Andrew Alan Johnson

It is easy to feel overwhelmed. I am posting this and then going off social media for the night. Cultivate the circle of goodness around you, act when you can, know what horrors have happened, but don’t let this distract you from what you can actually do. That probably means getting offline.

In other terms, this is one hundredth of one of the US planes shot down by US missiles over Kuwait.

(I’d posted earlier an incorrect calculation).

^ sorry this is wrong. I mean to say “a tenth of one of these planes”

The National Science Foundation grants in my field from 2024, cut by DOGE, equaled the cost of 108 seconds of bombing Iran.

Telephone line installation in depression-era NYC. High school biology teacher in rural PA.

But grandmothers also worked - a bank teller, and other one was a schoolteacher

Text reads, "Association for Asian Studies 2026 Conference Exhibit. Use code AAS26 for 40% off when you order from dukeupress.edu." Background features assorted book and journal covers arranged in columns.

#AAS2026 is coming up, and we'll be attending! Ken Wissoker and Rob Dilworth are joining you in Vancouver, and you can browse our books at the Ingram Academic booth (#507) in the exhibit hall. #AsianStudies buff.ly/2hOr05t

I have an image now of traditional Hawaiian priests growing from the backs of Laura Loomer like a gremlin fallen into water (I think you meant cojones, but I like this image).

Firey the angels fell 😇🔥Deep thunder rolled about their shores 🌩️

This is a quote from John Milton (1972) describing a rainy day in his hometown of West Chester, New York. Would you like an extended summary? I could link it to things I’ve seen that you people wouldn’t believe.

How do I go back to work and face my Persian colleagues whose families are in Tehran?

Meanwhile, meta analyses of generations of anthropological research on hunter-gatherer societies show that Darwin was deeply wrong in his conclusions about sex and gender. Showing clear and consistent evidence of women in prominent hunting roles.

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Same guy gets a jumpscare thinking that George W Bush did those weird paintings of Hell in the 1500s.

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul

a school.

I just don’t want to live in a place where what I love and who I am is undervalued and mocked.

Highest paid college staff? Football coaches.
Fancy degree? “Elitist”
Scientist? “Just give it to me straight”
Use fancy vocab? “You think you’re so smart huh?”
Complicated issue? “I don’t need to understand, just know who’s right.”

I’ve lived most of my professional life outside of the US. It’s complicated. No place is perfect, and the US will always be a home to me. But what makes the US so frustrating for me is how Americans often take ignorance as a virtue.

This person appears to be a basic AI opportunist. The current project is making a bot that replicates ChatGPT 4o for all those people who fell in love with New Clippy.

Farewell to Vicente Rafael We are deeply saddened to learn of the death of Vicente Rafael on February 21, 2026, at the age of 70. Vince was the author of five books with Duke University Press, a contributor to several edited…

A fitting tribute to a wonderful person and great scholar - Vince Rafael - from @dukepress.bsky.social
@kwissoker.bsky.social

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Pecke in the Crowne
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Vinegar Tom

We are so sorry to hear this news—sending condolences to Professor Rafael's colleagues and family. RIP to a great scholar.

Skynet AI doomerism? Overhyped. This shit is the real doom - people who don't care about learning willingly turn their brains off. We don't need terminators when we have self-termination.

Speculating on the Futures of Here “I don’t exist in an after climate crisis—we know now that there is no after, only varying degrees of loss, varying degrees of change. My mother was a climate writer who found that her words …

Last winter and spring, I took a journey deep into an imagined future with artist @auntiemojo.bsky.social and an amazing group of students at Johns Hopkins University. Here's a glimpse of the future river culture we conjured together at the Peale Museum in Baltimore.

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This is a long thread involving the sentencing of Korea’s former President for invoking martial law to suppress democracy. Americans can learn from this.

Does it have a name?

What?

So grateful to Don Kulick for this lovely, generous review of Beautiful Mystery -- ahead of print in Language in Society.

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Post a banger that’s not in English

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Fully-funded PhD position at Lund University in East and Southeast Asian Studies. This is a good position in what is the best area studies program in the region!

Tenure Will Be Eliminated at Most of Oklahoma’s Public Colleges, Governor Says Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, directed the state’s two-dozen regional universities and community colleges to phase out the practice. Existing faculty members will be grandfathered in.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com
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