Julia Frengs

@juliafrengs.bsky.social

Boy mom. Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies. Environmental humanist. Likes: books, yoga, dogs, cooking, wine. Dislikes: authoritarianism, nazis, mushrooms.

If Hollywood can no longer film in other countries due to #tariffs, I propose they just start following/filming professors. Our lives are fascinating entertainment content at the moment. I imagine production costs would be minimal. Make-up and costumes would be astronomical though. #academiclife

👇🎯 The public isn't going to understand this, unless the presidents of R1 universities around the country <loudly> & <collectively> get out into the public square & start explaining this & calling out the existential threat to the entire 🇺🇸 university system. The silence is deafening right now.

Tom Pepinsky@tompepinsky.com · 2y ago

The public really needs to understand this. Every university system in the world rests on public funding, there has never been an alternative model at any time in history. We have universities for literally the same reason that we have roads and armies.

For my first post on Bluesky, I just wanted to point out the $12 trillion opportunity Ayana Elizabeth Johnson suggests there could be for billionaires investing in renewable power. If any billionaires see this post (are any of my 30 followers billionaires?) can you do something about this?

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