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Meghan K. Roberts

@meghankroberts.bsky.social
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Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I was raised by a nurse with an associates degree and a steel mill electrician. I am not denigrating the value and dignity of blue collar work when I ask how many elite national media staffers are raising future bricklayers themselves. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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Time to Consider Becoming a Bricklayer
College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I could watch Désiré Doué play football all day long
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Maine Morning Star @mainemorningstar.com · 24/09/2026
As the scandal over Susan Collins’ relationship with Hawaii defense contractor Navatek became the central issue in her hotly contested senate campaign, she and her top aides mustered a defense with a series of incorrect and misleading claims, @ProPublica.org reports.
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ProPublica debunks Susan Collins' claims about FBI anti-corruption probe • Maine Morning Star
As the scandal over Susan Collins’ relationship with Hawaii defense contractor Navatek became the central issue in her hotly contested senate campaign, she and her top aides mustered a defense with a…
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Family history and genealogy, media juicing up controversy and fawning over science while failing to get that yes the historical analysis was conclusive. I couldn't not write about this! Shorter: just read @agordonreed.bsky.social. karinwulf.com/trove/the-fa...
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The Family History of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, and the Politics of Genealogy. - Karin Wulf
[The cover image is a page from Jefferson’s “Farm Book” at the Massachusetts Historical Society where he listed enslaved recipients of “Bread” at Monticello in 1810 –including Sally Hemings and four o...
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
So many people switching to analog course materials, always with the caveat that students w/ accommodations can use devices. But I’m curious, how many people are looking up what it takes to get said accommodations? As a special ed mom, let me tell you that it is WILDLY expensive and time-consuming.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Mountain lions are making American roads safer by frightening away deer. On Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, where cougars were most active, deer-vehicle collisions fell 76%. Deer kill up to 440 Americans a year; cougars have killed 29 Americans since 1868. buff.ly/9bDfEKZ #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Cougars cut deadly vehicle-deer collisions in the US by up to 76%, study shows
If you’re a black-tailed deer on the Olympic Peninsula in the U.S. state of Washington, you’re always surrounded by friends and family. You are free-range, with abundant food to forage in familiar…
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Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Why did medicine and moral philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment give rise to a global and colonial science of race? Find out here! @lindaaburnett.bsky.social and me in History of Science, Volume 64 Issue 3, September 2026. Out now, open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
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Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
true crime and mystery skies! Come to my book launch September 15 at the NYPL with true crime and mystery 👑@sarahweinman.com events.leapevents.com/event/mcdoug... We still have some seats and plenty more room on the livestream 🫣
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Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall with Sarah Weinman
Tickets for Justice for Jehanne: Sara McDougall with Sarah Weinman in New York from NYPL. A spellbinding narrative history that defies modern assumptions about women’s lives in the Middle Ages and inf...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I wrote about Dolly Parton in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com column. Thank you. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/o...
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Opinion | The Greatest Story Dolly Parton Ever Wrote Was Herself (Gift Article)
She didn’t see herself as a saint; she identified as something we needed even more: a writer.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So being pro-labor, pro-education for the poorest, pro-vaccine, and pro-LGBTQIA is a “neutral” position🤔
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Last week, @jackiantonovich.bsky.social asked for my thoughts on the new smallpox aDNA study that had just come out. I said I'd need a little more time to sort thru it. bsky.app/profile/moni.... I've now had time to go thru my files, so here's a quick summary on where we are in the history of VARV.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
A tl;dr summary of the following 🧵: the recovery of smallpox aDNA from an early modern Chilean site is a VERY IMPORTANT milestone in the history of this global disease--still the only human disease to be completely eradicated. My reservation is whether claims of a European source are supported.
A diagram combining a phylogenetic tree showing the relations of medieval, early modern, and modern smallpox genomes, with a map showing their origins in South America and Europe. Source: Bruno Romero González, Margarita Reyes-Madrid, Bernardo Arriaza, Lara M. Cassidy, Mauricio Moraga, Constanza de la Fuente Castro, and Shigeki Nakagome. “The genomic identity of early smallpox in South America,” Science 393, no. 6810 (30 Jul 2026), 504-508, DOI: 10.1126/science.aee695.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I don’t know if anyone else listened to the Culture Study pod on the Odyssey, but I was surprised to hear Sarah Mesle (PhD, English) come down so hard on Wilson’s review (she just seemed mad, she got lots of money, etc). Agree or disagree, I feel like scholars should respect her right to critique.
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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
We're back! @brettrushforth.bsky.social and Chris Hodson joined me to talk about two decades of collaborating on BEYOND THE OCEAN, using visual and material culture to tell a different story, and more. Plus a cameo by Eminem! Listen here: player.captivate.fm/episode/f2ca... 🗃️
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Episode 107: Chris Hodson and Brett Rushforth Upend History in 1.2 Voices
Quickly and easily listen to Drafting the Past for free!
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Conference poster for the Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds featuring an image of birds and an image of a nest in a tree as well as the JCB logo and text.
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The latest HLQ is here, with articles in art history, literature, disability studies, and the blue humanities. There are pastors, captives, painters, healers, actors, sailors, poets, liars, polar bears, and parrots. It's big-tent #earlymodern studies, and it's #nuntastic. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57325
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 31/07/2026
And the reason people socially construct brute facts is that those constructions allow us to coordinate action. If we don't have units of measure, we can't easily give each other directions. If we don't have labels for symptom clusters like ADHD, we can't easily develop treatments or policies.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 31/07/2026
As I've said before: What high-paying long-term jobs do they pretend exist here? A data center isn't a place where execs come and do Big Deals. Go to the server room at your workplace; are there lots of rich people in there spending money?
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
your apartment, the sport of basketball, and the Republic of Korea are all social constructs. mere recognition of this fact does not actually make the question of whether you are standing in your own apartment, playing basketball, or a Korean national up in the air until settled by op ed editors
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I seem to have become a Crying Baby Charmer and I am drunk on this power.
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Timothy Noah @timothynoah.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My latest is about the stunning evidentiary weakness of the White House’s anti-woke report on the National Museum of American History. If it had blue sealant it would peel. The shoddy workmanship in Trump’s 250 commemorations never stops! newrepublic.com/article/2128...
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I Fact-Checked Trump’s Anti-Woke Report on the American History Museum
The document is notably short on evidence—and at odds with what I witnessed during a visit to the museum this week.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/07/2026
Hey, the court just gave final approval to the settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. I'm reading through the order right now. www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...
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Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions – #680 in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (N.D. Cal., 4:24-cv-05417) – CourtListener.com
Judgment AND Order AND Terminate Civil Case AND ~Util - Terminate Motions
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I missed at the time that Olise broke Pele's record for most assists in a World Cup. big time player. a real genius imho
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
As soon as this happened, I knew Spain was going to win it. The Trump Curse is real.
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Ryan Muraro @stoutguy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Worth posting this one again 😅
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
This is already the worst halftime show I’ve ever seen and it’s just started
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Michael Oberg @michaelleroyoberg.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
No. It’s not. Full public support for higher ed would solve all the problems in public higher education. An educated public is essential for the survival of the republic, and the republic is priceless.
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026
📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
have never been so excited for a 3rd place match and hope spain kicks argentina’s ass in the final - thank you for reading my exhaustive postmortem re: yesterday’s game✌🏽
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
100% and Alexi Lalas jumped hard on the bandwagon *and* David Beckham was apparently kitted out as well. I’m sorry but not even a brilliant team can overcome vibes that bad.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Also I’m judging every single one of you fair-weather fans and Monday-morning quarterbacks. Just know that I hold a grudge like a true Scorpio.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Honestly, France played an amazing World Cup and I’d rather watch them than Spain any day. I’m sad for the amazing players, who deserved better, and bummed that this loss will make white supremacists around the world happy. But hey, it’s Trump’s World Cup. Allez les Bleus, always.
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
the writing style I aspire to
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Oh, wow, this got a much bigger response than I was expecting. Today has gotten away from me and I need to go pick up my kids from camp. But I will try to follow up soon!
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Shocker, my fellow customers at the only nice wine store in our region were France supporters 😂 allez les bleus !
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Belgium made fan guides for the cities they’re playing in? and they make cheat sheets for each match? That’s adorable.
helpful tips like “yes, you should tip…unless they’ve charged gratuity” and “do no not joke with American police officers”
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Anyone know a good/reasonably priced web designer? Squarespace just announced they’re raising my website subscription by 58%, so it’s time for us to part ways. I need someone to help me migrate my existing site to a good long-term platform (recommendations welcome).
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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
A thing that’s great about this job is how we sometimes get to see far away friends like @meghankroberts.bsky.social in wonderful cities like Dublin and eat and drink and laugh and check the score in the first minutes of the game to see that Dembélé has already scored TWICE! #fchs26
Two women eating at a restaurant smiling at the camera.
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Benjamin Alvarez @benjalvarez1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Danish reporter Rasmus Svaneborg grills NATO's Rutte over his silence when US President Trump talks about conquering Greenland and lashes out at Spain. "Does this have any effect on your self-respect when you sit next to him like that and say nothing?"
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
me discovering theres no games today at the World Cup
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Man Walking Sadly in Barren Landscape
ALT: Man Walking Sadly in Barren Landscape
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
the nerve of that racist Paraguayan senator to demand an apology from Mbappe
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Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Now imagine what they do if the speaker you’ve invited isn’t a US citizen 😬
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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There is something deeply early-modern-historian-funny about Spain's path through the knockout rounds involving Austria, Portugal, and Belgium in succession, with either France or Morocco waiting in the semifinal if they advance.
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