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Skystorians 🗃️ here's the full 162 pg Smithsonian report "Saving America's Story: How Ideological Capture at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History Erases Our Heritage" on which the Forbes article is based. (h/t Jack Chin) I haven't read yet.
615 years ago, on the 15th of July 1410, a Polish-Lithuanian defeated the Teutonic Order in the Battle of Grunwald. The battle is highly romanticized due to its scale and the relatively few reliable contemporary sources.. #otd #history 🗃️
In 1397 the city of London arrested several Dutch eel merchants for unpaid debts. But that meant fewer eels! And that won't do. So the king intervened. He ordered that the Dutch be set free to sell their eels, and also that the city never again hassle eel merchants in this way. 🗃️🧪
The inspiring woman who started a groundbreaking DC nursery school for Black children, the Smithsonian exhibit that featured the school's decades of vital work & effects, & the beautiful words from one of its alums about being featured in the museum. All in today's post! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
V interesting, although of course it’s not at all true that researchers have overlooked the “ground-level workers” of authoritarianism. Yet another case of quants discovering a problem historians have been studying for decades and declaring it “new” 🗃️
After a day of immersing myself in documents on 17th c. French commerce in the Ottoman Empire – especially on duties on shipping, and all the intricate ripple effects that arose from these across the Mediterranean – seeing Trump whack a 20% duty on Hormuz cargo is making my brain explode 🤯 🗃️
You might be wondering how this decline in the number of people entering academic disciplines in the humanities affects something like a project devoted to researching, writing, and publishing histories of place (or local histories)? These early career researchers are essential to our work. 🗃️ 1/5
Ephemera from the Boston Board of Aldermen Docket Documents at City of Boston Archives. Itinerant entertainers applying for licenses to exhibit submitted their broadsides for the city government to inspect. All eight of these are from the 1820s 1/2 🗃️
Rescinding a prize - if indeed that is what happened - is a big deal and I think the discipline deserves an explanation. Especially at a moment when the integrity of humanistic scholarship is being unfairly & wrongly attacked & cases like Greenidge will be used as ammunition by the center-right. 🗃️
'The Park' in oil on canvas (MoMA), painted around 1910 by Gustav Klimt, who was born on this day – 14 July – in Vienna in 1862 🗃️
💪 Sandra Shachar, 72 & fighting the erasure of the history of slavery at national Park service exhibits! 🗃️ (& not just posting about it but doing counter memorization & restoring history on site!)
Ona Judge Didn't Run Away From a House #CivilWarMemory #publichistory #America250 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
#WorldCup 🗃️ 🐡 #ArtHistory "France Hydration Break" 🇫🇷 ⚽️
Today's the day! On July 13, 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance—in my view of the 3 most important docs in US political history. It established the framework new states, governing the Northwest Territory, civil liberties protections, plus banned slavery in new territories.🗃️
Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility Comment by Killian L. McLoughlin, Alexis Palmer, J. Nathan Matias & M. J. Crockett Web: go.nature.com/4wDYqGI PDF: rdcu.be/ftzkM
How did dogs become man's best friend? Dive into the neuroscience behind domestication in this week's post by Eve Gautreaux pennneuroknow.com/2026/07/14/b... #PsychSciSky #SciComm 🧠🟦 🧪
Graham’s legacy is tainted by so much of what he did and said. 🗃️
#Skystorians! What are your favourite articles on the early modern Caribbean (anything up to and including the Haitian Revolution) for undergrads? Style and form as important as content (it's for a writing seminar). Please and thank you! 🗃️
Today is the LAST day to submit a public comment on the proposed OMB rule. We've put together a guide to help: www.psychologicalscience.org/act-now
Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @asinclair.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Allie or me for details! #PsychJobs
Interested in memory updating, exploration, structure learning, & reward? @hannahtarder-stoll.bsky.social & I are looking for candidates to apply for a Connected Minds Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University, with the opportunity to work at Rice too. Contact Hannah or me for details! #PsychJobs
Seeing an article that took years to produce in page proofs is a joy that will never get old. Coming soon! 🗃️
Let’s talk the worst humans to ever have held Graham’s senate seat. 🗃️ www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8G3NG3h/
#earlymodern 🗃️ This is phenomenal project and a solid opportunity for someone who has just finished their PhD. NB v tight deadline - apps by 28 July
Want the backstory on the Trojan Horse before seeing THE ODYSSEY? Some legendary CBS reporters, including one of “Murrow’s Boys,” have the details in their fake (but thrilling) coverage of how Odysseus ended the Trojan War. (From the CBS Radio series YOU ARE THERE, 1950) youtu.be/vQLc0__jMm0 🗃️
A burn book and a THEORY 🗃️
This would have been such a cool conference to go to. #skystorians “Mass Media & Modern Society,” 1959
So excited to see my article on hemispheric responses to the Cuban Missile Crisis up on the Americas Quarterly website! americasquarterly.org/article/the-... #History 🗃️
The hippocampus on learning and updating category knowledge. Learning, pattern separation and integration across hpc subfields - what more do you want? #neuroskyence #psychscisky
Oh look, prediction markets are now placing bets on...the past? 🗃️
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