The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
a twee-seeming movie about my old neighborhood in Montreal I should probably see looks kind of fun...fun fact: the mom of one of the Vice guys was a prof at my old job.
It’s hard to express how important Iris was to ACT UP’s scientific development. She was the catalyst who started it all. Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
Building Big Brother is expensive.
fellow film profs, rejoice!
“among a totally random population, levels of creativity for the people watching the experimental films were immediately higher compared to those watching YouTube videos”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
Remembering the great and unforgettable Pete Shelley, singer, songwriter, guitarist and co-founder of the British punk band Buzzcocks, born on this day in 1955, Leigh, Lancashire, England.
📸 Kevin Cummins
#punk #punkrock #peteshelley #buzzcocks #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I always thought "pick your brain/s" was a zombie reference, but it turns out it's an orchard reference. I've always disliked that phrase, but the visual is so nicely revealing--foraging through the branches of someone's mind to take what you want, the apples of knowledge, but maybe out of season...
I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.
totally not surprised this happened in Ontario, near ONT and a million roads and commutes...I would have pegged Bloomington, but no one outside the IE has really heard of it. But curious about what "serves 50 million" people means, for Kimberly Clark, and how it will relate to "spikes" in pricing...
Literary writing famously attracts well-adjusted extroverted people who just love spending large amounts of time in the public eye.
Court releases secret warrants that Riverside sheriff used to seize over 650,000 ballots www.latimes.com/california/s... with @grace2e.bsky.social @latimes.com
Concept drawing of a Selenite by Georges Méliès for Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). Published in Georges Méliès, Mage (1945).
Look at this fabulous concept art (made by Georges Méliès himself!) for the aliens in Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon).
slightly different way it all comes out (modernist graphics and upset stomachs), but Masamura's 1958 Giants and Toys, about rivals at caramel companies (which caramels are all the same despite the wild ad campaigns) might fit. It's also a very bleakly funny movie, way ahead of its time...on Kanopy.
A night shot of the Chris Burden light sculpture at LACMA. Went to the academy museum for the first time in a dog's age to see a colleague talk. To my surprise, the Chris Burden sculpture at LACMA was absolutely thronged with festive people on a Sunday night. It's very nice to run into the city-ness of a city unexpectedly, on the fly...
Went to the academy museum for the first time in a dog's age to see a colleague talk. To my surprise, the Chris Burden sculpture at LACMA was absolutely thronged with festive people on a Sunday night. It's very nice to run into the city-ness of a city unexpectedly, on the fly...
Sounds great. I think might benefit from considering what to do with alteri ty, like different languages and non English ways of life and what they bring to the table, immigration of contribution-wise.
SBES – social, behavioral, and economic sciences – goes to ZERO in 2027. That’s STS, sociology, anthropology, as well as economics. NSF led by a business guy affiliated with Peter Thiel. just a swathe of fucking napalm across the board. No words.
We had better win this damn election.
wow, it looks like they have an English site, and are marketing specifically to GLP-1 people! and the meals are available...2 miles from me!?!
Thanks! Had only heard of mochi donuts, out of these...
people in Tokyo/Japan--what are the food fads of the season, in konbini, TV, things you see out and about? teaching my upper div Food in Japan class and wanting a few things to add to the shots of "people eating on TV" I have around...
a shot of the inside flap of a library book de-accessioned by Riverside Community College, in the town where I work. A mark of the reach that acquisitions had in community colleges, which is often no longer possible. The book is a Cambridge edition/translation of Uji shui monogatari, a classical Japanese text.
the Internet Archive is great and I donate to it regularly, but sometimes you run up against depressing reminders of why all that material is there--because it has been thrown away or de-accessioned by a (here, CC) library and is no longer part of a valued knowledge base, tho not at all "obsolete."
Vampires are inevitable. You either let them suck your blood, or get left behind
"A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech." The potato wears a dress shirt and skinny jeans, while Jenner speaks and wears spectacles, a white shirt, and a black suit. Jenner asks the potato, whom he addresses as old boy, to shake his hand.
"A potato shaking hands with Edward Jenner, claiming him as a fellow vaccinator. Watercolour by John Leech." Found doing course prep.
even D&Q actually hedges a bit in this piece...it says "is said to have passed" or something... but Japanese Wiki checks out...
Tsuge Yoshiharu, one of the postwar comix greats, died earlier this month. The illustration is from the deliriously melancholic Nejishiki...
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
(Yanai is the head of Uniqlo and is the wealthiest man in Japan). The NYT did a weirdly toned piece that called Uniqlo Fast Retailing, implying it is fast fashion. It is not. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/b...
So the field at Dodger Stadium is being rebranded by Uniqlo. Comments suggested a lot of people don't know what that is. Yanai's massive investments in ametora (American traditional) past times like baseball, fashion, outside of Japan continues to fascinate...
www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...
Can someone point me to a history of higher ed boards of trustees? I'd really like to know why random businesspeople get to make pronouncements about what and how we teach
The subreddit LinkedIn Lunatics has totally opened my eyes to degrees of office politics I did not know existed. Mostly in the mordant voices of the Comments. Once you read the main posts, it's hard to unsee the prose style... total eyeworm stuff. It's everywhere! www.reddit.com/r/t5_25tcjz/...