Kamu's gone! #BB28

Evil Defeated

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I’m on a meeting and somebody called me “Darling”. This is why I act the way do

Was reminded today that I have my winning NAEd/Spencer postdoc materials up on my website (someone let me know that they won and that they had used my stuff as a guide). Won 5 years ago but anyone who is applying is welcome to them! www.dominiquebaker.com/resources

I have to be aware of my blood pressure, so there is little you can do in academia to pass your anxiety on to me. I will not be pressed. Just wait two damn seconds

I brought 9 books from the book festival back to NC. Including a signed Walter Mosley 🙌🏾. However my shoulder hurts now

it’s always 2 dumb bitches telling eachother "exactlyyyy"

The only thing I will be able to this week is teach. I am beat

What on earth

John Aerni-Flessner@lesothojohn.bsky.social · 6d ago

This is an absolute travesty. Northwestern has, probably, the 2nd best library collection for African History/Studies in the USA (behind Yale and ahead of MSU, UCLA, etc). A self-inflicted wound that is absolutely, 100% unnecessary given the massive wealth of Northwestern--north of $15 billion.

Nearly 1 in 4 US K-12 students missed school regularly last school year. wapo.st/4c78oZF

Chronic absenteeism remains high six years after pandemic began

Nearly a quarter of U.S. children did not show up for school regularly in 2025, a slight decline from the previous year but still up from about 15 percent before covid.

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AERA President Jerome Morris discusses the benefits of being an AERA member. Want to join the largest community of education researchers? Join or renew today! www.youtube.com/watch?v=osHW...

AERA President Jerome E. Morris on the Benefits of AERA Membership

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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What actually counts as basic income? Try our interactive guide: turn a policy into ‘basic income’ or ‘guaranteed income,’ partial or complete, and see where the line moves. basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...

What Defines a Basic Income? | Basic Income Action

An interactive guide to the seven tenets of basic income — toggle them and enter your own numbers to see how a proposal is classified.

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I had a tenure celebration this weekend and my bestie made these obnoxiously large signs. It will always be strange to see the UNC logo by my name 😭

Our deadline for the public syllabus repository is today. Why not next week when the tenure-line folks are actually back on campus???

He is such a tired loser. Let me go over on Twitter and tell him. Cornball

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago

"Much of Tyler Austin Harper’s academic career had felt like a fairy tale. When he landed a tenure-track job, one adviser said that it was like “watching the last dinosaur being born.” But after few years at Bates College, his faith in academia had shattered:

ND sociology is HIRING! We have three (yes, 3!!!) lines! (1) Open-Rank, Open Field careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311611/... (2) Assistant Professor, Quantitative Sociology careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311610/... (3) Assistant Professor, Sociology of Education careercenter.asanet.org/job/1311609/...

This is not a mistake, they started with Black women, as always, and we told them they would come for you.

Bryce Covert@brycecovert.bsky.social · 2w ago

Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org

Great opportunity to be a research manager at the Council of the Great City Schools www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...

Whoever runs on never discussing the reflecting pool ever again has my vote

Apocalypse is really beating the x-men’s ass

1/ From 2021 through 2022, I was skeptical of the emerging narrative that there was a teacher shortage/exodus crisis. I just didn’t see much data to support it. And I wrote as much. www.chalkbeat.org/2022/3/9/229... But then, to my surprise, the data started to change.

I left my phone in the uber last night. My sister is already tired of me. lol

Judge Box Wine may be tipsy, but she ain’t all the way crazy and likely wants to keep her law license

Dennis M. Taylor@dmt4mt.bsky.social · 2w ago

3 more people have their Reflecting Pool charges dropped - NPR apple.news/Avkk4SYZZSaW...

So. This "underlying health conditions" / "pre-existing health conditions" framing is understandably upsetting b/c amid the COVID public health emergency, it became a way of discounting the morbidity or mortality of chronically ill & disabled people. The people behind MAHA leveraged this framing.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

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My sister accidentally locked me out of this house, so I’m sitting in the backyard contemplating life

Everyone's talking about teacher turnover after a webinar + article this week. Is it too high? What happened with COVID? Matt Barnum collects state-level average teacher turnover rates from 21 states and finds that turnover remains elevated compared to pre-COVID: www.chalkbeat.org/2026/07/30/t...

A ‘lost generation’ of teachers left the classroom. Schools are still dealing with the consequences.

Veteran teachers left, principals cycled through too, and high-poverty schools likely faced the greatest strain. Here’s what years of churn did to classrooms.

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And we are really easy to find in person.

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3w ago

There are a lot of important things going on. Maybe this isn’t a top twenty concern. But, this is actually workplace harassment, the kind that can get people killed.

I ordered some dresses for a party and I did not realize they were coming from China. I fear two of them are stuck in the Strait of Hormuz 😭

I’m at the part of “They Stole a City” where she discusses Kenan and Flagler but doesn’t put the names together. It’s sneaky!

One of the elementary schools in chapel hill is looking for a teacher and a para at this late date. It has my spidey senses tingling