"tell me we didn't just fire a dozen $500,000 missiles at a $200 camel" "sir, no evidence of any camel present, sir!"

If you're in Puerto Rico 🇺🇸 (or anywhere around the Caribbean) and want to help journalists track the American build up of aircraft, as well as logistics flying in and out of PR, you can make a big difference and help out. Yes, even you. www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join...

And the finest Christmas tradition has arrived — #DuvetKnowItsChristmas is today! 1) Follow @rhodri.biz 2) post your pics of your makeshift Christmas Eve sleeping arrangements and 3) give money to the homeless @centrepointuk.bsky.social

Staaahp

With nobody sleeping in the basement this year, it’s hardly #DuvetKnowItsChristmas. But I still look forward to it.

Great story. Highly recommend.

With the slogan “Rooted in Philly, Reporting for All,” the Philadelphia Student Press Association is seeking funding from organizations to support student journalism at a time when college budgets are tight and the news industry faces challenges.

Umm, no.

Haven’t come for us yet.

The kids are all right, I guess?

Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA. Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics

This is terrible. The New School’s stellar social science programs are irreplaceable. There is nobody else who does what they do. This could be good for UMass Amherst, but basically nobody else.

I have heard from many white male academics that it’s really hard now for guys like them. Someone is definitely telling them this. All they’d have to do is look to see that it’s not true that women and minorities are getting all the (good) jobs.

Nooooooo

A big strong dean, tears in his eyes, came up to her and said “sir, you’re the best candidate I’ve ever seen, just A+++++ but I’m going to open myself up to a federal lawsuit by admitting we don’t hire white people. Except for the vast majority of our faculty who are white.

Not to defend her, but it’s worth pointing out that no dean in history has ever put anything in writing. So it’s not like she would have evidence even if it did actually happen. Which it didn’t.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

For decades we have competed with UNC for talented PhD students interested in studying European politics. Sometimes they won, despite their significantly lower stipends, in part because of their great Europe center. So much for that.

Cuellar, in particular, has got to go.

timeline cleanse: franky watches the garbage truck pick up the trash this morning

The 100 M kroner question. (They will say it’s bc the prevalence of Hep B isn’t high enough in Denmark to power a study like this. Gee, I wonder why?)

Not sure why, but this has been the week that it occurred to me that maybe getting some form of worker representation on corporate boards in the US isn’t just some crazy pipe dream. Like maybe we can work to change it, bc things have gotten so out of control.

Hoping there is more complexity to this than meets the eye. Bc if @propublica.org is going to serve slop as news, they are not going to survive. Know your audience, folks!

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Garbage Is Poisoning Gaza open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

New inequality graphic, for those who collect them

Eyes on this one, folks.

For the historical polling nerds out there, an article about our project with @ropercenter.bsky.social that digitised ~800 surveys by Gallup poll in Britain between 1955 and 1991 has been published in JEPOP. The merged dataset contains over three-quarters of a million respondents.

More like at least 2 per week. If the average #trauma #surgeon works 26 weeks per year, let’s say 52 per year and ~1000 #gunshot victims in a 20 year career

Can’t say I’m convinced by the arguments here about why economists lost influence. I’d much rather hear what @epopppp.bsky.social has to say!

More excellent science journalism by @melodyschreiber.com. It really is racism all the way down.

Gift guide: I am not a podcaster, and you will quickly see why this is not paid. But for the right parent Storyworth is a great gift. As my mother's Alzheimer's kicked in, my sister and I got her a Storyworth subscription. It works just like they say: Mom got a prompt each week via email >

Female reporters who are verbally harassed by Trump should file an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint against their employers for not protecting them from the president's abuse as they do their jobs. (h/t @airbagmoments.bsky.social)

🎵I don’t have to teach again til August ‘26🎵

The best reading of this article: Trump is going to use FDA to restrict medication abortion, but he wants to wait until after the midterms so the Republicans don't experience blowback. But that just makes the midterms more important. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This would be truly heartbreaking. The HPV vaccine is a lifesaver.

Props to @haelinchoi.bsky.social and the team from @handsoffnyc.bsky.social @bkindivisible.bsky.social @thenyic.bsky.social and the 1000+ people (incl. Rosa & me) who turned out yesterday for training/organizing events in Brooklyn & the Bronx to protect our neighbors and get Trump’s ICE out of NYC.

Like @prisonculture.bsky.social, I've been worried about the ways popular myths of the civil rights movement make it hard to see how to struggle today. On the 70th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott, the things we get wrong & what a fuller history shows us: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Amazing work

Tenure-Track Professorship in Migration, Citizenship, Identity #ECPRMemberJobs 🔬 Two years of international research experience during or after doctoral studies 🏫 @univie.ac.at ⌛ Wednesday 10 December buff.ly/18VsfvH #PolSciJobs #PoliSky #AcademicSky

@governor.pa.gov, PA needs to be on this list.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

There goes Hep B. This is so bad....

On this point, it’s worth noting the roots of demography as a field of study… 😬

Gear up for a nauseating story of neocolonialism.

Bioethics job

if you work on "AI" and are concerned with social issues, you should apply to be the new director of the Tufts AI Institute: apply.interfolio.com/178311 (Need to be tenureable in one of our engineering departments, but it's explicitly open to people who work on human-oriented stuff.)

This emphasis—systemic transformation rather than simply individualistic accommodation—is the real political force of disability politics. The fixation on accommodations and the pathologization of difference is all about counter-revolutionary force.