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Categorically, I am not emailing anyone to ask them to join a book promotion. That is a scam.
Which is to say, I’m unbelievably thrilled to say this morning I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the trade publication of my next book, an exploration of the first two decades of TTRPG Actual Play.
Here's an awesome natural history humanities PhD opportunity, working with Cambridge University Library & our insect & archive collections here at @zoologymuseum.bsky.social, exploring the links between entomology, life writing & environmental change. Please share!
www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...
Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public.
Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...
Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone —Tarik Dobbs (Source: Poetry Foundation) Black on white image of a tree where the trunk and all the branches are comprised of the word ‘bird’ including the letters in ‘bird’ arranged vertically in the tree trunk. The text of the following poem appears below as the ground or base holding the tree up. man has always envied the bird & now I envy the murder & now I murder the murder & now birds playback live on the air & now dead birds live in the air & now men call murder champagne now men call sign murder champagne & a man's fist pours a glass of champagne & now his bottle hisses & was it carbonation or the flutter of wings? & now they bird a house & now soldiers behind a desktop sing champagne & now they bird another house & now champagne & now they bird until a blackout & now the tree's murder is its own blackout & now a wall of murder & now the conspiracy comes true: a tree in which every bird is a drone.
Poem Where Every Bird Is a Drone
—Tarik Dobbs
#ConcretePoem for #SmallPoemSunday
See #poem in ALT
#poetry
Cool opportunity to work at the intersections of climate/environmental history and history of medicine!
History and Medicine – Associate Professor or Professor with Tenure – McMaster University
Apply by March 31st
niche-canada.org/2026/03/05/h...
#envhist #histmed #climhist #cdnhist
Jay Bhattacharya giving an interview to the Epoch Times chief editor
Here’s the NIH Director giving an interview to the editor of The Epoch Times—a media affiliate of the extreme anti-vaxx Falun Gong movement
The interview is hosted by RFK Jr’s extraordinarily dangerous, extreme anti-vaxx activist group Children’s Health Defense
h/t @angierasmussen.bsky.social
Not ready to emerge into the “daylight” yet? Check out my super-sized 266th #ScholarSunday thread, chock-full o’ public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
What happens when you have quacks running health care?
You get disinformation, outbreaks and deaths
Stand Up For Science @standupforscience.bsky.social
Quacks must go!
“The initial spreadsheet the DOGE team created flagged 1,057 problematic grants. But within two weeks, Mr. Fox and Mr. Cavanaugh had identified hundreds more as D.E.I.-related or simply “wasteful.” Ultimately, only 42 grants approved during the Biden administration were kept.”
Just random.
My first extended residency & dedicated time to be a poet for a week. Feeling very fortunate (and as expected, anxious to make good use of precious time) ❤️
Call for contributions on Precarity and Resilience (and other topics about the profession) for the annual pub PROFESSION, now an issue of PMLA. www.mla.org/Publications...
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Some posts for #InternationalWomensDay ...
The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, Related by Herself (1831; electronic edition by Documenting the American South, 2000)
docsouth.unc.edu/neh/prince/pri…
"Recent attacks on specific works of literature by Republican state legislatures and conservative orgs...pale in comparison to the large-scale divestment from literature to which liberal and conservative forces alike contribute."
so good, @manshel.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/alh/article/...
Two black and white photos of a soldier who has received a facial injury during World War I. In the first photo, his injuries are on display. In the second photo, he is wearing a facial prosthetic (mask) that covers his injuries.
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #InternationalWomensDay🧵
From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
Wrote this on human remains in British museums this time last year and stand by it: it’s a slow process that many collections have been trying to deal with for a while and—above all else—one that needs time and resourcing: theconversation.com/new-report-c...
Damn, some rejections hit really hard.
My new Wretched & Alone game Blood In The Margins is out now! You killed someone on campus with your friends. Journal about the victim, the justifications, the investigation closing in.
https://loottheroom.itch.io/blood-in-the-margins
An image of a quotation from Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS which reads: "52. You are not compelled to form an opinion about this matter before you, not to disturb your piece of mind at all. Things in themselves have no power to extort a verdict from you." Beneath the quote, diagonal pink type has been applied which reads; Marcus Aurelius has already released you from the obligation to have a take
I keep seeing so many people on social media obsessed with having a take, in times of crisis. Hell, I've done it too. But remember: You DON'T have to have one.
It's ok to say I have no idea. Also, see image:
really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.
Apply to join my team by 3/16!
Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.
$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.
This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️
www.leventhalmap.org/about/jobs/c...
You can read more about us in Mother Jones
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
And @thesicktimes.org
thesicktimes.org/2025/10/21/i...
5/5
Thinking about an earlier moral panic that trans-men would disappear butch lesbians. It’s like we’re playing a zero-sum game of identity categories.
Photo of Hayden, a white man with long brown hair, a scruffy beard, and blue nail polish. He is wearing hearing aids, eyeglasses, a white dress shirt, slacks, various silver and gold rings, and a wristwatch. He is holding an FM radio receiver, with coils connected to his hearing aids, wrapped around his wrist, and draped across his shoulders while he sits facing the camera, wincing.
People don't realize how an assistive device entwines with a nervous system, becomes an extension of the body, as much a part of you as your own tongue. Its interface, battery life, maintenance, malfunctions—even its obsolescence—are yours. You don't just wear the machine. You live its life.
there are two kinds of historians: historians who need to stop reading and write, and historians who need to stop writing and read
"But to characterize AI as outperforming social scientists is not only a bald-faced lie, but it exposes one’s own undervaluing of creative thought and inability to discern (or disinterest in discerning) quality writing that pushes the reader to reconceptualize politics, policy, and law."
A photo of a stack of off-white books with a char of colorful hashtags across the cover. The cover reads #HashtagActivism Networks of Race and Gender Justice SARAH J. JACKSON MOYA BAILEY BROOKE FOUCAULT WELLES FOREWORD BY GENIE LAUREN
It’s the 6th anniversary of the publication of #HashtagActivism. Much has changed about social media since @moyazb.bsky.social @foucaultwelles.bsky.social and I started researching the site formerly known as Twitter over a decade ago. Forever grateful we were on the ride together.
Yet again missing AWP this year, which is doubly sad with my debut collection and anthology having just come out. Please snap a pic / grab a copy if you see them out in the wild. My love to all the folks I don't get to see / have yet to meet.