Paul Jaussen

Roland Barthes was in my dream the other night, drinking a beer and chatting. I was wearing a used overcoat; the pockets contained the passport of strangers.

That about sums up my late-mid semester psychology, I think.

For anyone interested in course-based undergraduate research experiences, check out this new multi-disciplinary article featuring work by myself and my incredible colleagues at Lawrence Tech.

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Opinion | The Pope’s Journey to Climate Outrage With his latest missive, he has moved from grief and exhortation to a more strident position.

"To the powerful, I can only repeat this question: ‘What would induce anyone, at this stage, to hold on to power, only to be remembered for their inability to take action when it was urgent and necessary to do so?’”

Go after it, Francis.

Assistant Professor of Media Studies - Southfield, Michigan We seek a colleague with a Ph.D. in media studies or a closely related field with demonstrated promise as both a scholar and teacher.

Job! My department is hiring in critical media studies--please help us spread the word, and I am happy to answer any questions about the position: jobs.chronicle.com/job/37520804...

Heading to Seattle for ASAP to talk about spaceships and marronage. I'll see some of you there!

I think most of teaching writing is being a really good editor — the kind who understands what you're trying to say even better than you do and helps you get there. And then I think about the conditions under which introductory writing courses are usually taught, and that's why rubrics exist.

Kaiser Permanente Workers Poised to Strike The health care system provides care for 13 million people in eight states. Union officials say the job action — threatened for Wednesday — could be the largest strike by health care workers in re...

good morning to the largest ever healthcare strike in the US, hot labor cinnamon spice autumn

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Mammals’ Time on Earth Is Half Over, Scientists Predict A new model suggests that in 250 million years, all land will collide into a supercontinent that boosts warming and pushes mammals to extinction.

Let's take bets on when Elon is going to launch "MammalX."

I anticipate massive tax shelters so that he can rocket gerbils into deep space.

More literary histories of the radically local! Was reminded of this fact at a staged reading of Ron Allen's last play & a screening of a new documentary about his work. Detroit legend Kim Hunter described our writers as both "gritty & cosmic" & I can't stop thinking about it.

Thanks, Florian--it was an exemplary experience in multi-collaborative writing/editing, too.

That's way too generous, Matt...but I'm glad to be here so I can keep up on your brilliant work. We need to get to the same conference again soon!

I'll be slowly finding new and old friends, but, in the meantime, I'll share this week's news: a hot cluster on literary cybernetics dropped in New Literary History. Check out the intro: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Howdy, all! Thanks to @matthewlevay.bsky.social for welcoming me.