Alex Parry, Ph.D.
@safetyworkhstm.bsky.social
Historian of home injuries, public health, and product safety at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Former Ph.D. student and graduate worker organizer at Johns Hopkins. Still frustrated and/or over-caffeinated.
Pinned
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eighteen times the amount of money that was cut from the NEA last spring
January 29, 2026 at 12:01 AM
eighteen times the amount of money that was cut from the NEA last spring
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A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
A sneak peak of our new book, Sick Jokes, which shares some of the best medical humanities research happening around visual humour & health! It's been so great to work on this w/ our contributors. On the @manchesterup.bsky.social website come spring 🌱 @slobogin.bsky.social @lauracowley.bsky.social
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in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
January 24, 2026 at 12:38 AM
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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I don't post about work super often on here, but here's a short essay I wrote for our weekly newsletter on the more than 60-year effort to make the Parker Solar Probe the first spacecraft to touch the Sun.
The long road to the Parker Solar Probe
AIP History Weekly Edition: January 23, 2026
www.aip.org
January 23, 2026 at 11:37 PM
I don't post about work super often on here, but here's a short essay I wrote for our weekly newsletter on the more than 60-year effort to make the Parker Solar Probe the first spacecraft to touch the Sun.
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We could have paid teachers at any time.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
ICE AGENT: “I love my job. I can’t believe they pay me to do this. I’d do it for free. I only went to high school and I make $200,000.”
January 14, 2026 at 1:33 AM
We could have paid teachers at any time.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time.
San Fransisco could be clean right now.
It was always a matter of political will.
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Why should historians be writing op-eds? @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social was spot on here 👇🗃️ #AHA26
“if you don’t say it with expertise, someone else will say it without expertise” - @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social #aha2026
January 9, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Why should historians be writing op-eds? @geraldo-cadava.bsky.social was spot on here 👇🗃️ #AHA26
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The Organization of American Historians is conducting an oral history open to those who worked for the federal government or were contractors. This includes those who retired or were forced to leave because of changes since January.
www.fecohp.org
www.fecohp.org
FECOHP – Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project
www.fecohp.org
January 3, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The Organization of American Historians is conducting an oral history open to those who worked for the federal government or were contractors. This includes those who retired or were forced to leave because of changes since January.
www.fecohp.org
www.fecohp.org
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It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
January 3, 2026 at 2:36 PM
It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.
I sincerely hope this appeal leads to the exoneration of Ms. Curth and a formal apology from the OU administration.
It remains an embarrassment that the university took this complaint seriously in the first place.
It remains an embarrassment that the university took this complaint seriously in the first place.
Statement Re: OU Discrimination Investigation
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
Today, my client, Mel Curth, submitted her appeal of the University's Institutional Equity Office finding that she engaged in arbitrary and capricious grading of a student's assignment in violation of that student's religious liberty.
December 30, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I sincerely hope this appeal leads to the exoneration of Ms. Curth and a formal apology from the OU administration.
It remains an embarrassment that the university took this complaint seriously in the first place.
It remains an embarrassment that the university took this complaint seriously in the first place.
Quote this with what you accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Published three articles
Set up our Adv. Certificate in Health Humanities program
Became an editor for the Pediatric Humanities section of JPeds
Launched the Injury Studies Network website
Saw ten movies at The Little!
Published three articles
Set up our Adv. Certificate in Health Humanities program
Became an editor for the Pediatric Humanities section of JPeds
Launched the Injury Studies Network website
Saw ten movies at The Little!
Quote this with what you accomplished in 2025 no matter how big or small
Published my first book, Selling Out Santa.
Submitted over 65 job applications.
Designed, developed, and continue to run a whole ass website.
Adopted Biscuits.
Started on an antidepressant to get back on a healthier track.
Published my first book, Selling Out Santa.
Submitted over 65 job applications.
Designed, developed, and continue to run a whole ass website.
Adopted Biscuits.
Started on an antidepressant to get back on a healthier track.
Quote this with what you accomplished in 2025 no matter how big or small.
My co-edited volume, Do Less Harm, was published.
Became a co-editor of the journal Osiris.
Got some health stuff figured out.
Completed major repairs of our house.
Spoiled my dogs.
Returned to Paris.
Slept a lot.
My co-edited volume, Do Less Harm, was published.
Became a co-editor of the journal Osiris.
Got some health stuff figured out.
Completed major repairs of our house.
Spoiled my dogs.
Returned to Paris.
Slept a lot.
December 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Quote this with what you accomplished in 2025, no matter how big or small
Published three articles
Set up our Adv. Certificate in Health Humanities program
Became an editor for the Pediatric Humanities section of JPeds
Launched the Injury Studies Network website
Saw ten movies at The Little!
Published three articles
Set up our Adv. Certificate in Health Humanities program
Became an editor for the Pediatric Humanities section of JPeds
Launched the Injury Studies Network website
Saw ten movies at The Little!
To reiterate: it doesn’t matter if you’re an expert.
Unless you have formal labor protections, universities are more than willing to discard their instructors, especially if they’re not straight white men with the right politics.
Unless you have formal labor protections, universities are more than willing to discard their instructors, especially if they’re not straight white men with the right politics.
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
To reiterate: it doesn’t matter if you’re an expert.
Unless you have formal labor protections, universities are more than willing to discard their instructors, especially if they’re not straight white men with the right politics.
Unless you have formal labor protections, universities are more than willing to discard their instructors, especially if they’re not straight white men with the right politics.
As soon as a contingent instructor becomes the subject of an official administrative review, even if they’ve done nothing wrong, their job is in jeopardy.
This is one of the many reasons TT faculty should support graduate student and adjunct unionization.
This is one of the many reasons TT faculty should support graduate student and adjunct unionization.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
As soon as a contingent instructor becomes the subject of an official administrative review, even if they’ve done nothing wrong, their job is in jeopardy.
This is one of the many reasons TT faculty should support graduate student and adjunct unionization.
This is one of the many reasons TT faculty should support graduate student and adjunct unionization.
The news has been… bad. In an effort to bring SOME cheer to the holiday season: what’s one thing (professional or personal) that you’re proud of this year?
I’m glad to have written about the reasons why healthcare professionals should care about product safety.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I’m glad to have written about the reasons why healthcare professionals should care about product safety.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Why We Should Defend the Consumer Product Safety Commission
This Viewpoint discusses the importance of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and physicians’ role in advocating for our collective health.
jamanetwork.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The news has been… bad. In an effort to bring SOME cheer to the holiday season: what’s one thing (professional or personal) that you’re proud of this year?
I’m glad to have written about the reasons why healthcare professionals should care about product safety.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
I’m glad to have written about the reasons why healthcare professionals should care about product safety.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Constantly rehiring and retraining people every 18 months due to churn is a way bigger resource sink than building a high retention culture, but there’s a certain kind of brain which is incapable of viewing employees as nonfungible
December 20, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Constantly rehiring and retraining people every 18 months due to churn is a way bigger resource sink than building a high retention culture, but there’s a certain kind of brain which is incapable of viewing employees as nonfungible
RFK Jr. is dismantling our already broken healthcare system, and Congress and the president are aiding and abetting his project to make us all less healthy, less safe, and less prosperous.
BREAKING: RFKJr directs that the US instantly stop recommending all vaccinations for children. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Under RFK Jr., U.S. plans to stop recommending most vaccines, defer to doctors
The plan, which is not finalized, suggests children get fewer shots and shifts to a model telling parents to consult doctors to make their own vaccine choices.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
RFK Jr. is dismantling our already broken healthcare system, and Congress and the president are aiding and abetting his project to make us all less healthy, less safe, and less prosperous.
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December 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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Excited to learn about the launch of the Injury Studies Network. Lots of talented scholars are involved, including @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social, @bachynski.bsky.social & @slobogin.bsky.social!
(Many thanks to @neurotimes.bsky.social for calling attention to this group on LinkedIn!) #histSTM #STS 🗃️
(Many thanks to @neurotimes.bsky.social for calling attention to this group on LinkedIn!) #histSTM #STS 🗃️
Injury Studies Network – The Injury Studies Network is an international community of researchers, practitioners, and artists committed to the study of injuries.
injurystudies.org
December 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Excited to learn about the launch of the Injury Studies Network. Lots of talented scholars are involved, including @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social, @bachynski.bsky.social & @slobogin.bsky.social!
(Many thanks to @neurotimes.bsky.social for calling attention to this group on LinkedIn!) #histSTM #STS 🗃️
(Many thanks to @neurotimes.bsky.social for calling attention to this group on LinkedIn!) #histSTM #STS 🗃️
I’m thrilled to announce that the Injury Studies Network website is now online!
We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries.
Visit the site to learn more and connect!
#Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies
We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries.
Visit the site to learn more and connect!
#Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies
Injury Studies Network – The Injury Studies Network is an international community of researchers, practitioners, and artists committed to the study of injuries.
injurystudies.org
December 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m thrilled to announce that the Injury Studies Network website is now online!
We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries.
Visit the site to learn more and connect!
#Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies
We are an international community of researchers, practitioners, artists, and advocates committed to the interdisciplinary study of injuries.
Visit the site to learn more and connect!
#Histsci #Histmed #injurystudies
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My PhD is in History, not English. But as an alumnus of @CarnegieMellon and a firm defender of the Humanities, I categorically and in the harshest possible words condemn the decision to cut/replace Literary and Cultural Studies.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
My PhD is in History, not English. But as an alumnus of @CarnegieMellon and a firm defender of the Humanities, I categorically and in the harshest possible words condemn the decision to cut/replace Literary and Cultural Studies.
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
I’m in this picture and don’t like it.
Introduction - 500 words
Methodology - 750 words
Literature Review - 1000 words
Every archival detail that I have found - 12,000 words
Conclusion - 750 words
Someone who is good at editing please help me edit this. I am dying.
Methodology - 750 words
Literature Review - 1000 words
Every archival detail that I have found - 12,000 words
Conclusion - 750 words
Someone who is good at editing please help me edit this. I am dying.
Took @drdrehistorian.bsky.social’s advice and cut around 6000 words to make another article. Now that draft is 12,000 words!
December 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I’m in this picture and don’t like it.
It’s beyond infuriating to see people filling the comment sections of Tiny Desk videos with complaints about “wasting taxpayer dollars” on NPR when NPR has an annual budget of $320 million, which amounts to less than ONE CENT per person.
December 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
It’s beyond infuriating to see people filling the comment sections of Tiny Desk videos with complaints about “wasting taxpayer dollars” on NPR when NPR has an annual budget of $320 million, which amounts to less than ONE CENT per person.
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The AHA's Vetted Resources compile materials that have been professionally vetted by historians, offering instructors access to high-quality accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields that meet professional standards.🗃️
Vetted Resources - AHA
AHA Vetted Resources These resources include accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields, all shared by fellow historians or already...
www.historians.org
December 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The AHA's Vetted Resources compile materials that have been professionally vetted by historians, offering instructors access to high-quality accessibility guides, pedagogy resources, and materials specific to a range of places, eras, topics, and fields that meet professional standards.🗃️
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Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city.
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor, Northeastern University
- PhilJobs:JFP
Assistant Professor/ Associate Professor/ Full Professor, Northeastern University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
philjobs.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Northeastern is hiring in Ethics and Health! The job is tenure track with great colleagues in a great city.
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469
Philosophers of science, bioethicists, research ethicists, and STS scholars, please apply! Soft deadline is December 15th.
philjobs.org/job/show/30469