I already checked and sadly the Celtics don’t have such whimsical specialty nights!
Have consented to go to a Red Sox game with the promise of Hello Kitty throwing out the first pitch, a Hello Kitty in a Red Sox uniform plushie, and maybe a photo with Hello Kitty. Relationships are all about compromise.
Me neither! My beloved quipped, “Is this what it’s like at Dartmouth?”
The Secret Agent is soooooo good. Watch it to prepare for when you too are a department chair under fascists. 🤔
My beloved refuses to believe that we once worked at a summer camp with an heir to the Chef Boyardee fortune, and this is a man who used to tell his elementary school students that his cousin was Darryl Cheez-It, heir to the Cheez-It fortune.
SocArxiv @socarxiv.bsky.social just released an AI policy, which I had a hand in crafting.
@phillewis.bsky.social sums up the spirit of the policy well.
socopen.org/2026/03/09/s...
Congratulations!!! Jelly. I have no idea who will chair when my term is up, but I’m trying to convince myself this is not my problem. Except it is.
More like vying not to be, only that’s motivation to keep everyone very alive.
I still find it hysterical that my mother thinks being department chair is an honor.
Did I 100% convince my beloved to have dinner at his work get together this evening so I could have extra time to work? I can neither confirm nor deny.
I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.
The good thing about traveling with a former archaeologist is that when you ask if she’s worried because there’s a dengue outbreak, she says no since it probably won’t kill you the first or second time. 🦟
This is the truth. I also assume this is true about, um, audiovisual adult entertainment but I have no interest in empirically testing this theory.
Omg
Increasingly convinced that if everyone just understood that LLMs are basically Magic 8 balls, a good chunk of our problems could be solved.
In retrospect, my plan to escape AI and department chairing by spending the last week in March with my childhood bestie in Rapa Nui, where internet access is very limited and no one will be able to find me, failed to account for how completely 🍌 🍌 🍌March turned out to be. 🗿
Last academic year feels like a million years ago 😳
Why do humans make monsters, and what do monsters tell us about humanity?
Five-day countdown to the paperback #PubDay for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress.bsky.social - available now for preorder! (The hardback is gorgeous, too.)
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💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #politics
Fantastic turnout for the Data in Action symposium today, with participation from all over campus — Dartmouth Libraries, Geisel, Research Computing, Art & Sciences, and more 😍
Some of my favorite people on earth all in one place for the Data in Action symposium tomorrow.
Truly… and the way media and the attention economy work, there is a whole lot of looking away from Ukraine at the same time, which is infuriating.
Who has gotten support and who hasn't is just... illogical to me.
The job of politicians now is to step back from sacrificial geopolitics and realize that this can’t happen at the cost of Ukraine’s own destruction in the process
One day, historians are going to look back at the last few years and realize that Ukraine saved the world because if Russia didn't have its hands full, this could all be so much worse (even if that's hard to fathom right now).
That's what I think about 1995!
Fair
Streamers may think they have won the algorithm game but they’re virtually useless for us, while good old fashioned word of mouth, reviews, and seeing things with actors or directors we like is fairly reliable.
The fun thing about being in a film and media department that’s overwhelmingly film is I feel an obligation to actually make time to regularly watch movies, which I haven’t for a very long time, and have a reliable source of good recommendations.
I am sorry. I was reading Jesse Plemons’ bio after watching Bugonia today and it said the first season of Friday Night Lights was 2006 and it hit me and broke my brain.
My mind had been blown by the fact that 2006 was 20 year ago.
