Since when was there a fee to introduce legislation?
Kevin Reuning@reuning.bsky.social · 13h agoThose crazy bastards are doing it, they are really doing it.
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Colin J. Beck
@cjbeck.bsky.social
Revolutions and so forth. Next book without a red spine. https://colinjbeck.sites.pomona.edu
Kevin Reuning@reuning.bsky.social · 13h ago
Surely they could’ve got someone from Yale to do it for free.
David Brady@davebrady72.bsky.social · 20h agoThe real scandal might be that Wash U and Vanderbilt actually paid someone real money to do this remarkably superficial report of the social sciences and humanities.
My #ASA2026 hot take is that all presidential addresses should be a TikTok and ASR can print the transcript. Fingers crossed @shelleyjc.bsky.social delivers today.
I don’t manage a hotel but I wonder if the height of tourist season is the time to doing this changeover. Why not late January or something?
Daniel Laurison@daniellaurison.bsky.social · 2d ago2. I find it very hard to believe that there's a good argument for this thing where you push the floor buttons *outside* the elevator. It is definitely not working well at either hotel and I am annoyed. It took me 10 minutes to get to my room last night, it kept saying "cannot allocate a lift."
Our Humanities Center has a lounge type thingy and we bought a lava lamp for it since the decor was otherwise grim.
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d agoI just always get a kick out of credential-obsessed politicos who disdain the people and places that confer them. But, yes, faculty lounge is like a lava lamp at this point. We've only seen them in movies, David.
I have fired the missiles that were in the stockpile and which you were probably saving for Ukraine Forgive me they were awesome so loud and such a big bang
My college’s HR is now requiring us to post a job ad to our internal site for any student hire. As in, I can’t just hire that RA I wanted, I’m supposed to vet a bunch of random applications.
This will date me but I grew up in Colorado saying pop (but the occasional menu said soft drinks) and when I went to college on the west coast I quickly had to learn to say soda.
jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 5d agoi moved from michigan at a fairly young age, but i lived there long enough to learn to say “soda pop” and then get it bullied out of me in new jersey
I very much love the ASA's advice on disruptions to sessions. It's basically like "we're going to call hotel security, but we'll do it for you so you don't have to feel like a narc."
I’m sure we can fashion these uni names into something onomatopoetic for quisling
Megan Zahneis@mzahneis.bsky.social · 7d agoThe presidents of WashU, Arizona State, Kansas, and Johns Hopkins, in concert with the Association of American Universities, helped draft a new version of last year's White House compact. “We’d much rather be a partner than play the guessing game as we have been,” Kansas' president told Bloomberg.
I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...
science funding and the cherry picking problem
Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…
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This is not wrong. But the winning nominee is someone we’re not yet thinking of. Just like Carter, Clinton, or Obama. Biden was a fluke. But to be fair no one was thinking of him either.
Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · last wk.2028 tier list, vibes only - Viable AOC Pritzker Ossoff - Boring Beshear Shapiro Buttigieg - GTFO Newsom Emanuel
Was visiting the aquarium at UCSD today and my phone automatically connected eduroam. Are eduroam logins centrally stored? If so, there might exist a mater database of academic social networks.
So if i understand this month‘s news correctly Taylor Swift got married and that made everyone sh*t their pants?
I’m asthmatic but you’ll have to pull my 1948 O’Keefe & Merritt gas stove with four pilot lights out of my cold dead asphyxiated hands.
🚨 New in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🚨How do the origins of authoritarian regimes shape their subsequent trajectories? @kbclarke.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and I are excited to share "Rebel Victory and Authoritarian (Dis)Order" /1
The great thing about LA is that everywhere is only 45 minutes from anywhere. Unless there’s traffic. There‘s always traffic.
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3w agoThere is a lot to say about the Nolan Odyssey movie. But one point that I think has not been emphasized enough is: this is a film about living in LA, as Nolan, my erstwhile British compatriot and age mate, has done for years. I gather it’s a strange place.
Does this count?
The Lost Books of the Odyssey
A brilliant and beguiling reimagining of one of our g…
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Michael Alan Peck@michaelalanpeck.com · 3w agoMy thought, exactly: wait...why would you commission such a thing? Now I'm afraid to check if there's a novelization of THE ODYSSEY. 'Cause I really wouldn't be surprised if there is.
Children of Men. PD James even said it was better than the book.
J.M. Berger@jmberger.com · 3w agoWhat are your favorite adaptations that transcend their source material? Blade Runner springs to mind
I dislike corrupt USC admins as much as any other academic but this really is unfair to Trojans.
Nathan Kalmoe (he/him)@nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 3w agoUniversity admins: “I know there are murderous Trojan soldiers in that horse, but we’re going to welcome them anyway as part of our new intellectual diversity initiative.”
The Odyssey had a huge opening weekend. I’m so over Hollywood remakes that I refuse to see it.