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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

The entire budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities (which has been devastated by Trump & Musk) is 3% of this.

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Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Lee Zeldin, the new head of the EPA, announced plans to take a broad swipe at this bedrock law that protects people across the U.S. from harmful pollution. Here’s what you need to know: vitalsigns.edf.org/story/clean-...

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The Clean Air Act — and your family's health and safety — are under attack

The Clean Air Act is under attack from the Trump administration and its EPA chief, Lee Zeldin.

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Jimmy Sweet @jimmyskuya.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

I was on my first podcast! The latest episode of The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast is out today, featuring a round table with myself, Cathleen Cahill, and Boyd Cothran on the field of Native American History. You can find it on Spotify, Apple, Acast, etc.: open.spotify.com/episode/4ycp...

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Roundtable: Native American Studies Today

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

We are only a month into 2025 but I already feel the word of the year is clear.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca

In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Congratulations to editors Mary E. Mendoza & @tracibrynne.bsky.social and all the contributors, including @embsumek.bsky.social, @colinfisher.bsky.social, @arikelman.bsky.social, & many, many more!

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

NEW 📗: If you're interested in race, justice, & environmental history, then I highly recommend NOT JUST GREEN, NOT JUST WHITE, a collection out this week from @univnebpress.bsky.social. #envhist www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

A photo of a book, titled Not Just Green, Not Just White: Race, Justice, and Environmental History, atop a wooden surface. In addition to the book title, the other text on the cover includes the names of the editors, Mary E. Mendoza and Traci Brynne Voyles, as well as that of Patty Limerick, who wrote the foreword. The cover image features a landscape painting that shows a windswept and vibrant green bristlecone pine tree, along with grey hills in the background and a large sky, in soothing shades of aqua, light blue, and dark blue, above.

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

A good example of how students can use ClioVis to, as the student in the video says, ‘crush their coursework.’ Click on the link and check out our non-AI digital tool. :)

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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Thanks to ⁦‪Scott Tong and NPR’s ⁦‪Here & Now‬⁩ for a chance talk about birthright’s past, present, and future. News was fast breaking yesterday with welcome change out of Seattle by midday! www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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What Trump's order means for birthright citizenship

President Trump's executive order ending birthright citizenship is an attempt to change the longstanding interpretation of the 14th Amendment. It's already facing major legal challenges.

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ClioVis @cliovis.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Introducing the ClioVis Syllabus Generator—your tool for effortless course planning! Enter course details to create, customize, export, and update polished syllabi with ease—no IP mining here! Click the link below to check out our tool yourself! Link: cliovis.com/syllabus-gen...

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/01/2025

I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️

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Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...

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ClioVis @cliovis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Get to know us! Meet Clio, the muse of history and guardian of knowledge. We've teamed her name with "Vis," symbolizing visualization. Together, ClioVis embodies our mission to empower students to conquer their studies through the power of visualization.

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Great post-doc opportunity at the JCB!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If you're a reporter writing about these bathroom protests, you should reach out to Bryant Simon at Temple, as he's currently writing a really fascinating history of public restrooms.

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Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Finding relevant papers for literature review takes a lot of time. So, MIT researchers built Undermind, an AI-powered search engine. It can generate well-researched overviews on any topic and is 10-50 times better than Google Scholar. Here's how to use it:

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Hot take: one of the essential skills we need to teach our grad students is how to schedule a meeting that includes a calendar invite.

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Craig Childs @waterpocket.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The slush pile of L.Powell at its lowest level in almost 60 years, back ends of canyons breathing once again.

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Dr. Stephennie Mulder @stephenniem.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Alright *cracks knuckles* let's do this! Today I'm inaugurating an episodic Monday series titled History of Islamic Art in 100 Objects. But we have to ask the most important question first: What is Islamic art? Also, why is this even a question? 🧵 #IslamicArt100Objects

A horizontally-aligned panel consisting of four images of works of Islamic art: a page of black calligraphy on a peach-colored ground, a red and gold textile with a pattern of wavy vines and leaves, a manuscript painting featuring birds in a blue, green, and gold landscape with a gold sky, and a manuscript page with a central radiating medallion painted in intricate geometric and floral patterns in blue, gold, and red. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/islamic-art

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Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

NEW: The University of North Texas administration "has gone totally rogue," I write for @penamerica.bsky.social, censoring syllabi and research grants even though the state's DEI ban explicitly exempts them. One of the worst cases of overcompliance I've ever seen. pen.org/press-releas...

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PEN America Condemns University of North Texas System's Extreme Overcompliance in Implementing A DEI Ban - PEN America

Overcompliance of DEI law at University of North Texas cause for alarm.

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Kristen Slack @kslack.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

#Academia friends, I taught a course in Fall 2022 for 1st year students called "So, You Want to Change the World?". The objective was to help students understand the roots and complexity of an issue that they chose to focus on. See link below. #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #HigherEd

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Prof2Prof | College Teaching Resources

Prof2Prof is a web-based platform for higher education professionals to share our most innovative and effective resources for teaching, research, administration and student support services. Together,...

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Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

📗 After a week of shaking, I've started to redesign my History of Climate Change class to help my students think past "it's over." I'd love to hear what you all are doing! So far I'm what I'm doing is thinking past the federal, and it's making me regret how I've taught climate politics before. 🧵

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Finis Dunaway @finisdunaway.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Unfortunately, this seem an apt time to share: A group of historians annotated sections of Project 2025, contextualizing and commenting on its plans to undermine environmental protections, exacerbate inequalities, and burn, burn, burn more fossil fuels. #envhist 🌎

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Project 2025 Annotation: A Summary – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative

Eighteen environmental historians from EDGI's Environmental Historians Action Collaborative working group are annotating environmental chapters and sections from Project 2025. For all the discussions ...

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Just a little art from Kandinsky to liven up my feed. A good way to mark my last day in Oslo.

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

From the brilliant minds that brought you the AMERICAN YAWP--Ben Wright & Joseph Locke--comes THE PALACE OF THUNDERING GODS. I'm privileged to serve on the advisory board for the project, which will be an open-access textbook of American religious history. Here's their solicitation for contributors.

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THE PALACE OF THUNDERING GODS - The American Yawp

Imagination! who can sing thy force?Or who describe the swiftness of thy course?Soaring through air to find the bright abode,Th' empyreal palace of the thund'ring God. Phillis Wheatley, "On Imaginatio...

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

One of my favorite recent pieces - @kawulf.bsky.social on the life of the Brown brothers' elided sister. On the challenges of writing women's history and the means of uncovering the erasure of women: commonplace.online/article/the-...

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The Brown Brothers had a Sister - Commonplace

Women’s work is often hidden or marginal within historical records that were meant to show men’s economic and political lives.

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

1/3 CFP @sdamiano.bsky.social & @caycarbs.bsky.social (with me in tow) are hosting a workshop, "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" in Austin and San Marcos, TX Sept 26-28, 2024. We are hoping for papers about a very diverse set of #earlymodern women www.txst.edu/history/news...

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Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 15/10/2023

Great ‘eclipse watching’ event on campus. Wonderful to see that so many folks came out to watch the 85% eclipse.

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Erika Bsumek @embsumek.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

Early morning walk to work. Love the stillness of campus at 7am.

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