Johanna Mellis
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
The dissolution if social media spaces really abets higher ed’s destruction. Just horrendous, devastating stuff is going down
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The dissolution if social media spaces really abets higher ed’s destruction. Just horrendous, devastating stuff is going down
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Re: Ursinus—faculty will learn in a few weeks who is being laid off, just a few weeks after they announced the cuts smh
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Re: Ursinus—faculty will learn in a few weeks who is being laid off, just a few weeks after they announced the cuts smh
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This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State
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Taking a survey. How many classes did you miss as a graduate student?
Absences due to personal/family emergencies, pregnancy/having kids, and injury/extended illness/hospitalization/disability do not count.
No need for details, just numbers. I'm just curious.
Absences due to personal/family emergencies, pregnancy/having kids, and injury/extended illness/hospitalization/disability do not count.
No need for details, just numbers. I'm just curious.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Taking a survey. How many classes did you miss as a graduate student?
Absences due to personal/family emergencies, pregnancy/having kids, and injury/extended illness/hospitalization/disability do not count.
No need for details, just numbers. I'm just curious.
Absences due to personal/family emergencies, pregnancy/having kids, and injury/extended illness/hospitalization/disability do not count.
No need for details, just numbers. I'm just curious.
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Did… all the universities hire the same consulting company last year?
WTF.
WTF.
This is terrible. Ursinus College (where my partner works) spent last year planning a reorganization (they’re creating multidisciplinary “hubs”) only for its administration to announce layoffs this semester. I hope this isn’t in the cards for those working at Montclair State
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Did… all the universities hire the same consulting company last year?
WTF.
WTF.
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Awful. We’re getting gutted everywhere.
www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.
Opinion | Montclair State’s Inhumanity to the Humanities
Goodbye, English department. Hello, Institute for Complex Systems and Algorithmic Infused Societies.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Awful. We’re getting gutted everywhere.
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i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth
October 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
i hope that a governor spanberger and a democratic general assembly uses its authority to discipline the university for its capitulation and to remove these BOV members who have decided that they work for donald trump and not the people of the commonwealth
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USHMM doing some stuff.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
USHMM doing some stuff.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
USHMM doing some stuff.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
October 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
USHMM doing some stuff.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
Note that MN Rep Hortman was “killed,” not assassinated.
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Bullet point two literally means that I, a Holocaust historian, could not present any of my work ever.
October 20, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Bullet point two literally means that I, a Holocaust historian, could not present any of my work ever.
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Im in FL; the governor and state legislature forbids state spending for anything they deem "DEI" which includes anything remotely mentioning race/gender, including conferences and org memberships. Faculty are free to pay their own way, but often have to take vacation to attend.
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Im in FL; the governor and state legislature forbids state spending for anything they deem "DEI" which includes anything remotely mentioning race/gender, including conferences and org memberships. Faculty are free to pay their own way, but often have to take vacation to attend.
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FSU's policy refusing to fund presentations about structural racism is an example of structural racism. It will disproportionately impact marginalized scholars and deny them resources their colleagues can still access.
Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...
October 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
FSU's policy refusing to fund presentations about structural racism is an example of structural racism. It will disproportionately impact marginalized scholars and deny them resources their colleagues can still access.
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Third bullet point would restrict access to any conservative, "heterodox" or explicitly ideologically diverse conference, too--though we know that's not how it will be deployed in practice.
Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...
October 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Third bullet point would restrict access to any conservative, "heterodox" or explicitly ideologically diverse conference, too--though we know that's not how it will be deployed in practice.
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the third bullet seems like it could prevent travel to a ton of conferences
Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
the third bullet seems like it could prevent travel to a ton of conferences
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Deeply crazy
Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...
October 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Deeply crazy
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Third bullet point: if you are studying any category of person, no conference for you! All people must be treated exactly the same!
That is a message with exactly zero credibility.
That is a message with exactly zero credibility.
Found the publicly-available version on the FSU website: provost.fsu.edu/sites/g/file...
October 14, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Third bullet point: if you are studying any category of person, no conference for you! All people must be treated exactly the same!
That is a message with exactly zero credibility.
That is a message with exactly zero credibility.
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My first book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, came out this March with Rutgers University Press. Since then I've given talks in Boston, Urbana-Champaign, Charlotte and most recently Memphis. /1
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My first book, Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sport, came out this March with Rutgers University Press. Since then I've given talks in Boston, Urbana-Champaign, Charlotte and most recently Memphis. /1
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If your university/organization is interested in sports from a Black feminist perspective, consider me! My book covers issues of racism/gender in sports, the politics of Black hair, athlete activism, fashion, as well as commodification. Reach out to me via my website!
www.drletishaecbrown.com
www.drletishaecbrown.com
Letisha Engracia Cardoso Brown
www.drletishaecbrown.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If your university/organization is interested in sports from a Black feminist perspective, consider me! My book covers issues of racism/gender in sports, the politics of Black hair, athlete activism, fashion, as well as commodification. Reach out to me via my website!
www.drletishaecbrown.com
www.drletishaecbrown.com
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If you're looking to snag a copy of your own, they are available via Rutgers University Press and other online outlets!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name...
Say Her Name - Rutgers University Press
Say Her Name: Centering Black Feminism and Black Women in Sports offers an in-depth look into the lived experiences of Blackgirlwomen as athletes, activists...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org
October 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
If you're looking to snag a copy of your own, they are available via Rutgers University Press and other online outlets!
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name...
www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/say-her-name...
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Just like the lies about Black and Latino graduation ceremonies this isn’t about exclusion it’s about whose concerns are centered in shared spaces.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just like the lies about Black and Latino graduation ceremonies this isn’t about exclusion it’s about whose concerns are centered in shared spaces.
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I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
www.dispatch.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.
Was actually able to hop into an episode (before my back pain debacle, forcing me to step back again).
Such an important discussion. I hope it helps inform people in the absolute junk ways that the anti-tr*ns movement claims that “science” is on their side”
Such an important discussion. I hope it helps inform people in the absolute junk ways that the anti-tr*ns movement claims that “science” is on their side”
On 🥎@endofsportpod.bsky.social🥎 ep170 @nkalamb.bsky.social @derekcrim.bsky.social + @johannamellis.bsky.social sit down with Sheree Bekker and Anna Posbergh to delve into the 'science' deployed to justify the anti-trans movement in sport.
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October 12, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Was actually able to hop into an episode (before my back pain debacle, forcing me to step back again).
Such an important discussion. I hope it helps inform people in the absolute junk ways that the anti-tr*ns movement claims that “science” is on their side”
Such an important discussion. I hope it helps inform people in the absolute junk ways that the anti-tr*ns movement claims that “science” is on their side”