If you do one thing today, do this: @nationalbailout.bsky.social

Sarah J. Jackson@sjjphd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

March 18, 2026

Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

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Nominations for the Judith R. Walkowitz Prize are due May 15! The Walkowitz Prize is awarded annually for the best published article on issues relating to gender and sexuality in British culture. Info and nomination instructions here: www.nacbs.org/prize-databa...

What a huge loss. NOT STRAIGHT, NOT WHITE was such an inspiration for me and many other historians. "Without an acknowledged heritage, at any moment one’s voice may be drowned out, one’s social standing is disabled, and one’s chances for civic belonging plummet."

Paul Renfro@renfro.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Deeply saddened to learn of Kevin Mumford's death. His 2011 Journal of American Hist. article, "The Trouble with Gay Rights: Race and the Politics of Sexual Orientation in Philadelphia, 1969–1982," helped inspire me to become a historian of race and sexuality. 🗃️ history.illinois.edu/news/2026-02...

I fell down a rabbit hole yesterday via Leslie Reagan's "When Abortion Was a Crime," and wondered if anyone knew of historical work that examined the use of Leunbach's Paste / Provokol (1930s) or potassium permanganate (1950s) to end pregnancies. Maybe @erinacean.bsky.social has an idea? #histmed

Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!

It's v exciting to see this turn toward complexity in biology. @philipcball.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @duhe.bsky.social are among those pressing for change. Who else? Historians can help here. We have rigorous ways of dealing w/ context & contingency. Life is historical!

Kevin Mitchell@wiringthebrain.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Should biology put complexity first? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... - excellent essay by @philipcball.bsky.social. I would add epistasis to polygenicity and pleiotropy as a ubiquitous and fundamental phenomenon, not some optional complication that we can try to account for afterwards

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

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Sandra Eder@ederummadum.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How did people in the seventeenth century understand ending a pregnancy? Find out tomorrow, Thursday 2/19, at Mary Fissell’s talk, ‘Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America.’ 4:00–5:30 PM in 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. #History #Gender #Medicine

How did people in the seventeenth century understand ending a pregnancy? Find out tomorrow, Thursday 2/19, at Mary Fissell’s talk, ‘Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America.’ 4:00–5:30 PM in 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. #History #Gender #Medicine

I talked with podcaster Brad Carr recently, about genetic determinism, race and IQ, and James Watson. The title captures the gist, but the devil's in the details... You can check out our conversation here: YouTube: youtu.be/f8qiz1aCdno Audio: bradcarr.transistor.fm/episodes/170...

Why Eugenics Made a Comeback in America | Dr Nathaniel Comfort

YouTube video by Brad Carr

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Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

The Tilburg Uni Econ Dept seeks to hire a Postdoctoral Researcher specializing in Economic History w expertise in causal inference, quasi-experiments & an interest in political preferences & racial attitudes, for the research project "The roots of prejudice in Europe: The role of WW II". 3 year term

Riding Bart yesterday evening past the sunset through the South Bay ... Beauty and Resilience

I broke my Schomburg Center Centennial Mug. Thanks 2026! I know, a minor thing in what's already shaping up to be quite a year ... but it brought me joy and I just saw, it's sold out. Anybody got a spare one?

I'm hiring 2 postdocs on my Wellcome project "How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)" Department of Global Health and Social Medicine King's College 3 years 01/10/26- 30/09/29 Deadline: 01/02/26 shorturl.at/KZ6Vh

Postdoctoral Research Associate | King's College London

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The gift that keeps on giving .... udm14.org

I'm no purist when it comes to participating in things we all know are bad. I try to reduce my harm but I'm an honest hypocrite. I won't judge you for still using Spotify, just try this rad alternative. I'm listening to music from Dar es Salaam. Where will you listen to? radio.garden/listen/furah...

Explore live radio by rotating the globe

Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

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Happy Buy Nothing Day!

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

Tapas, Cheese, Chickpea Confit and Broccoli with Almonds. Upper-Austrian Apfelschlangerl (apple strudel). GOAT-ing this lazy afternoon food day.

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Nobody wants this shit. Nobody. The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.

🏖️ Monica Valentinelli is AFK. Replies will be slow. 🎪@booksofm.com · 9mo ago

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

I didn’t know it worked this way. @nytopinion.nytimes.com first published my piece on Watson and genetic determinism on Sunday, but it came out in the paper today. Evidently each week the op-ed page is a mad shuffling scramble for Friday.

Opinion | James Watson Saw the True Form of DNA. Then It Blinded Him.

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In New Orleans, at #HSS2025. The 1st #eugenics panel had many friends, colleagues, & students there—& 1 grandstudent!— in the audience and behind the podium, it felt like a big fuzzy eugenic family reunion. That's a thing, right? @ederummadum.bsky.social @ayahnerd.bsky.social @jowiph.bsky.social

My brilliant friend @katewomersley.com worked on this course on integrating sex and gender in health research and policy. Please share widely. www.imperial.ac.uk/admin-servic...

Happy news: My new book -- Humanitarianism: A Very Short Introduction -- now has a cover and is available for preorder! The book is a concise history of humanitarianism in an international and global perspective, from the 18th century to the present. More info here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

What is the Black Archive? Reparations and Transformation Sat, 29 Nov, British Library On Presenting the Past: Black Archives in Britain Today – GPI Archivist will be talking at this first discussion of the day, along with the BFI and the Stuart Hall Archive See British Library website to book

definitely worth the watch, especially if you know what it is to have your home destroyed

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug@hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 9mo ago

currently: kanopy.com/video/15692924

James D. Watson is dead. Stay tuned for some thoughts, based on my research on his biography, to be published soon. While I write that up, y'all can throw tomatoes at this if you like. But I will offer a more nuanced take. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97

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