Andrew Sluyter
@andrewsluyter.bsky.social
#Prof #Author #WorkingClass #GirlDad #CarnegieFellow #ACLSfellow, #1stGen High School thru PhD #Immigrant, ex Editor @jofhistgeog.bsky.social, ex Executive Director @ Conf. of Latin American Geography, and more at https://t.co/AhhsSd4K6m
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Merry Christmas from America’s unions!
Our labor movement stands in solidarity with all working people who are still fighting for dignity, respect and more this holiday season.
Our labor movement stands in solidarity with all working people who are still fighting for dignity, respect and more this holiday season.
December 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Merry Christmas from America’s unions!
Our labor movement stands in solidarity with all working people who are still fighting for dignity, respect and more this holiday season.
Our labor movement stands in solidarity with all working people who are still fighting for dignity, respect and more this holiday season.
Any ideas about this contract amendment offer I just received from @yalepress re AI rights? It’s for 25% of an undefined “net.” The Anthropic settlement is for 50%. @AuthorsGuild suggests 75-85% depending on how much effort the press actually puts into selling AI use.
December 24, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Any ideas about this contract amendment offer I just received from @yalepress re AI rights? It’s for 25% of an undefined “net.” The Anthropic settlement is for 50%. @AuthorsGuild suggests 75-85% depending on how much effort the press actually puts into selling AI use.
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start lailluminator.com/2025/12/16/l...
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start • Louisiana Illuminator
University leaders have faced intense criticism for not seeking input from faculty, administrators, legislators or the public.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start lailluminator.com/2025/12/16/l...
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start lailluminator.com/2025/12/16/l...
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start • Louisiana Illuminator
University leaders have faced intense criticism for not seeking input from faculty, administrators, legislators or the public.
lailluminator.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:18 AM
LSU’s new restructuring is off to a rocky start lailluminator.com/2025/12/16/l...
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Kids Rarely Read Whole Books Anymore. Even in English Class.
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December 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding: Journal of Cultural Geography: Vol 27, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding
Barbuda remains little developed and sparsely populated relative to its neighbors in the Leeward Lesser Antilles, a rather extraordinary and relatively unknown Caribbean place. Much of its distinc...
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December 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Renegotiating Barbuda's commons: recent changes in Barbudan open-range cattle herding: Journal of Cultural Geography: Vol 27, No 2 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
LSU president, chancellor can earn millions in incentives lailluminator.com/2025/12/11/l...
LSU president, chancellor can earn millions in incentives • Louisiana Illuminator
LSU could pay its new president and chancellor millions annually under lucrative contracts that include dozens of incentives
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December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
LSU president, chancellor can earn millions in incentives lailluminator.com/2025/12/11/l...
"Humans are astonishingly energy-efficient...with a brain that runs on only about 20 watts of power.... A.I. models burn through mountains of data and electricity to approximate that same performance, yet still misfire the moment they must handle unfamiliar problems." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
Opinion | Don’t Fear the Bubble Bursting
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December 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Humans are astonishingly energy-efficient...with a brain that runs on only about 20 watts of power.... A.I. models burn through mountains of data and electricity to approximate that same performance, yet still misfire the moment they must handle unfamiliar problems." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this online project: Slavery and the University Storymap, linked in next post.
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LSU and Slavery
YouTube video by Andrew Sluyter
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November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this online project: Slavery and the University Storymap, linked in next post.
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Louisiana’s lax regulatory climate set the stage for Smitty’s Supply disaster lailluminator.com/2025/11/17/s...
Louisiana’s lax regulatory climate set the stage for Smitty’s Supply disaster • Louisiana Illuminator
Why did it take an environmental disaster for officials to finally act against a business with an established track record of wiping its feet on regulations meant to curb pollution?
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November 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Louisiana’s lax regulatory climate set the stage for Smitty’s Supply disaster lailluminator.com/2025/11/17/s...
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this article: Andrew Sluyter, Death on the Middle Passage: A Cartographic Approach to the Atlantic Slave
Trade, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, 3 | 2020, journals.openedition.org/slaveries/3358.
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Trade, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, 3 | 2020, journals.openedition.org/slaveries/3358.
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Death on the Middle Passage
YouTube video by Andrew Sluyter
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November 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this article: Andrew Sluyter, Death on the Middle Passage: A Cartographic Approach to the Atlantic Slave
Trade, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, 3 | 2020, journals.openedition.org/slaveries/3358.
youtu.be/4Oosoa7BTns
Trade, Esclavages & Post-esclavages, 3 | 2020, journals.openedition.org/slaveries/3358.
youtu.be/4Oosoa7BTns
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this article: Andrew Sluyter (2024) The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery & Abolition, 45:2, 212-241.
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The Iconography of Death in the Dutch Slave Trade
YouTube video by Andrew Sluyter
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November 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a Google NotebookLM generated video of this article: Andrew Sluyter (2024) The Iconography of Death in the Logbooks of the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade, Slavery & Abolition, 45:2, 212-241.
youtu.be/lOYlhMhQCFc
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James Watson was such a big, divisive figure that no single obituary I've read yet really captures him. The Cold Springs Harbor obit does a fine job on his very real, very important scientific accomplishments but seriously slights the weird, awful turn his life took in his last ~20 yrs...
In remembrance of Dr. James D. Watson | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Jim Watson made many contributions to science, education, public service, and especially Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). As a scientist, his and Francis Crick’s determination of the structure of...
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November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
James Watson was such a big, divisive figure that no single obituary I've read yet really captures him. The Cold Springs Harbor obit does a fine job on his very real, very important scientific accomplishments but seriously slights the weird, awful turn his life took in his last ~20 yrs...
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BREAKING: The #LSU Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to name McNeese State leader Wade Rousse its next system president, and it has picked University of Alabama Provost Jim Dalton as both chancellor and provost of its Baton Rouge campus. #lalege #lagov
LSU splits president-chancellor roles, makes two hires • Louisiana Illuminator
The LSU Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to hire current McNeese State University President Wade Rousse as its next president.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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New Orleans and the Mardi Gras Amtrak line also won accolades.
Louisiana named state of the year for tourism at travel magazine's national awards ceremony
New Orleans and the Mardi Gras Amtrak line also won accolades.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New Orleans and the Mardi Gras Amtrak line also won accolades.
LSU splits president-chancellor roles, makes two hires lailluminator.com/2025/11/04/l...
LSU splits president-chancellor roles, makes two hires • Louisiana Illuminator
The LSU Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to hire current McNeese State University President Wade Rousse as its next president.
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November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
LSU splits president-chancellor roles, makes two hires lailluminator.com/2025/11/04/l...
The talent pipeline that built American innovation is drying up — especially in the South lailluminator.com/2025/10/31/i...
The talent pipeline that built American innovation is drying up — especially in the South • Louisiana Illuminator
Once dominant in recruiting international students and scholars, U.S. higher education is now under serious strain.
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November 1, 2025 at 1:39 PM
The talent pipeline that built American innovation is drying up — especially in the South lailluminator.com/2025/10/31/i...
LSU down to three finalists for president’s job lailluminator.com/2025/10/29/l...
LSU down to three finalists for president’s job • Louisiana Illuminator
LSU is just days away from picking its new leader after the committee in charge of finding a candidate narrowed down its choices.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:22 PM
LSU down to three finalists for president’s job lailluminator.com/2025/10/29/l...
Landry: LSU athletics director will not hire Tigers’ next football coach lailluminator.com/2025/10/29/l...
Landry: LSU athletics director will not hire Tigers' next football coach • Louisiana Illuminator
Republican Gov. Jeff Landry benched Democrat LSU athletic director Scott Woodward from picking the next LSU football coach and picked his starting lineup for that.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Landry: LSU athletics director will not hire Tigers’ next football coach lailluminator.com/2025/10/29/l...
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Do you say “Holland” instead of “Netherlands”?
October 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Do you say “Holland” instead of “Netherlands”?
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Opinion | The Wish to Be Seen
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October 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Louisiana Senate president sees no need for troops in New Orleans lailluminator.com/2025/10/24/b...
Louisiana Senate president sees no need for troops in New Orleans • Louisiana Illuminator
Gov. Landry sent his request to have the Pentagon pay for a National Guard crime-fighting deployment in late September.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Louisiana Senate president sees no need for troops in New Orleans lailluminator.com/2025/10/24/b...
LSU invites six candidates to apply for president, and they’ll need to go public lailluminator.com/2025/10/23/l...
LSU invites six candidates to apply for president, and they’ll need to go public • Louisiana Illuminator
The LSU presidential search committee has announced that six individuals will be invited to formally apply for the position — on the condition that their identities become public by Wednesday.
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October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
LSU invites six candidates to apply for president, and they’ll need to go public lailluminator.com/2025/10/23/l...