Nick Caverly
@nickcav.bsky.social
Professor person. Environments, technologies, and racial capitalism. New book: DEMOLISHING DETROIT: HOW STRUCTURAL RACISM ENDURES (Stanford UP, 2025). My words, not my employer’s. For more: nickcaverly.com
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Nick Caverly
@nickcav.bsky.social
· Oct 23
Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
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The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
November 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.
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All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
November 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
All NSF SBE DDRIG solicitations have been archived and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Grants currently submitted will be processed, but as always, chances of funding remain very low. This means anyone aiming for the upcoming deadline will not be able to submit. 1/3
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Hello #AAA25! We hope to see you at booth 209
We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
#AAA2025
We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
#AAA2025
November 20, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Hello #AAA25! We hope to see you at booth 209
We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
#AAA2025
We're happy to offer a 30% discount on selected #anthropology titles on our website when you use the promo code S25AAA at checkout between November 8 and December 25, 2025: www.sup.org/virtual-exhi...
#AAA2025
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So excited to partner with Garden District Books and many wonderful writers on this book release ritual and pop-up bookshop in New Orleans this Friday 11/21 evening. We'll walk to the Mississippi for a ritual acknowledging the spirits that have accompanied the writing of these books. Join us!
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So excited to partner with Garden District Books and many wonderful writers on this book release ritual and pop-up bookshop in New Orleans this Friday 11/21 evening. We'll walk to the Mississippi for a ritual acknowledging the spirits that have accompanied the writing of these books. Join us!
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the 30-year mortgage is rent control for the middle class, and it's not particularly well designed rent control www.npr.org/sections/pla...
Is a 50-year mortgage really that much crazier than a 30-year one?
Last week, the internet piled on President Trump's proposal for a 50-year mortgage. But maybe it's not as crazy as it sounds.
www.npr.org
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 PM
the 30-year mortgage is rent control for the middle class, and it's not particularly well designed rent control www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 AM
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
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Jamelle Bouie always writes from a pro-democracy position. If only the NYT as a whole would begin a Democracy Desk to do this, too: track and make visible how the consolidation of authoritarian power in US is happening. What news outlets do you think are doing this well?
November 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Jamelle Bouie always writes from a pro-democracy position. If only the NYT as a whole would begin a Democracy Desk to do this, too: track and make visible how the consolidation of authoritarian power in US is happening. What news outlets do you think are doing this well?
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“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
A book 15 years in the making
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
“For anyone out there struggling to write because you’re distracted, or tired, or sick, or scared—I’ve been there. Take care of yourself and your communities…. your book will be there when you get back.”
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
Thx to @nickcav.bsky.social for the wise advice
newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/a-book...
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Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.
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Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Information, Culture & Society - School of Information Science
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +
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We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
November 6, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We have reached a verdict: Not guilty.
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workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits.
if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.
diaworkersunited.org
if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.
diaworkersunited.org
Detroit Institute of Arts Cultural Workers United
diaworkersunited.org
November 4, 2025 at 11:00 PM
workers at Detroit Institute of Arts are announcing a wall-to-wall union drive for all staff at the museum. DIA is an amazing museum with a ton of incredible exhibits.
if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.
diaworkersunited.org
if you could sign the petition, that may help motivate museum leadership to voluntarily recognize the union.
diaworkersunited.org
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The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
November 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.
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BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin
October 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
BREAKING: Not actually Carmy’s cousin
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Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Food bank director: “for every meal that a food bank provides, the SNAP program provides nine. There’s no way we can meet that gap.”
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it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
October 26, 2025 at 11:37 PM
it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby
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Tear gas isn't allowed on actual battlefields, but they're blanketing our streets and children in it.
A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
October 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tear gas isn't allowed on actual battlefields, but they're blanketing our streets and children in it.
Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Since we’re on the topic of tearing down buildings, I got the author copies of my book (!!). Real in the world December 2
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
TL;DR: Detroiters have a lot to teach us about how material conditions reproduce white supremacy w/o racist people and policies. Tearing things down isn’t a clean slate
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Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’
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Business live – latest updates
Experts have warned of the perils of relying on a small number of companies for operating the global internet after a glitch at Amazon’s cloud computing service brought down apps and websites around the world.
The affected platforms included Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.
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Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
October 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Billionaires are always inserting themselves into situations when it is unneeded or unwanted but when their influence could be useful, they aren’t around. Anyway. Mark Cuban is an IU alum. He could fund that student newspaper in perpetuity with pocket change. Or withhold institutional donations.
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Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong:
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
Columbia must now show courage and empathy
Dear Columbia leaders,
www.columbiaspectator.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Former Columbia Provost Jonathan Cole asks the university to bravely admit where it was wrong:
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
All hat, no cattle
Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.
October 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
All hat, no cattle
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just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
October 9, 2025 at 1:45 PM
just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”
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Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
October 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵
After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵