Dr. Amy Kohout
@amykohout.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, Colorado College
TAKING THE FIELD (Nebraska, 2023)
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TAKING THE FIELD (Nebraska, 2023)
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So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
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A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
March 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.
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This is why its so important for those of us who teach to refuse unnecessary uncritical use of AI to think, read, write, create.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.
Using AI to produce writing or art is like asking someone at the gym to lift weights for you.
The effort is the point.
The effort is the point.
February 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This is why its so important for those of us who teach to refuse unnecessary uncritical use of AI to think, read, write, create.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.
Students are being lied to/fashioned into lifetime consumers of LLMs, and universities are letting it happen and abdicating their responsibilities.
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They are segregationists. That's the endgame.
Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
February 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
They are segregationists. That's the endgame.
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One of the banned words is “historically”.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 3:04 AM
One of the banned words is “historically”.
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This is a part of their “professors are the enemy” bullshit, but the cost of these freezes will extend well beyond them.
Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.
Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.
Not just the National Institutes of Health, now the National Science Foundation is put on pause.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
Reminder: research is a multi-step process. Pausing the peer review panels by itself creates months of delay.
I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔
January 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is a part of their “professors are the enemy” bullshit, but the cost of these freezes will extend well beyond them.
Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.
Their students working there, the patients in clinical trials, the businesses who supply these labs, and down the line regular people who reap the benefit will all feel it too.
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History job alert! Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at NYU. Looking for historians of war & the military, *broadly defined*, in *any* geographical area. 1/1, renewable up to 3 yrs, pay is much better than listed! I'm on the cmte, happy to answer Qs. Info: apply.interfolio.com/161728
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January 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
History job alert! Elihu Rose Scholar in Modern Military History at NYU. Looking for historians of war & the military, *broadly defined*, in *any* geographical area. 1/1, renewable up to 3 yrs, pay is much better than listed! I'm on the cmte, happy to answer Qs. Info: apply.interfolio.com/161728
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Working on a project related to history of science in the age of revolutions? I have an @amphilsociety.bsky.social conference for you!
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...
"Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions," September 25-26, 2025 | American Philosophical Society
www.amphilsoc.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Working on a project related to history of science in the age of revolutions? I have an @amphilsociety.bsky.social conference for you!
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...
www.amphilsoc.org/science-and-...
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My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.
January 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
My students this term have been *passionate* in their rejection of generative AI. I think the wildfires have something to do with it – the environmental impact of data centers, the scarcity of water, the terrible losses they’re seeing. . . it makes the ‘abstract’ of the climate crisis very real.
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Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship?
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
CFP: Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152202
Hamburg, 20.03.2025-21.03.2025, Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial Legacy", Bewerbungsschluss: 19.01.2025
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-152202
Hamburg, 20.03.2025-21.03.2025, Research Centre "Hamburgs (post-)colonial Legacy", Bewerbungsschluss: 19.01.2025
Animals and Empire. Provenance Research as a Method for Global Histories
www.hsozkult.de
December 20, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Are you an #ECR who incorporates #postcolonial #provenance research on #zoological #collections as a method into their historical scholarship?
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
Join @coloniallegacy.bsky.social in Hamburg for a workshop in March 2025. Rumour has it that yours truly will be there too. 😁
#HistNatHist
Please share.
I’m not at AHA this year, but my book is! Check it out (on sale!) at the @univnebpress.bsky.social table! (A friend sent me this picture!)
January 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I’m not at AHA this year, but my book is! Check it out (on sale!) at the @univnebpress.bsky.social table! (A friend sent me this picture!)
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Refusal is an absolutely valid and ethical stance when it comes to AI.
I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.
I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.
December 23, 2024 at 4:04 PM
Refusal is an absolutely valid and ethical stance when it comes to AI.
I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.
I do not need to include it in my teaching, or research--there is nothing it does that is indispensable, and much is made worse with AI in my classrooms.
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AI is often unsettling. But I guess I find it particularly disturbing when my alma mater - a PWI with 6.7% Black enrollment and, uh, colonial roots - decides it needs an AI fundraiser and specifically codes her as Black and female.
One of several things today which made me want to yeet myself into the fucking sun
www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...
Interview with an AI higher ed fundraiser
In an effort to augment—not replace—its human fundraising staff, William & Mary launched Wren, an AI-powered virtual engagement officer, last week. Inside Higher Ed interviewed Wren about her approach...
www.insidehighered.com
December 12, 2024 at 5:05 AM
AI is often unsettling. But I guess I find it particularly disturbing when my alma mater - a PWI with 6.7% Black enrollment and, uh, colonial roots - decides it needs an AI fundraiser and specifically codes her as Black and female.
We gave to Indigenous Women Rising’s Rain Fund today. Join us? www.iwrising.org/abortion-fund
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November 28, 2024 at 5:19 PM
We gave to Indigenous Women Rising’s Rain Fund today. Join us? www.iwrising.org/abortion-fund
(Unintentionally) up before the sun thinking about a conference abstract; even got out of bed to scribble some thoughts. Can somebody tell my brain it is fall break, and I didn’t even set an alarm today? (Thanks, middle age.)
November 23, 2024 at 1:06 PM
(Unintentionally) up before the sun thinking about a conference abstract; even got out of bed to scribble some thoughts. Can somebody tell my brain it is fall break, and I didn’t even set an alarm today? (Thanks, middle age.)
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Find somebody who looks at you the way a historian looks at a decade that’s been overlooked by previous historians but is actually central to their topic.
November 16, 2024 at 12:55 PM
Find somebody who looks at you the way a historian looks at a decade that’s been overlooked by previous historians but is actually central to their topic.
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What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and, make no mistake, attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen and build relationships.
November 6, 2024 at 8:22 AM
What’s coming is chaos, confusion, and, make no mistake, attacks on every issue you care about all at once. That’s the strategy — mass mayhem and distraction. Don’t let it work. Define your sphere of influence: where you can have an impact, work on that, strengthen and build relationships.
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This is one of my favorite articles on generative AI, in which Eryk Salvaggio unpacks how we're talking about it, who's providing that language, and what it all means. www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
Challenging The Myths of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.
www.techpolicy.press
November 12, 2024 at 11:59 AM
This is one of my favorite articles on generative AI, in which Eryk Salvaggio unpacks how we're talking about it, who's providing that language, and what it all means. www.techpolicy.press/challenging-...
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I loved my conversation with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me when they invited me on. If you have a book that fits, get in touch with them! #envhist
Unexpectedly, I have two Greenhouse #envhum book talk slots still open this year: December 2nd and 9th.
If you had a relevant monograph published in 2023 or 2024 and could talk to us at 4pm Central European time (3pm in UK, 10am East Coast, etc.), let me know and we'll schedule you in!
If you had a relevant monograph published in 2023 or 2024 and could talk to us at 4pm Central European time (3pm in UK, 10am East Coast, etc.), let me know and we'll schedule you in!
November 14, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I loved my conversation with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and @finnarne.me when they invited me on. If you have a book that fits, get in touch with them! #envhist
Just had to populate my new feed with SOMETHING —strange to go from like 14k tweets to empty space!
November 15, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Just had to populate my new feed with SOMETHING —strange to go from like 14k tweets to empty space!
It’s block break here (block 3 ended yesterday, block 4 starts Monday), so even though I had a couple of meetings this morning, we went for a short afternoon hike at a local open space.
November 15, 2024 at 5:01 AM
It’s block break here (block 3 ended yesterday, block 4 starts Monday), so even though I had a couple of meetings this morning, we went for a short afternoon hike at a local open space.
I’ve been trying to carve out a little more time for things like running, knitting, reading, and hiking. I often share my professor-costumes on IG. (Possible that I’ve been coping with hard things this fall with shoes and handbags…I’m obsessed with these clogs.)
November 15, 2024 at 4:49 AM
I’ve been trying to carve out a little more time for things like running, knitting, reading, and hiking. I often share my professor-costumes on IG. (Possible that I’ve been coping with hard things this fall with shoes and handbags…I’m obsessed with these clogs.)
I’m a US cultural and environmental historian at Colorado College, where I teach courses in environmental history, the history of the US West, the Civil War & Reconstruction, and museum studies/history of natural history. I’m excited to teach a new class on the craft of writing history this spring!
November 15, 2024 at 4:42 AM
I’m a US cultural and environmental historian at Colorado College, where I teach courses in environmental history, the history of the US West, the Civil War & Reconstruction, and museum studies/history of natural history. I’m excited to teach a new class on the craft of writing history this spring!
I guess I should probably introduce myself here: hello! Finally deactivated my account in the bad place. Excited to connect/reconnect with folks here. And this is Boomer; he says hi, too!
November 15, 2024 at 4:37 AM
I guess I should probably introduce myself here: hello! Finally deactivated my account in the bad place. Excited to connect/reconnect with folks here. And this is Boomer; he says hi, too!