The obituaries for our dear friend and colleague Robin have been posted. I still can’t find the words to mark her passing beyond sharing my deep grief and sadness. sociology.sas.upenn.edu/news/2026/07...

His hatred of women has really been overlooked and undercovered. Among other things Graham voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act, against equal pay, repeatedly pushed abortion bans, and was viciously cruel to Christine Blasey Ford.

Here is Graham gloating about "killing all the right people." Just in case you see anyone try to do the whole "we should have decency for the dead" nonsense.

Lindsay Graham was, I think, one of the most contemptible figures in US politics, a titan of respectable bipartisan foreign policy for years who displayed no principles, no insight, and no beliefs beyond a gleeful and vicarious love of violence. An indictment of every institution he served in. RIP.

World class legionnaires on display at the Gugg until further notice.

Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Surprisingly not fake news.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Meanwhile, they didn't turn off the lights in Times Square

Join Anita Varma, author of SOLIDARITY IN JOURNALISM: HOW ETHICAL REPORTING FIGHTS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE at Bookpeople in Austin on Saturday, July 18th at 2 pm for their Local Author Spotlight! bit.ly/3RcsvOE @bookpeople.com @anitawrites.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Today, the SUNY University Faculty Senate Executive Committee approved this urgent call to action. Please share widely. It includes the most current and comprehensive compendium of opposition to OMB’s proposed rule attacking research for the public good we could compile. hdl.handle.net/1951/89039

This month's bonus episode is about the humiliating decline of The Washington Post, which has culminated in the launch of a podcast that is worse than you could possibly imagine.

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

MEL BROOKS IS ALIVE PLEASE BEAR THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU SEE BIRTHDAY POSTS ABOUT HIM TODAY I REPEAT MEL BROOKS IS VERY MUCH ALIVE

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.

New at PB: Founding editor Caitlin Zaloom interviews author and scholar @ninabandelj.bsky.social about her new book “Overinvested: The Emotional Economy of Modern Parenting” (@princetonupress.bsky.social), the latest installment in our partnership with @casbsstanford.bsky.social.

“New Yorkers are just in a really great place right now in terms of the hope that we’re feeling. Feeling that there is possibility for our futures, that there’s hope in terms of our political outlook and our personal outlook. The things that we need to lead happy & dignified lives feel within reach”

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University is hiring both Assistant Professors and Associate Professors. Assistant Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Associate Professor: international.au.dk/about/profil... Please share these opportunities with your networks!

Listen! Christina Williams talks to @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about the brilliant "Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK" newbooksnetwork.com/work-of-fict...

I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

Chaka Khan and her band doing "Ain't Nobody" here is life-affirming. I love how she slurs through the verses, slipping all over the beat, just kinda toying with it; the density of the performers is the primary rhetorical moves of Tiny Desk, and here it adds so much youtu.be/Gse1LKXuV2M?...

Rolling Stone, July 1973: Davis ousted from CBS amid payola scandal (obviously he skated)

”Juneteenth Has Always Been About Black Liberation” by Kaitlyn Greenidge for Harper’s Bazaar. An oral history, as told by members of the Winston-Salem Chapter of The Black Panther Party. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

'It is hard to overstate the role that higher education needs to play. Three-quarters of people working in the creative industries have degrees, and the jobs the audits suggest will be in greatest demand – software developers, designers, advertising executives, architects – are highly skilled.'

Boston airport was Little Scotland today.

RIP Abdullah Ibrahim. This ended up being his last album, in 2024, and it’s rarely been out of rotation on my various devices since it came out.

Excited to share some of my initial work on looking at museums metadata as historical archive. I peeped into the metadata from The Met to look at the history of collecting South Asian object there. Read more: www.deepthimurali.com/art-history-... #arthistory #digitalhistory

The 1991 documentary on New York City drag queen ball culture and their houses "Paris is Burning" is available on Youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ7r...

Also: the guerrilla watch party explosion is the greatest. Vernacular NYC street culture at its most idyllic. The city Bloomberg tried to kill

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

If every billionaire is a policy failure, a trillionaire is 1000 policy failures in a trenchcoat.

Postdoc Opportunity British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-27 University of Warwick - Faculty of Arts Must be a UK/EEA national, have completed their doctorate at a UK uni, or have a strong prior association with the UK academy. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRW736/b...

I just met a Frenchman who perfected his English in Austin, and there’s just nothing more jarring than a heavy Texan drawl/French speech pattern.

Who really runs Britain — and why do they insist they're just ordinary? Great fun convo withLSE profs @samfriedman.bsky.social & @aaronreeves.bsky.social authors of Born to Rule with @peteryork.bsky.social on his Peter York's Culture Wars House Party Podcast 🎧 podfollow.com/peter-yorks-...

They literally met in the Situation Room to come up with a defense for the President of the United States raping children.

WashU and Vanderbilt AAUP chapters have issued a *joint* statement on the "State of Scholarship in the Humanities" report commissioned by our university leadership. bpb-us-e2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl....

This is so tremendous. Really, why did we have to wait so long for an elected official to put people first?

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

I learned about this app last week: libraryscout.app Find free classes, workshops, clubs, and events happening at a NYC public library near you.

We're hiring! Tenure track assistant professorship in Entrepreneurship and Societal Impact in the Dept. of Business Humanities & Law, Copenhagen Business School. We are very history/historian friendly. If you want to know more about the dept. drop me a line - email online. www.cbs.dk/om-cbs/job-o...

Wu-Tang Clan's halftime show performance that lifted the Trump curse. *I had to cut a few seconds to fit the limit #nbafinals

FBI raids across multiple states targeting anti-genocide on Palestinians organizing in Michigan - protest at noon at federal court 231 W. Lafayette, please share widely!

Wake up. Come to Bluesky and see all of these posts about Belfast. Go to NYT app to see what happened and no story no matter how far I scroll. No wonder it seems like we are all living different realities.