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We won’t penalize you for researching gender, in fact, we’ll reward you for it.

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Fun fact: Germany includes voter turnout as one of its national wellbeing statistics. www.gut-leben-in-deutschland.de/en

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If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

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The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

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Hey friends, please consider following @stolenrelations.bsky.social project! Follow this thread to learn more about us, and look for an official launch with a new website (and better images) in May-ish 2025! Very grateful for all of our tribal representatives and our team @browncds.bsky.social.

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The anti-DEI push is about purging historical records, too: www.propublica.org/article/vera...

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“If the freeze is not stopped, I might lose my house." Some NSF-funded postdocs are having trouble paying rent and credit card bills because their salaries were paused this week, even though the federal funding freeze memo was rescinded. www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t...

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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This post impressionist work was painted by Vincent van Gogh in July 1890 in my favorite french town Auvers-sur-Oise. This beautiful work is in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA. #vincentvangogh #auverssuroise #france #vangogh #rhodeislandschoolofdesign

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Welcome, newbies! “One Night Cough Syrup” from the 1930s contained cannabis, morphine, chloroform, & alcohol. In 1934, the FDA ruled that claims of the cough syrup's therapeutic properties were misleading. Remaining stock was destroyed. Enjoy medical history? Come along and join me!

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Follow this account for news on federal employees standing up for your rights. We owe them our support.

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The first Black woman to join the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in the 1940s after the military was desegregated, Nancy Leftenant-Colon, has died. She was 104. Remembered by relatives and friends for quietly breaking down racial barriers during her long military career. apnews.com/article/nanc...

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Loren Graham, one of the world's leading experts on the history of science in Russia & the USSR died at the end of last year. As this tribute notes, he was the type of scholar who was equally comfortable writing about Lysenko & lighthouses. (HT @kathrynolesko.bsky.social) #histSTM #ScholarSaturday

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Could anyone help me and @ninalamal.bsky.social with the PDF of this article? Our Dutch institutions unfortunately do not provide access. doi.org/10.1080/0268...

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I have no idea what a fungible meme coin is, and if you attempt to explain it to me I’ll block you.

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Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

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Sorry Bubba. Auntie was a farmer herself once, and never for a moment was tempted to attend such an event.

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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

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Something to post in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech, on his day, January 20.

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The temperature at noon on Monday will be 22 degrees which is the same temperature it was in 1961 when Kennedy was inaugurated. The ceremony was held outside.

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Did Auntie just read that Hell froze over?

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Something to celebrate on a Friday - my latest article is now available OA first view: on the challenges & findings of contagious human disease studies in Antarctica "From Operation Snuffles to the Killer Kleenex" inc. huskies, tragedies & lots of snot. #histSTM � www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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If you think your medical history monograph is worth a prize, why not enter it for the EAHMH book prize this year? Details in this link: eahmh.org/prizes/

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"Just like medical history in general, which primarily represents the medical establishment and researchers, the voices and experiences of PWA (people with AIDS) have been largely missing." www.statnews.com/2025/01/07/a...

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NEW POST!! On the REMARKABLE and persuasive hypothesis from @helengittos.bsky.social that Byzantine grave goods in early English graves were most likely brought directly back by warriors serving in Byzantine armies (rather than, as generally suspected, gifts/trade goods).

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Deadline is tomorrow! Get those applications in! Remind your friends!

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Only 5 days left to submit your abstract to the Health, Environment, and Anthropology Conference to be held at Durham University (UK), April 23-24, 2025! We welcome papers for a panel on "Extraction and the Transmutation of What Remains." #STS #envhist #medanthro pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham...

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So Manifest Destiny is a Thing again. Who knew?

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Oh piss off already.

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Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD🧵 From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed.

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I wish I didn’t feel this was America’s funeral. We can’t let that be so.

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thepublicsradio.org/politics/tgi... My weekly wrap

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Love this so much! A real thing- many of the fantastic students we hire @jcblibrary.bsky.social have no idea what call #s are for. Yet so essential for thinking abt information infrastructure! Understanding how a library works = valuable beyond the book you find per Cassie's great assignment.

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HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY's on pre-pub road trip to #AHA25! Find me at the conference; I’ll be holding this book and, from Sat late morning, will have POSTCARDS to give away! The @ucpress.bsky.social booth will have a book & take orders. 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury 🧵 1/3

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I suddenly remembered this NYTs op-ed. Haven’t they been lecturing academics about this for like five years?

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Over the holiday weekend, all but one member of the editorial board of Elsevier's Journal of Human Evolution (JHE) resigned…

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Why pay for streaming that doesn't offer old movies when you can stream archival materials for FREE? I have an entire thread dedicated to 100% free, no signup silent film streaming courtesy of libraries, national archives, film foundations and more!

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