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Cornelia Lambert
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historian of sci / med in the ATL

acquisitions editor @NursingClio.bsky.social = please reach out to write for us!
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When your mission to recruit and retain new student populations runs headlong into your desire to grind university staff into pulp.
October 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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More than anything else, the whole world runs on the disregarded suffering of children.
September 9, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
April 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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I'm so excited for AskHistorians to have @lzreis23.bsky.social for a fantastic AMA today on her book Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex! Come check it out!
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September 5, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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this!
Something I didn't get to say yesterday:

We heard over and over during the event about "human-centered" approaches to "AI". But if refusal is not on the table (at every level: individual students and teachers right up through UNESCO) then we have in fact centered the technology, not the people.
It has been really interesting to attend UNESCO's Digital Learning Week (though unfortunately I'm not able to stick around). My public lecture from yesterday can be found here:

www.youtube.com/live/l-OWi6V...

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September 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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4. Every other discipline thinks they can do history but they often cannot
July 28, 2025 at 12:06 AM
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regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once:

— virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— against increasing the minimum wage
— buys foreign imports because they're cheap
August 30, 2025 at 12:27 AM
What could go wrong?
WTF RFK Jr.: "I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like. I’m looking at kids as I walk through the airports today...and I see these kids that are just overburdened with mitochondrial challenges...and I know that’s not how our children are supposed to look."
www.c-span.org/program/publ...
August 28, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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📢Book Event📢

Join us next Thursday for a discussion with @aearls.bsky.social and @jaretthenderson.bsky.social about Earls' latest work Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972

📅Thursday, Sep 4
⏰9amPT/12pmET

Free and open to the public
Info and RSVP at the link!
Love in the Lav with Averill Earls | NACBS
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972.
www.nacbs.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons.

Who’s with him?
August 28, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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*8/28/2025 thread of noncooperation*
Sidebar!

I've been thinking a lot about Lisa Cook fighting to *stay* at the Fed vs. CDC leaders *leaving* the CDC.

Productive noncompliance looks different under different circumstances. "No, I won't get out of your way" vs. "No, I won't help you do harm."

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August 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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"Do not pretend you do not understand" goes a long way towards the heart of a LOT of problems rn
“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.”

— Lydia, 16, Minneapolis
August 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Brief 🧵, as someone who has studied mass shootings for 13 years:

-gender does not cause them
-SSRIs, no
-mental illness, no
-internet/gaming, no

Above can be compounding factors—but motive is complex, often very. The most fundamental combo:

suicidality + rage + isolation + easy access to guns
August 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Thoughts and Prayers didn't work, so Republicans have moved on to Those Kids Are Better Off Dead.
Fox News' Trey Gowdy: "The only thing that can give us any modicum of peace at all is those two children are with the person who loved them the very most, the person who created them, that being Jesus. That is the only thing that can possibly give parents in the future any modicum of peace."
August 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...
August 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research?

RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research

D: I just read them to you!

R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them
May 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...
www.brown.edu
July 31, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Yet another thing I don't understand is how using LLMs on student work isn't a FERPA violation
July 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Venus Williams just won her first match in two years and at the end when they were interviewing her about what a miracle it was, she said she had to come back and play a match; they told her she was on cobra and she’s always at the doctor so **she needs the health insurance**
Venus Williams literally a millionaire working for healthcare coverage
July 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Here’s a nice thing for a Monday! As some of you already know, I have a new novel coming out in April, and my publisher @northodoxpress.bsky.social has just told me that pre-orders are now live! (Short thread incoming...)
www.northodox.co.uk/product-page...
Monster: A Tale - paperback (Pre-Order) | Northodox Press
What kind of person would take a baby, asleep in his pram?What kind of a person would leave him there? Alys Greenwood is a privileged overachiever. Hollie Nelson is a drifter and a thief. In a cinema ...
www.northodox.co.uk
July 7, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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April 11: “The phones are ringing off the hook.”

July 6: “Many of these countries never even contacted us.”

@atrupar.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Excellent 🧵with timeless insights about technology and power
Today, we remember Max Horkheimer, a leading figure of the Frankfurt School and one of the most influential voices in 20th-century critical theory. In his work, Horkheimer offered an early and powerful critique of technology as a social and political force.
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July 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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They know.

Any contention otherwise denigrates the work of disabled Americans who spent months lobbying against Medicaid cuts on the Hill, protesting, getting arrested, etc

No, the people who don’t know? Voters - they blame Dems link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM