Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works

A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...

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Calling all history of medicine books published between 2020 and 2025! histmed.org/william-h-we...

William H. Welch Medal

William H. Welch Medal The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during...

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Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog. Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol. Read more here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network

Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.

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Exciting job at Smith College! apply.interfolio.com/172309

People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened. Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there? Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal? Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 12mo ago

US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down

There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI

The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

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Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?

A University actually standing up to this nonsense? Let's go!!! universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...

Pledge to Stand Up for UC

The future of America’s leading public university system is at stake.

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UCLA faculty, staff, students, and alumni— please sign: "University of California: Stand Up For Our Values" sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

Delighted and excited to join História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor!! Thank you so much for the invitation, @revistahcsm.bsky.social!

Revista HCSM@revistahcsm.bsky.social · last yr.

Elizabeth O’Brien, Associate Professor at UCLA and a specialist in the history of medicine in Latin America, has joined História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor. revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/english/eliz... #HistoryOfMedicine #HCSManguinhos #ReproductiveHealth #LatinAmerica

As you read headlines like this, remember that repeated studies have determined immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. Do not fall into this Republican frame.

Mohamed Sabry Soliman: What we know about illegal immigrant accused in Colorado terror attack

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant, from Egypt, is accused of committing the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, at an event advocating for the release of Israeli hostages.

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.

Mike Bloomfield@leegesmer.bsky.social · last yr.

Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!

Judge Brian Murphy enjoined the Trump administration from improperly deporting immigrants to 3rd countries It seems they violated that order Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions Good They deprived these immigrants of due process There must be consequences

Today at 4 pm PST (in 90 minutes) Dana Simmons will give a talk about her new book, "On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic." All are welcome to join! Link on this page history.ucla.edu/event/dana-s...

Dana Simmons: “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic”

Join via Zoom here.

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According to a 2021 report, the University of California system: • generated $82B in economic activity in California • supported 529K jobs in the state • generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

Evan Torner@guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · last yr.

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Nursing Clio is the best!!!

American Association for the History of Medicine@aahmhistmed.bsky.social · last yr.

The George Rosen Prize honors a significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine. This year's honoree was @nursingclio.bsky.social for their "critical service to the profession and to humanity in the present political climate." 🗃️

I feel like if the risk of humiliating yourself before a federal judge, being sanctioned or fired, isn’t enough to curb AI use, any individual professor is at a real disadvantage against the deluge in getting students not to use it

Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE@leftistlawyer.com · last yr.

The plaintiffs' lawyers got caught using AI after their brief contained fake case law. So they replaced it with a second AI brief with fake case law, and then they got caught again. SO THEY DID IT A THIRD TIME. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water.

Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water

In 2024, Sunoco Pipeline spilled more fuel than any other pipeline in the United States, according to data reviewed by CBS News.

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9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks? This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.

Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH@geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · last yr.

The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws “ITS TORTURE,” says her family www.11alive.com/article/news...

Well done @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. fantastic piece for @nursingclio.bsky.social

Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book@drkyliesmith.bsky.social · last yr.

Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad. nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...

This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030

Experts including Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Dr Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science

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So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

Noah Hurowitz@noahhurowitz.bsky.social · last yr.

On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Bessent says that little girls who are sad about having fewer dolls should just have it explained to them that they will have a better life for it

This brand of “soft eugenics” is usually just called “eugenics”. They’re not trying to have the “clever” breed, they’re focusing on white people while RFK Jr. and friends actively cancel grants focusing on diseases that disproportionately affect Black people

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed

This is such a good book. You're going to love it! In the @uncpress.bsky.social InterConnections Book Series as well!

SHAFR@shafrhistorians.bsky.social · last yr.

October 2025 @renatakeller.bsky.social

Here's the script, folks. It's now or never. Capitol switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Local office numbers: www.congress.gov/members/find... RTs appreciated.

This feels like the defining image from this year’s Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting. The National Science Foundatipn paid for a booth in the exhibit hall. But the booth sits empty, because NSF has been DOGE’d, and there is no one left to send.