Melinda Baldwin

@mbaldwin.bsky.social

750 followers 160 following 150 posts

#histSTM studying scientific publishing, funding, and peer review. Associate prof @ UMD College Park. All opinions mine!

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Physics 22%

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CFPB Union @nteu335.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, our members look good on @usatoday.com's front page! www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

Article about the CFPB with a picture of a CFPB Union picket on the front page of USA TODAY

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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 3d

a phd

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 3d

I dunno maybe they should have tried launching it into the sun.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3d

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 3d

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 4d

We used our soil turner to break up the top layer. The Claw was the MVP of this storm 😂

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 4d

That stuff is SO HEAVY. It's like shovelling cement 🥶

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 6d

It's not true activism unless you're on the Internet telling someone else they're doing it wrong. /s

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Matthew Murray 🦇 @midnitelibrary.bsky.social · 7d

Dang, if I'd know this would be a hit I would have made a better post.

You Are Reviewer 2
A solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you.
midnitelibrary.itch.io/you-are-revi...

You Are Reviewer 2
A solo d6-based "game" to discover why you're so bad at giving academic feedback and why none of your colleagues like you.

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John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 7d

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

CHOAM Nomsky @samthielman.com · 7d

I just thought everyone should see this

Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 7d

Area Mom looks up flights to Cancun, realized she doesn't want to share her snow days with Ted Cruz.

Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8d

Area Dad Realizes He Is Not Prepared to Keep His Kids Entertained Across Multiple Snow Days.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 8d

Area Dad Realizes He Is Not Prepared to Keep His Kids Entertained Across Multiple Snow Days.

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Nature @nature.com · 8d

US federal agencies were gutted in 2025, losing ~20% of their staff relative to 2024.

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 13d

Worth remembering, too, that Lonsdale has an axe to grind with Stanford because he was once banned from their campus for sleeping with a student he was supposed to be mentoring. www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/m...

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 14d

PSA, if you, like me, suddenly started getting AI-generated overviews above emails in Gmail and do not want them (but would still like to keep the useful AI-assisted mail sorting of promotions, etc.): Go to settings and disable "Google Workspace smart features".

Image of Google Workspace smart features

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 14d

Sponsored by [insert AI concept art here]

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

can’t wait to kick back on this day, Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14d

We all made it to Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14d

can’t wait to kick back on this day, Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 14d

We all made it to Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · 24d

Connect an unfamiliar laptop to the classroom projector.

Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Melinda Baldwin

m. r. sauter @oddletters.bsky.social · 25d

hey!

hey!!!

if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!!

https//oddletters.com/tech-money/

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 25d

If you follow me I'd love you to also follow @contingent-mag.bsky.social, the history magazine I co-edit. We pay all of our contributors and publish some neat stuff.

Our Series

Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work. We’ve organized our content here by series t...

contingentmagazine.org

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · Dec 30

“This article urges a fresh view on [AI large language model] hallucinations by arguing that, rather than being errors in any conventional sense, they are evidence of a probabilistic system incapable of dealing with questions of knowledge.”

Rethinking Error: “Hallucinations” and Epistemological Indifference | Critical AI | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social · Dec 27

There are very few surviving portrait of Johannes Kepler and each of them has a question mark hanging over it for some reason #histsci

thonyc.wordpress.com/2025/12/27/c...

An engraving of a portrait of Johannes Kepler from a 1620 painting that was given to the Strasbourg Library in 1627, artist unknown.

Reposted by Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Rebecca Tushnet , and 10 more Anna O. Law, Rosemary A. Joyce, Rebecca Tushnet, Dolly Jørgensen, Sebastian Karcher, Anna Grzymała-Busse, Tom Stoppard, Julie Novkov, Elizabeth Ewan, Aviel Roshwald, Constance Bantman, Melinda Baldwin, Steven H. Seggie

Karl Appuhn @appuhn.bsky.social · Dec 22

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · Dec 18

My forthcoming book—
For which I began research in 2006.
Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press.

Cover will be added soon.

The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

The King's Slaves

A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in America

press.princeton.edu

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · Dec 18

What's your email address, Andy? I can arrange for a copy.

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · Dec 18

I really enjoyed the book and learned a tremendous amount from it! I'm glad you appreciated the review -- the lines from The Squares that I quoted in that paragraph have stuck with me.

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University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social · Dec 17

Check out the new issue of "HSNS." online.ucpress.edu/hsns/issue/5...

Volume 55 Issue 4-5 | Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences | University of California Press

online.ucpress.edu

Melinda Baldwin @mbaldwin.bsky.social · Dec 11

::cries in copy edits::

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Dec 4

Someone sent this to me as proof that *i* am wrong about my own self.

Anyway, all of this fabricated. Just untrue and not even close to the direction of truth.

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