Mastodawn

drakbailey Feb 14, 2024

How did you celebrate Douglass Day? I transcribed documents from Frederick Douglass's letters for a couple of hours. Had a great time with some really fantastic students and colleagues. Join me in transcription through February 20th.

https://douglassday.org/

#blackhistorymonth #UShistory #realhistory #facts #history #sociology #academiclife #academicchatter

Douglass Day

drakbailey Feb 13, 2024

Kris Inwood Feb 11, 2024

Thursday Feb 15 is the deadline to propose economic history papers for the 2024 meeting of the Canadian Economics Association in Toronto May 30-Jun 1 (online May 24). All topics welcome!
More detail at http://economichistory.ca or www.economics.ca/cpages/cea2024.
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons #Canada #Toronto

The Canadian Network for Economic History

drakbailey Feb 8, 2024

Drew Harwell Feb 3, 2024

New: Inside the massive FBI investigation into investors of Trump Media's merger ally. A Russian owner of a Caribbean bank and a Miami "granddaddy" of weed-shop finance made tens of millions on insider trades into the big Truth Social deal, court docs show. But federal agents were on their tail - with an undercover informant, secret phone scans and a money-laundering scheme they called the “full Singapore" https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/03/trump-social-dwac-investigation/

The wild probe into investors of DWAC, Trump Media’s proposed merger ally

An investigation into early investors of Digital World Acquisition included a government informant, a secret phone scan and an elite anti-money-laundering squad. It’s still going.

The Washington Post

drakbailey Feb 8, 2024

Micah Lee Feb 7, 2024

Tucker Carlson could face EU sanctions for his interview with Vladimir Putin https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-sanctions-eu-putin-interview-1867655

Exclusive: Tucker Carlson Could Face Sanctions Over Putin Interview

Current and former European Parliament lawmakers told Newsweek the conservative pundit may end up in EU crosshairs.

Newsweek

drakbailey Jan 31, 2024

Nothing better than having your evening work interrupted with separate group texts from two groups of besties in four different states. Love my people!

drakbailey Jan 29, 2024

@DataGeekB Horrifying.

drakbailey Jan 29, 2024

Kris Inwood Jan 26, 2024

Call for papers explaining historical phenomena with the methods of the social sciences at the European Social Science History Conference, Leiden University March 26-29 2025. Submit by April 15.
https://esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en
@economics @demography @socialscience @sociology @politicalscience @geography @anthropology @econhist @devecon #history #histodons

ESSHC | European Social Science History Conference

International institute of social history

drakbailey Jan 23, 2024

Big upgrade in going from underfunded grad student to underfunded (tenured) faculty: Instead of cramming 4 people into a hotel room for conferences, it's now just a one-roomie situation.

#academic #academiclife #academy #faculty

drakbailey Jan 23, 2024

Pamela Oliver Jan 22, 2024

@zotero question. We have 10,000 news articles stored in an Access database. For a small subset, we will want to cite them. We can extract publication, headline/title, publication date from our database into xml, csv or possibly other formats. Is there an easy way to format this for import into Zotero?

drakbailey Jan 20, 2024

Anybody else see the irony in a white male professor at Cornell Law (who studies CORPORATE LAW and FINANCIAL REGULATION) getting his knickers in a twist about the possibility for students of color to "game the system" by disclosing their racial background in college admission essays? AYFKM???

#racism #affirmativeaction #highered #patriarchy #whitesupremacy #privilege #WTAF #tonedeaf #oblivious

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/20/us/affirmative-action-ban-college-essays.html

After Affirmative Action Ban, Students Use Essays to Highlight Race

The Supreme Court’s ruling intended to remove the consideration of race during the admissions process. So students used their essays to highlight their racial background.

The New York Times