Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026<Spoiler>I’m an historian, but for any female in higher ed, there is at least one conference moment where I was yelling at the screen. Any female really —my teenager also balked, noooope. 030
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Right? Not how labs work, counting the ways, is a big one. Her a-ha moment for her research in the film is so bad it’s funny. Painful but funny. 130
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I like Ali Hazelwood and the movie is adorable, but yeah, the list of “that’s not how stuff works” list is long. We were originally going to watch it with friends who are biologists and were very glad we didn’t. 1121
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Ground News did a push notification. Which is wild b/c they’re linking to folks like AP News but I did not get a push alert from them. 020
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Like an AI April Ludgate that just gets everyone to leave you alone? 010
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 25/08/2026In planning this symposium, I placed high priority on a) making it hybrid and b) making it affordable. $10 streaming tickets for sale now, including full Q&A participation and access to the recording after the event. We hope you will tune in! marktwainhouse.vbotickets.com/event/Creati... 15435
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Chaco Canyon is not for sale. That's what 20 Pueblo leaders and New Mexico lawmakers told the Capitol this week, opposing Trump's plan to open one of the most sacred Indigenous landscapes in North America to drilling. www.hcn.org/articles/pue...hcn.orgPueblo leaders, New Mexico lawmakers speak out to protect Chaco Canyon - High Country NewsOfficials are calling the push to remove an oil and gas buffer around the culturally critical monument ‘an absolute gut punch.’ 13920
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanTony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net · 21/07/2026AI companies are buying, scanning, and destroying older books to improve their models' training data & avoid problems of "model collapse" (wherein LLMs choke on their own slop). One of their suppliers is Better World Books, which partners with public libraries. www.404media.co/ai-companies...404media.coAI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI SlopISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.” 16325152
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanKelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development 240683922
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026This is a favorite of mine this time of year as well, but in 2026, I find myself thinking of Douglass’s 1894 speech, “Lessons of the Hour” - teachingamericanhistory.org/document/les...teachingamericanhistory.orgLessons of the Hour… Do not ask me what will be the final result of the so-called negro problem. I cannot tell you. I have sometimes thought that the American people are too […] 34916
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanBethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 29/06/2026You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQbit.lyThe war against ‘woke’ could end US science as we know it“Everyone will be affected, not just scientists. Every community in the country.“ 311363788
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanMark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 22/06/2026'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.' vimeo.com/163190768vimeo.comJulie Dash interviews Octavia Butler (1995)A lost interview (1995) with award-winning Sy Fy writer Octavia Butler and filmmaker Julie Dash at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first bla... 120299
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanSan Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 17/06/2026California is temporarily offering a free Historian Passport that covers admission for up to four people at more than 30 state historic parks through 2026.bit.lyCalifornia offers free pass to more than 30 historic state parks — for a limited time onlyCalifornia is temporarily offering a free Historian Passport that covers admission for up to four people at more than 30 state historic parks through 2026. 0178
Reposted by Rachel Tamar Vandhnow.bsky.social @dhnow.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Job Announcement: Digitization Archivist at Letterform Archive jobs.gusto.com/posti... 001
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The combination of competence and caring — inject that into my veins. 040
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanJoshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026In an interesting new Commonplace piece, James Blake stumbles upon a page in John F. Watson's scrapbook that at first seems to be about Lenape history, but with more investigation really offers more about the antiquarian construction of Lenape history. 🗄️ commonplace.online/article/past...commonplace.onlinePasted Indians: John F. Watson, Scrapbook Culture, and the Construction of a Lenape Image - CommonplaceRather than preserving a direct record of Native life, the page reveals the processes by which early American antiquarians assembled and interpreted the past. 075
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanDr. Jim Downs @jimdowns.bsky.social · 28/05/2026HISTORIANS, Please share widely.I'm hosting an exciting Juneteenth event at the Library Company of Phila,June 16. "From Ledger to Genome: Data & the History of Black Life," exploring how Black lives have been recorded & recovered across time. Register here. support.librarycompany.org/event/junete... 0106
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanNoam Ross @noamross.net · 27/05/2026The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSFgrant-witness.usNew Grant Disruptions at NSF - We Need Your Help to Report! – Grant Witness 5460424
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Oh no! I’m so sorry!! Truly a scholar for the ages and such an incredible human! 031
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanFLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US gofund.me/140322128gofund.meDonate to Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes, organized by Flavor FlavFlavor Flav, the legendary rapper and Hollywood personality, has long been… Flavor Flav needs your support for Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes 10164011861
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanLeah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026taking tax dollars to pay insurrectionists. which (by the way) the 14th amendment is supposed to prohibit: "[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States...." 361286461
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Zotero for secondary, but I like Tropy for organizing pics of sources + notes. It’s kind of a pared down version of FileMaker, but that’s to the good, in my experience. 120
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 01/05/2026This graph shows how registration rates between Black and White voters varied in Louisiana since Reconstruction. In a single image, it tells the story of political power and discrimination. Black voters had power, briefly, then it was taken from them. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/power-demo... 7326120
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026The California Newspaper database hosted by UC Riverside is another example of this—so fabulous, currently imperiled and engaged in fundraising: cdnc.ucr.educdnc.ucr.edu 031
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanSharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 30/04/2026I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant). 31510221
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Women’s history for (US)Mother’s Day on May10th. Material culture off my shelves at home version. 24711
Reposted by Rachel Tamar Vanadamxmcneil.bsky.social @adamxmcneil.bsky.social · 23/04/2026In case you missed my virtual talk yesterday, take a listen! Thank you, @kawulf.bsky.social for offering me the chance to lecture on Black Loyalists and Black Loyalism! The Revolution is News: Adam McNeil on Black Loyalism youtu.be/-nIt8JbUBhc?...youtu.beThe Revolution Is News: Adam McNeil on Black LoyalismYouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library 144
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanMerrilee Proffitt @merrileeiam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...blog.archive.orgU.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available | Internet Archive Blogs 4620234
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Story here: www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...azcentral.comSmell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife saysConditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said. 5423211
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Any Cal PhDs-Jr faculty need regalia? Pref. details below ❤️. Go Bears. 021
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanMike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 11/04/2026Trump’s proposed cuts to NASA are an insult to astronauts like the Artemis crew By Bill Nye www.ms.now/opinion/arte... 1177
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 10/04/2026“'I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,' the congresswoman said, fighting back tears. "She described the way people were laying down inside as “like sardines.” “'It is frightening in there,' she said. 'It is disgusting'..." azmirror.com/2026/04/10/i... 789163207757
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The federal govt wants to end the block on new leasing for mineral extraction at Chaco Canyon. They announced a 7-day comment period and it ends tomorrow, April 7. Submit a comment now to remind the govt of their obligations to tribes. nativenewsonline.net/environment/...nativenewsonline.netACTION NEEDED to Save Chaco!Overview: Tribal leaders and advocates are calling for urgent public action to protect Chaco Canyon from renewed oil and gas development threats. The Association on American Affairs has released this ... 13324
Reposted by Rachel Tamar Vanjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/04/2026the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...morethanjustparks.substack.comBREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest ServiceThe headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed. 20473623337
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Feels appropriate to point out on No Kings day: Allowing Trump to selectively pay employees he likes, when he feels like it, rather than having Congress solve the problem, is a real constitutional threat. From @joshchafetz.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns... 9564178
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanH-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social · 19/03/2026New job: Senior Historian Colonial Williamsburg Foundation jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69898 01314
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanKing Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Hot off the press! I wrote an article that got published in the Journal of American History. It explores how abolitionists used runaway slave advertisements to ridicule slaveowners and slaveowners' northern allies. 🗃 academic.oup.com/jah/article/...academic.oup.comSlip the Yoke and Change the Joke: How Abolitionists Used Runaway Slave Advertisements to Ridicule SlaverySpeaking to an abolitionist audience in New York City in May 1856, William Wells Brown read an advertisement sliced from the New Orleans Daily Picayune: 1817447
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 03/03/2026The famous David Blight formulation (in Race & Reunion) is, the country chose healing over justice and thereby achieved neither. 010
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Suddenly those mini Coronas they were drinking at the Olympics are looking good. 010
Rachel Tamar Van @rtvan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Long time listener, first time caller: CONGRATS on the FIANCÉ! Happy for you two 🍾. 020
Reposted by Rachel Tamar VanZito @zeets.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I’m not sure we can donate to small independent media our way out of the reality that the media and arts landscapes are controlled by an authoritarian and his friends. I’m as supportive as anyone else but this seems like a critical problem that goes beyond that. 426177