Professor KPA 🗃️😷
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Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. Knitter & spinner. antoshki.com
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I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
November 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.
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Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
November 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Years ago, my colleagues at Business Insider and I tracked YouTuber “cancellation” arcs. What we found is that for many entertainers, “cancellation” actually sets the stage for a redemption arc, one that can raise their profile higher than ever. It wasn’t career-ending. It was fuel.
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So I just went through and put all of the 2025 contingent-authored pieces from a journal in my subfield on the list. You can do the same if you want to boost contingent scholars in your subfield! It only took me 10 minutes.
Today's the last day to submit for our end-of-year publication lists. We're soliciting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters by contingent historians with a 2025 pub date! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So I just went through and put all of the 2025 contingent-authored pieces from a journal in my subfield on the list. You can do the same if you want to boost contingent scholars in your subfield! It only took me 10 minutes.
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One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
November 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
One of my favorite Douglas Adams quotes:
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
“All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated, and well supported in logic and argument than others.”
More timely today than ever, don't you think? 💙
#WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky
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So the Epstein files are really damning, I guess
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So the Epstein files are really damning, I guess
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I think one of the hardest things about being a parent for me, emotionally, is to realise how parents are supposed to love and look after their children, and how I didn't have that.
Also, how kids don't appreciate that love at this point in time, just as I didn't realise I was lacking it.
Also, how kids don't appreciate that love at this point in time, just as I didn't realise I was lacking it.
November 28, 2025 at 11:37 PM
I think one of the hardest things about being a parent for me, emotionally, is to realise how parents are supposed to love and look after their children, and how I didn't have that.
Also, how kids don't appreciate that love at this point in time, just as I didn't realise I was lacking it.
Also, how kids don't appreciate that love at this point in time, just as I didn't realise I was lacking it.
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Relatedly: maybe also a good time to question our assumptions about why peer review is helpful in the first place.
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...
The rise and fall of peer review
Why the greatest scientific experiment in history failed, and why that's a great thing
www.experimental-history.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Relatedly: maybe also a good time to question our assumptions about why peer review is helpful in the first place.
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-a...
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In light of the new OpenReview identity-leak scandal, it's a good time to question our assumptions about why blinding in peer review is helpful in the first place.
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 AM
In light of the new OpenReview identity-leak scandal, it's a good time to question our assumptions about why blinding in peer review is helpful in the first place.
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🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
🌎 From Black Friday to Cyber Monday, workers and allies across 30+ countries unite to say: Enough is enough. It's time to #MakeAmazonPay. Join us in demanding fair wages, union rights, environmental responsibility, and tax justice! 📣
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“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
November 29, 2025 at 2:36 PM
“why the fuck are we invading Venezuela” should really be on at least a couple of chyrons
OUP made similar errors in my book and didn't seem to even care about correcting them.
I'm not going to name either the author or the publisher, other than to say they are both major, and this novel was published this year.
If I wrote a book that was typeset as badly as this, I would be devastated.
How did this get through proofing?
If I wrote a book that was typeset as badly as this, I would be devastated.
How did this get through proofing?
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
OUP made similar errors in my book and didn't seem to even care about correcting them.
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The Republican Party has to be the biggest con job in US history. It’s always been a cult. They vote Republican cause their pappy voted Republican and his pappy voted Republican etc. not educated enough to think for themselves or to even realize they vote against their own best interests.
November 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The Republican Party has to be the biggest con job in US history. It’s always been a cult. They vote Republican cause their pappy voted Republican and his pappy voted Republican etc. not educated enough to think for themselves or to even realize they vote against their own best interests.
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Another thing, when JD Vance and Stephen Miller are the folks you lean on for charisma and to speak to the people, you’re going to lose. Both of them have a personality that only sandpaper enthusiasts would enjoy.
November 28, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Another thing, when JD Vance and Stephen Miller are the folks you lean on for charisma and to speak to the people, you’re going to lose. Both of them have a personality that only sandpaper enthusiasts would enjoy.
I inherited all the family docs on both sides because I'm the only historian. If I ever do write a book based on all this stuff, it's going to be called, "White People are Crazy."
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I inherited all the family docs on both sides because I'm the only historian. If I ever do write a book based on all this stuff, it's going to be called, "White People are Crazy."
You know there's a new movie with Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor (on Prime, called After the Hunt). I had to watch and it's just...unsufferable people being insufferable. I won't say I haven't met academics like this--if anywhere, they're at Ivies--but UGH just cliche after bad cliche.
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
You know there's a new movie with Julia Roberts as a Yale philosophy professor (on Prime, called After the Hunt). I had to watch and it's just...unsufferable people being insufferable. I won't say I haven't met academics like this--if anywhere, they're at Ivies--but UGH just cliche after bad cliche.
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Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Keep in mind that white American males shot and killed countless Americans including many children, and no one ever did a thing but protect their right to do it again.
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Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.
www.nature.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
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The only reason to have the military in D.C. is to increase tensions and antagonize people to the point they over-react, creating "justification" for increasing crackdowns on innocent people. It's all a con.
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The only reason to have the military in D.C. is to increase tensions and antagonize people to the point they over-react, creating "justification" for increasing crackdowns on innocent people. It's all a con.
Stephen Miller is a completely typical fascist, and there's no point trying to reason through his unhinged belief system. It's just a ball of hate. The only thing to do with fascists is stop them.
November 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Stephen Miller is a completely typical fascist, and there's no point trying to reason through his unhinged belief system. It's just a ball of hate. The only thing to do with fascists is stop them.
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Fascism is the failure mode of neoliebralism.
November 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Fascism is the failure mode of neoliebralism.
Our boiler broke yesterday and the house filled with foul-smelling smoke. Are they timed to always break on major holidays? Fortunately we do the quicker-roasting duck instead of turkey so nothing was in the oven yet. We watched movies under blankets with all the air filters on.
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Our boiler broke yesterday and the house filled with foul-smelling smoke. Are they timed to always break on major holidays? Fortunately we do the quicker-roasting duck instead of turkey so nothing was in the oven yet. We watched movies under blankets with all the air filters on.
Used only as a database, Amazon is very good.
I get too much satisfaction using Amazon to find books, then ordering them from my local indie. I think I might be petty. 📚
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Used only as a database, Amazon is very good.
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stephen miller got so mad about the zohran meeting he just started storming around the white house pressing random buttons until he activated a sleeper
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
stephen miller got so mad about the zohran meeting he just started storming around the white house pressing random buttons until he activated a sleeper
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.