Elsbeth
@historecluse.bsky.social
Historian of epidemics, exhibitions, hospital medicine, the state, taxes, civilization and, currently, US economic thought.
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Elsbeth
@historecluse.bsky.social
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"Historical scholarship, pluralism, and the possibility of sharing wealth and power," by E.A. Heaman, part of @earlycanada.bsky.social's final series--speaking to our present political moment. earlycanadianhistory.ca/2025/07/07/h...
Historical scholarship, pluralism, and the possibility of sharing wealth and power
E.A. Heaman Editors’ note: This week marks the final series for Borealia after a decade of online public history and conversation. You can read our thank you remarks here, and will be able to…
earlycanadianhistory.ca
Shorter Heaman thesis.
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Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
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Key Findings: Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Key Findings: Exposure to a field-specific faculty sexual misconduct incident decreases degree completion in that field by 3.4 percent four years after the incident. This decline is driven by incidents occurring after 2015, among which we observe a 7 percent decline in in-field degree completion.
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Notre livre sur l'histoire des infirmières et infirmiers psychiatriques dans le monde francophone est déjà disponible en France ! En attendant sa parution au Québec dans 2 jours www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/prendr...
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Notre livre sur l'histoire des infirmières et infirmiers psychiatriques dans le monde francophone est déjà disponible en France ! En attendant sa parution au Québec dans 2 jours www.editions-hermann.fr/livre/prendr...
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Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
November 10, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Delightful detail from the Roman “unswept floor” mosaic by Heraclitus, showing a mouse nibbling a walnut.
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
Superb use of darker tiles for subtle shadow effect!
2nd century AD. Vatican Museums www.museivaticani.va/content/muse...
#MosaicMonday
#Archaeology
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The combination of Cass invoking fortress USMCA as an example of sovereignty prevailing over efficiency & Miran getting excited about $ stablecoin expansion pushing down US rates is a reminder of a (bipartisan) view that US sovereignty requires asymmetric interventions in the sovereignty of others.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The combination of Cass invoking fortress USMCA as an example of sovereignty prevailing over efficiency & Miran getting excited about $ stablecoin expansion pushing down US rates is a reminder of a (bipartisan) view that US sovereignty requires asymmetric interventions in the sovereignty of others.
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Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
Are you a graduate student? Check out the 2026 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Conference Call for Papers! Abstracts are due November 28!
November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Canadian professors: Do you have grad students who need a conference under their belt? Grad students: want to share your work in a friendly and collegial environment? Submit an abstract and join us in February!
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Now online! Laura André Lombard (Université Panthéon Assas) reviews "The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots: A Proponent of Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social, 2023) by @fepoulsen.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone"
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
The new crop of rating agencies behind the private credit boom
Regulators and bankers are sounding the alarm about an explosion in privately-rated securities
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
"Egan-Jones has just 20 or so analysts and managed to issue more than 3,600 ratings last year alone"
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
That's ... 0.7 ratings per analyst per working day. Good luck to all involved.
Best of academe vs the worst of journalism.
“Critics say” is the tell, and does it ever go on telling.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
November 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Best of academe vs the worst of journalism.
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I'm incredibly moved by this piece by @lmansley.bsky.social in AHA's Perspectives on History. I've watched Laura's professional track over the years and I've been proud to be a small part of her journey. Please read and share widely! I also think it's an important piece to share with grad students.
A Dream Realized – AHA
Leaving academia doesn’t mean leaving behind disciplinary dreams.
www.historians.org
November 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I'm incredibly moved by this piece by @lmansley.bsky.social in AHA's Perspectives on History. I've watched Laura's professional track over the years and I've been proud to be a small part of her journey. Please read and share widely! I also think it's an important piece to share with grad students.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
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Excited to see my book - WAITING ON EMPIRE (Indian ayahs in Britain) sharing space with @willdalrymple.bsky.social at Chester Beatty Museum 🥳🤗
November 7, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Excited to see my book - WAITING ON EMPIRE (Indian ayahs in Britain) sharing space with @willdalrymple.bsky.social at Chester Beatty Museum 🥳🤗
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Horatio: we'll do as you say, Fortinbras
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Fortinbras (Mbulelo Grootboom) looks at Hamlet (Vaneshran Arumugam); Claudius (John Kani) seated, Horatio (Adam Neill) on the right, in the 2006 Baxter Theatre Company production dir. Janet Suzman @the-rsc.bsky.social
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Fortinbras (Mbulelo Grootboom) looks at Hamlet (Vaneshran Arumugam); Claudius (John Kani) seated, Horatio (Adam Neill) on the right, in the 2006 Baxter Theatre Company production dir. Janet Suzman @the-rsc.bsky.social
November 8, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Horatio: we'll do as you say, Fortinbras
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Fortinbras (Mbulelo Grootboom) looks at Hamlet (Vaneshran Arumugam); Claudius (John Kani) seated, Horatio (Adam Neill) on the right, in the 2006 Baxter Theatre Company production dir. Janet Suzman @the-rsc.bsky.social
www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo...
Fortinbras (Mbulelo Grootboom) looks at Hamlet (Vaneshran Arumugam); Claudius (John Kani) seated, Horatio (Adam Neill) on the right, in the 2006 Baxter Theatre Company production dir. Janet Suzman @the-rsc.bsky.social
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Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Hi Bluesky 👋
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP
It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history
I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
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"Are Women the Problem?"
By A Man
By A Man
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"Are Women the Problem?"
By A Man
By A Man
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Shklar on the function of Academic/Scholarly Activism
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Shklar on the function of Academic/Scholarly Activism
I am reading Edward Hall’s Power and Powerlessness: The Liberalism of Fear in the Twenty-First Century (OUP 2025) at the moment. This is a book that creatively develops and updates Judith Shklar’s ‘li...
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November 7, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Shklar on the function of Academic/Scholarly Activism
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The problem wasn't that universities were indifferent to antisemitism, but that they allowed trustees, advocacy groups, demagogues, etc to pressure them into treating as "antisemitism" all kinds of political expression and advocacy that was entirely legitimate.
November 7, 2025 at 5:56 PM
The problem wasn't that universities were indifferent to antisemitism, but that they allowed trustees, advocacy groups, demagogues, etc to pressure them into treating as "antisemitism" all kinds of political expression and advocacy that was entirely legitimate.
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If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you want a sneak peek at my forthcoming book, Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918, you can read part of the introduction and check out the contents and indexes with this widget bloomsburycp3.codemantra.com/viewer/690c7... @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social
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I’m excited and humbled that my new book Ruthless is finally out in the world 🎉
It explores how exploitation, innovation, and empire shaped the birth of the Britain's industrial revolution.
📖 It’s out now (and £12.50 this month in Yale's November sale): yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
It explores how exploitation, innovation, and empire shaped the birth of the Britain's industrial revolution.
📖 It’s out now (and £12.50 this month in Yale's November sale): yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
November 5, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I’m excited and humbled that my new book Ruthless is finally out in the world 🎉
It explores how exploitation, innovation, and empire shaped the birth of the Britain's industrial revolution.
📖 It’s out now (and £12.50 this month in Yale's November sale): yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
It explores how exploitation, innovation, and empire shaped the birth of the Britain's industrial revolution.
📖 It’s out now (and £12.50 this month in Yale's November sale): yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Trump administration thinks they're silencing dissent with their actions, but they're really forging heroes for us.
“Let us not forget that the great seal of the US says E Pluribus Unum. That means Out of many, one
Every life matters no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here, no matter how you identify. You have the right to live a life that is free”
DC Sandwich Guy Sean Dunn
Every life matters no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here, no matter how you identify. You have the right to live a life that is free”
DC Sandwich Guy Sean Dunn
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Trump administration thinks they're silencing dissent with their actions, but they're really forging heroes for us.
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That bust of Benjamin Franklin is showing more concern than Trump.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
That bust of Benjamin Franklin is showing more concern than Trump.