Super excited to finally have this article out in the world: "A Clinic for the People": Towards an Anti-Racist Psychiatry at the Tuskegee Institute 1945-1967" in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Thanks to everyone who made this happen. muse.jhu.edu/article/937505

This is the correct take. Toni Morrison: "“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work ... "

This is an ominous sign. The ability to use financial arguments for firing tenured faculty sets up all kinds of perverse incentives for actors at the state level who want to target specific fields of research. And the root cause is lack of state support for higher ed.

NKnkalamb.bsky.socialAug 24, 2024 7:01pm

UW-Milwaukee will lay off nearly three dozen faculty, using the provisions of the decade-old law eliminating tenure. wiscnews.com/news/state-r...

We need a phrase like "break a leg" but for academics at the beginning of the semester. Post your ideas here.

I just saw someone call JD Vance “Hillbilly Vanilli” and I can’t breathe

Do I need to know who this is or can I just avoid learning for the next 24?

KMkevinmkruse.bsky.socialAug 13, 2024 7:35pm

Entire theses in gender studies will be written about Tom Fitton

Trump just said “walls work” on Fox News and it occurs to me he’s going to spend the next three months accidentally talking about how America needs Walz

Harris choosing a VP who used to teach school in Mankato has the Little House on the Prairie voters on lock.

universities: we bought all new software to do the same thing you already do now with ease. It completely sucks and cost us 13 million dollars.