Hallie Knipp

A friend is visiting me for the first time since I moved to SC.

She said “I wasn’t sure if this was the right house, but then I saw the Read Banned Books flag and knew this must be the place.”

Love that for me.

Fonts in R Taking control of fonts and text rendering in R can be challenging. This deep-dive teaches you everything (and then some) you need to know to keep your sanity

Mastering typefaces and fonts in #rstats has always been harder than it should.

I have tried to collect much of my relevant knowledge in this deep-dive blog post so you can spend your time picking the right typeface instead of cursing at the computer

I wrote about learning R as a humanities student—how intimidating it felt at first, how I got past the fear, and what these tools can actually do for our work.

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#DigitalHumanities #GradSchool #RStats #HumanitiesCoding #AcademicLife #DigitalHistory #dh

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

The point of history is at the very least to remind us why we stopped doing dumb things in the past. Wellness camps are ineffective and inhumane. Just provide the actual support families need - ping @defendpublichealth.bsky.social

The birthday parade will cost an estimated $45 million.

That's over one-fifth of the 2025 NEH budget, which covered >900 grants in all 50 states to support public libraries, local museums, community history projects, literacy initiatives, research grants & more. Until he rescinded the funds.

#DHmakes It's Monday.

Speak Up – AHA Op-ed writing is one important way to use you historical expertise.

Today in #AHAPerspectives, a few quick tips for historians getting started writing op-eds. 🗃️

Logged on to say something sardonic about France wanting the Statue of Liberty back, now it’s 7:45 and I’m yelling about bullshit elitist, fake feminism. I hadn’t even made it to the coffee pot yet.

Happy Women’s History Month, yall.

Women’s history is American history because American history is women’s history.

I’d like to remind everyone, ad nauseam, that actual hillbillies were warning folks about this crank nine years ago—but the likes of Oprah, the NYT, Ron Howard, and even Olaf Scholz praised him for—get this—a book all about blaming poor people for their misfortunes.

New blog post "Weaponized Metascience," on Ted Cruz' list of "woke DEI" NSF grants, NIH indirect cost fuckery, and using the trappings of science to undermine science
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#philsci #sts

There’s the idea that academic writing should be a bit emotionally detached etc etc and then there’s David Whisnant writing about outside exploitation of Appalachia with just absolute, unchecked disdain. I love it.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship - Anadolu Ajansı

Over 60 German universities quit social media platform X.

Platform accused of failing to uphold values of diversity, freedom, and scholarship.

Abortion is Essential! Here’s how I’m showing up today: with a donation to abortion funds. Join me.

Abortion funds in the US will have a hard year ahead. Would you consider donating the cost of a NY Eve drink (or more, as fits your budget) to this ActBlue action that splits donations among 93 local abortion funds?

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The city of New Orleans uses the Mississippi River as drinking water. Our current governor begged the state to remove funding from the city of New Orleans to fix the pumps and the decaying sewage and water system UNTIL the DA agrees to prosecute women for abortions. www.essence.com/news/louisia...

The campus fits are about to be so good.

Like I watered it down as much as possible. I didn’t even say the word eugenics.

Pepe the king prawn from the muppets looking absolutely shocked

Family members after asking about my dissertation:

The weekend after finals week, or, 48 hours of previously neglected household tasks and hobbies.

(I have done so much laundry and am 90% finished with a crochet project.)

I told this mom a story that I want to share with all of you, as well. When my son was about 2 years old, he developed a deep interest in monster trucks. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say he was obsessed with them. He loved them. It was all he wanted to talk about, all he wanted to play with. And guess what the adults around him did?

Autism niche interests and obsessions. A how to handle them 🛢 for parents, teachers, therapists, and educational consultants who advocate for these children. IG images from Nicole Casey | Gestalt Language & AAC SLP. #EduSky ##ActuallyAutistic /1

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates — their novels highlight the fragility of public health today Between 40% and 50% of children didn’t live past 5 in the US during the 19th century. Popular authors like Charles Dickens documented the common but no less gutting grief of losing a child.

In longer form, @aktange.bsky.social on how reading Victorian novels will make you embrace vaccination: theconversation.com/infectious-d...

My grandfather’s story is one every anti-vaxxer should read. We are now so far removed from the time when kids died en masse, mostly dying at home with their families caring for them, that anti-vaxxers don’t fear the consequences of not vaccinating. Obviously my grandfather lived, but it was brutal.

You’re saying “however” like that’s not part of the appeal.

For sure— but that’s still a fairly small audience in comparison to what’s happening with the movie. I think that the ~phenomenon~ though has something to do with a public who is willing to buy into what is essentially a well known “fic” plot.

Also a seemingly unlimited marketing budget helps

You couldn’t make a Wicked film ten years ago because ten years ago we didn’t openly speak about how much we love fan fiction.

LGBTQ Fiction and Poetry from Appalachia a book by Jeff Mann and Julia Watts This product has no description

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