I consistently find it stunning that it takes this long in the debate to get to the climate crisis

I call this, "Phases of a Faculty Meeting"

Call for Papers: Berkeley Graduate Conference on Early Modern Political Thought, 1400-1800 Deadline: 10 January 2025 (midnight PST) Submission webpage: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Has anyone written about the history of the "job market paper," and why this genre arose in the social sciences but not the humanities?

SCOOP: University of Arizona’s President Robbins will be paid through June 2026 (when his contract ends) despite stepping down in under a month. He currently makes about $730,000, though it is unclear if he’ll continue to make that salary, or take a cut: tucson.com/news/local/sub…

Disgraceful. I am a TC alum and am deeply grateful for my education there, but university leadership that normalizes learning under these conditions should not be trusted with the responsibility of programs that train the teachers of children

Kate Yoon and I have interviewed Melinda Cooper for The Nation regarding her important new book, “Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance”: thenation.com/article/cultur…

Posted Today: Assistant Professor, Medieval or Early Modern History of Science, Technology, and/or Medicine | Rice University, Department of History dlvr.it/TD8GXF

literally anything could be construed as a geopolitical view or perspective

Finally, Barnard College profs will have to acknowledge the validity of both analytic *and* continental philosophy.

Really excited to be growing our African/African Diaspora crew at Rutgers-NB! Please share widely!

Ex-UF president Ben Sasse dished out $1.3 million to cater lavish dinners and social functions – a figure roughly double the amount spent by his predecessor and one that included a holiday party with a $38,610 sushi bar. Read my latest in South Florida Sun Sentinel sun-sentinel.com/2024/09/12/lav…

"The Dept of Ed can discharge student loans based on the age of a debtor. The Biden-Harris administration must use this provision to liberate older debtors without delay. If they don’t, millions of us will take these unpayable debts to the grave." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Looking forward to the quadrennial 'abolish the electoral college' discourse, which like every previous iteration, will go nowhere, only to be repeated four years from now.

If (as seems to be the case) TikTok is becoming an increasingly important place for public history, I wonder what this means for what historians should be doing (and how they are trained). Should we stop with the op-eds and podcasts and hop on TikTok?

For those who like academic audiobooks: my book exists as an audiobook! I have a few free access codes. If you’d like one, dm me and I’ll give them away in the order of requests received, until they run out. audiobooks.com/audiobook/the-…