Kristin Brig-Ortiz 💧

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

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Leavenworth residents and workers from across KC are rallying outside City Hall to BLOCK 🚫local officials from granting CoreCivic, America’s largest private prison corporation, a permit to set up a new ICE detention center in our backyard!

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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Great new essay with a cover image that Bsky apparently has issues with! Check out the essay to see what the fuss is all about

Friendly reminder that we’re still accepting nominations the NC Prize for Best Journal Article!

This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.

It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever

AHA Congressional Briefing: History of Vaccines YouTube video by American Historical Association

Two weeks ago, three prominent historians gave a Congressional Briefing on vaccines, organized by @historians.org. A must watch as Surgeon General nominee Dr. Casey Means dodges so many important questions about vaccines. @bachynski.bsky.social

For anyone who's interested, here's the transcript of an oral history I did a couple of years ago with Tony Tyson, the Chief Scientist at the Rubin Observatory

In Pursuit of Purity: Environmental Affects, Reproduction, and the Promise of Bodily Sovereignty In The New York Times on October 10, 2025, an article titled “The E.P.A. Followed Up on an Unusual Request About Abortion Pills” described a growing concern regarding “abortion po…

“Antiabortion activists who promote baseless anxieties around “abortion pollution” and “chemical abortion” amplify environmental affects of distrust and longstanding feminist concerns surrounding tensions between reproductive technology and bodily autonomy.” nursingclio.org/2026/02/25/i...

The cover of Baltimore Beat. It is designed to look like a zine, with places to fold it and collaged images on it. Yellow text reads “Baltimore Beat” and “The Literary Issue.”

Issue 78 of Baltimore Beat is live! It’s our literary issue! Our zine-inspired cover was designed by nat raum.

Climate Crisis Will Intensify Strong Winter Storms, Climate Scientist Warns The Trump administration is defunding FEMA as well as climate research, making responding to such storms more difficult.

"In a whole number of ways — the defunding of the science, the defunding of the infrastructure for assistance — the Trump administration is truly putting Americans in harm’s way," says climate scientist Michael Mann.

Reimagining and Improving Student Education The Secretary proposes to amend the regulations for the Federal student loan programs authorized under title IV of the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965, as amended (the title IV, HEA programs) to im...

Public comments on the DoE's proposed "Reimagining and Improving Student Education" are open for submissions and will close on Monday, March 2: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

Great new @nursingclio.bsky.social Emergency Response piece on the US Healthcare Workforce Professional Program and the impact of current cuts on nurses 👩‍⚕️

nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

It’s been an exciting week at AAHM! 🎉

We're hiring two Social Media Coordinators to support the day-to-day management of our social media channels & help drive digital engagement.

Learn more here: histmed.org/join-aahm-as...

Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor Hello Friends of Operation Metro Love Thy Neighbor! Many of our neighbors in Minneapolis are being targeted based on the color of their skin, their accent, or their country of origin. From a healthcare standpoint, this is leading to very scary outcomes, as patients are terrified to leave home and are foregoing necessary care in an effort to stay safe. For moms and babies, medical professionals scramble to meet these needs and to ensure patient safety. As neighbors and community members, we want to ensure these moms and babies have their needs met in terms of supplies, personal care items, and infant and toddler items. While it's a far cry from a baby shower, we are doing our best to ensure that our neighboring mamas have what they need in times of massive distress. All items purchased on this list will be delivered to me and then immediately sent out into the community for maximum impact. On behalf of all the mama and baby teams, we so appreciate your love and generosity.

Black image with white text and white line drawing of a parent holding a baby. Text reads: "Mama + Baby donations needed. All items with an asterisk must be unused. Other items may be gently used. These items will go to immediate homes and be appreciated. [heart emoji] Thank you! ITEMS NEEDED: diapers (size 0-6)*, baby wipes*, pacifiers*, teething items*, free and clear detergent, baby shampoo, baby-safe lotion, infant clothing (all sizes), infant hats, baby blankets, burp cloths, swaddlers, hands-free baby carriers, breastfeeding guards*, feeding pillows, maternity pillows, belly bands, nipple cream*, pimps, infant safe toys, pack + play, epsom salt."

We're seeing a drop off in newborn donations in Minneapolis. Birth workers are seeing small/early babies due to stress/food insecurity—ICE has not stopped—families still in desperate need of support. If you're able, here is a wishlist compiled by folks doing mutual aid
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Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

We've extended this deadline, so if you send us an abstract over the weekend, or on Monday/Tuesday, we'll still consider it! @gcyfrg.bsky.social

Problems with Plastic Toys - The Strong National Museum of Play By: Alexander Parry, 2025 Strong Research Fellow In December 2021, TIME journalist Emily Barone published an editorial about the conflict between her and her children over plastic toys. Barone explain...

Why are so many commercial toys made of plastic?

My new essay for The Strong National Museum of Play shows how safety concerns have alternately fueled and slowed the spread of plastic toys since the 1950s.
www.museumofplay.org/blog/problem...

If you want to learn more about the connected histories of toy safety, materials, and regulation, check out the landing page for our URMC Health Humanities and Bioethics Grand Rounds:
www.urmc.rochester.edu/medical-huma...

Texas A&M, Women’s and Gender Studies, and Academic Common Sense I can’t believe I’m writing this, but at least it keeps my fingers on the keys, not scratching my head or tearing my hair out. And I know that my words here will have no impact on the policies that…

“to prohibit alleged advocacy of “race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity,” clearly violates academic freedom, the First Amendment, and those colleges’ own academic missions […]” nursingclio.org/2026/02/18/t...

Have you seen the short film “Jane Austen’s Period Drama”? We’d love to have someone write about it! This is a fantastic piece for scholars studying menstruation or period politics.

Early modern Frenchies! Oxford Modern Languages/Trinity College is looking for a Departmental Lecturer, a 3 year position to replace me while I'm on secondment my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:

How dumplings spread around the world

(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why. Joan Wallach Scott in The Guardian archive.is/Htsxj

Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies (closes 15 March 2026) We are hiring! We are excited to announce a PhD position on “Art and Soil Ecologies” within the JUST ART research consortium. The project engages with the vital role crucial role soil plays within …

Phd Position: Art and Soil Ecologies, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Closes 15 March 2026
ehc-amsterdam.nl/phd-position...
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Teaching/Watching/Fearing Abroad While Minnesota Roils For the last four weeks, I’ve been in Ireland with a group of twenty-one St. Olaf College students. While St. Olaf is in Northfield, Minnesota, about 40 miles south of the Twin Cities, my January t…

A stunning and beautiful piece of writing from my friend @aearls.bsky.social. At @nursingclio.bsky.social today:

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

#envhist meets #histmed in this essay on plants, gender, and healing in colonial America 🌱

History: Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to the present (RS936) - Swansea University We offer a wide range of funded and fully funded research scholarships in all subject areas. Explore your options and apply now.

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean