Important listening from philosopher Myisha Cherry (in general & for this Yom Kippur season): the1a.org/segments/wha...

Hi - I'm new! After15 years in #academia as a #librarian, I left Harvard in Oct 2022 and now work for myself. Check out my website, www.manuscript-spa.com@profmarylewis.bsky.social for giving me a code here!

Be careful out there, Massachusettsans. The state dept of public health says more areas have had detections of Eastern equine encephalitis in mosquito sampling. Triple E is a rare but very nasty disease. Folks in these areas should wear bug repellant while outdoors. #EEE

When facing the "All we need is STEM!" approach to education, my usual response is: Developing the vaccine was the STEM problem; distribution & getting shots in arms was the Social Science problem; getting people to trust it & combatting misinformation was the Humanities problem-- which did we fail?

tomorrow evening (20:00 Central European Summer Time - UTC+2) I'll be talking about the history of the geopolitics of semiconductor manufacturing at Spui25 in Amsterdam. Randstad folks, maybe see you there? All others, there's an online stream here: spui25.nl/programma/ch...

That last quote from Sasse gives away the game, I think. The desire to “disaggregate” the tasks of a professor (notice there is nothing in there about research), is to dismantle higher ed as we know it and rebuild it as an assembly line of cheap labor.

Read this: www.bostonreview.net/articles/an-...

If you believed Black employees of Tesla for all these years- this story is from 2017- nothing Musk says about the ADL this week, trans people previously, or his nastiest memes would surprise you.www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/tesla-class-action-lawsuit-alleges-racism-unsafe-factory-conditions.html

Tesla factory workers have filed a lawsuit claiming widespread racism, unsafe conditions

Tesla is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging a racist culture and unsafe working conditions at its Fremont factory.

Perhaps One Third of a Nation: Lorena Hickock Reports on the Great Depression?

Women's history folks: Best article or chapter-length readings about women in WWI, the Great Depression, and/or WWII? (for lower-division survey purposes)