Joanna Grisinger

🚨New programming alert! We're excited to announce the Law and Political Economy Junior Faculty Forum, to be held at the University at Buffalo School of Law on Thursday, July 22, 2027. If you are a pre-tenure, tenure-track faculty member, you can apply here: forms.gle/GJpqYrrdfeXU...

This is a desperately uncomfortable post. After putting off some dental work because I couldn't afford it, I'm now in the position of needing $16K of work so that I can do basic things like eat. I don't have an extra $16k (who does??). ko-fi.com/catedenial

This article makes me think of one of my esteemed doctoral Religion advisors, who made the University of Chicago admin angry every year by submitting a proposal to construct a memorial on campus to the worldwide victims of the UChicago Economics Department. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/o...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

A retired Penn professor has been blocking Uber Eats robots for months in protest. This week, she was arrested for disorderly conduct

Automatic dosa maker www.evochef.in?srsltid=AU7g...

The first of the new Betsy-Tacy audiobooks (read by @marawilson.bsky.social ) is out TODAY! 🥳 You can purchase it wherever audiobooks are sold – and we’ll put in a plug for @libro.fm which allows you to support a bookstore of your choice! #betsytacytuesday

Applications ARE NOW OPEN for the BHC Emerging Scholars Book Proposal Workshop at the 2027 Business History Conference in Mexico City. Convened by Professor Elizabeth Tandy Shermer #bizhis #historyofcapitalism #BHC2027 Deadline: November 15, 2026 Full details: thebhc.org/emerging-sch...

Dear #PublicHistory people: I am teaching a class, very last minute, on public history and am looking for a #PublicHistorian who is open to talk to my class (in person/over zoom) about their practical experiences - on the 28th of October. Any ideas? Thanks for your help!!

A haunted house where every room has a PDF you have to sign.

Exciting new additions to our gracious home.

As VAPs go, this is a pretty great one for 3 years at Amherst College in Law, Jurisprudence, & Social Thought for a law & humanities scholar. Amazing colleagues and I’m just down the street. 🗃️ apply.interfolio.com/195062

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

UChicago, like any other college, gets vastly more women applicants than men. And yet, its undergrad student body is disproportionately male. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...

the glamour of historical research

the main tradeoff of going to grad school isn't money or prestige. that would be laughable. the main reason to do it is so you can ruthlessly pick apart movies that touch on your area of subject expertise

Periplus, a mentorship collective serving US-based early-career writers of color, is now accepting applications for our 2027 class of fellows! Apply by Oct. 11: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... You can learn more about Periplus (including fellowship eligibility requirements) at bit.ly/periplusfaq

If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️

The statement of the Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide on the botched execution of Christa Pike is worth reading in full.

Hey, Chicago! I'm organizing a film presentation for @chirpradio.org where we will be screening "The Last Waltz" at @musicboxtheatre.bsky.social to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Band's legendary concert. There will also be a food drive. Tickets on sale now musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Girls don’t want boys girls want books that scratch precisely the same itch as the Westing Game

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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This is *the* piece. Kate Manne, professor of philosophy at Cornell, speaks truth to the totality of failures at the university — and why students protesting the war in Gaza have faced far harsher consequences than any of the Cornell 7: www.thecut.com/article/what...

Wrote about the decline and fall of SCOTUSblog, which used to be the single best resource for Supreme Court stuff, and (thanks to some intervening crimes committed by its co-founder) is now a weird platform for conservative pundits to talk about what a good job the conservative justices are doing

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

I feel you, Daniel L

there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social is right.

On first glance I read the last word as “disassociate,” which is also an important part of the PhD process.

We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net

✈️ If you’re flying today, try airportwtf.com at the airport and let me know what’s missing! I’ve rolled out several updates to this l’il side project since deploying it Friday. The idea is to give flyers the info they actually want (which I find existing airport maps don’t). Feedback invited.