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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just your daily reminder that Trump voters don't deserve measles or cancer or to lose their health insurance. We all deserve a government that protects and promotes our health. Shaming and blaming, pushes people away, pushes away the people we most need to reach.

Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · Sep 3

A kind reminder that a "politics of you deserved this" (cancer, vaccine-preventable disease, natural disaster, etc) has no place in public health. We can hold bad actors to account without punching down on the groups most harmed by their actions and/or resorting to shame, blame, and stigma.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · May 22

I spent all of Monday and Tuesday watching capstone presentations from students in our program. Media, Medicine and Health at Harvard Medical School.

These people (doctors and future doctors) want to save the world. So many of them are international students. They deserve the wind at their backs.

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Andries du Toit - School of Government, UWC @andriesdutoit-uwc.bsky.social · Apr 27

Interesting and inspiring intervention, and possibly of interest to those (such as South Africans) exploring ways of thinking about civil war and its aftermaths.

Journal of Vietnamese Studies @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social · Apr 26

Introducing JVS 20(2), “Rupture and Reunion: New Translations About the End of the War in Vietnam.” The issue—commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of April 30, 1975—is guest-edited by historian Nu-Anh Tran and comparative literature scholar Trinh M. Luu.

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The cover of JVS 20(2). A stylized image of a seated man in fatigues watching four helicopters ascending or descending at close range.

Linocut by Lể Trọng, published in the Republic of Vietnam on September 20, 1970. Image inspired by the sheet music for “Lá thư đô thị” [A Letter from the City], composed by Tuấn Lê (Lê Văn Tuấn, 1952–1988). Courtesy of Jason Gibbs.

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Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · Apr 27

I dunno, man, the "you guys are being too mean to the plagiarism machines that stole all your work and were created to try to replace you so rich people don't pay you a tiny fraction of their wealth for it" posters popping up are pretty funny

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Feb 4

The term "Luddite" as a pejorative synonym for "technophobe" was a technocrat PR coup; that's not what Luddites were about. They were a labour movement fighting to give workers control over technologies which were advancing w/o oversight and rapidly automating them out of their jobs. Sound familiar?

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 26

Trying to think of any previous technology that needed this many people out there telling everyone that they're wrong about how it stinks and it is very good and helpfully actually

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 26

Proud to have worked on this issue of JVS—commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, April 30 1975—with so many wonderful scholars and colleagues. Thread below rounding up the contents of the issue.

Journal of Vietnamese Studies @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social · Apr 26

Introducing JVS 20(2), “Rupture and Reunion: New Translations About the End of the War in Vietnam.” The issue—commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of April 30, 1975—is guest-edited by historian Nu-Anh Tran and comparative literature scholar Trinh M. Luu.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Apr 10

The Trump Administration is trying to get rid of an entire set of people and institutions. This is more than an attack on individual agencies. All autocracies do this. And the effects of this purge will be profound and long lasting. My latest for the Nation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying a Generation of Knowledge

The gutting of the administrative state, of the universities, and of expertise is like something out of the Cultural Revolution.

www.thenation.com

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 10

Salvador Zárate (UC Irvine) isn't on Bsky, but just want to shout out his work on wildfires too

Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 10

Oh yes of course!

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Apr 10

it's also the 4 year anniversary of the PNW heat dome and who knows how many smoketobers at this point

Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just a heads up that this summer, folks with climate expertise should be pitching and publishing op-eds for the 30th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave, 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and 5th anniversary of the August Complex fire in California

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 10

!! This was indeed a subtweet of amazing folks including you, @ericklinenberg.bsky.social, and @johnvaillant.bsky.social—hope your schedules might permit this kind of work!

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Apr 10

Just a heads up that this summer, folks with climate expertise should be pitching and publishing op-eds for the 30th anniversary of the Chicago heat wave, 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, and 5th anniversary of the August Complex fire in California

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · Apr 10

People are mad but you have to admit this is a genuinely hilarious headline/image combo

Headline: This Instability May Be WOrth It. Here's Why.

Image: A profoundly sad man whose soul is dead

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Apr 10

Let's be clear here: If you mumble "people should get the measles vaccine" but then spend the rest of the interview saying "many vaccines aren’t safety tested," your position is still dangerously anti-vax.

Do not normalize RFK's deadly lies just because he'll say the bare minimum to keep his job.

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Mar 30

Thank you for nailing this so precisely

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · Mar 29

Cackling glee over literally condemning millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable to death due to eliminating USAID; on the verge of tears over his falling stock price. This is Elon Musk in a nutshell.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Mar 28

Musk: I mean, have you Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price.. What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like who derives joy from that?

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Mar 28

RIP USAID — all remaining 900 employees will be fired.

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Ambassador Luis G. Moreno (ret) @ambassadormoreno.bsky.social · Mar 28

I’ll have a lot more to say on this, but eliminating USAID while a dozen officers were responding to the earthquake in Myanmar is so on brand for this nightmare of an administration.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · Mar 29

can't remember who I saw say this, but..."antisemitism" is currently being used the way "communist" was during the red scare—as a slur against disfavored opinions and groups and as a justification for the revocation of all right. it's really bad. 1

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · Mar 29

Peter Marks has been a constant force for good at FDA and this is beyond worrisome. It’s devastating news. wapo.st/4j31DJa

RFK Jr. forces out Peter Marks, FDA’s top vaccine scientist

Marks, an architect of Operation Warp Speed for coronavirus vaccines, warned that a measles outbreak shows how confidence in science is being “undermined.”

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · Mar 29

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · Mar 28

David Wojnarowicz in a leather jacket that reads "IF I DIE OF AIDS FORGET BURIAL--JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE FDA"

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Margaret Monteith @memonteith.bsky.social · Mar 27

My husband has had two Fulbrights, and he’s also taught several scholars with Fulbright. He has connections all over the world, in part because of Fulbright. How this can be happening is such an affront to the very principles that have underpinned the extraordinary Fulbright program from the start.

Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Mar 26

I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Mar 26

Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.

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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · Mar 27

Congratulations—that is really exciting. I hope she does receive the award and that her work goes forward without incident. It is such a shame to have mixed feelings about what would normally be an honor

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