Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialDan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1hThe modern university contains within it the engines for 21st century regional economic development and bleeding edge science but also a class system from 1584 and a payroll infrastructure from 1927 1299
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialKelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 10hDang what a quote. Sarah Gille: “One of my office mates in the general exam, the qualifying exam for doing research at MIT, was asked: How would you explain chaos theory to your mother?” Her mother coded chaos theory w Lorenz. 17619
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialLenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 9hmy Econ dept at UMass Amherst is hiring 🎺 I love my job; our students and faculty are excellent, and we have a strong faculty union pls reach out if you or an excellent candidate you know is applying deadline 11/15 careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... 137
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialMike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 7hit's what their CEOs voted for www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/01/...cnbc.comMicrosoft contributes $1 million to Trump's inauguration fundMicrosoft would like President-elect Donald Trump to make sure that U.S. artificial intelligence policy in the next four years will support its goals. 1114
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialhoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 10hone of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math 7754204
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h“this concoction is a sickly sweet flavor we like to call ‘the event horizon.’ it will make you blind. when light returns, you will see Hell Itself.’l 3887225
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h“we call this flavor ‘the shoggoth.’ it opens the mind to non-euclidian geometry. it drove three of our top technicians to madness.” 762069140
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 10hthey did the thing 207127113000
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialNick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 11hLLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem 172287461
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialnoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 11h'devastating rebuttals to all potential arguments' is an awesome thing to say. i'm stealing that for my papers 119711
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialJonathan Mijs @jonathanmijs.com · 15hWe're hiring 📣 Assistant Professor in the sociology of Health & Aging as part of @bostonu.bsky.social cluster hire on 'The Future of Healthy Aging' Pref for someone with expertise in quantitative or computational approaches More info & apply: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32925academicjobsonline.orgBoston University, Office of Research Job #AJO32925, Assistant Professor Faculty Position in the Department of Sociology at the College of Arts and Sciences, with a focus on the Future of Healthy Aging, Office of Research, Boston Univers... 11014
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialbryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare... 99139484621
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialJoshua Mask @joshuafmask.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Starting in a US occupation that later shrinks by 25%+ is associated with ~5% lower cumulative earnings, despite slightly more quarters worked. www.nber.org/papers/w35614nber.orgDeclining Occupations and Career Outcomes in the United StatesFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 013
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialInside Higher Ed @insidehighered.com · 07/10/2026Alabama Makes State Workers Say ‘Gulf of America.’ Colleges Aren’t Spared. Republican lawmakers say faculty can only call it the Gulf of Mexico for “historical purposes” in academic courses. Journalists are constrained by the restriction, too. bit.ly/4rTEVJg #EDUSky #AcademicSky 195224
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialJason Kuznicki @jkuznicki.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Someone might argue for earlier, but for me the passing of David Boaz was the end of the era when libertarian unity was credible. 063
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yeah the thing about white elite obsession with rule by eugenics is they have to constantly caretake the power required to bend institutions to their will when their eugenics inevitably fail to be great: 418033
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Yes. I saw it with Lower Ed. Similar to challenging any orthodoxy, especially when you’re vulnerable to its collapse. You won’t convince them this is bankrupt. We who can live with the ambiguity of post austerity have to build better incentives for them, without them — and despite them. Sigh. 217730
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialTom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Farewell to Eva Marie Saint, the sharpest and sexiest of the Hitchcock blondes who got to wear one of the best dresses in cinema history 341860329
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialLuke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 06/10/2026jesus christ 1522624
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I will not spend 100 minutes of my life watching a low-rent Netflix rom-com. I will, however, spend 200 minutes of my life watching unwell zoomers recap a low-rent Netflix rom-com 2481128
surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I find the math wars here fascinating because I think it highlights a central tension of LLMs in academia, and also a common misperception of what research is. Very rarely is getting “the answer” the main project. It is the process that matters. How did you arrive at this answer is what matters. 180
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 06/10/2026As Terence Tao told New Scientist recently, this is not ok 03516
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026Regional baddies are a leading indicator of the spiritual health of a community 1374
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026We must support them 1301
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026Regional baddies are necessary to the baddie ecosystem 1537
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialSolomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 06/10/2026This it’s important… do i support Auburn??? ABSOLUTELY NOT! But i do support regional baddies!!!! 2863
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialBookshop.org @bookshop.org · 06/10/2026Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through midnight on 10/7, enjoy free shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores. 2854323350
surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Oh I can’t wait for the snarky video breakdowns of this weirdness in a week 000
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialThe Vegapunk of Hyenas @yeeniemcbeenie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Lmao holy shit 4644430
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 06/10/2026Life in the city is sometimes strange and confusing. 5324
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I don’t think 400 years of American spirituality can be more concisely summed up than by this sentence  853633
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask? 8436861438
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Thanks to Russ Vought for exposing this woke research 171046208
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/10/2026 __________ | | | | | | | | | |______ | | | | | | | | | | 1114416
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026for a minute @hurricanexyz.bsky.social has been saying that Legend of the Galactic Heroes is his favorite piece of political theory and now that I am 15 hours into the series I get it. i’m totally Yang Wen-li-pilled. 491859223
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialStephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Everything is engender 0323
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.social😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026 51434381
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialput trains in space @gunpowdertim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026loved this one from the summer 2723112
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialfuturedadOfTwo🙋🏻♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 20/06/2026 74130973095
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialUnfrozen Caveman Librarian @latefiennes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026 1668101343
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 05/10/2026this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites 27169431090
surlyurbanist.bsky.social @surlyurbanist.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Cats really don’t learn…even if you’re a nationalist you should still reject Bolsonaro because he’s clearly a US puppet. Beyond shameful. 010
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialRebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 04/10/2026If you need to teach a class on AI slop, you can get very far with these tags and the paper below which includes slopolicies (policy responses to slop). • www.404media.co/tag/ai-slop/ • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop 24513
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialFeena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"gadgetreview.comTrump's Border Wall Construction Destroys 6,500-Year-Old Arizona Geoglyph – Older Than StonehengeArizona's 6,500-year-old Las Playas Intaglio, the oldest dated geoglyph in the Americas, was irreparably damaged by border wall construction in April 2026. 8620241248
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialScott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 04/10/2026bsky.app/profile/sste... 1551
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026if it helps: there's a version of the dinner conversation where we're imagining the offduty ICE agent as the "other side" and there's a version where we're imagining "the new guy in our union who doesn't show up to many meetings and listens to a dodgy podcast or two" 722014
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026very true, as the people yelling at Justin are rightly pointing out, that the calls for bipartisanship, civility, and agreement across difference are often weaponized to keep ghastly views and people warm and comfy in polite company. also true that we all need to develop a middle gear 627611
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026if I support Local Ballot Initiative #47 this year and you oppose it, are we as human beings on different political "sides" or do we just not perfectly align on every constituent issue? should we give the same answer whether Initiative #47 is a soda tax or a referendum on genocide? 924913
Reposted by @surlyurbanist.bsky.socialOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Justin's getting a lot of shit for this and I get why people are mad about it, but I think part of what's going on here is the distorting effects of the background context of two-party politics as the default way we sort people into "sides" and the downstream effects of how we interpret disagreement 2630027
