Derek Silva
@derekcrim.bsky.social
// prof & writer 🍉 // words in Time, LA Times, The Guardian, etc. // podcast @endofsportpod.bsky.social // book link in bio @uncpress.bsky.social https://uncpress.org/book/9781469683461/the-end-of-college-football/
#Evergreen reponse. bsky.app/profile/dere...
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 3w agoAh, yes, the thing that is ruining higher education is the fact that faculty don’t have to take the GRE every few years. Not admin overreach. Not bulldozing collegial governance. Not intentional dismantling of higher ed by politicians. Not putting ICE on campuses. It’s faculty not taking the GRE.
🐦🚨NEW: UofT Economics is offering a course on "Israeli Economy" taught by a Ben Gurion University in the Neguev visiting professor this fall. The course seeks to ask: "How can one small country teach us about the world's biggest economic questions? 🧵1/
Infantino, Trump, and Carney walking out is a truly ghoulish image.
Messi, the apparent goat, runs the worst performance in World Cup history lmfaooo
This match can be immediately redeemed if we see some Palestinian flags from the Spanish players.
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 2w agoShittiest match of the MAGA World Cup.
Friendly reminder that for the privileged sliver of the global 1%, the World Cup is a chance to hobnob in the luxury boxes, to massage each others’ egos, to cut backroom deals
Thilde Asmussen@thildeasmussen.bsky.social · 2w agoTurki Al-Faisal - Saudi-Arabiens sportsminister - er (naturligvis) også til stede til VM-finalen.
Football will never be big in the USA and honestly everyone is better off for it.
I’m just going to tell myself this is a bunch of footballers resisting American imperialism.
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 2w agoShittiest match of the MAGA World Cup.
The most American thing possible is ruining cool shit for everyone else. welcome to the MAGA World Cup half-time show!
Yeah that's one of the dumbest things I've read in a lonnnnnnng time JFC
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 3w agoAh, yes, the thing that is ruining higher education is the fact that faculty don’t have to take the GRE every few years. Not admin overreach. Not bulldozing collegial governance. Not intentional dismantling of higher ed by politicians. Not putting ICE on campuses. It’s faculty not taking the GRE.
nobody can prepare you for the anxiety of knowing your beautiful angel of a child is going to school for the first time in a few weeks
Question: What is Dr. Rubin (objective and neutral sociologist) doing at a conference headlined by Chris Rufo and Richard Hanania? Is there something. . .political (!) going on here? <theatrically puzzled face>
“Even medical schools have politicized their curricula. Last year, Nature published an editorial calling to ‘decolonize scientific institutions.’” <laugh cry emoji>
Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 4w ago“AEI and Tyler Austin Harper are right about a leftwing conspiracy to politicize the humanities” is an insane thing to hear from someone ostensibly concerned with the state of education in this country. Deranged, even. So, of course, it got a lavish treatment in the Chronicle. Because of course.
Only the most objective confetti in her carry-on. bsky.app/profile/dere...
Derek Silva@derekcrim.bsky.social · 3w agoAh, yes, the thing that is ruining higher education is the fact that faculty don’t have to take the GRE every few years. Not admin overreach. Not bulldozing collegial governance. Not intentional dismantling of higher ed by politicians. Not putting ICE on campuses. It’s faculty not taking the GRE.
Ah, yes, the thing that is ruining higher education is the fact that faculty don’t have to take the GRE every few years. Not admin overreach. Not bulldozing collegial governance. Not intentional dismantling of higher ed by politicians. Not putting ICE on campuses. It’s faculty not taking the GRE.
