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I’m not saying it will happen—but if it did happen, this city would absolutely follow Philly Elmo into battle

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Penn admin: We have no choice but to slash grad admissions in SAS and the Med School by 35% Penn Trustees: Can’t wait to drop $13 million on a parking garage for Pennovation Works Trustees Budget & Finance Cmte meets tomorrow 2/27 at 4 👀 Come out and be heard! secretary.upenn.edu/trustees-gov...

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Hundreds in Philly braved the freezing temps to rally for our healthcare, research, and jobs! ❄️💪 Workers & students from CCP, Drexel, UPenn, Rutgers, Temple, Jefferson, Arcadia, Rowan, Moore—alongside elected leaders & union presidents—made it clear: We won’t back down. #LaborForHigherEd

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Philly, come out to 2000 Market right now and say it loud: hands off our healthcare, hands off our research, hands off our jobs!

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Shop update.

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With everything going on in our industry, a periodic reminder that I’m the higher ed editor for @publicbooks.bsky.social. If you have something to get off your chest about higher ed, pitch me. Not looking for quick takes, but thoughtful scholarship and commentary that makes sense of our moment.

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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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How can we respond to the onslaught of attacks on higher ed? Feb 13 at 8pm ET/7pm CT/6pm MT/5pm PT: workers & allies from around the US will come together in a national strategy call. Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social @cwaunion.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social

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“We will fight it every step of the way, legally, politically, and our members will be out in the street pushing back. There’s no way we will let them undermine higher education in this country.” - Todd Wolfson, AAUP President www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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what would you do differently if you were trying to legalize discrimination?

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Make your turntable dust-resistant.

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We're a week away from the triumphant return of @versobooks.bsky.social's Jameson Reading Group. Next Sunday, we're discussing An American Utopia (pages 1-97), and Archaeologies of the Future (pages xi - 10 and 237-253) with @alfatau.bsky.social . RSVP here! forms.gle/uvRot2NnW9Vu...

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The American Medical Association did a study showing encampment sweeps that forcibly relocate people lead to big increases in: overdose deaths, hospitalizations, life-threatening infections, and more. And yesterday, a man was run over with a bulldozer in an Atlanta sweep.

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Today's the day! I poured everything I've got into this book, and now, eight years after I started working on it, it is officially published! I'm so grateful for everyone who helped make this book a reality - and to all of my readers for their support.

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Headed to the office to print syllabi and check back in on the aftermath of this little situation, wish me luck

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For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

submitted 56 days ago • 68 comments

Did this one fall down the memory hole?

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Amazon has denied a leave of absence to an Alabama woman who was struck by the New Orleans attacker’s truck and shot in the foot during the attack. She worried she won’t have a job to return to when she recovers. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

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USC so anti union it is trying to misclassify 85% of all faculty, ALL of whom are lecturers, as "managerial employees and/ or supervisors." It also argues that "the @nlrbgov.bsky.social structure is unconstitutional."

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Donald Trump’s threat to take back the Panama Canal typifies the arrogance that has characterized US dealings with Panama since the 1850s. But, as I write in @nytimes.com Trump misses the real problem: climate change makes the Canal’s long term future uncertain. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/01/o...

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The energy I’m bringing into 2025

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Thousands of documents obtained from the Yale Police Department show how the campus police closely surveilled pro-Palestine protestors, in collaboration with the FBI and counterterrorism forces. What other campuses followed this playbook?

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The way that university officials have begun to treat “peaceful” and “disruptive” as antonyms, when they in fact are not antonyms, is the kind of violence to language that one expects of authoritarians

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Debt Collective members, mostly in their 60s and 70s, are begging Biden and the Secretary of Education to cancel their student loans before it's too late. These folks have more than paid off the original principal, but they remain stuck in a debt trap. Listen to some of their stories here 👇🏽

submitted 74 days ago • 3 comments

I talked to Hell Gate about things that are going on over here at NYU. Check it out.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

contract by christmas for the chicago teachers union! write to city and state officials today: www.ctulocal1.org/posts/contra...

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I will take this moment to pick on a tiny anonymous account because they picked the fight and the issue is life or death. Telling workers that a strike is pointless is an anti-worker position that grants godlike powers to Trump and no power to regular people in the place where they have the most.

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Last week, several of us were designated "Persona Non Grata" on campus and banned from several buildings including the library At present, NYU has not communicated any aspects of a process including: 1. The specific violation 2. How to appeal this designation 3. How long the ban will last

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We are now on BlueSky! The 2025 Conference of the Society for Novel Studies will be held at Duke in late May. Check out our website to find more about this year's theme. Program will be live shortly sites.duke.edu/sns2025/cfps...

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Columbia University staff are being suspended and terminated for participating in last Spring's Gaza Solidarity Encampment, even if they were off the clock at the time. Similar cases are being seen across the country. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/universities-are-continuing-to-retaliate-against-…

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Submit an abstract to this special issue on "infrastructural poetics" and then form a panel for the 2025 MSA conference, which shares the theme of infrastructure! Link for the conference CFP in bio or see pinned post.

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Andrew Ross, and Sonya Postmentier were arrested along with several non nyu community members. About 20-30 students and several other faculty were designated PNG.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.” In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in. This is where we are.

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Snapdragons are my favorite flower to grow. They do however produce seed pods that look like the screaming skulls of the damned.

submitted 81 days ago • 485 comments

Fordham UP's spring catalogue is out! I'm glad to see my forthcoming monograph there! You can preorder Aesthetic Impropriety: Property Law & Postcolonial Style from all good bookstores, including indies, B&N, & Am**on. Now we just need the press to get on Bluesky :) issuu.com/fordhamup/do...

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"We can’t allow people to become complacent about repression or attacks on speech. We need to get our message about the value of higher education out. We need everyone — engineers, physicists, sociologists, poets — to talk about why higher education matters." truthout.org/articles/aca...

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The growing alignment between Higher Education Labor United, Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Education, and @aaup.bsky.social is the most positive development in higher ed that I've seen in my career. Happy to be playing my small role to advance it!

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elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy. artreview.com/power-100/

submitted 88 days ago • 19 comments

Today's @forbesunion.bsky.social walkout is the 36th work stoppage this year in the @newsguild.org -- and the 93rd in the last three years.

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