Cut staff, class offerings, increase class sizes ---> students can't get necessary major courses, student experience deteriorates, they go elsewhere ---> "nobody wants to major in X anymore" ---> cut staff, class offerings, increase class sizes ---> rinse, repeat

Plus, uh, rounding up people is a monstrous thing to do.

Here my super selfish thought process. I want good people in my lab so I can do good research. How do I get good people? One key way is showing that they can get whatever career they want and be happy when they leave the lab. So it turns out helping them do that is in my own selfish best interest.

We need to be a lot more critical towards a narrative that can’t and/or deliberately won’t recognize that “unity” and “stability” sound good in a vacuum but have always been in tension with the goal of moving the country closer towards the democratic ideal of egalitarian multiracial pluralism.

Normatively, the “polarization” paradigm privileges unity, stability, and cohesion over social justice and equal participation; empirically, it gets the diagnosis of the current situation wrong; historically, it indulges an ahistorical nostalgia for a golden age that never existed. 4/

We’re here and we’ve always been here. Less loud because we’re working.

MAGA is not part of civil society.

The slow coup is ongoing and has taken over a major American political party.

Here's a nice article by Cassidy Randall about the recovery of Cataract Canyon from underneath Lake Powell, featuring the amazing Returning Rapids project, which is cataloging the rapids that were once drowned beneath the reservoir and now alive again. 🌎 www.bbc.com/travel/artic...

PSA: Newest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style has axed place of publication as a requirement for notes. 🤯 Found this out after drafting my entire book manuscript. Silver lining—automatic word count cut. Hooray!

Some photos from Saturday night at Yavapai Point in Grand Canyon. (But I should have stayed at Navajo Point!)

#azwx #landscape 📷 #astrophotography #Moon

🗃️ #C19th #LabourHistory
The Peterloo massacre took place #OnThisDay 16 August 1819. Looking for archival resources? Download our free guide at sslh.org.uk/2019/05/01/s...

Willis Haviland Carrier was born on Nov. 26, 1876 in Angola, NY. After graduating from Buffalo High School in 1897, he studied engineering at Cornell. In 1902, he created the first modern air conditioning, which he’d tweak and improve over the following decades. He died on October 7, 1950. #history

What is history but the carrying out of office politics by other means?

Tim Walz talked about how free school lunch reduces the unequal burden of domestic labor on women by removing one daily chore, and I immediately set up a recurring donation.

Tom Walz reminds you that it’s best to start snow blowing from the center of the driveway and work out. Always save the sidewalks and steps for last.

I am straight up excited for a Harris-Walz ticket.

If Walz heads to the White House, the lieutenant governor of Minnesota, Peggy Flanagan, will become the first Native American woman to serve as governor in the country.