Elizabeth O'Brien

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...

Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Yikes.

William H. Welch Medal William H. Welch Medal The William H. Welch Medal is awarded to one or more authors of a book (excluding edited volumes) of outstanding scholarly merit in the field of medical history published during...

Calling all history of medicine books published between 2020 and 2025!

histmed.org/william-h-we...

Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.

Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.

Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.

Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...

Exciting job at Smith College! apply.interfolio.com/172309

People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.

Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?

Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?

Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?

There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.

MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.

This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”

gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

Washington Post It's not just Netanyahu. The ICC wants to prosecute U.S. lawmakers too. When senators protested the pursuit of Netanyahu, the prosecutor indicated it might move against them. May 24, 2024

Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?

Pledge to Stand Up for UC The future of America’s leading public university system is at stake.

A University actually standing up to this nonsense? Let's go!!! universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...

Terrible.

UCLA faculty, staff, students, and alumni— please sign: "University of California: Stand Up For Our Values" sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

Delighted and excited to join História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor!! Thank you so much for the invitation, @revistahcsm.bsky.social!

Congratulations, Stella!! How wonderful!!

Mohamed Sabry Soliman: What we know about illegal immigrant accused in Colorado terror attack Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant, from Egypt, is accused of committing the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, at an event advocating for the release of Israeli hostages.

As you read headlines like this, remember that repeated studies have determined immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. Do not fall into this Republican frame.

More than happy to rent you my place (deeply discounted!) when I travel this summer! LMK. So glad you had a good trip :)

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.

Southern California History of Science Graduate Student Colloquium 9:00-9:50 AM COFFEE AND BREAKFAST 9:50-10:00 AM OPENING REMARKS 10:00-11:15 PANEL 1 


 + Katherine White, UC San Diego Printing Medicine in Sixteenth-Century Colonial Mexico + Izabel Barros, UC Riverside Beyond the Ledger: The Untold Stories of Enslaved Women and Children on a 19th- Century Swiss Plantation in Bahia, Brazil + Julian Kaptanian, UC Los Angeles Moderator 11:15-11:30 AM BREAK 
 11:30 AM-1:00 PM PANEL 2 + Niall Chithelen, UC San Diego Unstable Concrete Structures: Time and Environment in the History of Technology + Alexandra Noi, UC Santa Barbara (Re)Making a Homo Pavlovius: Labor Therapy, Pavlovian Conditioning, and the Stalinist Gulag + Joseph Moreno, UC San Diego Frontier Statecraft: From Massive Agribusiness in South Texas to the Development of Starbase (SpaceX) + 
 


 Chiara Di Leone, UC Los Angeles Moderator 1:00-2:00 PM LUNCH If arriving after 10:00 AM, please contact Meg or Ben, so that we can let you in. May 24, 2025
 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Room 6275, Sixth Floor, Bunche Hall, UCLA 11282 Portola Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095 *The closest parking lot to Bunche Hall is Parking Structure 3 2:00-3:15 PM PANEL 3 Sookyong Ko, UC San Diego Portrait Art or Science Image?: Oscar G. Mason and the Early Medical Daguerreotypes Robyn Fishman, UC Santa Barbara Sitting Pretty: The National Trends in Anthropology Revealed by Frances E. Watkins' Career at the Southwest Museum Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles Moderator 3:15-3:30 PM Break 3:30-4:15 PM Roundtable
 + Erin Budrow, UC Los Angeles + Alden Requena-Robison, UC San Diego +
 Ben Schnieder, UC Los Angeles Community Disenfranchisement and Environmental Displacement in the Institutionalization of Science and Medicine 
 + Meg Spaulding, UC Los Angeles Moderator

I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!

Big congratulations, Jacqueline Wolf!! Well deserved!!

@whitneyepi.bsky.social, this means so much to me. Thank you! It seems like worlds have come and gone since the Dobbs decision. Terrible times; hope you and yours are ok. It's a pleasure to meet you here and I hope our paths cross in person sooner rather than later.

Judge Brian Murphy enjoined the Trump administration from improperly deporting immigrants to 3rd countries

It seems they violated that order

Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions

Good

They deprived these immigrants of due process

There must be consequences

Dana Simmons: “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic” Join via Zoom here.

Today at 4 pm PST (in 90 minutes) Dana Simmons will give a talk about her new book, "On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic." All are welcome to join! Link on this page history.ucla.edu/event/dana-s...

Thank you so much, dear and brilliant Christina!! I love that we have sister books and I'm always talking about how amazing yours is. Sending you big hugs! <3

"Straight-up banger" is a phrase that will buoy me even in my lowest moments!!

According to a 2021 report, the University of California system:

• generated $82B in economic activity in California

• supported 529K jobs in the state

• generated $21 in economic output for every $1 received

Public divestment from higher ed makes no sense, even in the narrowest economic terms.

Nursing Clio is the best!!!

Many warm thanks, Rick! I'm extremely grateful to you and the committee and truly appreciate your encouraging words and generous reading. The shortlist was amazing and I will always be grateful to be recognized alongside my brilliant peers.

Thank you, AAHM! Hard to believe this amazing news esp w extraordinary shortlist. I'm extremely grateful to everyone who provided feedback on drafts of the MS, at every stage, from UT's gender seminar, to diss defense, to GEMINAR at JHU, to MS workshop, El Seminario Permanente, & Tepoz Institute <3

I feel like if the risk of humiliating yourself before a federal judge, being sanctioned or fired, isn’t enough to curb AI use, any individual professor is at a real disadvantage against the deluge in getting students not to use it