Roopika Risam

The worst part of being sick is having to hold my last classes of the term on Zoom like we were all trapped in 2020. 🥺 But as one said, “At least we all know how this works!” and I didn’t have to ask anyone to put their cameras on.

I need a nap after all the email I had to send to rejigger today and tomorrow because of quarantine. 🦠

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

This is like every story of how it worked!

I could never stand being in the main hotel because the air was just filled with jobseeker panic.

The irony of the hotel interview is it was a step up on the old boys’ phone-a-friend to get your student a job.

At the same time this behavior depends on all of us so desperate for the jobs that we would never say anything.

I cannot relate the most egregious thing that ever happened on a committee I was on (and it actually happened when no other committee member was present despite us telling the person in error not to ask the thing), but that sounds like equal opportunity complaint and failed search waiting to happen.

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I had plenty that were totally professional even though the situation is just strange. But these were special.

My sister’s law firm first round interviews in the late 90s had been in hotel rooms too so apparently this was not unique to academia.

The wild part is that you felt so lucky you even HAD interviews when no one else in your cohort did so you just rolled with it.

For another, all the chairs and the sofa had been taken and I was told to have a seat on the bed. I asked for a chair. I got the chair. Also didn’t get the campus visit.

The most horrible one involved Mardi Gras beads and jokes about what one might do for them. I didn’t play along. I didn’t get a campus visit.

And invite candidates to parties in said hotel rooms, sometimes not even suites, that you felt obligated to attend even though it was so uncomfortable and you would inevitably get waylaid when trying to leave by an emeritus hanging in the doorway who wanted to talk about Beasts of the Southern Wild.

The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.

Regardless of how many researchers highlight the cultural trends against "AI" data centers, & the increasingly widepread public awareness of the unequal economic & environmental harms of these systems, a lot of tech-pilled ppl will only pay attention once it shows up somewhere like WIRED.

So here:

And if I did, all they’d have to do is remind me that I never became a real doctor and therefore have failed at life.

Sometimes I try to imagine what it would be like to be a person who thinks they are so accomplished and special that they can do whatever they want… and then I remember that I was raised by Desi immigrant parents, so there are actually no circumstances under which I could believe that.

The amount of time and will that is drained from people institutions should want to keep around — because they are leaders or potential leaders, good colleagues, and excellent at their jobs — is unbelievable.

This is the most frustrating and exhausting thing about academia. When I mentioned it to a headhunter who was asking about things that could change, they said, “you are the first person to bring this up” — but two other women in the room backed me up.

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard fights to preserve Black newspapers. Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost forever. In a basement at Howard University, uncovered treasures have includ...

‘We don’t even know all of what we have.’ Howard University fights to preserve Black newspapers. www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/... Last year, during a move, workers found two whole boxes of Frederick Douglass’s’ The North Star’s first year of publication.

Yes he did. But he made the cardinal error in not getting Dr. Risam's blessing.

My father has never forgiven Allen Iverson for leaving Georgetown early, but he just needs to watch this documentary and he will get it.

I have watched many an Allen Iverson documentary in my time, but this new one on Prime is 💯

Not at all. Different flavors of symptoms.

At this point, I don't know how many times I've had covid but it's definitely getting near the number of times you can give a mouse covid in a lab before it drops dead.

I just tested positive for Covid after testing negative twice before. My mum badgered me to test again because she thought I should be getting better sooner. Ugh!!!!

Trying to undo the giant mess that is my email while lying here, having made the critical error of getting sick during week 9, which featured three full days of being barely conscious.

I mean me not saying no for nine years nearly ruined my life so we aren’t doing that again.

Definitely picked the worst of weeks to be sick. 🤒