M.L. Cherry
@historycherry.bsky.social
Early American historian; native plant enthusiast and birder; luddite who's still figuring out this platform.
Lovely. My university system has put a target on faculty's backs for doxxing and harassment. My new year's resolution is now to try and avoid a death threat as I teach the history of sexuality.
Publicly posting course syllabi will harm North Carolina’s universities ncnewsline.com/2025/12/11/p... (commentary) #unc #ncpol
Publicly posting course syllabi will harm North Carolina’s universities • NC Newsline
The UNC system recently decided behind closed doors that faculty syllabi are no longer their own intellectual property and instead are public records. This is a bad thing for all North Carolinians.
ncnewsline.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Lovely. My university system has put a target on faculty's backs for doxxing and harassment. My new year's resolution is now to try and avoid a death threat as I teach the history of sexuality.
I need to learn not to get so emotionally invested in grading final papers. Maybe next semester...
December 10, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I need to learn not to get so emotionally invested in grading final papers. Maybe next semester...
It me, but with ruby-crowned kinglets
Another comic from this past year. Sometimes I'm in awe about how incredibly small birds can be.
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
It me, but with ruby-crowned kinglets
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End of semester/2025 vibes.
December 4, 2025 at 1:15 PM
End of semester/2025 vibes.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
A good summarization of where academia is right now with AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
A good summarization of where academia is right now with AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
Today I am especially thankful that there will soon be an online catalog for the BL Archives and Manuscripts. It's been a long two years!
November 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Today I am especially thankful that there will soon be an online catalog for the BL Archives and Manuscripts. It's been a long two years!
I found out my parents have been watching the show. I assume it's so they could get out of watching it with me over Thanksgiving.
Ken Burns Revolution documentary drinking game where you take a shot every time you recognize the author of a primary source before the narrator tells you.
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I found out my parents have been watching the show. I assume it's so they could get out of watching it with me over Thanksgiving.
Coast Guard Says Swastika and Noose Displays Are No Longer Hate Incidents
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.🕯️🤍💐This day is always bittersweet, as we mourn those we’ve lost and celebrate their lives. (1/3)
November 20, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Today is Trans Day of Remembrance.🕯️🤍💐This day is always bittersweet, as we mourn those we’ve lost and celebrate their lives. (1/3)
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
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“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
Fired Scholars and Big Grants to Favored Projects: Inside Trump’s N.E.H.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...
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“He is part of the legacy of North Carolina, part of the queer legacy, part of the artistic legacy, and part of a spiritual determination not to be mowed down by the brutal forces that we grew up in and pushed back,” says Mab Segrest.
The Archive Tells the Story
On October 26, the Durham artist Allan Troxler died. A trailblazer in the fight for gay rights, he leaves an indelible legacy behind.
indyweek.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“He is part of the legacy of North Carolina, part of the queer legacy, part of the artistic legacy, and part of a spiritual determination not to be mowed down by the brutal forces that we grew up in and pushed back,” says Mab Segrest.
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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🎓 Student Work Comes to Life! Queer History of Durham Tour
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
www.preservationdurham.org
November 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
🎓 Student Work Comes to Life! Queer History of Durham Tour
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
We're incredibly proud to announce the launch of the Queer History of Durham Tour!
This tour is the successful final project from two talented students, Julia Lasure and Karina Burbank.
Tickets: www.preservationdurham.org/queerhistory...
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Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this.
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
Holocaust Researcher Says Up to 1/3 of Imprisoned LGBTQ+ People Reported by Friends and Family
A new exhibit at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center aims to shed light on the diversity of LGBTQ+ Holocaust stories.
www.them.us
November 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Someday I'll have more to say, but for now it suffices that no queer person alive will be surprised by this.
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
www.them.us/story/lgbtq-...
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Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
zensnapple's comment on "Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines?"
Explore this conversation and more from the techsupport community
www.reddit.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Finally looked up how to get rid of Google‘s automatic AI answers (and the attached waste of resources) and it‘s so easy! What relief. 😅
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
You know things are going great in academia when your goal for the day is just to not cry.
October 3, 2025 at 12:42 PM
You know things are going great in academia when your goal for the day is just to not cry.
Yet another reason for me to hate AI: bots are scraping my university library for data for LLMS and causing its catalog to constantly go down, making it harder for me to do my damn job.
September 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Yet another reason for me to hate AI: bots are scraping my university library for data for LLMS and causing its catalog to constantly go down, making it harder for me to do my damn job.
Bowie needs another two weeks in the donut (3 total) with no playtime after her spay surgery. Send thoughts, prayers, and enough drugs to take down a rhino.
September 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Bowie needs another two weeks in the donut (3 total) with no playtime after her spay surgery. Send thoughts, prayers, and enough drugs to take down a rhino.
I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug?
Oh.
Oh no.
Something is… wrong.
Very wrong.
Oh, boy.
Yeah. No.
Nope.
Not okay.
Don’t get up, Mom.
You’re so
Comfy
On the couch.
I… got this...
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
Great article discussing how Hidatsa historians used DNA evidence to prove that Sacagawea was Hidatsa, as they've argued all along. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
What if Everything We Know About Sacagawea Is Wrong?
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Great article discussing how Hidatsa historians used DNA evidence to prove that Sacagawea was Hidatsa, as they've argued all along. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/m...
Just spent the past 30 minutes tearing my office apart looking for the notes that were carefully tucked into the pages of the book I was reading. 🤦
July 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Just spent the past 30 minutes tearing my office apart looking for the notes that were carefully tucked into the pages of the book I was reading. 🤦
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Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.
Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.
July 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Parents insist their kids go to college to get business degrees. Administrators respond by defunding the humanities and social sciences, while hiring business profs at ~2X what historians get paid. Meanwhile, businesses say over and over that they want to hire humanities and social science majors.