Carolyn E Holmes
@carolyneholmes.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political Science. African Politics, Nationalism, and Democracy. Also quilting. Lots of quilting.
Pinned
New quilt! All made of home-dyed cyanotypes, with plants I collected.
It’s been about 2 years in the making, and I’m so pleased with how it’s coming out.
It’s been about 2 years in the making, and I’m so pleased with how it’s coming out.
Oh hey! It’s me!
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!
Blending #Truth and #Lies: Using an #Ethnographic #Sensibility to Study #Online #Misinformation
By @carolyneholmes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Blending #Truth and #Lies: Using an #Ethnographic #Sensibility to Study #Online #Misinformation
By @carolyneholmes.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
November 24, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Oh hey! It’s me!
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
New article now available and Open Access.
Fact-checking doesn’t really work. If we want to understand what misinformation does, ethnography is super useful.
Come for the discussion of windmills and Elon Tweets, stay for the talk of the “Afrikaner Refugees.” It’s a wild time.
No handover to the US will happen at the G20. Instead, the US delegation can come get the materials if they make an appointment, after Monday.
"We will follow protocols. We expect Washington to follow the same rules followed by all G20 states."
SASSY DIPLOMACY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5o...
"We will follow protocols. We expect Washington to follow the same rules followed by all G20 states."
SASSY DIPLOMACY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5o...
G20 Leaders' Summit | Presidency to be handed over to US by DIRCO
YouTube video by SABC News
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
No handover to the US will happen at the G20. Instead, the US delegation can come get the materials if they make an appointment, after Monday.
"We will follow protocols. We expect Washington to follow the same rules followed by all G20 states."
SASSY DIPLOMACY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5o...
"We will follow protocols. We expect Washington to follow the same rules followed by all G20 states."
SASSY DIPLOMACY
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU5o...
I want to know who was the first person to think of clipping a full panel curtain to the side of a crappy folding table to make it look ~*fancy*~
because that right there is a MONEY idea.
because that right there is a MONEY idea.
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I want to know who was the first person to think of clipping a full panel curtain to the side of a crappy folding table to make it look ~*fancy*~
because that right there is a MONEY idea.
because that right there is a MONEY idea.
TIL that AI doesn’t really know what Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, or Elizabeth Warren look like…
…it is an interesting collection of Dems to choose, tho…
…it is an interesting collection of Dems to choose, tho…
The extremely mentally ill President of the United States just posted this on his money losing garbage Truth Social app.
November 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
TIL that AI doesn’t really know what Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, or Elizabeth Warren look like…
…it is an interesting collection of Dems to choose, tho…
…it is an interesting collection of Dems to choose, tho…
Parenting cheat code:
My kids have been squabble monsters all weekend. Just getting at one another constantly.
I *forbade* them from playing with each other. “Everyone to their own corners!”
And now they are sneakily cooperating on something and they think I don’t know.
It’s perfect.
My kids have been squabble monsters all weekend. Just getting at one another constantly.
I *forbade* them from playing with each other. “Everyone to their own corners!”
And now they are sneakily cooperating on something and they think I don’t know.
It’s perfect.
November 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Parenting cheat code:
My kids have been squabble monsters all weekend. Just getting at one another constantly.
I *forbade* them from playing with each other. “Everyone to their own corners!”
And now they are sneakily cooperating on something and they think I don’t know.
It’s perfect.
My kids have been squabble monsters all weekend. Just getting at one another constantly.
I *forbade* them from playing with each other. “Everyone to their own corners!”
And now they are sneakily cooperating on something and they think I don’t know.
It’s perfect.
This is actually a fascinating “cost of labor in the tech sector” dataset…
Meanwhile on Hellsite, who knew all the Elon bots were Nigerian? 🤡
November 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is actually a fascinating “cost of labor in the tech sector” dataset…
Reposted by Carolyn E Holmes
My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social on the upcoming G20 Summit, the US Boycott (now partially walked back), South Africa and Africa in the G20, and more!
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
The G20 line-up for this weekend is shrinking
Why did the U.S. boycott this global summit – and what happens now?
goodauthority.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social on the upcoming G20 Summit, the US Boycott (now partially walked back), South Africa and Africa in the G20, and more!
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social on the upcoming G20 Summit, the US Boycott (now partially walked back), South Africa and Africa in the G20, and more!
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
The G20 line-up for this weekend is shrinking
Why did the U.S. boycott this global summit – and what happens now?
goodauthority.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My latest, in @goodauth.bsky.social on the upcoming G20 Summit, the US Boycott (now partially walked back), South Africa and Africa in the G20, and more!
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
goodauthority.org/news/the-g20...
The absolutely differing levels to commitment on Doodle Polls/WhenToMeets is wild to me.
"Are you available?" is for some folks an analogue to "I have no immediate conflicts" while for others it is "that is not time I prefer to be working"
"Are you available?" is for some folks an analogue to "I have no immediate conflicts" while for others it is "that is not time I prefer to be working"
November 21, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The absolutely differing levels to commitment on Doodle Polls/WhenToMeets is wild to me.
"Are you available?" is for some folks an analogue to "I have no immediate conflicts" while for others it is "that is not time I prefer to be working"
"Are you available?" is for some folks an analogue to "I have no immediate conflicts" while for others it is "that is not time I prefer to be working"
I love how when a guy is smart and rude it is “oh, he’s a *genius*” and when a woman is smart and rude it’s always “oh, she’s a bitch.”
I’m not here to defend rudeness, but I AM here to call out the double standard.
I’m not here to defend rudeness, but I AM here to call out the double standard.
November 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I love how when a guy is smart and rude it is “oh, he’s a *genius*” and when a woman is smart and rude it’s always “oh, she’s a bitch.”
I’m not here to defend rudeness, but I AM here to call out the double standard.
I’m not here to defend rudeness, but I AM here to call out the double standard.
Mean nerd has no friends. Builds a robot bestie.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Mean nerd has no friends. Builds a robot bestie.
The Palmer House is the Room of Requirement.
If you need it, it is there.
If you need it, it is there.
November 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
The Palmer House is the Room of Requirement.
If you need it, it is there.
If you need it, it is there.
I just don't really see the need for more "live action remakes" of things that were cartoons in the first place.
can we not?
can we not?
November 19, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I just don't really see the need for more "live action remakes" of things that were cartoons in the first place.
can we not?
can we not?
Forgot both my clicker and my water bottle in my office when I went to teach.
Chuckled to myself “F**k it! We’ll do it live!”
Then realized that reference is a decade older than basically all of my students, and crumbled into dust.
Chuckled to myself “F**k it! We’ll do it live!”
Then realized that reference is a decade older than basically all of my students, and crumbled into dust.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Forgot both my clicker and my water bottle in my office when I went to teach.
Chuckled to myself “F**k it! We’ll do it live!”
Then realized that reference is a decade older than basically all of my students, and crumbled into dust.
Chuckled to myself “F**k it! We’ll do it live!”
Then realized that reference is a decade older than basically all of my students, and crumbled into dust.
The more I think about it, the more incensed I am by the public obligations versus teaching framing here.
As if teaching isn’t a fundamental public action.
As if teaching isn’t a fundamental public action.
Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The more I think about it, the more incensed I am by the public obligations versus teaching framing here.
As if teaching isn’t a fundamental public action.
As if teaching isn’t a fundamental public action.
Dressed up in bright pink to go give a talk at Harvard.
What, like it’s hard?
(iykyk)
What, like it’s hard?
(iykyk)
November 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Dressed up in bright pink to go give a talk at Harvard.
What, like it’s hard?
(iykyk)
What, like it’s hard?
(iykyk)
I am thinking about this video in the context of the Summers/"I will continue to teach, but step back from public life" statement.
The problem is NOT that high status people are being punished. The problem is that they hold and leverage deeply held prejudice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXz...
The problem is NOT that high status people are being punished. The problem is that they hold and leverage deeply held prejudice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXz...
Slavery was Racist
YouTube video by Hank Green
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I am thinking about this video in the context of the Summers/"I will continue to teach, but step back from public life" statement.
The problem is NOT that high status people are being punished. The problem is that they hold and leverage deeply held prejudice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXz...
The problem is NOT that high status people are being punished. The problem is that they hold and leverage deeply held prejudice.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbXz...
For people who have written a second academic book...a question:
How far into writing/research did you start to circulate a proposal and get presses interested?
Half way? Once it was mostly written? Way before that?
How far into writing/research did you start to circulate a proposal and get presses interested?
Half way? Once it was mostly written? Way before that?
a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and says let me ask you a question
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is sitting at a desk and says let me ask you a question
media.tenor.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:31 PM
For people who have written a second academic book...a question:
How far into writing/research did you start to circulate a proposal and get presses interested?
Half way? Once it was mostly written? Way before that?
How far into writing/research did you start to circulate a proposal and get presses interested?
Half way? Once it was mostly written? Way before that?
THIS PART.
I wish that were true, but in most cases I’ve experienced or witnessed of verbal abuse like this, especially from a powerful man, it’s rare that anyone says anything
November 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
THIS PART.
TIL that this asshole is still teaching.
Still “mentoring” students.
But then again, so many like him are. We should hardly be surprised.
Still “mentoring” students.
But then again, so many like him are. We should hardly be surprised.
Larry Summers statement in full…. It’s not clear that this actually changes anything about his status at Harvard or OpenAI.
November 18, 2025 at 1:20 PM
TIL that this asshole is still teaching.
Still “mentoring” students.
But then again, so many like him are. We should hardly be surprised.
Still “mentoring” students.
But then again, so many like him are. We should hardly be surprised.
My article: 2 years and 7 different reviewers/multiple R&R's (all at the same journal). Just got an invitation to revise AGAIN.
Meanwhile, I've done 2 reviews on time and in full for them.
Tell me again how peer review works, because I'm just not seeing it.
Meanwhile, I've done 2 reviews on time and in full for them.
Tell me again how peer review works, because I'm just not seeing it.
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My article: 2 years and 7 different reviewers/multiple R&R's (all at the same journal). Just got an invitation to revise AGAIN.
Meanwhile, I've done 2 reviews on time and in full for them.
Tell me again how peer review works, because I'm just not seeing it.
Meanwhile, I've done 2 reviews on time and in full for them.
Tell me again how peer review works, because I'm just not seeing it.
Today I described both the Universal Postal Union and vaccines as “goddamn miracles that have led to measurable increases in human development.”
A++ pedagogy. Expecting the teaching awards to come rolling in.
A++ pedagogy. Expecting the teaching awards to come rolling in.
November 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today I described both the Universal Postal Union and vaccines as “goddamn miracles that have led to measurable increases in human development.”
A++ pedagogy. Expecting the teaching awards to come rolling in.
A++ pedagogy. Expecting the teaching awards to come rolling in.
This is the “I just want to stay away from chemicals” of politics.
Fundamentally meaningless if you have even an iota of information.
Fundamentally meaningless if you have even an iota of information.
Speaking at a Texas Tribune Festival on Friday, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg criticized the Democratic Party for failing to reach everyday Americans, arguing that it “got sucked in” to a conversation about identity. #TribFest25
Pete Buttigieg critiques Democrats for focus on identity
The former U.S. transportation secretary said the Democratic Party should focus more on issues gripping the country, such as health care and housing affordability.
www.texastribune.org
November 16, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This is the “I just want to stay away from chemicals” of politics.
Fundamentally meaningless if you have even an iota of information.
Fundamentally meaningless if you have even an iota of information.
…Namibia??
Somebody is briefing the Times that the Home Secretary finds inspiration in Kristi Noem's leading the Trump mass deportation effort - which has gone much too far for Americans
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
What a kamikaze piece of political madness that is on the eve of their asylum package
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Shabana Mahmood threatens Trump-style visa ban on three countries
Angola, Namibia and the Democratic Republic of Congo will face Trump-style sanctions if they do not start taking back more illegal migrants and criminals
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
…Namibia??
Back at it again with the nonsense.
Recreational geometry!
Recreational geometry!
November 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Back at it again with the nonsense.
Recreational geometry!
Recreational geometry!