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Mark Rice
@markricehistory.bsky.social
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Associate professor of history at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Author of Making Machu Picchu/Destino Machu Picchu. Fulbright scholar. Department chair.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/markrice1/

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 18h
This is a very good communications strategy.

“Your tax dollars at work” once seemed cliched. But it’s important to highlight this sort of stuff.

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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 19h
Newly installed signs point to what the Manhattan vehicle tolls are funding in the transit system.
This Subway Elevator Was Brought to You by Congestion Pricing, MTA Says
Newly installed signs point to what the Manhattan vehicle tolls are funding in the transit system.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h
(Reuters) - The order to limit a satellite system used by Ukraine for battlefield communications and drone operations came from inside the White House, according to two US officials and a Western official briefed on the matter.

@reuters.com 🇺🇦
www.reuters.com/world/europe...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 21h
Said a day after a white supremacist sought to kill people at a Hindu temple. Not a word about the anti-Indian rhetoric within his own party that has put South Asians and his own family members in danger. Instead continues to play footsie with people who see non-white citizens as guests, at best.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
I don't think most Americans understand yet what a global laggard the USA is turning into here. Media instead told us that electric vehicles were a fad that didn't work.
bistline.bsky.social John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 1d
Nepal passed 5% battery electric vehicle share in August 2021 and is at 75%. The U.S. passed 5% in October 2022 and is at 6%.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"

markricehistory.bsky.social
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
Unpopular opinion, but this is why Congress just worked better in the past when guys like Monyihan were bringing this type of energy to debates after...umm..."lunch"
hunterisntdunn.bsky.social Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 2d
Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 1d
"Men can generally be bad dept citizens as long as their research is valued, but women can’t." "Meritocracy is really just a way [to support] the status quo of a dominant white, male envrnmnt…I thought that if I worked hard enough, my work wld be recognized. But [that's] not how the system works."
Devaluation underlies gendered US faculty departures across disciplines and institutions
Abstract. Women faculty experience academia differently from men in many ways, which can lead them to consider leaving their positions. Using a large-scale
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markricehistory.bsky.social
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
In fact, history is unique in being almost a "book only" discipline - at least in a lot of research-active departments. Perhaps more should consider having an "article track" of allowing tenure with 6 or so articles in respected peer review journals.

markricehistory.bsky.social
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
This happens in humanities too. Lots of English or Fine Arts departments will have a track for produce work (for example, you write poems) and those who study it (you write a book analyzing poetry).

markricehistory.bsky.social
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
Many departments like that will sometimes have two different "tracks" for tenure: an "article track" for some researchers and a "book track" for others depending on the nature of their data.

markricehistory.bsky.social
Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
As long as your promotion committees understand that different disciplines mark "productivity" in different ways, it's OK. The chair of Natural Sciences understands that doing historical archival work is hard, so I recognize that cultivating a fungi lab for 5 years is tough work too.

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Mark Rice @markricehistory.bsky.social · 1d
The quickest answer is that those fields (esp. nat sci and the more stats-driven social sci) tend to craft their arguments on a data set or study that then can be used for multiple singular findings. Which honestly, there's really nothing wrong with.

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 1d
Chief Justice John Roberts

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d
New Marist poll of Texas finds 61% say undocumented immigrants should stay in US if meet certain requirements. Only 35% say they should leave.

A majority of noncollege white men (Trump base) says stay.

Supports my case (see piece/thread below) that Trump opened way for new pro-immigrant consensus

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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 2d
In a major escalation of its multi-prong attempts to interfere in the midterm elections, the Trump DOJ has given California 48 hours to take steps to prevent an unknown number of alleged noncitizen voters in Los Angeles County from voting — or face legal action.
Trump DOJ Begins Active Election Interference in LA
What Election Officials Have Long Feared In a major escalation of its...
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Aeryn 💀 The Living Dead Transsexual @baphometta.bsky.social · 2d
Attention all "It's not THAT bad, stop exaggerating"-type assholes: It is, indeed, that bad.
Excerpt: Some of his associates in and close to the administration even accuse him of intentionally trying to push major U.S. cities to riot, to create a pretext for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act, an early 19th-century law, so that he could send thousands of active-duty and National Guard troops to fully occupy those urban areas.

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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 2d
Trust me: whatever you’re doing right now is less important than watching this candidate interview. No spoilers, just trust:

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d
Excerpts from Michael Lewis on DOGE (Guardian article).
1. Gavin Kliger, white nationalist, refused to shake hands with the Black IRS staffer who briefed him on privacy issues. Or pay attention.
Kliger now has a defense start-up valued at 1.4B thanks to DOGE.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Phyllis, who loved working for Kathleen and saw falling on hand grenades as part of her job, never told her how this one had felt. She knew Gavin had expressed enthusiasm for white nationalists, and he likely knew that she knew. She tried to break the ice by walking in with her hand extended; Gavin stared at it and declined to shake it, though he had shaken the hands of the white men who had offered them. “He was kind of cool towards me,” said Phyllis. Before she could even start the briefing, he said, You know, I’ve heard these rules before at other agencies. Yes, she said, but these rules are different, because no other agency is governed by this privacy law, and this law can get you thrown in jail very quickly. As she walked him through the basics – how you can’t use your personal phone for business, how if you happen to so much as glimpse a form 1040 with someone’s name on it you must avert your eyes – Gavin played on his phone. “He’s multitasking right in front of me, typing and texting,” said Phyllis. “It was, here’s a routine that I must endure.”