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John Kuhn
@johnmkuhn.bsky.social
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English prof. 17th century stuff. Prairie son. Working on a cultural and material history of the birchbark canoe in the early modern Americas.
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 5h
my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...
Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports
CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.
www.consumerreports.org
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h
to quote ex-chancellor of the UC system Clark Kerr: "The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking"
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 5h
the indignity of waiting at the vet for routine checkup and being able to smell all the cats in the main waiting room
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 18
shen the bird @Shen_the_Bird The transformers holding back tears as they load a hearse into a slightly larger hearse 5:03 AM • 2018-02-13
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 14
Will Kellogg @Will_Kellogg me, sobbing: please stop, you can't just call every single kind of dessert pudding british person, pointing to a cake: pudding 12:47 AM • 2020-06-28
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 9
Treasures inside the earth @honker3D much like the USSR my granddad collapsed in 1991 while getting mcdonalds 10:08 PM • 2020-04-10
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Aug 1
Marie lastnamé @marieberd Doctor Who is like if all the school bullies got together and performed a cruel sketch of what nerds like 2:45 AM • 2016-05-28
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Kenny Goblins @kennylogins.bsky.social · Jul 31
Jeremiah St Cyr @MiahSaint Hell yes, I have the body of a Greek god: nice abs, expressionless eyes, genitals shot off by bored soldiers during The Franco-Prussian War 8:25 PM • 2013-02-28
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 9h
my peer pressure has been successful and my colleague is indeed offering a class on the Luddites lol
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 18h
least complimentary thing I can say about this novel: it would be easy to teach with Robinson Crusoe and Coetzee’s Foe (which I don’t particularly care for even though I am a big fan of his work generally)
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 18h
Now I want to go to Orkney! And kill some grasping 18th century landlords while I’m at it!!
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 18h
Next up: Under the Net by Iris Murdoch. Also, surprise, spending the evening reading a physical book did in fact make me feel better than reading “news” on my phone
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 20h
I’m finally reading Clear by Carys Davies and it’s such a lovely little novella….
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 18h
I read this whole thing in one sitting and cried….at least twice. Dying languages, cold islands, Presbyterians in love, twenty words for mist and wave, the Scottish Clearances, an old blind cow, the sound of seabirds overhead, something breaking /something born. Loved all of it!
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 19h
the look of doggy betrayal when the snack crumb that fell on the floor is a hated wasabi pea
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 20h
I’m finally reading Clear by Carys Davies and it’s such a lovely little novella….
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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · 23h
What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?
A peer-reviewed paper claimed a researcher was an expert in sex robots. He’s not.
3dalia/iStock What would you do if you discovered your name in a list of experts on sex robots despite having never studied sex robots?  That was the situation for one rather panicked research…
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 23h
years later and despite much evidence to the contrary, I still maintain that Tana French is just a front for Donna Tartt, who is actually writing those books
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
If it also applies to people shifting status....that's a much, much bigger pool of people and it will be a much bigger impact. What percent of humanities hires at American universities are people on F1/OPT visas? I'd guess...10%, maybe more? & I bet in STEM that number is substantially higher
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
Honestly given American hiring patterns in the humanities the people who are going to get hit the hardest by this (if it only applies to people with no current visa status) are Oxbridge/Toronto grads, who are the huge majority of people hired cold from outside the US.
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
Admin has basically said they are trying to get clarity about the policy before making any firm statements, so we're all waiting. The timing of this is annoying (and not just at Bing), bc most fall ads have already gone up and it would have been nice to at least note restrictions, if they exist.
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
My university hasn't issued guidelines about this but it is a safe assumption that we cannot afford to pay $100k per visa (the fee used to be $2k? $5k?). We just won't be able to hire people with no current visa status (and possibly people adjusting status as well, tho that's TBD).
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
If it's just the first category, the impact will be smaller. Humanities depts don't hire THAT many people who truly have no prior affiliation with American universities. If the fees also apply to people adjusting status (i.e. intl students in US PhDs), it will be catastrophic in scale.
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
it's hiring season at my university and the rollout of the new H1B visa fees has been a mess. Seems like the fees will definitely apply to people with no current status but the government hasn't clarified if the fees also apply to ppl adjusting status (i.e. OPT/F1 shifts).
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
Megan based on the timestamps of these posts YOU ARE STILL ON THE INTERNET
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John Kuhn @johnmkuhn.bsky.social · 1d
words cannot describe how angry my (fairly normie, fairly unflappable) sister in Chicago was on the phone today.
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