I guess there isn't a team called the Fighting Italians

next time anyone at my institution proposes more $$$ for sports I'm going to remember how we got a whopping 12% of fans, AKA probably not even all the people who go here (third place in Philly seems to be mostly Florida and Notre Dame? how did South Philly choose the "Fighting Irish"???)

I even got a TT job at an R1 and teaching is STILL the largest slice of my workload! I’m not sure any of my grad professors even realized that this was a thing that could happen, teaching was treated as something to be “managed”

Constructing Nationalities in East Central Europe | Berghahn Books Independent Publishing since 1994

from www.berghahnbooks.com/title/Judson...

Nothing Wrong with My Bodily Fluids: Gymnastics, Biology, and Nationalism in the Germanies before 1871

starting the day with a little reading

I started a project with Airtable but it’s too spreadsheet-like and I don’t like working in my browser

I hadn’t gotten any until I got three in the last month

Database software for Mac that doesn’t cost a million dollars or require the ability to code

The production can be viewed on RAIPlay (easy to make an account, no geoblocking) www.raiplay.it/video/2026/0...

I almost want to track down the book to find out when a single character in a Janáček opera showed positive leadership qualities

It showed up near the top of a list of opera books sorted by date so I think they may have reissued it or something

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

Leporello: reminds us to always take notes

Turandot: maintains high expectations for employees, streamlines organization when needed

Klytemnestra: girlbosses her way into the executive suite, sidelines the haters

Nerone: follows his gut, practiced disruption, keeps in touch with his emotional life

Here are some business lessons I’ve learned from opera characters that he may not have included:

Amfortas: Persists through difficult externalities, does not submit to being cancelled

Opera is food for the soul. At its best, opera can hold up a mirror to society. Opera invites us to approach rational thinking from a different perspective. It puts the notions of body, mind and soul in a totally different, more organic and humanist constellation. Patrick Pype's conviction in relation to this potential has offered him decisive insights into how to act in business. For him, the protagonists in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, Janacek = are inspiring models of leadership. Their behaviour helps him to empower us to become more empathic, lucid, fair and inspirational leaders.

An MBA has written a business nonsense book about leadership lessons from opera.

Here’s the blurb:

God forbid a woman have a hobby

I have a suggestion bsky.app/profile/mica...

Due to circumstances outside my control I listened to Penderecki’s Threnody three times today and I think that was too many times

I told my class about Boulez’s “blow up the opera houses” and a student proclaimed it “Chalamet-core”

one great feature of my syllabus this semester is how it somehow has two more class meetings on it than we actually have in reality, ooooops 🙃

Help me fill out my three redundant forms reporting which classes the people who issue the forms assigned me to teach

Almost like the IRS could just make their own free interface 🙃

It is not because it's set in 1913, too early (Kokoschka is a character, though)

thanks to everyone here who recommended FreeTaxUSA (I think @chromeowtic.bsky.social among others?), it was lots cheaper than TaxAct and also caught some deductions I had previously missed, like you can't deduct union dues on a federal return but you can on a PA state

Yeah, I think it was true but I didn't know how to deal with it. I got an ACLS when I was at an Ivy grad program and I think my work has gotten better since but my ability to get grants has gotten worse.

I had the Mellon/ACLS fellowship in grad school so I didn't think it was ridiculous to apply for the faculty version! but maybe it was

I remember asking the grants office if they had any resources to help me to apply and I had to tell them what ACLS stood for

a while ago I was applying for some of these and similar and didn't get any and a prof from my Ivy League alma mater tried to find a nice way of saying "well, they aren't going to give one of these to someone from the University of Arkansas" and here is empirical proof that she had a point

Huge win for the Swarthmore College Orchestra violin section