Lisa Haushofer

Also discrimination felt in housing, when contacting local authorities *or dealing with educational institutions*

Foreigners in NL feel more discrimination than in rest of EU - DutchNews.nl Foreign-born people in the Netherlands tend to feel more discrimination than foreigners in other European countries, new data by the EU statistical office Eurostat reveals. The findings are in line wi...

I’m not entirely surprised by this, but the numbers are still startling:

Discrimination felt by foreign-born people in the Netherlands higher than in any other EU country (18 vs 7.7%)

Figures higher for non-EU nationals than EU nationals

www.dutchnews.nl/2025/08/fore...

Upending women’s health This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks o...

Our group is delighted to have 2 pieces addressing women's healthcare and women's health research in @bmj.com Editor's choice this week @jocalynclark.bsky.social. Globally, we may be going backwards, but many of us are determinedly working against the current. www.bmj.com/content/390/...

🎉 40,000 women have signed - and we’re not stopping here.

We’re united in rejecting discrimination against the trans and non-binary community. We refuse to let our voices be used to divide. This is our moment — and we’re heading for 50,000...and beyond! 🚀💥

📢 Here’s how you can help us get there...

Over the course of their career history majors out earn engineers and comp sci.

Evaluating Student Evaluations of Teaching: a Review of Measurement and Equity Bias in SETs and Recommendations for Ethical Reform - Journal of Academic Ethics Student evaluations of teaching are ubiquitous in the academe as a metric for assessing teaching and frequently used in critical personnel decisions. Yet, there is ample evidence documenting both meas...

Kreitzer and Sweet-Cushman have a great summary of the research here. I am not joking in the least when I say it's easier to detect instructor gender than teaching or learning in evals. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations @brunostrasser.bsky.social and @thomasschlich.bsky.social!
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Cover of Medicine on a Larger Scale: Global Histories of Social Medicine, edited by Anne Kveim Lie, Jeremy A. Greene and Warwick Anderson

Look what came in the mail #histstm 👀

Glazed and confused In a piece for the Guardian Jeremy Ettinghausen introduced me to a term I hadn’t come across before: glazing. Ettinghausen’s article draws on eighteen months of chat logs between three …

“That’s what history as-a-process-of-finding-out-about-the-past actually is: a series of constant shocks and disorientations. You thought you knew something …, but you are repeatedly confronted with you own ignorance and forced to adapt your ideas.” 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/g...

Another semester, another moment to thank that guy from Rice University who made that syllabus maker thing. I love you

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I don't want to sugarcoat anything but it bears acknowledging loudly that day in & day out, despite literally everything, scholars keep researching, writing, & publishing work that, in ways big & small, implicit & explicit, via its sheer existence, is a defiant F U to the current administration.

I hear we are not posting cat pictures on this app anymore, so from here on I will be focusing on my reading sessions and the excellent catering of my favorite cafe #caterday

Opinion | Blake Lively vs. the ‘Misogyny Slop Ecosystem’

“This ecosystem has become, effectively, an essential tool for defending men accused of sexual violence or harassment, for it can generate a rabid kind of fandom that’s hellbent on defending them.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o...

"Uncritically adopting AI tools in discovery systems will perpetuate, if not exacerbate, existing biases and suppression of minoritized people. Try this safer topic. Try this approved topic. Try this unobstructed topic"

Thank YOU for all that work putting the thread together!

This seems fine, and like a technology we should totally trust to run our educational system and other parts of our society.

Sooo many history jobs including some in #histstm #envhist ⬇️

Well, the 2014 annual @bshsnews.bsky.social had a ceilidh and a whiskey tasting - it doesn’t get much more utopian than that imho

YouTube video by Samantha Bee The Original Trump Haters | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

And last but not least, this oldie but goodie:

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'I'll be busy washing my hair', Stephen Flynn said of upcoming Trump visit Stephen Flynn has ruled out meeting Donald Trump during the US president’s upcoming visit to Scotland, joking that he’ll be “washing his…

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This thread is called “Scotland says och bugger na”

I teach a couple of food-related programs at the museum for middle and high schoolers and the range of knowledge and understanding in this area is unreal. Some know so much, others look at a recipe card and say it can't be made bc the market doesn't have "minced onions" for sale.

🔥🔥🔥 thread on cutting the arts & humanities and the (persistent) myth that this is a necessity driven by money and efficiency, h/t @richardckeller.bsky.social

The Mask A history of masks protecting against bad air—in cities, factories, hospitals, and war trenches—exploring how our identities and beliefs shape the decisi...

One of my favorite #histmed #histstm scholars @thomasschlich.bsky.social has just joined Bluesky. Check out his and @brunostrasser.bsky.social’s latest work on the history of the mask:

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Institute of the History of Medicine at JHU (@histmedjhu.bsky.social) History of medicine, disease, and the health sciences & their relation to society. Historical perspectives on contemporary health issues.

Welcome to Bluesky @histmedjhu.bsky.social!
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