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John Worsencroft

@johnworsencroft.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of History. Director, School of Human Inquiry at Louisiana Tech University. I research and write at the intersections of gender, war, society, and policy. USMC veteran.

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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I 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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OUR VEINS DEMAND EFFLUVIA RUNOFF
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
All gave some, some gave nothing.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Lol 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!
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
oh I'm sorry I thought you were curating a catalog of all Tech's failures here.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tech Point I and II plus CIC and LTRI
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
um, we actually did this twice, right?
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
You should probably just move now because those plants are going to kill you.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
What have you done?
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
How big?
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I have a similar thought every morning I wake up here.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
JEWELL 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
A poster for a talk by Katherine Rye Jewell
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
What'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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Meanwhile, 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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
i can't wait
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
A "kid" with a mortgage
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yes, 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]
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
8.5 years at Tech and I've been to zero games.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Our 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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Louisiana Tech: Preparing you for a future of sleeping in your office!
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I've lived all over the country and he is by far the ugliest billboard lawyer in the land.
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Attention! 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...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Thank 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...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I would join that political movement
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I, too, would like the president to give Shreveport a good National Guarding.
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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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...
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Assistant Professor of Sociology
Thank 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...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
ulsltu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LATECH...
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
Thank 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...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Hey, 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...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Have you asked Gemini what's going on?
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Shreveport is getting a Total Wine. The only news that could be better than this is a Trader Joe's
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Jamie K @crumpsalljamie.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
the 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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today 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!
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Every 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.
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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
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Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I think about this ALL THE TIME!
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Shreveport mentioned DRINK
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Come be my boss! www.higheredjobs.com/executive/de...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Karl Malone set the bar pretty high with his Little Bulldog Achievers Library Grant
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Haunting
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Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I 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.
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Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned
I 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...
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I'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.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
TYFYS
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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
A Louisiana Tech student is a counselor at Camp Mystic and helped save campers.
This is Emma Foltz. She is a hero. 
Emma is a rising senior at Louisiana Tech and camp counselor at Camp Mystic. 
When the water came rushing in, she helped save the lives of 14 girls. 
"She played an instrumental role in helping evacuate 14 of her campers to safety. Please join me in thanking Emma for all her hard work and bravery under immense pressure," said Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I would eat a whole vat of gelato that tastes like the bubble gum flavored amoxicillin.
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
It looks like a dumpling but that can't be right
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
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a woman says i 'm not like a regular mom in front of another woman
ALT: a woman says i 'm not like a regular mom in front of another woman
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John Worsencroft @johnworsencroft.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Thank You For Your Service and Sacrifice to Our University. We'll name a conference room after you, for sure!
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The 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.
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Madeleine Baker @madeleineebaker.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Academia has officially entered its late Soviet phase: students pretend to work and professors pretend to grade them
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