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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20h

Per the Middle East Studies Association, since October 7, 76 North American academics have been fired for speaking out against the genocide in Palestine. Two-thirds of those people are non-white. 16.5% are Jewish. afi.mesana.org/resource/les...

Retaliation goes far beyond firing. Of 196 recorded incidents of employer retaliation against employees speaking out on Palestine, nearly 40% (76) resulted in termination. Retaliation that does not rise to the level of termination is an even larger phenomenon.
All categories of academic workers are at risk. Of the 162 individuals whose employment status was disclosed, 30% involved non-tenure track faculty or instructors, and 36% were tenured.
People of color are disproportionately affected. Of the 134 cases recorded in the AFI database in which respondents’ identification is known, two-thirds were people of color: 30% SWANA; 10.5% Black; and 27% other POC. Additionally, 16.5% identify as Jewish. More than half of those targeted whose gender is known are women. Such retaliation compounds the abuse of already racist and sexist work environments.

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Columbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 22h

Now available! Opening a window onto the colorful world of the Ming court and the civic lore of Silk Road travelers, THE BOOK OF CHINA shows how travel and cultural contact could inspire political imagination across continents. buff.ly/7ZjEwii @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social #TranslationStudies

Graphic announcing the release of The Book of China: A Persian Merchant’s Description of the Ming State for the Ottoman Court by ‘Ali Akbar Khatayi, edited and translated by Kaveh Hemmat, John Curry, and Hyunhee Park. The book cover appears beside a quote from Sharon Kinoshita: “‘Ali Akbar Khatayi’s Khataynameh offers a delicious account of sixteenth-century China.” Text reads: “Now Available!” and “Save 20% with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.”

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👻ZH00000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.bsky.social · 22h

What? Sorry. Ahem. What?

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Dr Stuart McKie @bigfridge224.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

30,000 job losses in one of the few sectors we are still genuinely world-leading, and zero national conversation beyond tuition fees and loans. UK Higher Ed is sinking and apparently no-one has noticed.

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Dimitri LH @dimitrilh.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

since the artist was never credited, ill post it here: She is on FB/Instagram as Andreaanimates She is also on Youtube as Andrea Love Here is the waffle video from her channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbSq... PLEASE CREDIT THE ARTIST, ALWAYS!

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FELT STOP MOTION Breakfast Compilation

YouTube video by Andrea Love

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𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥🎃𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ💀𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Ruin a book by adding a word. The Romance of the Three Burger Kingdoms

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

AHHHHHHH THE ONLY REASON HE EVEN STAYS TO DIE AT TROY IN THE ILIAD IS TO AVENGE PATROCLUS. IT'S A POEM ABOUT HIS RAGE. THE OPENING LINES ARE PRETTY CLEAR WHY CAN'T A SINGLE DEFENDER OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION READ A SINGLE THING FROM THE WESTERN CANON AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yeah he got his MBA from ICMS, and he said he really liked one professor he had, Louis Barnes. I didn't know he was head of the program I have to ask him now if he knew your dad!

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

My father also got an MBA from there and very much admired the man who signed that diploma. (It was also my grandfather's name, but I was told it was for both of them.)

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So you'll never believe where my middle name came from.

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

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Asian Review of Books @asianreviewofbooks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

✒️ Today, Phyllis Teo reviews “Up the River of Time: The Chinese Painting Tradition of Qingming Shanghe” by Cheng-hua Wang @harvardpress.bsky.social buff.ly/A0n6nnu

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Julia Azari @juliaazari.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

yup ,exactly. we don't need another "which college majors pay best" chart, we need a society-wide excavacation of where the market is failing to meet society's needs

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Deaths like Louisa's are predictable and preventable and we have ample data on where cyclists (and pedestrians) are most at risk. It shouldn't take a "firestorm" after an unnecessary death to make safety changes.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thys ys a refuge. Thys ys a quiet shore. Thys ys a forest full of lost songs. Thys ys a hope machine. Thys ys a treasurye of languages. Thys ys a beacon for wanderers. Thys ys a workshop for the broken heart. Thys ys wher we meet across tyme and space. Thys ys wher dreames begin. Thys ys a library.

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

get in loser we’re hating leaf blowers

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Jason Furman @jasonfurman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is what crowd out looks like.

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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...

A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Seems bad. *Many* selective colleges have higher admit rates for men than for women. This difference seems anomalous, at least among research universities, no? Or no?

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

And what about this pun: "Evangelium", made of an image of the biblical "Eva" and a few letters. Halleluja.

Another detail: a small woman and a tree with a snake (Eve), followed by "ngelium". This reads as "Evangelium".

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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"Christ, what an asshole"

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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

never the wrong time for this classic

Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?"
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That ys great! The starte ys an Earthe Quake -- Foweles, Serpentes, An Aeroplane -- And Lenny Bruce nys not afrayde

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 02/10/2026

Listen: I don’t want to minimize the danger of high e-bike speeds. But if the problem here is that stores sell e-bikes that can drive faster than legal limits, then where’s the story about how literally *every car dealership has been doing the same thing for decades*?!?

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Hidden cameras show some stores unlocking speed limits on e-bikes, selling e-scooters that go up to 120 km/h | CBC News

A new hidden camera investigation by Marketplace shows how some stores are selling e-scooters and e-bikes with top speeds much higher than provincial speed limits and with recommended rider ages young...

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This Day in Labor History: October 2, 1968. The Mexican military slaughtered students protesting in the Tlateloco Plaza at the edge of Mexico City. The Tlateloco Massacre demonstrated the complete corruption of the Mexican Revolution’s ideals!!!

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"

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Runs with scissors in the dark @tevistickles.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Capybarra is just exhausted.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Do yourself a favor and read this for your local elections before you fill our your ballot. It's really useful now and will be really useful after the election.

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Amateur Expert Opinions @amateurexpertop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i'm becoming more convinced that Angine de Poitrine, specifically, exploding worldwide represents a "fuck you!" inflection moment/movement toward these greasy dweebs who want to artificially de-skill music & other arts

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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 29/09/2026

I was negotiating with one of my medical providers, as I needed to delay a thing till I made some money (explaining that I was pitching a new book as we speak). She said: “Why don’t you just become a social media influencer? That’s how everyone sells books.” Now—you probably know the answer. But: 2/

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

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Dr Katie Twomey @k2mey.eurosky.social · 28/09/2026

This is quite cool. My university is the first organisation in the world to force Microsoft to allow us to turn off copilot summaries in Word 365, after a backlash against it from staff (including, very vocally, me). That cannot have been easy for our heroic IT people so hats very much off to them!

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Sleestak @sleestak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

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Alexander Jabbari @ajab.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Honored to give a talk next week at the University of Chicago in the lecture series in memory of Frank Lewis

What Does Grammar Do? Some Answers from Persian Philology

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Elias G Saba @egsaba.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What a headline, lmao. Two of every fact!

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Analysis of 200,000 films released between 1994 and 2023 found that on average, films written and directed by women make higher profits, even though their male counterparts are routinely awarded bigger production budgets www.thetimes.com/article/64f9...

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Show me the money? Films directed by women make the most profit

But research also finds every movie of the past 30 years with the biggest production budget was directed by a man, leading to renewed allegations of misogyny

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

MESA should be there too, maybe it's in the wash?

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Proposal: all academic job & similar applications should require a photo of your conference & department tote bags. Prove that you're REALLY part of the profession and how. (Currently hanging chez moi: Iranian Studies x2, IU Bloomington Comp Lit, AHA, Picatrix (bag to advertise a book apparently)

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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

My higher-ed reform policy is basically: 6 year undergrad, big cheap state schools, let professors fail a lot more students, throw enough money at all the other problems this creates. Failure is normal, you do not need to worry about scholarships

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John D. Bikefeller @desirepathtarjuman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I don't think they're suggesting that! Or even saying RLE was a bad idea altogether. The problem is more that it crosses SSL and Metra tracks with no connection to those services.

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Star:Line Chicago @starlinechicago.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No one's hurt more by the "CTA's for the city, Metra/Pace are for the suburbs" mentality than Far South Siders. We need to be able to use the right-sized tools for our regional transit demand regardless of wherever the city/suburban line happens to be drawn, which is why NITA needs to be bold.

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

… if we don’t discuss how the attack on cultural studies was about PURPOSELY undermining the effectiveness of humanities None of this matters Cultural studies did this got successful and admin didn’t like the result and then sacrificed them to the right And their “colleagues” watched

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