For no particular reason, I'm just remembering how my undergrad blocked access to bit torrent servers on our university internet. You could get around it, of course-- torrent things in an off-campus apartment. But at least an attempt was made.

What about employers though? Like say you’ve got schools where everyone is cheating, and you’ve got schools where everyone pretends it’s the 70s. Which credentials look better?

Holy shit, this is a nightmare:

If you live in Illinois, you can tell your and State Senator to co-sponsor/vote for HB 35, which would outlaw this horseshit. You can find out who they are here: www.elections.il.gov/ElectionOper...

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Health insurance companies often reimburse much less for mental health care than for physical health care. That changes with HB1085, making it easier for over 2.5 million Illinoisans to get access to therapists covered by insurance. https://thepeopleslobbyusa.org/victory/mental-health-parity/

I like Robin Kelly, but my priority is not having Krishnamoorthi as our senator. I think we need to circle up around Juliana Stratton.

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

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Bookmarking this to show students when we talk about when people can and can't provide accurate self-report.

After four months, the journal has not found a single reviewer for my PhD student's manuscript. The academic peer review system is broken. I think we all should: 1. Review three papers for every one that we submit. 2. Promptly declined to review a paper when the request arrives. #AcademicChatter

To be clear, not just FBI-- I was drilled on this before going to public shooting ranges (we all were!) so it is infuriating to see federal officers flagrantly violating basic safety rules with no consequences.

Hey research friends-- one of my MA students is trying to recruit international students (18+) for her thesis project. Would you be able to share this with your students? Undergrad and grad are both eligible!

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I'm sorry, but Wambganss looks like the kind of name that shows up in an AI generated image.

Plus the threat of financial precarity that focuses them on making money on the other side. Some of them are buying a credential with money and time spent in classrooms, and even that is not a condemnation of them. They've been told this is what they need to survive.

The thing nobody tells you about being a volunteer community organizer is that sometimes you're so elated by having powerful meetings with elected officials about policy that it's hard to focus on your paying job!

@ramirez.house.gov Rep. Ramirez, can you make a congressional hearing on this happen?

Someone will text me if/when we start WWIII, right? I don't need to constantly refresh the feed?

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

White researchers from wealthy nations will deny Black African patients treatment that we know saves lives in the name of research that has little to no scientific value. Literally the whole reason we have IRBs in this country is to prevent something like this.

All I can say about this particular grading season is that it's not as bad as the time I caught COVID at the department holiday party and had to grade 120 finals exams + 17 final papers while running a fever. But it is running in second place.

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New astrology is which Mountain Goats song is on your birthday in @themountaingoats.bsky.social This Year 365 Songs, and guess what this lady got!

I've invented a new intergenerational party game to improve upon this "OK Boomer" thing unleashed on our family last night. The problem with the box game is that the trivia is instantly dated and also stupidly easy (e.g. "What does clickbait mean?"), and it's not clear what the age groups are.

This, by @giacgrassi.bsky.social, remains one of the simplest and best climate visuals

When your senile grandfather can't remember you, and thus can no longer make awkward comments about your "lifestyle".

ICE has targeted and tear-gassed Black and immigrant families on the South Side—and AT&T is profiting from them while they do so. Tell AT&T: #dropthecontracts on Nov 16. Join Chicago's corporate speakout, 2–3 & 4–5 PM: https://ppls.ac/att#dropthecontracts #ATTLovesICE #DropTheContractsATT

Same. To find out that, amidst all the voices telling me to calm down and accept his presence in academia, he'd been palling around with sex trafficers and making clever references to the fact that he genuinely thinks women are less intelligent than men is... validating to be correct? Infuriating?

Fuck, this is correct. They sent Durbin out to vote for it *because* he's retiring.

I had to call his Illinois office because DC's voicemail was overloaded/offline, but @durbin.senate.gov sure got a voicemail from me telling him how angry and disappointed I am.

I suggest we all call our capitulating Democrat senators and give them what for. Dick Durbin will be hearing from me.

Very proud to have been the action editor for this one-- as I was reading it I kept thinking "I can't wait until this is published, I'm going to share this with all of my students!"

Folks in Chicago wanting to do more to resist ICE-- did you know that AT&T has a massive contract with ICE? I'll be taking part in this demonstration to try to pressure AT&T to drop their contract and make it clear that there are consequences for businesses supporting Trump's Fascism. Join me?

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He was still alive?

Husband bought me a new brand of granola and for some reason it's asking me for a $3500 publication fee.

Saw a trick-or-treating kid dressed as an Amazon delivery person tonight. Cute, or an upsetting commentary on gig work?

HEALTHCARE VICTORY! We organized for nearly two years to pass HB1085, which will require private insurers to pay mental health and substance abuse providers at the same rates as physical health care providers. Learn more about this crucial victory on our website.

If you need some cheering, I have try pieces of good news from Illinois! 1. The legislature pulled it together and approved needed funding for public transit, preserving vital, green transportation for folks in the state: blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/31/c...

The Mountain Goats Beach Bunny Evanston Folk Festival (Iron & Wine/Tune-Yards/Watchhouse/Amythyst Kiah) Toad the Wet Sprocket/The Jayhawks/Sixpence None the Richer

Hell yeah Illinois!!!!

So hang on, Grammarly has abandoned the grammar-check aspect of their product and is now 100% in the AI generated text business?!

Trump gifts the Qataris an airbase in return for a luxury plane, and Spelling Bee says...

The fact that the Supreme Court may overturn bans on conversion therapy is making me feel pretty nihilistic about the purpose of doing psychological research.

This is half a mile from my home, and also immediately next to an elementary school. Is there any oversight? Will there be any consequences for this recklessness and cruelty?

Same. Though I have occasionally wondered if some people would be better served with more investments helping people in poverty (e.g. housing first policies for people experiencing homelessness.) Want to pony up for that, JD?

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".