🚨Higher Ed Petition🚨 to save a thriving & growing classics program at U Iowa from unnecessary shutdown. Crushing the humanities is closed-minded politics wanting grads to be obedient workers not critical thinkers. HELP PUSH BACK. #HistSky #MedievalSky #HigherEd
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Let's do this 💪🏼
“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“
A double-tap strike on little girls at school.
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
you do not have to give up your job to AI. you simply do not have to lie facedown in that puddle on the ground and drown. what the fuck is wrong with you.
Hi friends. As I previously noted, the U. of Iowa is planning to get rid of African American studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, & the Classical Languages major—along with others. If you wish, please sign the classics petition: www.change.org/p/keep-the-c.... I will add more as I find out.
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Thank you so much Judith! I owe quite a bit to you, Christina Lee, and Paul Cavill for making it to this point 😊
Some of my feelings, represented by blurry memes:
The PhD has been submitted and I'm feeling all kinds of ways about it! Thank you to everyone who helped me get here over the past few years ❤️
vindictive, vicious cruelty designed to humiliate and criminalize every trans person in kansas
horrifying fascist shit reminiscent of the runup to the literal holocaust
MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now.
They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out.
GO DONATE.
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In 2018, an elite group of academics and scientists planned an exclusive retreat. The guests were picked by prominent New York literary agent John Brockman.
The problem? Brockman added two women to the list, and his biggest funder — Jeffrey Epstein — wanted them out.
@jkutzie.bsky.social reports
"Unalive" "grape" "seggs" This has got to stop. Do people hear themselves? Its like talking to a particularly sensitive toddler. We can't remove serious words from our language just because we're afraid some fickle algorithm will show our posts to less people
an interesting study that complements what historians have been saying for quite a while. people moved in the European Middle Ages, settled elsewhere. and genetics can tell where a person's ancestors came from but now which communities they belonged to #medievalsky
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Ted Danson Good place meme: You're paraphrasing the text. It's a lit crit insult. It's devastating. You're devastated right now.
This hits different in the age of AI
We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/
'In a further sign of the impact of the financial crisis gripping the sector, new data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (Hesa) show that 244,755 academic staff were working in the UK in 2024-25.' Previous year number was 246,930.
Professors & senior academics increased; others fell. 1/3
If you don’t read old stuff you’ll never discover that people in the olden days had the same thoughts and feelings and dreams and anxieties you do, sometimes articulated differently, sometimes exactly the same way. You are never truly alone in anything and old writings are a neon sign telling you so
Chinggis Khan dies from complications from falling off a horse! This is the problem with going 'arf arf, what is Aragorn's tax policy'....real life is often either a) dramatically unsatisfying or b) so dramatically neat as to feel contrived.
Flyer for lecture by Rachel Schine
We are super thrilled that @rachelschine.bsky.social is holding an online lecture on March 4th! DM or email @speriola.bsky.social of you want to join us 🙂 #cims
Let me also repeat the basic truth that writing is thinking. The act of writing is thinking. When you start to write, you don't know what you really think until you finish writing it. THEN you know, because you did the writing and the thinking.
Hi everyone I’m really struggling to find people of color who have ME/CFS to take the survey. I’m at a bit of a disadvantage because I can’t flyer in person. I’ve reached out to over 20 practitioners, only 2 have responded. Please lmk if you have any advice! This is an international survey
I wrote about the best Olympic sport
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I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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If this trend consolidates, might as well open quite an unexpected job market for any Ph.D. in Medieval Studies. After all, who better sentimental advisor than a conversant in Eloise & Abelard, Tristan & Isolde, Geneviève & Lancelot, Calisto & Melibea? #MedievalSky
This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!
