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Love this movie

Ooo a fav of mine!

Crap, this is less fun without being able to quote the original, but here, I improved it

Coming this May. A documentary about WEB Du Bois - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kMs...

🚨🚨 It's new research week for me on the socials! 🚨🚨 First up, just released today as an NBER working paper: "More Hours, More Work: Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment" with fantastic coauthors Esra Kose and Maria Rosales-Rueda www.nber.org/papers/w34831

VERSION 2.0 of the Segregation Tracking Project is here! New data on racial and economic segregation between neighborhoods and schools over the last 30+ years for every school district, metro area, state, county, congressional district (new!), and more! edopportunity.org/segregation/

One of my fav pieces on American Studies that highlights this point The Politics of American Studies by Allen F. Davis in American Quarterly. (Pub 1990) www.jstor.org/stable/27129...

Judge Rufe's opinion ordering the Trump administration to restore truthful panels about Washington's ownership of enslaved persons from the President's House site in Phila is here. (I jailbroke it from PACER.) TL;DR: Gov't acted arbitrarily, capriciously. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

There's a lot here policy wise but...I want the shirt and it's all my brain can focus on www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

BREAKING: Majestic Realty, who owns one of the warehouses ICE was planning to purchase to create a detention camp, announced today that it would not sell to the agency. More at DMagazine.com shortly.

We still don't have good estimates on the role that health care plans have played in fiscal uncertainty at college campuses across the country

Who let me write 2,000 words for this 1,500 word piece? Sigh. So. Much. Cutting.

Michelle Haas did not seek to bring her case to the Texas Supreme Court. That's the end of the road. We won.

and once again: student-run papers are the free press now www.michigandaily.com/news/former-...

My local bookshop understands their audience.

This is why *all* researchers need reflexivity--not just qualitative ones. Our training and our backgrounds and our preexisting beliefs shape the research questions we ask, the methods decisions we make (eg, variables, models, or missing data strategies), and the way we interpret findings.

I've been watching Murder She Wrote while doing data entry and saved an episode for dinner tonight. So now we're watching Capitol Offense, where a congressman dies under "mysterious" circumstances so the governor asks Jessica to step into the role until the primary.

I believe I am being threatened with a good time.

For anyone else who has been enticed by this thread, both Hoopla and Kanopy (free streaming services available through libraries) have this film (in the US at least).

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

In all seriousness, this one of the reasons TCOMC is one of my top favorite books. Knowing a variety of things, being able to critically think, and a strong sense of ethics can take a person into a whole new life

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo: A liberal arts education will release you from prison and help you exact revenge on your enemies

She said dress for the day you want to have and I respect it.

We're doing it. We're watching 3 hours of French vengeance! (my french-speaking friends will see what I did there)

"faculty violinist Stephanie Arado, who had been invited to perform, chose a solo violin piece and made a customized outfit that featured the phrase “The evil must end now” and “ICE OUT”.…the university police escorted Arado from the building as if she were a danger to campus safety."

The UMN leadership - ultimately my bosses - has failed this test, as they have failed every test except, perhaps catering to the needs of power. Gift link.

Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.

Moneta Sleet's photos should be much better know. But he worked mostly for Ebony, an African American magazine & so was ignored by taste-makers for much of his career. Just as importantly, he didn't own his archive. The magazine did, & it was a poor steward.

Is there a history of the literary magazine that gives me all the status analysis my heart could ever hope for?

Oh my, how did I miss this?

That divorce is going well www.reddit.com/r/BravoRealH...

Lolololololol

Jill Scott’s long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:

Every injury lawyer seeing Nikes name on the Ankle Breakers

I love when we reach the point in a renovation project that you can start sending pictures to people

I was so impressed with this story about measles in the Atlantic -- the depth of reporting it would take to weave in all these details so fluidly. Turns out, it was a work of fiction. She researched the effects of measles, but lots of fiction writers do research. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

Oh no!

I'm proud of us

The NYC Marriage Bureau really is a special place. The one marriage ceremony I've attended there was only a few minutes long, but the officiant (a retired judge, I think?) made it feel unrushed and meaningful. I've loved all my visits! It's the best for people-watching.

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

In a guest lecture last night, I got asked about the future of research funding. And I talked about the reality that we likely need to have an entirely new orientation to the political economy of research.

If you’re a UC faculty member, PLEASE PLEASE join your Faculty Association! Even if you’re not regularly involved, your dues will support important actions!!

O-H-I just live here

Please consider joining, if you haven’t already. It’s just regular people trying to figure out how to fight for the university we all deserve. We need you! cucfa.org

Happy Valentine's Day from Pyewacket!

i need to admit something. the more i think about how many of our problems are downstream of a very small number of ppl and organizations hoarding all the wealth and power, the less interested i am in discussions of american democracy that prefer to focus on anything else.

Ok I see you UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations, pushing your university to be better and creating the space for this to happen!

It's late, I'm reading a book on writing nonfiction, and I'm annoyed because I'm learning about some of the stuff agents do for people at Stanford. Sigh.

Ooo, I forgot that I made this, but for those of you watching: