Nina Kushner
@ninakushner.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century France, of sex and gender. Associate Professor at Clark University. Lover of all things winter, baking, and Paris. Inveterate reader. Mother to two teens, human to two dogs, and spouse to my husband.
Historian colleagues:
I would love to see samples of how you and your colleagues are using AI and/or preventing its use, as well as any articles on the subject you think worth reading.
#digitalhumanities #humanitiesAI #humanities
I would love to see samples of how you and your colleagues are using AI and/or preventing its use, as well as any articles on the subject you think worth reading.
#digitalhumanities #humanitiesAI #humanities
August 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Historian colleagues:
I would love to see samples of how you and your colleagues are using AI and/or preventing its use, as well as any articles on the subject you think worth reading.
#digitalhumanities #humanitiesAI #humanities
I would love to see samples of how you and your colleagues are using AI and/or preventing its use, as well as any articles on the subject you think worth reading.
#digitalhumanities #humanitiesAI #humanities
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Exactly. I have Baltimore teed up!
If you live in DC and are active on normie social media sites, you should be flooding the zone with videos of boring peaceful life in the city.
August 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Exactly. I have Baltimore teed up!
it was ten years ago that I tripped on a suitcase and broke a toe that somehow led my body to develop erythromelalgia. It has been a long road but while my life is no doubt smaller, I am doing so much better.
August 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
it was ten years ago that I tripped on a suitcase and broke a toe that somehow led my body to develop erythromelalgia. It has been a long road but while my life is no doubt smaller, I am doing so much better.
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Please consider this action
You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 21, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Please consider this action
The administration is attacking universities in the name of fighting antisemitism. Yet when the home of a Jewish governor is set on fire on the first night of Passover—a blatant act of antisemitism— nary a word from you know who.
April 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The administration is attacking universities in the name of fighting antisemitism. Yet when the home of a Jewish governor is set on fire on the first night of Passover—a blatant act of antisemitism— nary a word from you know who.
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Clark University signs amicus brief in support of international students. www.clarku.edu/news/2025/04...
Clark signs amicus brief in support of international students | ClarkU News
Clark University, along with 85 higher education institutions and organizations across the country, has signed an amicus brief in AAUP v. Rubio, supporting a motion to enjoin the federal government’s ...
www.clarku.edu
April 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Clark University signs amicus brief in support of international students. www.clarku.edu/news/2025/04...
Remember when bringing up Hitler as a historical parallel (or claiming the idea came from him) in an argument automatically led to losing that argument?
Reductio ad Hitlerum
I don't think that it the case anymore.
Reductio ad Hitlerum
I don't think that it the case anymore.
April 11, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Remember when bringing up Hitler as a historical parallel (or claiming the idea came from him) in an argument automatically led to losing that argument?
Reductio ad Hitlerum
I don't think that it the case anymore.
Reductio ad Hitlerum
I don't think that it the case anymore.
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Does it say IDEAS???
April 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Does it say IDEAS???
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A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say
The Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
newrepublic.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:25 PM
A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...
They are trying to undo every gain made by the historical profession in the last 65 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...
Trump Orders Smithsonian to Promote ‘American Greatness’ in Executive Order
The president complained in an executive order that the Smithsonian had advanced “narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive.”
www.nytimes.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
They are trying to undo every gain made by the historical profession in the last 65 years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/a...
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What people in every part of higher education need to understand is that Republicans now want to do to universities what they’ve tried to do to labor unions: erase them from the institutional landscape. The question is how much you want to collaborate in your own destruction.
March 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Wonder if the dolphins greeting the astronauts as they splashed down were thinking "Finally, aliens have come to rescue us."
March 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Wonder if the dolphins greeting the astronauts as they splashed down were thinking "Finally, aliens have come to rescue us."
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“Harvard, with its unmatched resources and historical influence, faces a distinct responsibility in this moment of crisis. True leadership demands more than defensive caution — it requires bold, coordinated action.”
@harvard.edu Crimson board nails it.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@harvard.edu Crimson board nails it.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
The Hiring Freeze Is a Decent Defense. But It Won’t Save the Academy. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Each revoked NIH grant, each funding threat, each regulatory assault weakens not just the elite institutions, but all universities, research hospitals, and the entire ecosystem of American innovation.
www.thecrimson.com
March 12, 2025 at 8:18 PM
“Harvard, with its unmatched resources and historical influence, faces a distinct responsibility in this moment of crisis. True leadership demands more than defensive caution — it requires bold, coordinated action.”
@harvard.edu Crimson board nails it.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@harvard.edu Crimson board nails it.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
autarkies unite... oh wait...
March 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
autarkies unite... oh wait...
As a Jew who works in academia, let me say this again, for the back of the room.
We are safest in a country where the government protects the civil rights of everyone, regardless of their opinions on Jews and Israel.
Stop illegal actions in our name.
Stop attacking academia in our name.
We are safest in a country where the government protects the civil rights of everyone, regardless of their opinions on Jews and Israel.
Stop illegal actions in our name.
Stop attacking academia in our name.
March 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
As a Jew who works in academia, let me say this again, for the back of the room.
We are safest in a country where the government protects the civil rights of everyone, regardless of their opinions on Jews and Israel.
Stop illegal actions in our name.
Stop attacking academia in our name.
We are safest in a country where the government protects the civil rights of everyone, regardless of their opinions on Jews and Israel.
Stop illegal actions in our name.
Stop attacking academia in our name.
Rereading Beccaria On Crimes and Punishments. Not my favorite Enlightenment text but really jamming on its support for the rule of law...'cause... you know.
March 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Rereading Beccaria On Crimes and Punishments. Not my favorite Enlightenment text but really jamming on its support for the rule of law...'cause... you know.
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NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
March 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Good Morning Everyone
(ty @cwebbonline.com )
Please take a moment to listen
Please take a moment and be like this great guy....
Please take a moment to remember Amanda Gorman said
" IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT."
"IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT "
(ty @cwebbonline.com )
Please take a moment to listen
Please take a moment and be like this great guy....
Please take a moment to remember Amanda Gorman said
" IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT."
"IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT "
Sharing more townhall videos today because they’re giving me hope.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
THIS is good trouble!
Who is this man? I want to shake his hand and buy him a drink.
February 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Good Morning Everyone
(ty @cwebbonline.com )
Please take a moment to listen
Please take a moment and be like this great guy....
Please take a moment to remember Amanda Gorman said
" IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT."
"IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT "
(ty @cwebbonline.com )
Please take a moment to listen
Please take a moment and be like this great guy....
Please take a moment to remember Amanda Gorman said
" IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO SEE IT."
"IF ONLY WE ARE BRAVE ENOUGH TO BE IT "
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
Block Donald Trump’s Attempts to Abolish the Department of Education
Public education in this country is under attack. And Trump has already made clear his intentions to undermine public education even further at every turn—including the extreme proposal to completely ...
sign.moveon.org
February 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/bl...
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it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
February 15, 2025 at 11:07 PM
it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
Democrats: This isn't business as usual, we need you to fight!
We are in an overwhelming crisis. After just over two weeks in office, the Trump administration has unleashed wave after wave of catastrophic attacks—even going so far as cutting off critical funding ...
sign.moveon.org
February 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...
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Atta way! 🇺🇸
NEWS
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz says he’s putting a blanket hold on all of President Trump’s State Department nominees until USAID is back up and running.
Exclusive | Democratic Senator Says He Will Block Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back
The move would require Senate Majority Leader John Thune to use precious floor time to advance the president’s nominees through the confirmation process.
bit.ly
February 3, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Atta way! 🇺🇸