Dr. Amy Kohout

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So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?

NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.

NASA: $24.875.

NIH: $47.7 billion.

Fund science, not cruelty.

A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.

This is why its so important for those of us who teach to refuse unnecessary uncritical use of AI to think, read, write, create.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.

They are segregationists. That's the endgame.

Mine look like this! And I have a chronological side and a side with shelves organized by theme, too. And stacks pulled out in front and laid sideways for writing projects and course planning.

One of the banned words is “historically”.

Happy birthday! And thanks for reading/sharing the book on LGM!

This is a part of their “professors are the enemy” bullshit, but the cost of these freezes will extend well beyond them.

Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.

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"Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions," September 25-26, 2025 | American Philosophical Society

Working on a project related to history of science in the age of revolutions? I have an @amphilsociety.bsky.social conference for you!

www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...

My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.

Sending all good wishes for everything that is ahead, Holly!

I am planning to be at ASEH this year, and I’d love that! Let’s be in touch after the program comes out to find time for coffee!

Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship?
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.

It’s a rufous hornbill collected in the Philippines by the US army surgeon who anchors the book. This bird is currently in the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s Division of Birds.

Thank you!!

My book, Taking the Field, on the University of Nebraska Press table, at the AHA.

I’m not at AHA this year, but my book is! Check it out (on sale!) at the @univnebpress.bsky.social table! (A friend sent me this picture!)

Refusal is an absolutely valid and ethical stance when it comes to AI.
I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.

AI is often unsettling. But I guess I find it particularly disturbing when my alma mater - a PWI with 6.7% Black enrollment and, uh, colonial roots - decides it needs an AI fundraiser and specifically codes her as Black and female.

Hi from Boomer.

Brindle-y dog on his back on the couch, smiling with his teeth out.

This guy totally gets it.

We gave to Indigenous Women Rising’s Rain Fund today. Join us? www.iwrising.org/abortion-fund

And to learn, I’d go to local yarn store and flip through a few beginner books—find one that makes sense to you! And then supplement with YouTube. And I love The Knitter’s Companion as an easy reference book for new to-me techniques!

I would recommend joining Ravelry, an online community where you can find patterns, help, encouragement, and look at lots of other people’s FOs (finished objects), which is great inspiration but also super helpful when learning to match yarn to projects!

(Unintentionally) up before the sun thinking about a conference abstract; even got out of bed to scribble some thoughts. Can somebody tell my brain it is fall break, and I didn’t even set an alarm today? (Thanks, middle age.)

Find somebody who looks at you the way a historian looks at a decade that’s been overlooked by previous historians but is actually central to their topic.

What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and, make no mistake, attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen and build relationships.

Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.

This is one of my favorite articles on generative AI, in which Eryk Salvaggio unpacks how we're talking about it, who's providing that language, and what it all means. www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...