Monica H Green

Call it "academic comic timing." This was written well before the recent Russia scare, but w/ a topic like plague there will always be another cycle when it becomes relevant. It's paywalled, but have your library order it now for the next plague emergency: www.americanscientist.org/article/redr...

7 new #manuscripts this week, plus 14 catching up from last week at the #Vatican www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2026... Includes Ludovico d'Imola Sermons, Valerius MaximusLivy, 2 Ciceros (M.T and Q.T), Pauli Manutii on Cicero, an Avvisi and more! #MedievalSky #Skystorians

In case you're in withdrawal after having scarfed down the entire new season of *The Diplomat* in one weekend, you can get a "fix" to tide you over for an hour in this session that happened just a couple of hours ago: iop.harvard.edu/events/diplo...

Tonights Hunter's Full Moon rises over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. No AI, no composite. Single frame. #fullmoon #huntersmoon #maryland #chesapeake #baybridge #photography

More #MedievalMedicine from Coffee w/ a Codex! Not really "Hippocrates" or "Caesar," but this collection of recipes was indeed very popular in the Middle Ages. @arlimalesite.bsky.social documents 49 extant copies (& I'll bet there are more): www.arlima.net/il/lettre_d_... #MedievalSky

(US aid) Money can't buy you love, hut but I'm pretty sure it could help fund a better Ebola containment response.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

I think about this a lot with the Federal Aviation Admin. We hear so much negative about it (after major accidents) and it gets used alot by politicians (that is the case right now for sure). But the FAA has accomplished amazing things & its employees work so hard. We miss that part of the story.

Very excited to share that I was selected as a winner of the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, for my work on interactive science journalism! @scicommexcellence.nationalacademies.org www.nationalacademies.org/news/nationa...

The *beauty* of government. Now this is an aesthetic we could use more of: marveling at our ability to join together peacefully & equitably to do good things.

One of the infectious disease physicians who I always read, & whose views/guidance I trust the most, is @jakescottmd.bsky.social This is a superb Op-Ed, laying out how RFK Jr’s latest vaccine injury initiative is designed to DISTORT data on vaccines—he’s collecting biased data to fit his opinions

Nothing and no one should stand between New Yorkers and their right to vote — least of all the government.
 Early voting is happening now through November 1. Election Day is November 3. See you at the polls!

The *beauty* of government. Now this is an aesthetic we could use more of: marveling at our ability to join together peacefully & equitably to do good things.

Growing up in Boston, we never saw the beauty or benefit of government. Now, as your AG, I see the power government has to make people's lives better every day. Good government can make our communities safer, protect our freedoms, and advance the dreams of others. That's why voter turnout matters.

Los Angeles and San Diego had their highest coastal water levels in over a century of records during high tide today. (San Diego's record was a tie, but there was a glitch that prevented the peak from being recorded). Top-10 marks from 2026 highlighted are in yellow. @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

My latest for National Geographic looks at the 131 new Hittite cuneiform tablets unearthed at Šamuḫa (c. 1400 BCE) & what they tell us about everything from augury to an epidemic that killed Hittite children. Thx to @digkabri.bsky.social, Theo van den Hout, @knpazuzu.bsky.social & ISAC for aid. 🪏

I can't get over this story. What a quick thinking, brave young man.

🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🗳️ 🌊 Pima County votes! 🌊 🗳️ Wear those stickers with pride! 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊

After sitting on the account for a few years, I finally set up an affiliate link on Bookshop.org -- if you use this link to pre-order my new book, you both support independent bookstores and give me a bit of an extra boost! bookshop.org/a/104234/978...

"Ahmed elaborated with the Guardian on Friday, saying the Qu’ran verse declaring that “whoever saves a life, it will be as if they saved all of humanity” also entered his mind at the moment he decided to intervene on Monday." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I've been spending a lot of time this week looking at the ceiling of my office and sighing.

A moment of calm! We're in between two big autumn storms and for a short time, the sky has cleared. Tonight's 93.5% waxing gibbous Moon. #astronomy #astrophotography

One way the ancient Maya worshipped their ancestors? Returning to a cave burial over centuries to leave offerings of human teeth 🏺 www.science.org/content/arti...

NYC friends: Please Join me for my book launch on Wednesday, November 4, at Barnes & Noble on 82nd Street, in conversation with the legendary New York Times science reporter Linda Villarosa. stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know.

This election intervention from the Lower 48 is a desperate distraction from the issues Alaskans are facing every single day. Alaskans are fed up with the corruption, and fed up with Dan Sullivan enriching himself while jacking up costs for the rest of us.

Yuma County Democratic Party's event: “Arizona Corporation Commission Rural Water Field Hearing ft AG Kris Mayes” - www.mobilize.us/yumacountyde...

What’s “wrong” for Trump is the idea that a Black and Muslim woman he deems inferior could come to the United States and be granted rights as his equal ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Ilhan Omar plans to move out of her Washington DC home after federal raid https://aje.news/7iuye6

The European continent saw more than 50,000 deaths across 850 cities this summer. Climate change caused most of them, studies find. 🔗 vist.ly/5ppsz

Of the 50,000 heat deaths in Europe in the summer of 2026, 32,000 were killed by fossil fuels. Meanwhile, $65 billion in windfall profits for five biggest oil and gas companies in second quarter of 2026. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/g...

Heat killed over 50,000 people in Europe in summer 2026, making it deadliest on record

What's happening in Arizona? This is what's happening in Arizona! @formerpreznez.bsky.social in the lead for AZ's 2nd Congressional District.

Today marks 2 years since I started HRT. 2 years since Ken Paxton and the rest of the Texas GOP lost the control they had over my life and I was finally allowed to be myself. I’m proud to say that I voted against my attempted killer today. Fuck you, Ken.

Pasts Imperfect is out! @youngrichardkim.bsky.social discusses academics on the History Channel. Then, recovering the Aksumite Empire; @wmarybeard.bsky.social remembers Pat Easterling & @ericabuchberger.bsky.social remembers Chris Wickham; new ancient journals by @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social & more

THIS. Advertising literal theft.

This is...something...worth watching the entire ad and looking at what the dude types into CoPilot.

“In education, when it becomes so much easier to offload a lot of the hard work of learning, what does that mean for the ability to actually learn about that thing?” he said. I'm spending a 3rd day today reading a study I found on Monday. Not b/c it's long (it's only 49 pp), but b/c it's complex.

This piece by student journalist Naishu Vempali made me pump my fist in solidarity. I hope when I’m back teaching at UMass next year they take a class with me, where they can expect nothing but top quality human-grade feedback, interaction, and attention. dailycollegian.com/2026/10/chat...

Archaeologists thought they understood Inca history and chronology based on historical documents. It turns out a 16th century Spanish priest just...made up those dates. So scientists are starting again, this time with radiocarbon www.science.org/content/arti...

Yes, that is the implication. And that because the college paid for it, students will face no consequences for using it, regardless of an instructor's policies.

Have faculty elsewhere had their admin introduce CircleIn (an AI "tutoring" app that is integrated into LMSs) & if so are your students receiving emails like this? Despite being told that we can opt our courses out of CI, we've reason to doubt that—plus this email directly undermines us as teachers.