Rebecca Spang
@rlspang.bsky.social
Professor of History, sometimes administrator at big public university in Midwest. Writes about money, French Revolution, restaurants. Friend to vert paleo.
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
ex UCL History; Yale SOM Visiting Fellow; Guggenheim and New America Fellow.
once/future Mainer
Yes, we've seen this over and over again: people who WANT to be journalists are better at the job than those who are already comfortable at the "top" of their profession. They cover stories big and small. Here's one of the latter www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
Retired faculty press Chancellor Reingold on emeriti rights, faculty fears
Emeriti expressed mixed sentiment after the discussion.
www.idsnews.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Yes, we've seen this over and over again: people who WANT to be journalists are better at the job than those who are already comfortable at the "top" of their profession. They cover stories big and small. Here's one of the latter www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
But it’s a KALE Caesar salad so you outed yourselves as belonging to the last decade!
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 AM
But it’s a KALE Caesar salad so you outed yourselves as belonging to the last decade!
Thanks! What I'm really after is a sense of who the big players were, what they lobbied for, how (if at all) they innovated in marketing, workforce management, etc. A sort of business-political-social history.
November 16, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Thanks! What I'm really after is a sense of who the big players were, what they lobbied for, how (if at all) they innovated in marketing, workforce management, etc. A sort of business-political-social history.
Hello from a bit south of you! I'm so glad to learn about your work.
November 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Hello from a bit south of you! I'm so glad to learn about your work.
There's also a staple remover that looks more like a meat thermometer! (I have/had both kinds.)
November 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
There's also a staple remover that looks more like a meat thermometer! (I have/had both kinds.)
I kinda hope they're AI generated! It just seems unwise.... but probably somebody was saying that 10,000 years ago about cats.
November 16, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I kinda hope they're AI generated! It just seems unwise.... but probably somebody was saying that 10,000 years ago about cats.