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The Nursing Clio Prize for Best Journal Article is awarded annually for the best peer-reviewed academic journal article on the intersection of gender and medical histories in English. The award consists of a $300 cash prize and a featured interview on the blog nursingclio.org/awards/

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Hey law prof people- ummm can someone let your colleague know that her comments are bizarre and incorrect and now in an article of record that people will read trying to understand Texas v Becerra? www.11alive.com/article/news...

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I debunked this in a mom's group I'm in. They point to a bunch of studies but misread the conclusions. One study antivaxxers love is about measles supposedly preventing cancer: Hodgkins lymphoma. The data suggested it offers “marginal” protection BUT

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Birthright citizenship 3: My letter to editor of NY Times on Barnett and Wurman’s misleading essay They’re not publishing it, so I’m self-publishing. Now y’all know what to do: shugerblogcom.wordpress.com/2025/02/21/b...

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The minute I saw this update tonight, I said, "And there it is." Comstock Act

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According to ProPublica, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since abortion bans were implemented, compared with maternal deaths in the state immediately before the pandemic.

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I keep telling teachers who think I’m too anti-AI that they have to start looking at it systemically. Maybe stuff like this will get them to wake up.

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There was a purge yesterday at the National Parks Service and we need to be screaming about it. Historians, these are our public history colleagues!

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🧵 The news is awful! But for a teeny ray of light, here are 3 @richardscenter.bsky.social opportunities for Civil War Era scholars w/ deadlines in March & April 🗃️: 1. two predoctoral fellowships for ABDs 2. a non-residential fellowship for associate profs 3. an article workshop for junior scholars

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There are actual historian experts on the context/framing/case law of birthright citizenship. NYT gave the mic to 2 FedSoc hacks writing garbage "history" where they contradict their own arguments, there are glaring logic holes, and I'm still waiting for any sign of that "rich" secondary literature.

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Here's my lane: the origins + legislative intent of the birthright citizenship clause & the Reconstruction Amendments. Here's a 28 page article ungated about the Reconstruction Amendment's effects on Black & Native Americans, Chinese & European immigrants.

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I call this the law professor’s Discovery Doctrine

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Honestly, it’s embarrassing for law professors to write bad history, but worse to suddenly discover a topic and make their debut in the Times on it.

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My grandpa never stopped calling it the Price Club!!! ♥️

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The Stonewall Riots happened because trans people, particularly of color, rose up against state violence. You can’t even begin to tell the story without our trans ancestors and elders. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Unconscionable and ahistorical. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

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Huge thanks to @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about what this political moment means for access to abortion pills and why things are going down the way they are right now. There are no new tricks, and it would behoove us to remember that. www.jezebel.com/inside-the-d...

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“In no universe can we compare an FDA-approved set of medications or medical protocol to cocaine or fentanyl,” MacIvor Thompson said. “They’re using this rhetorical strategy to link these things, but they are not linked.”

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Thank you @susanrinkunas.com for writing this important news piece for @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social and for interviewing me. Keep your eye on the language used to describe the Comstock Act in its revivalists' new PR campaign!

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NEW: Anti-abortion groups want to enforce a 150-year-old law to ban abortion pills, which would be deeply unpopular. Now they're trying to rebrand the Comstock Act as an anti-drug trafficking statute, a move one expert compared to Nixon's manufactured War on Drugs. Me in @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social:

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I really enjoyed messing around in the Old West for my new article "Pioneer Professors of Kentucky Medical Education and the Spread of Racial Science, 1792-1861" in this special issue on health & medicine in Kentucky. Check it out! muse.jhu.edu/pub/142/arti...

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This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

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Happy to share my latest article "Died from eating too much morphine": Researching Opioid Addiction in Civil War-Era Kentucky" just released in the Register of KY Historical Society. 🗃️ @kyhistsoc.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/article/951130

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's rate change to NIH grants. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Stares in the Amarillo Division of the Northern District of Texas.

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In real good company including @antiquatedmeds.bsky.social and @jonathansjones.bsky.social with the latest issue of the Kentucky Register all about medicine and healthcare in the Bluegrass State. Check out my piece on KY women and birth control: doi.org/10.1353/khs....

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Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here's how we would've spent that $$: Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year: Tell Congress #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

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Welp

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