The obit’s a little generous about 1953 but tbh is much more direct on his odiousness than I would have expected www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

Goodnight to Jim Watson, the man whose grandiose statements about the genome lured me to grad school to better understand the public authority of science in America

We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE MUST CREDIT: Lunch for jurors in the “sandwich guy” trial are a variety of sandwiches, according to a source familiar with lunch.

ALL Haymarket EBooks are 80% off through November 7th ✊🏾✊🏿✊🏽

They have now changed it to “Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace”

Is today the day I cancel the NYT? Or would that be ruining a workplace?

tfw you remember the sounds of a cat barfing woke you up at 4am, but there was no sign of cat barf when you got up at 6am

It’s wild to me that Schumer reps NEW YORK

Wow. Just wow all around. Way to get it done, 2025 electorate

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

This is an incredible and very specific hater energy substack.com/home/post/p-...

A year ago you would not convince me that People magazine would be the last mainstream outlet left opposing fascism

Suckiest awesome baseball ever

peak baseball is indistinguishable from the feeling of hitting your head against a cement wall

“does canada do daylight savings the same day the us does” and other things I find myself surprised to be googling at midnight in November

An Air Canada flight right now

Gotta remember to allow time to reserve all the butterfingers for my own consumption before the trick or treaters pass through

Real “let them lick marble” energy from the WH today

Can confirm non-GSE alum also received the email on GSE letterhead (I received it twice)

I will never forget my conversation with a first-book author who told me she had been advised to focus her book’s conclusion on the core concept of the next one

Between the dual home runs, the rookie pitcher, and the Twin Peaks theme this game is a delight

And I thought the nuke news was dystopian

My only regret about turning in at the bottom of the 6th is that I missed your deranged 2 am baseball skeets

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

A risk of academics thinking that showing up for work and teaching and writing needed critical stuff is politics is that many of us are unprepared to fight and organize for ourselves as workers, including when the critical stuff we're doing is politically targeted.

If I announce my newfound commitment to eating breakfast here, will it stick? Grant me strength as I double down on overnight oats

"Presumably, he longs for the time when the biggest gatekeeper was Pamela Paul." 😬 Not to be someone who reads a review and thinks "yeah that book seemed sketch" but I'm grateful to this reviewer for doing this work b/c "That Book Is Dangerous" seemed sketch. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Getting 10 people in a room to try to work on something together is HARD in 2025. And if you haven't done this, you won't know how hard. I think everyone who can should try to get 10 people in a room together to do something. It is deeply humbling.

At what point do we acknowledge that Johnson has effectively dissolved Congress?

Harvard boldly maintaining its elite status by producing fewer PhDs, publishing fewer books, and rarely to never tenuring its faculty www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Take it from Pennsylvanians, supposedly lefty guys who lead with I AM MANLY are trouble

Delco is not “rural America,” WTAF

The men playing snooker at a southern Indiana pool room at 7:30 am this morning wanted to talk about how awful the president is and how JD Vance is a hypocrite. If you’ve lost the crowd at Crickets, you’ve lost the country.

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Folks are asking what to do about the One Special Boy's AI vids and whether they should share them: MOCK THEM WITHOUT SHARING. This creates what an enthymeme, where readers have to SUPPLY PART OF THE REFERENT to understand what you are mocking. An enthymeme is the STRONGEST form of persuasion.

Something maybe worth noting is that all the frog costumes and signs and good-natured memeing came about because a wide spectrum of Americans saw someone in direct, brave confrontation with ICE—getting pepperballed and standing their ground—and thought “that’s awesome. That person is a hero”

Student media rules. They are lapping a lot of the spineless media orgs this year and showing how solidarity is the way.

Here’s a block list: bsky.app/profile/did:...

block this shit

Alondra Nelson Former Director White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, talked about how her military family and background always instilled the duty to serve — no matter the political party. Then she explained why she ultimately ended up having to leave. #STATSummit

First time in awhile Penn has chosen wisely. May more good decisions follow.

Spread the word! #SaveUT!! UT Austin admin are working to eliminate vital departments and censor what profs can teach. If you haven’t yet written to UT Austin admin, please do do do. The more voices of protest and support the better. An attack on one is an attack on all!

you show me the most screamingly opposed reader reports and I WILL insist they’re not irreconcilable and are actually pushing if not for the same then for complementary ends

My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!

“By mistake”

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.