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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a former NCAA Division I soccer player, I say never forget women's sports are a blast to watch. Sen. Erik Schmitt of MO looked up men's bball games on a 2024 date to try to prove Jack Smith was in Atlanta at a Hawks game & perjured self. Smith was in MD watching Caitlyn Clark. #Hawkeyes #TitleIX

Picture of basketball player Caitlyn Clark smiling in her University of Iowa jersey at the Iowa vs Maryland game in 2024. Getty photo

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Does anyone know what happened to the things that were IN the East Wing? Desks? Paintings? Papers? I don't remember seeing big moving vans taking all of that out. Was it all just bulldozed? 🗃️#academicsky @ncph.bsky.social

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay folks, how are we discerning and defeating AI in our discussion boards? I've had some amazing conversations in my synchronous online classes w pre-mtg boards. This year I am certain that many of these posts are AI. How do I grade these? How do I prevent it. #Thinkforyourself #academicsky 🗃️

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

For DFW area folks, I will be speaking at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum on Wednesday, Sept 9th to close out their exhibit on Walt Disney and WWII. Reception at 6pm, Talk at 7pm. Free to the public. www.dhhrm.org/disney/ 🗃️#academicsky @txwomans.bsky.social @crownpublishing.bsky.social

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The Walt Disney Studios and World War II

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Right. It's all crazy. Will have her apply and see what happens next, I guess.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hadn't heard about sliding tuition. Don't know if we'd qualify, but definitely will ask. Still making final list as application fees are crazy high in some cases. Thinking Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Duke, Wash U and few others for reach. Trinity in San Antonio is great too-big sis is senior there.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

The money is there, but you don't know if you get it until after they've been admitted. Not sure of major yet - liberal arts in general - and we'll look once decided, for sure. I know it will all work out, just disappointed by the weight on ED. Wish there were more schools w Early Action.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is the struggle, right? If you sit at a mid or upper mid level, you are really stuck. My kid has worked SO HARD to have options. Now w all the "we mainly admit Early Decision" I feel a bit like I am letting her down.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Another problem is we cannot go visit her top choices at this point. If she is admitted we will definitely visit, but they are just too far. I get why schools admit more ED, but those merit scholarships make all the difference and we can't see those until they are offered - or not.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

They ask for it on all the "quick results" cost forms, but that is good to know. We live in north Texas and our value is more than double what we paid and much more than what anyone would pay us. It is ridiculous.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Early Decision. As mom to very bright, 5.0 gpa, #1 in class, IB diploma candidate, ED is killing me. We have a little money and our home is overvalued. We CANNOT afford $100k tuition/yr. I fear she won't get in where she would thrive cuz I can't commit until I see the merit scholarship. #academicsky

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Getting in those planes really does help. Part of my WWII air war teaching now includes me stretching my arms wide and explaining that I could touch both sides of the inside of the B-17 w my short arms. It explains the experience of those ten men so much. Enjoy the flying!

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Admissions folks- if you are announce in May/June that you require the SAT when you haven't been, you are screwing super smart kids who focused their energies on classes/activities rather than practicing the SAT every day or paying for tutors,etc. You are going to miss out on some awesome kids.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thanks for these ideas! I do a different themed project and outcome each year so we have both collaboration and individual work. Always looking for new options. Thanks!

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sorry for your difficult past. Thanks for your note.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Sorry for your difficult childhood. Thanks for the cautionary note.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What a great assignment! I remember when we went online for covid having my students keep a journal. I have never taught the same since. I thought I understood them before, but their lives were so complicated and in some ways desperate. Your assignment sounds really great.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Considering a project where my college students create a digital exhibit of their own lives to teach them how scholars create exhibits, the choices that have to be made, how the story of the past is told, etc.. Anyone have advice/assignment/rubric to share? Thanks! @ncph.bsky.social #publichistory

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Kyla Wazana Tompkins @kwazana.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This. 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I am thrilled for her and for the nonprofit Norton press. The cover design and publicity she got on release were fantastic. I bought it early.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is hilarious. Thanks so much for sharing. I am going to giggle all day about this.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Sorry I missed you last year. I go every year. Pretty special place. Glad you got to experience it!

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My dept was a joint History and Government/polisci for nearly 100 years. We team taught, collaborated, and supported one another. It was fun. Recent admins have added sociology. Faculty are all great. Administrators have made it tougher to collaborate but it is nice to hear about others' work.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

It just doesn't make any sense. I suspect the writer is young and doesn't know many married people? That this seems like a novelty? Maybe young people really don't know?

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

This was exactly my question. This is just marriage. You are in it together. Some ups. Some downs. But together. Do people not know what marriage is so now we need this ridiculous story?

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Melissa Johnson, PhD @ladyhistorian.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Who has good assignments for online courses that are not easily done by AI and are not onerous to grade when one has 60-100 online students? I'm out of ideas and nothing seems to work

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️

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The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration - JSTOR Daily

An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Would someone please make a "How much Healthcare we could buy for people w $37 billion," "how many bridges we could improve," "how many schools we could build," "how many people we could feed," etc chart so I can share it? Blessings to the poor families of those who've been killed for nothing.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

“What was Paul Pelosi wearing?”

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

You might check out Trinity University in San Antonio too. My oldest attends there and it is pretty great.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

That's what we've been looking at primarily. Do you have a favorite?

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So hard! She is super smart and interested in humanities. Does anyone know of a university really sticking up for humanities?

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My question is where do you send a smart young woman to school these days? We have a big list, but wow this is tough.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

This Day in Labor History: June 14, 1877. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 begins in a revolt against the railroad industries that spread well beyond the strikers themselves. The government responded with state violence, using the Army to kill strikers!

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Fantastic thread. Thanks for sharing it. Best book to learn more?

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💚 Mandi Barnard, Ph.D. 🍂🍁 @mandisbarnard.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🗃️ Skystorians help out!

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/07/2026

The Republican Party 4 months before midterms: "You're not getting affordable housing unless you give up your voting rights" Great message.

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.

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Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

For #historians - Call for Papers for a conference on women's mobilization in the Americas during WWI in Buenos Aires on 13-14 May 2027 This conference invites scholars from related disciplines to submit their research examining the roles played by women across the Americas during the Great War.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

We just don't understand and should just use PowerPoint. Such silly old professors.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

They did that to us! The screen was in the corner. They redesigned & put it directly over the chal board so it could be slightly bigger. The designer did research on ideal screen size. Earned his gold star. Destroyed our ability to teach responsively. Spell a name for you? Let me raise the screen.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

The Madeleine shape would make the corn bread too dry. And June in the East Tennessee means fresh strawberries and the homemade shortcake and whipped cream that go w it. There are so many things wrong w this. So many.

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katelanddeck.bsky.social @katelanddeck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

What Frankesteined hell is this? Dolly would not, I believe, approve.

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