LW Lewis
@lesliewlewis.bsky.social
Writer and former academic turned microbe farmer. From Almost Heaven.
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Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 250! (11/16/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more ...
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November 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
Witch hazel in bloom, mid-autumn. Appreciating the color 🌱
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Witch hazel in bloom, mid-autumn. Appreciating the color 🌱
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Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers
October 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers
#Farmaid40 is where we are tonight! Direct broadcast, not network. Let's hear it for family farms, for Black farmers, for soil health!
September 21, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#Farmaid40 is where we are tonight! Direct broadcast, not network. Let's hear it for family farms, for Black farmers, for soil health!
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Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
September 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
sbgi.net/tv-stations/
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Once again, Makena Kelly hive, stand up:
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social on the federal govt’s redesign efforts www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social on the federal govt’s redesign efforts www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
DOGE Operatives Are Joining Donald Trump’s New National Design Studio
Many proposed NDS projects were already in the works from federal workers who were let go earlier this year. Now, DOGE is getting involved.
www.wired.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Once again, Makena Kelly hive, stand up:
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social on the federal govt’s redesign efforts www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social on the federal govt’s redesign efforts www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
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Copyedits are done and that means it's the end times for making any edits. It's the final countdoooooown AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book 🎉
Preorders help authors and books enormously 🫶🏽 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book 🎉
Preorders help authors and books enormously 🫶🏽 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
![my eyes hovering over a printed stack of paper which says "The Edge of Space-Time
Particles, poetry, and the Cosmic Dream Boogie
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
[colophon]
Pantheon Books, New York"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3le7dvxqc2rhvyswiida2cgf/bafkreid5tpur4k7yjl7umggrpv25f7zlujlidkoshbfrrpzpr7esp2lrku@jpeg)
August 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Copyedits are done and that means it's the end times for making any edits. It's the final countdoooooown AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book 🎉
Preorders help authors and books enormously 🫶🏽 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book 🎉
Preorders help authors and books enormously 🫶🏽 #BookSky
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
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just got word that my department's being shut down. two things:
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
just got word that my department's being shut down. two things:
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
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I'm telling you: this is happening everywhere. Don't give me your dissembling about budgets or private/public or whatever. There is a complete wholesale attack on knowledge production and it is dismantling every university. They're starting with the Humanities b/c they know you'll let us die first.
just got word that my department's being shut down. two things:
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal.
2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.
August 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I'm telling you: this is happening everywhere. Don't give me your dissembling about budgets or private/public or whatever. There is a complete wholesale attack on knowledge production and it is dismantling every university. They're starting with the Humanities b/c they know you'll let us die first.
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Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
August 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.
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Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH
As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding.
www.nature.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Here’s an excellent capsule history of U.S. immigration from 1848 to the present
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
July 14, 2025
Trump appointees insist they have a “mandate” to drive undocumented immigrants out of the U.S.
open.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Here’s an excellent capsule history of U.S. immigration from 1848 to the present
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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ALL CAPS
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
ALL CAPS
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ...
GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
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Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share widely! 🗃️
It’s too damn hot to be outside, & the world's burning anyway, so why not stay in & check out all the amazing public scholarly writing, podcast eps, new books from the last week in my 230th #ScholarSunday thread? Add more below, share widely, & enjoy! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 230
Shared on June 22, 2025
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June 23, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share widely! 🗃️
This bee is sleeping on the Butterfly weed. Happy solstice! 🌱
June 21, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This bee is sleeping on the Butterfly weed. Happy solstice! 🌱
It's late evening on the Solstice. This one is asleep.
June 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It's late evening on the Solstice. This one is asleep.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
June 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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I know that some of you live in NYC and have more books than you know what to do with. If you have books that fit the bill as the ones listed below, please donate them to Bluestockings! I am trying to collect 2500 books by 9/1
Also sneak peek thanks to Julie for helping me with graphics. I am collecting books for Bluestockings Bookstore and I am hoping that lots of people will help me meet my goal of 2500 gently used and new books by 9/1! If you want to organize your own book drive in your area, reach out.
June 16, 2025 at 12:51 AM
I know that some of you live in NYC and have more books than you know what to do with. If you have books that fit the bill as the ones listed below, please donate them to Bluestockings! I am trying to collect 2500 books by 9/1