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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not sure we’ll make it to 2030 for the AI to destroy us

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not so much to celebrate these days but

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tag der Einheit came early this year

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Professors are the Enemy: panel discussion at USC today

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but your TA is most likely a grad student with thoughts, feelings, and even quite possibly, a name

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Rusty, how’s it going with the slides for tomorrow’s lecture?

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Professors are the Enemy. At USC, October 1, 12 PM. #academicsky #skystorians

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

How are those letters of rec going

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just a perfect day to be reading about the anthropocene, climate change, and the fossil economy with the grad students

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm excited to share my conversation with @danielagerson.bsky.social about her wonderful book, The Wanderers! @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social newbooksnetwork.com/the-wanderer...

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Especially poignant in these frightening times

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Reopening of Villa Aurora/Feuchtwanger Villa a year and a half after the Palisades Fire. Marta returns home!

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Everything sucks right now but this tree in the backyard

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Once again they’re lining up for German history

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

After a dazzling performance of Katz’s Sonata for four Four Paws, Rusty denies requests for an encore

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We’re really hitting the ground running this morning

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The service in this place is appalling. What does a cat have to do to get some grub around here

Orange cat sits impatiently on a counter stool

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Purrito: Lynx back at the vet today - still trying to explain the lesions and swelling in his mouth. Most likely an allergic reaction

Gray cat wrapped in a blanket on a vet’s examination table

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I’d like to introduce Rusty, my Friday afternoon napping partner.

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Check out my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social conversation with Sarah Zarrow about her wonderful book Displays of Belonging: Polish Jewish Collecting and Museums. @cornellupress.bsky.social 🗃️ newbooksnetwork.com/displays-of-...

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Rain in August in LA?! The world really is ending. And it’s gonna be a fun bike ride home

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The future of the past is finally almost here

Los Angeles airport with new airport train and iconic futuristic restaurant

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Seriously, Spelling Bee? Why the hostility towards psychoanalysis?

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Poor Lynx has allergies (note the swollen chin.) Not clear what he’s allergic to but I hope it’s not…cats

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I had to come myself and find that gash but I only see fences and troops and about 7 tourists

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nothing to see here just a Nazi propaganda film showing for an extended run on the upper east side in February 1940

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Nothing says you're a serious intellectual like grousing about not getting reimbursed. #skystorians

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The archive just the way I like it

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This would have been such a cool conference to go to. #skystorians “Mass Media & Modern Society,” 1959

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Grad school did not prepare me for this

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Alright, Mr. DeMille. I’m ready for my closeup.

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Very excited that this just arrived @osten.bsky.social : Catalog for the exhibition at the Medical History Museum Hamburg on “Lenin’s Death: Psychiatry, Pathology, Propaganda.” @skystorians

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Paul Lerner @plerner.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Research assistants not holding up their end today

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