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We the people want Brutus Buckeye to make an appearance at #SHAFR2026!

I am always down to talk about pandas (as China's "mascot"), so if you are both down for a panel/roundtable in Columbus, this could be a lot of fun! (Alas I don't think the UN has a mascot that I know of... unless @dexterfergie.bsky.social has found one?)

does @shafrhistorians.bsky.social have a mascot? should we have a roundtable on mascots this summer?

This looks wonderful—congratulations!!

what I find interesting is that the people who make this argument almost always rely on the premise that the United States is omniscient and omnipotent, which if that is true then surely there are better and more cost-efficient ways of getting oil/other natural resources than full military invasions

I love the ones who slowly jog there just to make a point even if they cannot make it there for any potential brawl. Those are the people who are upholding the norms of the international order.

I love @lydiawalker.bsky.social’s book on how some anticolonial nationalist movements received international legitimacy and became sovereign states and the plights of many others that are left on the margins of the global narrative of decolonization. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Y’all did a horrible job both before and after the race and you should be incredibly embarrassed for patting yourself on the back like this.

are you also able to take a football team to the playoffs?

Yup! No LMS in the old days would have meant maybe handling paper submissions via email instead or grading on a spreadsheet, but now the students cannot access any course materials. One failure of the website and suddenly no learning is possible anymore. All that was knowledge melted into thin air.

At Carolina we used to have our locally-run instance of Sakai as the LMS up until like two years ago. Unclear what was the reason behind the switch to Canvas (maybe it was simply aufgehoben), but I am sure to those teaching currently it definitely does not feel like an upgrade right now.

As our imperfect founder had put it, "this institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

if only it were this easy!

unfortunately no baseball in baltimore this october but would you be allowed to take your students to pickles?