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Elaine Ayers
@eayers0.bsky.social
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
John H. White's stunning photographs of Black Chicago, taken as part of the DOCUAMERICA project which sought to produce a visual record of 1970s US: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/john-h-white-documerica
Well they didn't learn much from that decolonial project they launched five years ago, did they?
National Gallery security staff segregated like ‘second-class citizens’, curator claims
Exclusive: Outsourced guards, largely from minority ethnic backgrounds, barred from staff hub for mainly white employees
theguardian.com
@eguimont.bsky.social and I just did a little interview to mark our new term at Endeavour. Get in touch if you're interested in the journal and what we do!
News - Endeavour | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest articles of Endeavour at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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It was a cold that got into the bone, into the marrow, and would not be dislodged.
I really appreciate the full parfait of this: perfect illustration of the uselessness of AI, perfect illustration of the lazy stupidity of this administration, perfect illustration of their contempt for global health, perfect illustration of their racism. Full points.
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
A new study led by @ucdavis.bsky.social provides a genetic explanation of why some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. @pnas.org www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
Study Reveals How Avocados Reverse Sexes Throughout the Day
Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. How avocados do this has been unclear — until now, thanks to a UC Davis study.
ucdavis.edu
🌿🍄🌿 Finally went into the office + picked up my copy of Thinking With Plants + Fungi (and some other books). What a beautiful, colorful, joyful celebration of nature, history + science. Order your own copy + read my article on moss below (or on Amazon). 🌿🍄🌿 www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
“Once that information has been extracted and encoded into an AI model, the delivery mechanism [physical book] has served its purpose.” Tech bros bringing a new misguided meaning to the knowledge economy. www.news.com.au/technology/o...
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
news.com.au
Excited that my article on collecting polar exploration ephemera is live, part of the special issue “Crossings in Polar Art History” for the journal Art History. Thanks to issue editors @issygapp.bsky.social and Mark Cheetham and everyone who spoke to me for this piece, incl. @tchotchke.bsky.social!
‘You will find it at the North Pole when you get there’: Travels in Polar Exploration Ephemera
Abstract. Throughout the long nineteenth century, dozens of exploratory expeditions embarked from Western Europe and European settler nations for the Arcti
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"The father and son are founder and president, respectively, of WallBuilders, a Christian nationalist advocacy organization founded in 1988. WallBuilders aims to “teach US history and how our beginnings were overwhelmingly rooted in Christian ideology.”
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.The full story in today's Popular Information:
Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.
The Assault On Science Funding Continues
science.org
............... Looks like my week on the Smithsonian in my Museums: Power + Politics class will still be relevant this year. I gave some interviews about this to journalists last year; reach out if you're writing something and want to talk. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07...
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Orders Signs Correcting ‘Inaccurate Information’ at Smithsonian
nytimes.com
A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
Trump allies could weaken historic preservation rules to fast-track federal projects
A council packed with Trump appointees is poised to rewrite historic preservation rules. Critics say that could help him build his D.C. arch faster — and endanger important sites across the country.
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The amount of mold spores I’ve inhaled while researching mold in the herbarium…
j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices@jmgabriel.bsky.social · 2w agoI can't top this, but once when I was doing some research on drug regulation in the 1930s I opened a folder and a bunch of cannabis seeds fell all over the table This was in the National Archives in Bethesda
A beautiful meditation on women, childbirth, and the voices left out of the whale slaughter on South Georgia Island. orionmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Other Endurance - Orion Magazine
On whaling, women, and the voices that remain
orionmagazine.org
Dinosaurs have always been tied to questions about capitalism, wealth, and masculinity (in changing ways). Interesting to put this "hot new asset class coveted by the ultrarich" into conversation with 18th, 19th + early 20thC paleontological collecting + display. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Billionaires’ T. Rex Obsession Has Turned Fossils Into Red-Hot Drama
As the battle for dinosaur bones heightens, paleontologists, collectors and auction houses navigate a Wild West market.
bloomberg.com
Remember when NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya said there were no banned words and NIH Program Officers were making them up? Here’s the proof he lied: apnews.com/article/cali... I know, Jay Bhattacharya lying is not news. But it’s still really validating to have the admission.
White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants
Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...
apnews.com
Read the letter sent by eight Yale-affiliated members of CT Legislature to Yale University. #AAUP #AAUPYale #CTLegislature #HigherEducation #AcademicFreedom
A reminder that museums, including the Smithsonian, have ALWAYS been political and politicized. Mulling over whether to write a piece on this all (but who has the time, incorporating it into teaching instead). But yes, of course, race has always been there.
Martha Hickson@sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 2w ago“It would be laughable if the Smithsonian conspiracy theory and tales of Bible giants … were not a kind of Trojan horse to soften up the public to accept political propaganda in place of history and complete the assault on America’s museums that failed in the 1990s.”
🦤 If I owe you writing, emails, grading (yes, still grading over the summer), admin work, or anything else, it's coming very soon! This summer has been relentless, and today I need to escape to the Scottish coastline to try to track down a puffin. So good to see so many friends this week. 🦤
Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
Trump administration limits student visas to four years, changing longstanding policy - The Boston Globe
The new rule, which also restricts the international students’ ability to transfer schools or change majors without approval in their first year, will go into effect in mid-September.
bostonglobe.com
I want people to understand the full impact of the devastation that First Nations in Canada are facing. It's NOT just that people and wildlife are losing their homes...it's the history that is being lost for generations to come.
Hellooooo, Edinburgh #ESHS-HSS! ICYMI: Yesterday at the MPIWG Networking Lunch, we ntroduced the Centre for Biocultural Worlding. We're hiring 2 postdocs with background in #HistSci ++++ #ESHS #HSS This is a 4-yr position. Please spread the word! Danke! 🐢🪲🦋🧩⚖️🌏🌴🐘🧪🛶🐅🎶🎨✍️🪸
Lisa Onaga@lisaonaga.bsky.social · 4w agoHow do current standards of decision-making processes produce consequences for who thrives on this #planet? Join the Max Planck–NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding bioculturalworlding.org to research with #law #science #art #KnowledgeHolders (Deadline 10 Aug) www.mpg.de/26862008/two...
🌿📚🏛️ Are you nursing an #ESHS-HSS hangover from last night's cèilidh? Are you burned out from seeing everyone you know? Come to my talk about plants + collections at 9:15 in the museum this morning and I promise you can have a snooze. All are welcome! 🌿📚🏛️
Huge congratulations to my beloved Yale colleagues and friends, Ayah and Marco! This is an incredibly important project and I'm proud and lucky to work alongside them. 🥂
Dr. Ayah Nuriddin@ayahnerd.bsky.social · 4w agoSo thrilled to announce that the Community Histories Lab (co-directed by Marco Ramos and I) has been awarded a Digital Justice Seed Grant to build the People’s Health Archive of New Haven!
Not only that, but a large contingent of the wider @collecol.bsky.social network also came! So many people there working on collections, natural history, museums, environmental history, etc. 🌿🪲 What a great way to kick off the conference! #hss2026 #eshs-hss
Elaine Ayers@eayers0.bsky.social · 3w agoBig thank you to the many, many #ESHS-HSS people who came to @arnoldke.bsky.social and my pub night last night! Incredibly having friends from so many walks of life in one place. Let's do it again tonight - Yale drinks, CALM drinks, and of course the cèildh.