JLB
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JLB
@jlb-mapgyal.bsky.social
Just a gyal looking for a map to the Humanities: Literature instructor, Book lover, ESL tutor, History scholar, and GIS student & fan.
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I didn't think I needed an "always repost the Nazi bar story" but it feels like it bears repeating far too often.
for those unfamiliar with the nazi bar:
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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My thanks to TEAMS (Teaching Association for Medieval Studies) for posting a notice on their newsletter of the new #OpenAccess teaching module on the Black Death: teams-medieval.org/untitled-4/. #histmed #MedievalSky #PandemicPedagogy 🧪🗃️
Open-Access Teaching Module on the Black Death Now Available
Free, new materials for teaching the Black Death
teams-medieval.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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A French lemonade from 1651
August 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'
X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research
Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
www.timeshighereducation.com
April 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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The penguins on the Heard and McDonald Islands announce they are putting 30% tariffs on US goods.
April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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We're looking for submissions for our upcoming issue on POWER & RESISTANCE! ⚡️

Submission guide: www.epoch-magazine.com/submit

#history #academicsky #skystorians #callforsubmissions #envhist #🗃 #🏺#🏛️🎓#🗃🧠 #HistIR
March 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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James Baldwin
March 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Brilliant Dr. Seuss!!

This 👇 was accurate in 1941.
It is, of course, accurate today!
🎯
March 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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"Because you are alive, everything is possible."
-Thich Nhat Hanh
February 6, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen
February 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person
🚨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 2:34 AM
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Here a side-to-side comparison between Hitler and Musk and their salute...

you decide if this isn't a nazi salute
January 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Several people have asked, who are the best prose stylists among historians? Those who have been the most useful to me (in no particular order) have been Christopher Hill, C.L.R. James, E.P. Thompson, Natalie Zemon Davis, Eduardo Galeano, and (let me throw in an anthropologist) Clifford Geertz.
December 7, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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RUMI . . .
November 16, 2024 at 4:21 PM