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Andrew Goldstone
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Chiefly interested in applying the methods of a discipline I took one undergrad course in to topics entirely ignored in my graduate education.

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agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Most enduring part of annual compliance training is the skit in which a woman mgr. sexually harasses an innocent pony-tailed male consultant ("it can be really hard lotioning yourself up properly")
Consultant Guy is feeling awkward as Management Woman shows him her inappropriate photos and says, "It can be really hard lotioning up properly"
December 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
reading Ligaya Mishan waxing lyrical about a $300/psn kaiseki place, remembering when she wrote "Hungry City," and yielding up moral questions in despair
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
every time I waver about bluesky, I go look at the replies to a post by someone I admire over there who is mildly popular. Duly reminded of The Discourse, I return to the calming silences of mastodon.
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Experimental by @ncecire.bsky.social also contains what is certainly the greatest acknowledgments line in post-2009 literary criticism
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r7q2q2tenibf5ekc6utn4zhy/post/3m6lt6rerbc2z
You have included me in their intellectual lives, at conferences and virtually, and most of the time, for many of them, while we were up for the exact same jobs. (I still think all the former candidates for that one UCSB job should form a research group, or possibly a journal.)
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
"a 'modern' young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution." Editorial, The Double Dealer 3, no. 17, (May 1922): 227, HathiTrust.
At random I take another book "The Beautiful and Damned" by Scott Fitzgerald, the "flapper-philosopher," cried perpetrator of "This Side of Paradise." I plough dutifully through the first one hundred and fifty, getting tireder and boreder as the ploughing progresses. Here is the inevitable flapper (the devil take her) and her consort the male nonenity (of whom the devil will have none). Here is marriage, money and morons to your appetite's satiety. Here is gloom unconfined, dressed in "modern" lingo by "modern" dummies, done as we are told by a "modern" young man lately come up from Rutgers or some such institution.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
search result snippet drafted by Lucky from Waiting for Godot #waitingforgodocr
duckduckgo search hit: JSTOR: "William Faulkner, Jean Toomer, and 'The Double Dealer'... The The The ques- ques- ques-tion tion tion ofofof whether whether whether Faulkner's Faulkner's Faulkner's artartart owes owes owes something something something tototo Jean Jean Jean Toomer's Toomer's Toomer's isisis significant, significant, significant, given given given the the the achievements achievements achievements [SIC]
November 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
today's glimpse into the Web We Lost: the adherents dot com list of religious affiliations of famous science fiction authors, online since 1999 but now vanishèd
https://web.archive.org/web/20190617075634/http://www.adherents.com/adh_sf.html
Famous Science Fiction Authors - Page 1
Religious affiliation of the 50+ most famous Science Fiction/Fantasy authors.
web.archive.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
brief glimpse of deported reds singing the Internationale is okay I guess, the rest is just for modernism completists (not me)
https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/comment/9052044#anchor-9052044
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#highestqualityhumanitiescontent
Ms. New, who is married to Mr. Summers, wrote to Mr. Epstein in 2015, the emails show, to thank him for a donation he had arranged. “Finally, Jeffrey, you have been such a wonderful supporter of my Poetry in America project,” she wrote. “That gift woke up the Deans to the importance of Harvard’s role in producing the highest quality humanities content in the WORLD.” (NYT screengrab, 11/23/25)
November 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Stick with the classics #phonebasedphishing
Security breach email: “phone based phishing attack”
November 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
starting a file for an article titled "PhD, AO3: new trajectories of cultural capital"; first entry is this website profile of YA/romance author Ali Hazelwood
I'm originally from Italy, lived in Japan and Germany, and eventually moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in Neuroscience. | was a professor for about three years, but in 2022 | quit to write full time. When I'm not writing you can find me prowling around AO3, binge-watching shows with my three feline overlords (and my almost equally feline husband), crocheting, or eating candy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
And Murderbot no. 3: #effort
https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/comment/9015258#anchor-9015258
November 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
A placeholder for more extended writing on the whole of Michael Mann's Sources of Social Power—a few thoughts on vol. 4

https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/review/9015148/s/well-here-we-are#anchor-9015148
November 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Some bookwyrm posts about this fall's bedtime reading. I read Asimov's I, Robot: confirming I don't like is=ought fanfic. I'll keep teaching "Reason," which isn't.

https://bookwyrm.social/user/agoldst/comment/9015242#anchor-9015242
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
there it is
Government and Sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol — who frequently crossed swords with Summers during his tense presidency — declined to comment on Summers’ case, but called the web of connections between Epstein and elite spheres “sickening.” “This kind of mutually reinforcing corruption,” Skocpol wrote, “is what one sees in failing societies and empires in decline.” (Crimson, 11/14/25)
November 18, 2025 at 1:38 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Kind of a heavy teaching load for a University Professor who is utterly disgraced, no?
Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor. This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class. (Crimson, today)
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
remember 2000, when colleges couldn't assign calculus homework anymore because everyone could use Mathematica to solve all the problems?
November 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
in every sense, lucky Jim
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/november/a-diagnosis
Jonathan Flint | A Diagnosis
The day before James Watson arrived to deliver the 2013 Michael Davys Lecture in Oxford, I received an email from his...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I sure hope Zohran is gonna do something about this nyc schools “fundations” curriculum because spelling is not the only thing that needs correcting here
“Sentence correction activity” worksheet for elementary school. “The class was respectfull to the flag. The wild kids had a punishmet.” Etc etc omfg
November 14, 2025 at 1:26 AM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Gelman glosses LS with the malice he deserves & says "feel free to use this post in your next English literature class." Close-reading exercise: who is "you"?

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/13/the-value-of-close-reading-larry-summers-edition/
November 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Somebot's sensibilities were offended by Wiki's page on "puce" using a line from Zola, "between puce and goose shit [caca d'oie]" & subbed "nguh" (?). Tried to fix but got autoflagged as vandalism.
Wikipedia s.v. puce: Puce was also a popular fashion color in 19th-century Paris. In his novel Nana, Émile Zola describes a woman "dressed in a dark gown of an equivocal color, somewhere between puce and goose nguh."[6] In Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, Mademoiselle Baptistine wears "a gown of puce-colored silk, of the fashion of 1806, which she had purchased at that date in Paris, and which had lasted ever since."[7]
November 13, 2025 at 3:07 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
As one of the chief architects of neoliberal shock therapy in Russia, Summers was directly responsible for suffering on the same scale as one of the world wars in the at country. Michael Mann:
Excerpt from The Sources of Social Power, vol 4: 201 Excerpt from The Sources of Social Power, vol 4: 208-9
November 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Conclusive proof that he is the real problem #neverclick
NYT op-ed: Josh Barro / Chuck Schumer Is a Convenient Punching Bag, but He's Not the Real Problem
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reposted by Andrew Goldstone
ncecire.bsky.social
Furthermore, a lot of people feel this way about reading, while also having internalized some idea that reading (as such, not necessarily reading anything in particular) is a moral good, leaving the whole area of literacy a maelstrom of cognitive dissonance and shame
November 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
agoldst.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
also obviously #neverclick when it's the CHE but bringing in Danielle "will 'debate' Yarvin, am giving the 'compact' a fair hearing'" Allen is truly the ne plus ultra of Chronicle-ism.
November 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM