Antonia Alksnis

I joined my Democratic colleagues in instructing USDA Secretary Rollins to use SNAP’s emergency reserves to keep food assistance flowing for the 42 million Americans who rely on it, including 16 million children, and 4 million people with disabilities. (1/3)

look, I'm no fan of the Bourbons, or of monarchy in general for that matter -- but to invoke them to characterize Trump is I think deeply unfair to Versailles and the French absolutist monarchy

Department floor is having a halloween door decor contest, I think our office wins for scariest @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social

The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev

facts. #academicsky

Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)

CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

it's giving emperor Nero

guys I think I'm finally figuring out the regime types in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws

💪 $32.24 definitely compensates for lost privacy I can never get back

Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work; and as for the musician with the fiddle-bow in his hand who sits in the midst of a great orchestra with the ebbing and flowing tides of divine sound washing over him—why, certainly, he is at work, if you wish to call it that, but lord, it’s a sarcasm just the same. The law of work does seem utterly unfair—but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, also. And it’s also the very law of those transparent swindles, transmissible nobility and kingship.

Intellectual “work” is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward. The poorest paid architect, engineer, general, author, sculptor, painter, lecturer, advocate, legislator, actor, preacher, singer is constructively in heaven when he is at work

-Twain, Conn Yankee

Abba's "take a chance on me" is a mood for academic job market season

The quote below is all true. But let's not forget the one major factor rich kids have in their favor: the ability to pay full tuition, which many colleges/universities seek to balance their books.

scary stuff yeah :/

My cousin was protesting at that & got run down by cops on horseback. Only avoided getting trampled by jumping a fence.

Could I be added to this? I'm a grad student, doing research right now on old books & especially 18th-century frontispiece illustrations :)

here's another horrible one I encountered recently 💯

how it feels to get your article accepted for publication for the first time
#GradLife #PhdCat

Love that the top of the distribution bar is zero. AI didn’t make a single developer work any faster. The best outcome is break even productivity.

one of my favourite things is when you have to do something and it's like "no. you ccant use your browser on desktop,, you have to download,, an app". And the app doesn't work.

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throwback to when one of Berkeley's mandatory cybersecurity trainings used stock images of the Jealous GirlfriendTM

Ah yeah it was really good, wasn't it... I should re-read some time.

I recall wishing that Patroclus was more of a warrior like he is in the Iliad. But it still works really well as-written.

When you're trying to optimize your article title for search engines

This is so ethereal

I love it too. It’s so powerful ! Glad you enjoyed

Glad to see Bruce, Talking heads etc. Already on here. I’d add Bottom of the River by Delta Rae !

Where Students Have Had Their Visas Revoked The Trump administration has quietly revoked hundreds of student visas across the country, wreaking havoc on the system.

As of this morning, we've tracked over 600 student visa revocations at more than 100 colleges.

That's double yesterday morning's count. Send updates to me or @amowreader.com and follow @insidehighered.com interactive visa map here: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

A cartoon-style image of a man. He wears luxurious purple velvet robes trimmed with white fur and decorated with gold fleur-de-lis. In his right hand he holds a broken sceptre. The heavy chain of office around his neck is also broken. On his left hip can be seen a sword hilt and multi-coloured breeches. With his left hand he lifts off a "mask" (his face), beneath which is a small jug. The words "Ah! le cruchon" hover above the jug. The title of the print is 'Le Masque Levé.' From Bibliotheque Nationale de France, 1791. Artist unknown.

When I teach classes on the French Revolution I love to show students this satirical print from 1791. King Louis XVI is shown lifting off his 'mask' to reveal that he is, in fact, a 'cruchon' - a jughead or idiot!

#18thcentury #politicalsatire #revolutionaryart #historysky #frenchrevolution

preparing for @mpsa.bsky.social by crying tears of joy at the amount of history of political thought in the conference program #MPSA2025

Jean-Jacques Rousseau roasted for small sample sizes