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Melissa K Byrnes

@profmkbyrnes.bsky.social

Historian @SouthwesternU. France, empire, migration, race, rights, activism. Author of Making Space (UNP). Mama. She/her.

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SJSCentralTX@sjscentraltx.bsky.social · 2w ago

#TEXANS Bookmark this article. Read it. Print it. Share it. Women and their doctors must know this information so that any woman with a pregnancy emergency - such as ectopic pregnancy - can get lifesaving treatment without delay. There’s a SPECIFIC exception for terminating ectopic pregnancies

These Texas doctors want to make sure people know their abortion rights during medical emergencies

Texas passed the Life of the Mother Act in 2025, aiming to clarify the narrow medical exception to the state's abortion ban. Advocates are still working to spread the word.

kut.org

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w ago

Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

newrepublic.com

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · last mo.

The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

I'm sure this take has been took already but it's worth saying: the obscene, cynical performance of "It's about being against plagiarism" re Arday is absurd when the entire academic superstructure is being reorganised around mandating plagiarism using advanced plagiarism automation software

riksdagsvalar morghulis@maxjohkna.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think higher education has kind of the same issue right now as social care: the current systems are set up for a far smaller part of the population to need them than currently do. And in both cases I really think the change has been a huge benefit to society, we just need to fund it sustainably.

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Northwestern University admin accepting $35 million for the football program from MAGA donors Dick and Liz Uihlein while also shuttering the African Studies program and its 80-year-old history is a pretty good encapsulation of higher ed in the US.

Jessica Smith@thedaybooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

Eric Deggans@edeggans.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NPR used to feature an array of Black staffers reading the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth. I'm not sure if it is happening today. But in case it isn't, here's a link to hear me and several other staffers of color performing the reading from 2020: https://loom.ly/fBoaADE

Celebrating Juneteenth: A Reading Of The Emancipation Proclamation

On this Juneteenth, NPR is marking the day in 1865 when Union forces arrived in Texas with the news that slavery had been abolished two years earlier with a reading of the Emancipation Proclamation.

npr.org

Melissa K Byrnes @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is the central line when I teach the History of Human Rights: rights rhetoric and discussions move forward meaningfully when new groups pry their way in to make the case that they should always have belonged.

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