Ben Chappell

Student Senate passes resolution in support of UAKU's contract negotiations The University of Kansas Student Senate passed a resolution that calls on Chancellor Doug Girod to end delays in the bargaining process.

Thank you students! I happen to know that critical university studies played a role in generating support for this. www.kansan.com/news/student...

Check out Quinn Slobodian's book for wild IQ lore. The critiques of Murray in the 90s clearly didn't land with certain crowds, like the oligarch dropouts.

Flower borders above and below text announcing ethnography caucus sessions at the American studies Association 2025, San juan, Puerto Rico. The listed sessions include friday, November 21st, opportunities for funding ethnographic research at 11:30 a.m. in 102b. Ethnography caucus fall meeting at 3:00 p.m. in green one. Saturday November 22nd, can ethnography exist absent DEI? 8:00 a.m. in 2:09b. Mapping Chicana/Mexicana voices in the borderlands at 3:00 p.m. in 102c.

If you are attending the American Studies Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico this week, check out the Ethnography Caucus sessions. In particular, come to our fall meeting on Friday at 3:00 p.m. to get involved in the caucus.

A flip chart outside a meeting room reads 11/12, 10:00 - 3:00, An injury to one is an injury to all, There is power in a union, and a smiley face.

Marker drawing and letters on a shiny surface, university buildings and the slogan Students Support UAKU

When building staff and students support your bargaining session.

A letter to my alma mater on their embrace of AI

Hit the breaking point this morning with Michigan after hearing about their planned data center in Ypsi. Put all my in-progress posts on the back burner to write this (which I have also sent to UMGiving).
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Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

A can of tomatoes open at the top, with a plastic container inverted on it like a cap.

I know the one-pint deli container is widely used and appreciated, but I really think I broke some new ground here on storing an open can.

This barbaric regime must end

This is very, very bad.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

A sign with the iconic "I love New York" slogan with a heart. Hanging by wires from a scaffolding outside a city building.

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This year I learned about Japanese #mundaneHalloween costumes and they are exactly what I needed.

Omg this guy is a cartoon

What a great response. The right's monocultural ambitions are so small minded

Maybe somebody witnessed something like this and was inspired to invent Livestreaming

Whoa, that's when you start watching out for the murders

Is there actually a reason I'm not aware of, to take an extended call on speaker in an airport? Trying to look beyond my own experience.

She's got her new assignment

But my thing is, who posts on social media for people not to read it?

Cutting SNAP reduces the demand to purchase food but not the demand to eat

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Does he mean "celebrate losing the primary"?

Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯

AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.

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Love this take. I wonder how conditioned we are by austerity to assume we can't have both parades and strikes, but have to choose one.

I don't understand the purpose of these movies. Cosplay already exists

Holds up

Screen names I would like to use but it's too much effort:

Boyfriend of the girlfriend of the founder of Antifa.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Blue and yellow fields with block text reading "Peer Review Not Trump. U."

#NoKings

LFG