The end result of me not going to conferences since COVID seems to be that I rarely get invited to do things and Russians are flooding my inbox with poorly done research.

UC Davis, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UCLA, UC Irvine, UCSD UCR and US Santa Cruz and UC Merced are a seventh special thing.

Petition to redefine Midwest as Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota. Michigan and Wisconsin clearly belong to the Great Lakes Region along with parts of Canada. The Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are the Great Plains states. Prove me wrong.

Maybe this’ll get the Dem gerontocracy to pay attention.

I'm trying to decide if the most corrupt higher ed institution in America is NYU or USC. Help?

I may have just done my first peer review of an AI generated manuscript.

Professors are the original large language models

Is it just me or is the ASA program thin? Seems like a lot fewer sessions than a decade ago. @asanews.bsky.social

Stop blaming the professors and look instead at the pollsters and party hacks who have turned Democratic candidates into robots repeating "Kitchentableissues, kitchentableissues, bleep blorp." That's what voters hate. [end]

The Billion Dollar Ballroom is good GOP messaging.

The fourth season of life ain’t no joke.

Many people say social media is what ruined the 21st century, but I'd like to nominate reality TV instead. Without reality TV we wouldn't have Trump, the Kardashians, influencers chasing stardom, weird rich people faces, MAHA, and probably lots of other things.

Steyer continues to be strong. Becerra is a bit gray (Davis). Porter is a knife fighter but not an administrator. Mahan is... well, I don't know. And Villariagosa is California's Eric Adams #rip

She's doing well. 👏

Porter isn't wrong about building housing being the most important issue facing the state. Take that my NIMBY neighbor who is ironically a real estate agent.

I had forgotten that the teacher's union had supported the Empire.

Mahan's not wrong about admin overhead. Just take a look @pomonacollege.bsky.social 990 forms.

I didn't catch who said it, but one of the candidates just criticized the moderator. Bianco: I'm not sure I'm up here anymore. Someone: Neither are any of us.

I'm pleasantly surprised by Steyer. He's not bad at getting his say in clearly. Becerra is missing in action.

I don't know what a fair plan or unfair plan or prop 103 is. Just a heads up Villaraigosa. And I'm supposedly an informed voter.

It's disconcerting that there's a bell that keeps going off that signifies nothing.

And now she interrupts the candidate to offer her own opinion about what they should be saying?

I wish Steyer looked a little less like Emperor Palpatine.

These moderators are as amateur as our student affairs deans.

This is a rare moment of good press for @pomonacollege.bsky.social

I had never heard of Steve Hilton before the last two months and I am pro-immigrant, but I don't want someone with a British accent governing the greatest state in the nation 250 years after we kicked the bastards out.

Just saw our finance VP peel out in a Teslas.

It’s days like this I miss Bob Ross.

My hot take: Stagecoach exists for white people to cosplay whiteness.

And once again Roth drops the mike on higher ed.

This is clearly a creature from Star Wars.

Okay California peeps. Who we liking for governor right now?

It's TACO Tuesday again.

Someday we will look back and wonder why it was okay for all the tech CEOs to make public appearances while clearly on drugs. And we won’t conclude they were oracles or anything like that.

Coincidentally this is how our admin approaches shared governance.

Disneyland is an example of mass psychosis.

Prices getting so high that Sabrina Carpenter switched to Nespresso.

I’d actually just educate the students. It would be a radical change at any Ivy.

Told this one today a few times and everyone approved.

Mackenzie Scott or Soros could make a high impact donation here.

I just rejoined ASA this year for the first time in years.

Viktor Orban is doing politics the right way.

I also read this column as a tacit acknowledgement that he messed up the Charlie Kirk hagiography.

Reportedly, a sticking point in negotiations was the US insistence that Iran had to take Vance back with them.

Antonio Villaraigosa is the Eric Adams of California politics except that he's only Albania curious.

Just another to knock down in 2029. Gotta buy stock in a demolition company.

Chuck Schumer couldn’t have written it better. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/o...

Classic faculty meeting.

It’s infrastructure week. Finally.

30 is the new 40.