Lauren MacIvor Thompson
@lmacthompson1.bsky.social
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Historian of birth control/abortion/suffrage law and policy. Book on early 20th c. birth control law and medical politics coming soon. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
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sawh1970.bsky.social
The Countdown to #2025SHA has officially begun! Mark your calendars for the @sawh1970.bsky.social member/grad student breakfast & the annual address/reception by Crystal Sanders, Associate Professor of Af-Am Studies/History @ Emory University!

Find breakfast tix at (thesawh.org/sawh-confere...)
Friday, November 7th  @8am is the beloved SAWH Member & Graduate Student Breakfast. Tickets need to be purchased in advance (https://thesawh.org/.../member-grad-student-breakfast-at.../ )

Friday, November 7th  @4:30 pm is the Annual Address and Reception. Crystal R. Sanders, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University will be speaking about “’In Pursuit of ‘Their Highest Potential’: Black Women Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and Postbaccalaureate Education during the Age of Jim Crow.”
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It's just terrifying. Solidarity ♥️
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This! I entered my PhD in 2010. I go up for tenure next summer. Was contingent for 6 years.
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I just joined mine and the AAUP and very glad about it
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histoftech.bsky.social
The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...
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fishkin.bsky.social
@mit.edu has done an incredibly important service to the nation by being willing to be the first school to reject the administration's "compact."

President Kornbluth focuses—and she's right—on the principle that "scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."
The document also includes principles with which we disagree, including those that would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution. And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
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As for her call for non-academics to get involved: one thing you should do if you see attacks on academic freedom or administrators capitulating to Trump's extortion at your alma mater is to write the uni/college president & express your outrage. They need to hear from alumni ASAP. Template👇
lmacthompson1.bsky.social
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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Sharing my USG colleague's important new book. Thank you @matthewboedy.bsky.social for this.
matthewboedy.bsky.social
Charlie Kirk is dead, tragically murdered by an assassin’s bullet. Now Turning Point USA wants to cement its founder’s legacy by Christianizing America in his name. Read about that threat to democracy in my new @wjkbooks.com book out now: www.wjkbooks.com/bookproduct/...
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I spent many years as a NTT. 100 percent agreed.
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Our classrooms are not safe for us or regular students. Our universities canot be relied upon to protect us. You have to keep speaking up about this. Faculty already are, but we need folks who aren’t in academia raising the alarm for everyone else. The End.
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These students even enroll in our classes so they can do a "gotcha" on us. Imagine this being your entire role as a student? Imagine having time for this!? But they are emboldened now beyond their wildest dreams.
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There are certain groups that focus on professors and their entire existence is centered on harassing us, spying on us, and inciting violence and intimidation against us.
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But the few last weeks have escalated into outright firings of all kinds of professors (even for tenured ones), as well as intense harassment and threats and now, attempts to prevent us, apparently, from leaving the country if we wish to do so.
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There is a Professor Watchlist you can look at if you can stomach it. Obviously, this campaign has been mainly (not always but mainly) targeted at folks of color, LGBTQ folks, and women until now.
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I know people personally, tenured and not, who have endured horrendous harassment that has required campus security walking them to and from class or their cars, having other people handle their email to filter out threats, and people showing up at their offices or calling repeatedly.
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If you don’t have tenure, the threat is very real and sharper, although it is also clear that tenure is not necessarily something that will protect you either.