I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

Forgot to post: technically published in 2025, this finally hit my hands the other day. If you're interested in women's patronage, fifteenth-c poetry, and social capital, this article is for you!

Language and lit: Beginner and Intermediate French Advanced convo and comp 1-2 Pre-Revolutionary lit survey Conversation thru Cinema Fantasy and the Fantastic Medieval Film, Text, and Context Medieval lit in translation Fr lit in translation (women writers, food and feasting 1400-1800)

🧵 Today’s news: Proton turned over payment info for a Stop Cop City account. Not good — it's state repression in action. Controversial opinion: We don't think this means all activists should abandon Proton for docs/email. It depends on your threat model. Let's explore. (Long thread incoming 👇)

Importantly they are planning to hire these people on 2 year contracts so what actually happened is they fired everyone so they could rehire them with worse working conditions and an easy revolving door with industry 🫩 🔭

Because too many people are only too ready to go defeatist and I keep seeing the legal experts countering those who say court victories are meaningless. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

34 month PDRA position on my Roman Britannia: Mobility and Society project, based with fab project co-lead Dr Sophy Charlton at @york-bioarch.bsky.social - come join our interdisciplinary Cardiff-York team and reshape narratives of the Roman period in Britannia. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQT035/p...

Shame on Ohio for handing over personal voter data to DOJ. While other states DEFEND their voters and elections from Trump’s attacks, Ohio happily gives in. www.10tv.com/article/news...

Tenure protects faculty’s right to teach & students’ right to learn. It's integral to the pursuit of knowledge and research, and to free speech and expression. Scrapping tenure silences educators & stymies medical research. @AFT.org & @AAUP.org are fighting this www.oudaily.com/news/oklahom...

Doctor (not a good man per reports, died before I was born); lawyer (not the worst grandfather, but also not a great human); and my step-grandfather (still alive) is a sculpter

Whether or not you’re running for Congress and trying to seem rugged (and you probably should run, because, look who’s out there) what did your grandpas do for a living?

and tax documents and administration really isn't taking ownership of these issues at all (in fact, arguing that the Workday transition isn't a disaster). It's amazing that they are still resorting to gaslighting and intimidation (and trying to convince us that a 0.35% COLA is great) at this point.

We are one week away from an historic strike of both our faculty/academic professional and staff unions at my job. Management hasn't budged in mediation and has sent out some really shady emails to students and faculty/staff. Meanwhile, the new Workday system has f'ed sup o many people's paychecks

Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

In general this is so clearly a moral panic, down to its rotten core.

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If you live in Williamson or Dallas counties you have to go to your normal precinct, you can’t vote countywide. Your voter reg card has a 3-digit number on it. You can check here re Williamson. www.wilcotx.gov/DocumentCent... This is the TX Voter Protection Hotline: www.texasvoterprotection.org

Whoop, sorry for the local Fox affiliate link, but it looks like voting hours have been extended in Dallas until 9 pm! www.fox4news.com/news/judge-e...

Happening now in Chicago's federal plaza: A rally is underway in solidarity with trans people in Kansas whose drivers' licenses were suddenly invalidated last week, due to the enactment of a new state law that requires a person's gender on their license to match their assigned sex at birth.

My late mother was disabled the last decade of her life and relied upon a home care nurse to continue to live relatively independently. She was a die-hard progressive in a red state. You can't just throw away the lives of the disabled, and you can't blame everyone in a state for its voting outcomes.

ANOTHER LATE-BREAKING JOB: TT Assistant Professor, History, Purdue History of Science & Technology in East Asia www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB..... Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE), universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

Some good news for this Friday. This astonishing group of people have spun up ERICA, the ERIC archive. www.datarescueproject.org/erica-to-the... #GLAMS #Skybrarians #AcademicSky

bella has been a victim of revenge porn over the last few days which is extremely fucked up and I hope you’ll join me in chipping in some $ to help pay for therapy and other support 🖖🏽

Elvira says, Why aren't we on our morning walk yet?

And we’re LIVE! This episode of #BiteSizedBookHistory is all about bookbinding, and how judging a book by its cover can tell you about its history and where it came from. youtu.be/3aUdEy0Edf4?...

For a tiny bit more context, there are approximately 4,000 public libraries across the UK. “Up to” £150,000 in funding equates to “up to” £37.50 per library, or “up to” a couple of hardback books apiece. Happy #NationalYearofReading, everyone. www.librariesconnected.org.uk/facts-and-fi...

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Followers in Texas, if you are voting in the primaries today, consider lending your support to Joe Jaworski. In this little corner of London that is forever Texas, we are rooting for you, buddy!! NB, I want to shake the hand of the Texas AG next time you are in town.

The hallucination alone is a dealbreaker, obviously. But I was much more disturbed by the effect it had on my own sense of communication. Words are for connection. If you continually threw a rope into the darkness and no one caught it, you'd begin to think there was something wrong with the rope.

This is infuriating. Even if you're someone who believes we need capitalism in our medicine (why?), modern HIV drugs prevent transmission. Taking access away from 16,000 in Florida (and many more to come elsewhere) means we're making a lot more people sick. Which is very bad capitalism, actually.

Administration at DePaul in Chicago has unilaterally decided to permanently close the DePaul Museum as a cost-cutting measure. Please consider signing this letter opposing this short-sighted decision openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

I think a candidate with a history of racist statements, blaming women for rape, with a Nazi Tattoo, who's a fan of an antisemitic conspiracy theorist podcast, and is doing at best questionable things with campaign funds undermines a lot of Democratic talking points about Trump.

Hey Twin Cities folks! My work is looking to hire someone who has some experience setting up and running CNC lathes. CAM experience not necessary but helpful. Location is a innner ring suburb and is reasonably transitable and bikeable. If you’re interested DM me

I just assumed it was totally pointless but this person has ancestors from Canada who left even earlier than mine did and it worked! www.reddit.com/r/Canadianci...

Hi friends - I'm working on article about efforts to measure, track, and adjust WORKLOAD in higher ed, both for staff and faculty. I'm interested in talking to people who have experiences w/: -Workload management gone wrong -Exemplars of workload measurement -True tales of workload being adjusted

Ovarian cancer is a scary one because all these symptoms are easily attributed to other things, especially in women my age-ish. It can go undetected for so long. But if you're persistently dealing with these symptoms, do speak to your GP!

Can somebody who used to be a migrant worker or who worked at McDonald’s as a survival job rather than a summer job ever ever be the ones talking about ‘the working class’? Or does it always have to be somebody that got everything they have from their dad?

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It's just so entirely grim that underlying all of this is the fact that there are really just one or two institutions that can be expected to hire at all for the foreseeable future, even on a replacement basis. Just total ecosystem collapse.

This is a really weird fantasia of Edinburgh (and its geography) as it never was and is *full* to the brim of the sorts of simple yet glaring errors and anachronisms you would never have gotten if you hadn't left it to a computer to just barf out an averagised slop answer.

To kick off Women's History Month, a look back to see how far we've come... and we've come a long way, baby... but we still have so far to go (and Republicans are desperately trying to drag women backwards):

EMERGENCY, #oregon forest friends! Three more weeks to comment. No public hearings scheduled.

Welcome back to another year of the Trans Rights Readathon! This year’s readathon will take place from March 17 to March 31. If you want to officially sign up, fill out the form on our 🕸️site to join the fun! #TransRightsReadathon #trr26 #TransBooks

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

The next @nycplan.org meeting is on March 15 in Brooklyn. If interested, you can join us as we try to make sure that our NYC Public Libraries are fully funded and more. nycplan.org

if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE it will result in dead trans people and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing you see the pipeline right? we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

Avoided the horrors by focusing on a problem I can fix. My heart breaks for those murdered children.