Elizabeth O'Brien
@eobrien.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
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Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works
A wealth of background and analytical material makes Sor Juana's proto-feminist writings, newly translated, all the more compelling., Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Selected Works, A Norton Critical Edit...
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October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...
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Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.
Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...
Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...
Unreal and untrue: Refrigerator mother theory and the historic vilification of the mothers of disabled children | Australian Women's History Network
Dr Kate McAnelly explores how refrigerator mother theory was incorrectly used to blame mothers as being the cause of their children's autism.
www.auswhn.com.au
September 23, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Mothers have long been unfairly blamed for their children's autism, as Kate McAnelly recently wrote in #VIDAblog.
Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...
Knowing this history is all the more important following yesterday's scientifically unfounded allegations about paracetamol/tylenol.
Read more here ⬇️
www.auswhn.com.au/blog/unreal-...
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September 10, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Exciting job at Smith College! apply.interfolio.com/172309
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People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
US media is in the fetal position, living in a delirious haze, desperately trying to pretend everything is normal and this is all boring everyday politics, even as federal troops flood into DC and the entire western world mounts emergency missions to slow Trump down
Actual question: It has been only 72 hours since the disastrous puppeteer/puppet show in Anchorage.
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
Has there yet been a background story on how, and by whom, this emergency intervention of *eight* big-time world leaders was pulled together, over a weekend?
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
People are STILL minimizing b/c the worst hasn't happened.
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
Sure, DC now has military checkpoints, but isn't crime bad there?
Sure, people are being dragged away by goon squads, but aren't they mostly illegal?
Sure, universities and the media are being strong-armed, but aren't they too liberal?
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There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
What's so clear here -- and so terrifying -- is that these cops view themselves as Trump's goons and know that Trump will let them get away with anything. www.thehandbasket.co/p/federal-ag...
Federal agent during violent DC arrest: “Liberals already ruined” this country
Trump's thugs are proving their skull-bashing loyalty in broad daylight.
www.thehandbasket.co
August 17, 2025 at 3:14 AM
There needs to be a congressional investigation into ICE and its practices. The agency needs to be completely dissolved and its agents and officers need to be prosecuted for any and all crimes committed.
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This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT Backs Away From Paper Claiming Scientists Make More Discoveries with AI
The retracted paper had impressed a Nobel Prize winner in economics.
gizmodo.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
This should get WIDE circulation:
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.”
gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...
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Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?
May 24, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Oh, so literally NO ONE is supposed to do war crimes?!?
A University actually standing up to this nonsense? Let's go!!! universityofcalifornia.quorum.us/campaign/sta...
Pledge to Stand Up for UC
The future of America’s leading public university system is at stake.
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August 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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August 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
UCLA faculty, staff, students, and alumni— please sign: "University of California: Stand Up For Our Values" sites.google.com/view/ucstand...
Delighted and excited to join História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor!! Thank you so much for the invitation, @revistahcsm.bsky.social!
Elizabeth O’Brien, Associate Professor at UCLA and a specialist in the history of medicine in Latin America, has joined História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor.
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August 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Delighted and excited to join História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos as an associate editor!! Thank you so much for the invitation, @revistahcsm.bsky.social!
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As you read headlines like this, remember that repeated studies have determined immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. Do not fall into this Republican frame.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman: What we know about illegal immigrant accused in Colorado terror attack
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, an illegal immigrant, from Egypt, is accused of committing the terror attack in Boulder, Colorado, at an event advocating for the release of Israeli hostages.
www.foxnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
As you read headlines like this, remember that repeated studies have determined immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born Americans. Do not fall into this Republican frame.
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
Harvard was able to file a 72 page complaint less than 24 hours after Trump attacked foreign students. Guess they were expecting it
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Read Harvard’s Lawsuit Against Trump
Harvard University sued the Trump administration after it moved to block international students from enrolling.
www.nytimes.com
May 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Harvard correctly understands that it’s in a fight for its life and there is no appeasement that will save it. I wish a lot more institutions understood this.
I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!
May 23, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I'm impressed that our PhD students organized this conference for other grad students and early career scholars. All are welcome to attend!
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Judge Brian Murphy enjoined the Trump administration from improperly deporting immigrants to 3rd countries
It seems they violated that order
Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions
Good
They deprived these immigrants of due process
There must be consequences
It seems they violated that order
Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions
Good
They deprived these immigrants of due process
There must be consequences
May 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Judge Brian Murphy enjoined the Trump administration from improperly deporting immigrants to 3rd countries
It seems they violated that order
Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions
Good
They deprived these immigrants of due process
There must be consequences
It seems they violated that order
Now the judge says EVERYONE involved could face criminal contempt sanctions
Good
They deprived these immigrants of due process
There must be consequences
Today at 4 pm PST (in 90 minutes) Dana Simmons will give a talk about her new book, "On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic." All are welcome to join! Link on this page history.ucla.edu/event/dana-s...
Dana Simmons: “On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic”
Join via Zoom here.
history.ucla.edu
May 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Today at 4 pm PST (in 90 minutes) Dana Simmons will give a talk about her new book, "On Hunger: Violence and Craving in America, from Starvation to Ozempic." All are welcome to join! Link on this page history.ucla.edu/event/dana-s...
Nursing Clio is the best!!!
The George Rosen Prize honors a significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine. This year's honoree was @nursingclio.bsky.social for their "critical service to the profession and to humanity in the present political climate." 🗃️
May 18, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Nursing Clio is the best!!!
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I feel like if the risk of humiliating yourself before a federal judge, being sanctioned or fired, isn’t enough to curb AI use, any individual professor is at a real disadvantage against the deluge in getting students not to use it
The plaintiffs' lawyers got caught using AI after their brief contained fake case law.
So they replaced it with a second AI brief with fake case law, and then they got caught again.
SO THEY DID IT A THIRD TIME.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
So they replaced it with a second AI brief with fake case law, and then they got caught again.
SO THEY DID IT A THIRD TIME.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Judge admits nearly being persuaded by AI hallucinations in court filing
“Plaintiff’s use of AI affirmatively misled me,” judge writes.
arstechnica.com
May 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
I feel like if the risk of humiliating yourself before a federal judge, being sanctioned or fired, isn’t enough to curb AI use, any individual professor is at a real disadvantage against the deluge in getting students not to use it
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Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water.
Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water
In 2024, Sunoco Pipeline spilled more fuel than any other pipeline in the United States, according to data reviewed by CBS News.
cbsn.ws
May 15, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Residents say jet fuel leak in Pennsylvania went undetected for months, poisoned their drinking water.
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9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks?
This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
The state of Georgia is keeping a deceased Black woman’s corpse hooked up to machines against her family’s wishes because she was 9 weeks pregnant and they cannot let them shut off the machines b/c it violates their anti-abortion laws
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
“ITS TORTURE,” says her family
www.11alive.com/article/news...
Family says woman declared brain dead but her pregnancy continues under state law
Adriana Smith's been on life support 90+ days with weeks to go in her pregnancy. Her family questions Georgia’s heartbeat law — and why they had no say in her care.
www.11alive.com
May 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
9 Weeks. So they want to keep her on life support for another 27+ weeks?
This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
This is.. seriously, like Bene Tleilax Axlotl tanks. It's absolutely horrific.
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Well done @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. fantastic piece for @nursingclio.bsky.social
Proud to have this new article out as part of the @nursingclio.bsky.social response to RFKs policies. This is the first piece from a much larger project I’m just starting but more importantly, wellness camps are bad.
nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
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RFK’s ideas about “wellness farms” for young people are eugenic and unconstitutional
Before he became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted an idea about sending young people with substance abuse and other mental health issues to “we…
nursingclio.org
May 9, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Well done @drkyliesmith.bsky.social. fantastic piece for @nursingclio.bsky.social
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This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030.
Half a million kids.
Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
Half a million kids.
Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030
Experts including Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Dr Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
www.ox.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030.
Half a million kids.
Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
Half a million kids.
Kids.
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
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So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.
On Friday ICE agents stopped a bus in Albion, NY. They had a list of names, and took 14 people into custody
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
Those workers—and their employer—happened to be involved in one of the most crucial labor struggles in the state in recent memory
My latest @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...
“They Actually Had a List”: ICE Arrests Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case
“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a UFW official about an ICE raid in New York.
theintercept.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.