Postdoc at Cornell! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30459

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Remember that state seats are what determine how gerrymandered the 435 house districts are and who that gerrymandering favors So state elections should be an urgent priority

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

we are aware of the situation

It’s all less confusing when you remember that anger at insurance companies is a bipartisan sentiment. news.gallup.com/poll/4708/he...

Paging @michaelhobbes.bsky.social www.goodreads.com/review/list/...

Not to undercut the seriousness of climate change putting humans and polar bears in dangerous proximity to each other, but Canada Man stories are way more badass than Florida Man stories.

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

Brian Eno on AI: “For me, using AI all too often feels like I’m engaging in a socially useless process, in which I learn almost nothing and then pass on my non-learning to others.” www.bostonreview.net/forum_respon...

Finally finished The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley by @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social and am now dreaming about a better world where it would be optioned for a limited series.

Honestly once you learn to read the world through Moby-Dick, it takes over your brain I get why my grandpa wrote a whole book about it while he was incarcerated press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This is such an incredible, riveting read.

I got nothing, but 'tis a worthwhile cause.

Deep in Letter of Recommendation season and the superlative well runneth dry.

White people, it’s not enough to not be racist. Y’all need to HATE racism like Kendrick Lamar hates Drake. Commit to the goddamned bit.

L just now: Mom, whenever I say something I don’t mean to say, I cover my ears until I forget about it. I am absolutely going to try this.

Ithaca monoculture

Very smash-and-grab sounding. Big payday at the outset followed by a total collapse in which these guys still make enough money for it to be “worth it.”

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

finally a reasonable take

Basically every right/center right pundit’s entire take on extremely online progressives. “They’re so annoying so I’ll just hang with the destroy everything crowd.”

Interested in archival research at the Melville Society Archive in the Research Library of the New Bedford Whaling Museum? Nov. 30th is the deadline to apply for our Walter E. Bezanson Archive Fellowship! Find out more at www.melvillesociety.org/walter-e-bez...

Special issue of LEVIATHAN is out! I'm back on my Melville and haunting BS with my essay "The Ghost of of Anarcharsis Cloots." Many thanks to the editors Thomas Constantinesco, Ronan Ludot-Vlasak, and Édouard Marsoin for including me in this issue. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53762

Pleased to report that I’ve reached the stage of parenting where instead of immediately thinking FML when my kid started puking this evening, I thought “oh good let’s get this out of the way this week instead of next week when we’ll be traveling.”

The greatest love story never told is the unrequited yearning of the centrist Democrat for the disaffected Republican. It's a love that can move mountains, or at the very least, keep David Brooks and Bret Stephens employed.

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Is it weird that I deleted instagram and then immediately signed up for this?

Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping. thedialjournal.org

L now enjoys parallel reading as a weekend activity and it is GLORIOUS

Lots of discussion on The Hellsite about the new Adam Jentleson piece blaming Harris's loss on progressive groups. In case anyone is interested, here's the response I offered

From the headline to the photo caption (STOP THE STEAL, I am quite dead) all the way down to the FOOTNOTES, I am quite literally gasping for air please call 911 @hunterh.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hunterha...

There was a concerted effort in the 1980s-90s to dissuade the government from acting on AIDS by blaming not a virus but the "gay lifestyle," be it drugs or "promiscuity." If it's caused by a virus, it necessitates a public response. If it's caused by a lifestyle, then it's just individualized risks.

Love StoryGraph!

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