Reposted by Sam SchotlandDr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The word for this, kids, is fascism. 3369
Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Is the irony of this posting not lost on anyone? 020
Reposted by Sam SchotlandJulia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities. 532696
Reposted by Sam SchotlandGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts. 1374242897806
Reposted by Sam SchotlandDominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Beyond Mike's very good thread I love this point because it highlights how bad ideas spread. Vanderbilt is qualitatively worse off because of this fella. 1173
Reposted by Sam SchotlandTed Geoghegan @tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES. 1123942
Reposted by Sam SchotlandCampbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Posting this without (much) comment, but suffice to say that (1) I am not impressed with the justices' use of history (on either side), and (2) I worry greatly about the ideological priors of my field. #history #supremecourt #law www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...nytimes.comAs the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy 012
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/07/2025What the fuck is a Gugarati Muslim? I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India? 3261
Reposted by Sam SchotlandMelanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know. nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...nursingclio.orgDying Before Germ TheoryAs RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo… 02412
Reposted by Sam SchotlandEllis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com 86106482726
Reposted by Sam Schotlandjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction. 1415075459
Reposted by Sam SchotlandKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 30/06/2025TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED: 14881501225
Reposted by Sam SchotlandChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/06/2025In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?” 🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season. Brilliant timing. 1808206258265
Reposted by Sam SchotlandJennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · 30/06/2025"Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad." That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming. 312921
Reposted by Sam SchotlandCampbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This is the argument that Jiseung Yoo and I have been making. Personalized learning presumes a theory of personhood, which most education (and especially AI-based education) utterly lacks. #education #philosophy #AI www.unesco.org/en/articles/...unesco.orgBespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learningPersonalised learning is AI’s promise in education—but who defines what’s personal, and does it nurture strengths or just fix what algorithms see as flaws? 033
Reposted by Sam SchotlandTrevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability. Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings. #literacies #iteachenglish #edusky open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...open.substack.comWhy I Teach Literary Theory to High Schoolers (and you should too)Helping students read the word and world-system one lens at a time 39226
Reposted by Sam SchotlandNeil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind 942595341
Reposted by Sam SchotlandJoe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 08/06/2025To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful 17781339
Reposted by Sam SchotlandGlendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 08/06/2025This article by @ykarenkwon.bsky.social is so important. Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).scientificamerican.comHow to Protect Yourself during ProtestsDemonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillance 5194135
Reposted by Sam SchotlandMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Man on the street making his 10 seconds of airtime count🔥 440571
Reposted by Sam SchotlandNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Israeli sport psychologists have published a paper comparing the trauma experienced by *ISRAELI* athletes during the genocide to the experience of Covid. The focus of their 'intervention' is to mitigate "the impact of the current conflict on sports and athletes" in *Israel.* I kid you not. 1319661
Reposted by Sam SchotlandRoxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved. 25790362223
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAnsley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Thanks to the Flathead (Montana) Beacon for sharing this essay about my dad, and federal policies we all depend on to live.flatheadbeacon.comBoulder, Montana Kept My Dad Alive. So Did the Government. - Flathead BeaconMy father never quite understood how I could live in New York City. He preferred Montana, open rather than dense, prairie rather than concrete. Great Falls was his birthplace, and later he stayed in C... 1147
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAmerican Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The Shryock Medal goes to the best histmed essay by a history grad student. Emma Wathen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, won the Shryock Medal for her oustanding essay, “These ‘Children Won’t Become Women’: Depo-Provera, Intellectual Disability, and the Indian Health Service." Congrats, Emma! 0121
Reposted by Sam SchotlandEffie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...mcsweeneys.netAn Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a TragedyDear Mr. RFK Jr., (The “dear” is tradition. Don’t mistake it for affection.) You said autistic children are a burden. That they ruin families. That... 27588225
Reposted by Sam SchotlandHakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025I couldn’t write a more eye-opening lecture on race and white identity politics than what this administration is offering in its differential treatment of Afrikaners versus every other refugee or immigrant group. 11739509
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13/05/2025may he have painful and violent diarrhea 1118423
Reposted by Sam SchotlandJathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12/05/2025FT Alphaville is undefeated. The disdain for Altman is palpable and deserved. 614440
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAsawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...rollingstone.comTrump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its LibraryDonald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch. 361423686
Reposted by Sam SchotlandDr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 12/05/2025Really incredible story unraveling in this thread, where Amazon and other sites have seemingly been able to sell an academic textbook that was withdrawn in 2021 and never actually printed or published, without the knowledge of the press, editors or contributors. Something has gone deeply wrong! 3628271314
Reposted by Sam SchotlandSam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Happy to announce that I’m hanging up my shingle at Schotland Education! I focus on middle school and high school humanities and STEM tutoring, essays and personal statements, and test prep. If you happen to know anyone who could benefit, I’d be most appreciative 🙏 . www.schotlandeducation.comschotlandeducation.comSchotland Education 011
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAnsley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025I'm not teaching this term, so rather than working this out with my students I will subject you to it. My read of this (tentative) pronouncement on AI in K-12. 1) It see grift & profit-seeking for Trump & co. 2) Fed power in ed is limited, can incentivize > require. & 3)THIS IS ABOUT WOMEN. 🧵washingtonpost.comDraft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schoolsA policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms. 36625
Reposted by Sam SchotlandThe Drift @thedriftmag.com · 22/04/2025On Richard Dawkins’s latest release, by @archivesrx.bsky.social 111
Reposted by Sam SchotlandWord In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Could Florida’s attack on AP courses become a national trend? Advocates warn that legislation to slash funding for Advanced Placement could make educational disparities worse for already underrepresented Black students. wordinblack.com/2025/04/coul...wordinblack.comCould Florida's Attack on AP Courses Become a National Trend?Advocates warn that legislation to slash funding for Advanced Placement could make educational disparities worse for already underrepresented Black students. 045
Reposted by Sam SchotlandClint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.theatlantic.comWhat It Means to Tell the Truth About AmericaAnd what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology” 9133861140
Reposted by Sam SchotlandJulia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Thank you to Larry David for this artful, effective public rebuke of Bill Maher. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)When a private meeting goes unexpectedly. 0849166
Reposted by Sam SchotlandCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025For a sincere Catholic, having the frail, elderly Pope drag himself back from the brink of death to summon you to his office for remedial catechism would result in guilt so powerful that they would have to invent new physics to sound its depths. 946989
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAAUP @aaup.org · 17/04/2025TODAY! 170+ campus communities across the nation are building a powerful movement in defense of higher education and our democracy. See you out there! 18639
Reposted by Sam SchotlandTravis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Central to my research has been that the pervasive ableism behind vaccination refusal and hesitance has roots as far back as the eighteenth century. The deep fear of disability (especially cognitive or intellectual) as a fate somehow worse than contagious disease is absolutely not new. 7372115
Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Happy to announce that I’m hanging up my shingle at Schotland Education! I focus on middle school and high school humanities and STEM tutoring, essays and personal statements, and test prep. If you happen to know anyone who could benefit, I’d be most appreciative 🙏 . www.schotlandeducation.comschotlandeducation.comSchotland Education 011
Reposted by Sam SchotlandHolly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025Teacher training programs are changing, moving towards a model based in evidence that looks more like medical residency. Better preparation helps students but also helps teachers—giving them more confidence and making it more likely they'll stick w/teaching. www.the74million.org/article/trai...the74million.orgTraining Teachers Like Doctors: Going From the Bare Minimum to Intensive PrepPopular teacher residencies take a page from the medical field with more hands-on practice, focused research and sustained mentor support. 083
Reposted by Sam SchotlandAnsley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Wherein the author (me) tries to use the limited tools of social media to question the concept of IQ, but instead finds a surprising number of ppl want to share their SAT scores. 🤦🏻🤷🏼♀️🤦🏻🤷🏼♀️🤦🏻 I think we need to be on the watch for eugenicist thought EVERYWHERE. 1143