Shawn Bender

Congrats, Kasper!

New #AsiaNow post: an excerpt from FEELING MACHINES: JAPANESE ROBOTICS AND THE GLOBAL ENTANGLEMENTS OF MORE-THAN-HUMAN CARE, written by Shawn Bender and published by @stanfordpress. asianstudies.org/excerpt-feelin…

@surlyBurleigh @HistoryDept_NU @BCHistoryDept @FFSatPSU @CornellPress Never a doubt. Congrats!

I am officially promoted to Associate Professor! I’d like to thank my agent, mgm studios, my wife and my pets, and all those colleagues @HistoryDept_NU @BCHistoryDept @FFSatPSU @CornellPress. I’m just a kid from rural Vermont who never thought this could be possible. 🤣 🥂

@divbyzero I’ve heard others echo this sentiment. Really helped me be more comfortable with the process.

direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” 4/4

Chuck Close articulates my view of the creative process, which I didn't even know was my view of the creative proiccess: “The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the 1/4

📣📣If you have research and teaching interests in data science and machine learning, you should consider applying for our tenure track AP position! 📣📣Last two days to apply: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

@kreskildsen Many congratulations on this Kasper! Miss the original announcement but glad to hear this news.

My book, Modern Historiography in the Making, is now available in a much cheaper paperback version (and Bloomsbury seems to have figured out how to ship to the European continent). bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-hist…

@ChasThompson1 @raisingcanes @DanielUrie2018 Cava’s the real gem

More retail investment in Cumberland County. I like this project already as it involves reuse of an already-developed tract. Smart! And, @raisingcanes is an intriguing addition that adds another hot-list franchise to SCPA. An @DanielUrie2018 report: tinyurl.com/5f7f2pxz

@brianphillips Been waiting for your take!

This is a phenomenal essay about season two of The Bear four-hundred-words-about-food.ghost.io/four-hundred-w…

VERBAL ARTS OF JAPAN moves to Dickinson College! Rakugo and Ryokyoku Performances With Irifunetei Sentatsu @SentatsuBiiki Tamagawa Nanafuku @nanafuku55 Tatekawa Shinoharu @shinoharu2002 7 PM Monday, April 3, Allison Hall

@ChasThompson1 It’s great stuff!

This note came in a little after deadline for this story on a Pa. skyr yogurt producer, but I'll offer as a *Tweetnote from American Dairy Assoc., North East. "Early reports in 2023 show this style of yogurt up 16 percent – year to date" tinyurl.com/yc7n8cka

@surlyBurleigh Whoa! Makes up for all the others.

This NEVER HAPPENS

Japan in 1955: declaring "overpopulation" at just over 80 million people and fearing negative impacts from an increase to 100 million. Japan in 2023: fearing national demise if its population declines from its current 125+ million.

A message from Dr Darren Hudson Hick: "Today, I turned in the first plagiarist I’ve caught using AI software to write her work, and I thought some people might be curious about the details" #plagiarism #AI #ChatGPT #ArtificialIntelligence #NLP @AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

@edwebb Ed

Vale Bruno Latour (1947-2022)

Japanese designer Issey Miyake, famed for his iconic pleated style of clothing, died of cancer aged 84 reut.rs/3bI7B5b

I am heartbroken to share this..the @NewsHour’s beloved long-time Friday night analyst Mark Shields, who for decades wowed us with his encyclopedic knowledge of American politics, his sense of humor and mainly his big heart, has passed away at 85, with his wife Anne at his side.

@sdksb No doubt Kal is sentient but whether he ponders the finitude of life…

@sdksb Can’t you log in and try it out?

Proud to author this piece together with Neil Diamant. Thanks to @ErikLove, @sarah_niebler, @cl_phipps among other colleagues not on Twitter for constructive feedback on earlier drafts. And shout out to @TristanGrunow for quick turnaround and publication.