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Kathleen Crowther
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Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024)
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sarahbelle721.bsky.social
With that in mind, please remember that @nursingclio.bsky.social has an ongoing 'breaking news' series. If you are also a pissed off feminist with thoughts on the Epstein files, pitch us. nursingclio.org/write-for-us...
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February 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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ctimmermann.bsky.social
H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members.

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Screenshot of the page that the URL in the post points to: H-Science, Medicine, and Technology (H-SMT) is looking to recruit new editors and advisory board members to join its existing team. New editors and advisory board members will play an integral role in shaping the identity of the network as current network staff look to refresh the network and the vital functions it serves. This includes the standard work of disseminating information about CfPS, funding opportunities, etc., as well as taking on new initiatives, like blog authoring, resource page-building or project-building. H-SMT editors are volunteers who share in the network’s responsibilities as List Editors, who manage memberships, the listserv, and blog content on a rotating basis; Special Projects editors who can develop a short-term or long-term project to serve the network; and Advisory Board Members, who consult with all the editors about larger questions and practices to develop the network as needed. This range of positions also allows for volunteers to engage at different levels of commitment and duration. H-Sci-Med-Tech is a network for scholars who apply humanities and social science methods to study science, medicine or technology across a wide variety of periods and regions of the world. While rooted in history, ours is a very interdisciplinary field, bringing together theories and methodologies from across the humanities and the social sciences. With more than 6,200 subscribers, H-SMT is one of H-Net's larger networks and has the benefit of an existing editorial workflow for a new editor to step into or to support an editor focused on special projects. If you would like to be a part of our team, please submit an application by February 1, 2026. We anticipate that newly hired editors will begin their duties in February 2026. Applications should consist of a cover letter indicating the position you are interested in (List Editor, Special Projects Editor, or Advisory Board Member), a curre…
January 2, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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maryfissell.bsky.social
Bet you thought I couldn't find something for the letter X, but... new post to A is for Abortion today! maryfissell.substack.com/p/x-is-for-e...
January 14, 2026 at 6:16 PM
sacrobosco.bsky.social
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X is for Exodus
X is for Exodus, the only book of the Bible that clearly mentions abortion.
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January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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mikehixenbaugh.com
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
January 8, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Reading Black and Native histories will rip the scales from your eyes, about the lies White Americans tell themselves about themselves, and their country.
Which is why this administration is so insistent on re-whitening media, academia and public history (museums, etc)
But.
Yeah.
This thread.
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 26d
Black folks are not being "mean" to you when we are truthful concerning the historical pathologies of your kinsmen...

Truth is the greatest love
January 8, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
Exciting news for #histsci friends in the heartland: The 2026 meeting of the Midwest Junto will be held at Purdue on April 17-18!

The Junto is America's oldest regional history of science organization. Learn more and submit abstracts before Feb. 15: midwestjunto.wordpress.com

#histSTM #CFP 🗃️📜
midwestjunto
For the History of Science
midwestjunto.wordpress.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:18 PM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Just published today: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... Mongol expansion; smallpox; aDNA. Lots to work w/ here. Notice to historians: This is the intersection of documentary & genetic histories that has been forecast. What are we going to do w/ it? More comments later. #histmed #EarlyModern #TengriSky
An ancient DNA perspective on the Russian conquest of Yakutia - Nature
Yakut communities, with Trans-Baikal admixture during the Mongol expansion, preserved genomic diversity and oral microbiomes despite the Russian conquest, which introduced cereals, pathogens and Chris...
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January 7, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Ptolemy, depicted as a king, pointing to the heavens
#HeavensAbove
BL Harley 334; Gautier de Metz, Image du Monde; 15th century f.95v
December 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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enniusredloeb.bsky.social
Astronomy showing the stars to a group of scholars at the beginning of Ptolemy's Almagest translated by Gerard of Cremona
#HeavensAbove
BL Burney 275; Scholastic miscellany; 14th century; France, Central (Paris); f.390v
December 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Maybe, if you're not actually in university classrooms, teaching students in the age of gAI, perhaps you might want to stop and listen when people actually in those classrooms raise concerns about what they are seeing; and not just dismiss us as luddites, or boomers, or cruel profs playing cops
December 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
sacrobosco.bsky.social
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W is for Witchcraft
The histories of abortion and witchcraft are strangely tangled; readers may recall the post about Anna Harding a couple of months ago, who provided reproductive care in her small German town.
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December 17, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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piperformissouri.bsky.social
The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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matthewcort.land
I don't see why the University of Oklahoma should, under its current administration, continue to enjoy accreditation by the Higher Learning Commission.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Dec 9
“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
“The latest educator removed from the classroom allegedly told students they would be excused for attending a Friday protest in support of a transgender instructor who was suspended for accurately grading a paper.”
www.advocate.com/news/second-...
Another University of Oklahoma instructor suspended in biblical psychology paper grading controversy
The university is investigating whether the second instructor engaged in "viewpoint discrimination."
www.advocate.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Free book talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, hosted by the Linda Hall Library:
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)

Register at link below.
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💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

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A deep green square with white writing announcing date, time, title and speaker of an event. In the top left corner is the Linda Hall Library logo. In the background, in shaded greens, is a detail from a painting with alarming details of the punishments in hell.
November 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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brittanytrang.com
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Shamblin’s conversation partner wasn’t a classmate or friend – it was ChatGPT, the world’s most popular AI chatbot. A CNN review of nearly 70 pages of chats between Shamblin and the AI tool in the hours before his July 25 suicide, as well as excerpts from thousands more pages in the months leading up to that night, found that the chatbot repeatedly encouraged the young man as he discussed ending his life – right up to his last moments.
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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bhgross144.bsky.social
Boosting the signal for #histSTM, #histastro & #astronomy friends! 🔭

The application deadline for this workshop is November 15, 2025.
drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Oct 27
Apply! Astronomy! The Adler!
At The Newberry!

The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...
Three views of astrological study including an armillary sphere, Indigenous Americas constellations, and a woodcut of Gemini.
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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minouette.bsky.social
For #spacetober_challenge day 29 prompt orbit: #mathematician and #astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)! 🧪🐡🧮🎢🔭 #histsci We remember him for his role in the Scientific Revolution, and his three laws of planetary motion in particular. His laws modified Copernicus’ heliocentric model; he replaced 🧵
My linocut portrait of Johannes Kepler on cream coloured washi paper. Kepler is in Renaissance garb printed in indigo. He holds a compass and rests his hand on his model of nested Platonic solids from Mysterium Cosmographicum, printed in gold ink. Above that in silver in are 7 musical staves with notes next to symbols for related planetary bodies: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Over his other shoulder are 3 schematic diagrams drawn in ellipses (oriented with the semi-major axes horizontal) in magenta. The top one relates to his first law and shows an ellipse cut in two horizontally, the two foci labelled F and F’ and a triangle drawn to a point P on the ellipse (FPF’). The middle ellipse (2nd law) shows the Sun at a focus, and a series of circles on the ellipse as a planet such that the sections are equal area and alternate colouring (magenta or none) like a peppermint. The bottom ellipse (3rd law) is cut in half with semi-major and semi-minor axes shown
October 29, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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hopkinspress.bsky.social
"After two thousand years, it’s time to stop blaming and shaming mothers," writes "Policing Pregnant Bodies" author Kathleen Crowther (@sacrobosco.bsky.social).
nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…
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October 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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drkyliesmith.bsky.social
It’s #openaccess week and I’m very proud that my new book will be published OA on @manifoldscholar.bsky.social thanks to a Mellon grant and the wonderful people at @foxcenteremory.bsky.social and @ecds-emory.bsky.social

You can preview here: jimcrowintheasylum.com
Jim Crow in the Asylum | Emory Center for Digital Scholarship - Manifold Scholarship
The Civil Rights movement of the 1950's and 60's sought to end racial segregation in all U.S. public institutions, including hospitals. Psychiatric hospitals became political battlegrounds over segreg...
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October 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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maryfissell.bsky.social
Very apposite post by @sacrobosco.bsky.social! Blaming mothers goes way back... Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice nursingclio.org/2025/10/16/t...
Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…
nursingclio.org
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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poxygraduate.bsky.social
New fantastic @nursingclio.bsky.social ER post from Kathleen Crowther: "Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice" 💊

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Trump, Tylenol, and 2000 Years of Bad Advice
On Monday, September 22, President Trump, flanked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stated that pregnant women should not take Tylenol because fetal exposure to acetaminophen causes autism…
nursingclio.org
October 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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chelseacristene.bsky.social
Nevermind the fact that the author doesn't understand what instructors do. They also don't understand what AI does (and doesn't do).
porcupunk.bsky.social Vlad K. @porcupunk.bsky.social · Oct 16
Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."
When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?
Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do
www.forbes.com
October 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM