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Hallie Knipp

@hknipp.bsky.social
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she/her | eng MA, Marshall University | digital history PhD candidate @ Clemson University | Appalachian studies | histories of medicine | women, gender, sexuality | reproductive history | early 20th century hallieknipp.net

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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A friend is visiting me for the first time since I moved to SC. She said “I wasn’t sure if this was the right house, but then I saw the Read Banned Books flag and knew this must be the place.” Love that for me.
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 12/05/2025
Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should. I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer
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Fonts in R
Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
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Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis
While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...
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Kylie M. Smith wrote an angry book @drkyliesmith.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The point of history is at the very least to remind us why we stopped doing dumb things in the past. Wellness camps are ineffective and inhumane. Just provide the actual support families need - ping @defendpublichealth.bsky.social
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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The birthday parade will cost an estimated $45 million. That's over one-fifth of the 2025 NEH budget, which covered >900 grants in all 50 states to support public libraries, local museums, community history projects, literacy initiatives, research grants & more. Until he rescinded the funds.
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 05/05/2025
#DHmakes It's Monday.
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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Today in #AHAPerspectives, a few quick tips for historians getting started writing op-eds. 🗃️
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Speak Up – AHA
Op-ed writing is one important way to use you historical expertise.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Logged on to say something sardonic about France wanting the Statue of Liberty back, now it’s 7:45 and I’m yelling about bullshit elitist, fake feminism. I hadn’t even made it to the coffee pot yet.
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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Happy Women’s History Month, yall. Women’s history is American history because American history is women’s history.
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Simulated Chollas @simulatedchollas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I’d like to remind everyone, ad nauseam, that actual hillbillies were warning folks about this crank nine years ago—but the likes of Oprah, the NYT, Ron Howard, and even Olaf Scholz praised him for—get this—a book all about blaming poor people for their misfortunes.
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D. Hicks @danhicks.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
New blog post "Weaponized Metascience," on Ted Cruz' list of "woke DEI" NSF grants, NIH indirect cost fuckery, and using the trappings of science to undermine science dhicks.github.io/posts/2025-0... #philsci #sts
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Weaponized metascience – Dan Hicks
Website description
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
There’s the idea that academic writing should be a bit emotionally detached etc etc and then there’s David Whisnant writing about outside exploitation of Appalachia with just absolute, unchecked disdain. I love it.
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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X. Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.
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Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X
Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Abortion funds in the US will have a hard year ahead. Would you consider donating the cost of a NY Eve drink (or more, as fits your budget) to this ActBlue action that splits donations among 93 local abortion funds? secure.actblue.com/donate/suppo...
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Abortion is Essential!
Here’s how I’m showing up today: with a donation to abortion funds. Join me.
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 31/12/2024
The city of New Orleans uses the Mississippi River as drinking water. Our current governor begged the state to remove funding from the city of New Orleans to fix the pumps and the decaying sewage and water system UNTIL the DA agrees to prosecute women for abortions. www.essence.com/news/louisia...
Louisiana's Governor-Elect Wants To Withhold Funds For New Orleans® Decaying
Water Infrastructure Until
Women Who Seek Abortions
Are Prosecuted
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IN A HORRIFYING INTERSECTION OF REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, JEFF LANDRY HAS URGED THE STATE TO WITHHOLD FUNDS BECAUSE OF HIS PERSONAL FEELINGS ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
The campus fits are about to be so good.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Family members after asking about my dissertation:
Pepe the king prawn from the muppets looking absolutely shocked
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The weekend after finals week, or, 48 hours of previously neglected household tasks and hobbies. (I have done so much laundry and am 90% finished with a crochet project.)
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Alessandra Giampaolo Keener @alessandrak.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Autism niche interests and obsessions. A how to handle them 🛢 for parents, teachers, therapists, and educational consultants who advocate for these children. IG images from Nicole Casey | Gestalt Language & AAC SLP. #EduSky ##ActuallyAutistic /1
I told this mom a story that I want to share with all of you, as well. When my son was about 2 years old, he developed a deep interest in monster trucks. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say he was obsessed with them. He loved them. It was all he wanted to talk about, all he wanted to play with. And guess what the adults around him did?
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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 14/12/2024
In longer form, @aktange.bsky.social on how reading Victorian novels will make you embrace vaccination: theconversation.com/infectious-d...
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Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today
Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.
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Amy Atchison @dratchison.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
My grandfather’s story is one every anti-vaxxer should read. We are now so far removed from the time when kids died en masse, mostly dying at home with their families caring for them, that anti-vaxxers don’t fear the consequences of not vaccinating. Obviously my grandfather lived, but it was brutal.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
You’re saying “however” like that’s not part of the appeal.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
You couldn’t make a Wicked film ten years ago because ten years ago we didn’t openly speak about how much we love fan fiction.
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Simply cannot wait to teach about tariffs that nearly tore the country apart and a presidential election that actually did tear the country apart and the all the political compromises that led to the deaths of ~700,000 Americans this week. 🫥
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Jen and Jeff @jenandjeff.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Stuck on a writing project? Here's what I always ask myself in that situation: Emily, have you considered that you might not be very good and should abandon writing altogether and move to the woods and make candles or possibly become a nun or something?
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Storygraph is so much better! I’ve been using it for years. Also! Fun visualizations.
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spinelli ✨ @spinellicross.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙
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Bird @birdadoo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Goodreads is owned by Amazon & there is an AMAZING alternative‼️ The StoryGraph is a black women-owned competitor to GoodReads with better UI in my opinion. When you sign up you can even transfer your data from Goodreads to StoryGraph!
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
1) Nov 11 (a date set by my mom, who always put up the Christmas tree while she had a long weekend over Veteran’s Day) 2) The Grinch (2000) 3) chicken tortilla soup
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do now: - local pizza place - lifeguard - hostess - library staff - 1:1 person support - 1:1 person support but with kids - writing tutor - Composition instructor - archives staff - research assistant
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Deciding to focus this dissertation on reproductive health and birth control was a really good idea and definitely not terrifying. (cw slightly graphic historical medical descriptions) (Brought to Bed: Judith Walzer Leavitt)
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
My South Carolina ballot made me sad with all the candidates running unopposed but we did the damn thing.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
A little too on the nose
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
My partner teaches 6th grade world history, which in practical terms means that when Hollaback Girl come on earlier, he sang the ~plague remix~ he teaches his students. “Oooo, fleas on rats, fleas on rats…. This plague is bubonic! B U B O N I C”
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a woman wearing a black beanie and a pink bra is making a funny face .
ALT: a woman wearing a black beanie and a pink bra is making a funny face .
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 26/10/2024
Trying to connect with the youth but I teach early US History
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
A friend from high school’s kid celebrated his 8th birthday and based on the FB pictures, it was Trump-themed. Aside from my obvious feelings about Trump, I’m just astounded about how that happened. How does a politician become a birthday party theme for an 8 year old? “Make birthdays gr8 again”?!
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Showed up to teach and learned that the classroom tech was down and campus IT was “on the way.” Didn’t know how long that would be and had to start class. On the spot lesson planning went fairly okay? Had them do a small group activity. New teacher win?
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Partner: Are you watching Hamilton right now? I thought you were working. Me: Obviously I am lesson planning my lecture on the Constitutional Convention???
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a man in a green jacket is holding a woman 's leg
Alt: From the musical Hamilton. Scene of Alexander Hamilton announcing “I was chosen for the Constitutional Convention.”
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 23/09/2024
Post a scene from a film you’ve seen more than 10 times.
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two women are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them has her arm around the other 's shoulder
ALT: two women are standing next to each other in a kitchen and one of them has her arm around the other 's shoulder
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
This story is...quite a journey
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
We need to be honest with people who want to get PhDs and not just about the job market lucris.lub.lu.se/ws/portalfil...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
the idea that racial biases somehow 'are creeping into' anything tech related ignores the entire history of racial biases built into just about anything tech related
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Hallie Knipp @hknipp.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
Without downloading a new pic, where are you now mentally?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2024
School shootings are a fact of life. In one country. For 25 years. Until we make the kinds of choices that Vance opposes.
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