Posts by Uli Koch
“…by choosing late engagement and a politics of neutrality, nursing shores up proximity to white, patriarchal power while mobilizing the moral cache of gendered carework.” Read more of @jessdw.bsky.social fantastic article here ➡️ nursingclio.org/2026/04/08/n...
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
Pre main event march
»… Die Geschicke des Verlags hat er mit Wachheit und großem Wohlwollen bis zuletzt begleitet. Wir trauern um einen bedeutenden Philosophen, um einen guten Freund und stets präsenten Ratgeber.«
Jonathan Landgrebe
A recent special section of History of Psychology visits episodes in time where #psychology was employed to critique, challenge, or otherwise subvert existing power structures and dynamics—including the "birth of microaggression." Read the collection: https://bit.ly/4aeGwlv
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”
Recovery and rehabilitation in mental health: Historical perspectives
Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social and Sarah Marks @sarahvmarks.bsky.social’s introduction to their special issue journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The House has passed H.R. 5214, a bill to return DC to cash bail.
Cash bail creates two tiers of justice, one for people with money and one without. DC abolished it more than 30 years ago and crime has dropped precipitously since.
H.R. 5214 is wrong and we will continue to fight its passage.
Well, after the catastrophes of the 20th century it is also an intellectual one.
The White House has fired members of an outside advisory group to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the latest effort to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities.
Increasing prevalence of autism is due, in part, to changing diagnoses www.psu.edu/news/researc... - many cases of what used to be called 'intellectual disability' are now being diagnosed as 'autism'
Another useful German term to insert into this discussion: Mitläufer(tum)
When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school.
Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families?
My own colleagues are silent.
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
this is fucking horrifying
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From this month's edition of The Onion.
Fascinating new article by Rachael I. Rosner is out in History of the Human Sciences
Leon J. Saul, Aaron T. Beck, and the story of recovery inside the Beck Depression Inventory
#histpsych #mentalhealth #histmed
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Fascinating article by @ulikoch.bsky.social out in History of the Human Sciences now:
Abandoning rehabilitation and reclaiming recovery: Methadone maintenance treatment and the undoing of a ‘boundary object’, 1966–74
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
There is a good book on the history of the myth of the spat-on Vietnam vet (or, at the very least, the lack of evidence of any such events taking place).
Lembcke, 1998, NYUP
big lesson for america here: one reason you dont elect people who believe bull shit like "theyre eating the pets" or "theyre putting kitty litter boxes in the classrooms" is bc if they get in power theyll believe bull shit like "tariffs are a tax cut actually"