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Inside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 19h

What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Marketing, Enrollment and Product Launches

Three tips for higher ed from the rollout of The Life of a Showgirl. https://bit.ly/48g87lT

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

The cover of Taylor Swift's 2025 album, "The Life of a Showgirl."

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Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ Sacred Heart University @womenstudiesshu.bsky.social · 16h

Interesting discussion starter…

Etta T. @studiedtodeath.bsky.social · 22h

This blog post posits that higher education is becoming devalued because of “male flight” — men leaving industries as large numbers of women enter (similar to white flight).

For every 1% increase in the proportion of women in the student body, 1.7 fewer men applied.

#AcademicSky

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?

We would rather talk about literally everything else.

celestemdavis.substack.com

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Cosette @cosettepaneque.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you, Jessica Wade, for writing women into science history. #STEM #history
mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade...

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

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Thurston County @thurstoncounty.bsky.social · 7d

Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, and educator Jane Goodall passed away today. We lost a true champion. #AcademicSky #Edusky

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 7d

The impact of Patti Smith on Irish music. Her memoirs have been really popular here too. Interesting article:

Why Patti Smith's songs and poems have chimed with Irish artists

Patti Smith's defiant and non-conformist work has always had a strong influence on Ireland's punk, rock and underground scenes

www.rte.ie

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Sacred Heart University History Department @shuhistorydept.bsky.social · 7d

Happy October 1st!

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The SpoOoky History Conference @spookyhist.bsky.social · 14d

Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃

🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag

Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.

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Learning Disabilities & Autism at Manchester Met @learningmet.bsky.social · 13d

Please join us for a symposium on Religions, Faith Communities & Disability, 8th Oct 12-2pm, online. @krysiawally.bsky.social, Bernice Hardie and @jpuddlegoose.bsky.social will share research and action for inclusion in faith communities and beyond. Sign up: tinyurl.com/3pdjmn4d #AutRes #AcademicSky

A flyer for an online symposium with white text and speakers' photos on a brick wall background. Text reads: Wed 8th October 12-2pm. Religions, Faith Communities and Disability. Online symposium with speakers Dr Krysia Waldock, Bernice Hardie and Fiona MacMillan. Chaired by Dr Naomi Jacobs. Link to event via Eventbrite.

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Paul @envisionedaphorism.bsky.social · 13d

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#academicsky #booksky #foodsky #reflection

Fadi Kattan’s Cookbook Bethlehem is a Journey to the Soul of Humanity

Reading cookbooks as literature allows you to unlock cultural awareness and love through food.

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 16d

Thirty years after Beijing, the gains of women’s movements are undeniable—yet they remain underfunded at the very moment we need them most.

The Beijing Conference Was a Victory for Women’s Movements. It’s Time to Believe in Them Again.

The Beijing United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women Was a Victory for Feminism. It’s Time to Believe and Invest in Women's Rights Again.

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Women As One @womenasone.bsky.social · 18d

🚨 Women remain underrepresented in clinical research, leaving gaps in evidence-based care.

Leaders call for more sex-specific studies, equitable trial inclusion, and guidelines that reflect women’s biology.

Read more: www.thelancet.com/jo...

#WomensHealth #WomenInCardiology #CardioSky

Timeline for Women’s Health Research. This timeline reveals the time course of women’s health research at the federal level in the USA.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 18d

Next week, students in my medieval survey course @viuniversity.bsky.social will be discussing Katherine Allen Smith’s fantastic article “Why did medieval monks sew?” If you haven’t read it yet, you should. It’s superb.

The image shows the first page of Katherine Allen Smith’s article called “why did medieval monks sew?”. Beneath the title is the abstract, which say this:
Building upon numerous recent studies of medieval religious women’s textile production, this essay explores sewing practices among religious men. From Late Antiquity through the Central Middle Ages, monastic regulators, hagiographers, and homilists promoted stitching as a fitting activity for religious men and women alike, but ascribed different meanings to this work depending on the gender of practitioners. For religious men, sewing was a demonstration of humility, poverty, and simplicity which signalled their rejection of a lay masculinity that coded stitchery as feminine. More broadly, sewing-related metaphors, exempla and miracles evoked a monastic world in which the spiritual and domestic intermingled, so that needles and thread could be understood as both practical tools and symbols of virtue.”

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sasha @krassotkin.bsky.social · 20d

The Taliban banned 679 university textbooks in Afghanistan, including 140 by women and 310 by Iranian authors. Also banned are 18 subjects, including human rights, sexual harassment, and women's studies. The ban aims to align content with Taliban's interpretation of Sharia law.

Taliban ban books written by women from Afghan universities

The decree also outlaws the teaching of 18 subjects, including human rights and sexual harassment.

www.bbc.com

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17d

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals.
Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team.
So proud.

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Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social · 19d

This looks very interesting and useful. Here are the titles of the chapters in this edited collection.

Page 1 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
1- “The missing Romanian chapter in disability history”,
2- “Deafening Architectural Modernism: Reconsidering the Archive of Adolf Lois”,
3- “‘Brain of woman, at 30, half an idiot’: recovering disability histories from the ‘footnotes’ of the British Museum collection”.

Page 2 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
4- “Cripping the convict archive”,
5- “The feverish saint: a queer encounter with the public universal friend”
6- “Disability, the modern state, and the archive in the United States”,
7- “ there are no invalids in the archive: hidden sources and ideological obscurations in the history of international blind activism”,
8- “silence and stigma: how archival restrictions threaten histories of the mentally ill in the United States”,
9- “recovering the past to understand the present: cropping school segregation in New York City”,
10- “settler ableism: Indigeneity, unsettling the archive, and accountability in history”,
11- “hall of miracles: Central American disability archives”.

Page 3 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
12- “cripping the settler archive: disability in women’s memoirs of the Indian service”,
13- “deafness and silences in the archives”,
14- “the spoken word is not neutral: oral history, disability, and nonverbal communication”,
15- “ephemeral madness: the patient-theorists of psychiatric archives”,
16- “privileged, oppressed, and liberated: unearthing the archives of a multigenerational white deaf family”,
17- “‘It felt like everything’: disability, affect, and the creation of archival interdependence”,
18- “transnational disability praxis: archiving survival, resistance, and resilience amid ongoing emergencies”.

Page 4 of the table of contents. The titles listed on this page are:
19- “accessibility widely defined: making the university of Massachusetts archives’ disability collections available to everyone”,
20- “file/life: remembering the Pennhurst Archive with community activists”.

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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 20d

Marian Anderson (b. 1897 in Philadelphia) was a singer & international diplomat of democracy who inspired admirers worldwide. She is depicted here in a 1965 portrait by Harlem Renaissance modernist & abstract expressionist painter, Beauford Delaney (b. 1901 in Knoxville).

Very yellow painting of a woman gazing at the viewer, her hands are clasped.

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Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to share that the Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History is out! And humbled to see my article “Women in South Sudan” included among entries written by so many African Studies scholars that I look up to 🙏🏿

Link: oxfordre.com/africanhisto...

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 27d

The executive editor of Ms. became involved in feminist organizing when the supposed ratification deadline for the Equal Rights Amendment expired in 1982. In the final episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward, she explains why, 40 years later, she’s still calling for constitutional equality.

‘Who Could Be Opposed to This?’: Why the ERA Is Kathy Spillar’s ‘North Star’ in the Fight for Gender Equality

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Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social · 27d

New publication in @millennjournal.bsky.social Theorising Feminist Peace with Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art. Co-authored with my colleague Heidi Riley as part of our project Talk4Peace #IRSky #FeminsitSky #AcademicSky

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Unfinished Peace, Unfinished Memory: Theorising Feminist Peace With Northern Ireland’s Contemporary Art - Maria-Adriana Deiana, Heidi Riley, 2025

The critical engagement with everyday lived experiences and the politics of memory are key dimensions in Feminist Peace Research. They help us theorise feminist...

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Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social · 26d

With the advent of the #JaneAustenFestival, I have seen lots of stuff around the language of the fan 🪭 It is a bit of fun but if you want the real history, get in touch as my language of the fan workshop will reveal the truth… #skystorians #AcademicSky @bathprestrust.bsky.social @brlsi.bsky.social

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Dr Lily Chadwick @lilyrchadwick.bsky.social · Sep 5

My latest article, “Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions” has been published by Quaker Studies and is available for access here: quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

Accessing the Intimate in the Archive: Quaker Women’s Meeting Minutes and the History of Emotions

The earliest generations of Quakers existed primarily on the margins of early modern European society, and yet they produced an abundance of written material containing a wealth of information for soc...

quakerstudies.openlibhums.org

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 28d

Fashion and Freud? A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT in New York City explores fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis.

Fashion meets Freud. A new exhibit explores clothes through a psychoanalytic lens

A new exhibit at The Museum at FIT in New York City explores fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis.

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Feminist Review @feministreview.bsky.social · Aug 28

#FeministReview 140 is out! Our most recent #Currents Issue includes research and theoretical articles, and open-space creative writing, with many of them being open access. Have a look and join the conversations with us and the authors. Enjoy your reads!
#FR140: journals.sagepub.com/toc/fera/140/1

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Sacred Heart University History Department @shuhistorydept.bsky.social · 29d

Great day at SHU! Hosting Dr. Berkin to hear her talk on women and the Revolution!

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The Center for Humanities @humanitiescuny.bsky.social · Sep 3

Women’s Studies Quarterly invites proposals for new editors.
A forum for emerging perspectives on women, gender, and sexuality. The journal showcases scholarship, fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and visual arts.

For more information:
centerforthehumanities.org/call-for-new...

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