www.france24.com/en/live-news... French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol: "Because of Elon Musk's actions... Tesla branded vehicles have become strong political symbols and now appear to be veritable extreme-right totems." @teslatakedown.com #teslatakedown

New special issue co-edited by Armelle Blin-Rolland, Martín Veiga and myself, out now!

🌿 A new special issue of Journal of Romance Studies explores how language teaching & research can address ecological crises. Featuring global voices, eco-pedagogies & cultural insights. Read more: bit.ly/ECOMODLANG @ilcs.bsky.social @erieriverbirch.bsky.social‬ @eedgington.bsky.social #envhum ‬

Mark my words: today will be revealed as a pivot point in the relationship between Trump and Vance. It’ll be recognized as the first moment when Vance did significant bet hedging with his silence and Trump noticed and it became A Thing between them over time.

_Drawing (in) the Feminine_ has been shortlisted for a 2025 CCS award for Best Edited Book. 🎉 It’s available open access through the Ohio State University Press website—check it out!

Big dogs on campus here at Florida State.

God bless historians. How else would we know what shit we’re in

On the first World Glacier Day the evidence is alarming: 🧊 2023 saw a record annual mass loss of global glaciers 🗻 The years with the largest global glacier mass loss have all occurred since 2019 🌊 Estimates indicate the 2023 mass loss contributed ~1.7 mm to global mean sea level rise #glacier 🧪⚒️🌏

Robyn Denholm, who presides over the board of Tesla, has been so generously compensated in that role that a shareholder lawsuit forced her to return part of her fortune, and a judge criticized her for approving a record-setting payout for chief executive Elon Musk reut.rs/41QWX21 1/5

SICKENING—Trump’s DHS just deported a surgeon from Brown—who is here legally on an H1B visa that doesn’t expire until 2027, & committed no crimes. Trained in the U.S. at Ohio State, University of Washington, and Yale as a **transplant surgeon**, she is a highly trained doctor on kidney transplants.

🇫🇷 French MEP Raphael Glucksmann calls for the US to return the Statue of Liberty, claiming America no longer upholds the values it was gifted for. “We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.” www.france24.com/en/france/20...

Massachusetts Rep. Keating SLAMS rethuglican for harassing Congresswoman McBride. www.masslive.com/politics/202...

51 so ... "nice." Nice point one, to be precise.

okay what is this obsession with the "faculty lounge" in the American and British media? Have y'all had a look at the state of most higher ed institutions? At my last job, they ripped out the phone in my office to save money.

Al Green after he was THROWN out of chambers: “I was making it clear to the President that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid” "It is the best way to get it across to a person who uses his incivility, who uses his incivility against our civility. " #SOTU

More simply put, this means gender-affirming care providers nationwide will continue to receive federal funding, pending further litigation. It's great news.

Hundreds present at Ohio State protests against the university’s “sunsetting” of the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and against SB1, the “Higher Education Destruction Act”…

Love this! Today’s the day! It’s just the beginning. United we stand, divided we fall. It was nice that a bunch of people asked me if they could use my poster like this.

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

NEW: A first-of-its-kind analysis by @propublica.org found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% after Texas’ near-total abortion ban went into effect in September 2021. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

AAUP Statement “Against Anticipatory Obedience” www.aaup.org/file/Against...

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024. You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right? Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year. You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

“That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”

Very moving @nhpr.bsky.social interview with a Jan 6er from Keene, NH, who rejected Trump’s pardon and sounds like he has grown tremendously in 4 years. “One thing I did not believe in was change before this experience…And now I believe change is necessary for survival.” www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...

A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

May we all go through the world with the joy of a small spaniel in snow.

Campus droids now have blinking eyes!

Choosing hope for the new year.

Okay one more. I love this energy from the young Dems.

Little dog, big snores

Dogs on the go

"The world's second-largest battery maker BYD has managed to develop a sodium-ion battery pack covering all the requirements for a grid-level battery energy storage system (BESS) like long cycle life, while at the same time offering high energy density." Storage is the fossil fuel killer. 🥷

Ça s’invente pas…

Lancer le "blagues Friday" >> faire des jeux de mots au lieu de vendre des écrans plats >> renverser le capitalisme.

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

Notre-Dame de Paris : le travail colossal des artisans se dévoile. www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/patr...

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Those of us in #HigherEd & #AcademicSky know how bad Elsevier is but this piece goes deeper on the data they collect, including keystrokes, from researchers. ukrant.nl/magazine/els...

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