Karl Jacoby

Curator or Associate Curator of Maps & Geography - Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library

This is a really special map curator JOB working w/@en-dash.bsky.social at @bplmaps.bsky.social. Apply by March 30th. #glam #maps 🗃️

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Look at this chart

And listening to the Caine/Hegseth briefing, it's really striking that Trump has not spoken live since he started this war.

The rules of engagement flow out of US military law. It is how our armed forces differentiate themselves from murderers and assassins.

Unless those Americans are Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

Siding with the Constitution isn't siding with Iran.

Just a reminder that @contingent-mag.bsky.social would absolutely love to run a mailbag on the dumbass arguments about "low enrollment majors" and other things contained in this nested thread if there's a NTT historian out there who wants to pitch it.

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings.

This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

Indoctrination isn’t happening at UT, despite what regents say UT professor argues claims of widespread campus indoctrination are unfounded, citing research showing students feel free to think independently.

Please share widely. I want everyone to know the truth about what’s happening at UT Austin. Faculty aren’t brainwashing anyone!

It’s unnerving for sure

The EPA issued reduction-in-force notices to 22 employees working on environmental justice efforts to address pollution in overburdened and underserved communities.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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Not sure if we have learned that much in the intervening century and a half

Surviving on Trump's Dangerous Planet Yet another war, and yet another argument for an end to oil

According to The Economist, Cuba’s imports of Chinese solar panels grew by a factor of 34 last year, faster than anywhere else in the world

They're trying to prepare for the inevitable next attack from Trump
billmckibben.substack.com/p/surviving-...

This logic played a substantial role in the US-Mexico War of 1846-8: the US imagined it was “liberating” Mexico from despotism and could not understand the opposition of the Mexican people to their invasion

The judges in WV have seen enough.

They say that if the ICE continues detaining people in ways they have unanimously deemed illegal they will start issuing civil fines and contempt findings — including against state officials who help them carry it out.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

"In my view, by conferring this title [president emeritus] on Summers, Harvard is signaling that powerful men can outlast gross misconduct with their honorifics intact." - Yana van der Meulen Rodgers, economist and prof of labour studies at Rutgers.
#academicsky

If it is "war," the Constitution is clear: only Congress has that power.

Marie Myung-Ok Lee (@mariemyungoklee) why can i not write as fast as my peers? maybe because I spent the day 1. bringing my autistic kid to his therapy and then 2. driving him up to the cannabis dispensary where we are selling our very ow...

"Why can i not write as fast as my peers?"

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Welp.

From last week’s @washingtonpost.com:

This aged well. Note the author.

Yeeesssss!!!! (This will always be the defining image for me of the “evidence” against Columbia students)

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

Call for Submissions - Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy” We wish to build off of scholarship and lived knowledge that envisions queer joy as an affective or emotional way of knowing, specifically a way of knowing and being in relation with the environment a...

Succession IV is here!!

Call for Submissions – Succession IV: Queering the Environment – “Queer Joy”
Editors: @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, @tinaadcock.bsky.social, and Sarah York-Bertram
Get your proposals in by March 28th.

niche-canada.org/2026/02/28/c...

#envhist #envhum #queerecology #queer

"These faculty were terminated without the required process, without meaningful notice, and without the protections that tenure and university policy are supposed to guarantee.”

—Chenjerai Kumanyika, AAUP Council Member

@chenjerai.bsky.social

Here’s the link to Martha Jones and Kate Masur’s powerful amicus brief which leaves no doubt: Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional

www.brennancenter.org/media/15301/...

ICE agents misrepresented themselves to arrest a student at Columbia, lawyers say Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan.

Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan. n.pr/3OAlkhD

Detained Columbia student released after Mamdani talks with Trump Ellie Aghayeva confirms freedom hours after Department of Homeland security agents access residence hall

Kidnapped Columbia student released after Mamdani talks with Trump

Ellie Aghayeva confirms freedom hours after Department of Homeland security agents lied their way into residence hall and kidnapped a young lady www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Columbia Student Arrested by ICE in a University Building Is Released

Estudiante de Columbia arrestada por ICE en edificio universitario es liberada

funcionarios federales se habían tergiversado para obtener acceso, según la universidad. Zohran Mamdani dijo que el presidente Trump le había dicho que el estudiante sería dejado ir.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...