Kathryn Tomasek
@kathryntomasek.bsky.social
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Histories of women & gender.
Opinions my own.
My grandparents were children of immigrants—birthright citizens.
Against erasure.
For human rights, kindness, joy.
Protect immigrants.
Due process.
Histories of women & gender.
Opinions my own.
My grandparents were children of immigrants—birthright citizens.
Against erasure.
For human rights, kindness, joy.
Protect immigrants.
Due process.
Providence is a small city. Fear, discomfort, anxiety extends beyond Brown University as the shooter remains at large. We are all sheltering in place.
December 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Providence is a small city. Fear, discomfort, anxiety extends beyond Brown University as the shooter remains at large. We are all sheltering in place.
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Thanks to generous funding from the @sloanfoundation.bsky.social, John Basl and I are thrilled to be running the AI and Data Ethics summer school in 2026! ~12 graduate students, $10k stipend, 9 weeks to learn about scientific and ethical issues raised by AI. Please apply! aidesummer.org
AIDE Summer
AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics, ethical theory, philosophy of science, metascience, epistemology, or other areas with potenti...
aidesummer.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Thread. Murder for Christmas.
It's time for the LAST FRIDAY MURDER OF THE YEAR.
Cosy murder stories reach their apotheosis at Christmas, for the same reason that ghost stories do. Nothing like being safe and warm while reading about someone being unsafe and cold. Me? I hate them.
Cosy murder stories reach their apotheosis at Christmas, for the same reason that ghost stories do. Nothing like being safe and warm while reading about someone being unsafe and cold. Me? I hate them.
December 12, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Thread. Murder for Christmas.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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Remembering when he came to speak at Rice in the eighties. And the many plays. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the film.
November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Remembering when he came to speak at Rice in the eighties. And the many plays. And Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, the film.
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Washington Archdiocese's project honors those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland www.detroitcatholic.com/news/washing...
Washington Archdiocese's project honors those enslaved by Catholic Church in Maryland - Detroit Catholic
www.detroitcatholic.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Washington Archdiocese's project honors those enslaved by the Catholic Church in Maryland www.detroitcatholic.com/news/washing...
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"The Revolution that failed is the Revolution [that this] Administration cannot bear for Americans to know and mourn. The Revolution that succeeded is the one some American institutions are determined to ignore."
The nation’s semiquincentennial is upon us. In a year marked by political violence and fear, the prospects for a peaceful anniversary appear remote. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/a2fJKz
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The Revolution that failed is the Revolution [that this] Administration cannot bear for Americans to know and mourn. The Revolution that succeeded is the one some American institutions are determined to ignore."
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MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
MA/ New England ancient historians: an international boarding school in Braintree is seeking a long term substitute teacher for high school world history, starting ASAP until mid March. Emphasis on ancient and medieval history. DM me if interested!
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
(Sharing this on behalf of a friend)
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"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
November 6, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"should women work" but it really means "should men have to ever answer to or even encounter women who are not their wives, offspring, and/or other servile figures"
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Explore Black History at the Almost Unknown Exhibition at Winterthur Museum www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article... This exhibition offers a rare chance to explore a gallery first imagined by William J. Wilson, a 19th-century Black journalist, educator, and visionary.
Explore Black History at the Almost Unknown Exhibition at Winterthur Museum - Travel And Tour World
Explore Black history through art at the Almost Unknown exhibition at Winterthur Museum, running from May 3, 2025, to January 4, 2026.
www.travelandtourworld.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Explore Black History at the Almost Unknown Exhibition at Winterthur Museum www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article... This exhibition offers a rare chance to explore a gallery first imagined by William J. Wilson, a 19th-century Black journalist, educator, and visionary.
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Remember when Grok was only something Heinlein readers knew about and oh.
I get it now.
I get it now.
November 1, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Remember when Grok was only something Heinlein readers knew about and oh.
I get it now.
I get it now.
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He looked white but wasn’t. Walter F. White was a Black journalist who used that “invisibility” to investigate 40+ lynchings across the Jim Crow South. He risked his life pretending to be what America pretended didn’t exist.
#VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching
#VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
He looked white but wasn’t. Walter F. White was a Black journalist who used that “invisibility” to investigate 40+ lynchings across the Jim Crow South. He risked his life pretending to be what America pretended didn’t exist.
#VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching
#VoicesFromHistory #AntiLynching
Just watched this. Highly recommended.
#Medicare #MedicareAdvantage
#Healthcare #JohnOliver #HBO #Humor
With his trademark mix of humor & relevant commentary, John Oliver delivers a lesson in government-run Medicare versus the insurance company-run alternative called Medicare Advantage.
Any American over 60YO should watch this episode.
#Healthcare #JohnOliver #HBO #Humor
With his trademark mix of humor & relevant commentary, John Oliver delivers a lesson in government-run Medicare versus the insurance company-run alternative called Medicare Advantage.
Any American over 60YO should watch this episode.
Medicare Advantage: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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October 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Just watched this. Highly recommended.
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Tfw you just remembered buying a beloved sweater last fall and are wondering where it got to in all of this.
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Tfw you just remembered buying a beloved sweater last fall and are wondering where it got to in all of this.
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I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩
This Data Through Design program looks really cool.
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
You can submit a proposal to make an art exhibition with data from NYC's open data portal. They give $900 stipends.
Proposals are due November 2.
datathroughdesign.com/2026
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I love that NYC has what amounts to a #DHmakes contest and exhibition! 🤩
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#BLM OTD Levi Coffin, referred to as "President of the Underground Railroad," was born in Guilford County, NC. He was named "President of the Underground Railroad" because of the thousands of slaves he helped escape slavery from the south to the Northern US.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
October 28, 2025 at 12:26 PM
#BLM OTD Levi Coffin, referred to as "President of the Underground Railroad," was born in Guilford County, NC. He was named "President of the Underground Railroad" because of the thousands of slaves he helped escape slavery from the south to the Northern US.
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
#BlackAmericanHistoryIsAmericanHistory
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Zora Neale Hurston. MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Zora Neale Hurston. MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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Meet Cleopatra Coleman, the Caroline County woman working to preserve a small Virginia town's (Port Royal) history www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
Meet the woman working to preserve a small Virginia town's history
A broken-down building on King Street in Port Royal is standing on its last leg. But Cleopatra Coleman sees only beauty and potential.
www.wtvr.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Meet Cleopatra Coleman, the Caroline County woman working to preserve a small Virginia town's (Port Royal) history www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...
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Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open 'Speaking Truth', an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery. www.live5news.com/2025/10/22/i...
International African American Museum to open national slavery archive exhibit
Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery.
www.live5news.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Downtown Charleston’s International African American Museum will open 'Speaking Truth', an exhibit next week to serve as a national archive on family histories of slavery. www.live5news.com/2025/10/22/i...
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on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
October 26, 2025 at 2:28 PM
on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”