Sara Mohr

Coming to you live at 9:30pm on a Friday night to tell you all that the ArcGIS map I've been wrestling with for 4 hours finally works how I want it to work. Good night.

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I don't believe this for a second. There's no way Trump has friends.

Worth taking a look at the recruitment strategies here in my write-up on religious studies departments. Associate's degree holders are the most likely to major in the humanities at a 4-year school. Religious studies is way ahead of the rest of the humanities in outreach to 2-year schools.

I will do that!

You did misread it, but ultimately it's whatever. We don't know each other and we're all just shouting into the void here anyway. I just don't want anyone to think I'm on the side of New Yorkers. That's a deep offense up here in Central NY.

Most of the time I'm wishing I could know who a reviewer is so I can ask them why they felt the need to be so unnecessarily mean. Today I'm wishing I could know the reviewer in a volunteer position who was kind, encouraging, and incredibly helpful to this early career scholar.

To be clear, I am agreeing with the original post and adding on to it.

a fair critique if you want, but also a very different one than calling it a snipe.

not even close to a snipe, but thanks, I guess.

I'm agreeing with you! This wasn't meant to be a snipe!

No one loves to say something like this more than someone who used to live in NYC. Look for it in between comments that name drop specific street names as they desperately try to prove that they are still New Yorkers at heart.

a cartoon of patrick from spongebob squarepants standing next to a giant sponge Alt: a cartoon of patrick from spongebob squarepants standing next to a rock with a bunch of eyes looking out from underneath it. he says "who are you people?!"

Every once in a while I get a small wave of new followers here and it's never after I share anything that has the potential to be called even mildly interesting.

Love to leave little writing notes for myself to come back to in a couple of weeks and think "ah, now what do we think I meant by THAT?"

Have we learned nothing from watching powerful university after powerful university bend the knee only to be painted with a larger target on their backs?

California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.

I feel like I spent a stupid amount of time in grad school being forced to have discussions with men who think like this.

I know SO many academics who need to take some time with this and be sure to REALLY think about how vulnerable they truly are. There is no protest without risk. If you aren't risking anything, what are you actually protesting?

More cowards. Brown will be receiving a strongly-worded white lady email from this alum.

First publication from the new job! This gathering is the beginning of more work to come from the Academy on cultural spaces and their communities.

Thinking about this CONSTANTLY the more conversations I have with faculty friends, especially up here in the rust belt. We're seeing a lot of concerning policies come down the pipeline, and whenever I ask "what are you doing about it?" I am met with claims of powerlessness.

According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.

Who was the president in 2018?

Back on my bullshit (designing logos and stickers for things that don’t need logos or stickers)

A woman in a blue hat, white shirt, and green shorts stands in a cemetery facing away from the camera

We're back in New Forest Cemetery! Oneida County History Center intern, Caroline, starts the process of recording data from headstones for the next section of the Digital New Forest project. Thanks to @ach.bsky.social, she is getting paid for her work!

Utica University Will Cut $5 Million From Annual Faculty Budget Dr. Todd Pfannestiel, president of Utica University, announced that it will cut $5 million from its annual faculty costs through layoffs and the elimination of programs with low enrollment.

It was a little over a year ago that staff had their retirement benefits cut. Pretty much crickets from the faculty after. And now... As a former higher ed staff member often treated poorly by faculty, it's hard not to see a "first they came for..." kind of pattern here www.wktv.com/news/educati...

Cowards.

Beyond bleak to be getting advertisements on Instagram for ways to immigrate and find a job in Canada. But also 👀

If you are inspired by Mamdani, now is a great time to do some research on your local elections and find out how you can get involved. NYC's election results are buoying, but keeping up the momentum for all local elections is crucial.

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It's ILiADS week.

thank you!