Sam Schotland
@archivesrx.bsky.social
Writer, educator, and health historian | Theater kid | Maine Coon trainer | Bylines in The Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, STAT, and The Drift
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The word for this, kids, is fascism.
Elon Musk spoke by video to Tommy Robinson's anti-immigrant rally in the UK today.
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
"You're in a fundamental situation here where, whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you," said Musk. "You either fight back or you die."
September 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The word for this, kids, is fascism.
Is the irony of this posting not lost on anyone?
September 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Is the irony of this posting not lost on anyone?
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Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities.
September 3, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Getting rid of vaccine mandates for kids while cutting Medicaid and also going after the federal Department of Education means there will be more disabled kids with less structure to help them with infection-triggered disabilities.
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Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.
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Beyond Mike's very good thread I love this point because it highlights how bad ideas spread. Vanderbilt is qualitatively worse off because of this fella.
August 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Beyond Mike's very good thread I love this point because it highlights how bad ideas spread. Vanderbilt is qualitatively worse off because of this fella.
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Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.
August 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Today I learned that the Harmonia Gardens set for HELLO DOLLY! was reused the following year for BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES.
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Posting this without (much) comment, but suffice to say that (1) I am not impressed with the justices' use of history (on either side), and (2) I worry greatly about the ideological priors of my field.
#history
#supremecourt
#law
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
#history
#supremecourt
#law
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
As the Supreme Court Focuses on the Past, Historians Turn to Advocacy
www.nytimes.com
August 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Posting this without (much) comment, but suffice to say that (1) I am not impressed with the justices' use of history (on either side), and (2) I worry greatly about the ideological priors of my field.
#history
#supremecourt
#law
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
#history
#supremecourt
#law
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...
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What the fuck is a Gugarati Muslim?
I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?
I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?
July 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
What the fuck is a Gugarati Muslim?
I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?
I ask, as a Hindu and Indian and historian of India?
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Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
Dying Before Germ Theory
As RFK questions germ theory, and measles ravages unvaccinated children, Americans need to know what is at risk. Americans died at higher rates and younger ages before the introduction of germ theo…
nursingclio.org
July 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Today on @nursingclio.bsky.social, I share an account of falling ill and dying before germ theory and modern medicine. This #histmed is a peek into my current project, and an experience that I want everything thinking about health to know.
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
nursingclio.org/2025/07/21/d...
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My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My cartoon in this weeks @newyorker.com
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me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
June 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
me, personally? i'd call it Reconstruction.
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TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
TIRED: “learn to code!”
WIRED:
WIRED:
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In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 AM
In today’s episode of What Are They Thinking: “If you don’t see a hurricane coming… does it really exist?”
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
🚨 The Dept of Defense is shutting down its weather satellite program. No more data. No more updates. Meteorologists are scrambling—and we’re heading into peak storm season.
Brilliant timing.
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"Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad."
That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming.
That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming.
If you are writing any kind of software and not using AI, you are working with one hand tied behind your back.
I see AI as an essential programming tool.
AI is a tool. Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad. The question is whether we are using those tools for good or for evil.
I see AI as an essential programming tool.
AI is a tool. Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad. The question is whether we are using those tools for good or for evil.
June 30, 2025 at 7:27 AM
"Tools in themselves are neither good nor bad."
That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming.
That sound you can hear is all the historians of science and medicine, and STS scholars, screaming.
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This is the argument that Jiseung Yoo and I have been making. Personalized learning presumes a theory of personhood, which most education (and especially AI-based education) utterly lacks.
#education
#philosophy
#AI
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
#education
#philosophy
#AI
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
Bespoke or prescribed? The myth of personalised learning
Personalised learning is AI’s promise in education—but who defines what’s personal, and does it nurture strengths or just fix what algorithms see as flaws?
www.unesco.org
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
This is the argument that Jiseung Yoo and I have been making. Personalized learning presumes a theory of personhood, which most education (and especially AI-based education) utterly lacks.
#education
#philosophy
#AI
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
#education
#philosophy
#AI
www.unesco.org/en/articles/...
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Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability.
Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings.
#literacies #iteachenglish #edusky
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings.
#literacies #iteachenglish #edusky
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Why I Teach Literary Theory to High Schoolers (and you should too)
Helping students read the word and world-system one lens at a time
open.substack.com
June 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Teaching literary theory has been the most influential approach I’ve used to improve HS students’ interpretive ability.
Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings.
#literacies #iteachenglish #edusky
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
Theory helps them see what’s possible with interpretation, not just what’s permitted by “correct” readings.
#literacies #iteachenglish #edusky
open.substack.com/pub/trevoral...
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I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
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To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful
Statement from LAPD regarding protests in the city of Los Angeles.
June 8, 2025 at 4:01 AM
To be clear: Trump is dispatching the troops in response to protests *the Los Angeles Police Department* has described as peaceful
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This article by @ykarenkwon.bsky.social is so important.
Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).
Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).
How to Protect Yourself during Protests
Demonstrators face tear gas, flash bangs, coronavirus and surveillance
www.scientificamerican.com
June 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
This article by @ykarenkwon.bsky.social is so important.
Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).
Thanks to @sciam.bsky.social and then-EIC @laurahelmuth.bsky.social for publishing it. (Photo by Pablo Monsalve/Getty).
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Man on the street making his 10 seconds of airtime count🔥
June 8, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Man on the street making his 10 seconds of airtime count🔥