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Jonathon Booth
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Associate Professor of Law, CU Boulder

Current projects: The Legal Architecture of Emancipation

Studying Policing from a Law and Political Economy Perspective

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If you get this reference you should consider having a colonoscopy
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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November 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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👀Fitzpatrick said Halligan made two apparent "fundamental misstatements of law" to the grand jury that could threaten the case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Here’s a story for every national news outlet:

In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.

“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”

www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
6d Listen to this article Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses. About 15 to 20 church members were doing yard work on the property off Albemarle Road while their children played games and their spouses cooked meals. Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church. The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said. They attempted to grab others, too. "Right now, everybody is scared. Everybody," he said. "One of these guys with immigration, he say he was going to arrest one of the other guys in the church. He pushed him." Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken. Some yard workers fled into the surrounding woods when officials arrived, including 15-year-old Miguel Vazquez.
November 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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The 2025 Pfizer Award, awarded annually for an outstanding book in the history of science, is given to Adrian Johns for The Science of Reading: Information, Media & Mind in Modern America.

(Apparently he wrote the entire book in ~8 months during COVID!)

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Kristin Johnson received the 2025 Watson, helen, Audrey & Miles Davis Prize for her book Darwin's Falling Sparrow: Victorian Evolutionists and the Meaning of Suffering. (One of her students is accepting the prize on her behalf.) #HSS2025

www.amazon.com/Darwins-Fall...
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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The winner of the 2025 Pauly Prize, awarded for the best first book on the history of science in the Americas, is Jeannie Shinozuka for her book Biotic Borders: Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890-1950 #HSS2025 press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 16, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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The 2025 Nathan Reingold Prize, which is awarded annually to the best graduate student paper in the history of science & its cultural influences, is awarded to Xinyue Zhang for her paper "making USeful Time: Local Technologies & Time Coordination in Wartime China, 1937-1945" #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The 2025 Murdoch Prize, which honors the best original graduate student essay examining ancient or medieval ideas in science is awarded to Samantha Pellegrino. #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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The 2025 Margaret Rossiter History of Women in Science Prize goest o Alison M. Downham Moore for her book, The French Invention of Menopause and the Medicalisation of Women's Aging.

global.oup.com/academic/pro... #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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The 2025 Joseph Hazen Education Prize is awarded to Peter Heering.

The 2025 Ronald Rainger Early Career Award in History of the Earth & Environmental Science goes to Sachael Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj for his co-authored article on Dams & the Deep Earth. academic.oup.com/past/article... #HSS2025
November 16, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Derek Price/Rod Webster Prize for an excellent @isisjournal.bsky.social article goes to Sayori Ghoshal, author of "Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s-1940s"

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

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Experts of Identity: Race, Ethnicity, and Science in India, 1910s–1940s | Isis: Vol 115, No 1
Abstract During 1910s–1940s, Indian intellectuals developed physical anthropology as a modern nationalist discipline for the subcontinent. Through their contributions, they sought to construct themsel...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM