I once listed on my annual activities report the time I spent on things like strategizing with a fellow junior prof about how to avoid her harasser at a conference while still getting to network, etc just to make a point

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Tomorrow @sheffielducu.bsky.social begins four weeks of strike action over the continuous restructuring of programs and departments and threats of compulsory redundancies imposed by university management. We are holding a joint rally with our sister branch at SHU which is facing similar threats.

We all planned never to wear skirts or dresses because we literally had no idea what surface we’d be sitting on. I always had a chair, but still. Yeah. Hotel rooms. You’d sit on that small bench by the 8th fl elevator with some other sad sack. You both look down a dark hall and await the hour.

OMFG. I feel you. Here’s some beautifully written hate. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

Sexual harassment is a productivity tax on women in STEM

can’t say what’s going through my head right now But something about US history, Black women, Native women, and Nazis

yeah, Id be kicking things but also I would raise a HUGE stink in the comments

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

People getting mad here about anyone saying it's good that MTG and Trump are fighting. I teach democratization every semester. The first slide says 'elite fracture.' That's always where it starts. It's good when people with bad politics are fighting one another.

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

Seriously, what is wrong with these people?

Really thankful for this, from @winterjessica.bsky.social—a long-overdue corrective to an exhausting discourse. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Tip on being human for faculty men: Things never to mention to any student, unless directly asked: their clothing, their bodies, their romantic lives. Ever. (Even new hair and outfits, obvious pregnancies, engagement rings, etc.) They will bring it up if they want your opinion. It's not that hard.

Blending Family and Governance, Richard III has his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London and later murdered. Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him. Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.

I truly hope that at least Summers is ruined by this round

I would believe this advice more if it didn’t come from folks who trust Larry Summers

The Wealth of Nations is to history of economics what the French Revolution is to historical sociology (derogatory)

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit

WE WON!!! The US District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a preliminary injunction in AAUP et al v. Trump et al (the wall to wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of Title VI to reshape the University of California system. Read the order here:

8 years of "What is a woman?" and now it turns out that the comeback was "define a child"

“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

good reporting and i’m grateful for it but also duh

one reason for "elite" as a category of analysis is to account for this flavor of thing. Nuzzi may not herself be a titan of industry or heiress to a ketchup fortune or whatever, but she's getting the impunity treatment because she's invited to those people's parties

Hooray! @authorsabb.bsky.social is *OFFICIALLY* a nonprofit, and is now open for donations! For the last two years we've been doing all this w free tools, or paying out of pocket, & we were STILL able to get SO MUCH DONE. Imagine what we could do with $$$ www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/donate/

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

Happening now: clergy protest ICE detention center in Chicago. “Why are you still here? Greg Bovino already left.” “It’s an internment camp…no medicine…toilets don’t work”

We had a group of about 1,100 respondents in a prob-based online panel answer this question in 2021, and again 4 years later in 2025. The responses are very stable.

This is out today in open access, and while it's very much a methodology piece, I think it's really important to building the foundation for how we move forward with understanding the role of gender in politics.

Ofc, no one brought this up to me until AFTER congress called for my head. They destroyed every university in Palestine & the careers of many pro-Palestinian professors. They are now weaponizing a student customer mindset (cultivated for decades) to destroy DEI, LGBTQ & general academic freedom

This is what happened to me: a few students in a course called “Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames of War” thought the class should not include discussions of sex at all or the war in Palestine. If you were silent on anti-Palestine speech, you helped bring this fascism to everyone

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Something funny about Larry Summers musing about how clever he was in calling women dumb while asking Mr Sex Crimes about how to run game

On principle I simply don’t endorse wishing violence on people, especially as a public joke. For a host of reasons including how wishing violence on people changes the *wisher*. On this point I think people should be careful for *spiritual* reasons, whether or not it’s simply expedient.

So I think that the level of “careful” we “have to” be is shifting and there’s a limit to how much you can control for this. Like you’re gonna get written up now for calling a proud white supremacist a white supremacist. We are in stupid town now. That said:

Been thinking about how it is increasingly tough to safely vaguepost. I wrote a vaguepost two years ago that was about the President of Harvard and student protestors and got written up in the conservative press as pro Hamas violence. You have to assume people will twist anything you say.

I was told there was a crisis of free speech on campus that must be reversed

Glad to see Congress is doing everything in its power to guarantee China’s position as the new hegemonic power. If they didn’t have incentives to go on a shopping spree of US scientists, they’ve got them now.

Just buried in a paragraph and not highlight with a visual or anything: total global energy emissions WOULD BE 7% HIGHER if we had chosen to sit around and do nothing about this shit OUR ACTIONS MAY BE INSUFFICIENT BUT THEY ARE NOT FRUITLESS THERE ARE 2600000000000000 GRAMS OF FRUIT EVERY YEAR

And nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, physicians assistants— this is very bad and needs to be stopped.

“The bottom line is that Cornell is trying to appease the bully. It has missed an historic opportunity to emerge on the world stage as a principled leader of academic freedom and the rule of law — a much sounder investment in its long-term prestige and institutional security.”

I continue to congratulate the @nytimes.com for giving equal opportunity to mediocre and gutless white men (and women, am I right Maggie?)

In between things I've been checking in on the emails that mention "university" and uhh did we all know about this connection?