Alan Richardson

Gender Studies is the most vindicated academic field of all time

DaseinGPT is now living authentically toward death

Imagine viewing this and concluding that academic Gender Studies is no longer relevant as a field of inquiry.

Does Your Country Need Regime Change? A Quiz “In announcing the U.S. military strike on Iran, President Donald Trump went significantly beyond his previous justification of destroying the coun...

"Does your leader view the lives of armed services personnel as disposable by mocking their service or saying things like 'that’s the way it is' whenever they are killed?"

United Academics of KU Secures Historic First Collective Bargaining Agreement for All Faculty and Academic Staff LAWRENCE, Kan.—Today, faculty and academic staff at the University of Kansas, represented by United Academics of the University of Kansas, announced that they have reached a tentative first contract a...

Great news - 1600 academic workers won their first collective bargaining contract at the University of Kansas @afthighered.bsky.social @aaup.org www.aft.org/press-releas...

From the moment he first stepped onto a debate stage, everyone on the Republican understood the 2 step problem of
1. Someone had to do something
2. It'll be incredibly damaging for the person who does something.

So the biggest problem is that they're all selfish cowards

PATH+: Peter Adamson: Logic, Language, and Assent in Islamic Philosophy

I'll be speaking at Stanford on March 31, about logic and language in Islamic philosophy! Here's the info:

events.stanford.edu/event/path-p...

#philsky

I think last night at 11:13 the system simply vomited out my T4 form.

Now that they're trying to pretend their war is not a war, they've gone back to calling it the Defense Department.

Philosophers! I am now eligible to act as a supervisor for Marie Curie fellowships at the University of Vienna. If you’re interested in applying for one, you can find the details here: careers.univie.ac.at/en/research-...

Epistemic Warfighting

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”

Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

I am pleased to report that Russia unconditionally surrendered to me this morning after I fulfilled the goals of Operation Epic Sadness.

a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh . ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face and saying huh .

"unconditional surrender" but also "we're not at war"

“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”

- Schwab ⛽️

I believe this means Doc Rivers has joined more public statements calling for the defense of higher education against the Trump Administration than has the President of the University of Chicago.

Sometimes I get the nagging feeling that UBC Senate is unfamiliar with the contract language for faculty appointments.

The Tyee is proud to have published this important investigation by @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. We condemn this egregious harassment of a journalist for doing her job, and have offered support as she deals with this disturbing situation.

Dear Workday: releasing tax forms is not delegating a task. Please use more precise language so that busy people don’t have to try to guess if the latest Workday update is something that actually requires action.

Hegseth has negative gravitas—all that shouting he does to seem powerful just reveals how pathetic and small he is.

Panel #66: Engaging Policy in STS Research and Practice Abstract: Throughout its history, the STS community has engaged with the important policy questions of the day, showing how public issues are constructed in tandem with evidenceand expertise, and how technological infrastructures are inseparable from social systems. STS scholars have worked to have their insights recognized by policy makers and have used their direct policy engagements to advance knowledge of policy processes. The past decade, however, has seen massive shifts in the policy landscape–including in the ways that research is funded, evidence is valued, and expertise is constructed–as well as new substantive issues at the intersection of science, technology, and policy. This panel asks what STS scholars are bringing to, and taking away from, their engagements with evolving policy processes. What STS tools best help us understand policy issues, and where do new circumstances require new theories and analytical methods? How can STS analysis not only advance knowledge but shape effective political action? And how does engagement with policy function as an intellectual project in its own right? This open panel invites submissions from across sectors (e.g., environment, innovation, health, criminal justice), and with historical and global perspectives (particularly outside the United States and Europe).

Thinking about, or engaging in, politics and public policy with an #STS lens? Apply to present your work in the open panels (#66) I am organizing with Gwen Ottinger and Jason Delborne
@4sweb.bsky.social in Toronto in October! (Paper abstracts due April 30th!) www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

I really hate how all messages from Workday are super vague and have the feel of phishing messages “please login and review or approve a delegated task.” Wtf does that mean?

Global War on the Globe

They know that many people in the US will accept the killing of civilians overseas but will draw the line at high gas prices.

I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

I am renaming the Cold War the “Static War.”

I wonder what the US armed forces think about this asshole saying that they cannot be trusted not to engage in massive human rights violations….

"Politically correct", "woke", etc. have simply always been synonyms for "moral".