Excellent new op-ed from Catherine D. Tan on what's wrong with MAHA and Trump's pick for Surgeon General.

Perseverance has its limits. Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resign…

A student titled her file, "Its done!!!!!! party timee!! .doc" I love it.

I had never seen my book in the wild before…

I have encountered far too many spiders in my house this month. I am one spider away from releasing a bunch of bats in here.

In my other life, these hook cuts are kind of a big deal. I’m kind of impressive to a small group of women working in a garage.

I love how former students come back to celebrate graduation. This one is off to start her PhD in the fall!

I ate an enormous lunch and am now too tired to work. So, this is what my dog would look like if she had my bob.

Installing a floor length mirror in front of the toilet is some antagonistic interior design.

This country is fucked up but some kind of utopia exists with these young subterranean kpop dance groups at Moynihan.

✨ I feel deeply honored that Policing Patients received the Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the Law and Society Association. I love being part of this smart, engaged, and generous community of scholars ✨ Law and Society Princeton University Press WashU Sociology Harvard Radcliffe Institute

WEB Du Bois’s tailoring and laundry receipts.

I told my friend “well just have her meet us at happy hour.” Apparently 8 year olds can’t just walk to places.

Not to be overconfident in my stained glass skills… but I could probably bang this out in a month.

Same coin. Anti-DEI orders assume people of color can’t possible be qualified. Cries of reverse racism assume white people can’t possibly be unqualified. nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/…

Wow. So, the call a cuckoo bird makes literally sounds like a cuckoo clock. For the last two days I just assumed someone in this village had a broken clock.

Is there a word, in any language, for missing food from a specific restaurant that doesn’t exist anymore? I feel like German or Japanese should have something. Anyway, I miss the Russo’s meatball sub in Watertown MA.

Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani generate a kind of enthusiasm that the Democratic Party needs to learn from and lean into. Playing it safe is what’s risky. nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…

US planning to pull support from Gavi, which provides vaccines to children in poor countries. And effectively it’s what’s happening here at home. Mandate changes will create barriers to access and affordability. nytimes.com/2025/06/25/hea…

This week—the field of fieldwork.