Lorena Albert Ferrando
@lalbertferrando.bsky.social
Education worker @ UVa. Jamonista, believes in Billy Wilder, the Force, and learning as a public good. Y voy de bar en peor.
"Buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacio." (Italo Calvino)
"Buscar y saber reconocer quién y qué, en medio del infierno, no es infierno, y hacerlo durar, y darle espacio." (Italo Calvino)
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
@alexalonsonogueira.bsky.social y el mecanoscrito incierto de La colmena. Pasen y lean.
El original inédito de 'La colmena' que Cela envió a la censura en 1946 aparece en un archivo de Madrid
Un investigador encuentra el mecanoscrito de la obra, tal y como su autor lo envió en 1946 a la censura, que la prohibió por "atacar el dogma". Las 100 cuartillas de la novela original figuran en un e...
www.eldiario.es
October 30, 2025 at 9:02 PM
@alexalonsonogueira.bsky.social y el mecanoscrito incierto de La colmena. Pasen y lean.
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
Las notas de corte altas son en la educación lo que las listas de espera a la sanidad. Es decir: lo público fallando en proveer un servicio básico
Los que sois de mi generación (millennials) y animáis a la chavalada diciendo que la vida es más que un examen: ¿habéis visto las notas de corte AHORA? ¿La raquítica cantidad de plazas que sacan para el número de gente que las pide? ¿El páramo laboral para quienes no tienen titulación superior?
June 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Las notas de corte altas son en la educación lo que las listas de espera a la sanidad. Es decir: lo público fallando en proveer un servicio básico
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
"Demonstrate through scientific, psychological, philosophical, legal, and historical principles that the assistant dean has the moral high ground in his contentious divorce."
Introducing Our University’s New, Totally Reasonable Criteria for Promotion and Tenure
Since the founding of our august institution, we have awarded promotion and tenure based on how many pages of your research we could read before fa...
buff.ly
May 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Demonstrate through scientific, psychological, philosophical, legal, and historical principles that the assistant dean has the moral high ground in his contentious divorce."
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
🟣¡¡Hola Comunidad!!
Ayer, en Villalar, aunque el cielo parecía lejano, volvimos a rozarlo con las yemas de los dedos.
Hoy,os invitamos a leer esta entrevista a @fusonegro.bsky.social donde nuestra memoria, nuestra tierra y nuestro pueblo resuenan con fuerza.
www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...
Ayer, en Villalar, aunque el cielo parecía lejano, volvimos a rozarlo con las yemas de los dedos.
Hoy,os invitamos a leer esta entrevista a @fusonegro.bsky.social donde nuestra memoria, nuestra tierra y nuestro pueblo resuenan con fuerza.
www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...
Miguel Martínez: “En Villalar, la izquierda arrancó los comuneros al franquismo”
Miguel Martínez, profesor de historia y literatura españolas en la Universidad de Chicago, analiza desde una óptica progresista la Edad Moderna, el momento histórico fetiche de las derechas españolist...
www.elsaltodiario.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🟣¡¡Hola Comunidad!!
Ayer, en Villalar, aunque el cielo parecía lejano, volvimos a rozarlo con las yemas de los dedos.
Hoy,os invitamos a leer esta entrevista a @fusonegro.bsky.social donde nuestra memoria, nuestra tierra y nuestro pueblo resuenan con fuerza.
www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...
Ayer, en Villalar, aunque el cielo parecía lejano, volvimos a rozarlo con las yemas de los dedos.
Hoy,os invitamos a leer esta entrevista a @fusonegro.bsky.social donde nuestra memoria, nuestra tierra y nuestro pueblo resuenan con fuerza.
www.elsaltodiario.com/historia/izq...
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
We need a "rate my boss in higher ed" version of "rate my professor." So I built one! Kickstart the project with your story: https://buff.ly/41P8jFr
🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
Academic Abuse | Data and Resources to Disrupt College Harassment, Bullying, and Misconduct
At Academic Abuse, learn to identify, prevent, and conquer academic injustice, including: power imbalances, discrimination, plagiarism, harassment, bullying, retaliation, sexual misconduct, and more.
buff.ly
January 21, 2025 at 8:26 PM
We need a "rate my boss in higher ed" version of "rate my professor." So I built one! Kickstart the project with your story: https://buff.ly/41P8jFr
🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
🪜 🎓 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬 👩🏾🎓 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #TimesUpHigherEd
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”
Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
“So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities. Create a base. Become a movement.”
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
“The most urgent need today, as the Columbia case shows, is to create a new social contract on boards of trustees, who have become too craven to be watchdogs & too self-interested to be trusted.” Important piece by Arjun Appadurai.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock
Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know it
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
“The most urgent need today, as the Columbia case shows, is to create a new social contract on boards of trustees, who have become too craven to be watchdogs & too self-interested to be trusted.” Important piece by Arjun Appadurai.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
I recently heard someone say almost exactly this. It changed me.
March 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I recently heard someone say almost exactly this. It changed me.
Sexy new publication!
Cuerpos Furiosos: Travesti-Trans Politics in Revolt 🏳️⚧️
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/c...
Cuerpos Furiosos: Travesti-Trans Politics in Revolt 🏳️⚧️
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/c...
NACLA Report on the Americas
Cuerpos Furiosos: Travesti-Trans Politics in Revolt. Volume 57, Issue 1 of NACLA Report on the Americas
www.tandfonline.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Sexy new publication!
Cuerpos Furiosos: Travesti-Trans Politics in Revolt 🏳️⚧️
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/c...
Cuerpos Furiosos: Travesti-Trans Politics in Revolt 🏳️⚧️
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rnac20/c...
March 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
March 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Ed. Department's Office for Civil Rights sent letters to 60 additional institutions "warning them of potential enforcement actions" for "violations relating to antisemitic harassment and discrimination" including Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Princeton, UNC, and several UC's
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
The US did this in the 1930s & 40s with scientists & intellectuals from Germany, Russia and Italy. What goes around....
We're at the "French University is offering grants to refugee scientists censored by the regime" stage of our country
www.404media.co/french-unive...
www.404media.co/french-unive...
French University to Fund American Scientists Who Fear Trump Censorship
The program, called ‘safe place for science,’ offers American scientists funding to continue their research in France.
www.404media.co
March 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The US did this in the 1930s & 40s with scientists & intellectuals from Germany, Russia and Italy. What goes around....
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
La esclavitud ha dejado profundas huellas culturales, económicas y sociales en la España moderna, por más que les cueste a muchos españoles asumir el importante papel que tuvieron sus ciudadanos e instituciones en la trata y explotación de personas esclavizadas.
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20250301/...
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20250301/...
“El orgullo y la nostalgia imperiales están muy arraigados en la identidad colectiva española”
Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente
ctxt.es
March 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
La esclavitud ha dejado profundas huellas culturales, económicas y sociales en la España moderna, por más que les cueste a muchos españoles asumir el importante papel que tuvieron sus ciudadanos e instituciones en la trata y explotación de personas esclavizadas.
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20250301/...
@ctxt.es
ctxt.es/es/20250301/...
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital
February 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
UVA students are gathering outside the rotunda to protest a closed meeting of the board of visitors scheduled to discuss the fate of gender affirming care at UVA hospital
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
Virginia's macroeconomic scenario with a slowdown in the economy in the first quarter of 2024
The team at UVA's Cooper Center just launched a quarterly economic forecast for Virginia, from 2024-2050. João Ferreira and colleagues can tackle a broad range of questions about Virginia's economy, including exposure to changes in government funding.
www.coopercenter.org/research/for...
www.coopercenter.org/research/for...
Virginia's Economic Forecast, Feb. 2025 | Cooper Center
A quarterly economic forecast for the Commonwealth of Virginia, created by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service.
www.coopercenter.org
February 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Virginia's macroeconomic scenario with a slowdown in the economy in the first quarter of 2024
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
This is truly excellent. Print it out and post it in your living room, office, wherever. Most of the world has been confronted with authoritarianism. We are not at all unique. The question is can we be as courageous as most of the world?
I wrote about Trump's executive orders, including his attacks on trans and undocumented people, and how we should be orienting ourselves to defy fascist violence in this moment. This piece includes commentary from @chasestrangio.bsky.social and @silkys13.bsky.social.
A Brutal Beginning: Orienting Ourselves Amid the Shock and Awe
We must be prepared to live and act defiantly, deriving no legitimacy from the illegitimate brutes who would govern us.
organizingmythoughts.org
January 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This is truly excellent. Print it out and post it in your living room, office, wherever. Most of the world has been confronted with authoritarianism. We are not at all unique. The question is can we be as courageous as most of the world?
Thinking of "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman today (and tomorrow.) "For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
January 20, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Thinking of "The Hill We Climb" by Amanda Gorman today (and tomorrow.) "For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
contentmanager.med.uvm.edu/docs/the_hil...
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
them: wow ur a linguist i better watch my grammar
linguists:
linguists:
The American Dialect Society Word of the Year: RAWDOG
To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025
To rawdog: taking on life without the usual protection, preparation, or comfort. Whether it’s diving into a challenge unprepared or skipping the safety net, rawdogging is about embracing risk, stone-cold sobriety, and rolling with it. #LSA2025
January 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
them: wow ur a linguist i better watch my grammar
linguists:
linguists:
Support for the MIT Linguistics Petition that addresses the denial of rights to Prahlad Iyengar and Professor Michel DeGraff. It raises serious concerns about the suppression of academic freedom, particularly in relation to discussions of Palestinian rights and other systemic issues of oppression.
January 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Support for the MIT Linguistics Petition that addresses the denial of rights to Prahlad Iyengar and Professor Michel DeGraff. It raises serious concerns about the suppression of academic freedom, particularly in relation to discussions of Palestinian rights and other systemic issues of oppression.
Reposted by Lorena Albert Ferrando
Hola, soy 2025 y voy a empezar con una metáfora.
JUST IN: Tesla Cybertruck explodes at the entrance to Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas
January 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Hola, soy 2025 y voy a empezar con una metáfora.
Aquí venimos a esto.
omg a student somehow accidentally wrote an email addressed to a faculty-wide NYU listserv and my inbox is now a master class on who understands the difference between a listserv and an email chain
December 30, 2024 at 6:35 AM
Aquí venimos a esto.
Dejaos de listas chorra. Si queréis aprovechar el fin de año para hacer balance, aquí tenéis dos docenas.
Para entender la magnitud del horror: desde 1994 han muerto 10.000 personas tratando de cruzar la frontera entre México y EEUU. Ha muerto tanta gente tratando de llegar a España en un año como tratando de llegar a EEUU en 30 años.
10.457 migrantes murieron este año en su intento de llegar a España, 30 al día.
efe.com/portada-espa...
efe.com/portada-espa...
December 26, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Dejaos de listas chorra. Si queréis aprovechar el fin de año para hacer balance, aquí tenéis dos docenas.