Sarah Milov
@allofmilov.bsky.social
Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now.
Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG
Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)
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Looking through the gates that now enclose most of the Yale campus, the whole enterprise seems vaguely ridiculous.
7 hours deep into a road trip and we’re now in Newsies album territory. Halfway through “seize the day” my 4yo asks, “ do bosses go on strike?” Getting right to the heart of the thing.
I’ve been in Oklahoma 3 days and this is the third and oldest variety of pro-oil, pro “environment” argument I’ve heard. Kermac News, July 1977
I have a feeling we know the race it will be.
Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.Scoop: Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss are having potential new "60 Minutes" correspondents take screen tests in which they interview a person playing Ghislaine Maxwell—all while Bilton and Bari also look for new senior staff for the show. All the details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
Half His Age. Damn. So lacerating and great and no flab at all.
Anybody on here send elementary school kids to an afterschool program in Durham?
news.virginia.edu/content/amid... This is so embarrassing.
Amid UVA connections, Scott Beardsley earns Oxford degree
UVA’s president graduated from England’s oldest university on Saturday, earning a master’s degree in practical ethics with a focus on the ethics of artificial intelligence.
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Just bowled a frame at this dope 1938 bowling alley in Pittsburgh. If you like it you can thank the CIO.
@maureenebrady.com Were you there? Did you sing like Kermit in the Balinese (resort) jungle? www.townandcountrymag.com/the-scene/we...
Julia Allison and Noah Feldman’s Wedding Brought Together Burning Man and Harvard
One wedding wasn’t enough for the couple, who celebrated first in Cambridge and later in Bali.
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love a brusque email from a random administrator commanding me to send them a successful proposal while also chastising me for not going through them in the first place. cool.
AAU institutions reported a 15% drop in PhD admissions this year, after an 11% drop the prior year www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
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Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/a... The thing about whistleblowing is that it can only really work in tandem with a strong and adversarial media and, crucially, Congress.
Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump
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Has anyone ever successfully read a New Yorker article through the Libby phone app? It cannot be done.
Where can I get a Russian-style Napoleon cake in Pittsburgh?
Discomfiting detail: Yale is "represented" by McGuire Woods, the same firm that railroaded UVa into a terrible deal by playing both sides.
Jennie Coughlin@jenniecoughlin.bsky.social · 4w agoThe dean of Yale Law School and some members of its faculty are trying to stop a settlement between the university and the Trump administration, warning that an agreement could jeopardize Yale’s independence, according to two people familiar with the deliberations.
Did Cramblin & Duvet direct the Charlottesville Closet Factory ad?
I highly recommend seeing the new Minions with a four year old and a seven year old.
The power at the movie theater has gone out. Kids restless for their minions. What do theaters do when the power goes out?
My most American trait is my willingness to declare my grievances.
