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Susan Amussen

@sdamussen.bsky.social

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Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old lady likes cats and dogs.

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 13h

I tried to complain less about work. Yes there’s a lot, and our administration is awful, but I really don’t have it so bad.

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 18h

Just leaving this here for #earlymodern #skystorians

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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 6d

Writing 30,000 words is much harder than writing 60,000. And writing for a broader audience is also hard. (My now 65000 word book that will be published in March was my writing project for the spring of 2020. The goal was 30,000-40,000 words. Discuss.)

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 6d

I mean, it's seriously delusional, but I suspect I am not the only historian interested in the vaccine that is a time machine so I could go back and talk to some of the people I study! What did I get wrong, William? Peregrine, what did you really think about the Verneys?

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 6d

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

CBS News/Free Press program "Has feminism failed women" brought to you by bank of america and hosted by Liz Plank and Allie Beth Stuckey

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 6d

I am taking the opportunity to once again remind you of the time Naomi Wolf thought Apple invented time machines run by vaccines

Hannah Rose Woods
@hannahrosewoods
Is it possible you misheard

And the it’s

Naomi Wolf o @naomirwolf
Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding

Time Machine
Software
Time Machine is a backup software application distributed as part of macOS, the desktop operating system developed by Apple. The software is designed to work with external storage devices and most commonly used with external disk drives, It was first introduced in Mac OS X Leopard.
Wikipedia
Developer: Apple
Operating system: macOS 10.5 or newer

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 6d

THERE ARE NO JOBS IN ACADEMIA! NO JOBS! DOZENS OF HYPER QUALIFIED APPLICANTS PER JOB!

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 7d

The first step of course is to watch this wonderful video by @ramsesthepigeon.bsky.social

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Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

But I’m glad to her she was such a good teacher!

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, I thought she was younger than me, mostly because I met her when she was a grad student. I know she was ordained as an episcopal priest. We do good funerals! And no worries- we hear these things in many ways.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

I’m so sorry - I haven’t seen her for some years but it’s shocking.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

Oh, no! She was so young (I.e younger than me)

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

Who was your prof? I haven’t heard of another death…

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 7d

Back in the day I got a xeroxed letter (in July I thjnk) from the Naval Academy telling me that in spite of being impressed by my credentials, they were not hiring me. All the unsuccessful applicants presumably got the same xeroxed letter!

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, or you changed your phone number.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 8d

I once told a group of grad students not to on listen to any of the faculty on the job market because it was changing and we didn’t know.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 8d

Also, no idea how to pitch themselves as prepared to be teachers of non-Ivy students. Because we’re R1 (barely) but really care about teaching our students who are mostly first gen, immigrant families, Pell eligible.

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8d

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 8d

I think white people tell each other racist lies to get out of telling each other hard truths, and that's a problem. I could easily have developed a racial grievance in that moment, and I think many racial grievances come out of that kind of experience.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 8d

But if they did try, we might screen them out because they showed absolutely no evidence that they knew what it would take to teach our students (most first gen, Pell eligible etc), and not those at Yale or Harvard.

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Matthew Noe (Winter Break) @noethematt.bsky.social · 8d

"Starting 01/21/2026, AI Companion features will be automatically enabled for your account."

Zoom is planning to auto enable AI on all accounts in January. You CAN disable this tech now and you CAN click a setting to not auto-enable it in the new year. Check your Settings.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 10d

Perish the thought that we teach material that is relevant. I mean, that can include old things, but old things can speak to the present and we can choose it because it does.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 10d

I mean, it's so hard for people to believe that you know how to spell your name. (Mine is just unpronounceable, but that's a different problem.)

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 10d

Advisors on our campus actively discourage students from taking humanities courses. A kid who wanted to take Spanish was put instead in Computer Science. GAH!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

Vandals decapitated and smashed the statue of Mary in an Evanston church’s outdoor Nativity scene Friday, and the church responded by replacing it with a sign saying Mary was beaten & dragged away in front of her son and is being held in immigration detention.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

Nativity smashed, Mary figure ‘beaten’ at Evanston church: ‘God’s on the side of the vulnerable’

Vandals destroyed Lake Street Church of Evanston’s Nativity. It replaced Mary with a sign saying she’s in immigration detention.

www.chicagotribune.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

Republican congressman 👇🏽

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10d

'All states and territories in Australia should review the legislation underpinning universities “to ensure the primacy of public research and education”, a Senate committee has said.'

Very relevant to UK. 1/3