Historian of the Anglophone world in the very long seventeenth century: https://go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq. ORCID 0000-0001-8375-0939 #earlymodern
Lou Roper
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The Trump Admin is kicking an institution that is already down CUNY has been chronically underfunded for decades despite year after year of moving more students into the middle class than all the Ivies combined.
As a publisher I’m so deeply insulted by the State of Scholarship report. “Only politically acceptable work is published, taught, & valorized”—F U. Individual journals, presses, & series have distinct brands, strengths & yes, markets. It is not every editor or publisher’s JOB to publish everything.
'this came in response to a question from Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe (who the Conservatives ceded a committee place to, presumably to annoy Reform).' 1/3
Earnings of CUNY Graduates CUNY graduates working in New York State earned a combined $57 billion annually ($67,000 on average) in 2019 – $28.6 billion more than students would have earned without a p...
comptroller.nyc.gov
Anna O. Law
They say "State of Scholarship report." We say "Incoherent list of evidence-free claims dribbled out by people who mock the notion of 'Grievance Studies', but are in fact its chief proponents."
The first ever European depiction of an Indigenous 'town' in North America, showing the street plan of the village of Hochelaga in Canada c1556 by Giovanni Battista Ramusio, from John Carter Brown Library.
Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon: "What CUNY is doing is disproportionately favoring African American men and students in general, and this is illegal. They could lose funds."
Lou Roper
Margot Finn
So pleased to see this is published and open access > The King's Dinner by Adam Crymble, Sarah Fox, Rachel Rich, and Lisa Smith #skystorians #c18th 🗃️
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
#ICYMI 😑
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fast forward three summers 😑
Florida voters amended their constitution in 2010 to explicitly ban partisan and racial gerrymandering, and FL’s Supreme Court overturned the GOP’s congressional gerrymander in 2015.
But Ron DeSantis has stacked the court since then, and his appointees have let the GOP get away with it this decade
But Ian Chapman’s views on “woke university abstract experiments” remain elusive
wonkhe.com
Lou Roper
Lou Roper
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...
As a publisher I’m so deeply insulted by the State of Scholarship report. “Only politically acceptable work is published, taught, & valorized”—F U. Individual journals, presses, & series have distinct brands, strengths & yes, markets. It is not every editor or publisher’s JOB to publish everything.
David Ellison tapped Bari Weiss because she’s a lying enabler of far right authoritarians & a creator of right wing propaganda. He had no illusions at all about her skill level.
The new congressional district map will remain in effect for the midterm elections, after the Florida Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a push to block the new configuration.
“Decision-based evidence-making” is exactly what management consultancy is.
June 11, 1776: Congress delivers an address to the 24 Iroquois Indians visiting them in Philadelphia. “We hope the friendship that is between us and you will be firm, and continue as long as the sun shall shine, and the waters run,” it begins. 1/3
Mark Copelovitch
Orlando Sentinel
Kate Watson
250 Years Ago News
David Ellison ostensibly tapped Bari Weiss to run CBS News because of her extraordinary digital skills, paying $150 million to buy The Free Press. But how is The FP actually doing?
Last month, the site’s traffic plunged 17% from last year.
therighting.com/traffic-repo...
Advised by KPMG, huge $$ cuts to degrees & jobs were announced by UTS, later proved mostly unnecessary.
"a hollowed out..public sector relies on the Big 4 to do work it should [do &] to dodge accountability..They talk of evidence-based decision-making, but..provide decision-based evidence-making."
An escalating scandal at KPMG raises further questions about the extraordinarily lucrative stream of government and university consulting work enjoyed by the accounting giants. trib.al/HniVDAZ
KPMG is facing international intervention as its chief executive resigns and legal loopholes limit ASIC’s access to documents and capacity to penalise the company.
