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Susan Amussen

@sdamussen.bsky.social

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Historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old lady likes cats and dogs.

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Sierra Nevada Research Institute @snriucmerced.bsky.social · 12h

SNRI presents its Distinguished Climate Speaker Series event: a keynote talk from renowned climate scientist and author, Dr. Michael E. Mann, followed by a presentation by UC Merced climatologist Dr. John Abatzoglou.
Mon, Nov 17, 2–4 PM UC Merced Conference Center
Register: tinyurl.com/yc74v23y

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 1d

I don't see why not, but there will be a US edition!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 1d

Inflatable animals and eucharistic processions do different things and reach different audiences and communicate different messages and it's all important. This feels like one of those moments where people need to remember not everything is for them, specifically.

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Olivia Weisser @oliviaweisser.bsky.social · 1d

Hello UK! I wrote a book about living in London with an STI hundreds of years ago. Waterstones is having a preorder sale for 25% off that includes THE DREADED POX now thru Friday. Use OCTOBER25 at checkout.

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 1d

On 24th November I'll be giving a free talk in central London on the English Hospitallers in the countryside and all the feuds and fights they got into. #medievalsky

www.orderofmalta.co.uk/events/chapt...

Chapter Room Talk: "Crusading on the Home Front: The English Hospitallers in the Countryside" — Grand Priory of England

The next in our series of Chapter Room Talks will be given by Dr Rory MacLellan on the topic “Crusading on the Home Front: The English Hospitallers in the Countryside”. Dr MacLellan is a Cataloguer an...

www.orderofmalta.co.uk

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 2d

If you're in the UK, you can pre-order my book from Waterstones at 25% off with the code "OCTOBER25" #Shakespeare #EarlyModern
www.waterstones.com/book/whats-i...

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 6d

Well, and TikTok videos are such reliable sources of information, right? That’s where your students research their senior theses!

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 9d

Not a weirdo. Tell them what’s happened.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 10d

I see what you did there! And James on cricket is so good!

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 10d

Well, as the AHA says, everything has a history!

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 12d

How do you cheat when choosing a topic? You choose what you care about!

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Brian Soucek @brsoucek.bsky.social · 12d

Strong statement today from UC's Academic Senate:

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 12d

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social systemwide Academic Council today:

"There can be no clearer attack on academic freedom than [Trump's] attempt to dictate curricular content, research priorities, hiring decisions, & admissions standards."

senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

senate.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, he could write, and he *cared* about writing! And a very distinctive voice, which became increasingly personal over time.

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 23d

@davidveevers.bsky.social and others discussed historians who could write but the name 'David Underdown' did not appear in it, regrettably @sdamussen.bsky.social

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 26d

Jenny Shaw on The Women of Rendezvous. Or Keith Wrightson Ralph Tailers Summer. Both great microhistories that are good reads but open up worlds - so methodologically helpful

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 26d

I still turn to it when I can’t cope with the news. Comfort watching.

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 26d

It’s bread week. Something is always claggy!

Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 26d

He loved the game so much!

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · Jun 5

The public meltdown happening between the world’s richest man 🙄 and the President of the United States 🙄🙄 once again begs the age-old question: are men simply too emotional to be in positions of power?

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · Jun 13

"Handled too roughly"?

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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · Jun 12

Here is Senator Alex Padilla's entire full statement after being detained by Donald Trump and Kristi Noem's Department of Homeland Security.

Like he said, if they're doing this to a sitting Senator, imagine what they're doing to other people.

Unconscionable.

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Democrats @democrats.org · Jun 12

This is what Trump's government thugs are willing to do in broad daylight, to a US Senator, with cameras on.

They are sending the message that anyone who disagrees with Trump isn't safe in America.

This is authoritarianism.

Image of Senator Alex Padilla being physically dragged away by the DHS secretary's security.

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · Jun 12

Is there a reason you cannot take a question from our elected Senator?

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Arthur Anderson @uabyyruwi.bsky.social · Jun 12

AP footage of Senator Alex Padilla being physically removed from Kristi Noem's press conference about the LA @schiff.senate.gov @congresstran.bsky.social

Thank you, Senator @padilla.senate.gov

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · Jun 12

Why protest on Saturday? www.headsupnews.org/p/no-kings-p...

‘No Kings’ protests suddenly take on a greater urgency

The rampant militarization of immigration raids makes the stakes clearer than ever

www.headsupnews.org

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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · Jun 12

An English mother (Mary Morgan) in India in 1779 writing to her aunt about the importance of “inoculating” her toddler son against smallpox: “the catching of it is very dangerous.” Yep.
Someone might want to tell RFK why vaccination matters 🗃️

Handwritten (cursive) letter - black ink on stained beige paper - from Mary Morgan to her aunt Jane in 1779.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 11

Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.

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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · Jun 11

I did! That's what made me remember it. Pinter had been invited to do something at Brown (honorary degree, I dunno) and they appear to have forgotten until too late that his wife was a scholar and writer. So David went downtown and had coffee with her, and then Pinter joined.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · Jun 11

Funding The War on Yourselves talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/fundi...

Funding The War on Yourselves

Donald Trump announced today that he will begin “winding down” FEMA after...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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