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@_alyssacsmith
Weirdly, more people have followed me in the past hour than any other hour since I've been on Twitter. Just have to warn you that income is NOT a good measure of value of tweets!
I was scheduled to keynote a conference at
@Columbia
next fall. I have been watching to see whether freedom of expression would improve there. It's clear it is only getting worse and I will regretfully withdraw.
@_alyssacsmith
I'll bite. When I made full prof at UChicago 10 years ago I got a raise that brought me to $100K. Annual raises around 3% and one very lucrative move have me now over $170k.
The GOP just proposed new restrictions on the types of food eligible for purchase with SNAP benefits, putting even more pressure on families with children.
In addition, they would aim to keep families with more than one vehicle from receiving help. 👎
@nhannahjones
I don't feel responsibility for things my ancestors did, I feel responsibility for the ways those things continue to unjustifiably benefit me
@ReeInspired
I appreciate that she is thinking critically about her experience but I don't think it's internalized racism if you're white. I think it's just racism.
@_alyssacsmith
Also, when I made full professor (in the Humanities) was when I first started to make as much as the average male assistant professor at the university.
As
@NorthwesternU
faculty I stand in solidarity with the brave students exercising their first amendment rights in Deering Meadow & I call on the administration to negotiate in good faith toward a peaceful solution in alignment with NU Guiding Principles.
@katiemenn
@TraumaN4mdWitch
People who think a zygote can have state residency certainly think there is a living victim, and they hold power in many states, wrong as they are. The therapist is trying to protect the client
@mememe366
@AngryBlackLady
And this could have directly harmed *any* African American man with or without a bike helmet who happened to be in the vicinity.
One of the nice benefits of
@northwesternGW
's vote victory is that we'll soon be recruiting PhD admits in my department and I'm excited to get to tell them that if they join us they will be part of a union.
Has every academic institution done a 180 from the pandemic-era "let's give each other grace" to the post-pandemic "now's the time for 200% effort"? Like, worse pressure even than before covid but with covid still in the mix?
@LarryChicago
@Columbia
@JamesSchamus
There's a boycott requested by a number of student groups and it's possible for event organizers to request an exemption. The organizers of my event declined to request an exemption.
@mars1over1
@MiamiHerald
Because it's about forcing people to be incubators for the "domestic supply of infants" as much as it is demanding that they parent?
Who wants to a) help organize an alternative platform for CAA speakers who are unwilling to sign the digital release and/or b) participate in such a platform as a speaker? (Complete sessions also welcome.) Absolutely feel free to choose b without a,
@prisonculture
It looks like he was appointed in one of these newfangled "Professor of the Practice" positions that are non-tenure track, and he is asking for it to be converted into a tenure-line position with tenure, something completely reasonable for someone at his level, and they said no.
With permission of the very brilliant contributors, a PDF of ART AGAINST THE LAW, part of Chicago Social Practice History series, is available for free download at
@halfletter
. Lots that continues to speak to our present moment
Dear friends, we're launching as a basic listing service for art-related events. The initial impetus is to centralize College Art Association-related events that are publicly available; if people find this useful, it could take on a life of its own.
I recently tweeted about an author agreement for an edited volume that was extremely unfavorable to authors and did not at that time mention the press but now that I have formally withdrawn I'll add that it was
@Palgrave
. Practically speaking the worst stipulation is that (1/4)
Every once in a while I think about how my former dean, who knew my salary, told me that it wasn't good for young children to be in daycare and I should get a nanny instead, as she had done
@alternate_gait
@ReeInspired
I hear you but I also think internalized racism has a specific meaning (people subjected to racism who internalize it). I think it's worth taking the time to spell out the meaning you want, because it helps to understand where we have agency in changing it.
Why isn't Merleau-Ponty read and taught more? "It is certainly right to condemn formalism, but it is ordinarily forgotten that its error is not that it esteems form too much, but that it esteems it so little that it detaches it from meaning."
@joshtpm
I call BS. I have been sick nearly continuously since my first covid infection caused by a university event in 2023. To me, people wearing N95s in a college campus appear unusually caring, not menacing at all.
The Florida college system presidents just said they would stop all forms of training and policies *that oppose discrimination*. I am not sure they actually meant to state that so baldly. But that is what they said.
@fieldomics
@_alyssacsmith
Well, that's awfully nice. Your name does sound familiar. Re: worth every penny, UChicago tuition is way too high. The percentage of it that goes to humanities faculty salaries is a different matter.
My pandemic* book got press approval! (*not about the pandemic. Much of it based on work done prepandemic. But written up, submitted, revised, and resubmitted during the pandemic. Whew.)
@1goodtern
I keep noticing that in my city 50-60yos have the best vaxx rate. It makes sense. Working hard to support both their kids and their parents. But so few understand that it isn't enough
Reminder to contemporary art historians that there are older artists out there w/ amazing archives whose work has not gotten attention it deserves. Currently overcome by a small token of gratitude I received from an elder. Don't just study artists already getting lots of notice.
@Karnythia
They think that they can fill the giant gaping hole inside themselves with the jealousy they dream of inspiring, only to learn the hole just keeps growing
@SaronikB
Probably 75%. It took a year to write 1.5 chapter and 9 months later I had 4 chapters and the intro and conclusion. Conference paper, job applications (all unsuccessful), article submission deadline prodded chapter completion. 4th chapter was a wreck, written in ca. 1 month.
@_Eric_Reinhart
This is why they like to pretend there were true lockdowns in the let it rip countries/regions, because they don't want to admit that for most of 2021 and 2022, masking was the only mitigation (if any).
@JessupShannon
At the campground one year I interrupted a teen boys' game of keepaway (object being a teen girl's phone, which she was pleading for) by roaring "give her back her damn phone" from across the beach. They complied. I was pretty proud of myself for being that old lady
I didn't know anything about what went on in the Anthro department when I was first a grad student and then faculty at UChicago for 20 years but I saw enough gender discrimination and abuse of power to know that you have to be careful about giving the benefit of the doubt to
@AndrewLSeidel
1952, my grandparents brought a case to the Supreme Court to try to stop NY schools from pressuring students into religious education (it was technically optional but not really, in practice). They lost (& got hate mail telling them to go back to Russia—both born in US)
I'm excited about the dissertations my students are writing. My primary advisees and those whose committees I'm on. No exceptions.
They give me life & hope.
Remote teaching is MORE WORK. Teachers are being vilified for not wanting to die, not wanting their students to get sick and sicken vulnerable family members.
@einsteinforum
Was the only option to exclude the Black woman scholar, though? If her topic appeared tangential to the other papers, and this couldn't be addressed in the editorial process, why not commission an additional paper or two that would have helped enlarge topic/ make connections?
A billion crabs is a billion crabs and also synecdoche for the uncountable losses our planet and its life forms are experiencing due to anthropogenic climate change. I realize some tactics may be better than others but at this point I'll take whatever makes people pay attention
@MattBowlsTheGuy
@spacecowbot
Ha, I was just consoling my former student who has just started a tenure-track job that the 85-hour weeks (average, with some at 100) are going to get better as she gets more efficient and that I now as a full professor (making, granted, more than $100K) "only" work 50 hour weeks
@rmazar
@jessamyn
I was a kid of a professor and as a first-year student at an R1 I brazenly asked a professor to do an independent study with me and he agreed. It was a game-changer for my education. I see other kids with cultural capital familes do similarly and most first-gen kids would NEVER.
@a_fairplay
@madsmaru
@IlhanMN
Bernie's whole case depends on the people who are part of his movement building the power to get his agenda enacted. If they can't do movement building, it kind of matters.
@whstancil
There is a non-negligible chance that Bloomberg is actually worse than Trump. This is not true of any of the other candidates. He's an openly racist, sexually harassing Republican plutocrat. The idea that we should accept such a person as the Dem nominee is completely odious.
@LibyaLiberty
They should have given them to the children when there was time for the children to make their own memories and think of them as special things themselves. What am I supposed to do with someone else's stuff when i'm already thinking about downsizing myself?
Tell me you don't have kids without telling me you don't have kids: "Dear colleagues,
We invite you to attend:
Think Through Your Summer Planning with Wisdom, Intention, and Truthfulness
Friday, May 20, 2022"
@KRingelberg
@vjoshuaadams
I do lots of things including: giving them time to "re"read and discuss in small groups, highlighting in advance specific shorter page ranges to focus on, putting up a quote to ponder, keeping in my back pocket a topic for discussion that doesn't require having done the reading.