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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 8m

Looking forward to 2 conferences this week! Th, Oct 8: International Conf on #NightStudies (virtual) “Seeing Like a Turtle”: Rethinking #LightPollution and #Night 🐢 Sat, Oct 10: #4S2026 #4SToronto (IRL) “Night as Frontier”: Technological frontierism in night, sky, and space since the late 19th c💡🛰️

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 2h

TODAY ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

THIS is an excellent use for satellites 🛰🛰 Of course, this will be increasingly difficult if LEO becomes crowded (and goddess forbid, Kessler Syndrome)

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spaghootighost @spaghootighost.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"The dangers of fraternities were so widespread [...] they had been ranked as the “sixth worst risk for insurance companies—just behind hazardous waste disposal companies and asbestos contractors.” So dangerous were their activities that their commercial insurance carriers declined insuring [...]."

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s an honor every time. I hope more medical schools continue to find ways to include diverse medical histories (by historians not just practitioners) in their curriculum. The students get so much out of it and we historians are so happy when our work reaches them.

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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Honestly instead of learning new techniques to hack my nervous system I'd like to live in a equitable life-affirming society that didn't push me into fight or flight hour after hour. You?

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Jack El-Hai @jackelhai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Who owns the night?" Today's #history book pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to author @sarabpritchard.bsky.social & @uwapress.uw.edu! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Stares in intersectional feminist historian

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Tej Nagaraja @tejnagaraja.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Every year at Cornell, I teach about Working Women United. It was Cornell workers who first put a name to "sexual harassment" — reaching a wider conscience. They did not see abuses as individualized tragic events. They saw gender & sexual abuses in terms of social hierarchy & institutional power.

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🤩🌌🌠 Excited to hear what you think about #TransformingNight! Thank you for the long-awaited preorder!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Cornell AAUP @cornellaaup.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Cornell AAUP Chapter is outraged by the sexual violence that was committed at Chi Phi in 2024. We call for the community to come together on Monday, October 5 at 4:30pm in Ho Plaza, to stand in support of the survivors of sexual violence. Our full statement is here.

We are outraged by the continued culture of misogyny and by the continued pervasiveness of violence against women at Cornell and at universities and colleges across the country. We are outraged that so many women at Cornell have reported experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact.

We are deeply disturbed by Cornell University administration’s response and communications to the community, initially in 2024 and now. Cornell administrators point community members to resources, but do not exercise leadership in creating space to process the harm, the outrage, and to change the culture of misogyny. In moments of crisis such as this, we need leaders, not administrators.

The Cornell administration’s responses reveal its failure to understand and respond appropriately to actual harm and threats to safety on campus. It has used its internal communications to issue elaborate accusations, and it has imposed excessive discipline against students for political protests where there was no threat of harm or violence. And yet, when it comes to sexual violence, Cornell’s communications have been oblique or silent, leaving the community frustrated, fearful, or angry about the administration’s lack of transparency about how it will take effective responses.

We stand in solidarity with victims of sexual violence. We are outraged by the treatment of Jane Doe. We stand in solidarity with student organizations who have been demanding better, with faculty, staff, and students who have been organizing spaces to process and demand change. We do not yet know precisely how or why this case was so egregiously mishandled. What we do know is that it is the most recent example of the systemic failure of Cornell to protect its community — from patients at Cornell Weill to Cornell students — from sexual violence. This system must change.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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Karen L. Cox 📚🏳️‍🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I wonder if someone will write a piece about men's behavior toward women at academic conferences. There are stories upon stories going back decades, and yet still happening.

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I humbly suggest since Nov 2016. And the "cycling" may be more in than out.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I remember when a "non-traditional" WM student asked me for "my credentials" -- that's an exact quote -- on the first day of my large lecture class during my very first semester as a TT. While he manspread in the front row of a class of 90+.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Men, it’s never too late to leave your fraternity. Membership is lifelong. And these segregationist institutions use your name to uphold the power they abuse. This is what your fellow alums are doing. Do you really want to be associated with that?

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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

got myself an enormous chocolate chip cookie because what else can you do

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Is it just me or are the meetings and emails ON STEROIDS this year?

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My new favorite blurb for #TransformingNight: "Excellent stuff!" 😄

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌌🌃Still waiting for your copy of #TransformingNight? Here's an interview* from late last month on @greenhouseuis.net Big thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me for inviting me! (*EEEEK, please be nice, I HATE being interviewed and refuse to listen to myself)

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Writing my #4S talk: "Night as Frontier”: Technological frontierism in #night, sky, and #space since the late nineteenth century 💡🛰️🌃

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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As someone writing about U.S. backlash politics, its daunting to think about the success of efforts to undo so many post-WWII achievements, including civil rights (including CRA/VRA), vaccines/public health, women’s rights (Roe), environmentalism, LGBTQ rights, massive expansion of higher ed, etc.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

3. The Cornell Daily Sun! Need I say more? These fierce, courageous journalists -and Jane Doe herself- are heroes. www.cornellsun.com/page/donate May the students who graduate this year not find themselves 35 years later, as I do, feeling that nothing has changed. /end

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Support the Sun! - The Cornell Daily Sun

The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2. Equimundo, an organization working to ensure a future where men, women, and individuals of all gender identities share power and care work more equally, and where all live free from violence. 3/ www.equimundo.org/donate/

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Donate | Equimundo

By giving today, you are contributing to a future where everyone shares power and care work more equally, and where all live free from violence.

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Center of Tompkins County, where Cornell is based, offers FREE support to anyone impacted by domestic/dating violence, sexual assault, rape, child sexual abuse and sexual exploitation. Services are also available to friends, intimate partners and family members of survivors. 2/ www.actompkins.org

actompkins.org

Advocacy Center – Provider of Domestic and Sexual Violence services in Tompkins County, NY

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Cynthia Miller-Idriss @milleridriss.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Headed to Ithaca today for my lecture tomorrow on how the invisibility of gender based violence creates pathways to mass violence, & what we can do to prevent it and keep us all safer. I donated the Lectureship award to three organizations. Please consider supporting their work. 1-The Advocacy 1/

actompkins.org

Advocacy Center – Provider of Domestic and Sexual Violence services in Tompkins County, NY

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is another attack on the so-called "feminization" of higher education, abetted by widespread ideology (also held by far too many uni leaders) that education has no value beyond a taxpayer-subsidized job training program for corporations. Also part of effort to resegregate higher education.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Absolute boss move. It's upthread, but Dr. Miller-Idriss is donating part of her honorarium from the University Lectureship to the Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The reason I decided to study campus sexual violence is because universities are gatekeepers of power in society. They choose who will be eligible to make decisions that affect the rest of us.

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The Astro Society @astrosociety.org · 28/09/2026

The stars are part of our stories and Hispanic heritage is part of the story of space.✨🌌 This Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re celebrating the many ways the cosmos connects science, culture, and identity. Long before modern spaceflight, Indigenous civilizations—including the Maya and Mexica (Aztec)⤵️

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🙏🥰 🌌🌠🌃🛰 You have received these before I've gotten my copies lol!?

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University of Washington Press @uwapress.uw.edu · 29/09/2026

Calling all early-career professionals interested in scholarly publishing! We are now accepting applications for an Acquisitions Fellow. This 12-month entry-level role offers hands-on experience evaluating, developing, and acquiring manuscripts. Apply by October 15, 2026: bit.ly/uwapressfellowship

Applications are now open for the Acquisitions Fellowship at the University of Washington Press. Applications due October 15, 2026. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/uwapressfellowship

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've talked to a few journal editors who are concerned about similar problems re: anonymous reviewers. If a peer reviewer wants a little help & feeds your unpublished submission into an AI system, they've just shared your proprietary work & broken confidentiality. A nightmare to think about

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Uhhhh, the PB is already "temporarily out of stock" on The Evil Online Empire? Wow, thank you! 🤩 #TransformingNight

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

After a long day at the aquarium, the otters help tidy their toys away. Payment is made promptly and entirely in ice cubes.

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András Forgács W @andraswf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Nazis don't want you to remember their crimes

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Real story problem: If Sara receives x emails/hr on weekdays and .21x evenings + weekends, usually replies to .4x emails M-Th, 1.6x F afternoon, and doesn't check email Sat, but has 10% less time and is 8% less efficient per wk as term goes on, with 135 emails on 9/26, when will she catch up?

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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dementia can cause paranoia, (extreme) anger and outbursts, perseveration, narcissism, exacerbation of personal/ity tendencies, loss of inhibitions, loss of executive function, and poor judgement. This is a statement about US politics. 🍊🤡 But don't ask me how I know too much about the above.

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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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