"Efforts to maintain white supremacist racial formations were increasingly couched in scientific language throughout the 18th century."

Great reporting in @grist.org on heat injury amongst migrant workers in the Middle East, who leave their home nations in search of economic opportunity and return with severe kidney injury and other heat-associated impairments.

*taps sign* newrepublic.com/post/177019/...

FINAL REVEAL: A brand new Benin bronze plaque, titled "Looting of the Oba's Palace in 1897". This #newarrival confronts the theft of works from Benin in 1897. It shows what the palace altar looked like before 1897 (left), and British soldiers in the act of looting (right).

at the the of the day, you can try to litigate and legislate lying, but you can’t force good faith and no amount of regulating the truth can fix society if its participants aren’t good faith members of the same project

If you're interested, this tribute to Alice Wong was written by one of the people who knew her best www.thenation.com/article/soci...

i’m so happy for him

This means NSF dissertation improvement grants in the social sciences are simply...not happening.

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

Just posted this to FedBook a few days ago: "It has become so much harder to do very basic things and that makes everything feel like a heavier lift." - So yes, I really agree with this.

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Another publication alert: A piece that I've co-authored on advocating for and advancing Indigenous perspectives in knowledge production is finally published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution! Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

we're going to win

One of the most awaited titles of 2025, right? I'll be bringing it back this time from the trip across the channel next week. Hazel Carby's Racial Fictions has been published! @versobooks.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/products/333...

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

"To accept private money’s veto is to naturalize political sabotage. What was once presented as adaptation to markets has become collaboration with authoritarianism."

An update on the devastation in Black River, Jamaica, and calls for climate justice. petchary.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/h...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

I’m investigating university partnerships with ICE for @prismreports.org with support from the lovely editor @tinavasquez.bsky.social 📲 Send me a message on Signal at julesthejourno.09 or email me at [email protected] ⚠️ Do NOT use a school-provided email address

I'm sure I'm not the only person to say this, but just look at the new org chart ontology here: school funding under the Dept of Labor, conveying that education is solely abt job training; language programs under the State Dept because statecraft is of course why we learn languages...

"Today, hunger and starvation are used by the RSF and army as a strategic weapon of war...But these deadly tactics of obstruction, displacement, and starvation alone cannot account for the crisis levels of hunger people are currently facing." transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/the-politics...

The British Museum’s reputation as a symbol of imperial looting is so well established that as soon as robbers fled with France’s crown jewels, people from all over were telling the London institution to turn out its pockets.

Although the British Museum has regarded itself as too big to fail, its false sense of exceptionalism has jeopardized its future as an institution that claims to epitomize the protection of the world’s cultural heritage.

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Texas A&M University adopts a policy requiring professors to get approval from the school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

The Wonderful Company does not live up to its name. Steve Macfarlane talks with @yashalevine.bsky.social about his new documentary on water privatization, climate change, and California’s wealthiest farmers.

Indiana University removed a Lecturer from her "Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice" course after a student filed a complaint about a graphic the instructor showed in class, which included "Make America Great Again" as an example of "Covert White Supremacy." www.wfyi.org/news/article...

The Sons of Confederate Veterans in Georgia tried to block it, but a new museum will open on December 2 at Stone Mountain to tell the story of the largest Confederate monument in the world. The museum will explore the monument and its connection to white supremacy. 🗃️ www.reuters.com/world/us/bat...

Ethical guidelines for ancient DNA need to protect past, present and future generations. theconversation.com/who-speaks-f... #ScienceAndTech

Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints" www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

Africa emerging as a global hub for remote work, with Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Egypt and Ghana anchoring the continent’s remote talent ecosystem. Trend is driven by Africa’s young, tech-savvy workforce, improving internet connectivity & strong English, French and Arabic language skills.

This is a really remarkable piece of writing and in its particulars it describes so, so many people

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

sharing this incredible resource created by a poster in r/boston: a map of local restaurants offering free or discounted meals to SNAP recipients link: mysnapmap.com

CFP for Slavery North conference on "Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution" @umassamherst.bsky.social 7/9-7/12/2026, abstracts due 12/19/2025 #vastearlyamerica slaverynorth.com/event/call-f... 🗃️

This article is incredible and you better believe I'm going to work this into my lectures on first encounters between indigenous people and Columbus when I teach my American history survey next.

The front page of the New York Times is asking if women belong the workplace and @aselrod.bsky.social and @liberalcurrents.com, come through with this. Incredible timing.

Pub day 👑 Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore is officially here! @pantheonbooks.bsky.social A decade-long labor of love, of unearthing an archive said to be lost, building relationships with her family, interviewing those who knew her, and

My queen

This doesn't seem to have quite broken through into the shutdown discourse yet (unlike say SNAP). But as temperatures drop it's going to become a serious issue apnews.com/article/gove...

This is a great piece from @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, who was out all day in NYC reporting. It's about Mamdani but from the perspective of the organizers and volunteers who helped him to victory, and who won't stop organizing to help him carry out his agenda. prospect.org/2025/11/05/n...

In 1989, I saw an exhibition of Rockwell’s civil rights paintings. I knew his work very well, but I had never seen most of these paintings. I stand with his family. This is a misuse of his work. Norman Rockwell’s Family Condemns Homeland Security’s Use of His Work www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/a...

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

It is WILD to see Mira Nair and Prof. Mahmood Mamdani up there with their son the MAYOR-ELECT of New York City

My intellectual elders taught me about the collective effervescence that can come from making good trouble together. What a gift it is, to feel it 🙏

I feel like this is an important aspect to emphasize, loudly, to everyone who endorsed Cuomo. they chose to side with a known sexual predator for personal gain and frankly that should be disqualifying for public office. you knew who he was and decided the women he hurt were acceptable losses