If you’re going to Jazz Fest, I made this map of unmarked music heritage sites near the Fair Grounds, including Alex Chilton’s apartment and Eddie Bo’s base of operations when he cut “Hook and Sling” (which was then a seafood depot but was razed for a Walgreens).
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"Unfortunately, the types of people for whom such fellowships might represent the greatest departure from their everyday experience—and whose career trajectories might be most dramatically shifted given freedom from their usual constraints—are infrequently their beneficiaries."
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#polisky share far and wide: @apsa.bsky.social Statement on the Proposed Elimination of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation
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Christina Koch's silhouette gazing out a spacecraft window at the bright, cloud-covered Earth below.
Christina Koch floating inside a spacecraft with an American flag visible in the background.
Christina Koch working inside a dimly lit spacecraft cockpit with green ambient lighting and control panels.
🚀 Christina Koch, NC State graduate and Artemis II astronaut, is headed back to Earth following NASA’s first return to the moon in more than 50 years. On Friday, Christina and her crewmates will splash down in the Pacific Ocean to end the farthest human flight in history. http://ncst.at/9rma50YGP25
A Waymo self driving car is parked next to the protected bike lane on Brattle St in Cambridge MA. A male turkey is standing in the street next to it, aggressively displaying its tail feathers.
The fight we’ve been waiting for, the Battle of Brattle: Waymo vs. Cambridge turkey.
@universalhub.com
At least in Chicago you don’t have to drive (but you might have to wait for trains/buses in the weather).
Maybe a sabbatical-type visit. In a shorter visit you’d have the shock of it, without enough time to adjust or figure out your coping strategies, but also not enough time to experience the relentlessness of it.
We are too reliant on the internet, she muses while running out of tasks I can work on without it or any of our campus online systems.
BREAKING: After more than a decade in office, state Rep. Carla Cunningham appeared to lose her Democratic primary on Tuesday by a significant margin. The race in N.C. House District 106 was more contentious this year than anyone might have expected.
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North Carolina sent a clear message tonight: You cannot betray our community and keep your seat.
RESULT: Over & over, Democratic lawmaker Shelly Willingham helped the North Carolina GOP override the vetoes of Governor Stein & Cooper.
He lost just now to a progressive challenger, 56% to 44%.
(And he's likely one of several in this position. Stay tuned.)
RACE CALL:
All three North Carolina Democrats (Shelly Willingham, Nasif Majeed, & Carla Cunningham) who voted to overturn Governor Josh Stein's vetoes have LOST their respective Democratic primaries
In at least two states (incl MA), I have to declare which primary I want to vote in. All one line and votes private but party is not.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.
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"The NC AAUP is also in the midst of creating a “prevention and response plan” for faculty who experience online threats."" www.wunc.org/education/20...
I’m grateful for faculty with expertise and track record on prevention & response plans for targeted harassment. I’m most familiar with @rebekahtromble.bsky.social’s projects researchersupport.org & expertvoicestogether.org - I’m sure she can recommend others for everyone who needs help now
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it.
Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
I am trying to imagine teaching sociology without controversy. It's pretty much all we've got.
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
Oof.
This employee was fired for explaining the school’s anti DEI policy in roughly the same language used by one of the trustees who adopted said policy.
"We do not accept a system in which personnel decisions affecting people’s careers and livelihoods are made at the direction of online vigilantes and so-called journalists, whose methods would not be taught in our university or allowed at our university publications."
what could go wrong?
congratulations!!
we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
Also very bad.
