Alex Parry, Ph.D.
@safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
Historian of home injuries, public health, and product safety at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Former Ph.D. student and graduate worker organizer at Johns Hopkins. Still frustrated and/or over-caffeinated.
Pinned
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With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
#ScholarSunday Thread 251 (11/23/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week...
blackwhiteandread.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
With the semiquincentennial behind us, launching the next 250 with my 251st #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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If you work for a UP, you can submit everything contingent-authored on your list this year. If you're a journal editor, you can submit every piece in this year's issues written by a contingent historian.
If your friend wrote a book or an article, submit it for them!
If your friend wrote a book or an article, submit it for them!
November 21, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If you work for a UP, you can submit everything contingent-authored on your list this year. If you're a journal editor, you can submit every piece in this year's issues written by a contingent historian.
If your friend wrote a book or an article, submit it for them!
If your friend wrote a book or an article, submit it for them!
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The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
November 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The DoE has reclassified numerous health professional and other degrees, limiting access to federal student loan programs eligible for the higher OBBBA loan caps from thousands to a few hundred.
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
As ALWAYS, this is about $$.
We're about to become REALLY "great"...
shorturl.fm/xs7gY
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“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 AM
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Most of my “fun” facts are slightly morbid, but:
During the 1960s, Rapco made a die-casting set that invited kids to make their own toys with molten lead. The toy, unsurprisingly, was voluntarily taken off of the market.
During the 1960s, Rapco made a die-casting set that invited kids to make their own toys with molten lead. The toy, unsurprisingly, was voluntarily taken off of the market.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Most of my “fun” facts are slightly morbid, but:
During the 1960s, Rapco made a die-casting set that invited kids to make their own toys with molten lead. The toy, unsurprisingly, was voluntarily taken off of the market.
During the 1960s, Rapco made a die-casting set that invited kids to make their own toys with molten lead. The toy, unsurprisingly, was voluntarily taken off of the market.
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
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There's a lot here, and it's fascinating and important. (I do some injury epi and injury prevention work, as well as learn from the emerging subfield of #InjuryStudies so this is especially interesting to me)
cc @slobogin.bsky.social @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
cc @slobogin.bsky.social @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
When People in Distress Deny Being Suicidal, Should They Be Believed?
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
There's a lot here, and it's fascinating and important. (I do some injury epi and injury prevention work, as well as learn from the emerging subfield of #InjuryStudies so this is especially interesting to me)
cc @slobogin.bsky.social @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
cc @slobogin.bsky.social @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/w...
My partner and I just had the harrowing experience of disassembling and reassembling our 1980s-era gas dryer to replace the drum belt. We’re hoping it’ll work now, but I guess we should give ourselves credit for trying to do the repair ourselves.
November 19, 2025 at 4:03 AM
My partner and I just had the harrowing experience of disassembling and reassembling our 1980s-era gas dryer to replace the drum belt. We’re hoping it’ll work now, but I guess we should give ourselves credit for trying to do the repair ourselves.
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A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
November 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)
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I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
November 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I still can’t quite believe I made this. 7 years, 127,000 words, 330 pages. I won’t ever do anything like it again.
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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.”
This article is deeply concerning.
Our students may have trouble reading long, dense material because they never received evidence-based reading instruction.
Students can’t close-read if they only rely on context and can’t actually process the words on the page.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Our students may have trouble reading long, dense material because they never received evidence-based reading instruction.
Students can’t close-read if they only rely on context and can’t actually process the words on the page.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...
www.apmreports.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
This article is deeply concerning.
Our students may have trouble reading long, dense material because they never received evidence-based reading instruction.
Students can’t close-read if they only rely on context and can’t actually process the words on the page.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
Our students may have trouble reading long, dense material because they never received evidence-based reading instruction.
Students can’t close-read if they only rely on context and can’t actually process the words on the page.
www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...
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🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
🚨ONE MONTH'S TIME!🚨
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!
‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939
Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online
#LocalHistory #Railway200
www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
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Years ago, we found a bunch of old film and tapes rotting away in some boxes. We digitized them as fast as possible and are sharing the videos on our YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
CPSC PSA Archive - YouTube
Archive U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission public service announcements (PSAs) from the past 50 years.
www.youtube.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Years ago, we found a bunch of old film and tapes rotting away in some boxes. We digitized them as fast as possible and are sharing the videos on our YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
Trump Is Wasting No Time in Tearing Down the East Wing
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It is shocking that Trump is quickly tearing down a portion of the White House. But isn’t the bigger story that this action is of a piece with his autocratic presumption that he can unilaterally destroy public goods without any public consultation or explanation?
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/u...
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Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
October 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Oh you're trying to say the cost of living is skyrocketing?
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
Donald Trump can't hear you over the sound of bulldozers demolishing a wing of the White House to build a new grand ballroom.
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The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction
Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.
www.wsj.com
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing
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Dear funding agencies,
I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.
Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.
I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.
Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.
October 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dear funding agencies,
I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.
Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.
I know we all want to discover the wonder drug that will cure the horrible diseases, but to do that, we need to invest in basic, unsexy, foundational research on how the systems work. Funding can’t all be drug development.
Sincerely,
Looking for basic research grants.
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The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
SSHM 2026: In/Out
Location: University of Leeds Dates: 30 June to 3 July 2026 Submission Deadline: 5.00pm (GMT) 11th January 2026 Conference Co-Convenors: Dr Alexia Moncrieff & Dr Katherine Rawling Conference Co…
sshm.org
October 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The 2026 SSHM Conference will be @universityofleeds.bsky.social. The theme will be In/Out and we are inviting papers that consider experiences of being in and/or out of health or health care in any period or geographical location. #HistMed #HistSTM
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
sshm.org/sshm-2026/
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The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
October 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.
We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.
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It's time for lunch here at #SHOT2025. Or in my case, it's time for a lunchtime roundtable on the Current Politics of Research (4.510) organized by Allison Marsh.
We begin w/brief remarks from Kristen Iemma, who is studying the history of the National Archives but is wary of publishing right now...
We begin w/brief remarks from Kristen Iemma, who is studying the history of the National Archives but is wary of publishing right now...
October 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
It's time for lunch here at #SHOT2025. Or in my case, it's time for a lunchtime roundtable on the Current Politics of Research (4.510) organized by Allison Marsh.
We begin w/brief remarks from Kristen Iemma, who is studying the history of the National Archives but is wary of publishing right now...
We begin w/brief remarks from Kristen Iemma, who is studying the history of the National Archives but is wary of publishing right now...
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So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic
Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...
academic.oup.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...
I’m appalled to see the following disclaimer on the CDC website:
“The Trump Admin. is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
Arsonists complaining about a fire.
“The Trump Admin. is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
Arsonists complaining about a fire.
October 6, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I’m appalled to see the following disclaimer on the CDC website:
“The Trump Admin. is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
Arsonists complaining about a fire.
“The Trump Admin. is working to reopen the government for the American people. Mission-critical activities of CDC will continue during the Democrat-led government shutdown.”
Arsonists complaining about a fire.
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Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
CFP: A Time of Monsters
The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...
contingentmagazine.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon Magazine Submission Manager
Tendon is the literary and visual arts journal published by the Johns Hopkins Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine. Our masthead can be found here, and our most recent issue can be found he...
tendonmag.submittable.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit
Tendon is now accepting poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art engaging with the politics and poetics of care.
For more information, see
tendonmag.submittable.com/submit