“The VA General Assembly voted to give over half a million public sector workers collective bargaining rights. But not me. I'm an adjunct faculty member who was just left behind to endure the exploitation of higher education.” @abigailspanberger.com, please correct course & add us back in.

a bomb threat and evacuating two libraries but UVA still wants everyone to "continue normal operations." making students walk towards/around the bomb threat to get to class.

*19 months and *fourth threat of violence

UVA Emergency Alert: Avoid the area of Shannon Library Bomb threat reported at Shannon Library 160 McCormick Rd. The building is being evacuated. Avoid the area.

“A university is researchers, it’s graduate assistants, it’s students & that is the beating heart of a university. No one cares more about the university than we do. This is why faculty & graduate assistants need collective bargaining rights.” —Tim Gibson, @aaupvirginia.bsky.social President

Campus unions across Virginia are fighting to ensure their inclusion in pending legislation to repeal the state’s ban on public employees’ collective bargaining rights.

tHe DeMs NeEd tO Be MoRe CuLtUrAlLy NoRmaL

today, unbidden, i remembered an ice breaker question at an event during my postdoc that was "if you could have one thing in infinite abundance, what would it be?" my lovely, smart colleagues said things like "patience" and "creativity." my dumbass poor person brain said "potatoes"

i think this is the first time that i have written multiple FAccT reviews that say "should we be doing this at all?"

Hey #Charlottesville #cville folx. This weekend, Sat Feb 21 from 2-3:30 (with social time afterwards) UCW is hosting a town hall about collective bargaining and keeping UVA honest. Flyer below with an RSVP QR code with more information. Let your folx (esp other unionized folx) know! Tags incoming.

we're hosting a town hall on restoring collective bargaining for public sector workers in virginia! ANY AND ALL encouraged to attend! Sat Feb 21, 2-4pm Charlottesville's a Union Town: Collective Bargaining For All Town Hall. Take action here: actionnetwork.org/forms/charlo...

happy anniversary to me &myself !! six years ago i got a secret bank account &secret apartment &packed up my dogs &left my ex husband. i only get 1/3 the nightmares i used to. i still find joy in doing silly things he wouldn’t let me do (like use chapstick. or wear color. fr) i love my new life 🩷

i am ON THE FLOOR

today is feb 2 and my neighbors' xmas decorations are frozen in 2 ft of ice

dog update: - 17.5 year old: has started eating his own poop, managed to acquire a tick in january - 15 year old: now pees *inside* his water dish at 3am every night - 2.5 year old: found a dead rat yesterday, made me pull it out of his mouth

doing some editing on my book manuscript draft and found that I mistyped “pro bono” as “bro bono” and i need to find some way to make this a thing

i hate the democrats with the heat of a thousand burning suns

New in Books! @kaareeenah.bsky.social on Worn Out and Data Driven. 📚 ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/15365042251377368

i've been at uva for 15 months and this is my third lockdown.

active shooter at UVA, close to our building. i am hiding and terrified. the things this university and its students have had to suffer through. 🩵💜💙

it's really difficult to communicate what it's like to be hungry and not be able to eat bc you have $4 left in your bank account. when there's literally not a single dollar to buy anything to eat. to sit and continue working while starving. to look forward to sleep--at least then you aren't hungry

🎶anything can happen on halloween🎶 🎶has anyone seen my tambourine🎶 youtu.be/SSZYVFc6BqI?...

Another great issue from the @contexts.org crew! Check out @kaareeenah.bsky.social's review of @karenlevy.bsky.social's Data Driven and Madison Van Oort's Worn Out! - journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.... - I really appreciate the part on moving from an either/or to a both/and approach to organizing.

over ONE THOUSAND undergrads, grad students, staff, faculty, alumni, and community members showed up today and *made this happen*. it took a LOT of work. and we did it

we MADE them say no. hours and hours and hours of organizing over a very short period of time made this happen. union power ✊ www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

prepping for class this week on race & tech. can't do last year's class without taking major risks. plan B was to ask students to use gov data to explore a particular issue, but can't do that either because datasets no longer exist/the shutdown means websites aren't working.

oh my goddDDDDDDDDDuhhhhhh

even after all these years of teaching, i still have not figured out how to teach ANT without boring the students to tears

one "little fight" i had with my ex husband involved him squeezing me until i couldn't breathe :) ya know, just lil fights

someone threw up the bat signal!! it's time for me to remind everyone that david brooks thinks poor people are too stupid to understand sandwiches.

hey #4s2025! did you enjoy the panels on technonationalism and technofascism as much as i did? you might also like these panels on the 'network state' that i'm hosting today on tech billionaires' efforts to build successors to the nation state. First @ 1:30, second @ 3:30. Sheraton, Jefferson B!

my entire flight to seattle has been full of people hacking and coughing and wheezing

registering my car in VA this week and i finally found the perfect plate

Here is the acting CDC director discussing health care in a seastead free market:

The United Campus Workers of UVA faculty committee objects to the current presidential search committee, demanding a more representative and transparent process www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

UVA's wall-to wall union, UCWVA at UVA has joined the Faculty Senate, Student Council, Wahoos4UVA, Emeritus faculty, and others in expressing No Confidence in the Board of Visitors. ucwva.org/who-we-are/u...

i have said before that the fracas at UVA is a product, in large part, of a set of alumni who believe that the university was at its greatest when it was a segregated finishing school for white men. i was not exaggerating, as you can see here in this letter from Scott Douglas Gerber

new from the editorial board of the cavalier daily! Shared governance is dying while our Board prospers www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

reminder to not fall for the bullshit. they don't give a shit about "meritocracy" or whatever the fuck www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/11/s...

the most sf bullshit to ever bullshit missionlocal.org/2025/07/phil...

Brown must give the govt * Course evaluations that allege instructor antisemitism * A big new student survey on antisemitism * a detailed and not-meaningfully-anonymized spreadsheet about all reports of discrim on basis of "national origin, including shared ancestry or ethnic characteristics[.]" 6/

"Fundamentally un-American." A group of VC-backed Christian nationalists seeks a theocratic haven in Tennessee. Political control, religious purity tests, talk of civil collapse — and they’re buying up land. This isn’t a drill. This is the Network State. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

~10 years ago sjsu students staged a "faint-in" to bring attention to the fact that there was no air conditioning in the social science building i remember sitting in a qual methods course at 4pm on an august afternoon. the prof had to end class early bc it was legit too hot to continue

"Other politicians might be skittish admitting a chatbot co-wrote their speech or that it helped draft a $5.6 billion budget for the new fiscal year, but Mahan is trying to lead by example..." 💀💀💀💀💀 sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-may...

🫠 www.mercurynews.com/2025/07/17/c...

our dog locked us out of the house. a new rock bottom

this dude, btw, is part of a group of billionaires trying to build a city in the middle of california farmland. despite all their proclamations about building a sustainable, equitable city, *this* is the money driving the project