Tobin Johnson
@tobinjj.bsky.social
PhD candidate working on the medieval Balkans, Caucasus and Middle East at UMD. Gender & sexuality, literacy and statehood. They/them.
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or organization.
Views expressed here are my own and do not represent any institution or organization.
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No one belongs in that box; no one is a woman in the sense that these types of patriarchy enthusiasts mean woman.
Some people who get thrown in that box are women in another sense; some people who get thrown in that box aren’t women at all.
No one belongs there.
Some people who get thrown in that box are women in another sense; some people who get thrown in that box aren’t women at all.
No one belongs there.
January 30, 2025 at 12:29 AM
No one belongs in that box; no one is a woman in the sense that these types of patriarchy enthusiasts mean woman.
Some people who get thrown in that box are women in another sense; some people who get thrown in that box aren’t women at all.
No one belongs there.
Some people who get thrown in that box are women in another sense; some people who get thrown in that box aren’t women at all.
No one belongs there.
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New Medieval Books: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/new-medieval-books-the-mamluk-sultanate-a-history/ #MedievalBookSky
New Medieval Books: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History - Medievalists.net
A look at the Mamluks, the slave-soldiers who ruled Egypt, Syria and parts of Arabia from the mid-13th century to 1517. It focuses on the politics and governing of this medieval state.
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January 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
New Medieval Books: The Mamluk Sultanate: A History https://www.medievalists.net/2023/01/new-medieval-books-the-mamluk-sultanate-a-history/ #MedievalBookSky
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Someone put this on my timeline and my app refreshed when I went to read it and I can't find the post again to repost, but oh my god, y'all, go read this saga, it is AMAZING. Start here: www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/...
From the fossils community on Reddit: Found a mandible in the travertin floor at my parents house
Explore this post and more from the fossils community
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December 25, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Someone put this on my timeline and my app refreshed when I went to read it and I can't find the post again to repost, but oh my god, y'all, go read this saga, it is AMAZING. Start here: www.reddit.com/r/fossils/s/...
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A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors
Arkansas Law Criminalizing Librarians Ruled Unconstitutional
A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors.
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December 23, 2024 at 11:21 PM
A federal judge has struck down key parts of an Arkansas law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing so-called “harmful” materials to minors
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Oh hey, just a thing I wanted to share with other teachers. Some of my students are using AI in a way I did not anticipate, and so I did not warn specifically against it. (Some of the warning I gave covered this in a general sense but I want to be more specific in future.) So: a lil thread.
December 16, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Oh hey, just a thing I wanted to share with other teachers. Some of my students are using AI in a way I did not anticipate, and so I did not warn specifically against it. (Some of the warning I gave covered this in a general sense but I want to be more specific in future.) So: a lil thread.
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A reminder that Trump doesn't play 4D chess. His critics impose 4D chess narratives on his reckless impulsivity in order to reassure themselves that there is method to the madness, when there just isn't.
November 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
A reminder that Trump doesn't play 4D chess. His critics impose 4D chess narratives on his reckless impulsivity in order to reassure themselves that there is method to the madness, when there just isn't.
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Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
Fall 2024 Call for Submissions
Open to all undergraduates!
Due Oct 22
Submit in English or Persian
roshangarumd.wixsite.com/rupsjournal
October 1, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Roshangar Undergraduate Persian Studies Journal
Fall 2024 Call for Submissions
Open to all undergraduates!
Due Oct 22
Submit in English or Persian
roshangarumd.wixsite.com/rupsjournal
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Today in #AHAPerspectives, the AHA's Mapping the Landscape team—Whitney E. Barringer, Nicholas Kryczka, & Scot McFarlane—shares what they learned about social studies curricula. More research findings coming in future reports! 🗃️
Who Is in Charge of History Curricula? Some Findings from the AHA’s Research
The AHA’s Mapping the Landscape project has found that teachers are facing a perennial question.
www.historians.org
April 17, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Today in #AHAPerspectives, the AHA's Mapping the Landscape team—Whitney E. Barringer, Nicholas Kryczka, & Scot McFarlane—shares what they learned about social studies curricula. More research findings coming in future reports! 🗃️
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Enrollment at public colleges rose for the first time in a decade. Higher ed leaders credit historic state funding and innovative college access initiatives. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43zA5EI
Enrollment up at MN colleges after “historic” state funding
Enrollment at public colleges rose for the first time in a decade. Higher ed leaders credit historic state funding and innovative college access initiatives.
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March 27, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Enrollment at public colleges rose for the first time in a decade. Higher ed leaders credit historic state funding and innovative college access initiatives. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/43zA5EI
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This is a powerful rebuke of, among other things, the entire way the @nytimes.com reports on higher education, which for years has fixated on the fantasy of "wokeness" run amuck.
March 28, 2024 at 1:41 PM
This is a powerful rebuke of, among other things, the entire way the @nytimes.com reports on higher education, which for years has fixated on the fantasy of "wokeness" run amuck.
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I'm not in academia anymore so I can't self-cite in my daily work, but if I could, it would definitely be this. Every day this stupid idea comes up.
Don't We Have To Judge People By The Standards Of Their Time?
Many who reach for this cliché want it to function as a shield against judgment altogether.
contingentmagazine.org
March 27, 2024 at 3:15 AM
I'm not in academia anymore so I can't self-cite in my daily work, but if I could, it would definitely be this. Every day this stupid idea comes up.
Really interesting! Glad to see the note on mares with wear from bits. The claim mares weren't ridden in medieval Europe bc of breeding requirements has always seemed suspicious to me bc most pregnant mares can be ridden and worked normally (and we know mares were ridden/worked in other societies).
Medieval horse cemetery reveals international equine trade www.medievalists.net/2024/03/medi... #medieval
Medieval horse cemetery reveals international equine trade - Medievalists.net
Archaeological analysis of a near-unique animal cemetery discovered in London nearly 30 years ago has revealed the international scale of horse trading by the elites of late medieval and Tudor England...
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March 28, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Really interesting! Glad to see the note on mares with wear from bits. The claim mares weren't ridden in medieval Europe bc of breeding requirements has always seemed suspicious to me bc most pregnant mares can be ridden and worked normally (and we know mares were ridden/worked in other societies).
Okay, conference paper is finished and sent in on time. Back to working on candidacy exam/diss prospectus stuff.
I have my assistant here and ready to help with a day of meeting deadlines. I hope.
March 22, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Okay, conference paper is finished and sent in on time. Back to working on candidacy exam/diss prospectus stuff.
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New Medieval Books: The Ruling Families of Rus www.medievalists.net/2024/03/new-... #books #medieval
New Medieval Books: The Ruling Families of Rus - Medievalists.net
A look at the history of Rus, Lithuania, Moscovy and Tver from the 11th through to the 15th century through the members of the Volodimerovich clan. Each chapter focuses on a ruler and their family.
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March 20, 2024 at 5:32 PM
New Medieval Books: The Ruling Families of Rus www.medievalists.net/2024/03/new-... #books #medieval
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🗃The American historical profession needs a national strategy for sustaining the discipline, and we need the next Executive Director of the AHA to provide it. Please consider signing on to the SNDHE letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Scholars for a New Deal for Higher Education Letter to AHA Council Regarding Search for Executive Director
March 19, 2024
American Historical Association Council
400 A Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
Dear Professor Glymph, Professor Muir, President Vinson, Professor Hyde, Professor Thomas, Professor Hill...
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March 20, 2024 at 2:14 PM
🗃The American historical profession needs a national strategy for sustaining the discipline, and we need the next Executive Director of the AHA to provide it. Please consider signing on to the SNDHE letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
I have my assistant here and ready to help with a day of meeting deadlines. I hope.
March 21, 2024 at 5:48 PM
I have my assistant here and ready to help with a day of meeting deadlines. I hope.
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Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
In 2023, 18% of Stanford seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42%.😖 flip.it/FD_PmE
In 2023, 18% of Stanford seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42%.😖 flip.it/FD_PmE
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
The case for teaching coders to speak French
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March 19, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Universities Have a Computer-Science Problem
In 2023, 18% of Stanford seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42%.😖 flip.it/FD_PmE
In 2023, 18% of Stanford seniors graduated with a degree in computer science, more than double the proportion of just a decade earlier. Over the same period at MIT, that rate went up from 23 percent to 42%.😖 flip.it/FD_PmE
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I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
February 22, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I recently made a comic complaining that NASA refuses to listen to my good ideas for improving the Solar System (xkcd.com/2750).
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
To my delight, NASA’s Science Mission Directorate has sent me an actual expert panel evaluation of my “flatten the planets” proposal! Sadly, they decided not to fund it.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Interesting paper from 2017, comparing fact checkers, historians and students. The historians did better than the students, but not by much.
tl;dr: Lots of modern misinfo comes from polished sites with source lists. Best practice is to google the site first.
Interesting paper from 2017, comparing fact checkers, historians and students. The historians did better than the students, but not by much.
tl;dr: Lots of modern misinfo comes from polished sites with source lists. Best practice is to google the site first.
Lateral Reading: Reading Less and Learning More When Evaluating Digital Information
The Internet has democratized access to information but in so doing has opened the floodgates to misinformation, fake news, and rank propaganda masquerading as
papers.ssrn.com
February 16, 2024 at 6:48 AM
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Interesting paper from 2017, comparing fact checkers, historians and students. The historians did better than the students, but not by much.
tl;dr: Lots of modern misinfo comes from polished sites with source lists. Best practice is to google the site first.
Interesting paper from 2017, comparing fact checkers, historians and students. The historians did better than the students, but not by much.
tl;dr: Lots of modern misinfo comes from polished sites with source lists. Best practice is to google the site first.
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Your map is not the territory but mine is built diffrent
February 12, 2024 at 5:31 AM
Your map is not the territory but mine is built diffrent
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Best, Rutenberg, History in Crisis, It's Time to Look Outward.pdf
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December 5, 2023 at 3:13 PM
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Looking to read more books by Native American authors?
Our Native American Heritage Month reading list has you covered👇
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Our Native American Heritage Month reading list has you covered👇
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Native American Heritage Month: A Reading List - UNC Press Blog
Since 1990, November has been nationally celebrated as Native American Heritage Month. During this month we honor the culture, traditions, and achievements that Native people have made to our nation. ...
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November 21, 2023 at 8:59 PM
Looking to read more books by Native American authors?
Our Native American Heritage Month reading list has you covered👇
bit.ly/3R97nG3
Our Native American Heritage Month reading list has you covered👇
bit.ly/3R97nG3
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