English professor (c19 American), closed adoptee, lover of the arts who studies public health & literature. Also a friendly neighborhood deadhead.
Heather Chacon
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On this day in 1863, Harriet Tubman became the 1st woman to lead a major U.S. military operation. She led 150 African American soldiers on a successful mission to free more than 750 enslaved people. One journalist wrote that the Combahee Ferry Raid “struck terror to the heart of rebeldom.” #WeTheMen
This is what they've done.
Yep, though T&F journals typically don't let you do this. The norm however is that it's fine.
John Fea is a gem: “In a time of instant responses and automated explanations, the historian’s comfort with provisional conclusions seems countercultural.”
He was so beautiful.
we'll never see anything this cool ever again because they won't let you smoke in the capitol building anymore
There is no easy way to say this.
Yesterday I became a widow.
I will likely take a break from social media or be posting a lot, depending on how the sorrow goes.
If you know me DM. I may or may not reply back.
I love you, Jacob.
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Drought
Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.
Jill Hasday
John Wiswell
Robin James
Heather Chacon
Allison Miller
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This is super cool bc:
1) Many of the highest-risk conditions, like ME/CFS & Long Covid, aren't on the list
2) The best way to protect the vulnerable is to protect the population so others don't infect them
3) None of this accounts for Novavax which is not mRNA
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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Miranda Yaver
PSA: authors typically retain the right to reprint their own articles in a book they author/edit. You may have signed a contract w/ the journal saying as much or the publisher’s website may have info. If not you can email the journal editor to confirm. Just cite the original in your acknowledgments.
Only people 65 and over or with underlying health conditions should get the shots, the advisory group recommended. There may be insurance roadblocks for others.
In the May issue of #AHAPerspectives, there are two articles from historian-teachers that take a critical eye to AI in education today. 🗃️
@johnfea1.bsky.social is retiring after nearly 3 decades in college classrooms, and AI was one factor in why he's stepping down now:
The tension between AI and the teaching of historical thinking reflects a larger question: What is the purpose of higher education?
