Dr. T. Flo

Say what?

Le weep.

AI is the sequel to the the obsession by a select class of weirdo about bluechecks on Twitter, who were happy to fork over money to Elon Musk to gain this supposedly elite status only to discover that you can't find a technical solution for social esteem and status earned through achievement.

On Friday, I wore a dress because I hadn’t seen any 🦟. Yesterday and today my legs and arms would like a word with me. The bites are biting. Le sigh.

This.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Three formative events for me as a young woman in the 1990s were all centered on Americans absolutely trashing different women for different circumstances: Anita Hill, Monica Lewinsky, and Chelsea Clinton.

This!!!
I cannot believe that universities are sacrificing their students up all so they can get on the AI bandwagon, or maybe I can.
Such a profound betrayal of our goals.

If you feel the weather in your bones, this might be why Meteoropathy is an emerging field that studies physiological reactions to environmental changes, especially barometric shifts.

Some people feel the weather in their bones. A storm rolls in and so do headaches.

For years, this phenomenon was dismissed as imagination or coincidence.

Now, with sharper tools and more data, researchers are taking weather-related symptoms seriously.

Please help!

Sleep Is a Feminist Issue: Why Women’s Rest Is Political the medical system has long dismissed women’s sleep struggles—especially during menopause—putting their health and lives at risk.

From incarceration to gaslighting, the medical system has long dismissed women’s sleep struggles—especially during menopause—putting their health and lives at risk.

Me three months ago:

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

Columbia’s adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism and creating the infrastructure to enforce it is working as intended — here, by driving distinguished faculty who are willing to teach popular courses even in retirement our of the classroom. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Thank you for your service!

Teehee!

Thanks! Bird by bird. Hope your writing block ends soon.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting Will Shut Down

I knew it was coming when the clawback vote passed, but this headline still provoked a kind of mourning in me. The attack on the CPB is so petty and senseless. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

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Me after writing two mediocre paragraphs.

Calling it now: the [checks notes] nonpartisan Budget Lab at Yale will be part of whatever bogus shakedown deal the T***p administration eventually reaches with Yale

Public media is really special. Shame, shame, shame on this regime and its campaign to make everyone scared, obedient, and stupid. They are stealing from all of us and from our futures. Despicable.

Not Lex Luthors!! This made me cackle.

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I just met with a student for whom I was the second reader of her honors thesis. I worked with her last fall, and we met in the spring as well. I also read versions of the thesis in the spring. She was fabulous and is now headed to grad school in Germany. I am very proud of her. 😍

🥰

YES!!! Woohoo!!!

Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...

‘Yale’s leaders, in their drive to make the college a national institution, were careful not to alienate wealthy and powerful benefactors, including slaveholding Southerners.’

Vincent Brown reviews ‘Yale and Slavery’: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End America’s run as the premiere techno-superpower may be over.

Terrific piece. A must-read for academics:

"Not since the Red Scare...has American science been so beholden to political ideology."

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

A post from Jaju Pierogi that says "In solidarity we will also not be serving pierogi to Dershowitz."

Pierogi makers united against fascism

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Colleagues in Frankfurt made a really well-produced video of my lecture there on the intertwined legacies of colonialism and the Holocaust in German memory culture and at the Humboldt Forum.

Certainly in academia. Teehee.

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