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Monica H Green
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Medhist=medieval + medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Daughter #2 of Marlon & Eleanor Green. Focusing on Global Health. Upcoming talk on 13 Jan: https://csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/online-lectures/infectitious-disease-histories/
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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 11d
Registration is now open for my 13 Jan 2026 public lecture, "The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories: Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses," csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... Sponsored by @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social. #histmed #aDNA #PandemicThinking
Infectitious Disease Histories - CSMBR
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
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repgregstanton.bsky.social
In Trump’s America, the military is loyal to him, not to the Constitution.

So when a decorated combat veteran like Sen. Mark Kelly defends the rule of law, Trump punishes him for it.

www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...
Hegseth moves to demote Sen. Mark Kelly and cut pension over video on illegal orders
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that the Pentagon had begun a process that could result in Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona being demoted and having his retirement pay cut.
www.cbsnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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the-independent.com
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
Mark Kelly has retirement pay cut by Pentagon over ‘illegal orders video,’
www.independent.co.uk
January 5, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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awickenden.bsky.social
I can help with this! The website was partly tied to an earlier grant which paved the way for the huge Sloane lab project — sloanelab.org
Welcome to the Sloane Lab - Sloane Lab
🔴 Explore Sloane's vast collections on the Knowledge Base which is now live! The vast, global collection amassed by Sir Hans Sloane in the eighteenth century is often considered to be the founding col...
sloanelab.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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sebfalk.com
JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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unraveledpress.com
Chicago yesterday—

In the wake of an attack on Venezuela that killed at least 80 people and resulted in President Maduro abducted by American forces, anti-war orgs gathered in the cold for an emergency protest against U.S. intervention.

📸: Andres Alejandro Chavez & Raven Geary
Protesters play drums while marching Portrait of man with short dreads in cap that says AFGHANISTAN VETERANZ Protester marches with red/black anarchy symbol flag Alderman Byron Sigcho-Lopez speaking at rally in Federal Plaza. He is wearing long gray coat, one Venezuelan flag behind him
January 5, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social
Our best wishes for the New Year! We continue the tradition of a #siteoftheweek every Monday, today Reconstructing Sloane. Anyone who studies manuscripts will certainly have come across the name of Hans Sloane (1660-1753). 4,000+ MSS from this collection are managed by the British Library.
Reconstructing Sloane – Welcome to Reconstructing Sloane
reconstructingsloane.org
January 5, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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publius24.bsky.social
Can we just stop and put this into perspective:

Our Scandinavian allies put out joint statements today condemning the United States, and Denmark went as far as explicitly threatening military action while hinting at a potential invocation of Article 5.

That’s genuinely fucking insane.
January 5, 2026 at 1:56 AM
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aaronm.bsky.social
Statistical wrapup on the 2025 digitization work on #Vatican #Manuscripts. No pretty letters or illuminations, just cold facts and some unattractive graphs.
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026...
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 1 of 2026
No manuscripts were digitized in the first week of 2026 due to the holidays, so this week there will be a look back at the digitization work of 2025 in numbers. To start, some summary numbers coveri...
www.wiglaf.org
January 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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sshmedicine.bsky.social
@csmbr-pisa.bsky.social online event
The Transformation of Infectious Disease Histories
Three Decades of Paleogenetics and Historians’ Responses
with @monicamedhist.bsky.social
13 January 5:00pm (CET)
#histmed
Infectious Disease Histories - CSMBR
In this lecture, Monica Green explores how pathogen palaeogenetics, through ancient microbial genomes, is transforming our understanding of the evolution and global circulation of premodern infectious...
csmbr.fondazionecomel.org
January 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
"The glass is dichroic; in direct light (reflected light), it resembles jade w/ an opaque greenish-yellow hue, but it changes to a translucent ruby red color when light passes through (transmitted light)."
Don't you immediately want to see this? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... #MedievalSky
Glass Ceilings? Transdisciplinary Work in Medieval Studies | Speculum: Vol 101, No 1
www.journals.uchicago.edu
January 5, 2026 at 11:41 AM
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kakape.bsky.social
Because the job of journalism is apparently to keep inventing new euphemisms to avoid having to call greed, corruption or lawlessness by their name…
Article in the New York Times with the headline: A Pardon and a Prosecution in New York Show Trump's Personal Geopolitics The facts in the cases of Nicolás Maduro and Juan Orlando Hernández are strikingly similar. The men's fates are not.
January 4, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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onestpress.onestnetwork.com
Trump is the first US president to bomb 7 countries in one year.

Based on verified reports from Al Jazeera, Fox News, Washington Examiner, and CBC, the seven countries targeted by US strikes under Trump in 2025 are: Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, Nigeria, and Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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cristianfarias.com
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
"[I]nternational law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost w/o exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest."
cristianfarias.com Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate: 1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest. 2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades. Cont’d: 3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable. Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling. And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze. The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
January 3, 2026 at 8:46 PM
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dbernstein.bsky.social
… Patty Murray statement: “… What the President has done is unconstitutional, reckless, and will have far-reaching effects well beyond last night’s strikes….”

www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murr...
Senator Murray Responds to Trump’s Illegal Military Operation, Address to the Nation - Senator Patty Murray
Senator Murray: “It is outrageous for a President who is tanking our economy here at home to suggest that the American taxpayer spend a fortune to ‘run’ another country while doing nothing to make lif...
www.murray.senate.gov
January 3, 2026 at 6:27 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
Happy to have found this mini-podcast notice of a piece I & @fancynahyan.bsky.social published nearly a year ago. At 7:37-10:02, there's notice of evidence we gathered for the presence of plague in Mongol-Mamluk regions some 90 years before the Black Death www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/....
Audio News for February 16th through the 22nd, 2025
The news of the week in audio, compiled from daily news updates gathered by the news site Archaeologica.
www.archaeologychannel.org
January 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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cwebbonline.com
FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS

For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.

That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.
January 3, 2026 at 4:33 AM
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bloomberg.com
US military operations in Venezuela are upending travel in the Caribbean just as many vacationers are trying to get home from their winter breaks.
Flights Canceled Across Caribbean After US Raid in Venezuela
US military operations in Venezuela are upending travel in the Caribbean just as many vacationers are trying to get home from their winter breaks.
bloom.bg
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
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napaaqtuk.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser
January 3, 2026 at 2:10 PM
monicamedhist.bsky.social
#MedievalSky #histSTM #histmed CFP: “The Science of Natural Properties: Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice
(6th – 15th century)” (Bologna, June 17-19, 2026). Transportation to Bologna is covered for speakers of accepted papers. Deadline: 15 Jan 2026. www.academia.edu/145294551/Ca...
Call for Papers: The Science of Natural Properties Knowledge, Transmission, and Practice (6 th -15 th century), Bologna, 17-19 June 2026
The conference will explore how theoretical and technical knowledge of natural properties was shaped through transmission, translation, and adaptation, as well as the impact of its practical applicati...
www.academia.edu
January 3, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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elisabethbik.bsky.social
I would not recognize it either - I search for duplications, and genAI images are unique.
May 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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meidastouch.com
BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.
January 3, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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ninadavtian.bsky.social
Happy New Year!
To all new Bluesky users: the emojis and/or hashtags that I frequently add to my original posts, notably to (re-)share scientific papers of mine and other researchers, are not for decoration, but are tags for Bluesky feeds. Here is a 🧵 with a few examples of feeds and tags. 👇🏻
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January 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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Turns out you can sign in using a google account and can get access to
January 2, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
@anniemcdonough.bsky.social:
"Yellow cab driver Richard Chow was on hunger strike for medallion debt relief with Zohran Mamdani a little over four years ago.

Today, he drove now Mayor Zohran Mamdani to City Hall for his inauguration in his taxi."

Chow's brother killed himself over his debt.
January 2, 2026 at 4:32 AM