It’s been almost two months since the last mixtape?! I think that’s because so much of the news has been grim and all variations on the theme of fascism and I didn’t think much of that needed to be reshared here. So here’s links about mostly other stuff that’s more of a pick-me-up, so let’s go: I think once you see this absolute unit of a marmot you will feel a need to share it on the group chat. The link has a couple other photos.
The Kids are All Fight. If you’re having feelings about raising kids in what the US has turned into, here are a couple more feelings to add into the mix that will pick you up. While you’re at it, if you want to feel better in this moment, check out the Hammer Speech. Here’s the transcript, and the video, take your pick. Oftentime we think of keynote addresses and commencement speeches as pro forma and ho-de-ho, but this is a moment when some people shine and really make a difference with words and ideas. Like this one. If you’re trying to figure out what to do, then this anti-autocracy handbook is just the thing for you. Assembled by scholars who are experts in this stuff. Along these lines, more uplifting thought about our crisis, Take a step for science. Cindy Sherman (the contemporary photographic artist, who has consistently done some amazing stuff if you’re not familiar with her work) is offering to reprint photographs and destroy the old ones, in the interest of conservation. If you’re interested in museums, contemporary art, archiving, and the historical record, this will be interesting to you. Equity-minded pegagogy vs. Emancipatory pedagogy “I Prefer Weeds to Ivy” a piece of academic quit-lit that’s a strong contribution to the genre. If you have been paying more attention than average, you might have noticed that the series of ruinous decisions from the Supreme Court have come with dissents that are signed by a single justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson. Here those dissents are put into context and I think it’s a piece of history that’s worth learning while it’s happening. A (white) Australian journalist tells the story about how he got deported from the US. Bernie Sanders wrote a supremely on-point op ed in The Guardian in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s primary victory in the NYC mayoral race. Time in the forest, and what we know and also don’t know. A poem: For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper, by Joseph Fasano. It’s really good. For making sense of this moment, from Religion Dispatches is “Kristi Noem and Fascism’s Sadistic Eroticization of Power” There has never been a better time to be a STEM educator. Context on the Space X rockets that keep exploding. The UC Berkeley Alumni Association takes up the intellectual struggle about how to memorialize groundbreaking asshole, Kary Mullis. If only CalTech was prepared for such introspection about Feynman. A story about insect decline in The Guardian.  Christ. Just came downstairs to find my dad watching an entirely AI-generated YouTube video about an event that didn't happen involving the Pope. Had to convince him the whole think was fake. "How can you tell?" he asked. He has five degrees including a PhD. Mon, 26 May 2025 19:25:40 GMT View on BlueskyHere’s some data from an unexpected source that demonstrates the ongoing value of degrees in the humanities. Art History majors faring better than Finance majors? Damn right! A review of the first season of The Pitt in the LA Review of Books, which I watched last month and absolutely loved (both the show and the review, that is). This review helped me understand why I loved the show so much, is it elevates competency and giving-a-shit in an extremely earnest way, that some might consider to be cringe. Here’s a paper showing that women who do research in climate sciences generally kick butt in their work, but have shorter careers. Hmmm, I wonder why? I found it curious and a bit ironic that spending a couple minutes on the forensics of the author list of this paper (I don’t know any of them), it appears to be all men save for one undergraduate who contributed as a middle author. Nice to see men doing this work to document inequities. It looks like alpha-gal syndrome is on the rise. I have a lot of thoughts about this, a whole bunch of them, in part tied to being a vegetarian for the past 35 years and also having concerns about the climate impacts of industrial meat production, and also recognizing that in some places and some people, eating animals is foundational and essential, and a part of subsistence, so the universal spread of alpha-gal would clearly be a bad thing. Anyhow. You might have noticed that stuff I’m linking leans more heavily on The Guardian and The New Yorker. That’s because that’s what I’m subscribed to nowadays, and I feel like they’re serving the need for awareness well without getting hypergranular into events beyond my control. Have a great weekend, y’all. Stay safe. You’re currently a free subscriber to Science For Everyone. Thanks for your support! If you wish to support this work more, then you could pay for a subscription.
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Friday, 11 July 2025
Academic Mixtape 32
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Academic Mixtape 32
mostly happy and heartening stuff to read ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ...
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