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🚨POSTDOC JOB🚨 History of Modern (19th century-present) Medicine or Public Health at University of Wisconsin-Madison #AcademicSky #HistSTM #HistMed mhb.wisc.edu/2025/02/25/p...

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This is so upsetting. This child’s death was preventable. This outbreak was preventable. “A child in Texas has died from measles, officials said Wednesday, the first known death in the current large outbreak in West Texas and the first death from measles in the country since 2015.”

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I'm teaching Health Activism this semester and at the start of every lecture I include a slide of headlines about current events with relevance to course materials. Today I have two slides of headlines and I cut out materials so not to override my lecture time.

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Yesterday, while walking my dogs, two men blocked my path to hurl racist remarks at me before laughing and walking away. I stood there for a few seconds to process what happened. To say I was shaken falls short of the wave of emotions that flooded my bodymind: shock, humiliation, fear, numbness.

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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 29 days ago • 245 comments

Yesterday, while walking my dogs, two men blocked my path to hurl racist remarks at me before laughing and walking away. I stood there for a few seconds to process what happened. To say I was shaken falls short of the wave of emotions that flooded my bodymind: shock, humiliation, fear, numbness.

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Today under the influence of the Trump Admin, the National Park Service has removed all reference to trans people in this essay I WROTE for their webpage in 2020. www.nps.gov/articles/000...

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At the request of the Trump Admin, the Ntl Park Service removed references to trans people in this essay w/o consulting the writer, historian @wendylrouse.bsky.social. Read it here as Prof Rouse intended (and as the NPS published/maintained it until now). 🗃️ drive.google.com/file/d/1p-rQ...

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The LGBTQ+ History Association statement on our outrage and call to update National Park Service (NPS) websites after the removal of reference to the Transgender (T) and Queer (Q) communities and history. Please read our full statement: tinyurl.com/LGBTQHistory...

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This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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Not only did the National Park Service remove references to transgender history on the Stonewall website, it appears they are now editing the work of historians without their knowledge or consent.

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Discount code available for non-North American shipping!! 30% Discount Code: FSS25 Order online at combinedacademic.co.uk (Valid only for orders shipping to the UK, EMEA & APAC)

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I'm probably pissing in the wind, but I have little time off because of the holiday, so I'd like to offer a thread arguing against an ugly, ugly habit rising on Bluesky: Screenshots of articles without links. Stop it. Just fucking stop it.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

Folks who have joint issues / frozen shoulder: what bags are you carrying to work? I can't do backpacks (worsens my hip pain) and it's annoying carrying a briefcase in my hand all the time.

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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The fun thing about catching the measles is that causes something called immunity amnesia, which is a long-term condition that occurs when the body forgets how to fight certain pathogens. The measles virus destroys memory cells that recognize and respond to pathogens. It can last for years.

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BAAS regrets to announce that the BAAS / US Embassy Small Grants Programme has been cancelled. 1/7

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

now online: Radical Health 💥 cache.ch/radicalhealth written by scholars, healthcare practitioners, activists, and artists who are concerned with the relations between health, power, and inequality, but also look at diverse aspirations for collective care and solidarity #medanthro #globalhealth

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Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

submitted 24 days ago • 95 comments

A Measles Outbreak in Texas

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We have Musk protest events popping up at Tesla showrooms and plants all over the country and many more here and worldwide. Join or create your own event at Teslatakedown.com

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Another #book to add to my reading list. Excited to see more #disabled #history being published! #BookSky

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I'm a proud member of the hearing impaired unit all through schooling, despite the questionable name, it was a kinship system that mended hearing aids to learning BSL. Looking forward to reading Echoes of Care.

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From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

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Echoes of Care by Jaipreet Virdi chronicles the historical shift that created complicated interdependences between medical intervention, language, and education to shape deaf people’s experiences in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain. Out now! https://buff.ly/3WAD1yu

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How to be Disabled in a Pandemic is a collective research effort (w/ @harriskornstein.bsky.social among many others) to document ableism & disability activism in NYC during the first 4 years of COVID-19. Out next month from @nyupress.bsky.social -- a surprise of advance copies in yesterday's mail:

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An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

submitted 26 days ago • 75 comments

No more.

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They’re going to try and undo all the social programs

submitted 75 days ago • 469 comments

Please, no more. Just ban guns. No more school shootings, no more senseless deaths.

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