Pamela Scully
@pamelascully.bsky.social
Historian of gender/biography/transnational history. And of sexual violence in conflict and after.
Pinned
press.uchicago.edu
Clifton Crais’s new book The Killing Age helps make sense of how the USA has ended up here: it is a country founded on violence against people, animals and the environment, arising from revolutions in gun manufacturing and finance. @newyorker.com @pbsnews.org press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
I really worry for Taiwan and Ukraine. The overthrow of Maduro has given China and Russia a green light. #foreignpolicy #politics #academics
January 4, 2026 at 11:46 PM
I really worry for Taiwan and Ukraine. The overthrow of Maduro has given China and Russia a green light. #foreignpolicy #politics #academics
Trumpstein with this invasion has basically given China permission to move onTaiwan. Appalling. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social #Venezuela @pbsnews.org @theatlantic.com
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Trumpstein with this invasion has basically given China permission to move onTaiwan. Appalling. @anneapplebaum.bsky.social #Venezuela @pbsnews.org @theatlantic.com
Trumpstein, the warlord president.
January 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Trumpstein, the warlord president.
Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2026 is the year that democratic politics triumphs all around the world.
January 1, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Happy New Year everyone. I hope 2026 is the year that democratic politics triumphs all around the world.
Clifton Crais’s book on the Morticene—or The killing Age—helps explains the origins of modernity’s ruinous legacy of violence and environmental wreckage. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Killing Age
A bracing account of how our current planetary crisis emerged from the worst cataclysmic destruction in human history, which Clifton Crais terms the Mortecene—the killing age. We are used to speakin...
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December 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Clifton Crais’s book on the Morticene—or The killing Age—helps explains the origins of modernity’s ruinous legacy of violence and environmental wreckage. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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The cv, the dark cv, and the hallucinated cv.
Academia is on its way from announcing the work done, the failures on the way while getting work done, to listing up work that AI invented and no one has ever done.
#academicchatter
Academia is on its way from announcing the work done, the failures on the way while getting work done, to listing up work that AI invented and no one has ever done.
#academicchatter
December 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The cv, the dark cv, and the hallucinated cv.
Academia is on its way from announcing the work done, the failures on the way while getting work done, to listing up work that AI invented and no one has ever done.
#academicchatter
Academia is on its way from announcing the work done, the failures on the way while getting work done, to listing up work that AI invented and no one has ever done.
#academicchatter
AI is rotting our academic culture. This set of posts by Ben Williamson on how AI makes up sources which people then cite may times!, is terrifying. #AI #Academics
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
AI is rotting our academic culture. This set of posts by Ben Williamson on how AI makes up sources which people then cite may times!, is terrifying. #AI #Academics
@pbsnews.org I am so glad Stephanie Sy is staying on. Really appreciate your work Stephanie!
December 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
@pbsnews.org I am so glad Stephanie Sy is staying on. Really appreciate your work Stephanie!
Clifton Crais’s new book The Killing Age helps make sense of how the USA has ended up here: it is a country founded on violence against people, animals and the environment, arising from revolutions in gun manufacturing and finance. @newyorker.com @pbsnews.org press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu
December 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Clifton Crais’s new book The Killing Age helps make sense of how the USA has ended up here: it is a country founded on violence against people, animals and the environment, arising from revolutions in gun manufacturing and finance. @newyorker.com @pbsnews.org press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Terrifying. I predict in the AI era, the tech elites will send their children to liberal arts colleges to actually think and the rest will go to places that don’t care and the powerful will continue to rule the world but in even scarier ways. #AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Terrifying. I predict in the AI era, the tech elites will send their children to liberal arts colleges to actually think and the rest will go to places that don’t care and the powerful will continue to rule the world but in even scarier ways. #AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 8, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Here are three news stories Democracy Docket published today. If you agree that independent, pro-democracy media is more important now than ever before, please support Democracy Docket with a membership today. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
December 8, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.
Dartmouth gives the right response to Trumpstein’s McCarthyist play: No! #academics #academictwitter president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
Response to the ‘Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education’ | Office of the President
president.dartmouth.edu
October 7, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Dartmouth gives the right response to Trumpstein’s McCarthyist play: No! #academics #academictwitter president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...
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Tyler Robinson’s grandmother, Debbie Robinson, told the Daily Mail today:
“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”
“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”
September 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Tyler Robinson’s grandmother, Debbie Robinson, told the Daily Mail today:
“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”
“My son, his dad, is a Republican for Trump. Most of my family members are Republican. I don’t know any single one who’s a Democrat.”
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I love this!
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I love this!
The assault on universities is never ending and made worse by the fact that universities themselves are part of the abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #academics @aaup.org @nytimes.com
September 12, 2025 at 10:20 PM
The assault on universities is never ending and made worse by the fact that universities themselves are part of the abuse. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #academics @aaup.org @nytimes.com
This era shows why the academic work on settler societies (USA; Australia; South Africa), is so relevant to understanding the US today. We can have an inclusive democracy but it has a through-line of hatred & violence in defence of white masculine entitlement which is easy to activate at any point.
September 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
This era shows why the academic work on settler societies (USA; Australia; South Africa), is so relevant to understanding the US today. We can have an inclusive democracy but it has a through-line of hatred & violence in defence of white masculine entitlement which is easy to activate at any point.
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I know I probably sound like a deranged crank at this point, but it has seemed so obvious that we’re going to see infinitely more of this & related threats to funding over *this academic year* if we don’t collectively start rejecting these fascist tactics out of hand.
A professor at Texas A&M taught… something related to gender that offended a student, who secretly filmed herself objecting. That video is picked up by TX legislators, who demand her firing, and now the dean and dept head have been fired.
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I know I probably sound like a deranged crank at this point, but it has seemed so obvious that we’re going to see infinitely more of this & related threats to funding over *this academic year* if we don’t collectively start rejecting these fascist tactics out of hand.
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The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
September 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
This is not a joke. This is not normal.
Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
I'm starting to look into how inflammation is being misused by MAHA types in a way that very much distracts from chronic illness-inflammation problems people actually have. If you're an academic, doctor, immunologist etc with thoughts on this, please be in touch at jmetraux@motherjones.com
September 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
September 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
About this Florida vaccine story:
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough.
We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated.
“Oh, they’d have died.”
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It's Time to Release the Epstein Files.
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide.
open.substack.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
It's Time to Release the Epstein Files.
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
People who fight this hard to hide something have something to hide. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...