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Make space for yourself to do things that have nothing to do with the dissertation. It’s a daunting task that can take a lot of mental, spiritual, emotional, and physical energy even when you love it, so you need to constantly re-up on other things that fill your cup. ❤️

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas House falls short of quorum after Democrats leave state to prevent Trump-backed redraw of US House maps.

I actually think it’s a good thing that there are people who devote their working lives to studying something that may only be of interest to a small number of people, who get on here with great excitement and say “I nerded the heck out of this for three years, I’m proud of me, read my article!”

me: marks a message unread because I don’t have the energy to reply now and I need to remember to reply to it later

me, 3 seconds later: ooooh a new message!

I am not surprised in the least 🙃

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looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception."
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Now that Trump forced the Smithsonian to take down an exhibit on his two impeachments, here is a photo I took for posterity.

Picture of text from Christina Cogdell's book Eugenic Design. Text reads: "External Beauty depends upon Internal Order," the copy began, stressing that the Camp support, like all good designs, "goes far deeper than superficial figure moulding." Targeting women with "[n]atural obesity, poor posture, fatigue, strains, prolapses, muscular weakness, maternity" as those most in need of the "aid of a Camp Support," the advertisement claimed the girdle would bring true beauty, inside and out, by using the Transparent Woman (Figure 5.10) as if it were a simultaneous projection of the torsos of both the Venus de Milo and a "modern" woman. Through its use, such women could transform their figures into both the Greek ideal of beauty and the ideal Caucasian model, whose figure epitomized a eugenic body as envisioned by its creators in Dresden.'

…Christina Cogdell ('Eugenic Design' 2004) demonstrates how these ideas & narratives around a "right kind" of body show up in product ads & pop culture & how they then co-create a cultural framework in which every piece of shiny technoscientific "innovation" since the 19th c. has eugenic resonances…

Problem is, not enough of y'all realized it has never once STOPPED being "eugenics summer," and when some of us tried to tell you it's woven through literally everything in Western society from our public health policies to even our basic linguistic conventions, you looked at us like we had 3 heads.

Miss Rachel Instagram post: I posted a photo of a severely malnourished child in Gaza. Some have tried to discredit the horror by the new information that he has pre-existing health problems. Let's be clear: Starving a child who is sick doesn't make it less horrific. They are being denied healthy food and medical care. Another girl named Rahaf, 12, who also had medical conditions and was severely malnourished is doing so much better now that she was evacuated. Fadi, who has CF, also gained weight when evacuated treated. Every child deserves to be fed, loved, and cared for. No exceptions.

As usual, Miss Rachel said it better than me.

bender and bender from futurama standing next to each other with the words doooomed Alt: bender and bender from futurama standing next to each other with the words doooomed

I’ve been in an academic slump since finishing the book draft. I don’t feel like writing anything new, don’t feel like analyzing data I have, don’t feel like doing anything academic-y. Is this normal? Will it end? Am I doomed? 😅

Trump Administration Puts New Chokehold on Billions in Health-Research Funding The National Institutes of Health can’t award grants to outside researchers under a new White House restriction.

NEW
The White House is blocking the NIH from awarding new research grants for the rest of the fiscal year

Chokes off billions in research funding

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Only 30 min until #literacies chat! Come let your voice be heard as we discuss Engaging Race Analytics #Literacies: Pathways for Interdisciplinary Conversations.

I think the public could use a journalistic explanation of the types of people that typically comprise university boards. I’d imagine most think it’s just professors and academics which is far from accurate.

Boards of Trustees ***LIKE*** the Trump demands. They ***AGREE*** with them.

They like the idea of putting the screws on activist, lefty, and Muslim students. They like the idea of a whiter student body and conservative curriculum. They want these things and think $200 million is a fair price.

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I'm excited to share the cover and release date of Book #2, #EdgeOfSpaceTime, which is now available for PREORDER!!

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Trump is like please hate these Black people. don’t worry about the Epstein files. you all hate Black people, remember?

Midnight Mystics: An Anthology of Fantasy Comics By Black W A comic anthology featuring ten fantasy stories from Black women creators.

We now need $4825 to publish the first all Black women fantasy graphic novel anthology from @burningphoenixpr.bsky.social We are almost there! Please less than 5k now with 13 hours left #sdcc #comicbooks #Blackbooksky www.kickstarter.com/projects/844...

Literacy Narrative How To Step 1: Students read 2 of 4 examples of literacy narratives for main idea, key details, and literacy narrative features (aka what types of details they use to tell their story). The purpose here is f...

This Literacy Narrative Project is one of the first essays we create in Composition 1.

@heymrsbond.com you could definitely simplify this for your 4 week class!

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I got mine early just in case

You can now Venmo the government to help pay off national debt The Treasury will accept Venmo payments from taxpayers who want to contribute to lowering the debt.

America really said we’re gonna turn fiscal policy into a cash app" and honestly the rebrand from "taxation" to "slide into our Venmo DMs" is kind of brilliant 🫠

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investigating Cracker Barrel for being too woke is genuinely beyond parody

The Disordered Cosmos

If you've liked any of my posts on Bluesky, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book!

And if my posts have really pissed you off, please consider grabbing a copy of my first book and hate reading it! 😘

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Remember when scholars of authoritarianism told us he would go after his political opponents, unions, academia, and the media and people were like, “But Tim Walz got the date wrong from when he was in Tiananmen Square?”

Hoping to tap into collective thinking from the #EduSky brain trust: What activities do you use or in what ways have you built rapport with students in online-only courses?

Nope

So excited!!!!!