Chelsea Spencer
@chelseaspencer.bsky.social
Architectural historian. (Building) contracts and contractors, long C19 Atlantic. Newly arrived postdoc at the Buell Center/Columbia SOF.
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Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...
September 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...
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This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
Today we launched the National Academy for AI Instruction with UFT, Microsoft, OpenAI & Anthropic to offer free, high-quality AI training to educators. Some of you have expressed legitimate reservations about AI and tech companies. I want to speak to you directly. 🧵
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n
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How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
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Drawing the Disordered River in Late-Renaissance Tuscany
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July 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
doi.org/10.1162/grey...
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”
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I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
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If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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Another world is possible if we fight for it.
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Another world is possible if we fight for it.
PSA: if you like me have a 🗻 of student debt and are confused and worried rn, these folks are amazingly helpful: freestudentloanadvice.org
TISLA – Fair, Free, Student Loan Advice
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June 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
PSA: if you like me have a 🗻 of student debt and are confused and worried rn, these folks are amazingly helpful: freestudentloanadvice.org
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😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/
May 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/
Super excited about how the Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops are shaping up!
First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social.
Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org
First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social.
Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org
2025 Workshops Schedule — Costs of Architecture
The Costs of Architecture Network is a new forum for scholars to discuss works in progress that address questions related to costs in the history of architecture and the built environment.
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May 13, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Super excited about how the Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops are shaping up!
First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social.
Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org
First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social.
Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org
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Student: Teacher, why do we learn?
Socrates: For life!
Freire: For liberation!
Dewey: For democracy!
Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!
Socrates: For life!
Freire: For liberation!
Dewey: For democracy!
Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!
It’s really absurd that we’ve reached a point where the “common sense” view of education is that its primary purpose is to lower the future onboarding/training costs for companies hiring new employees.
April 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Student: Teacher, why do we learn?
Socrates: For life!
Freire: For liberation!
Dewey: For democracy!
Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!
Socrates: For life!
Freire: For liberation!
Dewey: For democracy!
Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!
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BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.
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This is so fundamentally illegal that the word "illegal" should appear in any headline about this lark that Trump got after getting amped up watching TV coverage.
The IRS is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, CNN reports
IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliat...
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April 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
This is so fundamentally illegal that the word "illegal" should appear in any headline about this lark that Trump got after getting amped up watching TV coverage.
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All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!
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Thousands of jobs. Cleaner transit. Less traffic. A direct line from Dallas to Houston.
That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.
That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.
www.transportation.gov
April 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Thousands of jobs. Cleaner transit. Less traffic. A direct line from Dallas to Houston.
That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.
That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.
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Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell
“So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…
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April 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.
What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.
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Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
![SpellWild110 • 2 points 17 hours ago
I just got this email too and I am a US citizen? Born and raised in the US. So confused.
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+ [-Potential_Travel_294 • 2 points 17 hours ago
Yeah, so confusing
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+ [H] ramoros1865 • 2 points 13 hours ago
I go this email last night as well and I have a green card](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreihzoewvqjpslxfzhgd2va4qwmpxhbeyh7f3yur55pdomuhmtd46da@jpeg)
![[-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
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Got this today at 6ame9the thing is I was born here this is the email that sent it: [automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov]
(mailto:automatedmessage@cbp.dhs.gov)
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+ [-| ihatemensomuchursick • 2 points 10 hours ago
Has anyone clicked the link?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2vtbmhmrwzbqcfv4we4uxzzt/bafkreifbnpl6vrxsj35d2na7bq22mw3cve6ptfxmlnw26totsic2nzotoy@jpeg)
![+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I just got this same email right now
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+ [-JOk-Comfortable948 • 1 point 20 hours ago
Me too. I am an LPR since an year now and def concerns me seeing this. I got the email from cbpnoreply@cbp.dhs.gov and email looked legit due to its domain though, hope its a scam email. Crazy idiots not sure what they keep doing. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ |-]PossibleLast3277 • 1 point 20 hours ago
I have daca and i am wondering if i got it because I did advance parole in 2023
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+ |-] Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got the same email twice to my two different email adresses, I think its's a scam.
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+ [-]Ok-Comfortable948 • 1 point 19 hours ago
I got it twice to my same email.
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+ [-]Potential_Travel_294 • 1 point 19 hours ago
Yeah, me too, I got twice too to a kind of personal email address, it's even not my work email address. permalink embed save parent report reply
+ [-]thawk1986 • 1 point 11 hours ago
It's legit:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/mi
grants-cbp-one-app-legal-status-stripped-dhs/
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April 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.
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More of this, please! academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...
Two Calls to Defend Our Universities
POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following resolutions from the Academic Council of the University of California Academic Senate and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Academic Senate were pub…
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April 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
More of this, please! academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...
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- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2.
- German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations
- Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days
- German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations
- Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
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April 5, 2025 at 1:30 PM
- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2.
- German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations
- Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days
- German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations
- Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days
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Signatures still being collected and will be published by AAUP on Tuesday.
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Home
March 20, 2025
Dear Presidents, Chancellors, and Boards of Trustees of the 60 Universities that received a March 10th warning letter from the U.S. Department of Education:
You are on the frontlines ...
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March 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Signatures still being collected and will be published by AAUP on Tuesday.
sites.google.com/view/we-must...
sites.google.com/view/we-must...
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Massive turnout in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student who was abducted from a Somerville street by Trump’s government - Somerville stands with Rumeysa
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Massive turnout in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student who was abducted from a Somerville street by Trump’s government - Somerville stands with Rumeysa
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I really don't care much what anyone thinks the exact right label is to describe where we are. This is outrageous and acutely dangerous. They are disappearing people in broad daylight for nothing but political speech. If this isn't a frontal assault on the rule of law and free democracy, what is?
March 26, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I really don't care much what anyone thinks the exact right label is to describe where we are. This is outrageous and acutely dangerous. They are disappearing people in broad daylight for nothing but political speech. If this isn't a frontal assault on the rule of law and free democracy, what is?
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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the us academic sector is genuinely never going to recover from the current assault on its every institution and the third rate bean counters who entrusted themselves with running the universities don't care at best because they read too many the atlantic think pieces about the oberlin cafeteria
March 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
the us academic sector is genuinely never going to recover from the current assault on its every institution and the third rate bean counters who entrusted themselves with running the universities don't care at best because they read too many the atlantic think pieces about the oberlin cafeteria
Excited to be giving a little talk about my contractors and their contracts alongside the formidable @lisaaht.bsky.social as part of @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social's lunchtime Zoom sessions! Join us Wed at 12pm ET: lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s...
Zoom Session – The Built, the Written, the Imagined: Law in Architecture, Architecture in Law - Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Zoom Session – The Built, the Written, the Imagined: Law in Architecture, Architecture in Law March 19 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Share this page Chelsea Spencer (Rice University) and Lisa Haber-Thomson (Mo...
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March 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Excited to be giving a little talk about my contractors and their contracts alongside the formidable @lisaaht.bsky.social as part of @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social's lunchtime Zoom sessions! Join us Wed at 12pm ET: lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s...