4-year postdoc(s) at Copenhagen Business School on project The Business of Corruption: Why Business Elites Collude or Combat Political Corruption, led by @mkjustesen.bsky.social. Start: summer 2027, deadline 18 September. www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...

This is a big one: Brown University is searching for the next director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice. Please help us identify excellent candidates to lead this signature program into the future. Please write me with ideas; please share in your networks; please apply.

Shanah Tovah, New York! Wishing all Jewish New Yorkers celebrating a sweet, joyful and meaningful Rosh Hashanah. Here’s to a new year filled with health, happiness and blessings (and yes, even another Knicks championship).

Real ones observe today to the sound of “we gon make it” which was 24-7 on Hot 97 for days after the towers fell

In my organizing life (~1987-now), I have never participated in any group that got off on the right foot by hearing first from elders. I bet it’s different in less ageist communities than I’ve been in, but…

ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 4d ago

i didn’t really understand this until palestine protests started happening and young people were very unaware that lots of us had been protesting for a good portion of our lives bush. occupy. blm. anti-pipeline work. blm again. we don’t do a lot of teaching about any of it.

Looks like yer boy JD is making a break for it. That couch f@cker is fixing to find out.

I, the only data reporter at the Charlotte Observer, am among the McClatchy layoffs in the bloodbath today. The HR person asked me not to talk about it! AMA. Anyway, here’s a link to one of my most important stories this year. www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/a...

A Black teen found hanged near Charlotte church was a suicide, police say. Questions remain

In May, 16-year-old Juliana Nzita was found dead in a Charlotte churchyard. CMPD called it a suicide. Her family isn’t so sure.

charlotteobserver.com

I got a job that I could actually not think about outside working hours and have just started doing the stuff I was saving for retirement the rest of the time

Karen Attiah@karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d ago

What are you doing with your midlife existential crisis? No wrong answers. Just trying to see something, as the kids say.

"The Brooklyn Public Library will launch its first-ever craft library on Wednesday, allowing library cardholders to borrow art supplies for a variety of activities, including screen printing, bookbinding, metal stamping and hand embroidery." gothamist.com/arts-enterta...

Brooklyn Public Library launches first ever craft library

Cardholders can borrow tools and kits.

gothamist.com

Two things I learned today: the Association for Human Mathematics exists and is accepting members, and the French word for broom.

I’m sticking to my 25 year tradition of not selling my hugely traumatic experiences on 9/11 for money or attention.

One of the most visionary leaders in the history of The Smithsonian (his appointment is titled "The Secretary"), and the DC heritage sector. Up there with Archibald McLeish at the Library of Congress. Bunch's example positioned memory and recognition as central to preservation and curation.

Smithsonian chief Lonnie Bunch III to retire amid Trump administration pressure on institution - US politics live

Bunch told the New York Times it was not Trump pressure on the organization that had led to his departure but acknowledged ‘stress’ of the role

theguardian.com

How do government departments use academic research and evidence? New report from me for @dcmsgovuk.bsky.social focused on creative industries policy as a case study www.gov.uk/government/p...

Knowledge, evidence and the use of research in creative industries policy: DCMS Skills and Diverse Workforce Policy Fellowship Report

The final product from Professor Dave O’Brien’s Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Skills and Diverse Workforce Fellowship.

gov.uk

Have we hit “rich guys buy and hide the art” in the fascist calendar? Is it “fire sale of matrimony” o’clock already?

For 40+ yrs, Sabreen has supported Palestinian music, artists, and creative voices from Sheikh Jarrah, Jerusalem. Rising costs and challenges of maintaining an independent Palestinian cultural organization in Jerusalem are putting this vital space at risk. Donate here: sabreen.org/donate

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the combined weight of all humans on earth surpassed the combined weight of all ants on earth around…1776

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Tell me a fun fact.

Could bluesky be the better twitter? This man had been found in Amsterdam and he’s probably been in NL for a few decades. He might be Canadian. Share and solve?

BertjeBe@bertjebe.bsky.social · 4w ago

@seanferrick.bsky.social www.politie.nl/nieuws/2026/... (English beneath the Dutch text) "An entire life but no name: who recognizes this man?"

I love re-upping this: for decades the main library at UCLA had the generic name University Research Library because the person most responsible for getting it built was an English professor named Hugh G. Dick and the university refused to name it after him.

Katelyn Burns@katelynburns.com · 2w ago

Tell me a fun fact.

I was born in the 10BCEs, had six kids, and ate pretty much the same diet as I do now, minus the turtle.

Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2w ago

This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.

Glad to c local news coverage of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social support for the re-opening of 116th street to the public. My neighbors have really suffered from the lack of access to public transportation and green space, and our community’s capacity to diffuse ordinary conflict has been eroded.

A story about higher ed just from the student affairs office I (as faculty) interacted with most. 2003-2011 it was the Registrars office. 12-18: Financial Aid. Taking some liberties with overlap, 2016-2022: (then known as) the Office for Students with Disabilities. 2022-now: Int’l Student Affairs.

I'm co-hosting this conference on Humanistic AI at Duke 9/25-26; more details + speakers + full schedule soon but in the meantime, if you're in the Research Triangle Area, let us know if you want to come by or participate. Just email me - we'd love to hear from you! deeptech.duke.edu/event/humani...

Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation | Deep Tech

Humanistic AI: Generative Models and the Future of Cultural and Historical Interpretation

deeptech.duke.edu

I want to see midterm campaign ads that are just loud ass data center nosies for 30 seconds straight.

My latest in the Guardian - where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Trump admin spends billions to deport Black and brown people while doubling dollars for white ‘refugees’ | Heba Gowayed

‘Where the wealthiest country in the world allocates money has always been a question of political will over political way’

theguardian.com

I hope people read Gloria Steinhem's criticism of white feminism.

Gloria Steinem on "white feminism", racism and why white women voted for Trump

The feminist leader says the feminist movement should be for everyone - but that we need to be prepared to have difficult conversations about race.

stylist.co.uk

Promises to be a major achievement in literary sociology.

Gloria Steinem was such a badass. I’m sorry to see her go, but deeply grateful what she did and what she taught us.

great job here - in the very dynamic political economy program at berkeley - a dream gig! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05425

Assistant Professor – Political Economy – 50% Political Economy and 50% in a Related Discipline

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

I’m dear friends with Scott’s sister in law and spent time with their family in Mississippi. I can say this: he’s the only real option for voters who want sane, compassionate, wise, informed leadership. Scott’s doing weekly town halls. Cindy’s last was SIX YEARS AGO.

Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 2w ago

Scott Colom is a seventh-generation Mississippian who was born and raised in Columbus, where he became the city’s first Black prosecutor and still resides today. He is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, challenging Cindy Hyde-Smith and independent Ty Pinkins. buff.ly/wj4dZFP