It’s official! We’re launching the UCLA Department of Labor Studies. After years of building as a small but mighty “program,” Labor Studies has been elevated to departmental status. We’re the first but hopefully not the last of our kind in the UC system.

On Leonard Cohen's birthday, please enjoy this undated photo of the man himself buying cheetos at a 7-Eleven

📖Hot off the press: Nicolas Trépanier's book on how travellers, urban elites and peasants experienced rural Anatolia in a time of transition from Byzantine to Muslim rule📖
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Rescued a kitten today. She was up under my neighbors car since last night crying that kitten cry. Gained trust and coaxed her with 2 hours of little bites of wet cat food and was able to get her. Thankfully a neighbor of mine had been wanting a cat and promptly took her in! Meet Midnight! #cats

@all-the-cats.bsky.social @tiger-socal.bsky.social @wiillowthecat.bsky.social @jaxthecoocoocat.bsky.social @clayman2.bsky.social @emmajeankitty.bsky.social @ralphwaldoemmiecat.bsky.social @onyxcleftkitty.bsky.social
With love, Mousse & Madeline!
🐈‍⬛❤️🐈

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19. Yüzyıl Başlarında İstanbul'da Ekmek İhtiyacı / Zübeyde Azman. AVIS Original, 2025. 9786259608105 osmn
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OTSA's Call for Submissions for the 2025 Awards and Prizes are now open! For more information, please visit www.ottomanturkishstudiesassociation.org/awards-prizes/

In the first half of the 20th century, the perceived locus of imperial domination in Egypt shifted from the realm of circulation to the realm of production. Harvests of Liberation by Ahmad Shokr situates this transformation in the dynamics of agrarian capitalism in Egypt.

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My daughters Cancer is back she is having Chemo again today but determined to attend the game tomorrow! a friend who works at Everton arranged for her 2 get some pitch side photos before the game, if you see an old git (me) a young lady and her little lad pitch side give her a shout out “Gemma” 🩵

#Top31TheCure
#MusicChallenge
Day 28 (Unranked)

The Cure - The Caterpillar 🐛

“You flicker and you're beautiful
You glow inside my head
You hold me hypnotized, I'm mesmerized
Your flames are flames, that kiss me dead”

“Doo-doo-doo, doo-doo-doo”

#TheCure #MusicSky 🎶🎧
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Hi everyone, please consider showing support for a PhD student and her relative who needs help fighting a cancer diagnosis. gofund.me/36ab0943

Join OTSA and Linda Darling, Serpil Atamaz, Onur İnal and Alexander Schweig on May 23, 2025, at 12PM CST via Zoom for “Transforming Empire: Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean” A Tribute to Linda Darling.
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A friend's (@sahikaratepe.bsky.social) family member is fighting against aggressive pancreatic cancer and needs urgent financial support. Any amount of contribution is greatly appreciated:
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I work with some really amazing people in sociology. One of those people is also working to support a family member fighting aggressive cancer. Please consider sending them funds to help cover treatment.

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Meanwhile somewhere in SE Portland...

#photography #fujifilm #pdx

It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses & headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead #BookSky 💙📚

Went to the Whitney and they had a painting of my dissertation defense

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

It feels like I'm being watched for some reason. #Caturday