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Claire Schen

@profclaire.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern England at University at Buffalo and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Research in Undergraduate Education. Happy to talk DH, 1890s bicycling, and the history of Buffalo. Skiing and biking. Opinions my own. She/her.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Nandita Shenoy @nanditashenoyny.bsky.social · 23h
It is weighing in now.
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road.cc @roadcc.bsky.social · 23h
Whilst Nigel Farage has criticised councils that spend "tens of millions on cycle lanes that no one uses", his councillor says this proposed scheme "represents the right direction of travel towards creating modern, people centred cities". road.cc/news/cycling...
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr is funding a grotesquely unethical study on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau; ethicists, pediatricians, clinical trial experts, & infectious disease experts are calling this horrific trial The New Tuskegee. It is unethical to withhold a life saving intervention from half of newborns FFS.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Horrible to see this “trial” come back into existence.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
lol soon they will have you at “n+1 ing to a barn of bikes”
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am “recently upgrading my laundry routine.” Yes, we wash our clothes around here.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And is that Suzie Wiles next to him?
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Now this is truly scary real world stuff
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So sorry.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So much to lose, so fast.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And the NYT is so proud of its both-sidesing the article is leading the website. Readers are offended, as well they should be. Most recommended comment:
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The headline refers to "exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as a drunk"; the article then spends a lot of time detailing a single incident, which has been widely exaggerated beyond all proportion and recognization, and finally turns to Ramaswamy's career exploits, which are by no measure being exaggerated beyond defensible arguments as to their social impact. Why couldn't this article be accurately headlined: In Ugly Fight For Ohio Governor, Exaggeration of Single Personal Incident Is Pitted Against a Plutocrat's Career and Its Consequences. Concerned readers are eager to know.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Aww that’s a nice way to begin the day
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The reliance on the company’s assertions without evidence is so disturbing. Let alone all the frothy excitement about AI helping struggling primary students “learn” when we’re seeing evidence of cognitive decline. Like this podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Google Put AI in Schools. Test Scores Plummeted.
Podcast Episode · The Journal. · October 5 · 21m
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes. I wasn’t sure what to expect. Well worth the read.
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andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"For comparison, the George W. Bush, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden administrations made a combined total of 25 shadow docket applications over the course of 20 years." ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses
The conservative supermajority keeps refusing to take the real-world harms of its work seriously.
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Kassie Navarro @kassien.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Susan Collins claims that @propublica.org’s reporting about CEO Martin Kao’s bribery allegations took him at his word. That’s not true. We reviewed a trove of FBI evidence and legal records. 📽️ Here’s how we independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqyi...
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We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Against Susan Collins
YouTube video by ProPublica
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Just reading your post
Looking up at grey cat in close up photo and his mouth is wide open with teeth showing and tongue all curled up
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Jon Douglas @atranscendedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CDC sent me the 2025 NHIS data this week, and one number stuck with me. 8.7 million American adults were living with Long COVID in 2025. That's 1 in 30 of us. It's easy to stop seeing a crisis once it stops being new. It's still happening. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhis/do...
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Job posting here in the UVA Library's DH Center. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is searching for a "Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist." Not listed in the ad, but anticipated salary range is $85-95k. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/UO...
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Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia
Apply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at Univer...
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I am all in for using “beclowning” in everyday conversations. Some single words just capture the moment.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...
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Careers - Human Resources
find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For some particular infra folks who actually lead the university: deliberately overlooked, routinely underestimated, capaciously knowledgeable, injecting care into bureaucracy. Thanks to all the Doloreses for making academia run instead of trying to say "AI" loudest. Many Dolores; no president.
Photo of 4 of the same letterpress prints on royal blue paper with blue ink, arranged in a 2x2 grid. It says "more doloreses / no president"Photo of 4 of the same letterpress prints on tan chip paper with dark blue ink, arranged in a 2x2 grid. They say "more doloreses / no president"Photo of letterpress wood type arranged on a printing press bed with blue ink on the type, used to make the percy's in the previous photosScreenshot of a QT by me from a month back, of a good tweet by Tressie McMillan Cottom. QT: "Thinking of that tweet re:everyone in academia knows a 60yo woman only known by her 1st name, who actually runs the dept/uni. (Which is almost at an anarchist understanding: not "make Dolores president" but "many Doloreses, no president" and "how can you Dolores too")"
Dr. Cottom tweet: "Anyway, your problem isn't finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it's really thinking."
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What’s that saying? If it’s not on Strava it didn’t happen? Well, this happened.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What fresh hell awaits.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
These are stunning - and such interesting research!
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Congratulations! Looks wonderful.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Teaching a research seminar now and a recurrent piece of advice is “slow down.” Rushing to interpret and conclude rather than observe, notice, think, even wonder. That said, I would like to eat one of those biscuits but I would feel guilty destroying them.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
lol. “Reset password.”
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ah, Gray Rocks. That was an amazing place.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
whenever I fuck up and do some stupid shit at work I'm going to start saying I "went rogue"
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 26/09/2026
Goddammit.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Whaaaat?
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correct.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Laugh. Cry. Just keep repeating.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#buffalopotholebandit For all the fans out there! Oh, and of the #sabres, too.
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Many more headlines thus am breezing past historical scholarship of decades — and Hemings family history — to trumpet a new DNA study that simply confirms what we knew. My bar is low but even I’m depressed by how science always has to be “news” and journalism has so much trouble reporting history.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“… straight line from Koch Brothers money, allied with segregationists and religious fundamentalists, that runs through the Federalist Society and the Roberts Supreme Court, through the MAGA-fied Republican Party, through the crypto-industry and the tech-broligarchy, that leads to Trump.”
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It’s “Underwear on the Outside” Time
Trump’s continuing downward spiral into sundowning
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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 22/09/2026
Day 2 of the quarter at YarnLab, and @literaturegeek.bsky.social & @snblickhan.bsky.social speedweave zine has inspired an undergrad to ask if we have one here (we do!), and if she can come back to use it later this week. #DHmakes out here doing good things, one mending job at a time.
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Speedweve for Mending | Zine Bakery
#DHMakes Methodz #1, by Sam Blickhan and Amanda Wyatt Visconti
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be VERY concerned by the latest reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that company made campaign “donations." youtu.be/f2fFlCPjKnk?...
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GOP Senator CAUGHT RED-HANDED In MASSIVE BRIBERY SCHEME Probe!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Russell Vought wants to kill the NIH In case you didn't know this, Vought's daughter has cystic fibrosis & has benefited from a combination drug treatment (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) that was developed by NIH-funded research By @juliametraux.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now that’s a nickname! Love it.
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026
predation that will harm the next generation of men ... and their romantic partners
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 18/09/2026
Your life saving clinical trail could be TERMINATED by the Trump administration. We scraped through the data and found that 50% of all clinical trials are at risk of being cancelled. It's time to talk about it and what you can do to stop this. 🧵 🧪
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 20/09/2026
Academia: a system that requires years of training to be eligible for basic, entry-level positions yet lacks the capacity to provide those positions to over 90% of the people whom it trains.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"This election is about the threat of trans kids" is the worst possible messaging for Dems yet so many candidates are leaning into it. No voter will flip R->D over it. Low-info voters read this as "you're focused on bullshit that doesn't affect me" while the base reads this as "you're an asshole."
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So moving. Makes me also think of my University students who reach me after this educational stream and complicated, even searing life choices.
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Loved this film in 1992. Need to rewatch it from this point in my life!
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Claire Schen @profclaire.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Big. 12 year old boy in man’s body has sex with adult woman.
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