burmart.bsky.social
burmart.bsky.social
@burmart.bsky.social
None of you look like I thought you would!
November 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Life is meaningless and we’re all gonna die. Don’t worry about it!
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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The Cheesecake Factory employs more workers than the coal industry.

I'm not kidding.
September 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Don’t you think the Supreme Court is just making shadow docket decisions so they can rule against it formally after Trump is out of power?
July 21, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Everyone in academia knows👇. By the time everyone starts speaking out loud, it will be too late. Programs will close. Tens of thousands of staff will be laid off. Entire fields of study at major universities will simply disappear. And “just do lawsuits” will look shamefully pathetic as a response.
The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.
wesa.fm WESA @wesa.fm · Feb 21
The University of Pittsburgh confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.
July 16, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Old Man Yells At Clouds

No one wants to hear this message. Not our university leaders. Not the media (I & colleagues have tried & failed repeatedly). Everyone just wants to pretend doing the definition of insanity is going to work this time. Sleepwalking into epic disaster.
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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A total failure of collective action and understanding the politics of the moment. Fiddling with lawsuits while Rome burns.
July 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM