The Executive Committee and stewards of The PSC Graduate Center have also issued a resolution in response to the Chancellor

As we mourn the loss of Israeli and Palestinian civilian lives, CUNY administration must stop stoking an atmosphere of repression and fear

Graduate Center PSC

'The New York Times report has been weaponised against Indian journalists. I had warned the paper about it'

Important piece by Kavita Krishnan on the #NewsClick raids and arrests

scroll.in/article/105714…

Faculty around the world should look Ashoka University for justification on why tenure matters, and how weak institutions throw junior faculty under the bus.

Not only is sabyasachi das 's work empirically solid, it is supported by the work in several other fields, including ours

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I am thrilled to share that starting Fall 2023, I will be a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY! So grateful for the opportunity to teach and research Baruch Weissman, and to live in NYC!
#teamrhetoric

Desi pride be like

How much of Pakistan is underwater right now: 75%

Global emissions Pakistan is responsible for since 1959: 0.49%

Point. Four. Nine. Percent. Not even half a percent. And you thank the Queen for a paltry Instagram post.

#TIL that Shammi Kapoor was one of the first users of the Internet in India

He was the founder & chairman of the Internet Users Club of India. I can't wrap my head around how someone like Shammi Kapoor was in the thick of the internet movement in India?

I did some digging 👇

BREAKING:
Twitter is suing the Indian government. It is seeking to quash some content removal orders issued to the social media firm, alleging abuse of power by the government.

Twitter is attempting to get a judicial review of some of these takedown orders. Developing story...

This press release on #Aadhaar ('not a secret number') from 2017 aged well-
pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…

26 years ago, a gunman entered Dunblane Primary School in Scotland, killing 16 kids and a teacher. The UK govt responded by enacting tight gun control legislation. In the 9400+ days since, there have been a total of 0 school shootings in the UK. #Uvalde

i was on tumblr when yahoo had to sell it for $3 million after buying it for $1.1 billion. we were all a little bit responsible for losing yahoo a billion dollars. and with that type of collective effort, i believe we here on twitter can lose elon musk even more

Want to give hate speech? Give it with a smile.

Coming Spring 2023 from UChicagoPress:
The World is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold War

And so we learnt how to tech-jugaad early; & to troubleshoot, have a healthy suspicion of and never solely rely on the internet

Modi's biggest propaganda win, fueled by Facebook-WhatsApp, is turning Rahul Gandhi's thoughtful compassion into some signal of weakness or dumbness.

Best example - escape velocity of Jupiter.

A nuanced analogy about how Dalits have to try extra hard made into an lol meme.

Dr. B. R. Ambedkar acquired legal qualification while he was at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1922, that's counting one hundred years of his education this year (in 2022), what a trailblazer!

Midwestern humour peaks in February

(and the winner is definitely Betty Whiteout)

Im serious when I ask this. How many public health researchers/practitioners rn, working in the middle of a pandemic that disproportionately kills disabled people, read disability studies scholarship? Read work on the ethic of medicine and public health from DS perspectives?