screenshots below. And yes, when given the option "Are you sure you want to proceed?," you better believe I hit that sucker!

disabling AI on Academia.edu: #1 - go to 'account settings' (flagged with red arrow).

Screenshot of instructions to disable AI on Academia.edu, #2: choose "AI Settings". Note that this was already "enabled" even though I had never opted for it. Note, too, this claim "Your uploaded works are eligible for Al-generated content." As if they're doing us a great favor!

Screenshot showing how to disable AI on Academia.edu - #3 - 'warning' that disabling AI will delete all AI products.

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Aug 20

Got the first of what is sure to be an avalanche of mail on Newsom’s redistricting plan. Of course it totally misrepresents the plan. Funded by Charles Munger Jr, son of Dormzilla.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History):

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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History) | MEMOs

Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History) - California, USA

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 13

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester:

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Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester | MEMOs

Uni of Manchester, Early Modern Global History

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jan 27

Story:

CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

apnews.com

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is a joke, right?

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 28

It's Mel Brooks' 99th birthday, so let me recommend his autobiography ALL ABOUT ME, which is hilarious and filled with inside details on all his films.

two nuns are smiling and standing next to each other in a room .

ALT: two nuns are smiling and standing next to each other in a room .

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · Jun 28

A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?

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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · Jun 24

The National Archives is full of old fossils.
No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty.

Either that or a REALLY big bison.
#MastodonPosting
CO 700/Virginia18

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · Jun 24

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students.

The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students

Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in...

www.jhiblog.org

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Jun 20

Thank you!

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Jun 20

"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..."

"The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..."

www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Controversial senator trying to sell millions of acres near Yosemite, Tahoe

258 million acres of public lands across the western U.S. could be eligible for sale.

www.sfgate.com

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Jun 20

Anybody have info on ostriches in London before 1650? Harvey has access to more than one, including observing ostrich sex, and I am wondering where they were. #earlymodern #histsci #histstm

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Kathryn Olesko @kathrynolesko.bsky.social · Jun 20

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana Löwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025

The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...

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🎃 Fall-mode pink cat 🎃 @hugothepinkcat.bsky.social · Jun 18

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Jun 17

Done! Thanks!

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · Jun 16

Yes! We had 5500 in Ventura and over 2000 in Simi Valley, home of the Reagan Library and only city in Ventura County that went for Trump in 2024.

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · Jun 16

#journalissue: "Animal Mobilities" (Osiris, Volume 40, ed. Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg)

Available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #animalstudies #histstm #hstm

Cover for Osiris n°40 (2025), titled "Animal Mobilities", featuring of painting of entangled sea creatures (crabs, starfishes, etc.).

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 9

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 28

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Academia informing me that they had made, via AI, a 5-minute podcast of one of my articles. Has this happened to anyone else? What are my rights here? They want to post it on my page.

Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 26

She was the perfect Ado Annie.

Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 20

Yeah neither have I.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · May 16

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?"
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

I'm a professor. We're not the 'elite' the powerful billionaires say we are.

Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 16

Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live − and where they’d rather not
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Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live − and where they’d rather not

A survey of graduate students found that California and New York are the most desirable destinations. Over half of survey-takers said they’d be unwilling to move to Alabama, Mississippi or Arkansas.

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Martin 🏷 Wishlist Crownbreakers plz @sharkbombs.bsky.social · May 10

Leaving this here:

www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-...

The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like

Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we've been featuring their efforts to make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online.

www.openculture.com

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 7

IU alum here. They’ll never get another penny from me, and they will know why.

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Anita Guerrini @nickytheprof.bsky.social · May 7

Lost my mom in 1981 and those things still hurt. Sorry for your loss.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · May 6

all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled • Oregon ArtsWatch

Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

www.orartswatch.org

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