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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One of the most apparent truths about universities in this era is that student journalists have tended to exhibit the greatest courage and tenacity when it comes to applying their institutional mottos and academic lessons to the world.

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The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go (Gift Article)

The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity house since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The ATWG Conference program committee is extending the workshop proposal deadline from Sept. 15 to Sept. 30. The information you'll need for this process can be found here: www.ssemwg.org/attending-to.... Let me know if you have any questions! #earlymodern

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Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Call for workshop proposals for Attending to Early Modern Women and Gender. Conference is June 11-12, 2007 in Washington, DC and proposals are due September 15th. Happy to answer any questions!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Since PTSD is being invoked to excuse any and all abuse and misconduct, let us acknowledge where it is most common. .... From my book Recollections of My Nonexistence.

The former Marine David J. Morris, author of a book on post-
traumatic stress disorder, notes that the disorder is far more com-
mon and far more rarely addressed among rape survivors than
combat veterans. He wrote me, “The science on the subject is pretty
clear: according to the New England Journal of Medicine, rape is about
four times more likely to result in diagnosable PTSD than combat.
Think about that for a moment— being raped is four times more psy-
chologically disturbing than going off to a war and being shot at and
blown up. And because there are currently no enduring cultural nar-
ratives that allow women to look upon their survival as somehow he-
roic or honorable, the potential for enduring damage is even greater.”

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Becky Hammer @beckyhammer.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/07/2025

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

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Is the New York Times trying to wreck Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral bid? | Margaret Sullivan

With their made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

If you need any more evidence for why he can't be mayor. ffs!

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/06/2025

New Yorkers: good luck today and remember not to vote for or even slate anyone who is a known sex pest

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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Trump needs to understand that Harvard has 400 years of experience ignoring the demands of people who will be gone in four years.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 11/04/2025

Glad to see we’re addressing the root cause of all of this: Luther’s heresy

A screen cap of an article hed with a photo of a chef in a stainless steel kitchen, peaking potatoes. There are 6 additional chefs working in the background.

The headline is “Diet of Worms will help us survive climate change, say top chefs”.

The post is a play on the famous Edict of Worms, issued by the Diet of Worms, which condemned Martin Luther as a heretic.

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Rep. Jennifer McClellan @mcclellan.house.gov · 10/04/2025

House Republicans just passed the SAVE Act, ushering in a new era of voter suppression. Here’s how the SAVE Act could impact YOUR ability to vote in federal elections. 🧵

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Only two signers in the top 50 ranked by US News & World Reports - Georgetown and Rutgers. That is, no other major grant-funded research universities, so those two really stand out as brave. Georgetown maybe is living up to their Catholic heritage - they also resisted pressure on their law school.

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Brief from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and more than 80 universities says arrests and deportations of student protesters create a “climate of fear” at universities across the country. This is a big deal—the first time universities have weighed in. knightcolumbia.org/documents/eh...

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.

Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

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Dahlia Lithwick @dahlialithwick.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

For those folks who have been waiting to climb the pole and ring the “constitutional crisis” bell, it would appear we have arrived. Neither Judge Sorokin nor Judge Boasberg believed that he was signing a meaningless order, and both judges demanded compliance that never came.

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We’ve Officially Entered the Next Phase of Trump’s Dictatorship Era

Taken together, these actions and declarations amount to a significant escalation in Trump’s transformation of his own presidency into an autocracy.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 17/03/2025

The Constitution is clear: the President can't arrest people he disagrees with. By detaining Mahmoud Khalil — a legal permanent resident whose American wife is 8-months pregnant — Donald Trump seeks to undermine basic freedoms. We must oppose this move toward authoritarianism.

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The scriptwriters of the new season are starting strong

Tweet by Olivia Beavers:

👀 Flag-ging: Speaker Johnson previously said the House would raise the US flags for Inauguration Day to full staff, but operations are encountering an issue: the cords are frozen, a source in Johnson’s office confirms to me.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

FYI for anyone in DC trying to get to Union Station. Amtrak linking to the wrong Metro information (from 2021, when Union Station closed). The Union Station metro stop is open. Get it together, Amtrak! #Amtrak

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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

great article about the devaluation of absolutely anything where women achieve 50%. which is a thing.

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Other disciplines that have experienced male flight include:

Biology. While most STEM professions remain male dominated, 10 years ago biology became a 50/50 male/female split. By 2022, 62% of biology majors were women. Biology is now often considered the “easiest” of the STEM majors.

Interior Design. William Morris is considered the father of interior design. After finishing his education at Oxford, he began an architectural design school called “the Firm”— just for men. Many universities had interior design programs. Until women began to enter the design space, at which point it was relegated to a mere “hobby.” Since the influx of women, interior design programs have been pulled from almost all universities.

Teaching. In the 18th century, schooling in colonial America was reserved for the white and the wealthy. Most tutors were men who taught boys. By the middle of the 19th century, girls started becoming students and women became teachers. Consequently, men swiftly left the profession, the pay dropped and teaching was no longer considered a prestigious occupation.

Similar patterns of male flight have occurred in nursing, cheerleading, social work, architecture, gymnastics, library sciences and psychology.

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Autumn Reinhardt-Simpson @earlymodernaf.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Being a historian means having your phone autocorrect "Merry Christmas" to "Merry Wiesner-Hanks". A very Merry Wiesner-Hanks to you all! #AcademicSky #WhatsHistory #Medieval #EarlyModern

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Andrew Leonard @koxinga.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

As for me, of late I have been distracting myself from news about the present-day world with a dizzying journey into 17th century Chinese-Europe interconnections, featuring Gottfried Leibniz as a main character. andrewleonard.substack.com/p/the-univer...

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The Universal Commerce of Light

In which Gottfried Leibniz consults the Book of Changes and invents digital technology. With cameos from Neal Stephenson, Philip K. Dick, Joseph Needham, and eventually, The Chinese Computer.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

From NYT obit for Silvia Pinal: "She was the product of a romance between her 15-year-old mother, María Luisa Hidalgo Aguilar, who worked in a restaurant, and the orchestra director Moisés Pasquel, who was already married at the time." Romance? Seriously?? Do better, NYT.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Somebody Somewhere is one of the best shows on tv. Please sign this petition to try to get HBO to sign on for another season. The actors are all sharing it, too, so they are on board. We really need to save these kinds of special shows. www.change.org/p/bring-back...

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Sign the Petition

Bring Back HBO's Somebody Somewhere!

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

This is absolutely outrageous and needs to be rectified. Apparently she has met with Title IX reps and many admin people and still no one will give her accommodations, which is insane. I am extremely disappointed in my university. "Motherhood is not for the Faint of Heart"? Seriously??

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Fellowships and Grants

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Stifff Packard @stifffits.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

This is powerful

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Zotero changing how you enter multiple tags with their latest upgrade almost had me crying. Clearly I am a bit fragile at the moment!

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NYT Tech Guild @nytguildtech.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

A WARNING TO THE TIMES: Tuesday, we will be returning to work, after a successful Election Week ULP Strike. We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to @nytimes.com. And now we’ll move our fight inside. #GuildBuilds #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike

For Immediate Release: Nov. 11, 2024. Contact: Jen Sheehan, jen@nyguild.org, 610-573-0740. New York Times Tech Guild: ‘We showed our strength and our value to The Times.’ Workers who power all NYT technology — including mobile push alerts, app & website maintenance and the popular games — end Election Week ULP strike. ‘Now we'll bring our fight inside as we return to work.’ New York — The Times Tech Guild — the union that makes the coverage at The New York Times accessible to the world — has wrapped up an Election Week ULP Strike, having shown Times management the impact of their solidarity and unity. Tech Guild members will return to work Tuesday and march into the office together in the morning as a symbol of what's to come for The Times. “Our Election Week ULP Strike was a warning to The Times,” said Kathy Zhang, Tech Guild unit chair and a senior analytics manager at The New York Times. “We clearly demonstrated how valuable our work is to The New York Times, especially on election night, and showed that we have the full support of subscribers and allies across the country going forward.” Tech Guild members are advising supporters they can resume playing New York Times games as well as use the Cooking app. Instead of bargaining with the Tech Guild, Times’ executives stubbornly put a critically important Election Day at risk. The New York Times earned a notorious distinction on Election Day, as it was the site of the first NewsGuild-CWA strike coinciding with a presidential election in 60 years. A quick look at some of the impact the Tech Guild had on Election Night coverage through their ULP Strike: No state-level or non-presidential needles were live on election night. iOS news was not displaying ads intermittently, a significant loss of revenue for the company. The apps and website were slow to load. Publishing issues produced intermittent and visible error messages for readers on articles and updates.

Times subscribers received hundreds of thousands of emails with broken links. “The systems and digital products that worked over the election did so thanks to the hundreds of unit members who worked for months preparing everything to run smoothly,” Zhang said. “What broke down during this strike broke because our members weren't at work.” Subscribers across the country showed Tech Guild solidarity by boycotting the Cooking app as well as NYT games such as Wordle and Connections. Tech Guild members even created their own games site, akin to a strike publication, that earned more than a half million page views and more than 320,000 active users. “Times management — in particular CEO Meredith Kopit Levien and Chief Technology Officer Jason Sobel — made the conscious decision to put Times journalism at risk on election night rather than come to the bargaining table and work with us to get this contract completed,” said Anthony Napoli, NewsGuild of NY treasurer. “Our members will continue the fight until a fair contract is secured. We will accept nothing less.” About the NewsGuild of New York: The NewsGuild of New York, Local 31003 of the Communications Workers of America, is a labor union representing nearly 6,000 media professionals and other employees at New York area news organizations, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Thomson Reuters, The Nation, TIME, PEOPLE, Wirecutter, and The Daily Beast. The NewsGuild of New York advocates for journalists to have a voice in the newsroom, for press freedom, for inclusive and diverse workplaces, and for just cause, no exceptions, for all media professionals.

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Zack Bornstein @zackbornstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

until the day I die I will never understand why he was even still allowed to run after this

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Benjamin Harnett @benjaminharnett.com · 04/11/2024

NYT tech workers are on strike for a fair contract. We are asking you to #BreakYourStreak on NYT games in solidarity. You can also support our strike fund to keep us going. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

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New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike

The walkout, which began just after midnight Monday, could disrupt the New York Times’s election coverage.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/10/2024

Donald Trump’s closing argument, by ad spend, is that trans people are bad and he will remove them from public life this is what he thinks will win him the election tell him to go fuck himself - and be ready to protect your trans friends and neighbors

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Trump Goes All In on Anti-Trans

It’s not clear if the ads will help Trump, hurt Harris—or just scapegoat trans people.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

What I think people are failing to understand is Bezos could just decided to shut down the WaPo tomorrow. The staff — including most of the editorial staff that isn't hand-picked Bezos henchmen — are being incredibly brave here.

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 26/10/2024

In the past two or three days Wapo has broken the news that Bezos directly killed the Kamala endorsement, that Trump told Netanyahu he wouldn't stop any military ambitions he had, and that Musk worked illegally as an immigrant in his early career here. That's just off the top of my head.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

His total assets not including the pensions amount to something like $13,000, which If you want to be relatable to millennials and zoomers, that's an excellent place to start.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 27/03/2024

Heading to Denton, TX to celebrate Women's History Month with @jakobburnham.bsky.social. Come on over if you're in the neighborhood.

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Amy Leonard @hoyahistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

Job at Georgetown: Assistant Professor of African American History and Provost’s Distinguished Faculty Fellow. www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 20/09/2023

Breaking News: Americans will once again be able to receive free Covid tests by mail, U.S. officials said, ahead of a possible winter surge. nyti.ms/3POUsZy

A card reads: "Breaking: U.S. Will Resume Offering Free At-Home Covid Tests. The website for the program, covidtests.gov, will begin accepting orders on Monday, and households will be able to receive four tests."

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