Susan Amussen

Charles thought Monmouth was his son, but denied that he’d married Walter. There was no reason for Charles to acknowledge him if there were a question.

Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury College Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an...

JOB ALERT! 📜📚

Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?

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I’m so sorry. It’s so hard when thru go, but I’m glad you were able to give that gorgeous cat a cushy life.

Glad to learn something new. But wow.

A good summary of the federal complaint against UCLA.

Blimey. Skinners' Accounts, 1618-19; MS30727/6, p 46
cc @davidveevers.bsky.social et al

I will!

And for non-smokers, you had to walk past the smokers to get to the bathroom 🤦‍♀️.

Glad it’s helpful!

That is amazing.

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

That’s a lot of Pocock.

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Alas, there are some cycles I can only get by using the app on mine.

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Yes, but some of it goes in the footnote. 😬.

“Moderate to high risk schools” - you might learn something. Better not go there.

For me, always a rabbit hole to write one sentence.

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Rationally, actually.

It’s like the footnote that demonstrates (to ourselves) that we figured out some obscure thing. Maybe in 40 years someone will pay attention and acknowledge that said thing matters and Amussen got it. And isn’t it amazing how Krause got that tobacco price series!

Sorry sweetie, but thanks to Trump’s policies, Valentine's Day treats are 15% more expensive this year.

Historians want a word!

For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.

The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.

Yes, and all those Mellon grants were a response to the NEH cuts. Pre-1990s there wasn’t much funding for grad students.

Yes. But worth noting that UCLA also didn't fight. Its faculty and staff did all on their own.

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💕💕💕. At the other end of my career, but as someone who went into depression after infertility and immersed myself in work after my husband died, I wish you all the best!

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

On Becoming an Associate Professor (And Telling the Truth About How I Got Here) February 13, 2026By: Destenie NockWhen people found out I was promoted to Associate Professor, the response was generous and kind. A lot of people said some version of: “Of course. You publish so much...

I was recently promoted to Associate Professor. I’m so grateful and I also wanted to tell the truth behind what people call “effortless” success.
I wrote about infertility, fostering, work as coping, and choosing differently in this next chapter
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