Jaipreet Virdi
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Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
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I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.

Latest book: Echoes of Care (‪@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social‬)
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Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
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jaivirdi.com
New update!

I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.

Latest book: Echoes of Care (‪@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social‬)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
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Surprise -- @coreenanne.bsky.social & I have a biography on Kerridge coming out, perhaps next year :)
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harikunzru.bsky.social
Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
Walter Crane engraving of workers labeled with the names of the continents joining hands around a globe
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sarahmay1.bsky.social
I would add that they don't actually understand that HE is an industry, that it can actually collapse, that academic jobs are real jobs, that actual people will be unemployed, and will struggle to find alternative employment. That a shuttered uni takes down a city the same as a shuttered factory
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brianlyman.bsky.social
Just thinking of all the people I’ve seen targeted by Alabama legislators over the years — undocumented immigrants, transgender Alabamians and their families — who still walked into the Statehouse, looked lawmakers in the face and told them they were wrong.
hunterw.bsky.social
I have never experienced this much reticence and fear from all manner of sources
ericlipton.nytimes.com
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
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Yes my Friday morning inbox opens with abusive emails. Jerks.
jaivirdi.com
I don't get it. It's an email.

Waste of time? My dude, you writing a response took longer than reading my email.
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kellybarnhill.bsky.social
Dear scholars, scientists, doctors and advocates - we need your voices and expertise more than ever. If there was ever a time to bring the Ivory Tower right into the middle of the Public Square, it's now.
lollardfish.bsky.social
Yesterday RFK Jr said we will know the causes of autism by September then eliminate the contaminants (or something).

Today is the day you pitch local media to say: here’s what we know, it’s complicated, RFK Jr is lying.

File by Monday morning.
petraboynton.bsky.social
I agree. It's a vast task potentially, but workable with actionable activities and clearly defined roles. I know @lollardfish.bsky.social has talked a lot about targeting local media and many scholars will be in unis with media teams who might assist, also (perhaps outside US sometimes for safety)
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ryancordell.org
There has been so much devastation, but for my communities this is especially devastating. I cannot overstate how much we owe to the Office of Digital Humanities & the incredible people who have worked there. The work won’t end, but it will be severely curtailed
profgabrielle.bsky.social
The NEH Digital Humanities office housed people doing amazing work and connecting and supporting DH ecosystems in ways many of will never be able to chart or fully appreciate. Is there a way we can honor them at the ASA or MLA or AHA or. . .
megsmith.bsky.social
Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities
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grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.

Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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theferocity.bsky.social
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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mims.bsky.social
I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence?

I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
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jacquelyngill.bsky.social
This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.

Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
tutusntinyhats.bsky.social
Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”

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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
wapo.st
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nhannahjones.bsky.social
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.

“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
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okwonga.bsky.social
Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
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My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.
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We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
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My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.
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We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
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freyja-lynx.dev
any author who gets on the side of “libgen is bad” goes on my “i will pirate you even when i have a job” list