Literally the least original take ever, but as someone who loves and watches a ton of TV, I finally watched Hacks and LOVED it. I've seen some good TV this year, and this was top three.
Elaine Ayers
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Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.
"The hidden sound of ice raises questions about absence. What does it mean to listen to something that is disappearing? Can sound preserve aspects of a landscape that may no longer exist in the future?" pioneerworks.org/broadcast/hi...
The Hidden Sound of Ice | Broadcast
What can we hear in a disappearing landscape?
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This number of emails and meetings simply can...not be what it's going to be like this semester. I legitimately don't even know where to put people in my schedule. But three cheers for the biggest history of botany lecture class to date! The people want plants! 🎉🌿🎉
thank you The New York Post for what may be the funniest image of all time
Attention Philadelphia! We're hosting a rally to demand that Drexel University maintain The Academy of Natural Sciences Museum open to the public. Join us on Tuesday morning at 10am in front of the academy. Please spread the word, we need all hands on deck! RSVP here: luma.com/1qwnrqz2
Almost every young woman academic I know (including myself) has been targeted and belittled, sexually or otherwise, at some point by a higher-ranking man. After the state of the job market, it’s probably the number two thing I warn prospective grad students about.
Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · 2w agoUW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
As we elders, our daughters, and our granddaughters continue the fight for power, equality, and respect, we hold you in our hearts with love and gratitude. Rest in peace and power, Gloria Steinem. 🤍
Gloria Steinem, Personification of the Women’s Movement, Dies at 92 (Gift Article)
She challenged sexist assumptions, helping women develop a sense of self-worth and gain a measure of equality at work, at home and in society at large.
nytimes.com
For those of you who have been paying attention to the Duke Herbarium over the past ~2 years, here's more news: it's going to UNC Chapel Hill. Happy to see it's not closing entirely, but this is also part of a larger pattern of cuts + losses from multiple angles. dukechronicle.com/article/duke...
After near closure, Duke Herbarium to take up new roots in Chapel Hill
Despite previous concerns of a closure amid plans to relocate, the biodiversity hotspot will combine with UNC’s collection to become the largest herbarium in the Southeast. The move has provided resea...
dukechronicle.com
Among multiple shakeups + closures this week: it's disappointing to hear this news about ANS, but at least their collections are remaining intact. My understanding is that among other issues, they were also hit by NEH/other gov't grant cuts. There are consequences to cuts. whyy.org/articles/aca...
The Academy of Natural Sciences museum in Philly is closing
The Academy will continue scientific research and public education, but its museum will go the way of the dinosaur.
whyy.org
I am gathering my thoughts on the Academy of Natural Sciences closing. It does not come as a surprise, unfortunately, and I’m very sad.
I'm about 1.5 years of job security away from finally teaching my Werner Herzog history class.
Pile Of Garbage@pileofgarbage.net · 2w agoI love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
"Restoring the native plant profile of the prairie was not a small job... The team collected native plants from private landholders to grow a seed library at ND State Uni. “I spent days wandering the prairie with a bag + ✂️ looking really closely for specific plants that are going in to seed..."
To Build the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library, Landscape Architects Restored a Prairie
The new museum devoted the the 26th president celebrates the dramatic Badlands of North Dakota.
bloomberg.com
NEW FROM ME: On a hellish third-country removal flight last month, passengers say ICE-contracted guards got drunk, teased and beat them, tied them up, refused to let them use the lavatory. One says he witnessed an ICE agent admit to illegal chain refoulement. prospect.org/2026/08/31/w...
‘What America Did to Me Is Wrong’: Inside One of the Largest Third-Country Removal Flights So Far - The American Prospect
On July 31, an estimated 71 detainees were expelled to various countries on a hellish flight to Africa. Many were then illegally returned to their home countries.
prospect.org
Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields concert raising $20m for abortion care nonprofits (among others) while putting on an absolute banger of a show should be getting more play than it is in the millennial retirement home that is Bluesky
🪲🪰🪲 Some belated photos from Scotland to close out the summer: insect collections at the off-site storage at the National Museum 🪲🪰🪲
We’re thrilled to share that OVERBURDEN has been chosen to be part of the Wildscreen Official Selection Program 2026! It’s an honor to be recognized alongside so many incredible storytellers and filmmakers celebrating the natural world. overburdenfilm.com #envhumanities #envhist
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
Postdoc in Integrated History & Philosophy of Modern Science at my alma mater #HPS program at Notre Dame. $75K +$15K research funds Deadline Dec 1st. #PhilJobs #philsci #philsky #histSTM #histmod philjobs.org/job/show/31869
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame - PhilJobs:JFP Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Notre Dame
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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damn its been a long semester, thank God its almost - uh wait
Are we ever going to find out what happened to mitch McConnell
If you would like to see me much more frequently you should get this job:
Head of Special Collections - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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🚨🚨🚨JOB ALERT: The HSS Department at Penn is hiring a tenure-track or tenured professor in the history of data/info science, computing, or AI. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/192132
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Over the moon that the special issue of Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social I co-edited with Sam Goodman on "Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism" is finally out in the world. Endless gratitude to @fcondrau.bsky.social. All article links below: academic.oup.com/shm/issue
Issues | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic
The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...
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Tulane History is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor of History and Political Economy. It's a joint appointment with Tulane's Murphy Institute and we're excited to continue our department's growth. Please share widely! tulane-ibqejb.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Department of History and the Murphy Institute Assistant Professor (Tenure-track) in History and Political Economy
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A wild story that sums up so much about this moment. Rare books bought up by a hyperscaler, driven across the country by truck, scanned and fed into the woodchipper by low wage workers so the rich can build and own systems that squeeze, surveil, and automate labor and control knowledge generation.
404 Media@404media.co · last mo.SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
the fact that there's a 🫑 emoji and an 🧅 emoji but no celery emoji shows as a society we still have a long way to go until cajun cooking is normalized in this country