Randolph Scully
@randolphscully.bsky.social
Early American History and other stuff. COYS!
Gurrrrrrgh
"Ever since Columbus' 1492 discovery of the "New World," America's East Coast has been gateway to the United States and to new opportunities. Almost 500 years later, this legacy continues with the United States constituting the largest integrated and most lucrative business market in the world."
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Gurrrrrrgh
This is a really good point (the whole thread is important too). For me, powerpoints make it easy to present cool stuff (esp. images, maps)... but that ease encourages over-reliance and often leads me to be less focused on how I present those things to engage students more actively
But, over the years, I've become dependent on powerpoints in ways that, frankly, I don't think are fully defensible.
IMO, this is an underappreciated thing in higher ed -- Technology makes our jobs easier by helping us do them more poorly. I'm going to move away from that.
IMO, this is an underappreciated thing in higher ed -- Technology makes our jobs easier by helping us do them more poorly. I'm going to move away from that.
November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This is a really good point (the whole thread is important too). For me, powerpoints make it easy to present cool stuff (esp. images, maps)... but that ease encourages over-reliance and often leads me to be less focused on how I present those things to engage students more actively
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To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
www.huffpost.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 AM
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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The Wizards, as a team, are very bad at basketball, but apparently very, very good at ecology. So who’s to say, really?
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 PM
The Wizards, as a team, are very bad at basketball, but apparently very, very good at ecology. So who’s to say, really?
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That Ken Burns is two thirds through this series and only in 1777 feels very much like the pace I teach my survey.
November 20, 2025 at 3:24 AM
That Ken Burns is two thirds through this series and only in 1777 feels very much like the pace I teach my survey.
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whenever i’m feeling even the slightest bit pleased with myself i just need to visit the duplicate items folder of zotero to be reminded how impressively inefficient i am👏🏽
November 18, 2025 at 2:25 AM
whenever i’m feeling even the slightest bit pleased with myself i just need to visit the duplicate items folder of zotero to be reminded how impressively inefficient i am👏🏽
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Really lovely defense of higher education—focused on local colleges but applicable more broadly. Higher Ed is so crucial to economies, to people, to imaginations
Opinion: How higher education now powers the Lehigh Valley
Opinion: Colleges and universities function as anchor institutions in the Lehigh Valley
www.mcall.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Really lovely defense of higher education—focused on local colleges but applicable more broadly. Higher Ed is so crucial to economies, to people, to imaginations
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Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Could argue the misogyny Summers expressed both publicly while president of Harvard and in emails to Epstein says more about the culture at our most elite institutions than any of the frontpage freakouts over academia in the past few years but hey
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Where does this “26 colonies” figure come from? Holly Brewer counted around 40 administrative divisions: boston1775.blogspot.com/2021/10/brit... #HATM
Britain’s Forty American Colonies
This month I listened in on some of the sessions of the American Philosophical Society’s “Meanings of Independence” conference . One of ...
boston1775.blogspot.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Where does this “26 colonies” figure come from? Holly Brewer counted around 40 administrative divisions: boston1775.blogspot.com/2021/10/brit... #HATM
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‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
‘Of all the violent phases in the history of Liverpool, the slave trade was the most vicious, yet it was barely acknowledged until recently.’
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
John Kerrigan on Liverpool, the Atlantic slave trade and m. nourbeSe philip’s long poem 𝘡𝘰𝘯𝘨!
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This is astounding. The @michigandaily.bsky.social upstages every single legacy outlet in the country when it comes to exposing the underbelly of higher education. Just tremendous work.
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
From the Daily: The University's values on trial
specials.michigandaily.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This is astounding. The @michigandaily.bsky.social upstages every single legacy outlet in the country when it comes to exposing the underbelly of higher education. Just tremendous work.
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
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Former VA Del. Mark Levine (D): "I’m really surprised a Senator I know personally and have long respected is this naive. Kaine isn’t stupid. But his justification for bowing down to King Donald is so illogical that it insults any thinking Virginian." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Former VA Del. Mark Levine (D): "I’m really surprised a Senator I know personally and have long respected is this naive. Kaine isn’t stupid. But his justification for bowing down to King Donald is so illogical that it insults any thinking Virginian." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-...
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Don’t think we’re not looking at you, too, @markwarner.bsky.social . The math ain’t hard on this one
Super weird:
none of the democrats who just fucked over all of their constituents and made a month of a government shutdown completely meaningless are up for reelection.
What a crazy random happenstance! Or is it???
Were we were duped again as this capitulation happened after the nov. election ?
none of the democrats who just fucked over all of their constituents and made a month of a government shutdown completely meaningless are up for reelection.
What a crazy random happenstance! Or is it???
Were we were duped again as this capitulation happened after the nov. election ?
a woman says we got played on a netflix ad
ALT: a woman says we got played on a netflix ad
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Don’t think we’re not looking at you, too, @markwarner.bsky.social . The math ain’t hard on this one
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“Yes, @kaine.senate.gov voted for the deal and @markwarner.bsky.social voted no. We all know that was strategic, because Kaine just got safely reelected. They think we’ll forget.”
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 PM
“Yes, @kaine.senate.gov voted for the deal and @markwarner.bsky.social voted no. We all know that was strategic, because Kaine just got safely reelected. They think we’ll forget.”
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in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
in any case it is wild that voters just sent a huge message and a bunch of senate democrats are all, “it doesn’t look like anything to me”
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agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
November 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish
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No health care, no deal.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
No health care, no deal.
@kaine.senate.gov Seriously, rethink this... please do everything you can to kill this vote before you do irreparable damage to the party and to millions of Americans.
This is a terrible mistake and hands a victory to Trump right after Virginia voters handed him a massive defeat. You are doing nothing to protect health care, and as for Federal workers, why did put them through 40 days of hell to just surrender for nothing?
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 AM
@kaine.senate.gov Seriously, rethink this... please do everything you can to kill this vote before you do irreparable damage to the party and to millions of Americans.
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Dealer: alright everyone ante up
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
November 9, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Dealer: alright everyone ante up
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
Chuck Schumer: I fold
Dealer: … we haven’t even dealt the hand yet
Chuck Schumer: I 👏 fold 👏
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
November 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation.
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
Breaking News: Cornell University reached an agreement with the Trump administration that would restore hundreds of millions in funding to the university. It's expected to pay a $30 million fine to the government and to invest $30 million in agriculture and farming programs.
Cornell Reaches Deal with Trump Administration to Restore Research Funds
The Ivy League university had warned of layoffs after the Trump administration stripped it of funds this year. The cuts were among the deepest in higher education.
nyti.ms
November 7, 2025 at 5:30 PM
As Ta-Nehisi Coates said last month:
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
“.. it’s either one of two things: either you’re cowards or you’re with him. And if you’re with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with.”
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Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
This Virginia Election Was a Warning for Data Centers
John McAuliff ran his campaign almost entirely on data centers — and won.
heatmap.news
November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers?
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.
For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.