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Jay Shaw
@nacahistorian.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Researching how NASA, Gemini, and the USAF worked together during the Cold War. Early Space policy/ Foreign Relations/history of science and technology/Dad. USAF Retired.
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · Apr 13
A highlight of my life was eating lunch with Fred Haise today.
Fred Haise Fred Haise eating lunch.
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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 1d
Wow!
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VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 28d
New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...
Transatlantic Bridge Professorships
The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 1d
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 1d
I needed this. Too funny!
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Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 2d
Of potential interest to #histSTM friends...
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Amanda Rees @amandarees.bsky.social · 2d
SCIENCE RELIGION AND THE HUMAN FUTURE (Oxford UP) available Jan 16! So grateful to fabulous co-authors Charlotte Sleigh & David Wilkinson who stepped up after the dreadful loss of Tom McLeish (plus new jobs for other authors): book would not be here without them! @eclasproject.bsky.social
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 2d
Job Opportunity!

East Tennessee State University - Assistant Professor of Modern European History

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East Tennessee State University - Assistant Professor of Modern European History | H-Net
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Holly Guise ❄️ @hollyguise.bsky.social · 2d
“About 1,400 survivors were staying at community shelters”

The typhoon really brought damage to entire Alaska Native communities in Western Alaska

Climate change is severely impacting land, waters, and Indigenous communities

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Officials say storm 'completely devastated' Western Alaska communities
A Coast Guard commander recounts scenes of Alaskans swimming in floodwaters in the middle of the night, in search of debris to hold onto.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d
NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.
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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 3d
🚨The absence of media coverage of this natural disaster in Alaska, the lost/missing people, and the destruction of the aftermath is up to us to share. Please help if you can - even if it is just spreading awareness. There is no FEMA going to help them. 1/2
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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 3d
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Good piece by Frank Bruni about the increasingly successful GOP strategy to turn the "real" scandal of January 6 into Democratic investigations/prosecutions of the perpetrators.
Opinion | The Appalling Campaign to Erase Jan. 6 Never Ends
www.nytimes.com
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Tyler Peterson @drtylerpeterson.bsky.social · 3d
And since this is a movie about a Mars mission, I would like to make everybody aware of the work of Dr. Robert Zubrin. He has become the most renowned advocate of Mars exploration, forming a plan for sending crews to the planet called Mars Direct.

www.amazon.com/dp/B0BTG2W8X...

#HATM
The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet
The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet - Kindle edition by Zubrin, Robert. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The New World on Mars: What We Can Create on the Red Planet.
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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4d
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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training. FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.
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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 4d
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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Luca Migo ❌👑 @victinibcn.bsky.social · 5d
Unbearably violent images from Downtown Chicago where a classical music concert was played on the Chicago River. This is too elegant and magical to be seen.
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 6d
Yay! Finally some good news from Missouri.
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William Adler @williamadler78.bsky.social · 6d
oh damn, Trump is gonna invade Oslo bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 6d
Then I digress on the egress.
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 6d
When the car stops…egress!
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 6d
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 6d
Yup. Christian’s being awarded horse ranches in heaven is totally normal.
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Jay Shaw @nacahistorian.bsky.social · 7d
I predict his end will be in a bunker. No, wait. Sorry, wrong guy.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8d
I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch." That, Taher says, "is a lie."
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Bob Mann @robertmannbooks.com · 8d
Making matters worse, his new university president is Bill Tate, who has no record of defending faculty.
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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 9d
This is a professor at Rutgers who teaches a class on the history of anti-fascism. He also teaches about human rights. He has received multiple death threats and been doxed. He is relocating to Europe for his safety. This is where we are in the US now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 8d
Our annual PhD recruitment process @api.uva.nl is open!! Details of the process and projects are here, deadline November 3! 🔭 #astronomy #astrophysics

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Vacancy — PhD Positions in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Are you passionate about astronomy and cutting-edge research?Join our dynamic team and explore the universe through multiple PhD positions now open! Work on a range of exciting research topics in a co...
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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 9d
RFK Jr. is worse than cigarettes.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 9d
Six former U.S. Surgeons General have issued a joint warning saying RFK Jr.’s actions “are endangering the health of the nation.”
Surgeons General Unite to Torch RFK Jr. in Unprecedented Warning
Six agree Kennedy is a “profound, immediate” danger to the health of Americans.
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