Elise A. Mitchell
@bydreamphd.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Swarthmore’s History Department studying how Africans survived enslavement, epidemics, and empires in the early modern Atlantic World.
Insta: @bydreamphd
Insta: @bydreamphd
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
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"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:05 PM
"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
🤦🏾♀️ *sigh* there is so much to talk about in the Obama administration… one day…
"Warren and Summers have long had a contentious relationship, dating back to their clashes over financial regulation during the Obama administration, when Warren opposed proposals to nominate Summers to lead the Federal Reserve."
We will talk about finance in the Obama administration one day
We will talk about finance in the Obama administration one day
Sen. Elizabeth A. Warren urged Harvard to cut ties with former President Lawrence H. Summers after emails revealed years of correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein, CNN reported Monday.
Megan L. Blonigen, Dhruv T. Patel, and Frances Y. Yong report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Megan L. Blonigen, Dhruv T. Patel, and Frances Y. Yong report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
November 17, 2025 at 9:14 PM
🤦🏾♀️ *sigh* there is so much to talk about in the Obama administration… one day…
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"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend
Though we were in frequent conversation for a decade, I only got to meet my friend Alice Wong in person just once. And when I did, I was a bundle of nerves—and that was before she cussed me out wi…
lithub.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"Remembering Alice Wong: Writer, Advocate, Friend"
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
Steven W. Thrasher on Meeting and Collaborating with the Outspoken Founder of the Disability Visibility Project
published by @literaryhub.bsky.social | art by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social lithub.com/remembering-...
What if we invested the money that we’re currently investing in AI avatars of dead loved ones into idk creating a livable world?
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
Disney Channel Star’s AI App That Creates Avatars Of Dead Relatives Sparks Backlash
The app was co-founded by Calum Worthy, a former Disney Channel actor known for starring in “Austin & Ally.”
www.forbes.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:34 PM
What if we invested the money that we’re currently investing in AI avatars of dead loved ones into idk creating a livable world?
I searched the database. It is not just the POTUS and GOP in those emails. Dem establishment members and former POTUS are in there too. When the rest of the files are released there will be more.
November 13, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I searched the database. It is not just the POTUS and GOP in those emails. Dem establishment members and former POTUS are in there too. When the rest of the files are released there will be more.
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
I just… don’t let the NYT slide folks. They’ve been a bad actor for a while.
Some of us tried to tell you.
I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing.
Yes, even your faves from there are bigots.
Goodnight.
Some of us tried to tell you.
I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing.
Yes, even your faves from there are bigots.
Goodnight.
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I just… don’t let the NYT slide folks. They’ve been a bad actor for a while.
Some of us tried to tell you.
I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing.
Yes, even your faves from there are bigots.
Goodnight.
Some of us tried to tell you.
I have a whole think piece in my head about how they enabled the rise and consolidation of a multicultural conservative right wing.
Yes, even your faves from there are bigots.
Goodnight.
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This should be actionable
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This should be actionable
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.
November 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Chattel slavery was a pedophile economy.
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FROM: reporter@nytimes.com
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
FROM: reporter@nytimes.com
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
TO: epstein@pedophile.com
SUBJECT: re: can you print these pictures of donald trump with underage women
hello jeffrey my friend. no for some reason
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This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
November 12, 2025 at 10:59 PM
This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.
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it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power
Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky."
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023123.txt
drive.google.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:06 PM
it's almost like the production of knowledge is tangled up in questions of power
We swim in disinformation and the mainstream news media has been a part of producing that bs for at least the last decade. This isn’t my cynicism (frankly most days I’m optimistic), this is just truth. Mainstream media has us screwed and we deserve better. This can’t be changed unless it’s faced.
November 12, 2025 at 11:08 PM
We swim in disinformation and the mainstream news media has been a part of producing that bs for at least the last decade. This isn’t my cynicism (frankly most days I’m optimistic), this is just truth. Mainstream media has us screwed and we deserve better. This can’t be changed unless it’s faced.
I think it’s healthy to question the politics and integrity of pretty much any journalist and editor who made the bulk of their career at NYT. I’ve saying this for a long time…
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I think it’s healthy to question the politics and integrity of pretty much any journalist and editor who made the bulk of their career at NYT. I’ve saying this for a long time…
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Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
November 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another thing this email trove has convinced me of is that NYT has been actively and consciously helping Trump since 2015. It wasn't just casual sexism, double standards, and political reporting Kayfabe. They were doing catch and kill
So, the NYT is even more trash than some of us thought. Some of us have been saying this for a long time…
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
So, the NYT is even more trash than some of us thought. Some of us have been saying this for a long time…
The current context has had me thinking a lot about Black intellectual traditions. It’s a way of doing scholarship, indeed. But it’s also a way toward a useful pedagogical practice.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The current context has had me thinking a lot about Black intellectual traditions. It’s a way of doing scholarship, indeed. But it’s also a way toward a useful pedagogical practice.
Amid the chaos in the world and the personal challenge of teaching 3 courses, I am happy to say I’ve arrived at the point in the semester when the threads I’ve been sewing with students for weeks are finally coming together.
November 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Amid the chaos in the world and the personal challenge of teaching 3 courses, I am happy to say I’ve arrived at the point in the semester when the threads I’ve been sewing with students for weeks are finally coming together.
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This end game for millions of Americans without healthcare? What is it? Just a bunch of us sick & dying?
November 10, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This end game for millions of Americans without healthcare? What is it? Just a bunch of us sick & dying?
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No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.
Dems have spent the past two months saying they're fighting to address the crisis of spiking healthcare costs and now they're caving for a deal that does nothing to address healthcare costs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
November 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
No, no, no. Senate Democrats secured the concepts of a plan for a handshake for a promise to hold a vote they will lose.
After seeing the TCB documentary, the Bambara quote “Do not cede the arena to the fools” has been on my mind. What does it look like when we don’t give up?
November 8, 2025 at 7:32 AM
After seeing the TCB documentary, the Bambara quote “Do not cede the arena to the fools” has been on my mind. What does it look like when we don’t give up?