When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

I’m interested in any remote marking opportunities this semester. My expertise is in Australian cultural, media & gender histories. I have previously worked in marking & tutoring roles across a range of undergrad units including HIST334 Film & History, HIST308 Making History + HIST106 Global History

My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!

I wrote about the White Australia policy, the myth, the fantasy, for the Conversation.

‘White Australia’ has always been a myth. Hanson lamenting its end is wrong – and dangerous

Australians have every reason to be angry at our political elites. But Hanson’s nostalgic and false history does not hold the answer.

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New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...

New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Simple explanations and contextless analysis are the death of good history. Embrace the fact that it's difficult, that it's weird, that it's convoluted, and that it's complicated. It'll give you the answers you're looking for.

Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.

Excited to attend the AHA 2026 Conference Opening this evening at Macquarie Uni’s Wallumattagal Campus 📚 Looking forward to the AWHN Stream across the program: event.mq.edu.au/aha-2026/pro...

History Australia 23(2) has just dropped. Time to grab a ☕ and dig in. Browse the full issue 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/toc/raha20/c...

Just 1 example of the kind of thing unis are getting for their massive spend on consultants. ANU spent $6k on a "non-significant meeting" with a reputation management firm at which apparently no one took a note. That's more than a tutor gets for a semester's work thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

ANU spent $6k on a 'non-significant' meeting. Then why do they pay tutors even less for a semester?

Last year the Australian National University (ANU) was getting some bad press, so they engaged a company called Bastion Reputation to help with the media fallout from restructures and the heavily crit...

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My book Quiet Protest: A New History of Activism during the Vietnam War (@newsouthpublishing.bsky.social) is out tomorrow (but I have seen photo evidence that it's already out on display in an array of bookstores if you want to get in early). (1/3) unsw.press/books/quiet-...

My article in the newest volume of Lilith A Feminist History Journal is out now. 'Citrus Queens' is based on a talk I gave at the AHA conference 2024, and is about Riverland women negotiating belonging in 1960s SA. press.anu.edu.au/publications...

“The services under threat include access to legal assistance for people who have fled family and domestic violence, mediation services for separating couples, counselling, and contact services, used when a parent is only allowed supervised access to a child.”

‘AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters” [as it] “disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”.’

Mary Anne Franks@maryannefranks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

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"As in those languages where a verb is inflected by its object, the nature of a justiciable killing depends on its victim." How could any aspiring historian ever hope to be as eloquent and erudite as Patrick Wolfe?

Can't tell you how thrilled I am to see my PhD student Mary Bellman's first article published! 🥳 'The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream' in the British Shakespeare Association's journal, *Shakespeare*: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Demetrius Dilemma: The Implications of Induced Love in A Midsummer Night’s Dream

In A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the use of the love-in-idleness enchantment is not confined to producing Titania’s comic union with Bottom but is also applied to Lysander and is the source of Demetri...

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Historian friends, anyone got any reading recommendations on the Disability Discrimination Act / related campaigns in Australia? And/or on the way that different anti-discrimination Acts related to each other esp. in the 1990s?

Also we should talk about the piece from The Conversation about their own survey where they don’t release the survey itself so we can’t look at the methodology, sampling or even the results You can’t do polling analysis and go ‘trust me bro’ as the source instead of a published poll

John Delmenico@thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Great article from Crystal here, the media needs to start being critical of surveys with obvious red flags before posting it all as fact to scare people

Vital journalism critically examining research results (rather than regurgitating than without any thought for their validity)

Crystal Jane@crystaljane.bsky.social · 5mo ago

That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that. Why do pollsters keep doing this???

That big scary survey about Gen Z men being more regressive than Boomers is so flawed. An image of young men is being manufactured in the media and we should be very concerned about that. Why do pollsters keep doing this???

That gender survey is BS.

Gen Z men where???

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My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA. I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation! #18thc #17thc #earlymodern onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I have an edited primary source collection coming out on disability and deformity in c19th Britain. My hope is that you find it useful for teaching (apologies for the abstract, I did not write it! and the cost) #histmed #dishist www.routledge.com/Physical-Dis...

Physical Disability and Deformity in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Offering historical primary sources that outline both medical and experiential perspectives of physical disability, this book provides frequently mentioned but rarely provided material and supports re...

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🧵: Books by historians I constantly recommend in policy meetings / professional contexts. In no order, to be added to when I remember: 1. The Seventies, by @michellearrow.bsky.social . Stuff can change, and it's possible to believe in things and plan for the future. unsw.press/books/the-se...

I have a new OA article out on the early history of Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. It’s part of a special issue by Agata Ignaciuk and Sylwia Kuzma-Markowska on anti-abortion activism in Europe.Thanks to reviewers and the RSE for funding. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Youth Defence, young people and anti-abortion activism in Ireland, c.1992–97

This article explores the first five years of the Irish young people’s anti-abortion group Youth Defence. Using newspaper articles and archival sources, I illustrate how the group effectively mobil...

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