If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.

Books Available to review for H-Environment Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

Now that we all left KC after a wonderful #ASEH #ASEH2026, continue the scholar conversation by reviewing a book for H-Environment! Check out my list of books below! #envhist #envhum #ecocrit #aghist #energy #animalhist #sustainability #anthropocene #plantstudies
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* POPE LEO CRITICIZES 'NEOCOLONIAL' WORLD POWERS HOURS AFTER CRITICISM FROM US PRESIDENT TRUMP

@reuters.com

headline: gen z doesn't want your full-time job. They want several part-time roles, and it's reshaping the entire workforce.

This is propaganda.

“I’ve never experienced anything like this in my entire life,” Rep. Adelita Grijalva said. “It is frightening in there. It is disgusting.”

story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Nurses not Nursing: Insensible Violence and Institutional Inertia The nursing organizations that purport to represent the entire profession repeatedly and resolutely refuse to sharpen their political analysis, refuse to walk what they so readily talk, and I am fu…

“…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...

On April 22 some of our fantastic editors and contributors for The Nursing Clio Reader will be talking at the Dittrick Medical History Centre. It’s available on Zoom too! artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upc...

Join @jackiantonovich.bsky.social and Dr. Udodiri Okwandu on April 15 to hear about our new book The Nursing Clio Reader!

We are watching a dangerous and unfit President drag this country toward catastrophe — and Republicans refuse to act.

Invoke the 25th Amendment. Do your fucking job.

A poster by Bird and Moon for Flap dot org. In a comic-style format, a bird explains for humans that window collisions kill billions of birds worldwide each year. Birds don't really get windows, and instead see a safe space past the glass, reflected outdoor plants, a reflected rival bird (themselves), or outdoor plants viewed through transparent corner windows. What can you do? There are cheap, easy, attractive fixes. Create a visual barrier for birds to see using window tape for vertical lines, string or ribbon hanging down, decals, or window film. Put these on the outside of the window, spaced 2 inches or 5 centimeters apart or less. You can also make window strikes less deadly. Keep bird feeders and baths close to windows. One point five feet or a half-metre away or closer. You can also u screens on the outside of windows. To learn more visit FLAP dot org. Thank you, bird hero.

It's the start of National Wildlife Week in Canada and the start of spring migration, so it's the perfect time to make sure your windows are as bird-friendly as they can be.

This great poster by @rosemarymosco.com summarizes the problem of window collisions; learn what you can do at birdsafe.ca

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

You know what, the world finds a way to keep advancing

Even as measles outbreaks are raging across Global North countries, fueled by disinformation, Institut Pasteur de Dakar in Africa has developed the world’s first rapid test for measles!

Bravo! @pasteur.fr @institutpasteur.bsky.social

Pentagon To Host Good Friday Service Just For Protestants, Not Catholics

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel.

Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

A Waymo self driving car is parked next to the protected bike lane on Brattle St in Cambridge MA. A male turkey is standing in the street next to it, aggressively displaying its tail feathers.

The fight we’ve been waiting for, the Battle of Brattle: Waymo vs. Cambridge turkey.
@universalhub.com

Forthcoming publication in SSHM's Social Histories of Medicine series published by @manchesterup.bsky.social
Out September 2026!
#histmed

Confining yet Convenient: Using Gender Norms to Defend Oneself in Cases of Rural Spousal Violence in Post-Independence Ireland Before divorce was legalized in Ireland in 1995, spouses desperate for freedom from an unhappy marriage sometimes turned to killing their partners. Three cases involving spousal murder between 1925…

Y'know what helps lower spousal murder rates?

Legalized divorce. So surprising.

Clara Luger's new @nursingclio.bsky.social essay uses Ireland to explain why:

nursingclio.org/2026/04/01/c...

Black-and-white portrait of Ellen Swallow Richards, taken around 1870. A young woman with dark hair neatly braided and pulled back, wearing a high-necked Victorian blouse with lace trim and a white bow. Her gaze is direct and confident.

Ellen Swallow Richards died #OTD in 1911--she was an industrial & safety engineer and environmental chemist. She was also the:

- 1st female student at MIT
- 1st female grad of MIT
- 1st American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry 🧪
- 1st female instructor at MIT

#firsts #WomenInSTEM

The Virgins’ Malady: How Marriage Became a Medical Treatment “Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief /… / Be not her maid, since she is envious; / Her vestal livery is but sick and green / And none but fools do …

Today we have a fantastic essay on medicine’s patriarchal assumptions in treating women’s bodies. nursingclio.org/2026/03/25/t...

LA TACO NEWS Photo by Sen. Sasha Renee Perez Who Is and Who Is Not ICE at U.S. Airports By Memo Torres

Travelers in the U.S. have been flooding us with messages concerned about ICE at airports, questioning or mistaking other agencies for ICE. Here is a quick guide. 🧵

By @eltragon.bsky.social

Not to sound like a broken record but... Over 200 new record high temperatures are forecast this week. 🥵

Record warmth will persist across portions of California, the Southwest U.S., the central Great Basin and will return to areas of the central/southern Plains and mid-lower Mississippi Valley.

Scoop: 13 US airports will see ICE agents at Transportation Security Administration checkpoints on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans told CNN.

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The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change. | CNN The impending US heat record is an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

“Climate scientists at World Weather Attribution published an analysis Friday that found this heat wave would be ‘virtually impossible for this time of year in a world without human-induced climate change.’”

Spring is the season of GERMINATION and we’re ready for new ideas to take root. 🌱
Submit your work now for our Spring issue!
We’re looking for fresh perspectives and research that helps new conversations grow.

Our spring deadline is March 31st for peer reviewed research.

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Review of Minji Lee, The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body (Arc Humanities Press, 2025) I teach a course called “Women and Medicine” that explores the history of women as medical practitioners, patients, and objects of medical knowledge from the ancient Greeks to the present. Early in…

In the first semester of my PhD, I wrote an essay about menstruation in Hildegard of Bingen's intellectual work, which is absolutely fascinating if you've never looked into it. If I'd had Lee's incredible book back then, the essay writing would've been much easier!

nursingclio.org/2026/03/18/r...

Here's Your Script: Hello, I’m a constituent from [part of state], and I’m calling to ask [Senator] to vote against the SAVE Act, the MEGA Act, or any bill that attacks our voting rights. There are already strict laws in place preventing anyone who is not a citizen from voting in federal elections. These bills aren’t about election security—they are a blatant voter suppression tactic designed to make it harder for millions of eligible Americans to register and vote. Tell [Senator] that I expect them to protect voting rights—not make voting more difficult. I urge them to vote NO on any bills that would disenfranchise Americans.

Voting on the Save Act is happening today. Call your Senators NOW. Call their DC offices.

here's a link for finding your senator's contact info: www.senate.gov/senators/sen...

And here is a script for calling.

Cowan never gets old: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/ruth-...

Decorative cover image of Plant Perspectives 3.1, showing a tree laden with pink flowers.

Issue 3.1 of ‘Plant Perspectives’ is now live online. This journal is #openaccess again in 2026 through #subscribetoopen – with warm thanks to all of our subscriber-supporters! Read it here: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/index
#plantstudies #envhum @plantperspectives.bsky.social

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Congressman Keith Self • • Follow X 1d• The Sharia-Free America Caucus has grown to 48 members spanning 22 states-and we're j... See more DEFEND SHARIA-FREE AMERICA CAUCUS Co-Chairs: Keith Self (TX-03) & Chip Roy (TX-21) Whip Tom Emmer (MN-06) Andrew Clyde (GA-09) Pat Fallon (TX-04) Russ Fulcher (ID-01) August Pfluger (TX-11) Mary Miller (IL-15) Craig Goldman (TX-12) Tracey Mann (KS-01) Monica De La Cruz (TX-15) Andy Harris (MD-01) Pete Sessions (TX-17) Eric Burlison (MO-07) Brandon Gill (TX-26) Mike Ezell (MS-04) Michael Cloud (TX-27) Addison McDowell (NC-06) Brian Babin (TX-36) Mark Harris (NC-08) Wesley Hunt (TX-38) Pat Harrigan (NC-10) Eli Crane (AZ-02) Michael Rulli (OH-06) Andy Biggs (AZ-05) Josh Brecheen (OK-02) Paul Gosar (AZ-09) Scott Perry (PA-10) Nick Begich (AK-at-large) Mike Kelly (PA-16) Barry Moore (AL-01) Sheri Biggs (SC-03) Aaron Bean (FL-04) Ralph Norman (SC-05) John Rutherford (L-05) Andy Ogles (TN-05) Randy Fine (FL-06) John Rose (TN-06) Cory Mills (FL-07) Mike Kennedy (UT-03) Mike Haridopolos (FL-08) John McGuire (VA-05) Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13) Ben Cline (VA-06) Byron Donalds (FL-19) Morgan Griffith (VA-09) Buddy Carter (GA-01) Riley Moore (WV-02)

In the 1920s, there was an enormous Klan-aligned caucus in the House of Representatives that passed an immigration restriction bill designed to keep out Catholics and Jews because they supposedly posed an existential threat to American civilization. 100 years later, here we are.