I got the same message. Never ever invested in crypto, never ever going to do it.
Professor of History at Columbia University; author of CRIMES AGAINST NATURE, SHADOWS AT DAWN: A BORDERLANDS MASSACRE AND THE VIOLENCE OF HISTORY; and THE STRANGE CAREER OF WILLIAM ELLIS. Working on a new project on the US-Mexico War (1846-1848).
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I got the same message. Never ever invested in crypto, never ever going to do it.
This is what the University of Chicago correctly saw coming down the pike. They had built a world-leading cluster of language and area studies work on funding that is just going to... stop.
comparten el mismo cumpleaños?!
Exactly--the question of crime is irrelevant. The military cannot be used to police American civilians.
I wrote this piece in 2020 and take no pride in the fact that I also foretold how over-policing of the border would create a more restrictive environment for all of us www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
1/ While we wait for Trump to reminisce about Arnold Palmer's anatomy or how cool Hannibal Lecter is or whatever, now is a great time to remember that he's still in the middle of receiving an ass-kicking from Ann Selzer, whom he tried to sue in Iowa for the nonexistent tort of getting a poll wrong.
www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/t...
Because it never stops being relevant, I'm re-sharing this piece I wrote in Time Magazine in 2023 about how surveillance of immigrants and xenophobic fears of immigrant crime re-made US policing into something more repressive for all people.
"Left Alone and Cooked Alive: We non-speaking autistics are often treated as disposable. It’s killing us." My son's latest article, in @thenation.com. Please read and share widely. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
New story w/ @hilaryburns.bsky.social: A DOJ lawyer accused Harvard of ‘indifference to antisemitism.’ As a Harvard undergrad he wrote a paper from Hitler’s perspective. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...
Or this doctor to go back to her patients? www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/h...
That's why I'm here... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
WE ARE HIRING! 2 Lecturers in Quantitative Social Science. Want a friendly interdisciplinary department in one of the world's most vibrant cities? This just might be for you. Apply by: 10 Oct www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We are hiring! Two new Lecturer (AP) positions at the University of Edinburgh School of Economics: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #EconSky
If you work on any @UofCalifornia give this one your time. Uni leadership is belatedly asking us to "Stand Up For UC" while repeatedly revising faculty disciplinary policy to make standing up impossible. This essay asks, how did we get here? What now? utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/why-...
Decomisan 37 de armas de fuego y 150 kilos de sustancias ilícitas tras ataques en tres hospitales de Culiacán. #Latinus #InformaciónParaTi latinus.us/mexico/2025/...
Columbia administration is acting as if it’s just the start of another school year without acknowledging the perilous position in which their students and faculty find themselves thanks to CU’s “deal” with the Trump administration.
#ColumbiaUniversity
Columbia faculty vigil for our students who have been harassed and imprisoned by federal authorities
Photo passed along from a federal employee from inside the Dept of Labor building, where a giant Orwellian image of Trump's face is now draped outside. Big Brother is watching.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum issued a stern warning on Monday to the Trump administration that Mexico is willing to enter security agreements with the U.S. around immigration and fighting cartels, but "without subordination." www.axios.com/2025/09/01/t...
Agree. @aaup.org is on the front lines fighting for higher education, academic freedom, and solidarity among academic workers, students, and our surrounding communities. Join up!
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Without a border wall these jaguars from Mexico would repopulate the American southwest as well.
‘We’re winning a battle’: Mexico’s jaguar numbers up 30% in conservation drive
This Day in Labor History: September 1, 1849. The Brotherhood of the Union, an early pro-worker organization, formed. The vision of a George Lippard, this organization established principles in American working class activism that would be incredibly influential throughout the 19th century!!
Josephine Riesman's family name graces the Harvard Hillel building. She sees the organization's actions (and inaction) in response to the Trump Administration's efforts at Harvard & beyond as an abdication of the values that founded the Harvard Hillel in 1944: harvardindependent.com/avoid-the-bu...
Columbia undergrads grasp what the CU administration seemingly doesn't: "By complying with a settlement that many view as politically motivated and lacking transparent justification, it risks normalizing government overreach into academic spaces." harvardindependent.com/columbia-and...
UC Davis students uncover photos, maps, and stories of a little-known settlement of African American people previously enslaved, and their descendants, who lived in Woodland (and Yolo County), CA, in the mid-1800s and early 1900s www.ucdavis.edu/student-rese... #blackwest
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301
New student job opportunity in our International Max Planck Research School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities"! 🎤 help organize events 📚 create bibliographies 📢 support public communication 📋 assist with administration 🗓️ Deadline: Oct 5, 2025 🔗 bit.ly/4mCwxu0 #HistSci #STS
"83.3% of LLM users were unable to quote even one sentence from the essay they had just written"
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Conservation advocates said that there is no national security justification for building a wall through the national wildlife refuge. They warn that the wall will threaten wildlife and cut off communities from the Rio Grande.
“The mural was a collective act of artistic creation, undertaken w/serious intent by students, emerging from a course taught by a tenured fac member _Covering the mural,making it inaccessible to members of the university community, is a violation of academic freedom akin to shutting down a lecture”
The answers are as feeble as you expect!
One of the many joys of global climate change: the spread of diseases into areas where they previously did not exist.
Once again, Border Patrol tells the press this was a targeted kidnapping, yet they took a man who is legally here & in the immigration process. This shows that it was not a targeted investigation as they claimed. Press must stop printing lies. apnews.com/article/immi...
New in PN: Making Slavery Great Again "Without irony or shame — and to absolve their followers of any guilt or responsibility — Trump wants to whitewash America’s original sin."
Kristi Noem waives environmental laws to build Trump's wall through a wildlife refuge
This is both obscene and *precisely* what ~half the country voted for. I’m tired of the “but but but we didn’t vote for this” stuff. You did.
James Hynes, PUBLISH AND PERISH? us.macmillan.com/books/978031...
I would read an academic murder book in which the murder was solved by reading the syllabus
🚨JOB ALERT🚨 We! Are! Hiring! The Department of Africana Studies at Smith College invites applications for a tenure-track position in Black Women’s Studies/Gender Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor, to begin 7/1/26 More info here: apply.interfolio.com/171572 #blackademia #academia #PhDSky
“The incident took place after several migrants held there began shouting for ‘freedom’ after one received news a relative had died… A team of guards then rushed in and began beating individuals indiscriminately with batons, and fired teargas at them, the detainees said.”
While the president has pressed colleges to eliminate any possible consideration of a student’s race, he has made no mention of legacy admissions, an edge given to the children of alumni, or similar preferences for the relatives of donors. https://to.pbs.org/3Jh322k
If everything is an emergency, then nothing is an emergency.
This crime at Social Security might amount to the biggest data theft in human history. Committed by a government against its own citizens. I don’t think anyone has begun to grasp the sheer scale of corruption and institutional destruction that has occurred in the last few months. Era-defining.
For a full year, @premthakker.bsky.social pressed the US to investigate the killing of 6-year-old Hind Rajab. We document his yearlong reporting and investigation in our film “One Year Since Israel Killed Hind Rajab. Why Has the US Ignored the Murder of a 6-Year-Old Child?” youtu.be/roVy5IeuHpM
lol, this appellate judge just smacking Alan Dershowitz around like a little cat toy. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Baroness Shafik has had a soft landing after abrupt departure Columbia, less so the students and faculty that she left behind. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Excited to read Rhacel Parreñas timely new book.
Putting Columbia far behind her "Baroness Minouche Shafik is to be Sir Keir Starmer’s chief economic adviser, as the government seeks to strengthen its efforts to bolster UK growth and productivity." www.ft.com/content/7739...
Trump take LEGO www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
The National Humanities Center stands firmly in support of the Smithsonian Institution, its administration, and its museum professionals. Please read the complete statement on our website.
Columbia's Black enrollment continues lower than it was two years ago, but international student enrollment stays steady. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/u...
Eric Foner is one of my true living heroes
Our students and colleagues keep disappearing, and most of us don't seem to care.
Tae Heung “Will” Kim, a doctoral student at Texas A&M University and longtime US permanent resident, has been in ICE detention for OVER one month. The AAUP stands with the Texas AAUP state conference in demanding Mr. Kim’s release. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-st...
Nearly all PhDs take 5 years--with finishing in 4 a rare outcome. This is deliberately designed to eliminate the international powerhouse that is US postgraduate training.
New in PN: Alert the media — the WH is lying about Trump's health "Something's clearly up & the official explanations don’t make sense. That’s not a shock given that Trump is a liar surrounded by toadies who surrendered their shame long ago. But it’s past time for reporters to ask some questions."
Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.
"How to Report ICE" regional zines available for free printable download: Northern California Southern California Colorado DC Metro Area (DMV) Durham Massachusetts NYC Philly Pittsburgh More to come! Please share! drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Every time you use ChatGPT or something like it, you’re helping to train an algorithm that is actually being developed to do things like this
1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n
My August Native News Roundup is out today. We've got news from Gaza, wins for Native Nations, honoring ancestors, Oklahoma attacks tribal sovereignty, and Trump’s budget cuts put tribes on the chopping block. Read and subscribe at gohini.substack.com !
***Public History job posting*** @ncph.bsky.social @aaslh.org
The sun kisses this benighted corner at last.
Let's study anything other than the fact that guns are so easy for children in the US to access.
All of these data science history projects where the protagonists claim to be the absolutely first person to try to study the past objectively reveal that they have some janky dataset that in no way stands up to these claims by the 15th paragraph.
One day I hope kids end up studying ICE in the same context of "we fucked up & shouldn't do this again" as the internment camps of ww2 & the trail of tears. In the meanwhile, ICE should be abolished
What if scientists hadn’t waited until this point to speak about politics Every time I see a headline like this, my brain just shouts Like what if scientists hadn’t sat around silently watching everyone around them get attacked Maybe the fight on campus would have gone differently
Absolutely this. Speaking out sooner and supporting people could have prevented the shocking levels of protestors being harassed, attacked, abused, fired, sanctioned, even deported at universities. This is why the proverb exists: “In the end, everyone will have been against genocide” When it’s safe
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A metaphor for where we are as a country: obsessed with deporting immigrants, no matter what the resulting damage to American society.
Wow. Just wow.
Yawn. This headline claims way too much for what are--if you read the article--rather modest insights. Moreover, this "scientific" approach would have been impossible without the earlier scholarship of the French historian Georges Lefebvre. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
If you have published anything, please consider doing this. The window is closing and you should get your details registered now for a chance at a settlement. The form works wherever in the world you are based.
exactly!
#Resource: For the first time, you can look up serious use of force and police misconduct incidents in California. Search the new database housing thousands of once-confidential records gathered from the state’s nearly 700 law enforcement and oversight agencies. laist.com/news/crimina...
60 results! Everything I've ever published has been gobbled up by AI. Paradoxically, my research is considered valueless, yet AI is imagined to be worth multi-billions.
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict
I know no humanities or social science faculty at Columbia who believe that our "deal" with the Trump administration preserves academic freedom. Our research and teaching is deeply imperiled, something this article did not discuss at all. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/n...
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...
If your business model depends on stealing other people's work, maybe you should question what you're doing instead of complaining that theft is not legal.
we are going to win www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/f...
There are way more journalists on @bsky.app who have PhDs in a science, technology, engineering, or math field.
I know that “this should be the top story” discourse is tired but “Trump Says Americans Want a Dictator, Not Democracy” really should be the top story.
Correspondence, 1659-1660 (vol. 13 of our New Netherland Documents Series) is finally available for free on the New Netherland Institute's website. Lots of great material here. Visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/research/onl... to check it out!
90%(!) cuts at the National Park Service to maintain DC parks. Now it's National Guard solides doing the work, who aren't exactly cheaper. Another DOGE "cut" that is anything but
Historian here the notion that Trump is a “socialist” for trying to get a stake in private companies and somehow anti capitalist is simply wrong. He is going back to the Royal African Company and mercantilism when corrupt royal monopolies and crony capitalism ruled. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
Important corrective to how we often talk about higher education and college students in America. Some facts and figures (see NYT article at end for further elucidation): 43 percent of (19 million) undergrads attend community college 75 percent of community college students enrolled part time 1/