New paper alert, out today in @journalcam.bsky.social with my esteemed colleagues @walkerwestbrewer.bsky.social, @ifra-j.bsky.social, and @billard.bsky.social 🥳 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Guys i just joined my profs zoom meeting but he isnt there and his camera is switched on should i pretend to leave and come back

For almost 2 weeks, Badar Khan Suri was kept in a room without a bed & with TV blaring 21 hrs/day. He was given used underwear & red uniform "usually reserved" for "high security" detainees. Not allowed to spend more than 2 hrs/week outside dorm. His little son has stopped talking in his absence.

I didn’t even know there were this many people in evantson

I feel bad for people who live in places with temperate climates year-round. They will never know the pure joy of a 50-degree February day after a long, cold winter. Soak it up this week, fellow midwesterners.

Can anyone recommend readings for undergrads that explicit link the survival and flourishing of indigenous and non-western gender systems to material struggles over land, sovereignty and against colonialism?

Why would you make your narrator unreliable. I trusted you and purchased this book and this is how you repay me

Its just me (out for a smoke) and the people walking their dogs in this snow storm

Wtf is a superbowl? 👀

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

Performing the bare-est minimum function in R and feeling so accomplished. Only my fellow qual people will understand

My first polar vortex i hate it here. Like what do you mean campus is not closed during -30 C weather????

Today and in the coming days, remember

The overwhelming level of police and politicians here is not about making sure Luigi doesn’t escape, it’s about reassuring corporate America and scaring anyone who might consider copying what Luigi did. I think their strategy has backfired

They got the surname wrong but lowkey I get it

Great work in Punjabi language studies is on its way after Alyssa Ayres. "Paindoo: Punjabi as an Accent" by Prof. Iqra Cheema @cheema.bsky.social is a really promising start to what I hope will be a broader project on language, class, politics, and aesthetics.

Sednaya prison outside of Damascus is called the human slaughterhouse. The things that I read happened there will never leave me. Just the absolute most twisted things a human can come up with. The fact that we’re counting down the minutes to it being obliterated is beyond. Just incredible.

The beginning of every revolution is an exit, an exit from the social order that power has enshrined in the name of law…& the greater good…From there we understand the hostility of…authority towards these figures, & its use of the law…to…criminalize them. —Basel al-Araj

1 pm and already on my 5th espresso shot of the day. Exam week is going great 👍🏽👍🏽

Clarence Darrow: ″I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure." This seems relevant recently.

Something about billionaires being afraid is so heartwarming

I think this essay is one of the most important essays re. gender theory ever written. I have been reading it over and over and I think you should all read it too (and support Talia's work). taliabhattwrites.substack.com/p/the-third-...

NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.

Omg fuck the hand-wringing about people not finding the murder of the UHC CEO tragic. No, actually, we don't have to mourn the deaths of people who oversee the denial of our medical needs, who are also responsible for many, many deaths, all bc of their greed. STFU already.

whose idea were endnotes?

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

Getting sick AND depressed af 3 days before final submissions for the plot

The internet in Pakistan is fucked. Government-imposed firewalls stifle freedom of speech and expression, leaving people disconnected and silenced. Connectivity without VPNs is virtually non-existent, and now even the VPNs are starting to act up.

Going out in this weather is an extreme sport

Barack Obama took Edward Said’s class as a Columbia undergrad. Obama later befriended Rashid Khalidi as they both taught @ UChicago. Khalidi later became the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies @ Columbia — and author of the book Joe Biden just got. Here's the trio at a 1998 event.

Sitting out in -7 (celsius) for a smoke, god help me

Getting the validation of that one really old professor who has been in academia since before your parents were born is an elite feeling. Idk idk

It has snowed in Chicago and YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS! Time to remind everyone that we light our train tracks on fire to prevent the switches from freezing.

What trying to write a paper on classical rhetoric feels like