Rick Jobs
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social
Historian | In the Land of the Lacandón | Backpack Ambassadors | Riding the New Wave | Transnational Histories of Youth | Portland | Pacific University
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
This tracks (literally)
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This tracks (literally)
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Jean Dytar réinvente le 9e art à chaque BD. Son dernier album vient de recevoir le Grand prix de la critique ACBD. Avec l'historien Romain Bertrand, il y mêle les graphismes précolombiens et monastiques pour un récit de l'évangélisation de l'Am.Latine.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Jean Dytar réinvente le 9e art à chaque BD. Son dernier album vient de recevoir le Grand prix de la critique ACBD. Avec l'historien Romain Bertrand, il y mêle les graphismes précolombiens et monastiques pour un récit de l'évangélisation de l'Am.Latine.
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We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Those arrested at Portland ICE protests recount disparate, confusing treatment by federal officers
OPB interviewed more than a dozen people who were arrested at the ICE protests between June and October. What they described was an apparent lack of standard operating procedures as various federal la...
www.opb.org
December 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
We spent the past month (months?) talking w/ protesters detained at Portland's ICE bldg about their experiences. We heard everything from being questioned about antifa, to not being read Miranda rights, to photos w/ arresting officers.
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
Their stories point to a slapdash, chaotic federal operation:
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This is the first line of a Tom Waits song.
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
This is the first line of a Tom Waits song.
Wow; more of this please
„CNRS began this process by unsubscribing from Elsevier's Scopus and is continuing today by cutting access to Clarivate Analytics' bibliometric database. This will help the org save €1.4 mill annually in subscription fees, redirected towards promoting open science & development of open databases.“
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Wow; more of this please
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TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.
trying to plan next semester and it's so demoralizing the way I have to gut well put together, very successful classes built out over several years--readings, assignments, etc--because I have to anticipate a combined refusal to engage/do any homework with the upsurge of AI forum posts, papers, so on
December 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
trying to plan next semester and it's so demoralizing the way I have to gut well put together, very successful classes built out over several years--readings, assignments, etc--because I have to anticipate a combined refusal to engage/do any homework with the upsurge of AI forum posts, papers, so on
Watched Godard's 'Breathless' (1959) last night which was very amusing to see scenes that were portrayed being filmed in Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' (2025). For 'Nouvelle Vague', I thought the Godard performance was particularly great.
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Watched Godard's 'Breathless' (1959) last night which was very amusing to see scenes that were portrayed being filmed in Linklater's 'Nouvelle Vague' (2025). For 'Nouvelle Vague', I thought the Godard performance was particularly great.
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JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
November 30, 2025 at 9:37 PM
JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)
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Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Not great that we’ve created a system where the best job opportunities for working class men involve either overseeing other working class people in prison, or working as masked secret police violently hunting down working class immigrants targeted for deportation despite having committed no crimes.
I’ve got my end-of-semester brain-cleanse novel ready.
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
November 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’ve got my end-of-semester brain-cleanse novel ready.
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
Eager for the conclusion to this fab trilogy by @atticlocke.bsky.social. Still hoping for TV series starring LaKeith Stanfield
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Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
November 29, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Does anyone have a good sample of a letter of introduction to provide a student to use foreign archives? The AHA claims to have one but it is a broken link. We need one in Spanish, Italian, and German. C'mon, help a girl out, people!
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Skystorians 🗃️: For my spring Nazi Germany course I want students to think about popular representations of resistance. I’m looking for films, games, and graphic narratives. I have a list started but would love to hear your favorites! Thanks in advance!
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Skystorians 🗃️: For my spring Nazi Germany course I want students to think about popular representations of resistance. I’m looking for films, games, and graphic narratives. I have a list started but would love to hear your favorites! Thanks in advance!
We’ve been in the same room a couple of times!
MFA Faculty Member El Akkad Wins National Book Award | Pacific University
Omar El Akkad, a member of Pacific's Master of Fine Arts in Writing faculty since 2023, received the National Book Award in nonfiction for his book, "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against Th...
www.pacificu.edu
November 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
We’ve been in the same room a couple of times!
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Want to know more about the French and Moroccan photographers (Jewish and Muslim) who developed the photography industry in Morocco? Interested in how colonial imagery and tropes recirculated in Morocco after independence?
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Want to know more about the French and Moroccan photographers (Jewish and Muslim) who developed the photography industry in Morocco? Interested in how colonial imagery and tropes recirculated in Morocco after independence?
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It's not out yet, but I can still promote my book (I have the proofs!)
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
November 28, 2025 at 11:32 PM
It's not out yet, but I can still promote my book (I have the proofs!)
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
Interested in the ways photography and photographers were used to develop historical narratives around Moroccan history (and the challenges to these narratives)?
‘Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir’ by Pedro Martín was a delightful read today.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
‘Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir’ by Pedro Martín was a delightful read today.
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Just published online: Bart van der Steen compares four squatter conflicts in Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Copenhagen and Hamburg in the 1980s.
'Travelling Barricades: Transnational Networks, Diffusion and the Dynamics of 1980s Squatter Conflicts in Western Europe'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'Travelling Barricades: Transnational Networks, Diffusion and the Dynamics of 1980s Squatter Conflicts in Western Europe'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 11, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Just published online: Bart van der Steen compares four squatter conflicts in Amsterdam, Nijmegen, Copenhagen and Hamburg in the 1980s.
'Travelling Barricades: Transnational Networks, Diffusion and the Dynamics of 1980s Squatter Conflicts in Western Europe'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
'Travelling Barricades: Transnational Networks, Diffusion and the Dynamics of 1980s Squatter Conflicts in Western Europe'
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
Midnight Oil
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Brad Mehldau
Wilco
Midnight Oil
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Brad Mehldau
Wilco
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
Metallica
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Judas Priest
Aerosmith
Metallica
Anthrax
Suicidal Tendencies
Judas Priest
Aerosmith
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
R.E.M.
OutKast
Radiohead
Beastie Boys
The Roots
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times
Midnight Oil
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Brad Mehldau
Wilco
Midnight Oil
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings
Brad Mehldau
Wilco
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I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I've got a book coming out in April (available for preorder) on the civilizing mission of France in post-WWII Germany and its links to the emergence of European unity. Check it out!
lsupress.org/978080718678...
lsupress.org/978080718678...
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"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
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Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
It’s time to stop worshipping the liberal arts | Letters
Letters: While such institutions have intrinsic value, that doesn’t mean they are entitled to be socially favoured or economically exceptional for ever, says Jianyang Geng
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Who, pray tell, is worshipping the liberal arts? Where is the mythical university alluded to here where STEM and business courses are criticized and somehow disincentivized by those in power?
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Here in PDX we dress up for the airport just like we were told to do.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Here in PDX we dress up for the airport just like we were told to do.