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Anita Guerrini

@nickytheprof.bsky.social

Writes, hikes, cooks, reads a lot of old books. Historian of (mostly) #earlymodern science, medicine, environment, animals, food. Cranky old cat lady. Editor in chief, Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal for the History of Science. SoCal

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Euthanizing? Try murdering. Bet he won’t be fired, though.

13.09.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How to opt out of AI summaries of your work on academia.edu

22.08.2025 01:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Got the first of what is sure to be an avalanche of mail on Newsom’s redistricting plan. Of course it totally misrepresents the plan. Funded by Charles Munger Jr, son of Dormzilla.

20.08.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History) | MEMOs Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History) - California, USA

Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European History):

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13.08.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester | MEMOs Uni of Manchester, Early Modern Global History

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History, University of Manchester:

memorients.com/news/researc...

13.08.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a joke, right?

20.07.2025 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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two nuns are smiling and standing next to each other in a room . ALT: two nuns are smiling and standing next to each other in a room .

It's Mel Brooks' 99th birthday, so let me recommend his autobiography ALL ABOUT ME, which is hilarious and filled with inside details on all his films.

28.06.2025 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1566    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 59    πŸ“Œ 26

A NYC candidate for mayor has called for reconsidering rent control in that city, while congressional Republicans are advancing a bill that would take a trillion dollars in health care away from working people all across America, but guess which one the pundits are all over right now?

28.06.2025 19:32 β€” πŸ‘ 3275    πŸ” 774    πŸ’¬ 52    πŸ“Œ 16
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Announcing the Martin Jay Article Prize for Graduate Students Celebrating the profoundly influential historian Martin Jay and his contribution to graduate education, this new award recognizes the best graduate student-authored article accepted for publication in...

The JHI’s Board of Editors is delighted to announce a new award for graduate students.

The Martin Jay Prize recognizes the best article by a graduate student-author accepted for publication in the journal each year. The editors welcome your submissions!

24.06.2025 15:40 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The National Archives is full of old fossils.
No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty.

Either that or a REALLY big bison.
#MastodonPosting
CO 700/Virginia18

24.06.2025 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Thank you!

20.06.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Controversial senator trying to sell millions of acres near Yosemite, Tahoe 258 million acres of public lands across the western U.S. could be eligible for sale.

"The vulnerable parcels of land include areas adjacent to Yosemite National Park, Mount Shasta, Big Sur and Lake Tahoe..."

"The land sale proposal... detailed by Sen. Mike Lee, a Republican from Utah who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee..."

www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

20.06.2025 19:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2144    πŸ” 1068    πŸ’¬ 256    πŸ“Œ 94

CLARIFICATION :

The Trevor Project's hotline will still be live. But basically this means LGBTQ people can no longer be connected to it through the US national 988 suicide prevention hotline.

They will need to be contacted DIRECTLY

So spread this around

They can be texted. They can be called.

18.06.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 3099    πŸ” 3436    πŸ’¬ 22    πŸ“Œ 46
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The crisis in American science - Kathryn M. Olesko, Anthony Eames, Cyrus C. M. Mody, Ilana LΓΆwy, Thomas Zeller, Mark Walker, Mitchell G. Ash, Donna Haraway, 2025 The second regime of Donald J. Trump has decimated federal science and federally supported science to a greater degree than his first regime, unleashing an unpr...

I ask my new + old followers to circulate this open access roundtable onAmerican science. Please repost! We in the USA are losing our lead in scientific research due to totalitarian tendencies in the current administration. This loss will affect all of us.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

20.06.2025 02:08 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 49    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Anybody have info on ostriches in London before 1650? Harvey has access to more than one, including observing ostrich sex, and I am wondering where they were. #earlymodern #histsci #histstm

20.06.2025 19:03 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Done! Thanks!

17.06.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover for Osiris nΒ°40 (2025), titled "Animal Mobilities", featuring of painting of entangled sea creatures (crabs, starfishes, etc.).

Cover for Osiris nΒ°40 (2025), titled "Animal Mobilities", featuring of painting of entangled sea creatures (crabs, starfishes, etc.).

#journalissue: "Animal Mobilities" (Osiris, Volume 40, ed. Tamar Novick, Lisa Onaga, and Gabriel N. Rosenberg)

Available here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/osiris/2...

#envhum #envhist #ecolit #ecocriticism #animalstudies #histstm #hstm

16.06.2025 13:40 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Yes! We had 5500 in Ventura and over 2000 in Simi Valley, home of the Reagan Library and only city in Ventura County that went for Trump in 2024.

16.06.2025 16:38 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

09.06.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 7612    πŸ” 3951    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 206

Yesterday I received an e-mail from Academia informing me that they had made, via AI, a 5-minute podcast of one of my articles. Has this happened to anyone else? What are my rights here? They want to post it on my page.

28.05.2025 15:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

She was the perfect Ado Annie.

26.05.2025 00:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah neither have I.

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I'm a professor. We're not the 'elite' the powerful billionaires say we are. Most professors don't have tenure. An increasing number don't even have full-time jobs. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?

"We are not the elites the billionaires claim we are. Most professors don’t have tenure. The humanities professoriate don’t even have full time jobs, have been known to sleep in their cars. How did these inconsequential people become enemies of the state?"
www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

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Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live βˆ’ and where they’d rather not A survey of graduate students found that California and New York are the most desirable destinations. Over half of survey-takers said they’d be unwilling to move to Alabama, Mississippi or Arkansas.

Where tomorrow’s scientists prefer to live βˆ’ and where they’d rather not
theconversation.com/where-tomorr...

16.05.2025 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Getty Makes Nearly 88,000 Art Images Free to Use However You Like Since the J. Paul Getty Museum launched its Open Content program back in 2013, we've been featuring their efforts toΒ make their vast collection of cultural artifacts freely accessible online.

Leaving this here:

www.openculture.com/2024/03/the-...

10.05.2025 19:02 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 171    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 10

IU alum here. They’ll never get another penny from me, and they will know why.

07.05.2025 01:46 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Emergency Alert: Six action steps if your NEA grant was just canceled β€’ Oregon ArtsWatch Arts organizations can learn how to still appeal the cancellations, including free resources and support on what steps to take.

all right everybody, here we go

links, trackers, webinars, templates, and all the free support you need if you just got that nightmare NEA email on Friday

please share far and wide, you do NOT have to be in Oregon to use these resources

06.05.2025 23:51 β€” πŸ‘ 586    πŸ” 451    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 14

Lost my mom in 1981 and those things still hurt. Sorry for your loss.

07.05.2025 00:25 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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02.05.2025 23:26 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t see this image in the 1733 edition so I’ll be interested in your listing.

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