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Monica H Green

@monicamedhist.bsky.social
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Medhist=medieval+medical history (hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2). Focus on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6d….

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"insoluble organic matter from the most primitive carbonaceous chondrites is isotopically related to the primordial oxygen reservoirs present in the early [solar system]." 🧪
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Alaina Wood @thegarbagequeen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What better way to end #ClimateWeekNYC than getting to see progress on a project I’ve been following for years? Thanks for having me, Billion Oyster Project 🦪
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
well, I enjoyed @candidamoss.bsky.social’s new Nat Geo edition of their ‘Stones & Bones’ newsletter, not because I make an appearance but because we get to hear from Nandini Pandey and Michael Kulikowski about polars bears and exotic animals in the Colosseum as a colonialist tactic. 🐻 🦒 🦛
nationalgeographic.com
Polar Bears in the Roman Colosseum?
It isn't as far-fetched as it sounds.
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Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus @capac.house.gov · 28/09/2026
For nearly 20 years, Asian American & Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions have put higher education in reach for AANHPI students. Now they're facing cuts from the Trump admin. We must keep fighting to ensure EVERY student is set up for success. #AANAPISIWeek
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New evidence of gomphothere butchering places humans in Chile around 13,000 years ago, adding to the growing number of very early South American sites. 🧪🏺
livescience.com
13,000-year-old butchered bones of found in Chile give more evidence of early first Americans
Archaeological excavations in the Lake Tagua Tagua basin in central Chile have revealed stone tools and animal bones with cut marks dated to 13,000 years ago.
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Greer Donley @greerdonley.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I loved participating in this story abt a new crop of cases challenging abortion bans based on the pregnant person's right to life. Kind of wish I hadn't cursed on the record, but 🤷‍♀️! Grateful for the shout out to "From Medical Exceptions to Reproductive Freedom" (co-authored w @dsc250.bsky.social)
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every page is available online, freely downloadable, shareable, & reusable, per Yale's #OA policies! If you're going to post about the manuscript, please use real images, not AI. It's not helpful for fakes to be circulating. Here are some actual images: collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002...
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not necessary to use generative AI to create images of the #Voynich Manuscript, so why do people continue to do it? There is so much wrong in this online image. Neither of the pages shown here is actually from the manuscript. The verso is labeled "r" ("recto") & the language is not Voynichese.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Day 1 of the strike by the workers of UCU Edinburgh against the manufactured deficit (which is not really a deficit), and against a senior management earning millions while staff disappear and education suffers. Solidarity against this parasitical form of management of our higher education.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
The technofascists' Eye of Sauron is focused on us right now 😭🤬😩
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Doctor Science ❌👑 @doctorscience.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If you want to learn more in an Ana-like way, poke around @monicamedhist.bsky.social 's plague bibliography (continuously updated): "The Mother of All Pandemics" docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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The Mother of All Pandemics The State of Black Death Research in the Era of Covid-19 - Bibliography 05152020 - migrated 03032021.docx
This is a comprehensive bibliography on the science and history of the 2nd Plague Pandemic, focusing on scholarship of the past 20 years or so. It is regularly updated. An appendix covers the 1st Plag...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tonight's purchase: Philippe Guillet's new edition of L'Anathomia de Richardus Anglicus: Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle. Good old-fashioned philology combined w/ real Digital Humanities smarts brings a woefully understudied text into the light. #histmed
The cover of Philippe Guillet, L'Anathomia de Richardus Anglicus: Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2026). The title translates to "The Anatomy of Richard the Englishman: A Treatise of Physiological Anatomy from the End of the 12th Century."
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The obvious conclusion (to me): if you have proprietary research & you upload it into the Plagiarism Nexus, it's not YOUR proprietary research anymore. Behave accordingly.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 27/09/2026
I have got to start playing the lottery so that I can quit academia and open my Detroit stationery, journal, and fancy pen shop... These people are going to swallow academia whole, aren't they? Talk about capture!
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"As in a musical variation, the notes are constantly re-arranged, with law, bureaucracy, war, disease, economy or religion sounding the dominant chord." A new generation of scholars on the "Fall" of Rome. And thank goodness for this! @calthalas.bsky.social et al. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 27/09/2026
NEW: A Texas woman died after being denied an abortion and her family sued the state and her doctors for violating her right to life. They say the ban should be struck down. It's one of several cases challenging abortion laws under state constitutional rights to life and liberty @autonomynews.co
autonomynews.co
New Lawsuits Argue That Pregnant People Also Have a Right to Life
Lawyers are fighting abortion bans in state court by establishing that pregnant people have a right to life and liberty—or at least self-defense.
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Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hm, anyone going to be at the Weston soon and could call up something to check a thing for me quicklike? Catalogue record is old and not complete enough and I feel bad emailing the librarians over small fact-check things : (
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Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I teach the history of science and medicine. MOST of my students come from the sciences.
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B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And yet I was only allowed to access a 1955 B.Litt. thesis, the only lengthy study on Robert Braybrooke, in person and take notes (no photos). I had to sign a register of those who had ever accessed the thesis.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
👏🏼👏🏼
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
STAT: I worked on the CDC investigation of the anthrax letters. 25 years later, are we ready for the next biothreat? By Daniel Jernigan @statnews.com bit.ly/4z58oCp
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been reporting on the CDC for years, and have written about many of its troubles over the past year. I was still shocked by the extent of the staff losses and political interference I found when reporting this one. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/26/h...
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‘Zombified’ C.D.C., Hobbled by Cuts, Struggles to Fulfill Scientific Mission (Gift Article)
The agency has lost its independence and nearly a third of its staff, as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and associates have tightened control.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’ve been writing and speaking on this topic for years, and I’m glad that news media are finally drawing attention to it. www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
It may be tempting to see value in projects such as the Schmidt Foundation — that’s Eric Schmidt of Google — funding a fellowship in AI at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, or the Musk Foundation’s support of the Scroll Prize to use AI in reconstructing ancient texts in the burnt scrolls of Herculaneum. But these projects are simply two among countless others that have been seeding AI into museums and historical research for well over a decade. Even more egregious is the case of AI companies buying  and destroying rare books en masse in the process of scanning them for data. In the context of the dire austerity we are witnessing, the juggernaut of tech money seems impossible to resist.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library
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Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical texts from its Bodleian library, as tech companies scour academic institutions for fresh data. The Bodleian material digitised by OpenAI has been used to “populate the OpenAI training set”, according to internal documents. Continue reading...
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Dolly Parton Day
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So glad this speech is being circulated. There's more of it: "Turn what we know into what we do." news.un.org/en/story/202...
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‘Turn what we know into what we do,’ Barbados PM Mottley urges world leaders at UN
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley called on world leaders on Thursday to turn knowledge into action, reform international institutions and ensure that new technologies and global wealth benefit ever...
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆ @eviebauer727.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Mia Mottley Prime Minister of Barbados UN Speech 🇧🇧 The world needs more of this!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The ‘died with’ vs. ‘died of’ measles discussion misses something very important. Since every death is ultimately cardiac arrest, physicians have strict rules on how immediate and underlying causes are handled on death certificates." www.statnews.com/2026/09/25/d... Very important for #histmed, too
statnews.com
The ‘died with’ vs. ‘died of’ measles discussion misses something very important
“Arguing over whether someone died ‘with’ or ‘of’ a disease gets us stuck on the last thing that happened.” write two Unbiased Science scientists.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Valuing five centuries of unpaid breastfeeding in England" by economic historians Henderson & Humphries. Looks important not only for ♀️'s history but #histmed, too. 🧪🗃️
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 25/09/2026
Legionnaire's disease incidence has risen significantly in the United States over the last two decades, with warming temperatures, precipitation, sunlight levels, and road traffic exposure to the soil-dwelling Legionella bacteria likely driving this increase. 🔗 Learn more: plos.io/4jpm5r3
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Evolution and main causes of the rising legionellosis incidence in the United States
Legionellosis is an acute respiratory infection caused by the environmental bacteria Legionella pneumophila and other Legionella species upon inhalation of aerosolized bacteria. The legionellosis…
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Read my commentary in Rest of World here: restofworld.org/2026/south-a...
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South Africa joins the global resistance against American data centers
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
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Dr. Chinasa T. Okolo @chinasa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Last week, I shared my perspectives on emerging data center resistance in South Africa with Rest of World and realized I had much more to write on the subject, so here’s a new edition of Digital Cognoscente! chinasa.substack.com/p/scaling-re...
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Scaling Responsible Data Center Stewardship Across Africa
Perspectives on data center expansion in Africa and what governments must do to encourage sustainable growth.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
In case you need more capybaras in your life (and not just as a reminder of adding ALT-TEXT to your Bluesky images), there's now this about ancient capybaras in the Atacama Desert: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A screengrab of Fig. 3D from Gutstein et al. 2026 on evidence for the Late Miocene Capybara in the Atacama Desert. Caption: Histogram of δ¹³C values comparing modern C3 plants (ref. 42, n = 1,615; ref. 78,
n ~ 500), diet-corrected mammal tooth bioapatite (n = 143)43, and Miocene Atacama soil carbonate nodules from this study
(n = 2, red bar).A post from @catsofyore.bsky.social reminding folks to use ALT-TEXT when posting images on Bluesky. The image shows "A capybara looking relaxed in a hot spa. Yellow yuzu fruits are floating in the water, and one is balanced on the top of the capybara's head."
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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#OA from @monicamedhist.bsky.social! Check it out!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Pope Leo praises France for "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proclaimed here in Paris.. Creating a general consciousness of inalienable rights to dignity"
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The Navajo Nation has formally designated Tooh Ahidiilíní, the Confluence of the Little Colorado River and Colorado River, and the Little Colorado River Gorge, as a sacred site." www.azcentral.com/story/news/t...
azcentral.com
Navajo Nation designates Colorado, Little Colorado confluence as sacred
The vote by the Navajo Nation Council gives the confluence of the two rivers protections from unwanted development.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is actually a great article to get caught up on your apple history & lore: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
scientificamerican.com
How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit
And how they might have helped save the future of American apples
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Vought and RFK Jr. are out-of-control zealots with no rational policy goals. To treat them otherwise is to invest their deep sociopathy with credibility.” @gregggonsalves.bsky.social latest for @thenation.com
thenation.com
Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tonight's purchase: Philippe Guillet's new edition of L'Anathomia de Richardus Anglicus: Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle. Good old-fashioned philology combined w/ real Digital Humanities smarts brings a woefully understudied text into the light. #histmed
The cover of Philippe Guillet, L'Anathomia de Richardus Anglicus: Un traité d'anatomie physiologique de la fin du XIIe siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2026). The title translates to "The Anatomy of Richard the Englishman: A Treatise of Physiological Anatomy from the End of the 12th Century."
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"High up in the continental pedigree the entire DNA fingerprint matched a predicted empty space. The Maine team had found a living lost progenitor to hundreds of varieties—a tree that had been contributing its characteristics to American apples for hundreds of years." #DNA 🧪
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The nearly decade-long case of Crystal Mason, who was sentenced to 5 yrs in prison over a voting error, will end with an acquittal The wife of the current district attorney, who fought to keep her conviction in place, asked Crystal if she would consider voting for him
theguardian.com
Texas woman triumphs as court upholds acquittal in voting error case
Crystal Mason has spent nearly a decade fighting conviction for casting provisional ballot that ultimately wasn’t counted
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Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More context and video here: bsky.app/profile/arch...
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Ninety percent of the world’s LGBTQ and intersex rights groups that were surveyed have lost funding since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in January 2025... More than a third of the organizations said they would likely be forced to close within the next 12 months."
76crimes.com
A third of LGBTQ groups say 2025's drastic cuts will force them to close
Ninety percent of the world's LGBTQ and intersex rights groups that were surveyed have lost funding since Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president in
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very cool! The Medieval Academy of America & @uchicagopress.bsky.social have kindly agreed to temporarily lift the paywall on a short essay I published a few months ago: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/.... Dating, dating, dating. Vital for the historian; essential for interdisc. dialogue.
journals.uchicago.edu
The Future of Time: Methodological Dialogues between Philology, Archaeology, and Genomics | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
αἰαῖ! The latest Pasts Imperfect is out. @sentantiq.bsky.social discusses new work on Homer & a book on the Iliad's gendered voices. Then, Jefferson's children with Sally Hemings, mapping coin circulation in the Roman Empire, new ancient world journals via @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more. ἄγετε!
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Pasts Imperfect (9.24.26)
This week, noted ailurophile and Homerist Joel Christensen sings to us about new scholarship helping us to make sense of Homer and highlights a new book on lamentation and glory in the Iliad. Then, re...
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Micheál Martin @micheal-martin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Great to spend time with New York’s Mayor Mamdani today. Between riding the subway and calling bingo at the New York Irish Center, we had a warm and thought provoking conversation on the enduring relationship between Ireland and this city.
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