Colin J. Beck

I once made this very same point to our dumb dean who is now president of Reed College and she stared at me with glassy eyes.

Senior Senators don’t even know it’s Saturday until the dinner soup arrives.

The Atlas penalty.

Days like today make me wish that Ali Kadivar was on here. I’d so much appreciate his insight.

I had a colleague who would rank people based on the graduate studies grades. 🙄

My hot take is that Jerry Brown is by far the best governor of California and I will fight you.

I feel seen.

It will be forgotten in a day.

One never merely reviews a literature, rather you build your argument in conversation with prior work.

I think the real crime is thinking that lit reviews are an actual thing one should do in an academic paper.

Pomegranate. Nobody has time for that shit.

We all know the best dinosaur is stegosaurus

Opinion | The Case for Striking Iran

I didn't know the NYT published parody.
@nytimes.wtf @theonion.com

An Oxford comma will clear it up.

That abstract is nigh unreadable. Probably shouldn’t have been published.

One would imagine having access to the rest of the world market would be financial incentive enough. But apparently not since other countries deliver health care not heath profit.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

This post sums up the current state of the world. No need to click through to see what it is a response to.

I agree that the best writing has clearcision. Clearcisely, this is the way to go.

When I got a job at a SLAC (in the 08-09 recession job market), most of the PhD faculty acted like I had died.

I can’t tell you how ashamed I am to be an alum.

Hey SoCal peeps! Who’s up for a vax road trip to Tijuana?

My Puerto Rican neighbor reports it was mid. I’d hate for white people to see something on fire.

But it was my friend. It was.

This is a good week to be teaching Che and the Cuban Revolution.

Why did the rabbit set the stadium on fire? Because it was a bad bunny.

God Bless America!

Kim Gordon’s father was a sociologist.

@jamellebouie.net

If local newspapers started a shame classifieds they’d be raking In the money.