Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If they truly represent their state, no, they will never learn from their obvious failures and never change direction. 010
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Whatever it is Eric Schmitt is doing, a reminder that the people who bankroll his campaign are still getting their payoffs.stltoday.comBoeing lands contract to build 'next-gen' Navy fighter. Schmitt lauds St. Louis roleThe award marked a major victory for Boeing, which had sought a new fighter jet program to replace its aging F/A-18 and F-15 production lines in north St. Louis County. 030
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026I am not joking when I say this. Ai will spare you the envy of other’s talents The jealousy of people cheering their accomplishments The pain of gravity’s pull on your own limitations The unbearable bliss of being a human on this Earth 050
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Glad someone is finally remembering higher ed’s true purpose: artificially inflating real estate prices in trendy urban zip codes. 1227
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Missouri GOP is absolutely gonna run Sophie Cunningham in place of Eric Schmitt in 2028. 241
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026The Republican party is now staffed nose-to-tail with the sort of dweeby College Republicans who despise anything so common as sports so, no, none of them knew. 250
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Schmitt also maybe lies here because I don’t think we was ever actually a prosecutor? He was a corporate lawyer who got pipelined to Attorney General because he was too stupid to think for himself. 040
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Missouri continuing to prove why it should have its statehood revoked. 270
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Partly I think this moral hierarchy flows from high-stakes testing that has trained students to associate stressful, memorization-heavy work like engineering and nursing with rigor and research-intensive, expressive and creative work like the humanities with fun. 120
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Exactly when did we decide the purpose of higher ed was to pit every branch of knowledge against each other, Thunderdome-style, to determine who gets to eat? 2229
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The “skills” framing also treats students as employees whose productivity must in turn be maximized, driving everything from Ai adoption to punitive censorship to Pinkerton-style crackdowns on protests. 1165
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Home office window is well placed for warbler migration season. 160
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Right in the title: “Julius Fucking Caesar” 140
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Not for nothing all of these shows are basically “What if we rewrote ‘Fargo’ but made Jerry Lundegaard seem cool and dangerous?” 010
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026History remains unmatched at ruining undergrads’ career plans. (Also, so so proud of Sam) 1172
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 26/09/2026When the Virginia Company is #goals.nytimes.comThese Tech Utopians Want to Build a City for the Post-A.I. World (Gift Article)After a sprawling world tour, Praxis, a New York-based, crypto-backed “digital nation,” has signed a deal to build a physical city in Uruguay. 120
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I don’t know who needs to hear this but you can’t outsmart people who don’t know what they’re doing. 1207
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Appropriately, eduroam works everywhere except my home institution. 120
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is why the battle for public memory is so crucial. You can turn a shallow decision into a greater principle through the judicious use of power, narrative, and repetition and don’t just “turn the page.” 170
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The only question I have about the afterlife is how long it will take for St. Louis Commissioner of Revenue Gregory F.X. Daly to find my new address in hell. 040
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026At this point it would be appropriate to refuse to seat Missouri’s entire congressional delegation, Thaddeus Stevens-style. 392
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ah weekend Bluesky, where we all kick back, grab our longest knife, and lunge for the nearest throat. 130
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026It seems worth pointing out that this is a very small-c conservative platform of constitutional order backing social stability backing financial stability. And that’s actually good and okay. 151
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The millions our admin spent on branding, completely squandered by picking a dumb press fight with the student paper. 110
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Seems bad that St. Louis’s entire moral infrastructure rests on one single, kinda shabby coffee shop. 3110
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a historian there is a comfort in knowing previous eras certainly had their rationalist-AI-sex-cult equivalents but oops there’s no record so guess we can keep pretending events turned on simple things like wheat blights or plague or whatever. 1100
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 14/09/2026FIRE’s people must be on campus if this is getting to the Chronicle. Our admins are not ready for this. 130
Reposted by Robert PaulettKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 13/09/20263. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/ 651064
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Whatever, I got mahjong three times tonight and can’t none of you tell me nothing. 070
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026And every blue-state admin is looking at this and thinking “Gotta catch up to that!” 010
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seriously, what percentage of the current economy is basically people pointing a (metaphorical) gun at higher ed and demanding money? 33811
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Even for just old-fashioned pork barrel political reasons, these board members should be run out of town for sending taxpayer dollars to Silicon Valley instead of keeping them in Amherst. 030
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Talking my co-teacher through rubric withdrawal, sponsor-style. 020
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026After 9/11 you had to go out and buy a stereo that lit up like a slot machine. It was the law. 1101
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“I bring such innovations as ‘debunking a metaphor that no one thinks is literally true’” 131
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I don’t like to think of myself as the last generation of working historian. I prefer to think of myself as the first generation of folk revivalist historian. 1304
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Or you could, y’know, just tax some motherfuckers.stltoday.comMissouri is a long way from hitting sports betting goals. Officials are counting on the NFL.State officials say they aren't concerned. The NFL season, which kicks off Wednesday, will bring in more than $13 million by the end of November, they say. 041
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 07/09/2026With its combination of high-toned political and media commentary, oddball pop culture obsessions, and unapologetic smut, Bluesky is clearly the alt-weekly of social media platforms. 061
Reposted by Robert PaulettChanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 06/09/2026It’s actually ok to be a person who does not enjoy doing research but then you should not be doing research for pay 464068
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Ah so just doing the same thing and expecting different results. 240
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 04/09/2026stlpr.orgAre the stars aligned for a downtown St. Louis renaissance? Spencer and Kehoe say yesGov. Mike Kehoe and other officials say two new economic development laws aim to help downtown St. Louis recover from decades of decline. 010
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 01/09/2026They finally gave us a New Thing in the humanities building for the first time in 10+ years and it’s… …soap dispensers you can’t actually put your hands under. 490
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Sigh, old enough to remember Ferguson when “stay woke” meant “beware of white moderates who will tie your movement up in language games and tokens of false progress.” 1213
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Skipped the dean’s 2+ hour, 83-slide “state of the college”powerpoint and feeling pretty good about that choice. 140
Robert Paulett @robertpaulett.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ah, but you forget 65% of half-assed is 32.5% 120