Mark Goble
@goblemark.bsky.social
Modernism and media studies at UC Berkeley. Mediocre film photographer. Excellent baseball fan.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion (Columbia UP) out in May, 2025.
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WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
![On official UC letterhead:
UNIVERSITY
OF
CALIFORNIA
James B. Milliken President
Office of the President
1111 Franklin Street Oakland, CA 94607
universityofcalifornia.edu
CAMPUSES Berkeley
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
Merced
Riverside San Diego San Francisco
Santa Barbara Santa Cruz
MEDICAL CENTERS
Davis
Irvine
UCLA
San Diego
San Francisco
NATIONAL LABORATORIES Lawrence Berkeley Lawrence Livermore Los Alamos
DIVISION OF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
November 18, 2025
Dear Chancellors:
I'm writing with regard to the President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP) and the program's associated faculty hiring incentive.
As you know, for more than 40 years, PPFP has provided postdoctoral research fellowships, professional development, and faculty mentoring to scholars in all fields whose research, teaching, and service advance the academic and research missions of the University of California.
Since 2003, UC campuses that hire current and former PPFP fellows into ladder-rank positions have been eligible for a hiring incentive funded by the University that provides support for newly hired fellows for five years. Since the creation of the incentive, more than $162 million has been invested by the University to support PPFP faculty hires. This commitment has enabled our campuses to successfully recruit and retain outstanding faculty across a range of disciplines.
Given the myriad challenges currently facing UC - including disruptions to billions of dollars in annual federal support, as well as uncertainty around the state budget- reasonable questions were raised in recent months about whether the University could maintain the commitment to current levels of incentive funding. After considering a recommendation to sunset the incentive program due to these significant fiscal constraints, I consulted with all of you as well as faculty and campus academic administrators and systemwide Academic Senate leadership.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)
In the very small academic niche I hang out in the absolute funniest third act twist would be Elisa New and Ryan Lizza start dating
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
In the very small academic niche I hang out in the absolute funniest third act twist would be Elisa New and Ryan Lizza start dating
This is the least fun I’ve ever had playing “remember some guys.”
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
This is the least fun I’ve ever had playing “remember some guys.”
I’m teaching Didion this week and it’s always tricky to think about her legacy. But this is first time I’ve wondered if I’d baby Hitler her to keep Nuzzi from happening.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
I’m teaching Didion this week and it’s always tricky to think about her legacy. But this is first time I’ve wondered if I’d baby Hitler her to keep Nuzzi from happening.
Top 5 movie genres are:
spaghetti westerns
existentialist gangster/crime
musicals
monsters, all of them
The Battle of Algiers
spaghetti westerns
existentialist gangster/crime
musicals
monsters, all of them
The Battle of Algiers
Top 5 movie genres are:
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
heist
intelligence/espionage thriller
pitch perfect
cerebral ensemble oscar fodder drama
heist some more
Top 5 movie genres are:
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
People being shits at a dinner party
Rotting mansion, faded starlet/society beauty, high-camp fuckdown
Either nothing or everything happened, glacially slowly & visually stunningly
Woman is being haunted or maybe there’s actually a gross guy
Tilda Swinton hears a weird noise
November 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Top 5 movie genres are:
spaghetti westerns
existentialist gangster/crime
musicals
monsters, all of them
The Battle of Algiers
spaghetti westerns
existentialist gangster/crime
musicals
monsters, all of them
The Battle of Algiers
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Judge Orders Trump Not to Threaten University of California’s Funding
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Somebody check if Vance is ready for an ibuprofen yet
November 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Somebody check if Vance is ready for an ibuprofen yet
I know this might help defeat fascism but I have to say that a couple weeks of “holy shit! baseball” Bluesky was pretty amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I know this might help defeat fascism but I have to say that a couple weeks of “holy shit! baseball” Bluesky was pretty amazing.
It probably can't get any worse for Larry Summers so he should just let us know what he *really* thinks about the new Robyn song.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
It probably can't get any worse for Larry Summers so he should just let us know what he *really* thinks about the new Robyn song.
The best part of the 1972 film version of Play it as it Lays is definitely Anthony Perkins as BZ. But maybe the second best part is finding out that Joel Schumacher did the clothes?
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 AM
The best part of the 1972 film version of Play it as it Lays is definitely Anthony Perkins as BZ. But maybe the second best part is finding out that Joel Schumacher did the clothes?
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 7, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Peter Coviello isn't on Bluesky, but this definitely should be: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Ohtani starts warming up for first pitch of game 4 in like 90 minutes
October 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Ohtani starts warming up for first pitch of game 4 in like 90 minutes
Maybe this game will go on long enough for Treinen to become a leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Maybe this game will go on long enough for Treinen to become a leftist.
Chatting up my book with Kristen Whissel, next week at UC Berkeley's Humanities Center. townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/downt...
Downtime: The Twentieth Century in Slow Motion | Townsend Center for the Humanities
Mark Goble explores how slow motion in film and literature reveals a deep cultural fascination with the uneven speeds of modern life and our ability to comprehend them.
townsendcenter.berkeley.edu
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Chatting up my book with Kristen Whissel, next week at UC Berkeley's Humanities Center. townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/downt...
Waiting for back-to-back Fox reports on "Democrats are the real Nazis" and "Woke Soros mob attacks veteran for being history buff"
👀 “Platner didn’t offer details about the new tattoo, but offered to send the AP a photo later Wednesday.” apnews.com/article/main...
October 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Waiting for back-to-back Fox reports on "Democrats are the real Nazis" and "Woke Soros mob attacks veteran for being history buff"
As a middle-aged man not psychopathically committed to his job I found that Scherzer performance very hard to identify with.
October 17, 2025 at 3:15 AM
As a middle-aged man not psychopathically committed to his job I found that Scherzer performance very hard to identify with.
Bari Weiss and CBS are going to ask the real question here: aren't some Young Democrats still signing-off emails with their preferred pronouns?
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Bari Weiss and CBS are going to ask the real question here: aren't some Young Democrats still signing-off emails with their preferred pronouns?
The only way fans in Canada could look sadder right now is if they really were the 51st state.
October 13, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The only way fans in Canada could look sadder right now is if they really were the 51st state.
Reposted by Mark Goble
Finally had time to listen to this excellent interview with Mark Goble about his new book, DOWNTIME: THE 20TH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, with Alix Beeston on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/333dere5. @goblemark.bsky.social @alixbeeston.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Finally had time to listen to this excellent interview with Mark Goble about his new book, DOWNTIME: THE 20TH CENTURY IN SLOW MOTION, with Alix Beeston on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/333dere5. @goblemark.bsky.social @alixbeeston.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
I would boycott Salesforce if I knew what they did. But that stupid tower can sure get fucked.
What a crock of shit from Marc Benioff — who appears willfully ignorant of news and facts and so thirsty for approval and attention from the Trump tech bros (who in the past mocked him relentlessly) that he is soiling himself in public www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I would boycott Salesforce if I knew what they did. But that stupid tower can sure get fucked.
Dodgers’ most ICE-coded chud needs a recent immigrant to rescue the team. Again.
October 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Dodgers’ most ICE-coded chud needs a recent immigrant to rescue the team. Again.
I respect that James Gunn, even when he’s going full dorky anti-fascism in this season of Peacemaker, can’t resist a good sight gag. If only I didn’t think that Nazi crocs would probably sell pretty well in our dimension right now.
October 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
I respect that James Gunn, even when he’s going full dorky anti-fascism in this season of Peacemaker, can’t resist a good sight gag. If only I didn’t think that Nazi crocs would probably sell pretty well in our dimension right now.
Treinen in for the 9th because Dodgers don't need a "save," they need a warfighter who can kill a five-run lead and break things.
October 1, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Treinen in for the 9th because Dodgers don't need a "save," they need a warfighter who can kill a five-run lead and break things.
William Friedkin directed the Exorcist and this suckling pig aspic thing from Sorcerer is clearly the most terrifying shot of his career.
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 AM
William Friedkin directed the Exorcist and this suckling pig aspic thing from Sorcerer is clearly the most terrifying shot of his career.