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Sam Schotland

@archivesrx.bsky.social
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Writer, educator, and health historian | Theater kid | Maine Coon trainer | Bylines in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, STAT, and The Drift

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The word for this, kids, is fascism.
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Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Is the irony of this posting not lost on anyone?
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Getting 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.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Beyond 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.
Screenshot of article that reads: This has not been an accident. In 2016 and 2017, the university was running deficits so large it held a fire sale of university buildings and expanded its undergraduate population (again), in order to draw in more tuition. But the university did not intend to give students after 2017 the same education that students had received in the past. Instead, the then-provost of the University of Chicago, Daniel Diermeier—now Chancellor of Vanderbilt University—told the university's trustees that if one held the numbers of tenure-stream faculty constant, “the marginal cost of adding these students would be fairly minimal.” He estimated that increased cost at 10 to 20 percent.
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Ted Geoghegan @tedgeoghegan.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Posting 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...
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As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
What the fuck is a Gugarati Muslim? I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?
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Melanie A. Kiechle @melaniekiechle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Today 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...
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Dying Before Germ Theory
As 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…
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Ellis Rosen @ellisjrosen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/06/2025
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
TIRED: “learn to code!” WIRED:
Become a 
jamón expert
at our
Ham School
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/06/2025
In 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.
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Jennifer 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.
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Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
This 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/...
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Bespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learning
Personalised 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?
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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As he wrapped up his speech, Brad Lander again congratulated Mamdani, whom he cross-endorsed. And Lander, who is Jewish, declared, "We are not going to let anyone divide Muslim New Yorkers and Jewish New
Yorkers."
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Trevor Aleo @mraleosays.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Teaching 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...
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Why I Teach Literary Theory to High Schoolers (and you should too)
Helping students read the word and world-system one lens at a time
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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I 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
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 08/06/2025
This 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).
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How to Protect Yourself during Protests
Demonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillance
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Man on the street making his 10 seconds of airtime count🔥
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Israeli 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.
Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Volume 4, Issue 3, December 2024, Pages 94-102
Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology
Reshaping sport performers' careers: Lessons from the 2023–2024 war in Israel
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The war experience (WE) presents a highly troublesome period for sport performers, with severe effects on their lives and career trajectories. In this article, we initially conceptualize the WE through the scheme of change for sport psychology practice (Samuel & Tenenbaum, 2011a). The WE is considered a longitudinal, multifaceted, unpredicted, noncontrolled, negative change-event, developed over four distinct stages with specific demands and responses: (a) a pre-war stage, (b) War stage-A accompanied by instability and confusion, (c) War stage-B characterized by active coping or regression, and (d) War stage-C; return to sport activity, modification of activity, or retirement. The development of this change process in sport performers’ careers is discussed within the context of the 2023 Israel-Hamas war. Thereafter, we discuss applied practice efforts to support sport performers through the WE. The conclusions offer future avenues for researchers and practitioners when attempting to evaluate and cope with this unique change-event.The human toll of the conflict is immense, with tragic loss of life and countless individuals facing trauma. Emotional responses vary from fear and anxiety to anger and survivor's guilt. The impact extends beyond immediate physical danger to include profound psychological distress.
The turmoil has also affected various aspects of Israeli society, including sports. Leagues have been suspended, training disrupted, and travel restrictions imposed, akin to experiences during other conflicts such as the Russo-Ukrainian war (Pavlova et al., 2023). Uncertainty looms over the resumption of sporting activities, contingent upon security considerations (Buckingham, 2023). International participation has been hindered by flight cancellations and safety concerns, leading to the departure of foreign personnel (Buckingham, 2023; Felberg, 2023).
Reflecting on the impact of the conflict on sports’ performers is crucial for effective response and support. While some athletes may benefit from the hiatus to recover or improve skills, others face setbacks in their careers. The unique circumstances require a nuanced approach, considering individual contexts and needs (Henriksen et al., 2020; Schinke et al., 2020a).
As researchers and practitioners in the sports domain, we acknowledge the challenge of addressing these issues amidst ongoing conflict. Nonetheless, we aim to provide valuable insights and recommendations to navigate this unprecedented situation, drawing parallels to research conducted during other crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic (e.g., di Fronso et al., 2022; Henriksen et al., 2020; Pillay et al., 2020). Amidst uncertainty, we endeavor to contribute meaningfully to understanding and mitigating the impact of the current conflict on sports and athletes.
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
If you don’t want to take the booster don’t. But to prevent adults from having the choice is depraved.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Thanks to the Flathead (Montana) Beacon for sharing this essay about my dad, and federal policies we all depend on to live.
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Boulder, Montana Kept My Dad Alive. So Did the Government. - Flathead Beacon
My 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...
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American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The 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!
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This op-ed is freaking beautiful and everyone should read it www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-...
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An Open Letter to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Who Thinks My Daughter Is a Tragedy
Dear 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...
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I 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.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
may he have painful and violent diarrhea
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 12/05/2025
FT Alphaville is undefeated. The disdain for Altman is palpable and deserved.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Is Trying to Take Control of Congress Through Its Library
Donald Trump’s administration is pushing to take over the Library of Congress, its latest effort to subsume the legislative branch.
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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 12/05/2025
Really 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!
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Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Pope Trolli VI
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Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy 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.com
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'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. 🧵
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Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 22/04/2025
On Richard Dawkins’s latest release, by @archivesrx.bsky.social
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Word In Black @wordinblacknews.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Could 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...
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Could 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.
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
In 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.
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What It Means to Tell the Truth About America
And what happens when empirical fact is labeled “improper ideology”
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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Thank you to Larry David for this artful, effective public rebuke of Bill Maher. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For 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.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 17/04/2025
TODAY! 170+ campus communities across the nation are building a powerful movement in defense of higher education and our democracy. See you out there!
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Central 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.
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Sam Schotland @archivesrx.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Happy 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.com
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Holly Korbey @hollykorbey.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Teacher 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...
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Training Teachers Like Doctors: Going From the Bare Minimum to Intensive Prep
Popular teacher residencies take a page from the medical field with more hands-on practice, focused research and sustained mentor support.
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Ansley Erickson @ansleyerickson.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Wherein 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.
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