Is it the corn pudding song

can't focus on anything work related but i sure as hell can call my congressional reps/senators and leave a voicemail

In related news, fork found in kitchen

Beyond proud of my best friend @hilarymatfess.bsky.social and her new book from @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Hil is the kind of scholar I aspire to be, and I strongly recommend this book to anyone teaching IR/violence/security!

Social work degrees are losing "professional" status, cutting federal borrowing capacity nearly in half. In Colorado, where many counties lack a DV shelter, that means fewer trained advocates for survivors. Read more from Korbel Prof @kaitsims.bsky.social & students Leslie Carvalho & Kaelyn Lara:

Beyond proud of my senior SHAPE Lab RAs--Leslie Carvalho and Kaelyn Lara--who are co-authors on this piece. Both bring practitioner experience from working in DV/SA service organizations, and both are graduating this spring from our MA in Int'l Studies! Hire them! @josefkorbelschool.bsky.social

In jobs where there is such a problem of under-compensation, many staff are 'paid' 'moral wages' (Kolb, 2014)-- the intrinsic satisfaction of knowing your work matters, even if your paycheck doesn't reflect that. But now, we're (Dept. of Ed) telling those grads their degrees aren't 'professional.'

The new loan limits cap annual tuition assistance below many universities' annual cost--and designating grad degrees like nursing, social work, and more as 'non-professional' means those caps will be even lower.

This stands to hurt the labor force in these high-needs (low-paid) DV service jobs.

New federal student loan limits affect social work graduate students, with impacts for survivors of domestic violence in Colorado and elsewhere The status change may result in students avoiding degrees in nursing and social work.

🚨 New publication alert! 🚨

We're all stressed about the parent plus loans and prof. degree classifications. But this may prove even more painful for the social service sector, such as jobs serving survivors of violence.

My latest for @theconversation.com
theconversation.com/new-federal-...

Gross. There was 10% more domestic violence after home team losses "in states where mobile betting is legalized, in locations where higher bets were placed, around paydays, and for teams who were on a winning streak"

the amount of house cleaning i've done in the name of putting off something else is...probably a solid substitution

the way this person framed their complaints--telling me I 'wasn't cute' for this joke, accusing me based on solely this of having 'learned helplessness', the 'uwu' of it all--in gendered terms is...really something else

absolutely wild to me how, across platforms, across years, across the globe, people still think it's cool to patronize a woman on the internet for making a teensy joke about her own procrastination habits.

oh no a man i don't know doesn't think i'm cute, how will i go on

i have once again put off for two months two tasks that took *checks notes* one hour together to complete

i will learn nothing from this

Thinking today of Dolores Huerta and of all the women who have been forced to choose between suffering in silence and risking the success of the broader missions they have worked to support.

medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns.

Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

This class was a gamble for me--something I'd never taken as a student and designed based on what I thought made sense--and it became the highlight of my week. My students are going to be incredible leaders and changemakers, and I'm so proud to have been a small part of that.

end/earnest on main

I am so so grateful for how these 18 undergrads showed up day in and day out with a genuine openness to playing with ideas, grappling with conflict, engaging in ethical murkiness, and becoming comfortable with the best answer being "it depends.

Because when it comes to social policy, it depends!

This quarter, I taught a brand new elective class: Public Policy for Social Welfare.

Going into it, I had a lot of anxiety given the current political climate, defunding and deprioritizing of *public policy for social welfare* etc.

But I read my students' final reflections this morning and sobbed.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with the words girl , what on her face . ALT: a woman is sitting in front of a microphone with the words girl , what on her face .

god I am reading a book right now where the (female) author is trying to convince the (inferred to be female) audience that she has the keys to women's liberation WHILE ALSO constantly pointing to how her husband doesn't pull his weight with the kids.

Back in the day I was working a food booth at a musical festival and a guy dropped a five dollar bill in the tip jar and I thanked him profusely because I knew exactly how many McDoubles that represented and precisely how many more cents I needed for an additional McDouble

now is the time to choose to be -- and what it means to be -- human

‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Headshot of Jeremy Levine.

Can justice exist after trauma? A new study co-authored by @jeremylevine.bsky.social reveals that bureaucratic hurdles and racial disparities limit access to victim compensation for adult survivors of sexual assault.

Read the full study: https://myumi.ch/Mkjm8

Honestly I think the move is a convertible coffee table to real table

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Claudine Gay was punished and lost her job for incomplete citations in her PhD dissertation.