Lauren MacIvor Thompson

Are you a History undergrad or grad student? Are you already attending OAH? If you join @shgape.bsky.social at the student rate you might get the one free lunch ticket I have left for our annual SHGAPE luncheon this year featuring Dr. Mia Bay as speaker on "Streetcars and Social Change"! Email me!

A new great and paid position at AAHM

I have been thinking of you and your colleagues. This is truly awful

Stephen Miller's immigrant great-grandfather flunked his initial naturalization test. A judge denied his petition for citizenship in Nov 1932. The reason recorded on the order of was "ignorance." (Nison Miller was attempting to join a US deeply entrenched in eugenics and anti-immigrant sentiment).

Looking forward to reading @brookenewman.bsky.social' s fascinating new book!!! Congrats on this excellent review!

Medical Misogyny and Marketing Addiction: How the Nineteenth-Century Patent Medicine Industry Exploited Women Today, nearly half of young American women report negative interactions with healthcare providers. Research suggests that these experiences contribute to women pursuing alternative medicines at hig…

I really enjoyed this piece on @nursingclio.bsky.social on the links between 19th century patent medicine marketing/formulation and today's "alternative medicine" marketing which is so gendered: nursingclio.org/2026/01/21/m...

Today is a day where I am questioning why I chose to wear flats and do not keep a fresh pair of fuzzy socks in my office. 🥶

Heck yeah it did!

Love you. Cried a little on the way home - sad for myself but so happy for you because life has seasons and your next one is here and will be by the sea. Xox

I attended this amazing event last night, bought 2 copies & got to hug my dear friend @drkyliesmith.bsky.social and tell her I love her before she returns to Australia for good. We won't see each other in person for a while now so I am glad the last thing I heard you say was "burn it all down." ♥️

Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship <h3>Untangling the relationship between race and psychiatry in the American South</h3> There is a complicated history of racism and psychiatric healthcare in the Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama...

Today is publication day! The Open Access version is now online so you can read for free on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social With huge thanks to @uncpress.bsky.social @ecds-emory.bsky.social and @foxcenteremory.bsky.social Go to jimcrowintheasylum.com

Yes! ❤️❤️❤️👏👏👏

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2 thumbs down. Zero stars.

The US has a really excellent track record in terms of intervening in South America and the Caribbean so I am sure kidnapping the Venezuelan president will also go great and there will be no negative consequences and it will only lead to stability! 👍🤦‍♀️

@bestonetx.bsky.social here is our big chance for the Luddite thread 😂

Be careful out there in the Yule Void, everyone

This is fantastic. Thank you for writing it.

A few days ago, I wrote up some thoughts on generative AI and the work of historians: “At best, we’re talking about software that’s very good at making sentences seem sentence-shaped.”

After laying off 4,000 employees and automating with AI agents, Salesforce executives admit: We were more confident about…. - The Times of India Tech News News: Salesforce, one of the world's most valuable enterprise software companies, is pulling back from its heavy reliance on large language models after enc.

Humanities scholars are not fundamentally different than any other AI skeptics, which have grown to include business leaders that have shifted their primary business to selling AI products.

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

TL;dr “It hallucinates too much and people don’t like it”

Thanks yall. I've been offline for a few days and ignoring it all, but this is annoying. It is a truth universally acknowledged that any woman who has an informed opinion must immediately be corrected by a man with a reminder that she's still a woman. 🙄

The parking lot alone!!!! Ahhhhh

Braving Trader Joes for holiday dinner prep. Send thoughts and prayers 😬

Of decision-making, analysis, note-taking, writing.

Also you aren't using these things to analyze and summarize your secondary material but rather to sort, analyze, collate your primary sources but then you are further deciding on your own about categorization etc. I dont really consider this "AI use." I am referring to the outsourcing of the process

I mean its not like I am above using the search function in a pdf to find all the instances of a word or phrase. What you are saying is that ML/some LLM can do that at a higher level. Both tools but fundamentally different than using GenAI to produce what you ultimately put in a pub

Oops just saw this. Yes