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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to Re-Reading the News yesterday night! It was great to hear the panelists speak about exploring F.E.W. Harper, how her life intertwines with the stories of the girls who were raised at the Colored Orphan Asylum, and how it will all come together in their documentary.

Five people sit on a stage conversing with microphones in their hands. Behind them on a projected screen is a black and white photo of an older medium dark skin woman wearing a scarf and long white sleeve blouse. An audience on risers watches the panel below.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

this schedule looks amazing - local heavyweights & national figures - go aheadddd baltimore. baltimorebookfest.com

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2026 Baltimore Book Festival

September 19 & 20 in Waverly.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If you're free on Tuesday, I'd love to see you! Register here: events.jhu.edu/form/re-read...

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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/08/2026

“A lot of things in the new compact are red herrings for conservative priorities. Reform needs to happen through the channels of faculty governance...We’re disappointed in the lack of transparency in President Daniels involvement." – Ahmed Ragab, Hopkins AAUP chapter vice-president

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Johns Hopkins president helped craft Trump’s new higher education framework

Ron Daniels, the longtime leader of Johns Hopkins University, helped the Trump administration craft its new higher education call to action

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The University Archives team is on it. ✨ #ThisIsWho

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

“When we formed the Historians Council on the Constitution with Professor Masur as a charter member, we were hopeful that historians could make a difference in our public life by speaking historical truth to power." news.northwestern.edu/stories/2026...

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Northwestern historian’s research cited in Supreme Court birthright citizenship ruling

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson references Kate Masur’s book “Until Justice Be Done,” a history of America’s first civil rights movement

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The real solution to helping historians do research is actually pretty simple: give archives more money. Money for conservation, preservation, storage (physical an digital), climate controlled facilities, and staff (paid at a living wage). You don't need LLMs, you need money.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Friends, neighbors, let's gather in community on Friday while we strike! Let's have conversations about the world we want to live in and think through what solidarity looks like!

a black and white flyer with the statue of liberty and white doves flying. the text reads: Strike Party! Friday, May 1, 12-4PM at the Lot, 4500 Harford Rd. For the whole family! Games, Music, Teach-ins, Crafts, Kids activities, and more!

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

"To exclude children born here from citizenship because their parents are temporary or undocumented immigrants is to betray both the letter and the spirit of the 14th Amendment." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/o...

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Opinion | Trump Says Birthright Citizenship Was Only for the Children of Slaves. He’s Wrong.

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Andrew Jewett, a teaching professor at JHU and co-author of the forthcoming book "Johns Hopkins: The First 150 Years", will trace those fraught decades and the decisions made in Homewood that still reverberate today. homewood-museum.vbotickets.com/event/decisi...

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Homewood Museum at JHU - Decision Points at Homewood House

From 1936 to 1971, five presidents of Johns Hopkins and other top administrators worked in offices at Homewood House. There, they made impactful and often surprising decisions, setting Hopkins on a di...

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A dear friend, Deyane Moses is leading the charge to restore this amazing Tom Miller mural (that I drive by so often - so I know you do too!) Let's lend our names to support and funds if you've got'em! actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...

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Restore the Source: A Community Call to Preserve Tom Miller’s Murals

However Far the Stream Flows, It Never Forgets Its Source (1991) is the first public mural created in Baltimore by artist Tom Miller. More than a work of art, it is a cornerstone of Baltimore’s cultur...

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

*Hopkins library users* - Special Collections will temporarily close at the end of spring semester (May 18) and reopen in the Brody Learning Commons on a different floor in July. We'll then reopen in the renovated Eisenhower Library in January 2027! Deets here: www.library.jhu.edu/library-hour...

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

tinyurl.com/5n6my48p “The majority of our members are working-class people...Many of them live paycheck to paycheck. These reckless actions are disrupting and destroying the lives of everyday working people who are constantly being used as bargaining chips.” AFGE Local 2883 President Yolanda Jacobs

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

living in the bizarro world where employers send out what is "permissible" and "impermissible" for programs and activities and how we must be in "compliance with legal and regulatory anti-discrimination requirements." what a time to be alive.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I am so excited for Wally Lamb's new book!!!!

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Georgia O'Keeffe @gokeeffe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The White Place in Sun www.artic.edu/artworks/158752

Georgia O’Keeffe could see the dramatic geological formation known as the White Place, or Plaza Blanca, from a window in her home near Abiquiu, New Mexico. Composed of white stone that provides a stark contrast to the colors of the surrounding terrain, the White Place was whittled and smoothed by water and wind over centuries into a striking formation resembling columns, cliffs, and spires. O’Keeffe painted it a number of times, and in The White Place in Sun, she selected a view that emphasizes a deep cleft in the formation. The V-shaped composition enabled her to focus on the interplay between the brilliant blue sky, the eerie white color, and horizontal striations of the carved rock.

Bequest of Paul and Gabriella Rosenbaum

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

🤣 when the new therapist tells you she saw your eye roll

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

I'm a big fan of mindfulness exercises but let me tell you, there aren't enough for the onslaught of thoughts I have about -gestures wildly - ALL the things.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

having a hard time today. <insert Taking Back Sunday lyric>

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Hopping on to brag that I am on #PeonyWatch2025 and it is marvelous. My plants are super tall this year and there are so many buds. I AM SO EXCITED.

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Hopkins Retrospective @hopkinsretro.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

"Life can't be reduced to whether we breathe...all the ways that we do to collect our pasts, to collect our ancestors, is what turns out for many of us is life giving, life sustaining." - @marthasjones

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Martha S. Jones sits in a wooden chair, speaks into a microphone, and balances a book in her lap.

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

my favorite bartender told me something when 'he who shall not be named' won the presidency that I can't stop thinking about. He said that we were about to enter "another 4 years of Mondays" and it's so accurate - a sensation that we can all recognize -

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

In moments like the current one, UMBC needs our support more than ever. I'm proud today to contribute to the History department, the Honors College, the Women's Center, and Special Collections! 🖤💛Thank you for shaping me into the human I am today! #BlackAndGoldRish #UMBC

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

probably not the best time to read the incredible Isabel Wilkerson's "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," but here I am...

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Lisa Snowden @lisasnowden.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

❤️❤️❤️

A bunch of copies of the love and sex issue of Baltimore Beat

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Two good blogs I read this week: @kdrabinski.bsky.social's reflections resonate & make my heart feel better: whatisawridingmybikearoundtoday.com/2025/02/11/c... and Tracy's run recap, reminding me of the highs/lows of running thoughts & what bodies are capable of: poetsthatsweat.com/2025/02/09/t...

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ALT: a close up of a person holding a cat 's nose with the word cope above it

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

depressed, depressed, what's a girl to do

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

yes please BGE tell me about what less electricity I used this week while trying to protect myself from the world careening to its end around me. love those emails. 🫠

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Allison Seyler (she/her) @ajseyler.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don't mean to be unfaithful to what community we can build here, but I'm not digging the ways connecting only online makes me feel. I need face to face. I've been on a social break for a bit and logged on here today to see all of the harm already done...it's a growing list and I need to step away.

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