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T. Scott Johnson
@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social
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historian, cook, baker, swimmer Assistant Professor of History. CUNY-Grad Alum. All tweets reflect me not any institutional affiliation.
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@ekphrastictactic.bsky.social has a new review article, "Field Work," in Modern Intellectual History. Just finished this morning over some coffee. An insightful piece that examines one work I'm intimately familiar with one that I'd never read before.
Field Work | Modern Intellectual History | Cambridge Core
Field Work
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It me.
Happy #Halloween!
A wonderful 2nd century AD Roman mosaic found near Antioch, Turkey showing a skeleton, cup of wine in hand, reclining on the floor of a dining room in a house reminding guests to enjoy life: ‘ευφρόσυνος’
My new hero.
A French cyclist survived for three days after a horrendous 130-foot fall into a ravine, kept alive by the bottles of red wine he had in his shopping bag, police said.
Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag
A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."
cbsn.ws
I feel this level of anti-AI rage in the very core of my being.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.
This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG
Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism
A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…
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Whole new level of shit posting right here
Lambshank Redemption
Mission Impastabowl
Make a movie food:

Silence of the Lamb-chops
Why does the pop-up "Is Zotero [even] running" feel like such an attack?
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"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."
“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief
“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...
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One reason to support @aaup.org in this case is that they are not Harvard the institution, even as they are defending Harvard faculty and student rights. AAUP will not stop if the administration and Harvard leadership come to an agreement that still undercuts those rights.
aaup.org AAUP @aaup.org · Sep 30
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
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Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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What's so unsettling about this and Texas A&M is that it's completely clear that the student in question is doing a pre-meditated stunt in order to get their prof disciplined, and yet upper admins are credulously acting as if the students are hapless victims.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
www.thenation.com
Exactly what an emboldened far right would do
Le maire de Brest, François Cuillandre, dénonce une attaque de l'extrême droite.
➡️ https://l.ici.fr/DV8
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Quelques affiches de la manifestation rennaise du 18 septembre