Emma

Seconded.

I’m all book all the time these days unless someone tells me to do something explicitly different 🫣

*kicks our current paper under the table*

Can’t relate.

A tall, narrow mausoleum made from sandatone. It is Gothic revival style with the iron doors pushed inwards. There is as a small blue and red stained glass window in the back, with a white cross in the middle, letting sun shine into the structure.

Day 8, Glass: I struggled to find an example in my phone for this one! Here we have a family mausoleum in Pére Lachaise, Paris, with light shining through a gorgeous little stained glass window in the back. #31DaysofGraves 🏺

Me: this masculinity chapter is going to be so hard to write, just as difficult as the poverty chapter
Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.

(I specialize in health and consumer perspectives in the past and present with pharmaceuticals)

Thank you! I’ve been using the 🎉 emoji a lot this morning. I’m an archaeologist and I’m looking at data from Springfield, Ill so it’s great to have the maps ready to go so I can add features on them with a CC license.

CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM

I just found out about this from @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and I cannot properly convey my excitement because one of the map sets I need for my book are georeferenced and ready to go and that makes it so much easier as a postdoc who doesn’t have protected research time to make figures.

the sheer number of beefs I have with people who died centuries ago

I will roll in playing a cleric like I always do. And I will dead ass play a life cleric. And I will take two levels of monk or fighter just so I can knock out anyone who calls that hypocritical.

Anyone around today or tomorrow who is willing to answer a few questions about their academic book contract? I just got a draft of mine and I don’t have many benchmarks for if it’s okay or not tbh.

Ohhh I’m very excited to see this- I’ve recently become obsessed with lake glass and ceramic picking up here by Lake Superior

This is just National Institutes of Health grant funding. Similar refusal to spend funds appropriated by Congress has been happening all across the government— and Republicans in Congress, every one of them doormats for Musk and Trump, have sat around and watched. This via @pamherd.bsky.social

It’s the point of the year where I’m about to submit multiple things as the sole author and that’s always so much more nerve-wracking

Found it! And now I have a new scholarly nemesis.

Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?

no lies detected

Well except the social determinants of health because that’s woke ideology rather than empirical reality

Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀

go full shadow cabinet

Will US academics even be able to attend conferences anymore? Eg, healthcare, life sciences, climate/environmental science?
With what funds? And to present what research? What’s left after everything that was funded by or in collaboration with NIH, USAID, CDC, WHO, NOAA, etc?

NIH Spending Cuts on ‘Indirect Costs’ Could Halt Lifesaving Research Scientists are worried about the future of the nation’s health if these cuts, now being challenged in court, are enacted.

“Computers are indirect costs. They are essential for research, but don’t get used up,” Iwashyna says. “Research office space, lab space, staplers, libraries — all of these are not specific to only a single project, so they are covered under indirect costs.”

www.everydayhealth.com/general-heal...

Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:

-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.

-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️

"From Baylor to Florida State to Clemson to Ohio State, these are enormous places that will lose tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in research support under this move. Jobs will disappear, labs will close, trials will stop, drugs will go undiscovered, patients will die."

From Mooktie to Juan: The Eugenic Origins of the “Defective Immigrant” On a Monday in November 1905, a “little deaf and dumb … 10-year old Eurasian girl” called Mooktie Wood arrived in the US on the steamship Canopic. An orphan with no known relatives, Mooktie had bee…

This essay by @disabilitystor1.bsky.social is the perfect antidote to some of the statements I see from 'disability advocates' who blithely propose immigration as a strategy for disabled people in the US nursingclio.org/2018/06/28/e...

The US is far from the only nation that does this, BTW

I need Punxsutawney Phil to be much more specific about these 6 more weeks. Six more weeks of the winter of our discontent? Of nuclear winter? Winter takes all?

I expected it to be really terribly bad but I don’t think I expected it to be this bad.

You have homework this weekend Ma’am.