A Disabled American in Paris, PhD
@adisabledaminparis.bsky.social
Recovering Academic, Lost in the Archives of
16th century Paris
16th century Paris
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Are you devouring the new installment of “Wolf Hall” on @pbs.org? Check out our Folger Find, Anne of Cleves’ uniquely inscribed Book of Hours, which she presented to Henry VIII, likely after the end of their very short marriage. Explore on our blog: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
Folger Finds: Anne of Cleves' gift to Henry VIII | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...
www.folger.edu
April 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Are you devouring the new installment of “Wolf Hall” on @pbs.org? Check out our Folger Find, Anne of Cleves’ uniquely inscribed Book of Hours, which she presented to Henry VIII, likely after the end of their very short marriage. Explore on our blog: www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...
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Probably due to Passover cooking, the #Vatican only digitized 27 #Manuscripts this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
Vatican Manuscripts Added Week 16 of 2025
Due to it being Holy Week, the Vatican was not as busy doing digitizations, with only twenty-seven added to the online repositories. Both Barb.lat and Capp.Sist contributed seven, Ott.lat added five ...
www.wiglaf.org
April 20, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Probably due to Passover cooking, the #Vatican only digitized 27 #Manuscripts this week
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2025...
Includes 2 italian Boethius', documents on Würzburg, 19th C liturgical music, a glossed Aeneid, some signed Humanist texts and more!
#MedievalSky #Skystorians
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Download Beautiful Free Vintage Easter Cards from the New York Public Library
Download Beautiful Free Vintage Easter Cards from the New York Public Library
'Tis the season when bunnies temporarily upend cats as rulers of the Internet.
www.openculture.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Download Beautiful Free Vintage Easter Cards from the New York Public Library
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Becoming disabled is a crash course in giving and receiving care, adapting to the unexpected, and accepting imperfection—all of which are crucial for parents. Jessica Slice on how disability can be a parenting strength: https://theatln.tc/vd9m2aYf
April 19, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Becoming disabled is a crash course in giving and receiving care, adapting to the unexpected, and accepting imperfection—all of which are crucial for parents. Jessica Slice on how disability can be a parenting strength: https://theatln.tc/vd9m2aYf
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Dans un premier temps, le périmètre des travaux a été limité aux documents écrits médiévaux produits sur les territoires de l’actuelle Belgique et de la France pour une période courant de 500 à 1500 – qu’il s’agisse de chartes, de documents administratifs ou de manuscrits entiers et fragmentaires.
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Dans un premier temps, le périmètre des travaux a été limité aux documents écrits médiévaux produits sur les territoires de l’actuelle Belgique et de la France pour une période courant de 500 à 1500 – qu’il s’agisse de chartes, de documents administratifs ou de manuscrits entiers et fragmentaires.
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I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
April 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I made a list of every literary magazine I could find on Bluesky. Follow them and share this post. The sooner they see Bluesky as a viable platform, the sooner they leave X.
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
go.bsky.app/7cWNC2j
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu
These Faculty Senates Are Trying to Band Together to Stand Up to Trump
The idea of a compact among institutions is based on the idea that there’s strength in numbers, and it comes amid frustration that few presidents are speaking out against the administration’s actions ...
chroni.cl
April 15, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Faculty senates at Rutgers University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have passed resolutions calling for the creation of a mutual-defense compact. chroni.cl/4cBFrnu
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Our state faced the biggest storm in 19 years with November's bomb cyclone, with hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians losing electricity and two people losing their lives. Yet, the President refuses to help cover the $34 million in damage.
FEMA denies disaster relief for bomb cyclone, Gov. Ferguson says
The denial of the aid comes after President Donald Trump has talked of reshaping or even eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
www.seattletimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Our state faced the biggest storm in 19 years with November's bomb cyclone, with hundreds of thousands of Washingtonians losing electricity and two people losing their lives. Yet, the President refuses to help cover the $34 million in damage.
This is THE BEST. Thanks for making my day!
April 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This is THE BEST. Thanks for making my day!
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We are saddened to learn of the passing of Ian Lancashire, U of T Professor Emeritus of CMS and English, and one of the founders of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project. We offer our sincerest sympathies to Professor Lancashire's family, friends, and colleagues. uoft.me/buG
April 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We are saddened to learn of the passing of Ian Lancashire, U of T Professor Emeritus of CMS and English, and one of the founders of the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project. We offer our sincerest sympathies to Professor Lancashire's family, friends, and colleagues. uoft.me/buG
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Hey @hbo.bsky.social I'm available to take over the show. HMU
Musk sharing Maher’s video about his dinner with Trump is all you really need to know
April 14, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Hey @hbo.bsky.social I'm available to take over the show. HMU
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A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical
Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton's “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is out April 22.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton's “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is out April 22.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
April 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
A fascinating collection of questions and answers—about courtship, marriage, love, and sex—from a seventeenth-century periodical
Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton's “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is out April 22.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Acclaimed historian and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Mary Beth Norton's “I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer” is out April 22.
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.
April 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.
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Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
Will the SAVE Act make it harder for married women to vote? We ask legal experts
Legal experts say states could help married women who have changed their last names by accepting documents like a legal decree or a marriage certificate, but it might not fix the issue for all.
www.npr.org
April 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Would men need to provide a marriage certificate to vote? No? Just women? Got it.
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The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
EU, China start talks on lifting EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, Handelsblatt reports
The European Union and China have begun negotiations on the abolition of EU tariffs on imports of Chinese electric cars, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The European Union and China are now starting negotiations to abolish EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
This is a major strategic failure for the United States.
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The NEH Digital Humanities office housed people doing amazing work and connecting and supporting DH ecosystems in ways many of will never be able to chart or fully appreciate. Is there a way we can honor them at the ASA or MLA or AHA or. . .
Dissolution of the Office of Digital Humanities is confirmed. #DigitalHumanities
April 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The NEH Digital Humanities office housed people doing amazing work and connecting and supporting DH ecosystems in ways many of will never be able to chart or fully appreciate. Is there a way we can honor them at the ASA or MLA or AHA or. . .
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🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
April 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.
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This shit's scary. We must keep shining a harsh light on what these supervillains are doing with our personal data.
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
How Musk and Trump Are Working to Consolidate Government Data About You (Gift Article)
Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts.
www.nytimes.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This shit's scary. We must keep shining a harsh light on what these supervillains are doing with our personal data.
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
The Nazis weaponized birth records, employment files, and medical info to track and persecute millions.
We ignore history's lessons at our own peril.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...
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“The world around you will try to tell you that your life isn’t worth as much as others – don’t believe them.”
For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘A weakness can become your biggest strength’ – wise words from 26 brilliant disabled women
In this second extract from Frances Ryan’s new book, actors, politicians, athletes and models offer their advice on living with physical and mental health conditions
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“The world around you will try to tell you that your life isn’t worth as much as others – don’t believe them.”
For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
For this week’s second extract from Who Wants Normal?, I’m so happy to share “wise words” of 26 brilliant well known disabled women. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates.
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married?
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote.
Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...
April 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Update: The House just passed the Republican voter suppression measure that threatens voting access for millions of Americans, including 69 million women whose married names don't match their birth certificates.
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
Make sure your senators know you expect them to stand against it.
"Why aren't we part of the conversation?"
I’m excited (and slightly nauseous) to say The Guardian is launching Who Wants Normal? into the world with two exclusive extracts from today.
This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written but is for anyone going through a tough time with their health. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
This is the most personal thing I’ve ever written but is for anyone going through a tough time with their health. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
‘I’m still sick. I’m still disabled. But I’m proud of my body’: Frances Ryan’s manifesto for disabled women
Women with disabilities are the biggest minority group in the world, but are still shut out of society. In an extract from her new book, the writer reveals how that is changing – and what more needs t...
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"Why aren't we part of the conversation?"