Ah the bone crushing weariness of precarity

‘Unlike anything today’: Gippsland fossil unlocks secrets of kangaroo that died out 46,000 years ago dlvr.it/T67Nfq

This morning, seven U.S.rabbis and Israeli activists were arrested by Israeli police at the Gaza border as part of a delegation of thirty rabbis and other peace activists with Rabbis for Ceasefire who were attemping to bring food supplies into Gaza through the Erez crossing.

It is quite wild to imagine that this “response” to student protest is in any sense a defense of an institution of higher learning. Depending on your perspective, it is either the destruction of a community or the exposure of a lie.

Good afternoon people of the UK

Today in The Nation we have a piece by Lujayn, a 14-year-old girl in Gaza, that has floored me every time I've read it. It's about what happened when an Israeli bulldozer came to destroy the house she was staying in, and you must, must, must read it. thenation.com/article/world/…

I am now in competition with friends and colleagues to keep my job. The university is going to lose some of the brightest, hard-working and generous people I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. How can a university care so little for teaching excellence and research?

‘the protests are robbing my Columbia students of listening to John Cage’s 4’33, the piece of music that is explicitly designed to force you to listen to…what’s around you.’ absolutely perfect

Whyyy was FitzSimons invited to and at a Wehrmacht reunion

this is madness

50 years ago (1974) there wasn't even a sex discrimination act. It was legal to pay women less, refuse them mortgages and require them to leave work on marriage So this is clearly a bit daft.

Of course, she’d get to read Twice-Told Tales the year it comes out

The truly tortured poets, the real sickos, don't think stuff like 'my bf reminds me of a tattooed golden retriever.' They think stuff like 'what if you were grieving and then there was a weird bird'

open the schools

anyone who uses 'woke' as a pejorative should not be taken seriously

barbara johnson stan account can the tenured speak

Advice for scholars: next time you lecture on Kant and revolutions at “Downing” (Darwin College) Cambridge, make sure your hair is neatly tied and that you’re not blonde. Or else your research impact will be on the The Spectator libido section.

Looking forward to presenting at AHA (Australia) in July and catching up with people! I'll be speaking about racial transformation in the Sydney Gazette before 1820.

barbara streisand wept