Do no research + spew propaganda = get promoted 👍

I feel a certain perverse pride that our teaching, research, and unfettered free inquiry represent such a threat to these freaks that they would perceive the urgency of micromanaging & hollowing it out in this way. I'm not, like, *happy* about it, but it does inspire some determination to persist.

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

I would be soooo interested in reading a long essay by Ta-nehisi Coates or Eve Ewing about what happened on the way to Kirk's attempted canonization. To me this was one of the most interesting things of the year on multiple levels. It's rich text starting with calling his killing an "assassination."

We lose so much when everything is individually catered to such an extreme degree. I didn't think news could be defined as exactly and only what we think we want to hear. If we agree that polarization and isolation are pressing social issues, then we need to change course, not accelerate.

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I want a Google scholar wrapped. How many times did i look up the same article? How many times did I download the same paper? Wait what was that paper again. Let me check.

Today is the 1-yr anniversary of my book's publication date! *Abolition Time* was released by @uminnpress.bsky.social on Dec 10, 2024 ✨ If you'd like to write a review of the book and want to know how to acquire a copy, feel free to reach out! I may be able to point you to a journal! Also: (1/3)

Y'all, I was in Mississippi today for my nephews J-State graduation and got this when I opened Blue Sky

I have supported Nurse Hammam. Please join me.

This: “they [the students] also have to care about themselves, enough to believe in their own significance.”

“Never trust a professor who makes their grad students pay for their own food or coffee.” -the immortal Chris Krueger, sending me off to grad school

Girlalala, a 21-year old Black transgender social media influencer, was shot to death Friday in Lauderdale Lakes, Florida. She was in a car with her boyfriend, 25-year-old Shanoyd Whyte Jr., at the time, and they had been arguing.

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...

No secret that I'm a huge @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social fan. This piece is tough, important, and excellent. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-big-shou...

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

Power in unions! HACC faculty Stand together, win! #academicsky

I wasn't following Kat's campaign before but now I absolutely will. What a nice viral campaign ad she just created for her enemy.

Our beloved Alice Wong has joined the ancestors. It was one of the great honors of my life to call Alice my friend, co-author & co-conspirator. She was a true genius, a force of nature the likes of which the world has never seen before. I love you, Alice, and am equal parts grateful and devastated

Come to NYC this summer for sociology and so much more! Network with colleagues, walk the Brooklyn Bridge, and ride the Cyclone at Coney Island. The online portal for the ASA 2026 Annual Meeting is open for submissions until Feb. 25: https://bit.ly/ASA26portal. More info: https://bit.ly/ASA2026.

"Too often, defendants in cases stemming from moments of mass activation are abandoned by those who cheered the actions of resistors during the heat of a movement moment. We must not allow that to occur. No one should be facing charges for acting in opposition to ICE..."

llps.substack.com/p/alice-wong.... what is remembered lives. @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social and me wrote our assess off on our Crips for eSims memory song for our beloved @sfdirewolf.bsky.social . #AliceForever

Shameful

This being the last post Alice made for herself makes me incredibly sad. We need more spaces for us. We need more places where voices like Alice’s are uplifted so that others can learn from the wisdom that needs to be shared.

The writing I want to read on this week’s file dump is from a (former?) sex worker because I think they likely offer a unique point of view on powerful people’s relationship to people (including minors) they perceive as sex toys and sex servants

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

A few days ago, I saw this lengthy Reddit rant about peer review (sure, valid). It was supposedly someone from Harvard refusing to do any peer reviews to protest the system (hm, less valid). I did a peer review recently. It took a lot of time. AND it helped me see my work differently. #AcademicSky

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized... 🧵

i know that there is an overwhelming number of things that we have historically taken for granted and now have to pay attention to and care about all of a sudden, but i am begging you to pay attention to and care about this, too.

Realizing that I appreciate seeing all of your shocked and outraged responses to this, because coming out of Indiana has desensitized me more than I'd realized... 🧵

Unclear, of course. See this ongoing Indiana case as an example. indianapublicradio.org/news/2025/11...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The cruelty of this order to reverse SNAP distribution is insane.

Well I've been living under a rock (but maybe that's what finishing a dissertation is) because I had no idea #NaNoWriMo was gone. They've faced plenty of issues, but I've done Nanowrimo off and on since 2015. What a loss. #writing #writingcommunity lithub.com/nanowrimo-is...

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Darn I thought the spicy take would be a critique of #AcWriMo that would let me off the hook. #AcademicSky

Realizing 3 days in that it's #NaNoWriMo/ #AcWriMo! A writing challenge does wonders to motivate my lizard brain... but this year, I really need to think through what would actually be sustainable for me. Any ideas for adapting/scaling NaNoWriMo welcome!

Thinking of this bsky.app/profile/ubiq...

Revisiting Kaba's "We Do This 'Til We Free Us" as my race & ethnicity class heads into our policing & prisons unit. It's one of my favorite units because while there are still no easy solutions, there's so much to learn from ongoing abolitionist organizing.

The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev

Mutual aid should be a threat to the state, not a substitute for its “failures.” It is saying “the state does not do this & will not do this because it is built to oppress & exploit.” Mutual aid is a radical act of caring for each other outside of those systems of oppression.

"Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to fund SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown." apnews.com/live/donald-...

This could happen in front of any of us at any time. We can't afford to only bear witness. Look up your local immigrant justice organization. Do the Know Your Rights trainings. Take bystander intervention training (any kind can help). We outnumber them, always. www.beluminus.org/bystander/

Piecing together what's happening in this baseball game using only shocked bluesky posts. It's sounding pretty exciting.

A+ post. In a related vein, I wish people would also consider the ways in which Islamophobic tropes also contribute to and reinforce antisemitism as well. That's not good for Jews either, in the long run!

I couldn't be more on board with this. Focusing on corruption/fraud/misconduct at the level of individual scientist appears to be misguided and counterproductive when systemic forces and selection biases are at play. This appears to be true even beyond the context of industry manipulation.

What shapes immigrant youth’s political interest—identity or opportunity? Across Europe, @madem2876.bsky.social's and coauthor Patricia McManus's findings point to the enduring power of resources over ethnicity. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....