Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13/04/2026Now, you might say, "What about all the knowledge we'd lose if we push all the abusive geniuses out of academia?!" But I'd counter and say, "Well, what about the knowledge we've already lost from the budding scholars whose careers they've derailed with their abuse?" 301545357 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJohn Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Re: Means Testing. When City College of New York was wondering about charging tuition to cover costs in the 70s they found it would cost more in admin and red tape then not charging but were told to do it anyway to teach students a lesson about responsibility 4432117 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026The statistical probability regurgitron is not a tool that will help you learn to think, write, come up with ideas, or clearly identify what YOU find interesting, useful, or worth researching more deeply. It is a ball and chain preventing you from learning how to do any of these things. Sorry! 8564102 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDPremee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 01/04/2026I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine. 6034541029 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL 231488569 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDBreakfast 4 Dinner Guy @playitleolubber.bsky.social · 31/03/2026The Supreme Court ruled today that a practitioner's religious beliefs are more important in treating you than any science bc science that counters one's religious beliefs violates the practitioner's right to free expression and exercise of their religious beliefs God, this country is dumb af 53978421716 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 29/03/2026I do think it’s very funny to convert to Catholicism as an ordinary if mildly famous person at the time only to have the Pope eventually become one of your biggest haters 554718530 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDRachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...wsj.comWNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel LaureateHarvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000. 7192492105 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.link.springer.comAre White Men Missing Out?: Differences in Friendship Closeness by Gender and Ethnoracial Identity - Sex RolesSex Roles - Research has consistently found that boys’ and men’s friendships are less close, intimate, supportive, and satisfying than girls’ and women’s... 6831101033 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDSteven Axelrod @stevenaxelrod.bsky.social · 24/03/2026ICE in the Houston airport Hunter, Daily Kos - Periodically, small packs of ICE agents wander by. Their job is guns. They are there to watch, and to have guns. They do not know the rules about toothpaste, and will not answer your questions... They are just there to watch you, and to have guns. 37090072650 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Go fash lose cash bb 20487821094 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 22/03/2026the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes 318351068843 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 20/03/2026From a piece I wrote about how every death is not a "death" but a murder. And how the conditions have been purposefully created to cause massive suffering, including but not in any sense limited to systemic murder. 4188102 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026My take on why many (white) progressives say that Israel is making the US go to war is that they would very much prefer that to be the case than to have to examine their own culpability and participation in America's white supremacist militaristic reality. So much easier if it's outsiders. 29754166 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDUncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/03/2026David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.” 15684481732 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDWeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 04/03/2026This is Koyuki. Please do not disturb her. She's in ice cream scoop mode right now. Needs to focus. 12/10 (IG: fuji_bull) 1509899912 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/03/2026this is what conservative students on university campuses really want: the freedom to say Nazi slogans, the n-word and call for violently killing Black people and more, without consequences of any kind. No protest from fellow students, faculty or admin. Utter impunity to be hateful little prats 38533 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026“The Epstein class sexually abuses women and girls with impunity.” “The Epstein class covers up sexual abuses.” “The Epstein class work together to punish people who speak out against what they’re doing.” Look, “the Epstein class” is men. 1052254482 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/02/2026Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line 15372601707 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDElise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 16/02/2026I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you. 331624565 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDelia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 07/02/2026My latest: Without anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics www.hauntologies.net/p/iranian-pr...hauntologies.netIranian protesters don't owe us an explanationWithout anti-authoritarianism, 'anti-imperialism' is just conservatism with left-wing aesthetics 18674228 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAllenk_81 @allenk81.bsky.social · 08/02/2026FAMU can't use the word Black on anything posted around campus related to Black History Month, to stay in compliance with Florida state laws against DEI. Black students can't use the word Black at their Historically Black College during Black History Month. 13940221483 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 06/02/2026Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle... 315140253362 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDMoira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026This indifference or enthusiasm for sexual violence is a cultural pathology born of misogyny, not a peculiar or unique degeneracy of the rich. You know people who have responded to rape like that. 10823159 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/01/2026the reason DHS officers wear masks is because it allows them to commit crimes with impunity. there is literally no legitimate reason for it. 368148383447 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDDavid Nir @davidnir.com · 28/01/2026Nope. Son of Holocaust survivor. My father was 11 when the Nazis invaded his hometown in eastern Poland. He survived only by fleeing to a different city with a false baptismal certificate. The comparison is apt. Carry on. 343092659 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJay Willis @jaywillis.net · 28/01/2026Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it 24858241251 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 26/01/2026The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis. 21559961396 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDAdrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 28/01/2026To be fair when it happened in Germany, my grandparents were probably also too busy correcting other people's historical comparisons to do anything about it. 527338 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention. 3846312013 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDmediumvillain @mediumvillain.bsky.social · 25/01/2026just gonna throw out a quick reminder that in America police kill a yearly average of 3 civilians per day, routinely in situations very similar to these ICE killings, and decades of explicit support for police impunity by US politicians is why ICE feels theyre able to get away with this right now 2336731513 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...economist.comEd tech is profitable. It is also mostly uselessIndependent research identifies few learning gains 13516257 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDStephen Semler @stephensemler.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Most of this year's ICE budget comes from last year's reconciliation bill. House Democratic leaders discouraged its members from offering amendments eliminating that funding. Didn't want the party to come across as anti-ICE. www.stephensemler.com/p/ice-budget... 15446179 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDdell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 24/01/2026the nyt style section vs. der spiegel 4143351196 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDNicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status. 577334788596 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDFirst Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 15/01/2026I mean, here we have a feel-good story of ordinary defiance. Pushing back against hate. But you, the reader, may know (as I did not) who Mark Harris is and that his husband is in fact legendary American dramatist Tony Kushner. This would be like if Saul Bellow or Joan Didion told you to get fucked. 141096250 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDBen Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained 6690692016 0
Liza Shapiro, PhD @depoulet.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Unrelated to sword but that haircut is super cute. 000 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDNY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/01/2026We wanted to understand what's going on in Iran. So we talked to three unvaccinated Joe Rogan listeners at an Arby's in Scranton. 321920216 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDDave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 08/01/2026checking in on elon musk, the guy who absolutely did not give a nazi salute last year 1153412746 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDjourdain searles @judysquirrels.bsky.social · 08/01/2026there is no reason for ICE to exist. immigrants aren’t doing anything wrong by trying to live and work and provide for their loved ones. I don’t care how people got here. if they want to be here that’s good. leave them alone. 02981733 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDGrapie Deltaco @grapiedeltaco.bsky.social · 19/11/2024“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say 2293332811524 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDChris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 03/01/2026 101326211 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo. 51197365697 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/01/2026If your position is that regime change should be forced on countries where the president does not respect democratic norms and regularly kidnaps opponents using an officially sanctioned paramiliatary, have I got news for you about your position on the United States 1481462177 0
Reposted by Liza Shapiro, PhDJadzia Axelrod 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 02/01/2026So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance. 53619442 0