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Bridget Collins

@brdgtc.bsky.social
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PhD Wisconsin-Madison (History of Science, Medicine and Technology). Director of General Studies and Summer Session, University at Albany. Views my own.

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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Thank you so much to Josh in ITS, who expedited my ticket on a Friday afternoon when I realized I didn't have the access I needed for a COB deadline. Not all heroes wear capes.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"A nation summoning an ambassador for an official meeting with the government is essentially a disciplinary measure and the first step in the process of breaking off diplomatic ties."
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
No Copilot, I do NOT want "industry insights" on LABOR DAY.
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Chokely Carmichael🥋 @stewartcoles.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.
captimes.com
UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
They should not be allowed to call it an app if you still have to login on a website to send you an email to login to it.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hello parents who are about to enter the Thunderdome that is "summer camp has ended but school doesn't start for two more weeks" zone. May the odds especially be in the favor of academic parents who start teaching during this liminal time.
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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Happy solar eclipse day! The solar eclipse of the 8th April 1652 as recorded by the great Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in his Selenographia #SolarEclipse
Plate showing observations of the sun during a lunar eclipse
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Only players of Geoguessr will understand, but when we first landed in Iceland and I started driving the campervan towards the Golden Circle I was like "ooh, Iceland Bollards! Iceland walk signs! Iceland Yield signs!" Totally would have won that round...
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
OK, I just got back from two weeks in Iceland and what did you guys do to this place?
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Surviving the heat and not being invited to the wedding by breaking out the kiddie pool and blaring Taylor Swift
Child in kiddie pool
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I was secretly rooting for Bosnia because my brother was a NATO peacekeeper there for two tours, so unlike that Los Angeles reporter, I do, in fact, know where it is.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I was doing some data analysis of our enrollments and actually thought, "hey this might be a good use of CoPilot." Boy was I wrong.
A map New York State Counties generated by AI with incorrect labels.
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Diamond M 1990 aka Cool Mom @diamondm1990.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Yes, I will like every mascot reveal post until my algorithm is nothing but 22 year olds in big funny feet.
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Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧 @poxygraduate.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
If anyone would like to historcize the anti-data center env justice movement and its relationship to health for @nursingclio.bsky.social, please pitch! 🌿💪
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Wisconsin Examiner @wisconsinexaminer.com · 22/05/2026
Lawsuits challenging embryo disposal could hinder IVF
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Lawsuits challenging embryo disposal could hinder IVF • Wisconsin Examiner
An anti-abortion group last month sued seven Utah fertility clinics, claiming their disposal of embryos as part of the in vitro fertilization process violates the state’s wrongful death law. The…
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
People who get AI to summarise everything so they can complete their doctorates should get the title ‘[tl;]Dr’
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Things I discovered when cleaning out my filing cabinets yesterday: Packages of pantyhose Dot matrix print outs Handwritten notes from 1988 Two IPad 2s The original blueprint of the office Years of used desk calendar sheets
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
"According to a new study, a two-child family would need to earn $400,000 to make childcare affordable."
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I'm turning 50 in a month, so I got myself a treat at the pharmacy today. Also looking forward to the whole new schedule of vaccines I'll be eligible for!
Bottle of Women's Daily 50+ vitamins
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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Am I wrong though?
A meme of a young Bad Bunny titled Faculty Profile Pic and an old Bad Bunny titled Faculty IRL
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I love a good science/humanities collaboration!
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
holy shit this is real shop.indycar.com/products/inc...
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2026 Freedom 250 Grand Prix One Nation T-Shirt
This year INDYCAR takes over Washington, D.C. for the Freedom 250 Grand Prix and this graphic shirt is the perfect piece to wear! Screenprinted on a high-quality shirt, this fun graphic tee is going t...
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Krutika Kuppalli, MD FIDSA @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
This is the route of the MV Hondius cruiseship with the #hantavirus outbreak. The contact tracing and surveillance is going to be complicated to say the least.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I've lost count of the people I've interviewed on search committees that outright said "I need to get out of this state" when asked "why they were interested in the position."
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
This weekend we paid $50 to fill up our Toyota Corolla. We've never paid that much to fill a tank that wasn't a movie truck. So, it seems like a good time to remind people that #biketoworkweek is coming up!
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
$4.49 here in Albany, NY. Fortunately, we carpool and own one car. Yesterday I went home early, so I took the bus.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Forget Dad Books. MORE MOM BOOKS. Here are 4 excellent, insightful books about mothers and mothering in early America and beyond. Likely available second hand, too, for modeling reuse and recycle.
Four books on a medium dark beat up wooden table top. Mother is a Verb by Sarah Knott, Maternal Bodies by Nora Doyle, Revolutionary Conceptions by Susan Klepp, Laboring Women by Jennifer Morgan.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Signed in a student for University Showcase today and she gave me her last name "Morello" and I was like "oh, like Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine." She said "I don't know what that is."
media.tenor.com
a man in a white shirt is standing in front of a drum set while another man sings into a microphone .
Alt: Tom Morello wearing a white shirt is standing in front of a drum set
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
oh dear, I think I'm raising a type A child: Me: what was the most fun part of your day? Daughter: I got a lot done in kindergarten time and my letters were the tidiest they've ever been.
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Techno-Optimism Archive @technooptimismarch.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
New technologies have long been expected to solve social problems. In the 19th century, the telegraph was sold as a way to end war by reducing misunderstanding between nations. Today we are launching Techno-Optimism Archive, which collects historical press materials documenting old tech promises
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Colleague
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Back on the shelf you go...
Bottle of champagne
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Turned on NPR in the car yesterday on the way to swim class and gasped and said "oh my God!" Daughter asked "what?" I answered "someone finally ran a sub 2 hour marathon!" I swear, y'all, I'm turning into a conspiracy theorist about these "assassination" attempts.
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🎃ℌ𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 ℑ𝔞𝔫👻 @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
But yes, living in Northeast is about having three bad routes home that all take the same amount of time, and having an irrational preference for one of them.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
I had my first instance of a colleague blaming Copilot for an error in our project and thanks I hate it.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I was so lucky to have a dissertation committee that also loved "chatty footnotes."
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Cory @coryjean.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
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Just a pic of my family's pediatrician.

Jesus sitting with children
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DenverChick @denverchick.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Post by
meghanannrose
On Threads

Painting  
Jesus' ascension to Heaven, depicted by John Singleton Copley in Ascension (1775), which shows Jesus up in the clouds while disciples and angels look on from below. 

Post caption:
My doctor telling everyone he's now out of network.
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Daniel Liu 🍜 @dan-liu.net · 14/04/2026
It's funny because it's true.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 13/04/2026
I am once again asking
Stop making medievalists relevant
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
JUST IN: Viktor Orban conceded his defeat in Hungary. The far-right leader & Trump ally will no longer be prime minister. What remains to be seen is the size of his defeat — and whether the opposition wins a supermajority to amend the constitution and reverse Orban’s rule.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Looking up Artemis II splash coverage this morning on Instagram and, wow, there are a LOT of flat earth accounts out there...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
it's crucial to understand how systematically surveillance companies like Flock just ignore the requests and demands of local governments they contract with; once you've signed that contract, you lose so much control
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Correction, not a crater, "a bright spot" www.instagram.com/reel/DWzQEJ9...
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astro_benny on Instagram: "Artemis II Astronauts propose names for two Moon craters! And one of them is truly moving.(Subtitles generated with AI from the edi…"
Artemis II Astronauts propose names for two Moon craters! And one of them is truly moving.(Subtitles generated with AI from the editing app)During a live broadcast from the Orion spacecraft, Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen told mission control that the Artemis II crew wanted to pay tribute to their mission by giving names to two relatively new craters on the Moon.The astronauts proposed naming one crater after their Orion capsule, called Integrity."If you were to look at Orientale on the far side and then draw a line straight up to Ohm on the far side, relatively in the middle is an unnamed crater, and we would like to suggest it be called Integrity""There’s a feature in a really neat place on the moon, and it is on the near side-far side boundary. In fact, it’s just on the near side of that boundary, and so at certain times of the moon transits around Earth, we will be able to see this from Earth"."And the second one is especially meaningful for this crew. (...) We lost a loved one, her name was Carroll, the spouse of Reed and the mother of Katie and Ellie. If you want to find this spot, look at Glushko; it’s just to the northwest of that, at the same latitude as home. It’s a bright spot on the Moon, and we would like to call it Carroll"#NASA #Astronauts #moon #artemis #artemis2
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
In our atheist household, Easter means, time to refresh the fairy garden.
Photograph of a fairy garden at the base of a tree, including a small door, two windows, marbles, and fake mushrooms.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 06/04/2026
just incredible flexes from the artemis crew naming moon craters no human has ever seen
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
#Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman’s wife Carroll was taken by cancer a few years ago. Just now, as the crew broke the record for furthest human journey from Earth, he asked for a lunar feature to be named after her. The crew gave him a zero-g group hug and honestly I’m getting a bit emotional here.
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Bridget Collins @brdgtc.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Just sitting on my couch crying as #Artemis2 commander, Reid Wiseman, humbly requests that a crater on the moon be named for his deceased wife, Carroll, just after the crew surpasses the Apollo 13 record for furthest distance from Earth.
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Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Reports Israel bombed the Pasteur Institute in Iran, a medical research center. Founded in 1920, its vaccination programs helped eradicate smallpox in the Middle East. During the pandemic, it played a key role in covid management & vaccine development. [NIH link pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38224028/]
photo reportedly depicting rubble caused by bombing of Pasteur Institute in Tehran
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