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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 8h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 2d

Starting today! Join us at 1 pm ET/12 pm CT for the first event of History of Medicine week! Registration links are in your email. Misplaced it? Didn't get it? Email us! histmed.org/history-of-m... #HistMedWeek #histmed

"History of Medicine Week events schedule, October 6-10. Five events listed: Monday - Communicating Beyond the Academy panel and AIDS talk; Tuesday - Federal Regulations podcast and Graduate Degree workshop; Wednesday - Teaching tips session; Thursday - Immigration and Health discussion; Friday - Trans & Intersex Health talk. Visit histmed.org/history-of-medicine-week for details."Retry

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 2d

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Book cover for Susan Dackerman, Dürer's Knots: Early European Print and the Islamic East.

Book cover for Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.

Book cover for Jed Buchwald and Diane Greco Josefowicz, The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

Book cover for James Costa, Radical by Nature: The Revolutionary Life of Alfred Russel Wallace.

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Faye Getz @fayway.bsky.social · 13d

If you are in the Boston area don’t miss the Rachel Ruysch exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. She was a celebrated 17th-century painter of flowers, insects, and animals assembled from the Dutch empire. Specimens from Harvard’s natural historical collections broaden its impact. Truly stunning.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 14d

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28d

I watched the video, and it's pretty obvious the student had been coached and was practically speaking from a script. Setting aside whether or not she has good beliefs (I don't think she does), it's bad for uni leadership to cosign "don't think for yourself." Critical thinking should be the #1 goal.

Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 28d

🚨What has happened at Texas A&M this week should concern every Texan. Not only has the integrity of academic freedom come under fire, but the due process rights of a faculty member have been trampled at the urging of state politicians + the governor himself.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Texas A&M University System orders audit of courses at all 12 universities

The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents ordered an audit of courses at the system's 12 schools amid backlash over a professor’s gender identity lesson.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social · 29d

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Their Play Was Cancelled By the University—These College Students Are Putting It On Anyway

An Oklahoma state law that prohibits equity, diversity, and inclusion has forced the University of Central Oklahoma to start cancelling its productions.

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Mike the Mad Biologist and Tsar of All the Antifas @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · Sep 8

As I noted last week, you really want to consider getting a COVID shot before Sept. 18-19. mikethemadbiologist.com/2025/09/05/g...

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Sep 4

People are saying RFK Jr is ignorant, but here, I don't think he is being ignorant.
He is willfully spreading disinformation about COVID because he has to commit to the bit, and continue to seed distrust in vaccines, and argue that COVID is "harmless"
This is intentional.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 4

WARNER: Do you accept the fact that 1 million Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't know how many died

W: You're the secretary of health and human services. You don't have any idea how many Americans died from covid?

RFK Jr: I don't think anybody knows that

W: How can you be that ignorant?

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Sep 3

The thing about living in a human society is you either decide that everyone (except those for whom it would be medically dangerous) has to take VACCINES into their bodies or everyone (with no exceptions at all) has to take VIRULENT PATHOGENS in from those around them and, look, the first is better.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Sep 2

One week until our book could be in your hands!! Pre-order using the link below

Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Feb 20

WE HAVE A BOOK COVER!! To pre-order, use the following link: nursingclio.org/the-nursing-...

Title of book: The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction and Justice. Book title is on an orange background.

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Dr. Evan Hart @historianhart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Super proud to be included in this amazing reader with such awesome scholars. Public-facing scholarship is the future! @nursingclio.bsky.social

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Dr. Ayah Nuriddin @ayahnerd.bsky.social · Sep 3

Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

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Kathleen Crowther @sacrobosco.bsky.social · Sep 4

Me and my wandering womb are thrilled to see the Nursing Clio Reader in print! Kudos to the whole @nursingclio.bsky.social team on an amazing volume!

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Aug 31

"Eugenics was rooted in rational modern science then" needs re-stating. Far too many people describe eugenics as a "pseudoscience", but it wasn't to those who studied it, wrote books and papers, formed societies and argued its benefits.

Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · Aug 31

But that was also rooted in „rational“, modern science then and these eugenicist elements are still present in science today. I think it’s dangerous, as Gourevitch does, to act as if this logics aren’t deeply rooted in specific forms of modernity, rationality and science.

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · Aug 30

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered
For more info:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065
#HPS 🗃️

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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Will Thomas @williamthomas.bsky.social · Aug 30

Good to see the New York Times has a lengthy obituary for Margaret Rossiter

Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History

www.nytimes.com

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Aug 27

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social · Aug 27

The wonderful @historyelaine.bsky.social on paper technologies, advertisements and bringing together media studies and history of early modern medicine through an impressive archive project in her keynote lecture #eahmh25 #histmed

Woman standing behind lectern in front of a projected presentation talking and gesturing

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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · Aug 24

Happy birthday to Sophie Brahe (born either Aug 24, 1559 or Sept 22, 1556 -1643) 🐡🧪👩🏼‍🔬🔭horticulturalist, astronomer, genealogist, & alchemist with the gardens at her brother #astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg estate, where she often assisted his research, alchemical tools & illustrations of the 🧵

My 11” x 14” linocut portrait of Sophie Brahe, a Renaissance aristocrat in headgear, ruff, dark clothing with medallion on a wide band and a long scarf or other thin fabric draped over her shoulders with her hands folded in front of her and alchemical vessels, printed in dark bronze ink, on a bronze background. In green behind her head is a map of the gardens at Uranienborg, with her head at the centre of the diamond shaped pale green knot garden (geometric planned gardens). This is surrounded by an orchard in darker green with semicircle bump outs on each side of the diamond. The stars of Cassiopeia from De stelle nova are printed in gold on top of everything; there are stars across her chest and ruff and in the garden and the large supernova is above her head.

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Aug 23

Poetry anecdote: lithub.com/were-already...

We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI

Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · Aug 23

There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the highest rate in more than a decade, according to a news release from the state health department. More than 3,500 babies in Mississippi have died before the age of 1 since 2014.

Mississippi declares public health emergency over rising infant mortality rate | CNN

The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state.

www.cnn.com

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Janet Golden @jgolden08.bsky.social · Aug 23

I got my copy you should rush out and get yours #NursingClio

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Kylie M. Smith @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · Aug 22

Yay got my copy of the @nursingclio.bsky.social reader last night, what an an amazing resource and honored to have contributed this intro to such a powerful section!

My hand holding the book The Nursing Clip Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction and Justice edited by the nursing clip editorial collective.

A page of the book called violence with two graphs showing US maternal mortality rates by race and age. The rates of death are much higher for Non Hispanic black women.

A close up of the Introduction to “Violence” written by me.

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Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social · Aug 22

This week @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social argues that in a post Roe vs Wade world “Women who lose pregnancies, even before viability, are targeted in ways that strongly resemble early modern infanticide investigations.” nursingclio.org/2025/08/20/m...

Miscarriage is a Crime Again

In 1650, a young, single English servant named Anne Greene miscarried into the privy and did not tell anyone. We know her story because she was arrested for infanticide, convicted despite exonerati…

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