Erin Templeton

If your holiday travel plans involve flying, it might be a good time to start making backup plans.

UC to Stop Funding Systemwide Postdoc Program Established in 1984 to encourage women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academia, the program has attracted right-wing criticism for prioritizing diverse candidates.

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Okay, I am tooting my horn because this book includes
- stuff about sheriff elections and civilian oversight and why they dont work
- a whole chapter about the push on the right to criminalize voters (which is what Trump's threat of a voting executive order does)

Blue pit bull puppy hidden in a pile of blankets so that only his eyes and nose are visible

Same, buddy. Same.

Assistant Professor Digital Arts, Game Arts 2026 (71102) The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in Game Arts at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in Fall 2026. The successful ca...

Come work with me!



We've opened the search for a full time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Game Arts at Pratt Institute.



A good match would be an artist, game developer, or educator with an active creative practice in indie games, game studies and theory, playful coding, or art games.

I bought Halloween candy at Costco this afternoon, thereby guaranteeing the usually modest turnout will be non-existent this year. Follow me for more life tips🎃

Hey @matthewlevay.bsky.social —You did a great job as MSA program chair—it was a great conference—THANK YOU! ❤️💙💛 @moderniststudies.bsky.social

I'm rereading To the Lighthouse.

“Not as oneself did one find rest, ever, in her experience (she accomplished here something dexterous with her needles) but as a wedge of darkness”

I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things.

One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.

Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

the whale beyond also rose

I love a good Ramsay provocation!!!

As a gym girlie… 😬😬😬

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

I think about digital security in the age of autocracy a lot. This thread from 7 months ago needs some updating and grain. I am especially concerned about folks working in higher education, most of whom are still in denial as to the degree to which they are being surveilled.

Shar pei in CONNECTIONS and WORDLE in 2. I’m out for the rest of the day.

States where you can get a COVID vaccine at CVS following RFK Jr. changes HHS Secretary RFK Jr. announced new limits on who is eligible for COVID vaccines on Wednesday.

Guess what America? Even with RFK's harmful misinformation and mismanagement of CDC, 76% of you can get vaxed because you're overweight BMI > 25. Thank you CVS for publishing your vaccine availability. www.axios.com/2025/08/29/c.... CDC's risk factors for severe CoVID: www.cdc.gov/covid/risk-f...

[sings softly] i see your truuuu colors, shining through.....

Not sorry that I canceled this subscription. 🫠

He literally jumps into my arms every morning when I let him out of the crate. It’s going to get awkward as he keeps growing 🥴😬🥰

Blue pit puppy not impressed but resting on my leg

Blue pit puppy sitting and looking at the camera, still not impressed

Blue pit puppy fell asleep mid yoga pose and I can’t understand how he is comfortable

Linus weighed in at 30lbs this weekend. He is growing so fast!! But ngl—I am really looking forward to the end of his Baby Shark era.

the question is no longer "if" RFK will kill people but how many orders of magnitude he will kill before he is stopped

“Prasad overruled dozens of career scientists to limit Covid vaccine approvals three times in the past few months”

Here are the Lehigh Valley’s largest employers. Gonna be great for post-industrial economic development when all the hospitals, the school districts, local federal offices, & Lehigh & Lafayette have mass layoffs due to the dismantling of the entire federal government.

I'm not sure if I already shared this:

Here the WSJ states plainly Trump’s retribution presidency is “worse than we imagined.”

No one had to imagine anything. He said he would do this. All you had to do was listen.

⚖️ The Supreme Court is about to decide if the Voting Rights Act itself is unconstitutional.

This isn’t just Louisiana. This could erase Black and brown representation nationwide.

Without the Voting Rights Act, there is no democracy.

Co-sign.

Will be hard to explain in the future that the US government went antivax, causing a lot of avoidable suffering and death, not in response to any negative incident with vaccines, but to the biggest, fastest, most successful, most impressive vaccine rollout in history.

This is an important debate worth having, one that challenges a lot of American traditions and instincts about how to move past our most divisive moments.