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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The New School's announcement of its termination of tenured faculty is a tragic echo of 1979. Facing demands from accreditors to increase graduate faculty in certain areas, its administration advocated the closure of departments, described as long running “deficit operation[s]”

Protestor holding a sign that reads RIP UNIVERSITY IN EXILE 1939-1979 BORN OF TYRANNY DIED OF SAME

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Philosophy is like a box of slop chocolates

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Always a good day when I can post the Hopkins monkey story (Washington Post, 10/6/1913)

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excuse you. Middlemarch is one of the funniest novels ever written, and it holds up incredibly well. Stuff like this slaps:

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hey - the world is dark, but here's a white-headed woodpecker!

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Always been a dream to get a photo of one eating from one of these

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Is anyone working on the Oscars-style in memorium for the rule of law yet?

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you go to the Washington Post website and your browser isn't maximized, it now redirects you to their AI search tool. In fairness to the AI, I also have no good answer to this question.

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The Times: No one ever talks about the upsides to ethnic cleansing

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

The only solution to the crisis in Humanities hiring is creating more jobs, but this hist the bullseye on the abusive demand for bespoke, multi-volume applications (90% of which will never be read) so committees down on their own work by offloading it to applicants www.chronicle.com/article/were...

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Posting another bird so I can delay my departure for the gym by a few more minutes.

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hi everyone! Here is another bird (I should be writing... shhhh)

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Jonathan Strassfeld @jonathanstrassfeld.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Well this is a pleasant surprise - Audubon Society just shared one of my photos! www.instagram.com/p/DDf66LnR3-k/

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