Jaipreet Virdi
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
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Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
New update!
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
New update!
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:15 PM
New update!
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Victoria. I think & write about disability technologies & medical/scientific authority.
Latest book: Echoes of Care (@mcgillqueensup.bsky.social)
www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...
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Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
May 1, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Eight hours work, eight hours rest, eight hours for what you will. Happy May Day.
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I would add that they don't actually understand that HE is an industry, that it can actually collapse, that academic jobs are real jobs, that actual people will be unemployed, and will struggle to find alternative employment. That a shuttered uni takes down a city the same as a shuttered factory
April 12, 2025 at 6:57 AM
I would add that they don't actually understand that HE is an industry, that it can actually collapse, that academic jobs are real jobs, that actual people will be unemployed, and will struggle to find alternative employment. That a shuttered uni takes down a city the same as a shuttered factory
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Just thinking of all the people I’ve seen targeted by Alabama legislators over the years — undocumented immigrants, transgender Alabamians and their families — who still walked into the Statehouse, looked lawmakers in the face and told them they were wrong.
I have never experienced this much reticence and fear from all manner of sources
The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US
April 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Just thinking of all the people I’ve seen targeted by Alabama legislators over the years — undocumented immigrants, transgender Alabamians and their families — who still walked into the Statehouse, looked lawmakers in the face and told them they were wrong.
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Dear scholars, scientists, doctors and advocates - we need your voices and expertise more than ever. If there was ever a time to bring the Ivory Tower right into the middle of the Public Square, it's now.
Yesterday RFK Jr said we will know the causes of autism by September then eliminate the contaminants (or something).
Today is the day you pitch local media to say: here’s what we know, it’s complicated, RFK Jr is lying.
File by Monday morning.
Today is the day you pitch local media to say: here’s what we know, it’s complicated, RFK Jr is lying.
File by Monday morning.
I agree. It's a vast task potentially, but workable with actionable activities and clearly defined roles. I know @lollardfish.bsky.social has talked a lot about targeting local media and many scholars will be in unis with media teams who might assist, also (perhaps outside US sometimes for safety)
April 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Dear scholars, scientists, doctors and advocates - we need your voices and expertise more than ever. If there was ever a time to bring the Ivory Tower right into the middle of the Public Square, it's now.
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There has been so much devastation, but for my communities this is especially devastating. I cannot overstate how much we owe to the Office of Digital Humanities & the incredible people who have worked there. The work won’t end, but it will be severely curtailed
The NEH Digital Humanities office housed people doing amazing work and connecting and supporting DH ecosystems in ways many of will never be able to chart or fully appreciate. Is there a way we can honor them at the ASA or MLA or AHA or. . .
Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities
April 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
There has been so much devastation, but for my communities this is especially devastating. I cannot overstate how much we owe to the Office of Digital Humanities & the incredible people who have worked there. The work won’t end, but it will be severely curtailed
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Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
April 9, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Hi! Are you a US researcher who spent time thinking about humans? Then your work is in danger of censorship and loss. I'm here to walk you through basic self-archiving.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
Maybe you think I am being hyperbolic. You only worked on bacteria! Not your problem. Do me a favor and join me anyway.
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I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.
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I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence?
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
April 8, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I don’t understand how we so quickly forgot the supply shock lessons of Covid. Do people not remember what it was like to just not be able to get ahold of stuff required for daily existence?
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
I am telling you, manufacturers that can’t absorb these tariffs are going to simply stop assembly lines.
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This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Less complaining about how big rallies don't do anything, more brainstorming about how to activate their attendees to get involved with targeted campaigns, direct action, and mutual aid.
April 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This! Research shows that protests 1) raise awareness, 2) empower people (especially the disadvantaged), and 3) exert pressure on elites.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
Anyone saying they don’t work is unfamiliar with the research and the history of movement building.
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“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
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Amid anti-DEI push, National Park Service rewrites history of Underground Railroad
Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website describes key moments from slavery to Jim Crow
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April 6, 2025 at 12:05 PM
“Tubman’s photograph is now gone. In its place are images of Postal Service stamps that highlight “Black/White cooperation” in the secret network and that feature Tubman among abolitionists of both races.”
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Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
www.latimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
“Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
April 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.
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My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.
March 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My sweet, precious Bennie boy, my little deafie shadow...always in my arms. I miss you.
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We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
March 26, 2025 at 1:41 PM
We lost our sweet Ben.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
There are no words to express our heartbreak.
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any author who gets on the side of “libgen is bad” goes on my “i will pirate you even when i have a job” list
March 20, 2025 at 6:25 PM
any author who gets on the side of “libgen is bad” goes on my “i will pirate you even when i have a job” list
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being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
March 22, 2025 at 3:36 AM
being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:
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Welcome, sharktopus overlords!
Video Shows an Octopus Riding a Mako Shark Near New Zealand
Researchers in New Zealand saw a colorful blob on top of a shark’s head. When they looked closer, they realized it had eight arms.
www.nytimes.com
March 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Welcome, sharktopus overlords!
"Americans are often very well aware of activists such as Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B. Anthony, yet one of the most influential and outspoken activists in the last 150 years is largely relegated to being remembered as a ‘miracle’, and recently even as a hoax."
Opinion | The legacy of Helen Keller: a sanitized radical
In our current social and political climate, discourse around diversity is ever present. These debates, despite what some may have you believe, are not a new point of discussion. Americans
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March 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"Americans are often very well aware of activists such as Fredrick Douglas, Martin Luther King Jr., and Susan B. Anthony, yet one of the most influential and outspoken activists in the last 150 years is largely relegated to being remembered as a ‘miracle’, and recently even as a hoax."
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Uses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence.
If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:
March 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Uses the word "proudly" in the first sentence. Says it is the "first arrest of many to come" in the second sentence.
If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
If you think this ends with "Hamas Students" you are not paying attention
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Nice to meet you. I write about the Deaf Church in Norway during WWII. The minister for the deaf was high up in the resistance and some teachers were in the resistance.
Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app !
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
March 9, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Nice to meet you. I write about the Deaf Church in Norway during WWII. The minister for the deaf was high up in the resistance and some teachers were in the resistance.
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Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app !
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Dr. Jaipreet Virdi
historian of medicine, technology, and disability
jaivirdi.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Finally able to introduce myself properly to @bsky.app !
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic
Hi all, I'm a #deaf historian of #histSTM and #DisabilityHistory at the University of Delaware. I think & write about disability technologies, disabled perspectives, and medical/scientific authority. Hearing aids are my niche topic