Andrea Orzoff
@arorzoff.bsky.social
research administrator and independent historian. Opinions are mine, not my employer's. After work: hiker, mom, writer, reader. Brecht: “When the times darken/ Will there be singing even then? /There will be singing even then. /Of how the times darken.”
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It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
December 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.
I wish this surprised absolutely anyone. Utter cowardice, AHA @historians.org
Last week the @historians.org Council decided to deny its members the opportunity to vote on two resolutions—one in solidarity with Gaza and one condemning the sustained assault on “core principles of education” in the US and abroad—at the organization’s conference next month. 1/ 🗃️
December 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I wish this surprised absolutely anyone. Utter cowardice, AHA @historians.org
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November 30, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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amazing deep dive that explains the Trump administration's backstage dealings with Russia - making the country safe for US businessmen while throwing Ukraine under the bus.
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
amazing deep dive that explains the Trump administration's backstage dealings with Russia - making the country safe for US businessmen while throwing Ukraine under the bus.
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“We know this is not about peace. It’s about business.”
This article is free to read, and very much worth your time.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
This article is free to read, and very much worth your time.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
“We know this is not about peace. It’s about business.”
This article is free to read, and very much worth your time.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
This article is free to read, and very much worth your time.
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
NU, you’ll never get a dime of alumni money from me
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
NU, you’ll never get a dime of alumni money from me
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NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
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Putin says russia should return to its historic borders.
Good idea👌🏾
Good idea👌🏾
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Putin says russia should return to its historic borders.
Good idea👌🏾
Good idea👌🏾
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Wow. Only like every librarian, teacher, professor, writer, etc worth their salt has been saying this since the damnable thing came out.
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wow. Only like every librarian, teacher, professor, writer, etc worth their salt has been saying this since the damnable thing came out.
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Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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History lessons from the recent Nobel prize in Economics
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
November 18, 2025 at 9:20 PM
History lessons from the recent Nobel prize in Economics
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O, O, O!
What’s with the endless puffy sleeves and farmgirl tiers in women’s clothing for the last few years? Is it tradwife-adjacent? Do these shapes hide some kind of fast-fashion production problem? Baffled, frustrated, but also intrigued.
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
What’s with the endless puffy sleeves and farmgirl tiers in women’s clothing for the last few years? Is it tradwife-adjacent? Do these shapes hide some kind of fast-fashion production problem? Baffled, frustrated, but also intrigued.
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Fun fact: the US sells more higher ed to China than soybeans
Trump's campaign to kill an industry where America runs a massive trade surplus is succeeding
New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Fun fact: the US sells more higher ed to China than soybeans
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1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
1/ I’d like to share what’s happened since Sept. 30, the night of the most dramatic raid of the Trump administration’s Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. Under the cover of darkness, 37 immigrants were taken from an apartment complex …🧵
Having a very Albuquerque day today. Volunteered, doing a little shopping, and people are so damn friendly and kind
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Having a very Albuquerque day today. Volunteered, doing a little shopping, and people are so damn friendly and kind
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Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
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“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
November 14, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context
Inject it into my veins
November 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Inject it into my veins
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DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
November 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie]
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in
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A congress and senate where power is accrued by seniority in a system without term limits or retirement age limits insures an endlessly entrenched old and in the way gerontocracy that blocks democratic renewal and change that reflects the will of the electorate.
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A congress and senate where power is accrued by seniority in a system without term limits or retirement age limits insures an endlessly entrenched old and in the way gerontocracy that blocks democratic renewal and change that reflects the will of the electorate.
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look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
November 9, 2025 at 11:37 PM
look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry
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in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”