brb printing this to hang outside the room where I'm doing my quals reading #phdlife

Today’s decision is decidedly *not* a win for all poor kids. Highly selective colleges and universities will focus more on personal essays and letters of recommendations, which always always always privileges kids with more resources.

We won. ❤️✊

Are you considering pursuing the #humanities in graduate school? This Thursday at 9am PST / 12pm EST, Kay, Karishma, and I are hosting a panel tailored to prospective KHumanities Scholars! Register here: lnkd.in/ev2fzaWp KnightHennessy Stanford University #phd

Calgary airport. I’m sure Virginia Woolf would have loved Skittles.

Today, in honor of Labor Day, I would like to tell you what I learned about class struggle--and U.S. literature--after reading 150 novels and story collections, as a member of the 2023 Pulitzer jury for fiction. 1/8

Yale school of public health not fucking around on tiktok

What kind of childhood makes a top scientist? Is it enough to have all the right traits (brilliance, grit, etc) or do you need the right family too? And why should we care? A 🧵 on our paper on the Nobel Laureates. A teaser: the income distribution of the laureates' fathers.1/N

Save 30% on #NewBook "Poor Things," by Lennard J. Davis, which argues that those who write about the poor but have not themselves been poor are governed by harmful tropes and stereotypes. #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies ow.ly/SHhg50TZS3r

"rising inequality is legitimated by the popular belief that the income gap is meritocratically deserved: the more unequal a society, the more likely its citizens are to explain success in meritocratic terms... the less important... a person’s family wealth and connections."

This is such good reporting from the The Harvard Crimeson: There are about 27,000 high schools in the U.S. Over the past 15 years, 1 in 11 students at Harvard have come from just 21 high schools. So 9.1% of Harvard students come from 0.07% of US schools. David Brooks

Someone tell Kim Kardashian what my partner and his lab have cooking. No poop, just RNA. #antiaging biorxiv.org/content/10.110…