Emma
@this-is-emma.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, archival and collections researcher. Specializing in 19th American medicine and permafrost thaw in Alaska.
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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Every allistic review of the Murderbot Diaries: A stunningly human portrayal of robot interiority!
Every autistic reading the Murderbot Diaries: This robot is autistic.
Every autistic reading the Murderbot Diaries: This robot is autistic.
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Every allistic review of the Murderbot Diaries: A stunningly human portrayal of robot interiority!
Every autistic reading the Murderbot Diaries: This robot is autistic.
Every autistic reading the Murderbot Diaries: This robot is autistic.
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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>Vine is coming back,
>with the backing of Jack Dorsey,
>and AI is prohibited
>with the backing of Jack Dorsey,
>and AI is prohibited
November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
>Vine is coming back,
>with the backing of Jack Dorsey,
>and AI is prohibited
>with the backing of Jack Dorsey,
>and AI is prohibited
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This has been bothering the shit out of me.
Also, how fucking insane is it that Jeffrey Epstein found Donald Trump so morally repugnant he emailed evidence of his OWN CRIMES to the New York Times to stop his presidential run and the NYT just ignored them?
JEFFREY EPSTEIN had stronger convictions than the NYT.
JEFFREY EPSTEIN had stronger convictions than the NYT.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This has been bothering the shit out of me.
Seconded.
PSA to just FINISH writing the damn things before tech infrastructure and corporate landscape changes on you*.
* this is about more than one project, unfortunately.
* this is about more than one project, unfortunately.
November 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Seconded.
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Day 8, Glass: I struggled to find an example in my phone for this one! Here we have a family mausoleum in Pére Lachaise, Paris, with light shining through a gorgeous little stained glass window in the back. #31DaysofGraves 🏺
October 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Day 8, Glass: I struggled to find an example in my phone for this one! Here we have a family mausoleum in Pére Lachaise, Paris, with light shining through a gorgeous little stained glass window in the back. #31DaysofGraves 🏺
Me: this masculinity chapter is going to be so hard to write, just as difficult as the poverty chapter
Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.
Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.
October 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Me: this masculinity chapter is going to be so hard to write, just as difficult as the poverty chapter
Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.
Also me: 2500 words in after 3 days of writing and we haven’t even hit the Civil War yet.
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CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
CfP: Excited to announce our first workshop, exploring histories of Commercial Determinants of Health. Workshop to be held at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on 15 April 2026. Please circulate widely/consider submitting an abstract by 13 October 2025.
September 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
CFPs - 'Historicising Commercial Determinants of Health'
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
A workshop as part of the @kthabitproject.bsky.social to be held at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social on 15 April 2026
Deadline for abstracts: 13 October
#histmed #medhumanities #histSTM
I just found out about this from @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and I cannot properly convey my excitement because one of the map sets I need for my book are georeferenced and ready to go and that makes it so much easier as a postdoc who doesn’t have protected research time to make figures.
If you are in the New Orleans area, come to one of our upcoming Georeference-a-thons at Second Line Brewing! Tuesday evenings, the 16th and 23rd. RSVP form here: tiny.cc/georef-2025. We'll be focusing on 1895 Duncan Plaza area and hearing from archaeologists who did work there over the summer.
September 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I just found out about this from @resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social and I cannot properly convey my excitement because one of the map sets I need for my book are georeferenced and ready to go and that makes it so much easier as a postdoc who doesn’t have protected research time to make figures.
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the sheer number of beefs I have with people who died centuries ago
Been at the archives for two minutes and I'm already annoyed by a surgeon who was born 190 years ago.
August 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
the sheer number of beefs I have with people who died centuries ago
I will roll in playing a cleric like I always do. And I will dead ass play a life cleric. And I will take two levels of monk or fighter just so I can knock out anyone who calls that hypocritical.
Lifting this up because I was thinking about this some more and it would be a good fundraiser for @teafund.org.
Would love to find a D&D person who could run a game that is a journey to get an abortion.
July 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I will roll in playing a cleric like I always do. And I will dead ass play a life cleric. And I will take two levels of monk or fighter just so I can knock out anyone who calls that hypocritical.
Anyone around today or tomorrow who is willing to answer a few questions about their academic book contract? I just got a draft of mine and I don’t have many benchmarks for if it’s okay or not tbh.
May 15, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Anyone around today or tomorrow who is willing to answer a few questions about their academic book contract? I just got a draft of mine and I don’t have many benchmarks for if it’s okay or not tbh.
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This is just National Institutes of Health grant funding. Similar refusal to spend funds appropriated by Congress has been happening all across the government— and Republicans in Congress, every one of them doormats for Musk and Trump, have sat around and watched. This via @pamherd.bsky.social
March 30, 2025 at 11:01 PM
This is just National Institutes of Health grant funding. Similar refusal to spend funds appropriated by Congress has been happening all across the government— and Republicans in Congress, every one of them doormats for Musk and Trump, have sat around and watched. This via @pamherd.bsky.social
It’s the point of the year where I’m about to submit multiple things as the sole author and that’s always so much more nerve-wracking
March 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It’s the point of the year where I’m about to submit multiple things as the sole author and that’s always so much more nerve-wracking
Found it! And now I have a new scholarly nemesis.
Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?
March 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Found it! And now I have a new scholarly nemesis.
Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?
March 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Does anyone still have an active subscription to The Atlantic? If so can you check an article for me?
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no lies detected
all disability advice is like
•become a detective, your disease is a puzzle
•every doctor lies. multiclass Cleric 3 for Zone of Truth. they still lie but now you know
•blackmail your insurance
•systematically destabilize every part of your life for at least a year
•with luck you can now digest food
•become a detective, your disease is a puzzle
•every doctor lies. multiclass Cleric 3 for Zone of Truth. they still lie but now you know
•blackmail your insurance
•systematically destabilize every part of your life for at least a year
•with luck you can now digest food
February 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
no lies detected
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Well except the social determinants of health because that’s woke ideology rather than empirical reality
February 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Well except the social determinants of health because that’s woke ideology rather than empirical reality
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Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀
Photo of two boys - one vaccinated against smallpox, the other not - published in 1901 by Dr. Allan Warner.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
Smallpox killed over half a billion people in the 20th century alone. On 8 May 1980, the WHO announced its eradication, which was achieved through #vaccines, surveillance, and containment.
February 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposting this for no particular reason. 👀
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go full shadow cabinet
One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.
February 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
go full shadow cabinet
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Will US academics even be able to attend conferences anymore? Eg, healthcare, life sciences, climate/environmental science?
With what funds? And to present what research? What’s left after everything that was funded by or in collaboration with NIH, USAID, CDC, WHO, NOAA, etc?
With what funds? And to present what research? What’s left after everything that was funded by or in collaboration with NIH, USAID, CDC, WHO, NOAA, etc?
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Will US academics even be able to attend conferences anymore? Eg, healthcare, life sciences, climate/environmental science?
With what funds? And to present what research? What’s left after everything that was funded by or in collaboration with NIH, USAID, CDC, WHO, NOAA, etc?
With what funds? And to present what research? What’s left after everything that was funded by or in collaboration with NIH, USAID, CDC, WHO, NOAA, etc?
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“Computers are indirect costs. They are essential for research, but don’t get used up,” Iwashyna says. “Research office space, lab space, staplers, libraries — all of these are not specific to only a single project, so they are covered under indirect costs.”
www.everydayhealth.com/general-heal...
www.everydayhealth.com/general-heal...
NIH Spending Cuts on ‘Indirect Costs’ Could Halt Lifesaving Research
Scientists are worried about the future of the nation’s health if these cuts, now being challenged in court, are enacted.
www.everydayhealth.com
February 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
“Computers are indirect costs. They are essential for research, but don’t get used up,” Iwashyna says. “Research office space, lab space, staplers, libraries — all of these are not specific to only a single project, so they are covered under indirect costs.”
www.everydayhealth.com/general-heal...
www.everydayhealth.com/general-heal...
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
🧵⬇️