Dr. Clare Sammells

History is not linear. The idea that its arc bends towards justice is a deeply religious conceit—comforting and inspiring but, sadly, not true. We just have to pick ourselves up and fight all the old fights all over again.

Cuomo and Adams are functionally Republicans.

They love Trump.

Vote for Mamdani and end their miserable careers this November.

One of the biggest obstacles faced by my first-gen students is a fear of writing. Fear that they'll be called stupid or wrong. Fear that they won't use "smart" words. Instead of working through that fear, LLMs give them a way to never confront it, never overcome it, never learn. I hate it so much

Sexual harassment is rife at US Antarctic research bases, fresh survey finds More than two-thirds of people polled had witnessed sexual harassment or assault on the ice.

We've been waiting for this report from NSF for many months — results of a survey on sexual harassment at US Antarctic stations. The numbers aren't good, but at least this problem is out in the open & starting to be tackled. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is not a coding error.

Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.

Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.

Just a bunch of guys with ski masks, assault rifles & military fatigues jumping out of a Penske rental truck in a parking lot & grabbing people. Totally normal in 2025 America.

ICE OUT OF CALIFORNIA

we’ve made it clear that anyone who visits the US could be disappeared into a Salvadoran prison but I’m sure it’s the kids and their avocado toasts who’re to blame

Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.

A bunch of racist dipshits dressed up in battle gear, wearing masks, standing outside a fucking Penske truck, looking like utter losers.

A bunch of racist dipshits dressed up in battle gear, wearing masks, standing outside a fucking Penske truck, looking like utter losers, but this time they're ICE

Well, it seems *all* the masked white nationalists weren't banned by Penske.

Yes, if you ask a calculator to do something it wasn't designed for, it says "ERR."

Ask AI, and it says, "Here you go!" And hands you an acid trip.

NYT Front Page, Aug 7 1965: Johnson signs voting rights bill, orders immediate enforcement; 4 suits will challenge poll tax

Today we celebrate the Voting Rights Act's 60th birthday! While the VRA has been dramatically weakened in the past 15 years, it remains among the crown jewels of the Civil Rights Movement. Understanding why it's so vital requires understanding its history and context. Time for a birthday thread...

Constitution Sections on Due Process and Foreign Gifts Just Vanished from Congress' Website Part of Article I Section 8, and all of Sections 9 and 10, which address things like habeas corpus, nobility, and militias, are gone from Congress's website for the Constitution.

Constitution sections on due process and foreign gifts just vanished from Congress' website

Include provisions such as habeas corpus, forbidding the naming of titles of nobility, and forbidding foreign emoluments for U.S. officials. www.404media.co/constitution...

It's interesting that calling something "punk rock" is the only genre of music that gets used as like a generally positive evaluation. Let's try out some other ones. "Libraries are hyperpop," "community gardens are bluegrass," "mutual aid is throat singing"

Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.

The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it And they don't want you to notice.

Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.

That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.

If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

#pediatriccancer #cancermom

Democratic voters don’t want passive or “reach across the aisle” politics while we are fighting literal fascism.

Look at Texas Democrats. Fight like that. We’ll reward you at the polls.

Stand up. Link arms. Draw a line in the sand. Tell the Republicans we won’t put up with this shit. Fight back.

This is ever the case when neurodivergence intersects white male privilege: the absent-minded professor, the boy genius (who's actually a grown man), the mercurial artist. Unacceptable behavior reinforces their myth, because surely we would only tolerate it from geniuses?

AHA: "perfectly acceptable to use this graph in your classroom presentation, just be sure to mention it's AI"

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Thanks AI, this historical timeline is incredibly useful and will really help my students...😑

What will American society look like in a few years with people who are emotionally stunted doing this on the regular?

TT Assistant Professor of South Asian History - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

Hi, friends. The History Department at the University of Iowa is running a Tenure Track search in South Asian History which runs from ancient to modern (=open time period, includes Indian Ocean). I am on the committee, so please let people know. www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

A very quick story before I go to bed on dudes congratulating each other for being smarter than everyone else in the room. I went to engineering school for college - the school itself was actually pretty close to gender balanced when I was there but the distribution across majors was not.

Dear historians:

If your book comes through my production department with AI, and it creates any extra work or expense for my team (e.g., the CE has to double-check all the citations because they're AI bullshit), I will personally cancel your fucking book.

Off the schedule. Gone.

If I see it in an article I'm reviewing, instant rejection and recommendation to ban from the journal, and warn others in the field.

Total scorched Earth shaming.

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

It seems fairly clear that Donald Trump thinks gravity makes water flow "down" from the Pacific Northwest to California, because there is absolutely no system that connects the water in Oregon and Washington to Southern California.