Rockies in the playoff vs the academic job market

Feeling retro

Done with Hoover, now onto Beijing 🫡

First day of my fieldwork year: spent six hours in the Hoover archive, watched the Dodgers lose to the Pirates, and jogged 5k around the Stanford campus at sunset. Life is fun :)

It happened!! Had to reschedule from yesterday because somehow there was a thunderstorm in SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.

Anyway here is a selfie of five happy ABDs enjoying In-N-Out while the ship of academia is sinking 😇😋

Always fun to attend our annual undergrad history conference! Surprised to see how many undergrads are much better presenters — so lively, passionate, all while off scripts! — than professional academic presentations.

For every 100 bland book reviews, you get a gem like this:

got my white american friend to watch 建党伟业 and this is his comment #makechinesepropagandagreatagain

Moments and people like these make academia worth it :) #AHA25 @yixueyang.bsky.social @yiming.bsky.social

What better way to spend a Saturday afternoon in NYC than by learning about care labor in the early PRC? 🤓 @yiming.bsky.social #AHA25

10k #parkrun female 1st place 🤯 guess anyone can be a champion if the race is small enough and everyone else is dressing as elves!

having too much fun prepping for my aha pre next month. will be putting this pic in my slides and explain its connection to state-building #criticalauntystudies #researchisfun