Ben Sharkey

Nothing can prepare you for the factual basis behind this 'wokeness gone too far' anecdote.

lmao, absolutely wild to see people speculate wildly about the most straightforward and calm biweekly meetings on my calendar

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tracking around 2700 on my books

24 year olds will say the craziest shit. at a dinner tonight a dude said to me “you know, the costco guys? boom boom boom? they work with the rizzler”

actually our AI programs are like people so its racist to say you don't like them. anyway would you like to buy one

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Some problems have simple solutions. This new “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” is one. The answer is simply saying no.

Simple does not mean easy. But Brown, Dartmouth, MIT, Vanderbilt, Univ of AZ, UPenn, USC, UT Austin & UVA must understand what they’ll lose if they sign on.

I mostly agree with this, but more so: Any time spent on saying "they have incoherent politics" is probably better spent saying "what ideology, which policies, what social strategys have produced this violent nihilism, and what analogs do they have historically?"

"We're going to have to learn to live with [radical right wing demagoguery with all its associated violence]" is:

- An abdication of responsibility.

- An abandonment of hope.

- A position only available to those who feel safe enough with an ongoing catastrophe to begin the work of normalizing it

me: clean up your citations, it's easy to do! just a little mindless activity you can do to tidy up a document before you submit and make sure you've dotted your is and crossed your ts! :)

also me: nnnnnoooooOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ah! ah! ah!!!!!!!!!!

A blanket condemnation of "political violence" in our current cultural context is worthless given the ways that any disruption of the status-quo is treated as "violence."

In contrast, Pritzker locating the source of increase in violence in Pres. Trump's ongoing rhetoric attributes a cause.

“oh there’s like a bridge in there”

@asrivkin.bsky.social

we call this list "the reverse knoblauch"

science has been way more about listening to my peers than it was about solving a diff eq fast

my sympathies, and i hope you continue to get the space and time that you need to grieve

Well, let me put this in terms that a scientist might understand: when you throw your colleagues to the wolves, you are training them to expect to be fed

Pointing out how safe DC by showing the low crime rates isn’t going to convince conservatives because “people breaking the actual law” isn’t what they mean by “crime”. To them, “crime” includes merely seeing black people, unhoused people, and anyone else the bigots clutch pearls about as “crime”

hey @asrivkin.bsky.social looks like someone got inspired by the kuiper carborne observatory

In light of the Columbia and Brown deals, I’m bumping these slides again about the Nazi takeover of German science, which includes discussion about how they took over academia, in a manner very similar to the Brown and Columbia deals

Time to unionize

“i couldn’t find a citation for that arithmetic truth”

bruh this shit is comical, “actually r&a is fractionally increasing because we’re killing so many missions!”

let me know if you need a ringo

Sharing this again because too many in higher ed think the appropriate analgesic for this pain is AI.

here’s just a list of numbers

just saw that detail and i’m losing my shit!!!

that airport has like 10 flights a day i mean come the fuck on