If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong. This is the staff absence rate for the seventh largest employer in the world. See the consistency of the absence rate leading up to the pandemic... Look at how it changed in 2020. And see where it's going *now*.

Fortunately, the academic job market has prepared me for crushing disappointment

"Five thousand University of California workers filed to form a new union in UAW Region 6 on Friday. “'This is a movement and a campaign that is really long overdue,'" said Nandini Inmula, a career services worker at UCLA." dailybruin.com/2024/11/08/500…

Sudan is still bleeding. Congo is still in crisis. Haiti is still destabilized. Remember them as you remember other people.

We are excited to fill TWO faculty positions in Design and Society: one tenure-track and one teaching-track. Eager to teach our students of Design, Innovation, and Society in studio classes? Does your research explore equitable design? Apply by 1/10 for full consideration :)

“In New York, a mother with no history of drug use lost custody of her toddler & newborn for 5 months after she tested positive for fentanyl that the hospital had given her in her epidural.” This state-sanctioned violence inflicts a very specific form of trauma that people don’t

Academia is deeply flawed

We could have spent the past 5 years improving clean indoor air infrastructure, funding Long Covid studies, embracing remote work, normalizing mass testing and masking, etc. Instead we got "Get your shot and go back to work." And here we are staring down another pandemic.

We’re looking for a teaching-track faculty member in the area of environmental sustainability, climate change, and society! Want to teach classes like “Environment & Society,” “Community Engagement in a Changing Climate,” and “STS & Sustainability Senior Project?” link below!

Amazon workers are on strike. Tomorrow, Starbucks United workers are starting a rolling strike. These workers are brave and putting it all on the line to demand respect from these mega corporations. We all must show solidarity: no crossing the picket lines.

Very few school shooters have gotten the death penalty. Yet the U.S. is trying to charge Luigi Mangione so he gets the death penalty for killing one man. You can kill dozens of kids and get a lesser sentence because their lives don’t matter as much as a CEO’s. That’s America.

I sued Yale to get this. Yale took infrared images of its peaceful student protesters during its spring encampment. They bought it from Skydio, a military weapons manufacturer, that has been one of the primary suppliers of drones to Israel since October 7th.

Solidarity with Amazon Teamsters who are currently on strike fighting against corporate greed & for their right to organize. Our workers deserve fair pay, safe working conditions, and dignity & respect in the workplace.