@nursingclio.bsky.social is celebrating 40 years of Joan Wallach Scott's groundbreaking work! We're soliciting reflections on this work, with the goal of a collaborative essay featuring the voices of those impacted by such significant theorization: nursingclio.org/2026/09/23/a...

Anglo-American Gender History turns 40!

Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…

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Omigod, this is the most heartwarming story possible! Backpack (bear 89) is the son of the 2019 winner of Fat Bear Week, Holly (bear 435). In 2007, he injured his foot & a practice of riding on momma's Holly's back had a new meaning: he was mobility-restricted while it healed. So Holly moved him.

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · yesterday

Meet Backpack, your 2026 Fat Bear Week champion. Backpack is 20 years old, weighs about 1,000 pounds and got his nickname because, as a cub, he loved riding on his mom's back across the Brooks River.

When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 4d ago

Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1

It's too late for Dolly Parton Day, but here's something to explore - Dolly Parton's Top Ten Reading List.

10 Books Recommended By Dolly Parton To Read In Her Memory, Ranked

The 10 Books Recommended By Dolly Parton To Read In Her Memory, Ranked, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Kindred, The Midnight Library, The Grapes of ...

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@nursingclio.bsky.social is celebrating 40 years of Joan Wallach Scott's groundbreaking work! We're soliciting reflections on this work, with the goal of a collaborative essay featuring the voices of those impacted by such significant theorization: nursingclio.org/2026/09/23/a...

Anglo-American Gender History turns 40!

Joan Wallach Scott’s 1986 article “Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis” turns 40 this year. Published in the American Historical Review, this article laid the ground on which Anglo-Ame…

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Action Alert: The Department of Education has proposed changes to higher education accreditation that could weaken scholarly standards, treat ideological diversity as a measure of educational quality, and undervalue faculty expertise. Submit a public comment by Sept. 21. 🗃️

Action Alert: Tell the Department of Education: Protect Academic Accreditation

The Department of Education has proposed an overhaul of the accreditation system for higher education in the Federal Register: Accreditation, Innovation, and Modernization: The Secretary’s Recognition...

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Our department at Berkeley is currently accepting applications for Ph.D programs in Hispanic Languages and Literatures and Romance Languages and Literatures, with tracks in Spanish, Portuguese, and Linguistics. Details for the application here: spanish-portuguese.berkeley.edu/graduate/pro...

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Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum

Really can't stress what a big deal it is for the president of @opeiu.org to openly call out the building trades for collaboration with the AI billionaires on data centers. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labor unions must unite against AI datacenters | Tyler Turner

Workers should start with a moratorium against building until our livelihoods and communities are protected

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Please do get in touch with ideas for #maritime books - our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series 'Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture', ed. by me & John Mcaleer is keen to hear from you! Contact me or @erikagaffney.bsky.social here or via brill.com/page/forthco...

🌏 New imperial history TT position ICYMI! 🌍 jobs.tcu.edu/jobs/assista...

Assistant Professor of History - TCU Main Campus, Texas, United States

Application Deadline: October 15, 2026 Position Details: This full-time faculty position is on-campus and in-person. The Department of History at Texas Christian University invites applications for a ...

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This week on @nursingclio.bsky.social, Bridget Cuadra talks twentieth-century health inequalities and community activism in the Bay Area 💪 nursingclio.org/2026/09/09/c...

Community Organizing for Health Justice: Reproductive Justice Activism and the Coalition to Fight Infant Mortality

An enduring struggle for communities of color, infant mortality is a major issue especially for pregnant Black women and their newborns. Deliver Birth Justice—a public health initiative in Santa Cl…

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Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Victorian Literature (Application Deadline: 10/22/2026) navsa.org/News/13688833

Here's a helpful how to guide on how to break the spiral of silence... talkclimatechange.org/howTo

Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"65% of Americans say they “rarely” or “never” discuss global warming with family and friends' #EndClimateSilence Have a #climate conversation with the people around you. climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

"On the day the administration released the new strategic plan, which didn’t reflect the committee’s work, they called for volunteers to form a committee to start drafting the next new strategic plan." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/pro...

Professor Sisyphus Begins a New Semester

“Professor Sisyphus learned a slang word. He was excited to impress his students. Then he discovered that as soon as he uttered slang in class—poof! It would...

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The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather. n.pr/4cvl1On

8 dead, hundreds missing as Nepal avalanche triggers flash floods

The disaster is linked to climate change, with experts noting the region's vulnerability to extreme weather.

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Dolly Parton was an environmentalist. She compared our daily mistreatment of the environment as “being ugly to your mama”.

Dolly Parton Thinks Mistreating the Environment Is Like ‘Being Ugly to Your Mama’

Dolly Parton likened mistreating the environment to a person "being ugly to your mother" in a new interview with 'National Geographic.'

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Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social · last mo.

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

Job opportunity! 'Assistant Professor of the Practice / Assistant Director of Irish Studies' @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social For more see jobs.chronicle.com/job/38028996...

Assistant Professor of the Practice / Assistant Director of Irish Studies - Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts job with Boston College | 38028996

The Irish Studies Program at Boston College is seeking an Assistant Professor of the Practice / Assistant Director of Irish Studies.

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Fab new review of Leonard Lopoo's "Wanting Children" is now up on @nursingclio.bsky.social 🍼 It's chock full of contraception, eugenics, health inequity, gov't programming, and assisted reproductive technology (ART) nursingclio.org/2026/08/19/a...

A Review of Leonard M. Lopoo’s Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population (University of Chicago Press, 2026).

Since its inception in 1970, Title X – the United States government’s federal family planning program – has primarily focused on helping low-income women prevent unwanted pregnancies through contra…

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Colleagues will be sorry to hear that historian John Iliffe has this morning passed away in Cambridge at age 87. Iliffe was a maker of the academic field of African history. He took up a post at the University of Dar es Salaam shortly after Tanganyika's independence. 1/

The Ebola outbreak in Congo reached 5,000 cases, government data showed, as responders warn it is spreading at an unprecedented speed outpacing efforts to slow it in one of the country’s remotest regions.

Congo’s Ebola outbreak reaches 5,000 cases as it outpaces response efforts at unprecedented speed

The Ebola outbreak in Congo has reached 5,000 cases as responders warn it is spreading at an unprecedented speed outpacing efforts to slow it in one of the country’s remotest regions.

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📢📢📢 We are hiring! 📢📢📢 The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at UChicago invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Modern Iberian Studies, with an expected start date of July 1, 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. EOE/Vet/Disability. 1/2

Congo's fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people.

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak becomes the country's worst with over 2,300 dead

Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people. That toll released overnight makes it the deadliest outbreak of the disease ever recorded in the Central African nation.

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Today we have a great interview with our journal prize runner up Elise Mitchell. Read the full interview here! nursingclio.org/2026/08/12/i...

Interview with Nursing Clio 2025 Honorable Mention Prizewinner Elise Mitchell

Nursing Clio’s 2025 Article Prize committee was thrilled to honor Elise Mitchell with an Honorable Mention for her article, “The ‘Practitioner of Physick and Surgery’ and the Enslaved ‘Doctor’: Med…

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I had undergrad research assistants for the first time this summer, something that I actually enjoyed far more than I anticipated! One of them, Maggie Kim, wrote about this great little piece about the transcription work they did on some Durban-based documents 🇿🇦 websites.washu.edu/oisummerexpe...

Tracing Narratives in Public Health Through 19th-Century Transcriptions

How did colonial beliefs shape public health systems that continue to influence society today? This summer, Maggie Kim explored 19th-century municipal records from Durban, South Africa, uncovering how...

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NEW: The NIH is quietly restricting funding for research that evaluates how public policy impacts human health. According to internal documents I obtained, the agency no longer considers policymakers "mission relevant" — a massive shift for the biomedical funder. My latest for @nature.com:

NIH limits funding for research on the health effects of public policy

US biomedical agency no longer considers policymakers as ‘mission relevant’, leaving dozens of grants in limbo.

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Please share! My department is searching for a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Also, stay tuned for more news from ND English. This is going to be a year! joblist.mla.org/job/2001161/...

College of Arts and Letters Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, 2027-2029 - Notre Dame, Indiana (US) job with Notre Dame English Department | 2001161

The Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the English Department at the University of Notre Dame seek a postdoctoral fellow for 2027-29 AYs.

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