Kendall Gerdes

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This is an enormous scandal and reason for all academics to withhold labor from Taylor and Francis/Routledge

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I made this into a proper response to the absolutely misplaced calls to "turn down the heat": newrepublic.com/article/1838...

My first thought this morning after I remembered the news was how many people over the last few years have put their bodies between armed far right guys and kids going to the library or a bookstore

Where Were Calls for De-Escalation When Libraries Were Being Targeted?newrepublic.com Trump’s fans seem determined to blame this shooting on their victims.

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Opposing assaults on academic freedom is not partisan politics. It’s a defense of public institutions and civil liberties, which enjoy a long history in Western culture, that benefit everyone. 👇👇👇 www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Trump taps J.D. Vance, sharp critic of higher ed, for VPwww.insidehighered.com The Yale Law School graduate has used sharp criticism of elite higher ed to help establish his MAGA bona fides and build a national brand.

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CBS News: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán seized control of universities rewrote the Constitution and neutered the courts. Is that what you're advocating for in the US? JD Vance: I think Orbán made smart decisions that we could learn from in the US. (June 2024) ---via The Intellectualist

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Biden et alia must take the high road, but the rest of us are allowed to remind people of this ⬇️

October 2020: Trump defends plot to murder Gov. Whitmer January 2021: Trump sends mob to kill his own VP and members of Congress November 2023: Trump cheers attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi March 2024: Trump posts video depicting abduction of Joe Biden

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Our annual summer sale is now on! 50% discount on all titles with code 29UPPSMMR until 8/15/24 Save here: upittpress.org

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Refusing to listen to the national call for unity that says nothing about the violent rhetoric of the other side and their active championing of gun culture so let me know when it’s over, Kthnxbye.

if you’re like “what should i read next” the answer is anything by nghi vo

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On a more practical note, since we’re entering a summer surge: US folks, please bookmark Paxcess. If you get covid in 2024 and want a paxlovid prescription, you really wanna sign up for this. It took my (with ACA insurance) out of pocket cost from $300 down to $0. www.paxlovid.com/paxcess

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Today my tenure and promotion takes effect. 🎉 Also today my university shuttered its resource centers for women, LGBT, and Black students. The U is closing these even though the state’s new anti-DEI law explicitly says such centers need not close. Shameful.

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Prior to October, there was a strong case made in the left circles that I travel in that the Biden admin had achieved the most successful set of left policy victories in our lifetime on everything but the border. Then he made a series of policy choices which understandably overshadowed that.

The fact that Biden has delivered on left-wing policy far better than any president in generations but is widely despised by left-wing voters reflects more poorly on left-wing institutions and voters than on Biden. This is not a movement showing political maturity, and I say that as a left-winger

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Do you know any ten-year-olds? Go look at them. They were born before gay Americans could have their marriages federally recognized. Today is the 9th anniversary of Obergefell. It is that new, it is that fragile, and if the Democrats lose power, it could go away in a blink. Please vote accordingly.

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Just passed a giant sticker of a taco on a light pole that read I'VE HAD CRUNCHWRAPS MORE SUPREME THAN THIS COURT

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An easy way to support your public library is to make use of it—even if only to visit. We keep (anonymized) statistics not only on circulation totals but on attendance & visits and even on patron-staff interactions. Big numbers please trustees and municipal/county administrators. 📚

ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.

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the CDC is again trying to limit the 2024-25 booster availability to provably immunocompromised and elderly people. they’re taking written comments through the 17th. please take a minute to let them know boosters should be available to all who want them: www.regulations.gov/commenton/CD...

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I am Still Mad that nobody has even attempted to codify ventilation recommendations for public spaces during the pandemic. When stuff was reopening, so many places were like "we offer improved air filtration!" but the actual filtration is like, one HEPA filter in a supply closet

It's not just COVID, we could make SUCH A DIFFERENCE if we improved indoor air ventilation. Because it turns out a virus LOVES high CO2. It is still baffling to me how our society managed to turn COVID into personal masking decisions and not BETTER BUILDINGS. www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/c...

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrinewww.statnews.com CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.

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There are no universal answers to protect yourself during a protest, but we outlined common considerations to help guide campus activists.

Surveillance Defense for Campus Protestswww.eff.org The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the

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This is terrific

Ursula Le Guin tells you how to be a writer. lithub.com/ursula-k-le-...

Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writerlithub.com This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. How do you become a writer? Answer: you write. It’s amazing how much resentment and disgust and evasion this answer can ar…

our library has the coolest summer reading challenges!

friends, if you’re wandering in the bookstore or maybe trying libro.com for audiobooks, get anything by c. l. polk! i have read and *adored* five of their books.

Also if you read and enjoyed Witchmark but you never got around to reading the whole trilogy, those are all sales that go straight to my royalty statements. But trilogies with high sell through create opportunities for me.

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I know you don't want to vote for biden. it feels awful. I understand. whatever you want to do about that vote-which is *seccret and none of my business,* do that. but fucking go vote *the rest of the ticket.* down to interim co-dog catcher or whatever. fascist regimes start on the ground floor.

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Important to note that EVERY UT-Austin employee who was terminated had moved to a non-DEI job.

Reporters from the Dallas News obtained documents that show the UT System terminated 69 staffers due to the DEI ban. Most were women & people of color. Story includes charts with race/gender breakdown.

Women, people of color most impacted by UT universities’ DEI cuts, documents showwww.dallasnews.com A Texas ban on diversity, equity and inclusion required colleges to eliminate jobs and programs, which led to the termination of 69 employees across the UT...

are we doing hashtags yet? #rsa24 nobody: conference hotel carpets:

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Masks work. That's it. That's the whole article. New, in @us.theconversation.com with @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social and Raina Macintyre theconversation.com/masks-work-o...

Masks work, our comprehensive review has foundtheconversation.com A previous review suggested that masks don’t work. We can assure you – they do.

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the only use case for AI generation is making memes where the fact that it is AI generated is part of the joke

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People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.

Repeat COVID-19 vaccinations elicit antibodies that neutralize variants, other viruses | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louismedicine.wustl.edu Response to updated vaccine is shaped by earlier vaccines yet generates broadly neutralizing antibodies

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this point is often brought up to (deservedly) dunk on the Democratic party. but IMO what this actually points to is the political autonomy and increasing lawlessness of policing and police forces in this country - the solution to which is probably not billions more dollars

we have a democratic mayor, a democratic governor, two democratic senators, and a democratic president and the cops are still free to treat protesters like enemy combatants.

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Okay - all eyes on UCI. Students at UCI have taken one of the buildings, and it's absolutely nuts the amount of police which have been called out. They're asking for back up from 30 minutes away, and there's at least two helicopters circling the campus.

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Also interesting to see free speech framed as the right to speak without fear of being shamed or shunned. You should fear shame for being a bigot.

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Heavily armed police raids and mass arrests on overwhelmingly nonviolent US campus protestors should be seen as part of a dramatic international rise in state repression of academic freedom, involving political censorship and force, over the last several years. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

Nearly all Gaza campus protests in the US have been peaceful, study findswww.theguardian.com Analysis of 553 protests in solidarity with Palestinians between 18 April and 3 May found 97% of them did not cause serious damage