“Today, a lot of old Black men will be rooting for the KC Chiefs.

It has nothing to do with Taylor Swift, a Black QB or Travis Kelce's pioneering haircut. It's about HBCUs, Black history, a kidnapping & white affirmative action.

How Racism Invented the Super Bowl” 🏈 🏟️ 🏆 🇺🇸 #NFL #KansasCityChiefs #SuperBowl #NFLMastodon #History #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #HistoryMastodon
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"There are millions of people who experienced extraordinary moments in American history, and who won’t be around much longer to tell us about them. Some of these moments are ones we should be proud of, and some should fill us with shame. But we have so much to learn from their stories, and we have a narrowing window of time in which to collect them." #history #historymastodon #BlackHistory #americanhistory

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/federal-writers-project/617790/

Fascinating stuff - the variety of people and their culture is so interesting here.

https://historycolored.com/photos/10235/photos-of-immigrants-arriving-in-the-us-through-ellis-island-1906-1914

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Reading back through my BA dissertation recently and realising that the last chapter is now completely out of date due to new information.

I feel like I wrote a diss about disinformation and then got swept up in disinformation. Hm. Maybe at some point I could re-write it.

I did find some interesting government papers for it though, having a snoop in Russian archives and then finding the source links are broken two months later is suspect, for sure. #historymastodon

Hey, #MedMastodon #HistoryMastodon #MedHistory, got a question for you!

So my med students seem to enjoy my end-of-class babbling on medical history/oddities to the point that they are now demanding it (I have made it clear they wont get any extra credit because of this and still they insist so I assume their interest is sincere 😂 ).
I usually say ok and ask for a subject. This week they suggested the #BlackDeath (don't ask why).
So I mushed together a few ideas. I concluded with the interaction of #Yersinia pestis and #FMF, bringing the subject back on track (#ClinicalImmunology).

Now I was reviewing some facts and I saw this paper (10.1136/pgmj.2004.024075) by Duncan and Smith on the #PostgraduateMedicalJournal #PMJ. They make quite a case for the underlying cause of the #Plague being some sort of virus, possibly a haemorrhagic fever.
One of the arguments is the selection of yet another variant that might protect against disease - in their proposed model its CCR5-delta32 which protects against HIV-1 and seems to have had a substancial boost in prevalence during the same period of the Bubonic Plague.

I had never heard of this. I found a lot of news reports from the early 2000s on this but seems to have faded away since then as a theory.

I still found it very interesting. Does anyone have any new information on this?
I am aware of the recent isolation of Y pestis and the 2022 Nature paper, but could these two agents not have coexisted, for instance?

So.

Poland has been hit by two missiles from Russia. I’ve seen reports that it’s a ‘mistake’…but I am very reluctant to believe this.

For many years, the relationship between Poland and Russia has been fraught and you’re going to tell me that they just accidentally fired missiles in their direction?

Highly unlikely. #HistoryMastodon

Morning all.

Question. I never mentioned much stuff about my academic background on the bird site as I never wanted to scare people off. Is Mastodon okay to do that here? :/
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