David Anderson
@dranderson15.bsky.social
I teach @UofLEnglish. I love to post on African American and American literature, music, sea writing, and history.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
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After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore l Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/ente...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
After Smithsonian controversy, Amy Sherald opens to fanfare in Baltimore l Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/ente...
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Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
November 17, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.
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Korngold was just 15 when he completed his Sinfonietta, an impressive four movement work that was premiered by Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic in 1913. Had a lot of pleasure reviewing this new recording by Sascha Goetzel for the November issue of Gramophone.
November 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Korngold was just 15 when he completed his Sinfonietta, an impressive four movement work that was premiered by Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic in 1913. Had a lot of pleasure reviewing this new recording by Sascha Goetzel for the November issue of Gramophone.
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Larry Summers has been trying to tell us precisely who he is for more than thirty years.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Larry Summers has been trying to tell us precisely who he is for more than thirty years.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
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today @ Books By The Banks in Cincinnati: this travel-weary couple... 10am to 4pm
yall can even catch me on a poetry panel, moderated by Zinnia Stewart, alongside Artress White and Alissa Sammarco.
the shoes of the fisherman's wife
praisesong for the kitchen ghosts
yall can even catch me on a poetry panel, moderated by Zinnia Stewart, alongside Artress White and Alissa Sammarco.
the shoes of the fisherman's wife
praisesong for the kitchen ghosts
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
today @ Books By The Banks in Cincinnati: this travel-weary couple... 10am to 4pm
yall can even catch me on a poetry panel, moderated by Zinnia Stewart, alongside Artress White and Alissa Sammarco.
the shoes of the fisherman's wife
praisesong for the kitchen ghosts
yall can even catch me on a poetry panel, moderated by Zinnia Stewart, alongside Artress White and Alissa Sammarco.
the shoes of the fisherman's wife
praisesong for the kitchen ghosts
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Hoooooo boy
Fed Governor Stephen Miran: "Cutting down net migration to 0, potentially even negative because of the deportations that have been occurring, I think is very deflationary."
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hoooooo boy
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Good *public* art schools — Temple's Tyler, Hunter College, Purchase, Michigan's Stamps, Rutgers's Mason Gross, Ohio, etc — are such a treasure.
"Tyler plans to move all of its graduate programs in the architecture and built environment disciplines to Terra Hall. That includes architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, and facilities management and historic preservation." Right by our old house. I'm happy to see this 🤗
Temple plans to fill the gap left by UArts with their new Center City campus
Temple purchased Terra Hall, which was the main academic building for the now-closed University of the Arts. It will become Temple's Center City campus.
www.inquirer.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Good *public* art schools — Temple's Tyler, Hunter College, Purchase, Michigan's Stamps, Rutgers's Mason Gross, Ohio, etc — are such a treasure.
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In the midst of closure news, "Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close" @bucknellupress.bsky.social. @aupresses.bsky.social truly is a #TeamUP effort, and each press supports scholars and scholarship in important ways.
Under Pressure to Prove ROI, a University Closes Its Press
Bucknell University says it’s closing its storied academic press to focus more resources on undergraduate students. But faculty and other scholars say the press has long been a part of the value propo...
www.insidehighered.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:46 PM
In the midst of closure news, "Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close" @bucknellupress.bsky.social. @aupresses.bsky.social truly is a #TeamUP effort, and each press supports scholars and scholarship in important ways.
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Nice one, Zadie Smith.
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Nice one, Zadie Smith.
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Speaking of unexpected things I learned about in this newsletter issue, this chamber arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by the ensemble Nevermind is gorgeous
November 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Speaking of unexpected things I learned about in this newsletter issue, this chamber arrangement of the Goldberg Variations by the ensemble Nevermind is gorgeous
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US gun culture + Stand Your Ground laws = More racist violence. www.bbc.com/news/article...
US cleaning woman shot and killed after arriving at wrong home
Police say they found Maria Florinda Rios Perez, 32, dead after she was shot on the front porch of a home in an Indianapolis suburb.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
US gun culture + Stand Your Ground laws = More racist violence. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
by @maryhicks.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/captive-cosm...
Absolutely fascinating (and upsetting) - an award winning book
by @maryhicks.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/captive-cosm...
Absolutely fascinating (and upsetting) - an award winning book
Mary E. Hicks, "Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery" (Omohundro Institute and UNC Press, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Captive Cosmopolitans: Black Mariners and the World of South Atlantic Slavery
by @maryhicks.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/captive-cosm...
Absolutely fascinating (and upsetting) - an award winning book
by @maryhicks.bsky.social
newbooksnetwork.com/captive-cosm...
Absolutely fascinating (and upsetting) - an award winning book
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If you’re looking for ways to learn more about adoption from the perspective of adopted people, here are some podcasts that I’ve learned so much from 🧵
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you’re looking for ways to learn more about adoption from the perspective of adopted people, here are some podcasts that I’ve learned so much from 🧵
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Just thought I’d pop back in to let yall know of my news: I’M OFFICIALLY A GRAMMY NOMINATED SONGWRITER/ENGINEER!!!!! #YolandaAdams #SunnyDays
November 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Just thought I’d pop back in to let yall know of my news: I’M OFFICIALLY A GRAMMY NOMINATED SONGWRITER/ENGINEER!!!!! #YolandaAdams #SunnyDays
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They really stuck the landing on this one.
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
They really stuck the landing on this one.
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Fellow 18th-century nerds will want to check out the latest No Such Thing as a Fish podcast, which opens with a long riff on John Wilkes, the Earl of Sandwich, and the (so-called) Hellfire Club.
No Such Thing As A Fish | Nosuchthingasafish
nosuchthingasafish.com | A weekly podcast about interesting facts from the makers of QI.
www.nosuchthingasafish.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Fellow 18th-century nerds will want to check out the latest No Such Thing as a Fish podcast, which opens with a long riff on John Wilkes, the Earl of Sandwich, and the (so-called) Hellfire Club.
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Teaching this novel this afternoon in my class on African-American writing about oceans.
November 5, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Teaching this novel this afternoon in my class on African-American writing about oceans.
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why killing mRNA vaccine research is dangerous
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 PM
why killing mRNA vaccine research is dangerous
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let's talk poetry...
tell us about your favorite collection (read or written)
or if youve read my work & wanna ask me wtf i was on when i wrote something (or if just wanting insight to a particular piece or entire collection)
or link to a fave poetry podcast or book review
- whatever you want.
tell us about your favorite collection (read or written)
or if youve read my work & wanna ask me wtf i was on when i wrote something (or if just wanting insight to a particular piece or entire collection)
or link to a fave poetry podcast or book review
- whatever you want.
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
let's talk poetry...
tell us about your favorite collection (read or written)
or if youve read my work & wanna ask me wtf i was on when i wrote something (or if just wanting insight to a particular piece or entire collection)
or link to a fave poetry podcast or book review
- whatever you want.
tell us about your favorite collection (read or written)
or if youve read my work & wanna ask me wtf i was on when i wrote something (or if just wanting insight to a particular piece or entire collection)
or link to a fave poetry podcast or book review
- whatever you want.
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Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
November 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Good morning.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
I don't know who did this, but I love you.
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Good news! -- a bunch of housing is about to open up!
November 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Good news! -- a bunch of housing is about to open up!
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To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
To understand what was at stake here: in VA, the AG gets to appoint university counsel. From Jim Ryan’s forced resignation to the (mercifully) reject “Compact” to the odious and bizarre “settlement,” UVA has been hamstrung by counsel chosen by the state’s GOP administration. That’s about to change.