Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development

An UCLA course taught by Professor Shorter has everything from teacher-led meditations to lively debates about paranormal legends. Shorter reveals how his class goes beyond an exploration of myths; it pushes students to question the very nature of truth and “immateriality.” youtu.be/Iglio4bPE7E?...

Don't be spooked by this supernatural UCLA course | Daily Bruin

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Going on the job market this Fall? It’s time to start preparing right now. This oldie still has gems to value for the soon to be academic applicant. Best of luck. www.insidehighered.com/advice/2017/...

Advice for what to do over the rest of the summer to land a new job (essay)

David Shorter offers advice on what you might do between now and the next academic hiring season to help land a new job.

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✨Jennifer R. O’Neal (enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde) highlights the power of transnational alliances and how foundational work of Indigenous activists fighting to bring awareness of Indigenous information rights paved the way for the contemporary work within repositories.

REMINDER - CALL FOR PAPERS✨ This special issue, Attending to Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences in Place, aims to bring together cross-disciplinary voices within Indigenous studies to establish place as the necessary starting point for Indigenous Environmental Studies and Sciences (IESS).

How old I am. As an undergraduate we would read a printed booklet of possible college classes, request classes in pen on a carbon copy form, that had to be hand delivered to registrars office. They mailed us which classes we got into, or you could walk to the department main office and ask.

Tomorrow at 1pm CT. Zoom registration available. Featuring my University of Minnesota American Indian Studies colleague, Nick Estes.

Operation Metro Surge, State Violence, and Resistance at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

This panel examines Operation Metro Surge’s impact on UMN, highlighting faculty and student resistance to state violence, racial profiling, and the defense of vulnerable groups.

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Just published in the Bulletin for the Study of Religion: "I find it harder to assign some scholars such as Andy Smith or Ward Churchill than I do Franz Boaz; but that’s because I’ve become personally convinced about the consequences of pretending to be Indigenous." journal.equinoxpub.com/BSOR

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Canvas just got hacked. 275 million students exposed. The 5 steps to take tonight.

If your kid does homework through Canvas, listen up. Hackers stole 3.65 terabytes of data, including names, emails, student ID numbers and billions of private messages between kids and teachers. They’...

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My slowly-becoming-an-annual gripe that my employer forces me to take, every year, an online training for data security; this said employer #UCLA has caused my data to breached four times, and counting. Can someone make them a required video training course about keeping our data secured?

As the Editor in Chief, I rarely use this platform to editorialize. But this thread is timely and accurate. Please consider this valuable perspective, especially if you are a writer who expects to publish books OR ESSAYS in the upcoming years. - D Shorter bsky.app/profile/tric...

Tricia Dearborn@triciadearborn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

WELCOME✨Amy Lonetree is a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley and her research focuses on Native American history, Indigenous photography, visual studies, public history, and museum studies.

In our latest issue 🔥 This article offers a conceptualization of “Fire Back” through rematriation to restore rights to the intentional use of Indigenous-led and -informed fire practices, highlighting kinship of people, fire, and planet and (2) advocating for cultural fire sovereignty.

Call me old fashioned, but I’m having a hard time moving past the whole “the president posted a graphic video of a woman getting murdered” thing.

@washingtonpost.com @nytimes.com @cnn.com @npr.org @us.theguardian.com @theguardian.com @politico.com sometimes the news is that the news isn’t being covered.

Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It's been nearly five hours since the president of the United States posted a graphic snuff video of a man beating a woman to death with a hammer and there's no mention of it on the New York Times, Washington Post or CNN websites.

Tragic and yet all too common. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-nuance...

The “Nuance” of Erasure: How the Met’s Norby Failed NAGPRA & My Dakota Family

In April 2023, Patricia Marroquin Norby, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Curator of Native American Art, took to Hyperallergic to plead for “nuance.” She described repatriation as “labor-i...

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Happy Orbs Rising From the Ocean False Prophecy Day to all those celebrate!!! If you don’t know of which I speak, this is yet another day that was foretold by another millinarian about an other worldly event that connects ancient knowledge with Utopianism.

Just published! We are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before. Thanks to our guest editors: M. J. DesRosier (Niitsitapi: Blackfeet, Gros Ventre) and Paul J. Guernsey (Settler/Greek/European descent). escholarship.org/uc/aicrj

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

Forthcoming! April 4, 2026 Special Issue: “Indigenous Resurgence” In honor of our fiftieth year of being a peer-reviewed scholarly journal, we are pleased to publish our next issue that has more Indigenous authors in one issue than any before.

UCLA has inked a deal to give all its faculty discounted access to ChatGPT, the same company who made it possible for their owner to give 25 million to the supreme leader Trump's campaign, the same president who has sued UCLA and ruined its campus life and damaged its reputation. That's leadership!

What if alien contact isn’t coming as a war — but we’re preparing for one anyway? The space race is essentially an extension of colonialism — a continuation of resource extraction, territorial conquest, and power consolidation beyond Earth. youtu.be/wue0_s--k94?...

Epstein arrested July 2019. December 2018 Epstein ordered 6 qty 55 gallon drums of sulfuric acid: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... March 2019: 2 qty 100lb hydrogen peroxide: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... That makes Piranha Solution -> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piranha... TY @sapiosimmo.bsky.social

Cheri Jacobus@cherijacobus.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Epstein ordered 330 gallons of sulfuric acid the day he found out the FBI was investigating him. Sulfuric acid dissolves corpses, including bones. 330 gallons is enough for 15 years of desalination, so don't claim that's why Epstein ordered it and that the timing was a coincidence.

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

As a current editor in chief: pretty please do this!

Matthijs Dorst@mattneuro.dorst-lab.org · 7mo ago

As a former editor: PLEASE do this! A quick e-mail saying: "I don't have time, but try [A] or [B]" can speed up the review process by *weeks*. And it also helps the many junior scientists who need reviewing experience on their CVs, but struggle to get invited.

📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Director of Editorial, Design, and Production (REMOTE)

Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practic...

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All you need to know about supposed leaders: what are they doing today? Obama, Hillary, Pete, Gavin, Harris, Biden, and who else. Strong words? Statements from their mansions? I may not know the other options. But also, I’m not a politician who would know better.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

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Charlie Thomas@cthomasjamh.bsky.social · 7mo ago

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.