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Rebecca Scales

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Historian; Rutgers Ph.D.; thinking about radio, listening, & sound; empire; tech, medicine, & disability; now writing about #polio in France. Baker & dog parent. Tired of sitting still.

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but you know who can't dance?

11.03.2026 00:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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three men are standing in front of a patterned wall and one of them is wearing a shirt that says sherlock ALT: three men are standing in front of a patterned wall and one of them is wearing a shirt that says sherlock
11.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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11.03.2026 00:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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11.03.2026 00:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage in front of a row of lights . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is dancing on a stage in front of a row of lights .
11.03.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is Kirstin Gillibrand on this list? Why are any of these dems on this list?

10.03.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congrats!

10.03.2026 23:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you can also tell this is a man who has never faced real consequences for his actions.

10.03.2026 17:31 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This story is wild. I have lots of questions about DOGE, but also the person appointed to head the NEH.

08.03.2026 02:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Iran hits Amazon data centres in jolt to Gulf AI drive First known military strike on a US hyperscaler rattles regional ambitions to build multibillion-dollar cloud facilities

Maybe Iranian hackers will render Canvas unusable. www.ft.com/content/09fa...

06.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

how do we find the wealthy benefactor? Or maybe we all just start playing the lotto?

05.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

How can we organize Rutgers reunions so we can have these convos in person, but with wine and beer? (and I don't mean conferences). I need more of this content in my life.

05.03.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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05.03.2026 19:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Joan and Matt at the same time?

05.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm thinking about swinging by the conference in Buffalo in June. I want you to introduce me to one of your fellow panelists!

05.03.2026 19:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

nah, she's just going to get promoted to a job that doesn't exist

05.03.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

but hey, this was only 20 years ago. I'm not still mad or anything.

05.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mostly I was mad that every single modern Europeanist (except John) was on leave while I was doing coursework but somehow they wrote the questions. How is that reasonable. But also, I wanted to take classes with them & didn't get to!

05.03.2026 18:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Bonnie also thought she was being helpful but gave me a terrible question I couldn't answer.

05.03.2026 18:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, you got to be in Bonnie's office? I was in the basement in (I think) Paul Hannebrink's office with no windows and it was terrible. Michael was much smarter about the whole thing.

05.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

that global/comp exam served me well. I wrote mine on empire, anthropology, and the "sciences."

05.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWar crimes don’t hide sex crimes”

Highway sign in Boston. How can we make this slogan viral?

05.03.2026 11:27 πŸ‘ 614 πŸ” 258 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 12

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05.03.2026 17:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh 100% ... and you never get that kind of free time to do something comparable ever again (says woman trying to master entirely new historiographies for book #2). And the idea that AI could do this for me is laughable.

05.03.2026 16:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

My comps are the #1 thing about my PhD program I hated. One of my minor field exams was great - I wrote a 15 page essay that I have since used for innumerable lectures. The other one was a gigantic waste of time and gave me nothing to work with for teaching or my diss. I have never gotten over it.

05.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So Claude used outdated data -- from over a decade ago -- to tell the US to strike a school full of children. Yep, yep, yep, this is definitely a product we should be allowing in all of our classrooms.

05.03.2026 15:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they also sterilized everything with bleach and included it in "sanitized" drinking water

05.03.2026 11:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

it's not surprising. I'm just mad that supposedly smart people at my uni keep saying stupid stuff like this and expecting us to think they're smart and thinking about it in the right way. Also, I don't think it's comparable to the industrial revolution. AT ALL.

05.03.2026 01:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I was told the other week that AI was going to be just like "the industrial revolution" and that Claude was revolutionizing research. A couple of days later, Claude was being used to bomb a girls' school in Iran. I guess that's the Industrial Revolution we all have to look forward to?

05.03.2026 01:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

because we have no AV, my whole panel made handouts. So at least we'll have those and we can talk about my sexy image of a nun and iron lung. I'm selling this already, right?

05.03.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0