Left my heart in Western Norway. It’s so beautiful there.
September 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Left my heart in Western Norway. It’s so beautiful there.
That moment when you’re looking for your copy of Homo Academicus and realize that on two separate occasions you bought yourself the new centennial collection of essays on The Age of Innocence 🤦♀️
August 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
That moment when you’re looking for your copy of Homo Academicus and realize that on two separate occasions you bought yourself the new centennial collection of essays on The Age of Innocence 🤦♀️
Anyone have a good critical history of the origins of higher education they would recommend? I can find histories of U.S. higher ed easily, but not earlier. I will admit I have not searched hard. I would like to just be told by someone who knows.
August 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Anyone have a good critical history of the origins of higher education they would recommend? I can find histories of U.S. higher ed easily, but not earlier. I will admit I have not searched hard. I would like to just be told by someone who knows.
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The Department of State quietly cut sections detailing abuses of Indigenous people from its annual report on international human rights practices. Use of the word “Indigenous” is down 84% from the previous average. ictnews.org/news/indigen...
Indigenous human rights abuses? Trump administration cut them from annual report - ICT
The U.S. cut criticism of Indigenous rights abuses, mentions of climate change from human rights report
ictnews.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Department of State quietly cut sections detailing abuses of Indigenous people from its annual report on international human rights practices. Use of the word “Indigenous” is down 84% from the previous average. ictnews.org/news/indigen...
The thrill of manuscript partials showing up in your inbox 🤩
July 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
The thrill of manuscript partials showing up in your inbox 🤩
When author Clémence Michallon makes your day by complimenting your outfit.
June 12, 2025 at 1:31 AM
When author Clémence Michallon makes your day by complimenting your outfit.
Not my anxiety dreams STILL being about math class 😭
May 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Not my anxiety dreams STILL being about math class 😭
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Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most
A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.
www.bloomberg.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
When people try to walk through the door you’ve opened while you’re walking through it. Excuse me, one at a time 😭
May 17, 2025 at 10:19 PM
When people try to walk through the door you’ve opened while you’re walking through it. Excuse me, one at a time 😭
Big sigh every time a notes section is also the works cited
May 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Big sigh every time a notes section is also the works cited
When you’re going to turn on music but realize you can just listen to whoever is practicing the piano upstairs.
May 11, 2025 at 12:05 AM
When you’re going to turn on music but realize you can just listen to whoever is practicing the piano upstairs.
I feel so out of date. I was looking up the journals I used to read as a graduate student and independent scholar and not one has published anything since 2021. What are we reading now?
April 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I feel so out of date. I was looking up the journals I used to read as a graduate student and independent scholar and not one has published anything since 2021. What are we reading now?
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When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
March 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.
Funny how that works, huh?
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They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.
The Trump regime expands its discouraged (BANNED) words across federal agencies. The list is long
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 9, 2025 at 2:29 PM
They're only banned if you let them be banned. The proper response from any agency is "Fuck you. See you in court." All of this website scrubbing and exhibit purging is cowardly and disgraceful. As Timothy Snyder has observed, it's simply teaching power what it can do.
I haven’t thought about my diss in so long, but I had my prospectus review the day after Trump was elected the first time (truly what timing). And I defended my diss in 2019. So I wonder if I’m basically just flashing back 🙄
March 8, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I haven’t thought about my diss in so long, but I had my prospectus review the day after Trump was elected the first time (truly what timing). And I defended my diss in 2019. So I wonder if I’m basically just flashing back 🙄
As someone who made the switch from academia to industry pretty shortly after graduating from my Ph.D. Program I do sometimes still wonder if I should find the time to finally write a book base on my diss, the coloniality of urban modernity
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
As someone who made the switch from academia to industry pretty shortly after graduating from my Ph.D. Program I do sometimes still wonder if I should find the time to finally write a book base on my diss, the coloniality of urban modernity
My red flag about Emilia Perez, as a Mexican American, before I knew much about the film was the minute I heard “set in Mexico, cartel leader.” I always say, I don’t need to hear another story about Mexican cartels or illegal border crossings. We have so many stories to tell.
March 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
My red flag about Emilia Perez, as a Mexican American, before I knew much about the film was the minute I heard “set in Mexico, cartel leader.” I always say, I don’t need to hear another story about Mexican cartels or illegal border crossings. We have so many stories to tell.
Corporate work is so much admin. If you’re an academic looking for a role outside of academia, definitely emphasize your skills in basic project management and administrative tasks.
March 6, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Corporate work is so much admin. If you’re an academic looking for a role outside of academia, definitely emphasize your skills in basic project management and administrative tasks.
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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
February 14, 2025 at 11:47 PM
It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too.
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them.
Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)
I need a break from the term “radical.” It’s so overused now it has become the “excellent” of our decade. Like excellent, “radical” is an adjective. Its meaning is contextual, but it’s being used now like it IS the context and it hurts my brain to see that.
February 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I need a break from the term “radical.” It’s so overused now it has become the “excellent” of our decade. Like excellent, “radical” is an adjective. Its meaning is contextual, but it’s being used now like it IS the context and it hurts my brain to see that.
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When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights.
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
When Trump took office, the NLRB had 24 separate investigations into Musk’s corporations for violating workers’ rights.
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
But presto...Trump fired three officials at that agency, effectively stalling the board's ability to rule on cases.
See how this works?
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Trump sitting at the kid’s table while the real president has a press conference.
February 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Trump sitting at the kid’s table while the real president has a press conference.
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I know there’s a lot going on but I think there needs to be quite a lot more attention to the fact that the White House REMOVED the constitition from the presidential website when Trump took office and it still has yet to be restored! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Government websites vanish under Trump, from the Constitution to DEI
Some deletions are standard for any administration, but others seem to indicate Trump’s intent to reshape government.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I know there’s a lot going on but I think there needs to be quite a lot more attention to the fact that the White House REMOVED the constitition from the presidential website when Trump took office and it still has yet to be restored! www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
February 4, 2025 at 10:43 PM
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
When you’re reading resumes and cover letters and every candidate is incredible. I want to hire them all ☹️
February 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
When you’re reading resumes and cover letters and every candidate is incredible. I want to hire them all ☹️