This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

If anyone is at the courthouse in the next few days and wants to get me the complaint and MTD, I will buy you a drink. Caroline Hecker is attorney of record for Hopkins, just to rub in the David-v-Goliath narrative I guess.

So, uh, is Community Law Center doing this pro-bono? If not, where is the money coming from? If so, I wonder how its funders feel about this use of their money on this crank crusade www.wbaltv.com/article/balt...

Credit where due, got a response to my angry letter, acknowledging that this article fell short of the Banner's editorial standards.

It’s like Iran On your wedding day

This is a wild one but they kinda cooked here I think.

Baltimore Banner 2026 🤝 Baltimore Sun 1866 Haven’t the former insurrectionists suffered enough?

"When the government comes down on you, it can destroy your life.” I’d conservatively estimate 5,000 Baltimore residents could say that exact phrase and their story is much more compelling than someone who invaded the Capitol trying to overthrow a free and fair election.

What the actual fuck is the Banner doing here

People say this all the time in BALTIMORE. I can only take it as evidence that they never actually go outside.

Funny to read this, since my computer programmer husband's new hobby appears to be 19th century literature.

This is why we need multimember districts and PR

I need this shirt

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Yesterday Kier Starmer announced Labour will nationalise British Steel, and save 2700 jobs. Today, the Uni of Nottingham put 2700 staff at risk of redundancy. This is just one university. Across the UK 15,000 higher education jobs need saving. Where is the rescue package for our universities?

I honestly find the descriptions in here shocking. I cannot imagine that my colleagues aren't proctoring their in-person exams, or that they're using LLMs to write lectures. I certainly am not! And I see the possibility of meaningful research use, but that's entirely different.

My kid has discovered the joys of Stomp Clap Hey. My house is filled with the sounds of Mumford and Sons. It is 2010 again, but somehow I have a job and a mortgage.

I mean, I don't think *this* is why the NYTimes editors should be part of our future Nuremberg recreation.

The thing that has been so galling about rape denial re: I-P is that sexual violence is incredibly common, *especially* during war or when people are incarcerated, to the point that we should simply assume it is happening full stop.

Now is a good time to start understanding proportional representation, because it is the only way we escape this madness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Never going to stop being weird that the author of The Walking Qur’an is a wrecker politician now

Are we really in the top 2% most free range parents??? This seems implausible to me, kids here start taking the city bus to school at 11!

@thebaltimorebanner.com Awesome way to burn up the goodwill you've spent the last few years creating!

Red states: we’re gonna attack academics for caring about truth Blue states: we’re gonna attack the same academics, but for not supporting the business school

My kid's social studies class is doing a geopolitical strategy game and someone is blockading the Danish straits because Sweden is trying to get nuclear capabilities.

The idea that DEREK PETERSON of all fucking people is some kind of censorious overly PC opponent of free speech is just ludicrous.

This is horrifying, and even more so because Maryland is currently trying to dismantle a program that many families use to avoid placing loved ones in unsafe facilities like this. Self-Directed Services prevents abuse. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

As an academic—in the humanities!—I think this is fine. College seminars gather people together on a regular basis to discuss materials we’ve all read carefully. It can be transformative, and more people should have access to it! But political communication is a fundamentally different format.

Derek Peterson is the most genuinely virtuous person I’ve ever met who is also a successful academic

The original study has one of the weirdest identification methods I have seen in this field.

My in-laws live here.

Derek Peterson stays winning

Simple Boxes with Ornamentation are better than One Box Pretending To Be Lots of Boxes

Associate Professor

Ok but empire was much less contested in metropolitan Britain than Trumpism is in the US right now. There was dissent (for example, the Hastings trial) but not to the same degree. Slavery in the early 19t century is closer—there were many abolitionists! And we remember them

Never in my life have I met a person who likes listening to the sound of their own voice.

what do you mean that in order to "have written" I actually have "to write"

This would be unimaginably devastating.

this is good

Requiring rape victims to produce their ID before getting services, what could go wrong.

It is DEEPLY important to get non-millionaires, non-tech-industry-hacks, and non-Wall-Street people onto Boards of Trustees of Colleges and Universities. I've seen @syed.nyc in action in the Working Families Party and hope you'll vote for him if you're a Wesleyan grad.

I research the real Cape Town Institute of Racial Purity (the South African Mental Hygiene societies), they had to stop promoting IQ testing because rural Afrikaners scored too low and it became too politically controversial.

The next BaltPOP book club will be hosted @redemmas.org on Friday, 4/25 @ 5 PM. We’ll discuss A Pattern Language, an urbanist classic by Christopher Alexander and Murray Silverstein. The book is quite long, but feel free to read excerpts. 🔗 to a selection: groups.io/g/baltpop/sa...

antichrist shit

So Rod Dreher moves to Russia now I guess?

If you find yourself asking why women don't come forward with allegations of sexual assault and harassment I need you to frame the question like this "why are women so unwilling to ruin their own lives?"

If Gallego, Schiff and others knew, and they decided to endorse him anyway, that alone is a scandal.

Was in a college seminar with Kushner, will confirm he is dumb as shit.

Overall this is good, given that the Israeli state has been carrying out crimes against humanity. Pretty worried that the 57% of Republicans under 50 are just groypers, though.