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nicholemsanders.bsky.social
Historian of modern Mexico. Spends spare time helping to run local Dem campaigns. Mom to one human, two dogs and two cats.
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Handing over academic institutional leadership to a roving class of elite administrators, none remaining in place long, just climbing ladders and cashing checks … was a mistake,

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

Seriously, the rational thing to do with LLMs would have been "that's cool, come back when you have a real application for this that justifies the cost and you've made it more energy efficient." We don't have to dump billions into every new computer knickknack! We can have higher standards!!

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

I try to be really careful about judging my colleagues too harshly in public. I know some of you laugh at that assertion. Heh. But what concerns me is the uptake of AI among education professionals signals, how much bureaucratic control the administration has usurped from the profession.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Not hard at all. I may be biased. I have a lot of friends in English. But the AI admin push feels really targeted at how much English courses bedevil their funding models. They’re inefficient, they cannot shuttle it to professional schools, & weirdly students want it.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.

submitted 38 days ago • 18 comments

Hands Off Lynchburg, VA.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Paging @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social Hoping you aren’t the end of the video just yet.

submitted 56 days ago • 35 comments

Email list for all DOGE employees Please ReSkeet!

submitted 68 days ago • 698 comments

Huh, turns out you can't have private UNIDENTIFIED security assault and kidnap people because you don't like what they say at city hall Weird.

submitted 79 days ago • 706 comments

Oh my god, Eric Adams is going to accidentally free Luigi. Amazing.

submitted 81 days ago • 57 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 82 days ago • 100 comments

ok hear me out what if that 2012 mayan calander shit was real and is the Bad Place

submitted 82 days ago • 148 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 93 days ago • 3830 comments

The perfect headline doesnt exi— www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 118 days ago • 85 comments

This is truly horrifying.

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

submitted 142 days ago • 20 comments

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

submitted 146 days ago • 213 comments

You know it's bad when your doctor is like, "I'm not sure if this is depression or if you are simply having appropriate emotional responses to an unending cavalcade of terrible events."

submitted 146 days ago • 62 comments

Tagging @regenceutah.bsky.social for this, Day 14! Might start doing this on Threads too if they monitor that account more TBD

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

What the goobers got up to in the five minutes I went upstairs.

submitted 173 days ago • 2 comments

In the next 6 months, we're going to see one of the largest propaganda pushes in American history to spread the lie that Donald Trump is a moderate on abortion.

submitted 401 days ago • 39 comments

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submitted 400 days ago • 0 comments

Please share! We are hiring a tenure-track historian of modern U.S history with a background in archaeology. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37568863...

submitted 491 days ago • 0 comments