robertpaulett.bsky.social
Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
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“Define your future—through technology controlled by corporations!”
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The effect of hiring a hustle-grind bro who will never admit defeat as your chancellor is that your campus will just keep greater degrees of Jimmy Johnsification until maybe you don’t even notice anymore.
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Still, gotta focus group and recruit as many Blue Dog nominees as possible to keep any potential wave from accomplishing anything.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has a great website on this and, yeah, except for nursing and mechanical engineering (and only mechanical engineering) only about 25-30% of people ending up working in their major field of study.
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We’re only just starting 6th grade so still a ways from marching competition but good luck this year!!
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Also Illinois. Glad we started ‘em young.
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Love the War College. Presented there a few years back and easily one of my favorite conferences.
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Congrats! Such a great space and such a great staff. Need to get an application in there.
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“So I met this old dude once but get this…”
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“Guess you’ve never heard of COLONIALISM, huh” has fast become Bluesky’s most tedious response.
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Like, for all the talk this week, I can’t help but think Biden’s biggest mental lapse was not preparing in any way for what happens after you end a war.
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Je-sus
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“Orange Horizons,” a 37-minute song suite built on a 7/5-time arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s “Fantasie-Tableaux” that allegorizes John Boehner’s trip to a tanning salon as a search for self in the heady days of the gig economy. Going for that peak Obama-era feel.
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And this is why archives need all the money and then some.
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Too big for the book box.
Too book for the big box.
Too heavy for the delicate box.
Too delicate for the heavy box.
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I’m fine but that was definitely my closest call yet!
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Well, that’s terrifying.
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also tagging in @andrewhartman.bsky.social on behalf of ISU’s 600 history/secondary ed majors.
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Ours is in history and definitely hold on to it at all costs. Students get better prep in subject but also better for faculty teaching to have that mission at the core of the dept.
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We’re flirting with a similar position here and I’m going to want to pick your brain about some things.
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“Doing the worst thing in the most incompetent way” is kind of our brand.
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The true St. Louis icon reporting for duty. 🫡
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Oh that’s troubling.
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That guy’s ability to big-brain his way into 75-year-old historiography without ever thinking “I wonder if anyone’s written on this” is just really, truly something to behold.
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The mingled grief and fury he packs into “Some of you rounders gonna pay my way back home” is one of the most perfect deliveries in any song.