dr zach
@zachlev.bsky.social
Assistant Prof (teaching) at Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies (UofT) | School Safety | Risk | Active Shooter Drills | Compassion | Young People & Justice | Awesome Trivia Host
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If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
Locating Reproductive Justice Book Series | The University of Iowa
lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
December 11, 2025 at 11:11 PM
If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu
Once again Nightengale has cemented his status as baseball knower
December 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Once again Nightengale has cemented his status as baseball knower
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36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
December 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
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On December 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal…murdered just because they were women🕯
We remember them and we honour them…
We will not forget!
Femicide and misogyny continue to threaten women’s lives—and we must fight every day to end gender-based violence…
We remember them and we honour them…
We will not forget!
Femicide and misogyny continue to threaten women’s lives—and we must fight every day to end gender-based violence…
December 6, 2024 at 2:13 PM
On December 6, 1989, 14 women were murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal…murdered just because they were women🕯
We remember them and we honour them…
We will not forget!
Femicide and misogyny continue to threaten women’s lives—and we must fight every day to end gender-based violence…
We remember them and we honour them…
We will not forget!
Femicide and misogyny continue to threaten women’s lives—and we must fight every day to end gender-based violence…
The legal Calvinball discourse presumes that the law hasn’t always been a fictional game without rules.
Of course, law’s power is in its claim to be something more than this.
Of course, law’s power is in its claim to be something more than this.
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
The legal Calvinball discourse presumes that the law hasn’t always been a fictional game without rules.
Of course, law’s power is in its claim to be something more than this.
Of course, law’s power is in its claim to be something more than this.
The US really needs an outside entity or to draw electoral maps for them at every level. Use geographic reasoning that’s straightforward (hey a river is a boundary! why not try keeping a city as whole if we can!) But US exceptionalism has doomed them to forever accept gerrymandering.
December 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The US really needs an outside entity or to draw electoral maps for them at every level. Use geographic reasoning that’s straightforward (hey a river is a boundary! why not try keeping a city as whole if we can!) But US exceptionalism has doomed them to forever accept gerrymandering.
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i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
I named my fists Gilbert and Sullivan because they are slaves to duty
December 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
i named my fists Rodgers and Hammerstein cuz theyre always in my own little corner
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
SOURCES: Michigan State is firing head coach Jonathan Smith, @theathletic.com has learned.
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
He went 9-15 in two seasons, including 1-8 in the Big Ten this year. (ESPN first reported).
MSU players meeting called for 2:45. Smith has a $33 million buyout (with offset).
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
$33M is 358 assistant professors. Or about fourteen percent of the total number of full-time faculty at Michigan State.
As we gear up for the holiday season, I implore you not to talk with disdain about elf on the shelf as an example of surveillance society or as the panopticon as you continue to drop your kids off at school or teach at a university.
November 29, 2025 at 7:21 AM
As we gear up for the holiday season, I implore you not to talk with disdain about elf on the shelf as an example of surveillance society or as the panopticon as you continue to drop your kids off at school or teach at a university.
My definitive Star Wars ranking
1. Not Star Wars
2. Star Wars
1. Not Star Wars
2. Star Wars
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
My definitive Star Wars ranking
1. Not Star Wars
2. Star Wars
1. Not Star Wars
2. Star Wars
I saw that article about what value public libraries produce…and I’m I the only one that thinks it’s a shame they use economics explain their utility.
Like, is public policy okay?
Like, is public policy okay?
November 19, 2025 at 2:18 AM
I saw that article about what value public libraries produce…and I’m I the only one that thinks it’s a shame they use economics explain their utility.
Like, is public policy okay?
Like, is public policy okay?
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I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know!
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 AM
I will be offering a graduate seminar during the winter quarter on the politics of civil disobedience, nonviolence, and civility (and its critics). If you know any graduate students who might be interested, please let them know!
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
www.humanities.uci.edu/critical/cte...
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If you're interested in how I teach the Boston Massacre to teach students how historians use and weigh primary sources against each other: rmgunter.com/posts/901-in... #HATM
Rachel Michelle Gunter, Ph.D. - Intro to Primary Sources -Boston
After explaining what primary and secondary sources are, I show students how to read and follow these sources. This means keeping an open mind and allowing t...
rmgunter.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
If you're interested in how I teach the Boston Massacre to teach students how historians use and weigh primary sources against each other: rmgunter.com/posts/901-in... #HATM
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
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Just gotta say as a trans person who gets death threats couched as "jokes", I'm glad that the rules are being applied this way. When mods are left to make subjective decisions about who is joking and who isn't, threats against marginalized ppl go unmoderated and we are told they dont violate the TOS
November 14, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Just gotta say as a trans person who gets death threats couched as "jokes", I'm glad that the rules are being applied this way. When mods are left to make subjective decisions about who is joking and who isn't, threats against marginalized ppl go unmoderated and we are told they dont violate the TOS
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The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Elon Musk Needs Dungeons and Dragons to Be Racist
The fantastical roots of “scientific racism”
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
I don’t want to alarm you, but there might be a Thing or Things in the house
November 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I don’t want to alarm you, but there might be a Thing or Things in the house
Blake Snell talking about luck and then that wall event happened. lol
November 1, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Blake Snell talking about luck and then that wall event happened. lol
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Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series:
Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6
Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6
Trey Yesavage struck out all 9 Dodgers at least once tonight, a feat that Herm Krabbenhoft dubbed a “pitcher’s cycle”
sabr.org/journal/arti...
sabr.org/journal/arti...
The Pitcher’s Cycle: Definition and Achievers (1893–2023) – Society for American Baseball Research
sabr.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Only 4 pitchers have recorded a Pitcher’s Cycle — striking out every batter in the opposing lineup — in the World Series:
Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6
Trey Yesavage, 2025 G5
Randy Johnson, 2001 G2
Bob Gibson, 1968 G1
Jesse Barnes, 1921 G6
Someone’s gotta meme that dodgers fan who screamed into the air Nooooo for Treinen.
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Someone’s gotta meme that dodgers fan who screamed into the air Nooooo for Treinen.
Snell getting irritable with the check swing appeals.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Snell getting irritable with the check swing appeals.
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With heigh, with heigh, the thrush and the jay!
October 29, 2025 at 3:06 AM
With heigh, with heigh, the thrush and the jay!
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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
This umpire does not like Varsho. That is a lot of shitty calls the dodgers got against the jays.
October 28, 2025 at 4:13 AM
This umpire does not like Varsho. That is a lot of shitty calls the dodgers got against the jays.
Fascinating that fans are scolded we should be okay with athletes showing emotions and celebrating (they should do that!) but god forbid a crowd chants something to the best player in the world from a place of similar emotions. How dare the plebs get in on it!! Being at the jays game, I chuckled.
October 25, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Fascinating that fans are scolded we should be okay with athletes showing emotions and celebrating (they should do that!) but god forbid a crowd chants something to the best player in the world from a place of similar emotions. How dare the plebs get in on it!! Being at the jays game, I chuckled.