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Thinking & talking about history, politics, public health, books, and warm socks. Also flowers. she/her/elle

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Dr Samuel McLean - This Meeting Could Have Been A Fistfight @canadianerrant.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I am legitimately asking for help here. Why do Augustinians have churches covered in gold if they're mendicant Friars
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CTV News Winnipeg @ctvnewswinnipeg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
‘Very powerful moment’: Original Treaty Six manuscript returns to Sask. for first time in 150 years
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‘Very powerful moment’: Original Treaty Six manuscript returns to Sask. for first time in 150 years
For the first time since 1876, the original Treaty Six manuscript is back on the land where it was initially negotiated and signed.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 22/08/2026
I love this human and I love everyone who demonstrates that you can be struggling, you can have disabilities, you can have mental health problems, and in no way as a consequence need to be selfish, a bigot, or an asshole. "3-6-9 it is okay not to be fine I love you" is such needed energy.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Just re-upping this new target article I co-authored w/ the incredible @elangmann.bsky.social It integrates insights from 3 fields that generally aren't working together much: aging studies, disability studies, & #bioethics in context of #EpistemicJustice Let us know if you'd like a PDF!
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Ageism, Ableism, and Epistemic Injustice: tracing Absence and Construction in Bioethics and Public Health
Ageism and ableism are intersecting forms of marginalization that shape whose knowledge counts, whose needs are prioritized, and how care is structured in public health and bioethics. While both ha...
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Being reminded tonight why, 3 years ago, I entitled one of the biggest talks I've ever given "Why History (Still) Needs Historians."
Why History (Still) Needs Historians: 
Adventures at the Edge of Pandemic Studies

Norman F. Furniss Lecture
Colorado State University, Fort Collins
14 April 2023
https://history.colostate.edu/events/2023-furniss-lecture/ 

Abstract

Two of the leading global crises of the present day—climate change and the resurgence of infectious diseases—both have deep histories. And in both cases, those histories are being increasingly constructed on the basis not of old archival documents, but of newly retrieved physical data produced by scientific methods of interrogating the material past. In his 2020 Presidential address to the American Historical Association, in fact, John McNeill called our present moment “Peak Document,” meaning that whereas historians’ documentary archives were finite, because the sciences could generate their own new data about the past they would soon outstrip written archives as the foundation for histories that will be written in the future. 

Unbeknownst to McNeill when he delivered that address in early January 2020, the world was entering into a new era. Although the notion of “emerging diseases” was by then over 30 years old, the several decades leading up to the eradication of smallpox in 1980 had brought parts of the world a sense of calm, a sense that humankind’s long history with infectious diseases was over. Even as Ebola, HIV, the persistent presence of tuberculosis and other diseases challenged that complacency, it has only been with the onset of COVID-19 that there has been a general awakening that, like modern climate change, humans have a lot to do with the disease environment we find ourselves in.

The need to interrogate these twin histories, therefore, is urgent. But will historians—trained to interpret the past through records humans themselves have created—play a role in writing these new histories? This talk will recount the journey of the author, trained as a historian of science and working throughout her career in the field of …Titlepage from a 2023 lecture, Why History (Still) Needs Historians: Adventures at the Edge of Pandemic Studies," Norman F. Furniss Lecture, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 14 April 2023.
The image in the lower center comes from the frontispiece of a 15th-century French translation of Boccaccio's Decameron. It shows the devastation caused by the plague in Florence.
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Carla Denyer @carladenyer.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb. www.gov.uk/government/c...
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Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The cat distribution system is undefeated If you watch closely you can see the exact moment he realizes that he will live with this cat from now on
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs.

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 27/01/2026
Just deleted my TikTok account. Please note that if you open TikTok on a web browser, it will ask you to accept a new TOS. DO NOT ACCEPT THE TOS! You can click through to settings and delete your account WITHOUT accepting the new TOS.
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Signpost Poetry @signpostpoetry.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Good writing by Adam Serwer on what courage and care looks like in Minnesota, where people have created a space for fiercely peaceful kindness
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Signpost Poetry @signpostpoetry.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Does this mean a change in street tactics or just a change in leadership?
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The Minnesota v. Noem hearing is beginning before Judge Katherine Menendez. Minnesota, Minneapolis, and St. Paul are seeking a TRO today to stop Operation Metro Surge.
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Judith Browne Dianis @jbrownedianis.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
While this is for new organizers from @prisonculture.bsky.social it’s an excellent reminder to veteran organizers. In these times (see why I did there?) we must all be grounded in the hope of what’s possible so we can continue to work for it and build it.
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Pleased to announce my ‘Perhaps I’m A Chosen Instrument,’ an archival (re) emergence, with Morrisseau, will open in Paris this April as part of ‘Freeing The Voices’ exhibition, curated by Zdenka Badovinac, and featuring works by Noor Abed, Marina Abramović, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Babi Badalov,
Still images from ‘Freeing The Voices,’ opening in Paris this April. Still images from ‘Freeing The Voices,’ opening in Paris this April. Still images from ‘Freeing The Voices,’ opening in Paris this April.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 22/01/2026
are they not monsters?
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Peadar Ó Guilín @thecallya.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Cover Reveal for The Sword Garden! Available for preorder soon at wizardstowerpress.com/books-2/book... A million thanks to the brilliant artist, Ben Baldwin, and of course to my editor, @cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Cover for the novel, The Sword Garden by Peadar Ó Guilín. Cover shows mysterious figure with yellow eyes and a hood in the foreground. In the background, are some warriors with spears beside a massive obelisk. Behind the obelisk is a a planet that seems to burn with blue fire.
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Signpost Poetry @signpostpoetry.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
… or how to persuade people that they really should not care about each other
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 21/01/2026
One to watch: Toronto hospital to double housing program that reduces ER visits www.cp24.com/local/toront... @uhn.ca ⤷ canadahealthwatch.ca/insights 🍁
Tenants and staff are photographed outside Dunn House, Canada's first social medicine housing project, in Toronto on Thursday, Sept. 18, 2025. Evelyn Cheung, front left to right, Keith Hambly, Michelle Walda, Dr. Andrew Boozary, Maggie-Mae Coles, Genevieve Baker, and Avery Ptolemy. Matthew Lihou, rear left to right, and Jason Miles.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 19/01/2026
Little midnight snack for @erinbiba.bsky.social
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Signpost Poetry @signpostpoetry.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This is now going to stay in my head all day. Possibly with ruby slippers on for extra clicking
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Kelly Barnhill @kellybarnhill.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
I'm sorry what now? abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...
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Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
It's quite chilling to search the Associated Press wire for photos of the Iran protests and find basically nothing. For those who don't know, for the AP to be unable to find someone to take a photo and get it out of the country means the blackout is about as dark as it can be.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
the good that you do persists in this world
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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Really clear messaging from the NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. At this point, it's not going to convince a ton of people to start masking, but it may encourage folks who already mask to keep it up - & it may remind others that masking is an expert-recommended NPI, not a weird obsession.
NYC Health Dept. post on FB: Cartoon of a happy emoji face person on a subway wearing a KN95, and an unmasked emoji face person looking sick and sad. Caption: Wear A Mask This Fall. Text: "Wearing a mask in crowded indoor settings this fall can protect you and others from COVID-19, flu, and RSV, even if you don’t have symptoms. Well-fitting masks, like N95s, KN95s, or KF94s provide the best protection: on.nyc.gov/3U2bq5n"
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
GOP states are restricting youth voting by -requiring strict in-person ID for registering + voting, explicitly excluding college-issued IDs -locating poll sites far from campuses + targeting on-campus locations -limiting + sanctioning third-party voter reg orgs talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/inside-...
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Inside the GOP’s Assault on Youth Voting Rights
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 27/10/2025
Good on Australia for doing this! It’s such a deceptive practice to tell customers their price is increasing because of AI, when the old price is still available without genAI but only if you try to cancel.
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Australia sues Microsoft for misleading Microsoft 365 users
Asia In Brief: PLUS: China demotes tech self-sufficiency goal; Alibaba Cloud quietly quits VMware; India demands deepfake labels; and more!
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.
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Socky Noob @sockynoob.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
To those wondering, this is what now appears if you use Bluesky in Mississippi without a VPN. So yes, a VPN does grant access to the site. For now.
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Quick takes: California plague case, US measles rise, UK ups avian flu risk The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
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Quick takes: California plague case, US measles rise, UK ups avian flu risk
The patient likely contracted plague from a flea bite while camping near South Lake Tahoe.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.
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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
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Cottage in the Woods @cottageinwood.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Turn social media into an oasis: follow botanists, orchardists, and heritage gardeners. Follow bird watchers, paleontologists, and people who dedicate their careers to fungariums. There are scientists who spend their whole lives thinking about turtles. 🐢
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The Mouse was waiting in a long line for rice. She was crying. She thought it might run out before she reached the front. No-one left even a grain behind from their portions. The sun was relentless and her feet hurt. Dizzying, fevered thoughts flowered and faded like Damask roses from the north. She imagined being far away, under a slow fan in a cafe, ordering pastries and Sahlab, scattered with nuts. She imagined reading a newspaper, ink staining her paws. She imagined the headlines of slow starvation, of death, of genocide. She imagined folding the paper and eating her pastries, sipping her Sahlab, and she wept.
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
oh wow! Beronda Montgomery has a new book! bookshop.org/p/books/when... "a cultural and personal reclamation of Black history and Black botanical mastery, told through the stories of long-lived trees." how "seven trees—as well as the cotton shrub—are intertwined with Black history and culture."
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When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy
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Keanu M. Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
The suggestion that AI can “replace” a historian fundamentally misunderstands the nature of academic historical inquiry. Even if being a chronicler or antiquarian were things an AI could successfully emulate, this is really not the same thing as critically interrogating historical arguments.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs. Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
The top 40 most affected occupations by generative AI:

Interpreters and Translators
Historians
Passenger Attendants
Sales Representatives of Services
Writers and Authors
Customer Service Representatives
CNC Tool Programmers
Telephone Operators
Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks
Broadcast Announcers and Radio DJs
Brokerage Clerks
Farm and Home Management Educators
Telemarketers
Concierges
Political Scientists
News Analysts, Reporters, Journalists
Mathematicians
Technical Writers
Proofreaders and Copy Markers
Hosts and Hostesses
Editors
Business Teachers, Postsecondary
Public Relations Specialists
Demonstrators and Product Promoters
Advertising Sales Agents
New Accounts Clerks
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History of Vaccines @historyvaccines.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
For every $1 spent on childhood immunizations in the United States, our healthcare system saves $10.90 in direct costs and societal benefits. Routine childhood vaccinations from 1994 to 2023 will save $540 billion in direct costs. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
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Health and Economic Benefits of Routine Childhood...
This report describes health and economic benefits from routine childhood vaccines among children born during 1994–2023.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 30/07/2025
I really appreciated this episode of @npr.org's Consider This, about the Texas floods, how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives, and the care good storytelling requires. I'll be sharing it with my qualitative methods students this year. one.npr.org/i/1269546823...
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🔊 Listen Now: Texas floods: how to talk to people on the worst day of their lives
Consider This From NPR on NPR One | 10:22
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 30/07/2025
Is that a piano bench situation? EB, we have questions.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
if the father of the xbox told me my video game understanding was lacking i would probably just walk into the sea tbh and live with ecco the dolphin
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Scott Christian Sava @ssavaart.com · 25/07/2025
I Joined Art Fight! @artfight.net
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It’s Friday! So, time for some seriously chonky otters.
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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
There's less than a week until the Library’s scholarship programme submission deadline! If you are interested in applying to any of our scholarships, you still have until11:45pm BST on Thursday 31st July 2025! 🗓️ 1/4
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