John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I think of it as pushing marbles up a hill. Every time you turn your attention to one, the rest start rolling back to the bottom. 010
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Lol of course he voted for the PACT Act, which dramatically expanded access to care and disability. It's wild how the politics have shifted on this among Republicans in the last few years! 140
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 06/07/2026oh I'm sorry I thought you were curating a catalog of all Tech's failures here. 110
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 11/06/2026You should probably just move now because those plants are going to kill you. 010
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I have a similar thought every morning I wake up here. 010
Reposted by John WorsencroftDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026JEWELL That's right, we've got @katejewell.bsky.social coming to Louisiana Tech tomorrow to talk about college radio and rock in the 1980s. If you're in or around Ruston, join us at 4 pm in Wyly Auditorium to kick off the annual College of Liberal Arts HOOTENANNY 1102
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026What's sick is that the university pays roughly the same amount every year to athletics to keep the program afloat. Every fucking year, the College of Liberal Arts makes and the Athletics program takes. 170
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Meanwhile, we asked the university for modest raises to begin addressing decades of stagnant wages and salary compression and we were told to shut up and get back to work. 020
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Yes, there will be dedicated recording space in the new building. Also, in the meantime, we have space in TVAC that would be suitable for podcasting, if you were itching to get something started sooner... [no pressure, just a thought] 000
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 31/12/20258.5 years at Tech and I've been to zero games. 000
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Our campus visits over the past couple years are averaging about $2500 per candidate— and two of our searches *failed* last year! Oh, and our department's operating/travel budget hasn't gone up since 2013, but sure, this whole conversation sounds grounded in reality. 110
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Louisiana Tech: Preparing you for a future of sleeping in your office! 030
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 25/10/2025I've lived all over the country and he is by far the ugliest billboard lawyer in the land. 110
Reposted by John WorsencroftDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Attention! We are hiring in sociology/criminology. I would appreciate your help in spreading the word. I'm on the search committee and will do my best to answer any questions. Thanks! ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor of SociologyThank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Tenure track, nine-month position. Review of applications begins immediately and will contin... 12421
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 30/09/2025I, too, would like the president to give Shreveport a good National Guarding. 110
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 26/09/2025"they need to spend department money" lol I can't even get faculty reimbursed for conference registration half the time. 051
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor of SociologyThank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. Assistant Professor of Sociology. Tenure track, nine-month position. Review of applications begins immediately and will contin... 000
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.comAssistant Professor of Political ScienceThank you for your interest in employment with Louisiana Tech University. Assistant Professor of Political Science. Tenure track, nine-month position. Review of applications begins immediately and wil... 100
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025Hey, the School of Human Inquiry at Louisiana Tech is hiring two assistant professors (tenure-track), one in political science and one in sociology. Come work with us! Job ads to follow... 100
Reposted by John WorsencroftDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Shreveport is getting a Total Wine. The only news that could be better than this is a Trader Joe's 2101
Reposted by John WorsencroftJamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else. 17088592021
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Today I start my ninth year at Louisiana Tech, and my second as director. One more year and I'll get a set of steak knives! 010
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Every history survey I teach begins with two weeks of information literacy training. In feedback at the end of the quarter, students frequently tell me that learning how to identify credible sources online was the most valuable lesson they learned in my class. 010
Reposted by John WorsencroftKelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...nytimes.comProsecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent 1185257939
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 07/08/2025Come be my boss! www.higheredjobs.com/executive/de...higheredjobs.comAssociate Dean for Coordinated Graduate Studies, Liberal Arts R-1670 - HigherEdJobsJobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers. 020
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 05/08/2025Karl Malone set the bar pretty high with his Little Bulldog Achievers Library Grant 010
Reposted by John WorsencroftBob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.historyrespawned.comReviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History RespawnedI promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca... 38555159
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 20/07/2025I've done something like this in the past. In every survey, we would spend a couple of weeks going over "the basics" including note taking. I would collect their notes each week, as an assignment. 110
Reposted by John WorsencroftDrew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025A Louisiana Tech student is a counselor at Camp Mystic and helped save campers. 0326
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I would eat a whole vat of gelato that tastes like the bubble gum flavored amoxicillin. 120
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2025It looks like a dumpling but that can't be right 100
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025media.tenor.coma woman says i 'm not like a regular mom in front of another womanALT: a woman says i 'm not like a regular mom in front of another woman 020
John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 08/05/2025Thank You For Your Service and Sacrifice to Our University. We'll name a conference room after you, for sure! 110
Reposted by John WorsencroftCarly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025The talking point that little girls have to settle for fewer dolls to soften the collapse of the consumer economy is genius. Women be shopping, and this whole thing smacks of gender. 431217158
Reposted by John WorsencroftMadeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Academia has officially entered its late Soviet phase: students pretend to work and professors pretend to grade them 0232