Seeing the Danube for the first time reminded me of that joy of seeing a place I knew existed but had never actually experienced. The joy of learning. The joy of knowing very little about something and it sparking a childlike curiosity. May we all find more of that joy.
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Roberts’ 2024 opinion without textual or historical legitimacy, granted Trump immunity for virtually all crimes ushered in reign of domestic terror, and now an unconstitutional and shameful war for oil. No one has done more to destroy the “rule of law” than Roberts. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
Congrats sir
NEW: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to overhaul an obscure but vital program that underpins the nation’s childhood immunization system.
Depending on what he does, the results could be catastrophic.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
In intro courses we read our primary sources in class together and group discussion afterwards. Only way I can get some students to read a page or two.
Yeah this is the thing I'm told me and all my students need to uncritically embrace so they can get a job after college
Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.
Thank you sir
Excited to share I will be joining the history department at UMBC in the Fall. Looking forward to meeting new students and colleagues and getting back in the classroom.
the White House's erasure of slavery (except for as something the founders sought to curb, which is weird since it didn't otherwise exist and wasn't otherwise bad) from its 250 materials is pretty bleak, a rewrite more reactionary than the 1876, 1926, or 1976 centennials.
Historic Places are the cornerstone of the National Park Service mission, and they (almost) always have been.
Every time I have tried to have an open mind and use chatgpt for academic research (finding new articles, etc), it has been entirely useless. The vast majority of citations are fake. Literally every single quote is made up. It's just a lie machine! I can't fathom how people have come to rely on it.
Trash
Gotta start calling it
NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nation’s historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities.
By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
Breaking News: The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on HIV vaccines, terminating a $258 million program critical to the research.
It and the bots are getting worse
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
Cause if no one receives their evaluation reports is that because the reports were never done??
I know that the NEH Summer Stipend is being canceled but did anyone receive one this year? And did anyone receive their submission evaluations?
It’s not medical advice to advocate for vaccines when you head the nation’s largest public health agency and it’s your charge.
Arguably, however it is (very bad) medical advice when you promote useless interventions such as budesonide, vitamin A, clarithromycin as a false equivalent to vaccines
The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents.
What the fuck are we doing here?
Major airspace closures for civil aviation announced by both Pakistan (all airspace) and India (along the border with Pakistan) in the last few hours. We're possibly about to witness the start of the most intense and broad-spectrum direct conflict between two nuclear-armed states ever.
Have not heard of any winners so far
Got the notification that I did not win an NEH summer stipend, which I assumed with the gutting of the NEH. But did anyone?
Understanding the human experience is paramount in times like these. Humanities funding opportunities were already comically low, but the work must go on. Keep writing!
Framing the adoption of AI as an historical inevitability, rather than a way to do a thing you want or need done, gives the game away.
Nobody selling it this hard cares whether it helps; they want it to be the thing you have to deal with, like it or not. Problems, solutions, what’s the difference?