Ruth
@rrrruuutth.bsky.social
Professional book reader/art lover/museum worker. Amateur everything else. she/her
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Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize
Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.
hyperallergic.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.
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"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
November 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger
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I *just* finished teaching my section on deviance in my intro course. We focus on underage/binge drinking in college as the example of "illegal vs deviant": non-drinkers as deviant (Kinney and Kinney 2013).
Will circle back today with your post. Slide #1.
Thanks
Will circle back today with your post. Slide #1.
Thanks
November 13, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I *just* finished teaching my section on deviance in my intro course. We focus on underage/binge drinking in college as the example of "illegal vs deviant": non-drinkers as deviant (Kinney and Kinney 2013).
Will circle back today with your post. Slide #1.
Thanks
Will circle back today with your post. Slide #1.
Thanks
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Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
November 13, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.
A few months ago I attended an @aupresses.bsky.social webinar on Ethics in AI, which was actually about publishers trying to use AI ethically. The more relevant question in my opinion is whether it is ethical to use AI in academic publishing at all.
We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
November 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
A few months ago I attended an @aupresses.bsky.social webinar on Ethics in AI, which was actually about publishers trying to use AI ethically. The more relevant question in my opinion is whether it is ethical to use AI in academic publishing at all.
GenAI from an author's perspective, FYI my academic publishing folks drb.ie/move-over-fo...
Move over for AI - DRB
Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...
drb.ie
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
GenAI from an author's perspective, FYI my academic publishing folks drb.ie/move-over-fo...
There’s a million cruelties in canceling SNAP in fucking November for THANKSGIVING, but thinking about all the parents who now have to find the time to wait in line for boxes of random food given out during random windows at random community centers and churches all over town… I want to scream.
October 31, 2025 at 3:03 PM
There’s a million cruelties in canceling SNAP in fucking November for THANKSGIVING, but thinking about all the parents who now have to find the time to wait in line for boxes of random food given out during random windows at random community centers and churches all over town… I want to scream.
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45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:
The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.
October 21, 2025 at 11:19 PM
45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:
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ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.
www.latimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault
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Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
October 22, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.
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YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
YES! THIS on GenAI!
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:
"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
I thought that after this Kimmel business I would finally be able to tell the Jimmies Kimmel and Fallon apart but alas, no.
September 29, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I thought that after this Kimmel business I would finally be able to tell the Jimmies Kimmel and Fallon apart but alas, no.
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A little bit of inside baseball:
Many art museums have reduced their comms/PR staffs to near-nil, 'replacing' them with outside and usually geographically distant PR firms.
Many art museums have reduced their comms/PR staffs to near-nil, 'replacing' them with outside and usually geographically distant PR firms.
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
A little bit of inside baseball:
Many art museums have reduced their comms/PR staffs to near-nil, 'replacing' them with outside and usually geographically distant PR firms.
Many art museums have reduced their comms/PR staffs to near-nil, 'replacing' them with outside and usually geographically distant PR firms.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
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September 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened befor...
lapublicpress.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.
Lots of bad things in the news today but LMU claiming a “religious exemption” and rescinding recognition of the faculty union is certain among them.
Loyola Marymount abruptly rescinds recognition of faculty union after months of negotiation
Loyola Marymount abruptly rescinds recognition of faculty union after months of negotiation
Loyola Marymount University said it could end its engagement with the union by invoking its “constitutionally protected religious exemption” from the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board.
www.latimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Lots of bad things in the news today but LMU claiming a “religious exemption” and rescinding recognition of the faculty union is certain among them.
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Very good longread from the TES on the veracity (or otherwise) of Jonathan Haidt's claims that I think is of interest to anyone looking at populist framing and moral panics www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones?
In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...
www.tes.com
September 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Very good longread from the TES on the veracity (or otherwise) of Jonathan Haidt's claims that I think is of interest to anyone looking at populist framing and moral panics www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
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Live webcam view of LA, which has clearly burned to the ground.
June 9, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Live webcam view of LA, which has clearly burned to the ground.
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”
April 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.: “Chaos is its own form of tariff. Who invests in a nation that can't have a set of dependable laws that people can count on?”
I’ve loved a lot of Val Kilmers but none more than Real Genius Val Kilmer. slate.com/technology/2...
The Most Important Movie for Thinking About the Future
Plus, stories from the recent past of Future Tense. (Originally published 8/20/2022, 10:00:00 AM)
slate.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:22 AM
I’ve loved a lot of Val Kilmers but none more than Real Genius Val Kilmer. slate.com/technology/2...
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I’ve started tracking political actions affecting museums in 2025 here. Please add your own links so we can build a comprehensive record of the actions happening to the field.
#Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️
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#Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️
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April 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’ve started tracking political actions affecting museums in 2025 here. Please add your own links so we can build a comprehensive record of the actions happening to the field.
#Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️
drive.proton.me/urls/7CRNDY5...
#Museums #GLAM #MuseumEthics 📜🏛️
drive.proton.me/urls/7CRNDY5...
The world is pretty dark right now but there is a Prius driving around with a PRISON BREAK bumper sticker.
March 25, 2025 at 3:24 AM
The world is pretty dark right now but there is a Prius driving around with a PRISON BREAK bumper sticker.