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ResearchActual @smithhilaryc.bsky.social · Oct 20
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prefernot2.bsky.social
Must watch: youtu.be/VNLdyWPAz18
So I'm in the Epstein Files
YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)
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November 22, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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miriamposner.com
Good question!
Commentary: The UC faculty just won a big court victory over Trump. But why didn't UC join their lawsuit?
The UC faculty went to court to fight Trump's funding cutoffs and won. Why has the university system tried to negotiate instead?
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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miriamposner.com
Four UCLA undergrads were arrested on Tuesday while exercising their right to support @afscme3299.bsky.social’s picketed strike. We demand all charges be dropped.
November 20, 2025 To: UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk CC: Monroe Gordon, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs Steve Lurie, Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus and Community Safety Anthony Solana, Jr., UCLA Employee and Labor Relations Subject: End Arrests at Protected Labor Actions Two rights are ironclad in California: the right of organized labor to strike when contract negotiations fail and the right of citizens to speak freely in public. This week, the University of California violated both. Four UCLA undergraduate students were arrested by university police on Tuesday while picketing in support of AFSCME 3299's protected strike. Two UCLA graduate student members of UAW 4811 were detained by university police on Wednesday at a union action about contract violations and labor cuts. We demand the University of California immediately cease and desist from arresting union members and their supporters during actions protected by the First Amendment and California labor law, and that UC leadership ensure none of the six students face criminal charges or student disciplinary proceedings. Drop all charges - legal and disciplinary. Signed, AFSCME 3299 UAW 4811 Teamsters Local 2010 UPTE CWA 9119 UCLA Faculty Association UCLA Chapter of University Council - AFT Undergraduate Students Association Office of the President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Internal Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of the External Vice President Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 2 Undergraduate Students Association Office of General Representative 3 Undergraduate Students Association Cultural Affairs Commission Undergraduate Students Association Office of the Transfer Student Representative UC-AFT Local 1474 UC San Diego Chapter of University Council - AFT UC Berkeley Faculty Association UC Irvine Faculty Association UC Merced Faculty Association UC Riverside Faculty Association UC San Diego Faculty Association UC San Francisco…
November 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
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neorsd.org
just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management.

remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.
What Tom Holland’s historic lip-sync showcase taught us about stormwater management
Grab your umbrella and your tights.
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November 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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alistaircoleman.bsky.social
Happy Fenton Day to all who celebrate. Jesus Christ, fourteen years.

youtu.be/3GRSbr0EYYU
JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK: ORIGINAL UPLOAD
YouTube video by JAGGL113
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November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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indyfromspace.bsky.social
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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privatechand.bsky.social
This would be why I am such a strident critic of digitization as a substitute for actual archival preservation. My sixteenth century documents are far sturdier and likely to survive another 500 years than the detritus on the internet. And digitization is not democratization.
September 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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lukesteuber.com
EVERYONE STOP

cheese wheel of cheeses
A circular infographic chart categorizing cheeses by type of milk and texture. At the center, four sections are labeled cow, sheep, goat, and buffalo, radiating outward into concentric rings for textures: soft, semi-soft, semi-hard, and hard. Each cheese name is placed within its corresponding segment, with illustrated wedges of cheese circling the outer edge. Cow’s milk occupies the largest portion, featuring well-known varieties like Brie, Camembert, Taleggio, Havarti, Gouda, Cheddar, and Parmesan. Sheep’s milk includes cheeses such as Roquefort, Manchego, and Pecorino Romano. Goat’s milk features options like Chèvre, Crottin de Chavignol, and Humboldt Fog. Buffalo is represented by Mozzarella di Bufala Campana and Buffalo Blue. The cheeses are organized visually so that softer varieties appear closer to the center and harder ones toward the edge. Small colored drawings show each cheese’s texture, rind, and tone, from creamy whites and soft rounds to golden blocks, crumbly wedges, and blue-veined interiors. The background is a deep charcoal gray, making the warm oranges, yellows, and creams of the cheeses stand out clearly.
September 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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quatrus.bsky.social
Some more good news:
U.S. Wildfire Fighters to Mask Up After Decades-Long Ban on Smoke Protections
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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annleckie.com
Randomly thinking about assumptions we make about other people's jobs. It's so obvious that [job X] is easy, we could do it with no training, the person we see doing it (and maybe having a hard time) must just be stupid or something, we know how it should go!

The thing is.
September 7, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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mcsweeneys.net
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."
Honest Academic Job Postings
English department seeks a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Shakespeare, Romanticism, Victorianism, modernism, post-modernism, post...
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September 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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sarahstierch.com
Heads-up folks if you're heading to the Russian River, Lake Mendocino or Navarro River in Mendocino County this weekend.
August 29, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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maricohn.bsky.social
Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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kfduggan.bsky.social
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏

The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project. All collections are of equal importance. Every letter, photograph, or other artifact has an important story to tell. The collections and their contents are not edited or censored. Our role as historians is not to judge the past in light of the present, but to present everything in its entirety at the time of its creation.
August 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
This is not only a serious issue for historians and not only a serious issue for academics (although it is that). It's a development that's also deleterious for the GLAM sector, for example, and part of a much larger trend nationally and internationally to restrict and dismantle access to archives.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
August 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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chaco-arch.bsky.social
NAGPRA repatriation and rethinking of exhibits in Pennsylvania
Pa. State Museum closes Native American exhibit, returns 1000s of artifacts under federal law
Tens of thousands of sacred objects, artifacts, funerary objects, and human remains are being processed by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission to comply with the Native American Graves P...
www.pennlive.com
August 8, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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democratswin.bsky.social
My next read…..
August 8, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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erinbartram.bsky.social
I am still haunted by this poem, "The Myth Was Never The Unicorn," written by one of the teens who participated in the creative writing program at the museum this summer. A reminder that girls are always aware.

Read the full piece and listen to the author recite it: journey75.org/2025/the-myt...
They say unicorns bow to virgin maidens, but they don’t say what happens after they kneel. They don’t say what the horn is for. They say they are gentle, but only in the way a trap is gentle when it waits.
August 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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goldengateblond.bsky.social
who tf shoots firefighters
Idaho shooting: two dead after firefighters ambushed by gunman while responding to fire
Shelter-in-place alert sent to Coeur d’Alene residents after multiple people were shot at while controlling fire
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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calmatters.org
Ruben Salazar died 55 years ago while covering a protest in LA. His case illustrates the dangers journalists face today as police fire “less lethal munitions” into crowds. cal.news/3SMlTDN

📸 David McNew, Getty
Members of the press take cover as police officers clear the area outside of a federal building as protests continue in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. Photo by David McNew, Getty Images Hed: Why the death of reporter Ruben Salazar 55 years ago resonates with journalists covering LA protests today
June 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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wineecon.bsky.social
Horse-drawn wagons full of Fountain Grove Winery grapes waiting in line at the crusher during the 1910 harvest in Sonoma county. Sonoma County Museum.
June 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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hedgielib.bsky.social
It is absolutely *fascinating* how this article entirely fails to mention the reliance on academic library budgets to pay for these subscriptions.... Libraries aren't mentioned at all.

www.science.org/content/arti...
June 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM