Fantastic writing tips by Marcus Rediker. pghrev.com/sixteen-writ...

Sixteen Writing Tips from Marcus Rediker - Pittsburgh Review of Books

Editor's Note: Acclaimed writer and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh Marcus Rediker has long informally circulated

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Just under 2 weeks to go for Research Development Group applications! Deadline is March 1. Early career scholars get detailed comments from senior scholars to help turn papers into journal submissions. Great feedback + mentorship opportunity! We meet Sept 2. Info: web.apsanet.org/mena/wp-cont...

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Jeremy Menchik@menchik.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Third annual Conference on the Jewish Left, featuring Peter Beinart, Prof Marjorie Feld, Arielle Angel, Ian Lustick, Zol Zayn, Dove Kent, Liana Krupp, Fadi Quran, Prof Michael Zank, and 16 workshops led by scholars, faith leaders, and national orgs like the SPLC. Join us! www.bit.ly/jewishleft

Someone’s working to monetize this with an app, no doubt.

Scott L Greer@scottlgreer.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Gig authoritarianism

More US academics are freaking out about the “department of war” than they are about an actual genocide being enabled by their government.

Truth in advertising.

I’m not on board with every statement in this piece, but it needed to be written and is well worth reading.

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 11mo ago

If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now? utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...

Pretty amazing that the university president who on more than 3 occasions in the past 18 months called police onto campus to arrest faculty and students, started the new school year by telling students “Question those with the urge to silence or cancel others,” nyunews.com/news/2025/08...

Mills takes the stage to welcome class of 2029 - Washington Square News

Kicking off her third year as university president, Linda Mills welcomed thousands of first-year students at Radio City Music Hall during two showings of NYU’s biannual Presidential Welcome Reality Sh...

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RIP Sonallah Ibrahim: scoopempire.com/remembering-...

Remembering Sonallah Ibrahim: The Novels That Defined A Literary Legend

Egypt has lost one of its most important storytellers. Sonallah Ibrahim, the legendary novelist whose books have shaped how generations see Egypt and the Arab world, passed away at the age of 88 after...

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A strange editorial that treats the new offensive as a misconceived, "unworkable" counterinsurgency strategy rather than what it demonstrably is: an ethnonationalist campaign of genocide which, within its own monstrous logic, may well be "workable". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Guardian view on Israel’s Gaza takeover plan: a destructive act that must be stopped | Editorial

Editorial: Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on an operation that guarantees fresh miseries and will solve absolutely nothing

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Fondly recalling my own experience with NSF review... in which one reviewer questioned why fieldwork couldn't just be done on Zoom and another referred to feminist IR as not a "well-established body of research." 🫠 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Nailed it.

The Onion@theonion.com · last yr.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

To be clear, this executive order does not “mistake” dissent for bigotry, it purposefully conflates the two. This toxic politics is at one and the same time anti-Palestinian and antisemetic.

Beth Shakman Hurd@bethhurd.bsky.social · last yr.

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I got an Egypt starter pack kicked off. I'm sure I'm missing many brilliant folks. Please flag accounts I should add! go.bsky.app/7ujBLzQ

We noticed there wasn't a starter pack on authoritarian politics yet – Now there is! go.bsky.app/UFHn7sS Spread and ask to join!

It's touching to read all the tributes to James C. Scott and his scholarship. But I wonder how many political scientists paying tribute would reject his scholarship if they were reviewing it for the APSR, because it doesn't fit within the strictures of the discipline. It is fitting that he opened….

Polisky, this may be a long shot, but I wonder if anyone knows of an empirical study that examines how the peer review process may inadvertently work against some research methods while benefitting others. Here’s an example of what I’m after: Austin Ranney, the APSR editor in the 1960s…

Polisky At moments like this, do you wonder why political science is so distant from politics and so obsessed with "value-neutrality"? This article helps to explain why. doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Polisky "I don't see why it's necessary to so flatly exclude large areas of our discipline." James K. Pollock, April 9, 1964, reacting to the draft policy for the NSF Political Science Program. For context, see "Political Science as a Dependent Variable" in PoP: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Polisky It’s publication day for “Political Science as a Dependent Variable: The National Science Foundation and the Shaping of a Discipline”   I hope you’ll have a look and join me in considering how the NSF shaped political science and the social sciences more generally.

OMG, these allegations are bananas. Let’s see how this shakes out at the nytimes.

Mondoweiss@mondoweiss.net · 2y ago

New doubts are emerging about the New York Times’s coverage of sexual violence in the October 7 attack. The paper must explain why it broke its own rules by hiring a clearly biased writer who endorsed racist and violent rhetoric toward Palestinians.

"On one occasion, a handful of children, all about ages 5 to 8, were carried to the emergency room by their parents. All had single sniper shots to the head." www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Opinion: I'm an American doctor who went to Gaza. What I saw wasn't war — it was annihilation

As a surgeon, I volunteered at a Gaza hospital. The conditions were unthinkable. With a ground offensive in Rafah, people have nowhere to go.

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The Palestinian scholar @danaelkurd.bsky.social learned about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin. For New Lines, she describes the whiplash of absorbing atrocities across multiple decades and reflects on worlds overturned.

Memory Voids and Role Reversals

A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned

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Emily Tamkin on the anti-war movement on the Jewish left. “‘It felt powerful to be in grief with community, with people who are able to mourn both Israeli and Palestinian dead.’“ slate.com/news-and-pol...

What the Jewish-Led Protests Against Israel’s Actions Look Like Right Now

At the White House, hundreds pleaded: “How dare you use my grief to justify killing innocent civilians in my name?”

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Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza

On 15 October 2023, over 800 scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies signed a public statement warning of the possibility of genocide being perpetrate��...

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An important statement from MESA on the unfolding catastrophe and academic freedom. mesana.org/advocacy/let... Menasky Polisky

Middle East Studies Association

The MESA Board of Directors is heartbroken by the loss of Israeli and Palestinian lives over the last week. There can be no justification for the targeting of civilians. We join our members directly a...

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