What academic articles do you venerate for their style? (Any discipline) Am looking to push some boundaries and would like examples

oh dear, reader reports have arrived

I was tempted to take a swipe at someone on the internet, but I resisted.

🇧🇷Jaçanã 🌎Jacana jacana Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A jaçanã (Jacana jacana), do tupi ñaha´nã, é uma ave que ocorre na América do Sul, charadriiforme, da família dos Jacanidae. 📷 Cláudio Dias Timm

…so where we are at is we’re gonna start watching Abbot Elementary again from the beginning

Do rich people just send emails all day every day?? If I were obscenely wealthy I would never open another email in my life

I didn’t buy any books for a while, but here are the recent bookquisitions:

What if the digital revolution was just a counterrevolution against admin assistant fantasies of lobbing metal tape dispensers and staplers at their bosses’ heads?

what

Solid

Among the things I love best about this thread, and there are several, is how much of it is Justin replying “a ridiculous people” over and over.

how bout that

It’s not just about Lula himself, but he has an ability to make himself and Brazil be taken seriously that his far right rivals…do not.

I think I’ll just sit here and take pictures of this cat who has taken over my lap.

things change

Friends in Spanish, Portuguese, and other language departments, do you offer a pro seminar for your grads? if so, do you have materials you'd be willing to share? Thank you!

…and what proportion of Columbia’s Jewish alumni grew up in the city?

yeah you all should see the one i keep in my boot

realmente impressionante “Apenas Nikolas discursou no ato. O Pastor Silas Malafaia, que estava previsto para ir, não compareceu. No seu discurso, o parlamentar mandou recados ao STF (Supremo Tribunal Federal) e à cúpula do Congresso, e ignorou as vítimas da descarga atmosférica no local.”

PVD FOREVER

god damn

ILL is a miracle and I give thanks for each day it continues to serve.

Not a huge fan of performative attention-seekers with adrenaline addictions.

Office door update

Yes, and also everyone should read Andre’s recent book on Lula! www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

does anyone else’s dog “help” them climb stairs

OK who the *hell* made it play “Leaving on a Jet Plane” inside my head all afternoon??

"Quem então imaginava o verdadeiro recheio das coisas, que impunham para se executar, no sobre o desenho da ordem?" -- João Guimarães Rosa, "Uma Estória de Amor (Festa de Manuelzão)"

so wait, are we getting Iceland or not?

I swear, their messaging sounds like it was written by an AI trained on failed consultant memos written in 1996.

“Sell America”

“Determine optimal amount to crack open office door in order to signal ‘I am definitely here, but I definitely don’t want to talk to you.’ Satisfied, actually use rusty tape measure to check the size of the crack for future reference.”

Chamaram o Amorim lá na economist 👀

Lula: This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Might not be the most important thing, but I can’t not observe that Lear is actually much less dangerous when he goes mad. Because having recklessly given away most of his power in Act I, by the time he ends up naked on a heath in a storm, he has lost what remained of it.

Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it. So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!

Lula: This Hemisphere Belongs to All of Us [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

What does it mean for anything really “about” anything?

You'll have my instant trust if you: - write "outsize" rather than "outsized" - correctly use the en-dash But you'll lose it just as fast if you: - decline to use an oxford comma

well I will take the win but I am sorry for all the Bills folks

oh this is quite a way to end it

whatever happens, truly no hate to everybody and especially all my nice mutuals supporting Buffalo

wonder what the overtime rules are today

MIMS!

come on bronkeys!

Sutton awakes!

well it wouldn’t be denver if they didn’t at least threaten to lose after having a fine lead

all right now