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On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default.

To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

...on Thursday, November 13 at 7pm at the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics! It's part of the St. Louis International Film Festival, and you can attend for free

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A New Film about Ida Craddock: An Interview with the Director A new docu-drama about reproductive freedom and women’s rights, Sex Radical chronicles the life of Ida Craddock (1857-1902), a feminist, spiritualist, and sex educator. Craddock frequently ran afou…

@nursingclio.bsky.social
features Chelsea Gibson's new interview with film director Andy Kirschner about his latest film, "Sex Radicals."

We're getting a free screening of the film right here in St. Louis...

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A permanent post in my department. Closing date Dec 14th 2025, interviews in March. Please spread #histsci

I was lucky to publish something with the amazing @nursingclio.bsky.social team. However, it’s not about positive developments.

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, 2nd edition, by Elizabeth Reis

It’s Intersex Awareness Day, and a great day to check out @lzreis23.bsky.social’s Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex, which has been free to download since the Naval Academy removed it from their library. 🗃️ muse.jhu.edu/book/136490

Transatlantic Diagnostics: A Tale of Divergences in the History of Autism A comparative analysis of how France and the United States have scientifically investigated autism over the course of the later twentieth century has much to teach us about how practices of scienti…

This may be a bit late - big scary server thing took us offline! - but glad to publish this essay. Briggs considers the development of autism diagnoses & how it shaped autistic peoples' lives very differently in the US and France. #histmed #dishist @nursingclio.bsky.social 🗃️https://wp.me/p6hgwQ-9hG

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Wash U's School of Public Health is hiring an environmental/planetary health scholar (among other things)! Disciplines to apply include but are not limited to geography, biostats, toxicology, and economics 🌎💉

apply.interfolio.com/173629

So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.

Job Ad❗Editor-in-Chief of the William and Mary Quarterly

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Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…

New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊

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PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

Volume 80 Issue 4 | Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences | Oxford Academic Publishes original research on the written beginnings of medicine in all its aspects. It focuses on what practitioners of the healing arts did or taught, and how their peers, as well as patients, rece...

So great to see the special issue on "Invasive Species, Global Health, and Colonial Legacies" that @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social & I edited published today! A big thanks to all contributors & to JHMAS editors & reviewers for their support & guidance in this process academic.oup.com/jhmas/issue/...

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster depicting an owl hunting gerbils in a field, juxtaposed with an image of the zoonotic cycle of plague. Arrows connect a rat with fleas, and a man sleeping in a bed. The image reads 'Friend of the Farmer Conserve Owls'.

I am thrilled to announce that I have been awarded a Wellcome Trust Career Development Grant. Over the next five years I'll be directing the research project "Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health".

The Strange Case of Henrietta Wiley: A Habitual Drunkard’s Journey Through Guardianship and the Asylum In the 1880s, a court declared that Henrietta Wiley – a wealthy New York heiress and socialite – was a habitual drunkard and put her under guardianship. Her court-appointed guardian subsequently co…

"Strange."

Today's article pick from Damn History, a free monthly newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @davidkphd.bsky.social & @nursingclio.bsky.social!

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It is official! My book, Birth Politics, has been released @JHUPress. Hopeful that it makes an impactful contribution to conversations around improving maternal health care in Nigeria. Happy to honor invited talks to discuss the book and my research. #maternalhealth #reproductivehealth #Nigeria

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

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#envhist

The Care of Foreigners How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare

Eram Alam's important new book on immigrant physicians is coming out! We'd *love* for someone to review it for @nursingclio.bsky.social

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COVID and flu shots ✅

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Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

An important advisory from AAUP. The advisory contains information for immediate support, tips for engaging with social media, and online digital tools. www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

If you're looking to get the latest COVID-19 vaccine, epidemiologist Katelyn Jetelina has two recommendations: call your doctor, and call your insurance company.

Just got my author copy of the NursingClio reader! Please everyone get like 12 copies and support the incredible work of @nursingclio.bsky.social!!

Isis, November 2025.

Can climate fiction deliver climate justice? When writers treat justice as a central issue, their words may have more power than they could even imagine.

Can climate fiction deliver climate justice?

Although cli-fi has exploded in popularity, few of its writers treat climate justice as a central issue. But when they do, their words may have more power than even they could imagine

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#ClimateFiction #Fiction #Solarpunk #Books