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Miriam Posner

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3 years

It’s interesting to consider, re. supply-chain shortages, that COVID doesn’t infect machinery or transport; just people. So every time you can’t find something, that’s a sick person. Every missing item, that’s a sick person.

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2 years

Reading a book with footnotes instead of endnotes and, sorry haters, it's SO much better.

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3 months

As a Jew, I keep thinking that this horror is the evilest possible legacy of the Holocaust, that it could warp history in such a way that the descendants of those they tried to exterminate would themselves commit genocide. It’s so perverse it takes your breath away.

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3 months

Almost 200 UCLA faculty on impromptu zoom call to coordinate respone.

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3 months

OK, expect UCLA faculty and staff on the front lines soon, in all our grey-haired, arthritic splendor. We're slow, but we get there.

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4 months

It is hard, when you’re 19 (or really any age), to understand that just because your feelings are deep and sincere, it doesn’t mean that they represent a transcendent truth.

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Miriam Posner

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20 days

At the airport, heard a guy in a pink popped-collar polo say into his cell, “Yeah, he’s from Appalachia, wrote a book about it, really smart guy” and got a sick feeling.

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

I was putting my son to bed last night, thinking what a world he is, so funny and kind and complicated, and I lost my breath, thinking: they’ve slaughtered more than 10,000 children, each one as precious and beloved, in my name.

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Miriam Posner

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3 years

Man, fuck your flowers and cards, this country detests mothers and exploits care like a weakness. I was alive this past year, I saw us get run over and left for dead, I’m not stupid. Keep your flowers.

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3 months

If you can murder a child, then nothing you believe matters.

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2 years

“I’ll be brief.” —academic who is lying

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5 years

Got the stinkeye from an old man, I assume because of my EAT THE RICH t-shirt, and it’s like, c’mon, none of us in this Denny’s are gonna be on the wrong side of this.

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3 months

It just annihilates meaning, because everything I was raised to believe—tikkun olam, never again—is revealed as vacant.

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@miriamkp

3 months

Hearing from fac and staff who were there last night about how principled and disciplined the students were, insisting on deescalation. So proud of and angry for our students.

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

Police have now confiscated this banner and arrested the faculty holding it.

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4 years

Time to yell the annual ground rules for learning tech together in my class.

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2 months

My university is like, don’t talk to the press don’t post to social media we have a new office of Punishment and Watching we hate you and everything you stand for and would fire you if we could and I’m just like…please…I can’t afford to go to the dentist…

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3 months

You know it's serious if faculty will show up for a meeting.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 years

I was thinking last night that we’ve been talking about supply-chain problems as a result of an epidemic, but ultimately they’re both the result of the same thing: the fact that we’re all connected to each other, despite what we might insist or wish.

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3 years

(People, really, but it’s hard to imagine “people” in the abstract, and what COVID makes visible is that the supply chain is human beings.)

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@miriamkp

1 year

LOLOL I was looking for storyboarding software for my students and found Storyboarder, which looks great, but I was like, why is it free? I don't think I've ever seen a software company be quite this candid.

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

Everything on your CV should count double if it was completed two feet from a screaming baby.

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

Do you ever feel like it’s weird that we’ve accepted the idea of planning for a retirement that will take place at roughly the same time the ocean will turn to acid but can’t get that latter thing through our heads?

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

Sorry, faculty and staff!!!

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

It is hilarious to me that people insist that Github is easy to learn. The blank incomprehension on my students' faces as I walked them through a push today was...memorable.

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

I cannot stress to you enough that my husband and I will both be working full time while attempting to be our daughter’s second-grade teacher. Again, I know you’re sick of hearing this, but it continues to be true and somehow not a national emergency.

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Miriam Posner

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5 years

I have a piece over at @newyorker !

The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives

By dragging icons on a screen, supply-chain managers schedule factory work down to the second.

www.newyorker.com

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Miriam Posner

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1 year

Sewed a new cover for my ancient IKEA office couch and feeling very pleased with myself!

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Miriam Posner

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1 year

I get so, so tired of being called upon to explain the value of *reading fucking books*. If you tell me you can’t see why art, literature, and philosophy are worthwhile human endeavors, you’re either a grifter or a GD idiot.

College is remade as tech majors surge and humanities dwindle

Two higher-education trends are colliding at the University of Maryland: booming enrollment in computer science and plummeting student demand for humanities.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

Highly controversial display at the Iowa City Public Library!

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

Heyyyyy I won the department's teaching award! That is so nice. Thanks, students -- I'm truly moved and honored. I know I'm not a perfect teacher, but I'm always trying to do my best by you.

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Miriam Posner

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4 months

We’re all entitled to feel however we want, but maturity requires that you analyze those feelings in light of material reality.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

2 years

Think I’m going to have to turn down a fellowship I really want because we can’t make the childcare work. This sucks.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

2 years

It's so funny to me when fancy profs act snooty, because even if you're huge in your field, it means you have like 20 admirers. The magic disappears as soon as you leave the conference! You still have to wait in line at Trader Joe's like the rest of us.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

6 years

Gonna take a bag of Goodwill donations out to the car so I can drive around with them in the trunk for a few months.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 months

I really feel like I’m going insane. Tens of thousands of people are being killed, with nowhere to flee, and Big Thinkers are still acting like it’s some kind of moral quandary. It’s not! It’s very clear!

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

Oh, good, they fixed the Airblade.

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

Every evening I think, I’ve done nothing all day. Except keeping two children alive, healthy, fed, entertained, & emotionally OK, plus a house clean & nice to spend time in. It’s a good reminder both that domestic labor is real labor & that it’s easy to subconsciously devalue it.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

4 years

This is why I can’t answer your email.

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Miriam Posner

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1 year

OK, one super-easy thing I did last year that almost every student thanked me for in evals was listing an estimated time-to-read (or -watch or whatever) for everything on the syllabus. I know some people don't like that kind of thing, but you can see why a student might.

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

One persistent mystery of this week has been why 1) the Zionist attackers were permitted to erect a Jumbotron broadcasting footage from 10/7; 2) why the Jumbotron *stayed up* and broadcasting footage for days. Many, many people begged UCLA admin to cut the power or take it down.

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Miriam Posner

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2 years

One thing people don't mention about academic writing: most academics don't actually have access to professional editing. Peer reviewers generally touch only glancingly on style, and copy editors don't really address it. I love being edited, but it just doesn't happen often.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

5 years

My daughter was doing her homework for first grade and started muttering about “unpaid labor work,” swear to God.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 months

Anyone inclined to mess with us should be warned: the librarians are with us.

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

A colleague rescued the banner from a Dumpster, where it had been left after being ripped in half. Pictured with a flashbang cartridge at the center.

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

I know someone, a senior female academic, who just cannot understand why people with kids can’t do the same work as everyone else, at the exact same times. I’m just like, WHERE. DO YOU THINK. THE NEW COLLEGE STUDENTS. COME FROM.

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Miriam Posner

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3 years

Writing is so annoying when you have to have “an argument” or at least “something to say” and you can’t just “vibe.”

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 years

But consider: physically, the ports are fine. The ships are fine. Why can't they be unloaded faster? Similarly, the raw materials for (e.g.) semiconductors exist, or we wouldn't be able to make them at all. Why can't we increase production to meet the need?

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

UCLA student protestors are asking that we remember why they're there: to demand divestment and an end to the genocide in Gaza.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 months

UCLA Faculty for Justice in Palestine calling on UCLA faculty to withhold their labor tomorrow, May 2, in protest of the violence inflicted on our students last night.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

4 years

. @safiyanoble just made me cry by calling me to tell me she's assembled a team to take over my workload for the next few weeks so I can rest. So grateful for good colleagues. Love you, thank you.

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Miriam Posner

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3 months

UCLA faculty and staff have put themselves on the line to demonstrate to the world that we love and support our students, that we stand with them in the struggle for justice in the name of peace, and that we are linked in our battle against state violence, from Gaza to UCLA.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

4 years

It’s beginning to seem more and more as though academia wants those of us with caregiving responsibilities to fuck off and quit.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

4 years

Are people assuming we have nannies or some other arrangement? We don't. We literally care for our children while we also work full-time. There is no relief. Not any.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 years

It's quite true that things like clogged ports and semiconductor shortages are real factors, and it requires a little bit of imagination to understand what this has to do with sick people. +

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Miriam Posner

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1 year

How do other people do it? Like, seriously. How does anyone keep all the balls in the air with kids and emails and all the people who need things from you? I feel like my body is breaking down, like I don’t know how to keep the whole edifice from crashing down.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 years

@DavidpStein OMG, I know. The absence of dead people from any commentary is so glaring.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

3 months

UCLA literally has banners boasting of its association with Angela Davis.

The Firing of Angela Davis at UCLA, 1969–1970: Communism, Academic Freedom, and Freedom of Speech

Society - In 1969, the Board of Regents of the University of California fired Angela Davis for her membership in the Communist Party. The subsequent legal case illustrates an apparent paradox: the...

link.springer.com

Justin Joque

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3 months

If you’re involved in any of these anti-genocide actions at universities, please make sure to save your emails, flyers and other papers so that in 50 years your university can proudly display them as part of their special collections

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Miriam Posner

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5 years

Sometimes I think about this sign I saw once at a McDonald’s.

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

2 years

I really enjoyed writing this deep dive on Agile as one in a chain of strategies for managing software labor. Thanks a million to @bentarnoff and @logic_magazine for brilliant, patient editing.

Agile and the Long Crisis of Software

What is Agile? And where does it come from?

logicmag.io

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

1 year

Anecdotally, my undergrads have told me they don’t like stuff like this. The reason advice from a mentor helps is not so much about the advice; it’s that someone cares enough to devote time and attention to you.

Inside Higher Ed

@insidehighered

1 year

#StudentSuccess | A @USouthFlorida professor created a chat bot to motivate online learners by providing strategies to complete academic work. The chat bot, launched this spring, will undergo updates to better support students this year. #HigherEd

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

We extra-isolated for two weeks and got several rounds of tests so we could visit my 70-yo parents, and I swear to you, the act of handing the baby off to someone after 5 uninterrupted months had me ready to cry.

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Miriam Posner

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1 year

Very, very happy that I'll be spending next year as a fellow at the National Humanities Center in NC, along with a bunch of very smart people.

The National Humanities Center Announces 2023–24 Fellows | National Humanities Center

The National Humanities Center is pleased to announce the appointment of 34 Fellows for the academic year 2023–24.

nationalhumanitiescenter.org

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

2 months

The other thing is, writing is hard. Learning to write is hard. A teacher can be supportive and scaffold, etc., but ultimately there’s not really a way to make writing not-hard. You have to reckon with your own limitations; that’s part of learning to write.

MIR (Everyone for Everyone)

@MarxNetwork

2 months

Writing is thinking. This is an absolute verity. Writing is not the transcription of thinking, it is itself a fundamental and unique process of thought. When a good sentence ends, its author knows more than when they began it. AI should be evaluated in this context.

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Miriam Posner

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10 months

I think also SEO itself doesn’t get enough blame for destroying the web. It’s impossible to find useful information now, unless you go directly to a trusted site: just SEO-optimized garbage that takes a suspiciously long time to get to the point.

MIT Technology Review

@techreview

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EXCLUSIVE: People are using AI chatbots to fill junk websites with AI-generated text that attracts paying advertisers, according to a new report shared with MIT Technology Review.

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5 years

My feeling is, it is no one's BUSINESS when I accessed that website. Citation styles trying to tell on me for procrastinating.

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@miriamkp

3 months

I know it doesn’t matter, but it does anger me to see pictures of the trashed camp circulated as proof that the students don’t care about their community. As a moment’s reflection would tell you, police forcibly removed the students. What you see is the result of forced removal.

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6 years

A really great way to prove you had a Very Normal relationship with a student is to publish your incredibly florid correspondence and then get all your famous friends to talk publicly about what a shithead dunce he is.

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@miriamkp

3 years

A surprising amount of academic survival strategy boils down to “swallow your pride and eat shit,” even a decade beyond grad school.

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1 year

A lot that’s weird about the NYer piece but I thought this was telling. Why would your students think *anything* about your marriage? Why would they spend any time at all thinking about you and your personal situation?

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Miriam Posner

@miriamkp

7 months

How does that worm plan to perform surgery!!

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@miriamkp

3 years

Periodic reminder to my (current) students that I tend not to follow you back so that you can complain about me unsurveilled, as the good Lord intended.

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

One thing I've noticed over the years of being on search committees is that sometimes committee members fixate on how well applicants have mastered the art of the interview, not on their ability to do the job. I wish they wouldn't.

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Miriam Posner

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5 years

My deal is, I’m 30 weeks pregnant, about to start a 10-week quarter in which I teach two 3.5-hour grad seminars, and I am honestly pretty terrified about getting through. So my real resolution is just to get through the next 2.5 months without dying.

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@miriamkp

3 years

This is what UCLA’s PCR test vending machines look like, in case you’re curious.

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@miriamkp

2 years

Oof. UCLA Physics & Astronomy seeking to hire scabs. Gross.

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2 years

That reminds me, v pleased to be part of a Mellon-funded cohort of faculty teaching courses on data + social justice. Mine will be called “Data from the Margins.” My Zotero folder is bursting; I’ve been wanting to teach a course like this for quite awhile.

Inaugural faculty recipients of Mellon Foundation “Data, Justice and Society” grants

By Munia Bhaumik The following UCLA faculty members are the inaugural recipients of “Data, Justice and Society” course development grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: • David MacFadyen,...

www.college.ucla.edu

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

My fall class is full, as is the waitlist, and I’d love to teach it. But I may have to take a quarter’s leave if I don’t have childcare. Please advocate for childcare at your workplace and municipality, because it’s not just parents who will suffer from its absence.

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3 years

Me: desperately need quiet room to write in undisturbed Every fellowship opportunity: move your family across the country for a project with 5 transatlantic collaborators and a STEM angle

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3 months

Nothing that happens today will change the fact that the tide is turning, particularly among young people. The counter-protestors know that, and that’s what makes them so angry.

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Miriam Posner

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6 years

For my fellow academics, I think it’s important to realize that while our intellectual commitments can help us decide where to direct our energy, we. Are. Not. Experts. In. Organizing. (Most of us.) We need to take direction from people with experience.

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4 years

Whatever happens, you must see now that the Democrats’ pragmatic centrism is dead. It’s over. They know *nothing*. Nothing.

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2 months

I know that the path from “academic radical” to “administrator-who-serves-capital” is so well-worn as to be a cliche, but I’m always fascinated by it, on a personal level. Putting a request out to the universe for a novel about it!

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3 years

I know some editors follow me, so let me just say that I’ve been researching supply-chain management for years and have a number of ideas for pieces ready to go. You haven’t heard these elsewhere. Please get in touch if that’s of interest.

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3 months

UCLA faculty and staff are protesting outside the Hammer Museum gala tonight to demand amnesty for our students, the resignation of Chancellor Block, and disclosure of/divestment from financial relationships with Israel.

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Miriam Posner

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3 years

As always, I am, of course, directing this tweet at you, specifically, and your very specific situation. I welcome, as always, your lengthy exigeses about flowers and your specific children, to whom, let me emphasize, this tweet was directly addressed.

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6 years

Happy election season! Best bumper sticker ever, by @gavinmuellerphd

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2 years

I think sometimes people don’t realize that grad students are adult human beings with lives and families and real bills. I remember once, at a union rally in grad school, being told by an undergrad that maybe we just shouldn’t have babies if we didn’t have proper support.

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4 years

Relatable! I too have a fully equipped catering kitchen with a full wall of stainless steel fridges.

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4 years

We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these trying times. Mine just happens to fill up my freezer. #LateLateShow

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6 years

One of my infrastructure students has completed a project on what she calls "brownlining" -- the ways that sewer lines in L.A. retraced and enforced race-based residential segregation. Really, really smart.

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4 years

I wrote about the surreal, out-of-body experience of being told to work and homeschool at the same time.

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8 years

cc @Uber

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6 years

Just because your prof is a lady and nice and good at explaining things in simple terms does not mean she is technically incompetent! That is a good thing to know!

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Miriam Posner

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4 years

Maybe I'll build a little tool where every time you do something CV-able, you enter the info via a form, and then whenever you need a CV it'll spit out all the things you did, in the proper categories, properly arranged.

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3 years

If your response to a year-long series of grievous government errors is to get out in the streets to yell at *teachers’ unions* for keeping your kid out of school...I’m begging you, be a better person. Just try to be a better person than that.

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5 years

I mean, what do I know, but it seems like “entrepreneurship” as the foundation for an academic institute is your basic problem, right there.

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1 year

This is a cool photo of me doing my job because it’s of the time my then-6-year old decided to co-present with me at Stanford in a matching dress.

Leanna Renee Hieber

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1 year

"Drop a cool photo of you doing your job"... (Me talking about Victorian Spiritualism for Mysteries at the Museum. I don't know how to do TV without making silly faces.)

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In this time of great national tragedy and unrest, I hope we can all take solace in my various professional successes: (1/64)

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