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Dehn gilmore
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Humanist among scientists. Writing on 19th c literature and visual culture; also family secrets.
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“In Texas, CDC funds to stem a measles outbreak weren’t available until after the crisis had subsided and two children had died. A project to protect Alabamans from raw sewage and hookworm was abandoned…Time-dependent surveys on HIV and maternal mortality were halted…”
Wielding Obscure Budget Tools, Trump’s ‘Reaper’ Vought Sows Turmoil in Public Health - KFF Health News
Through shrouded bureaucratic maneuvers, White House budget director Russell Vought and DOGE have quietly upended outbreak response, HIV treatment, and dementia care in communities across America.
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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johannawinant.bsky.social
. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I put CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY together to help connect what undergrads do in assignments with what we do as scholars

then we found ourselves talking to a lot of high school teachers

slate.com/life/2025/10...
There’s a Literacy Crisis. One Classroom Solution Should Be Obvious.
You can't get better at reading until you care about a text.
slate.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
wolcotthenry.bsky.social
Postdoc search in environmental history/visual culture at Caltech! Please circulate and apply!

applications.caltech.edu/jobs/historypd
Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in History | Caltech Applications
applications.caltech.edu
October 23, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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silkyweineck.bsky.social
The 100K fee for H-1B visas (yearly!) is reported as a hit on tech -- but it is a hit on universities. It will make it impossible for us to hire foreign visitors, or foreign scholars into tenure track positions--I think almost 40% of H-1Bs go to universities and university hospitals.
September 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
wolcotthenry.bsky.social
Authors-including academic authors-join the class!
arstechnica.com Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 27
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action
Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.
arstechnica.com
August 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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espiers.bsky.social
Rufo went to Georgetown. To a person, these jackasses trying to destroy higher ed benefited from it and now want to pull the ladder up so the people who experience the most class mobility from it—women and minorities—can’t anymore
July 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Seems important to say that MechaHitler is being powered by turbines that are poisoning Black people in Memphis

www.wired.com/story/xai-da...
Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
Elon Musk’s xAI gas turbines get official approval, even as civil rights groups prepare to sue over alleged Clean Air Act violations.
www.wired.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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swordsjew.bsky.social
what a model
hellgatenyc.com Hell Gate *subscribe today!* @hellgatenyc.com · Jun 17
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
June 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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juliusgoat.bsky.social
I have decided to embrace the theory that the earth rests upon the back of a giant turtle, rather than the widely accepted "branch of science" known to some proponents as "physics"
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jun 14
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
Ancient miasma theory may help explain Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine moves
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently embraces the outdated "miasma theory" of disease instead of the widely accept "germ theory" of disease, which may help explain some of the actions he's been taking.
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June 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations

Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research…

Definitely worth a read

projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...
Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding
The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...
projects.propublica.org
June 13, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
Here's something I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.
Here is a list I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits. Defense of democracy seen as basic to the job. Symmetrical accounts of asymmetrical realities seen as malpractice. “Politics as strategic game” frame seen as low quality, downmarket, amateurish— and overmatched. Bad actors with a history of misinforming the public seen as unsuitable sources and unwelcome guests. Internalizing of the “liberal bias” critique seen as self-crippling, a historic mistake in need of correction.
June 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.
June 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
wolcotthenry.bsky.social
Half my social media feed is ads for “cortisol detox” and the other half is updates on the march of authoritarianism. Great conditions for grading.
June 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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pronounced-ing.bsky.social
If you're happy Harvard stood up for academic freedom today: write your alma mater(s) if they haven't done the same and ask them to do the same. Make this your one action you take today. And share that you did it below!
April 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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samwang.bsky.social
Academics, join today! Sliding dues scale, based on salary. www.aaup.org/membership/j...
April 13, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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simsjames.bsky.social
“This is the Vichy moment. It’s a classic collaborationist dilemma. You can have preserved your school but you live in a sea of authoritarianism.” Wesleyan University President Michael Roth in @economist.com
Donald Trump is battling America’s elite universities—and winning
The Ivy League sees little point in fighting the federal government in court
economist.com
April 12, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Another day wasted when university presidents & chancellors could have been in front of microphones. The total lack of loud public collective action condemning this & explaining to Americans why this is a complete disaster is utterly maddening.

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April 8, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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ryanmarino.bsky.social
So far there have been three measles deaths in under six weeks in the ongoing US measles outbreak.

Prior to this year there had only been three measles deaths in the United States in total in the entire last thirty years.
Third measles death
This is not normal. For three reasons.
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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kentremendous.bsky.social
I just sent Cory Booker money. I will send money to anyone who fights, and I will not send money to anyone who cowers in fear. That has to be the situation, for all of us.
April 1, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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enirenberg.bsky.social
Peter Marks’s resignation letter. Everyone should read this.
Peter Marks, MD, PhD Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 March 28, 2025 Sara Brenner, MD, MPH Acting Commissioner of Food and Drugs U.S. Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Silver Spring, MD 20903 Dear Dr. Brenner: It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign from FDA and retire from federal service as Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research effective April 5, 2025. I leave behind a staff of professionals who are undoubtedly the most devoted to protecting and promoting the public health of any group of people that I have encountered during my four decades working in the public and private sectors. I have always done my best to advocate for their well-being and I would ask that you do the same during this very difficult time during which their critical importance to the safety and security of our nation may be underappreciated. Over the past years I have been involved in enhancing the safety of our nation's blood supply, in advancing the field of cell and gene therapy, and in responding to public health emergencies. In the last of these, during the COVID-19 pandemic I had the privilege of watching the vision that I conceived for Operation Warp Speed in March 2020 in collaboration with Dr. Robert Kadlec become a reality under the leadership of HHS Secretary Azar and President Trump due to the unwavering commitment of public servants at FDA and elsewhere across the government. At FDA, the tireless efforts of staff across the agency resulted in remarkably expediting the development of vaccines against the virus, meeting the standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness expected by the American public. The vaccines undoubtedly markedly reduced morbidity and mortality from COVID-19 in the United States and elsewhere. Many of these same individuals applied learnings from the pandemic during a flawless response helping… ongoing multistate measles outbreak that is particularly severe in Texas reminds us of what happens when confidence in well-established science underlying public health and well-being is undermined. Measles, which killed more than 100,000 unvaccinated children last year in Africa and Asia owing to pneumonitis and encephalitis caused by the virus, had been eliminated from our shores. The two-dose measles, mumps, rubella vaccine regimen (MMR) using over the past decades has a remarkably favorable benefit-risk profile. The MMR vaccine is 97% or more effective in preventing measles following the two-dose series, and its safety has been remarkably well studied. Though rarely followed by a single fever-related seizure, or very rarely by allergic reactions or blood clotting disorders, the vaccine very simply does not cause autism, nor is it associated with encephalitis or death. It does, however, protect against a potential devasting consequence of prior measles infection, subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), which is an untreatable, relentlessly progressive neurologic disorder leading to death in about 1 in 10,000 individuals infected with measles. Undermining confidence in well-established vaccines that have met the high standards for quality, safety, and effectiveness that have been in place for decades at FDA is irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation's health, safety. and security. In the years following the pandemic, at the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research we have applied the same unwavering commitment to public health priorities to the development of cell and gene therapies to address both hereditary and acquired rare diseases. During my tenure as Center Director we have approved 22 gene therapies, including the first gene therapy ever to be approved in the United States. However, we know that we must do better to expedite the development of treatments for those individual suffering from any one of the thousan…
March 29, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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naomiaklein.bsky.social
International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Mar 26
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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carlzimmer.com
As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...
For Some Measles Patients, Vitamin A Remedy Supported by RFK Jr. Leaves Them More Ill (Gift Article)
After the health secretary promoted vitamin A as a cure, parents in West Texas began giving their children high doses, sometimes to prevent infection.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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aaup.org
Columbia University has failed to defend academic freedom & freedom of speech & allowed a great institution to be bullied & extorted into submission by an administration hellbent on contorting higher education to their will.

The AAUP condemns this capitulation. We can & must fight back.
Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped
The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.
www.nytimes.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:32 AM
wolcotthenry.bsky.social
“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor, and you will have war.”
-Churchill to Neville Chamberlain, 1938
March 22, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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aoc.bsky.social
I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.
March 14, 2025 at 2:46 AM