Fiona Serrano

i think a lot about how zotero is actually one of the technologies academia actually should be pushing on students and faculty versus the lake-guzzling, town poisoning, and labor exploiting chatbots

to add to this, the women who write abt male perspectives are outdoing men. intermezzo by sally rooney was fantastic and explores the male experience w grace, intersection, and holding them accountable…

The Good Place predicting our current moment:

i found UCLA pants in a thrift store in riga like what a sign

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Check out our newly released special issue, "Reproductive Objects"! Through a collection of stellar articles, it traces the material "stuff" that constitutes the uneven tapestries of power, authority, and knowledge making around human reproduction.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/bul...

u must finish ur ice cream cone before riding public transportation in daugavpils

don’t fuck with people who have access to a sign shop

Eliminating academic programs does not eliminate the need for the expertise those programs produce. Instead those same knowledges and skills will now be the responsibility of increasingly overburdened and underprepared instructors across the institution.

IU's Slavic, Eastern European, and Central Asian programs were among the best in the world, a gem of American academia that nurtured numerous giants, including Stephen Cohen. Now almost all of them are abolished, including PhD programs. What an unmitigated disaster.

MFA returns two stolen works from Benin Kingdom At a ceremony Friday in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in 2013 an...

At a ceremony in New York City, Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts returned two works of art that were stolen from present-day Nigeria more than a century ago. They were donated to the MFA in 2013 and 2018.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

to second this: i dropped out of school and when i returned to university (on my own terms, years later), my grades improved significantly and my future prospects did too !! taking time to do things on ur own terms is so okay!! even if it’s later than the “standard time”

i’m so proud to be a new yorker!!!!

just a hint of the experience (and this can’t even catch the feeling)

just got back from ligo and wow…. the dancing, the music, what a time !!!

Watching the Democratic establishment come together to crush Mamdani while complaining about not being able to inspire young people is just….

Five things to remember about war:

Love this. AI booby traps!

doing historiography again

😭😭😭

the LIRR needs cup holders asap

i have 5 days to decide what books to pack for two months

Help the Humanitarian Research Lab Keep Finding Ukraine’s Abducted Children The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) at Yale helps to locate and bring back Ukraine’s children who have been abducted by Russia. But without additional funding,

One of the worst crimes of Russia’s war is the abduction of children. This Yale lab tracked the kids. Trump and Rubio cut the funding. You can help. Urge Rubio to reinstate the funding — and donate here.
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huge congratulations ray!! 🤩

i saw a commercial for a google certificate that verbatim said that “some degrees are more valuable than others” 🫠

my hometown redid the library and they not only took its character but it doesn’t have nearly as many books as it did.

and all the new books are only available digitally :/

pomeranian

good morning☀️

and just like that… i have a bachelors degree!!!

sinners…. wow so many thoughts