Dr Jessica Parr
@provatlantic.bsky.social
Historian of Early Modern Atlantic. Digital Humanist, and Librarian. #NULab affiliate faculty and Director of #PH at Northeastern. #Memory Studies. #Geospatial humanities Neurospicy. Opinions are my own and not my employers. www.jessicaparr.org
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Important piece by @markhertling.bsky.social
“What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
“What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders
And why it matters there are two military oaths.
open.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Important piece by @markhertling.bsky.social
“What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
“What Americans Should Understand About the Military Disobeying Illegal Orders”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
November 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Crockett on MTG resigning: "Honestly, I was like, you got to be kidding. You're on the other side of the president for one week and you can't take the heat? Imagine what it is to sit in my shoes."
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November 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Fractures.
FWIW, RUMINT, but pretty reliable:
1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.
2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”
3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.
4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.
1. Vance key to US embrace of Russia plan on Ukraine, Rubio (and even Trump) out of the loop.
2. Vance-Rubio relations “awful.”
3. Rubio told the senators exactly what they said he told them.
4. Hegseth paranoid he’ll be shoved out, Driscoll will replace him.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Fractures.
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For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, @france24.com examines a sharp rise in masculinist discourse that seeks to normalise and legitimise misogyny www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
The rise of masculinism: Violence and misogyny online (1/3)
For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, FRANCE 24 examines a sharp rise in masculinist discourse that seeks to normalise and legitimise misogyny. This first article of...
www.france24.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, @france24.com examines a sharp rise in masculinist discourse that seeks to normalise and legitimise misogyny www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
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These people are deep into committing election fraud, so they assume everyone else is too
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
Austin Smith, a former Republican state representative and onetime leader within Turning Point Action—the political arm of Turning Point USA—pleaded guilty to forging signatures on nominating petitions for his 2024 reelection bid.
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
November 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
These people are deep into committing election fraud, so they assume everyone else is too
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
"Every accusation is a confession" remains undefeated
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imagine being such a crap human that as a centibilluonaire you have to create a robot to sing your praises
The Most Entertaining Moments from Grok's Praise of Elon Musk on X
Lebron James????
www.cracked.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
imagine being such a crap human that as a centibilluonaire you have to create a robot to sing your praises
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Thanks @plach.bsky.social! for letting @scholarslab.bsky.social display a poster of her 1st yearlong data physicalization: embroidery+beading representing her insomnia, wakefulness, sleep over the course of 2024 (check her #DHmakes posts for 2025's version, w/iterated method+data granularity)
November 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Thanks @plach.bsky.social! for letting @scholarslab.bsky.social display a poster of her 1st yearlong data physicalization: embroidery+beading representing her insomnia, wakefulness, sleep over the course of 2024 (check her #DHmakes posts for 2025's version, w/iterated method+data granularity)
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CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
CASSIDY: I know it's titillating, but I think we need to move beyond the titillation
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
TAPPER: This isn't about titillation. This is about the fact that you are the chairman of the health committee and you voted to confirm somebody that by all accounts is actually making America less healthy
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I grew up in a heavily agricultural area. As a kid in the 80s, the sky would literally turn brown for much of the fall from smog from SF and ag dust and pesticides. I had regular sinus infections. But as EPA regs got stronger, the air got clearer, and I could breathe. Why go back to brown air?
Unreal: "The EPA is moving forward with approvals for pesticides containing 'forever chemicals' as an active ingredient... The agency also announced plans to relax a rule requiring companies to report products containing PFAS and has proposed weakening drinking water standards for the chemicals."
November 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I grew up in a heavily agricultural area. As a kid in the 80s, the sky would literally turn brown for much of the fall from smog from SF and ag dust and pesticides. I had regular sinus infections. But as EPA regs got stronger, the air got clearer, and I could breathe. Why go back to brown air?
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Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.
They love to say it's a way to help underserved groups of children too. Extra scary.
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
Forbes, S. H. & Guest, O. (2025). To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models. Cognitive Science. doi.org/10.1111/cogs...
PDF: philpapers.org/archive/FORT...
To Improve Literacy, Improve Equality in Education, Not Large Language Models
Huettig and Christiansen in an earlier issue argue that large language models (LLMs) are beneficial to address declining cognitive skills, such as literacy, through combating imbalances in educationa....
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Finally something on this argument current and future school teachers keep throwing at me - no, underserved groups are not currently or ever going to benefit from LLMs.
Yuuuup
Yep, one of the biggest drivers of the elite panic around “wokeness” was the increasing prominence of Black people and particularly Black women in their fields and we’re seeing that coalition rewarded with the targeting of Black workers.
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Yuuuup
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As @mcbazacophd.bsky.social and I said years ago, if we politicize public health and vaccines we are toast …. And now there is data proving this. Tragic.
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
How Do Americans View Childhood Vaccines, Vaccine Research and Policy?
A majority of Americans say childhood vaccines are effective at preventing illness, but slightly fewer are confident that the vaccine schedule is safe.
www.pewresearch.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This has been discredited
The same argument could be made about the claim that sneezing does not cause autism.
Shameful. This administration does untold damage.
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This has been discredited
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Ofc, it's not just technology. Every major ed reform push of this century has been justified by unsupported claims that underserved children will benefit. See also: "school choice," vouchers and ESAs, the excessive standardized testing and school closures of NCLB, the misguided teacher eval of RTTT.
November 22, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Ofc, it's not just technology. Every major ed reform push of this century has been justified by unsupported claims that underserved children will benefit. See also: "school choice," vouchers and ESAs, the excessive standardized testing and school closures of NCLB, the misguided teacher eval of RTTT.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Marimar Martinez is a US citizen who was shot by ICE five times in Chicago.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
She was then arrested, labelled a “domestic terrorist” and slandered on social media.
All charges against her have been dropped.
In this interview she shows on of the seven holes the ICE agent put in her body.
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She talks about how she was just trying to warn her neighbours that ICE was in the area.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
November 22, 2025 at 4:59 AM
She talks about how she was just trying to warn her neighbours that ICE was in the area.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
She says she’s a survivor.
This is courage.
It’s also a reminder that DHS will lie to protect its thugs.
Kash Patel still hasn’t removed a tweet that blames Martinez for getting shot.
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Nothing to see here, folks! (No really, there’s literally nothing to see.)
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Nothing to see here, folks! (No really, there’s literally nothing to see.)
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November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Yup. My late father was an excellent father. Spouse is an excellent father. Lots of male friends and colleagues also don't buy into the gendered bs and are great partners and fathers.
"Our culture tends to downplay the role of men as caregivers. But science tells us that men are biologically prepared to be parents. So, embrace it. You are a natural."
Men Are More Prepared for Fatherhood Than We Think
In many cultures, men are not involved with hands-on childcare. But biology tells us we are perfectly capable of doing so
www.scientificamerican.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yup. My late father was an excellent father. Spouse is an excellent father. Lots of male friends and colleagues also don't buy into the gendered bs and are great partners and fathers.
Every person of decency should speak up.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Every person of decency should speak up.
EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed
Insanity
November 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM