My first HUGE I got tenure decision was/is leaving my laptop behind. A whole week of not working 😳😤😳😤😳😤bold!

My friends also gifted me this fitting movie ❤️then I realized I we don’t have a single dvd player. How do people watch DVDs?

A what now?

One of my sisters gave me the best tenure gift ❤️❤️❤️

Yay @universitypress.cambridge.org is getting Death, Diversion and Departure to us sooner than previously expected.

Finally made it to Clarke's Bookshop in Cape Town! 🎉

Is Academe Discriminating Against White Men? IMO, as a White man, a tenured Professor and a Department Chair, NO! There have *only* been White men Chairs of my department, ever (est. 1946). We have a wall of White men School Dean photos. www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

Data is beginning to reveal the devastating cumulative effects of the Trump administration’s policies for workers of color. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-the...

Well, classics 😳

6 years ago, as I prepared to host students for Thanksgiving, I received a call informing me Harvard denied me tenure. Before I had a chance to process, it was all public. This year the memory stings more as I watch dear colleagues and friends like @durba.bsky.social experience the same violence.

Look at this claim from the intro: “White men fell from 39 percent of tenure-track positions in the humanities at Harvard in 2014 to 18 percent in 2023.” Things look very different if you go by numbers: they went from 11 tenure-track positions filled by white men in 2014 to 10 in 2024. A loss of 1.

Random question: Was Ann Arbor always this interpersonally chilly toward Black folks, or did I simply not notice it as much while a grad student way back in the 2000s? I am certainly feeling the cold around campus and town lately. I can't imagine what it must be like for our students. What gives?

Here is a map of the affected countries (excluding Tonga), to give you a sense of how much this new ban restricts immigration from Africa in particular. Of the newly-added country, Nigeria faces the largest impact, with tens of thousands of visas issued every year to Nigerians.

YouTube is not only widely used, but it’s also the platform the most teens visit on a daily basis. Roughly three-quarters of teens say they use it every day.

New travel restrictions

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

The unofficial #otf #orangetheory brag board ❤️❤️❤️❤️🤎🤎🤎

Racism. The answer is racism.

This kid just added to the 2% of tenured black women in American higher Ed. So proud of little Chipo. Glad we’ve always told our own stories.

ICYMI - Halle Berry is all out of f*cks "Gavin Newsom, has vetoed our menopause bill, not one, but two years in a row, But that’s OK, because he’s not going to be governor forever, and the way he has overlooked women… by devaluing us, he probably should not be our next president either."

Again: the Purpose of LLM- type "AI" bullshit engines is not to tell you the truth or to lie to you, but to tell you something you are statistically determined to be more likely to accept, irrespective of facts— which makes them perfect for accelerating dis- & misinformation & persuasive propaganda…

Red states are always worth fighting for

Today at 1:45pm EST Please join myself, Duncan Omanga, PhD, Constantine Manda, Prof Collord and Tiro Magoti as we discuss recent events and the future or democracy in Tanzania.

I ❤️ discussing Vivek with my students. As we cap off our discussion of contemporary politics we discuss identity. I like to include works of fiction in my classes. I can’t wait for their analyses. I have read this many times but vivek’s death is always unexpected. Highly Recommend

The secret to early retirement; dine out rarely, fly economy and be a Google employee making $390,000/year married to a fellow Google employee 17 years older than you who likely makes twice as much as you.

No better way to start winding down our semester of chocolate but with a chocolate tour in the great city of Cambridge. Kicked off the tour with chocolate chip cookies (65% cacao)+ hot chocolate Then Ice Cream Belgian Waffles and Gelato (Ecuadorian chocolate) Capped off with doughnuts

Limited DISCOUNT from @Cambridge_Uni for Death, Diversion and Departure. Use code DENDERE25 when ordering online from www.cambridge.org/universitypr... The book is perfect for both undergrad & grad classes :) let me know if you add it to your reading list.

Mercedes Wells, the mother who gave birth on the side of the road minutes after she was discharged from a hospital, has been hospitalized with post-birth health issues

I have been praying for the National Guards and their families. My heart is broken because they are just kids. A couple NGs took pictures of our school group on a tour to DC. Then walked with us to the train. Kids like my barely 20 year old marine nephew. It is not right!

This week my niece started talking to me about "male matcha manipulators" and once I understood what she was talking about, I could not stop laughing. Language is alive.

I hope everyone reads this Thanksgiving message and takes it seriously. Don’t dismiss it.

The mathematicians lost and now they are mad lol 😂

I miss when Twitter was truly great like the time a guy got upset at someone calling out a cricket team and started explaining how bowling worked and at the end OP was like "thanks for explaining btw I hold the world record for most career outs in cricket history"

A beautiful feature on my Politics of Chocolate class @wellesley.edu. Thank you, E.B. Bartels for your kind write up. I really love this class and will always be grateful for the gift it’s been. My students are incredible. I am very lucky. www.wellesley.edu/news/sweet-s...

Oh, this is just too rich. Chief presidential shit shoveler has family member detained by ICE.

We tried the Antwerp Hands chocolate in my class. My students had many thoughts. I learned a lot about the chocolates during my research summer in Belgium. Can’t wait for you to read the book.

If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.

I am really glad I attended the African Studies Association (ASA). The preparation for a conference is always very daunting to me- figuring out parenting, travel; housing, Ubers etc but, once I got there, saw colleagues and friends. Learned new things oh - it was perfect.

Five hours apart

I listened to all of Majorie Green Taylor’s speech so you don’t have to. She is not reformed. She spent 3 minutes of 10 on her “I hate immigrants” speech. She argued that she’s been more hateful and right wing than Trump. She is mad that most unhinged bills haven’t been passed. She still sucks

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

If you’re at the African Studies Association (ASA) come to our panels on African Women Biographies. We are in International 8. Great panels. Next session starts at 3:45pm.

Survived my first Tornado. #otf #orangetheory

Fifteen-year-old Miguel Vazquez was one of the people who took off running when federal agents arrived. “I thought, ‘Wait, why am I running? I’m a citizen,’” Vazquez said. newrepublic.com/post/203321/...

Oh no, the Wayback Machine always remembers. @brookings.edu

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."