Meghan K. Roberts

Kids marching down the sidewalk holding signs

A baseball field, in the far distance there's a sidewalk full of kids & their guardians

My nibling holding the sign they made. It says No kings here leave Chicago alone, & has the Chicago flag

The sign my niece made. It says NO KINGS NO TRUMP

A Facebook group called #LincolnSquare Mamas organized a #NoKings protest for kids. They expected ~20 people, but we all wrapped around the block (see pic). Little kids with their homemade signs chanting "No ICE! Be nice!" @thatguywasfly.bsky.social & I went with our niblings & their parents.

I appreciate how short this is, lol. Really emphasizes that this was not a tough call.

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Why not listen to this podcast of a previous conversation about #YayArchives @rshc.bsky.social in preparation for the 28 October event? #SkyStorians

Wait, there was no French translation??? What?!

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

I have looked at this a ton and he's right! There are NO rigorous peer reviewed studies showing faculty political leanings translate into skewed teaching or any form of vindictive grading or censorship on a systemic scale. Yes there are anecdotes, no there is NOT evidence of a widespread issue. 🗃️

When existing institutions have been delegitimated and there’s no agreed way to adjudicate differences, then either you have a failed state or you have a new beginning. A glorious revolution, if you can keep it.

He was always going to do this. Chicagoans have not rioted, so the administration just lied and said we have. We have not attacked ICE agents, so they just lied and said we did. There was no chaos here, so they created chaotic scenes by attacking people and filmed that shit.

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

My family & I are still processing the events of the past 24hrs. There is so much to say; for now I will keep it brief:

Juan was observing the situation at the ICE detention facility alongside other elected officials. He was in a designated protesting area & was standing peacefully when video shows

Holy hell. DHS just openly stated that its agents use “reasonable suspicion” to make ARRESTS. This is blatantly unconstitutional. The Supreme Court is clear that you need probable cause to arrest someone, as opposed to stop them to ask them a question or two. This is huge b/c…

the person who published this is about to run CBS

This is how you journalism

Blue and white images in squares above the name of the Journal of the Western Society for French History in white type against a black band at the bottom

Hey Bluesky:
We're prepping vol. 51 for publication & it is looking fabulous w/articles on artists in Vichy & the actor/author Claudius Roussarie, a roundtable on Karen Offen's "The Woman Question," Interventions, Notes on Sources & the 2025 JWSFH Mixtape!

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Is there a decent overview of #histmed in the US since the Civil War? Because if there is I don't know about it.

Help?

The Future That Was How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️

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Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching

Durba Mitra got denied tenure???? WTAF??? What else was she supposed to do, Harvard?

If anyone is curious why New Hampshire isn’t in, I would recommend reading up their bear problem newrepublic.com/article/1596...

At Governor Mills' Direction, Maine CDC Issues Standing Order Expanding Access to COVID-19 Vaccine Amid Federal Roadblocks Maine Bureau of Insurance also sends bulletin to state regulated insurers reinforcing that COVID-19 vaccines must be covered under Maine law

Maine Governor Janet Mills has issued a standing order that serves as a prescription allowing anyone to get a COVID vaccine at a pharmacy or clinic.

The Maine Bureau of Insurance also issued a bulletin reminding insurers that they must fully cover the vaccine under state law.

***Job Opportunity***

Assistant Professor, Early Modern European History, Brown University

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The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

Screenshot of reddit post from user Wang_Lung_1921. Begin quote: I understand that ENG 360 is Children's Literature, and that's what has been reported, but she's not in the Course Schedule for 360. Instead, look at ENG 394, which does show as her course. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But that's what my search pulled up. You can still find her syllabus, with a detailed course description, that falls within the range of the general description given in the Catalog. "COURSE DESCRIPTION Did you read what we now call “young adult literature” as a young adult? What exactly is a young adult? Does the term refer to an age category or a marketing tool, a personality type or a genre? What differentiates adult from young adult from teenager from child? How do we understand the genre of literature for and about this blurry, shifting group? In this course, we will explore a range of young adult or YA literature in English, including poetry, contemporary fiction, graphic memoirs, historical fiction, and fantasy, from a diverse group of authors with many varied perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, disability and other realms of human difference. Our task is to think critically about what these books can tell us about how we (and others) understand adolescence, how those definitions have changed over time, and how these books participate in larger movements of history, culture, and literature." End quote

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature.

*As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

!!!!!!!!!! So excited!!!!!!!

I don’t think so!!!! I’d love to read it if it’s not too much trouble to share. i think you have my email but if not it’s mroberts [at] bowdoin [dot] edu

Thank you so much!

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better