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Lisa Haushofer

@haushoferl.bsky.social
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MD turned historian of medicine, science, food, environment | author of WONDER FOODS (@ucpress.bsky.social '22) shorturl.at/nuGP7 | @gastronomica.bsky.social | living in Amsterdam | #histstm #histmed #foodhistory #foodstudies | she/her

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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
RIP the KLM cheese sandwich. All Gouda things must come to an end I suppose. 🧀🍷 nltimes.nl/2026/08/10/k...
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KLM to end free beer, wine, cheese sandwich on European flights
Passengers flying with KLM in Europe will soon have to pay for beer, wine, sodas, and other food and beverages, when the airline launches its new Grand Café KLM catering concept in October. The compan...
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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Updated for the fall semester - my bibliography of readings, both academic and popular, about the many problems with and pitfalls in using Generative AI. catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
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Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is just to say I have OCRed the text thet was in tne arch:ve and whicb yov were prabaldy seamhing for "breahtast" Fargme ms fheg mem debo:w5 sb ?mccf mmb 5c oc1b
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George Eaton @georgeeaton.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
If only the quiet collapse of our universities got as much attention as Jason Arday has. Here’s @gsoh31.bsky.social’s recent piece for Arguably on the “slow, grim dribbling away of one of Britain’s great triumphs and economic advantages”. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
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The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We are looking for a fantastic person to join us at Strathclyde on a funded PhD studentship looking at the history of unorthodox health activism in the UK after 1948! www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/... #AcademicSky #HistMed
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Camp Summer2023: We're Hiring
ALT: Camp Summer2023: We're Hiring
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"...history has the potential to change a people’s future by changing its self-understanding." History is exceptionally powerful, which is why its expert work is degraded, distorted, accepted only as tourism. Always the authoritarian political instrument of choice. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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Opinion | Trump's Smithsonian Attacks Are Attacks on America’s Future (Gift Article)
This is how we decide who we are and who we want to be.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/08/2026
Applications are now open for Round 3 of our Microgrants! We’re funding innovative research in #19thC periodicals by providing seed grants for archival travel, digital access to subscriptions or repositories, or digital tools to support your research. Apply by 1 September here: buff.ly/7r9cM50
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I’ve made time during a busy grading weekend to observe this important day.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Downplay a book or movie: The Average Gatsby
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
20 years ago, in Amsterdam. RIP. youtu.be/w8DBzSCXbIY?...
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Glen Hansard - Falling Slowly (Live)
YouTube video by FaceCulture
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
FFS. *Now* can universities get their crap together and mount resistance to this onslaught on knowledge and cultural heritage? Starting, ideally and logically, with history departments
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Mrs Elton/Miss Bingley joining the cast of Ted Lasso is the best news ever
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Tanya Reynolds as Mrs Elton: Go Away
ALT: Tanya Reynolds as Mrs Elton: Go Away
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“…I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter. … But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.” SHOTS FIRED by Emily Wilson in her review of Nolan’s Odyssey for the LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ok, it's time for Finally Read The Longread Tabs I Have Open Sunday! This one's a LONG one...the edcuation select committee report on reading for pleasure. publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5902/cm...
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Reading for Pleasure
Report of the Education Committee
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
"And I’ve thought about this, and the answer is yes. I will still be a historian. Because being a historian is about how you engage with the world, it’s about being curious about the people and the environment around you, and asking questions about it'. 3/
A crowd of students in gowns and family members in summery outfits stand listening to a speech by a historian.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This. Assessment design is just one of multiple factors in the approach to AI, but we keep focusing on it, at the expense of class size, faculty workload, one-on-one contact, exam committee response, in person teaching.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
What’s the collective noun for “thousands of academics descending”
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Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
We are so doomed, signed a historian of food safety
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Or — and hear me out here — we could just supply the period products in the bathroom. In any case, we could just call them period products. Menstruation is not a dirty secret that requires coded language.
Sign with the title “package for a friend” and the text “Period care products are available, please ask one of our colleagues for ‘A package for a friend’”
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Current state of mind, in historian
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
there are some more damning details right out of Walden's mouth in this piece. my favorite bit is where Walden says she has read more of the couple's letters than anyone else, and it's maybe 600 of the 900 in one archive (i guess she got tired?) that archive was the *starting point* for Cleves.
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[UPDATED] Professor Rachel Hope Cleves wants Walden's CHARITY & SYLVIA licensed as an adaptation
Professor Rachel Hope Cleves, who wrote the 2014 biography Charity & Sylvia, wrote an open letter about Tillie Walden's new graphic novel.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🚨Job! 🚨 Open-rank, tenure-track position in pre-1800 history of medicine at Johns Hopkins #histmed #histstm apply.interfolio.com/182469?fbcli...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
I saw this this morning and I’ve been growing angrier and angrier all day. The way Walden doubles down on representing herself as the sole researcher and discoverer of this history is frankly disgusting. “I had to try and understand their whole life story while only having a piece of their lives.”
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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Unlike Scottish whisky, this did not age well
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ok Germany, I need you to win big against Ecuador tonight so that Scotland have a better chance at staying in the game. Do your thing Deniz. Sorry Ecuador but #NoScotlandNoParty
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What a great PhD opportunity, surely also of interest to #foodstudies #foodhistory folks
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
“The Norwegian government is reacting to declining test results among students” www.heise.de/en/news/Back...
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Back to pen and paper: Norway bans AI from primary schools
Declining performance & learning loss: Norway bans generative AI from schools.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
If Germany plays Scotland in the knockouts, my loyalties are clear 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Big Tobacco keeps on showing up where I least expect them. “Philip Morris applied its product development approach for making cigarettes to Lunchables in 2 important ways: First, it applied its “consumer-driven product development” strategy that optimized products for consumer pleasure and appeal.”
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Let Scotland host all the World Cups from here on out www.thenational.scot/sport/261973...
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Tartan Army to donate more than $20k after 'open arms' World Cup welcome
THE Tartan Army is set to donate more than $20,000 to charities in the US region of Providence, Rhode Island, after being welcomed with "open…
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
1:0 yay! 1:1 uh oh 2:1 yay! 3:1 yay 4:1 yep 5:1 we’re sorry 6:1 we’re so sorry 7:1 we’re so very very sorry
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Julie Goldberg @juliegoldberg.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Or, hear me out, we can invest in arts and creative writing curricula in public schools, K-12, so students can think, write, and make art for themselves and their communities and the world!
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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
We have recently launched a Visiting Scholar Grant at Rochester to work with the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform. See attached flyer for details! #histmed #fellowship
The History of Medicine Section in the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester is pleased to announce its first annual Edward C. Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant for the study of materials in the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform.
In the autumn of 1994, Edward C. Atwater, M.D. made the Miner Library the repository for his personal collection of books, periodicals, pamphlets, almanacs, trade cards, printed ephemera and manuscript material pertaining to American "popular medicine." Materials in the Atwater Collection represent the full range of medical self-help among Americans throughout the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century. For a full description of the collection and how to search it, visit the History of Medicine’s website.
The Atwater Visiting Scholar Grant provides support to scholars or graduate students to cover the cost of their travel to Rochester, accommodation, and expenses during their time of stay. The award is up to $2,000 for one week of research in any given year.
We welcome applications from all interested researchers currently residing in the United States or Canada, regardless of their institutional association, race, cultural background, ability, sexual orientation, gender, or socioeconomic status. Applications from scholars utilizing traditional methods of archival and bibliographical research are encouraged as are applications from individuals who wish to pursue creative, interdisciplinary, and non-traditional approaches to conducting research using the Edward C. Atwater Collection.

A complete grant application includes:
A research proposal (2 pages, single-spaced, maximum)
Two references
Budget, including proposed dates for research trip
A successful applicant will be expected to share their findings after their visit.
Please submit your proposals and any questions to Anna Smith, Head of History of Medicine Section, anna_smith1@urmc.rochester.edu
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Hello darkness my old friend
A packet of half and half cream held over a cup of coffee
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
In Buffalo for #AAHM2026. I’m reliably told Buffalo has good food game. So far I can confirm.
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking outstanding candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in the history of U.S. political economy from the Civil War to the present. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...
jobs.wisc.edu
Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
SCENE: a Dutch restaurant “Would you like all the dishes to come out at the same time?” “Yes please if it’s not too much trouble.” “If it was too much trouble I wouldn’t have asked.”
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just finished Yesteryear. Great book, but my favorite passage may be: “Please note that no part of this audiobook may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technology or systems”
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Liz Jackson @lizjackson.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Since so many people are calling this out for the eugenic charade that it is, here’s a piece @fractalecho.bsky.social and I wrote about Google’s efforts to morph the meaning of access from something democratic to something disabled so it can do evil. bsky.app/profile/lizj...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
🔔 Job 🔔 for you writers in academia out there: Assistant Professor Academic Writing at Maastricht University #amwriting #writerslife #writingcommunity universitypositions.eu/jobs/4464766...
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This is truly an emergency, #histmed #histstm colleagues. Please make your voices heard to save this crucial resource ⬇️
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The lesson I would take from this is that solidarity across ranks and including students works.
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CU delays ChatGPT rollout after backlash over $2M OpenAI deal
After announcing a systemwide ChatGPT partnership, CU delayed student access following backlash over governance, academic integrity and transparency.
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hear me out: Bumble but for academic book matches
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In academia, we don’t say, “I love you.” We say, “I’ve pre-ordered your book AND left a review on Goodreads.”
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Checking all your citations yourself?? What’s next, actually reading your sources?
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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
more and more my job seems to be just explaining to 100% disbelieving ppl that the job of research is actually literally doing all the reading, even when it takes forever, even when it is boring, even when it requires a new skillset and the response I get is like telling people we breathe underwater
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Lisa Haushofer @haushoferl.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🚨Job! 🚨 Lecturer in Global History of Science at UCL! In London! Permanent, full-time! #histstm #histsci www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
ucl.ac.uk
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Ketil Slagstad @slagstadk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Congratulations on receiving such a positive review for Wonder Foods, @haushoferl.bsky.social. I couldn't agree more — it's a meticulously researched book that's also beautifully written. www.hsozkult.de/publicationr... @hsozkult.bsky.social
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Rezension zu: L. Haushofer: Wonder Foods
Rezension zu / Review of: Haushofer, Lisa: : Wonder Foods. The Science and Commerce of Nutrition
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