Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk
From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day
Libraries work because we do ✊️
Virginia Woolf, more than a hundred years ago:
Happy Birthday, Charlotte Brontë! May we all fantasize so richly about the downfall of our enemies!
Still from Jurassic Park (1993). Jeff Goldblum holds Laura Dern's curved hand and pretends to suspend a droplet of water over it as a way of explaining chaos theory. Dern, in profile, gazes at her hand with serious focus as she listens to him.
Remember when "chaos theory" was the hot thing? I'm reading an article from 1991 and it hit me in the face like the smell of a Starbucks inside a Barnes and Noble
"'If you can increase the diversity of the scientific workforce, there’s some evidence that you can increase the trust in scientists,' Druckman explained... [diversity] encompassing not just race and gender but also rurality, religiosity, and class background."
cps.isr.umich.edu/news-events/...
Forget "total cost of ownership." In the UK, the average EV is now cheaper than the average ICE vehicle, up front. Sticker cost.
And of course the savings just keep accumulating after that.
King of Wishful Thinking: so, I’d really like a melancholy dirge about the hole in my heart
Go West: oh ya, don’t worry, we’ve got you
Emily Brontë: he was a brutish, heavy-handed tyrant
Charlotte: say more
Emily: prone to fits of cruelty and rage
Charlotte: whew 🥵
Anne: can we not???
Emily: 👀
Charlotte: 👀
Emily: (*whispering) he swore he would kill her
Anne: I HEARD THAT!!!
The best
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Emily Brontë: he was a brutish, heavy-handed tyrant
Charlotte: say more
Emily: prone to fits of cruelty and rage
Charlotte: whew 🥵
Anne: can we not???
Emily: 👀
Charlotte: 👀
Emily: (*whispering) he swore he would kill her
Anne: I HEARD THAT!!!
Dickens: there once was an unfortunate orphan-
Gaskell: who died of consumption
Dickens: not sure if readers would like that version of the story
Gaskell: good.
Treacherously close to punning here, Wurgaft
Especially taught alongside Frankenstein and/or Bride of Frankenstein. Great stuff!
They’re all firmly trained in the protagonist romantic pairing escape narrative and completely unpracticed in the “two bros share different versions of the same patriarchal sexbot savior fantasy”
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My students HATE the ending of Ex Machina
“Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty. It would weaken a robust tradition of peer review and increase administrative control over University affairs.”
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Hell yeah!! Bagpipe Dawn beach parade it is!
not that everybody didn't already know this but kinda feeling extra glad this week that we included this as part of our AI essay. www.oakland.edu/cetl/teachin...
Ad seeking a graduate research assistant at the "Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce," seeking "a motivated graduate student intern to help investigate ways to integrate AI tools into our research processes." The successful candidate will "have experience across multiple LLM's and related AI tools."
Very on the nose that the institute hiring a grad intern to "integrate AI tools into our research processes," i.e. make future grad labor unnecessary, is funded by at least two separate billionaires, Chase bank, & a student loan collection agency. Its name? The GU Center on Education & the Workforce
Forget tenure or h-index. I have reached the true mark of academic prestige. This academic term I teach in a classroom where I can control the temperature.
Great take
student protesters adopted the language of harm, trauma, offense, and identity in part because it was a discourse the university bureaucracy understood and was required to address. it was effective. after that adults never stopped punishing young people for speaking that way.
Really does make you think how people would think about academia differently if a full account of the academic job market were public knowledge
this is awful for many reasons, but IHE's framing suggests a frictionless market for academic labor where tenured faculty who dislike the terms of their job can leave for "bluer pastures" anytime. This recodes a functionally collapsed market for humanistic expertise in terms of free market fantasy
A lot of people don’t know this but Doom’s doctorate is specifically in Sociology.
Was just listening to a staggering account of how many trees it took to create an 18th century warship (I think 3 to 4 thousand) and then multiply that by the 25,000 ships of the fleet
war is ecocide