Eira Tansey @archivist@scholar.social

AAUP Wright State has called off the 20 day strike after reaching a tentatively agreed contact with admin. They retained their right to bargain over healthcare, full TA'd agreement will be sent out later to the bargaining unit https://www.facebook.com/AAUPWSU/photos/a.910334269034482/2020361038031794/?type=3&theater

Did not expect this intriguing and highly questionable part of Soviet nuclear history to show up in the federal Deepwater Horizon disaster report

As someone who thinks the entire enterprise of capitalist fossil fuels is animated in large part by racism (see: imperialist military activity that saves oil fields instead of cultural heritage sites, the growth of car-based suburban sprawl, I could go on), I am 100% here for the U. Oklahoma person holding the poster "Don’t Trust an Oil Baron With Racial Justice" https://www.chronicle.com/article/Hired-to-Fix-Finances/245549?cid=wsinglestory_hp_1

Can anyone recommend geospatial humanities workshops or conferences happening in Fall 2019?

Experiencing a fellow journal guest editor in my extremely niche field going AWOL after multiple emails from the managing editor is one of the weirder experiences I've had so far in higher ed.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-Would-It-Take-to-Keep/245272?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest
This article from CHE highlighting the UNC system's plan to create a mobile police force is wild. I don't know where to start, but let's just say that there is no equivalence between damage to a monument and neo-Nazis running around with torches. This kind of false equivalence is exactly what happens when you hire a member of the FBI to come up with a security plan.

I am reviewing a book in my field that I have significant theoretical disagreements with. Can anyone point me to a book review in their field that demonstrates how to articulate one's disagreements well without devolving into just disciplinary smack talking?

Realized I only have 15 days left in the office for 2018, new goal is to reach inbox < 100

I just found out my institution has access to the full-text OUP Very Short Introductions series and my life will never be the same again

I am geography-adjacent but I haven't been to a geography-focused conference since AAG as an undergrad. Can any geographers recommend critical/radical/feminist geography conferences worth attending? Or is most of this work happening at AAG?

TFW you are editing a journal issue for the first time and Reviewer 1 is like THIS IS THE BEST! and Reviewer 2 is like THIS IS THE WORST! and I'm over here feeling like King Solomon

Academics, tell me about methods you have used to make faculty meetings productive, especially with contentious issues. I have a lot of well-honed facilitation skills from activist work that I am thinking of modifying for faculty meetings (like a modified version of taking stack).

Is #AcWriMo a thing? Anyone I know in the GLAM sector interested in being an Accountability buddy with me?

When writing a recommendation letter that references specific articles authored by that person, is it copacetic to footnote the letter, or is it preferable to do an inline reference?

(Excited is always a weird adjective to use in conjunction with climate change research, I know)

super super excited that our research on mapping the exposure of American archives to climate change has now been assigned to an issue. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2018.03.005

and of course you stumble across A PERFECT ARTICLE in line with your work full of citations you somehow didn't see before but now how are you going to read everything before tomorrow morning when the revision is due ARRRRGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHGH ARRRGHGHGH

love this world where "radical" does not apparently apply to critical assessment of your own field

reading about the latest academia birb site dust-up and good god am i glad I left it months ago. What an embarrassment https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-a-Twitter-Tussle-Exposed/243374?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest