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Mick Gusinde-Duffy

@mickodopolous.bsky.social
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Bookish armchair radical. "Well, that's just, like, my opinion, man. . . ." Long, literate Editor-at-Large for @upittpress.bsky.social

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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
How are those "concepts of a healthcare plan" coming along Mr. President?" news.bgov.com/health-law-a...
news.bgov.com
Trump Administration Removes 760,000 From Obamacare Rolls (1)
Vice President JD Vance announced the Trump administration is taking hundreds of thousands of people off Obamacare plans, alleging that some were enrolled improperly and others don’t exist at all.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I often claim that Guinness cures all ills. This one might require a few more glasses. But well done, @undpress.bsky.social, for landing the US edition of this thought-inducing little gem.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
On the bright side, I just learned I'm still capable of being shocked
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"‘If you’re building Frankenstein, stop’: JD Vance dismisses calls for AI regulation" [Grauniad headline] He's trying to distract by triggering my (our) pedantry, isn't he? Hold my anorak . . .
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes, it would be nice to have authors' inquisitors contact me so I can hit them with full-on David Spade "and you are . . .?" shade.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
So I guess, as you say, I'll do my job and P&T committees should do theirs.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I feel your (and TT faculty's) pain. Yes, UP books inform P&T decisions, but I try to stress/remind authors that UPs are not formally responsible for tenure. We are merely trying to publish the best possible books we can for a community of readers well beyond a) PhD committees and b) P&T committees.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
As I was saying . . . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Why does the New York Times keep calling the left ‘divisive’?
The newspaper often uses the word to describe elections with progressive contenders, implying a previous whole destroyed by the left
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Well, that and the Keegan vs. Malcolm Macdonald FA Cup final.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
As the tributes are paid, I have this strange memory. On holiday in Tunisia, early 1980s: The beach vendors shuffle through the recumbent, sun-burned tourists calling "bonjour, guten tag, Kevin Keegan, fish & chips!" to identify the punters' preferred language.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wasn't "woke 1.0" the Reconstruction era? Your regular reminder that "woke" has always meant "aware" or that "attention must be paid" if we want more kindness and fairness. So please stay woke. #TedTalk
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sasha Gusev has a great new blog post on faculty hiring during the DEI era. Remarkable how much backlash there has been to what was an tiny and temporary bump in hiring Black, Latino, and Native faculty of about 1 person per R1 campus theinfinitesimal.substack.com/p/what-actua...
Demographics of R1 university faculty, 2001-2024
84.5% 80%
White 69.8%
60
40
20
8.9%
3.4%
2.9%
0.3%
2001
'05
'10
'15
'20
— Asian/PI 17.1%
lispanic 6.4%
Black 4.8%
'24 Other 1.9%Hiring counts for tenure-track positions at R1 universities
4,000 hires
3,797
• Non-URM 3,753
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2,000
2,254
1,000
623
623
298
→ URM 788
Black 348
2018
2019
2020
322
2021
2022
2023
2024
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And while I have you, "horse-race" media in general: what the fuck is "the soul of the Democratic Party" that we are supposedly squabbling over?
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And why do they talk-up the "anti-establishment" narrative rather than the PRO-establishing universal healthcare, public education, and more equitable economy aspirations of these candidates?
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Why does @npr.org feel compelled to describe progressive democratic socialist candidates as "self-described democratic socialist"?
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Be careful what you wish for . . .
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love UEFA's stand, but isn't it just dripping with hypocrisy or, best-case, sad irony? "This model has no place in world football. Football’s future cannot be dictated by the expectations of those whose first duty is to maximise financial return." Stable door, horse? www.uefa.com/news-media/n...
uefa.com
Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 national associations
UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Day made.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Cue the "Chelsea Pensioners" gags . . . www.theguardian.com/football/202... Chelsea explore surprise moves for Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson
theguardian.com
Chelsea explore surprise moves for Danny Welbeck and Jordan Henderson
Chelsea are understood to be in talks over move to sign Danny Welbeck from Brighton and Jordan Henderson from Brentford
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Lindsay Naylor @lbnaylor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
New commentary out with @embodimentlab.bsky.social co-facilitators Naznin Sultana and Dr. @nusrattm.bsky.social - Decolonising Displacement and Re‐Thinking Resilience rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1475... Out in the most recent issue of @areajournal.bsky.social
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
Click on the title to browse this journal
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The Colorado Sun ☀️ @coloradosun.com · 22/07/2026
Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change
coloradosun.com
Colorado drought increasingly linked to long-term climate change
Climate change has made a repeat of this year's historic low snowpack 14 times more likely to happen again, Colorado School of Mines researchers say.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Saka for England! (and Chelsea?)
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nice shot from the Irishman. It's coming home!
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
A great snapshot of the strange, entrepreneurial and institutional world of university press publishing. Happy trails to Alison Shaw.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
England's gonna England in the big moments. Just embarrassing.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Reece James is rusty.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Once again, 42 (percent) is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Forgive me, but "fearing for public safety an officer discharged his weapon" is one of the most asinine---and the most AmerIcan---statements I have heard for quite some time. Heart breaking.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Auf der Suche nach Zucker Sweet story.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
So England coach and Argentina coach both said essentially the same thing after their wins: "We got lucky; we can do better and need to for final game(s)." But British media (even the Guardian!) trying to manufacture "rift" beteen Bellingham and Tuchel. Fuck. Off.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Hope you're right. Can they consult VAR for that decision? I think not. So, so hard to determine simulation at game speed.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
And . . . simulation only gets a yellow if a foul is (incorrectly) given and there is "mistaken identity"? That's not enough to stamp out simulation.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Agree. Also, it was such a weird, no-threat position on the field to take that dive.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
New colleague at @upittpress.bsky.social, publicist Lesley Raines shares Pittsburgh's bookish gems with the London crowd. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
The best bookshops in Pittsburgh, USA - LSE Review of Books
In this guide, Lesley Rains takes us on a tour of the best independent bookshops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Altitude and attitude training for the . . . delayed big game.
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survister @survister.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
God bless the birthright citizen 😇
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Bastian Schweinsteiger . . . Zu deutsch? Diskutiert.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Grauniad subscription repaid in full . . . "Is Henry mean, or is he just French?" www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
The French aristocrat and the all-American idiot: Henry v Lalas is the World Cup’s most compelling battle
Fox’s broadcast at the tournament has become a story of two contrasting styles. And there is one clear winner
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Although "to be faaaaiiir" (h/t Letterkenny), you have to love the neue mannschaft, whose heroes today were of Kurdish and Afghan lineage.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Objectively brilliant (thanks to, Brit, David Bowie's inspiration. . . ?)
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I've been a German Ehemann and vater for a long, long time but am still usually "anyone but Germany."
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Cue the Gary Lineker football definition . . .
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Priceless.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I need to develop my Spanish. Or VPN-stream European/UK coverage.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ian Darke even worse.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Is there any discussion/news regarding World Cup pitches seeming slower (drier?)? Can't decide if it's just heat slowing players' play, or the actual pitch.
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
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Mick Gusinde-Duffy @mickodopolous.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Morocco looking pretty tasty
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