I’m very happy that this book is finally out in the world. Get yourself a copy if you want to hear how one of the shortest forms relates to one of the longest, or if you’re interested in whether or how we learn from fiction!

Closing the Classics Library to make room for what will really be administrative offices (regardless of what it’s called). Montclair students have been trying to save it. www.northjersey.com/story/news/e...

This is UNACCEPTABLE. It cannot be allowed. Every Member of Congress and Senator, and every elected official with a brain and a heart should say so and put their shoulder to the wheel. This study is how we know almost any true thing about women's health.

“May Heaven forfend that I should ever write a book about books.” —Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, inadvertently expressing the dawning horror of every literary scholar working on a monograph

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

this is targeted erasure and will have very real and very many negative consequences

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

Great to see Francisco Robles’s Coalition Literature in my mailbox. This book puts together some broken shards of a US literary history fired in the kilns of the late thirties and helps me see how to embrace a “collective” dimension of our aesthetic politics. @franciscondine.bsky.social

Book Giveaway🚨 I’m giving away 3 copies of Revolting Indolence (@utexaspress.bsky.social) to graduate students in any discipline who are based in the U.S! To enter, DM or email me: Your name, institution Current research topic I’ll announce the winners December 1. (reposts appreciated!)

🦃 tradition, @kellmswartz.bsky.social wins a 🥧 .🥇 5k in the ☔️ kicking 🍑

A reminder to my academic colleagues that the incoming freshman class was born in 2006 which means that they -have not seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion -don’t know how C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate -All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

I'll make a 🧵 of my notes on this book here. To get us started: "There's no such thing as the scientific method, and there never was. And yet, 'the scientific method' is alive and well. […] Why? Because 'the scientific method' is a myth—and myths are powerful things." 🧪#metasci #philsci #STS

Creative Writing VAP at my Uni for 24/25. Please share and/or apply! “Adelphi University's Department of English is seeking a published writer and effective teacher for a Visiting Assistant Professorship in the 24/25 academic year. The successful candidate will teach a multi-genre curriculum…” 1/

Jack Doyle and I put together a reading list for a workshop on Teaching Trans History that we ran at the Oxford History Faculty last week (featuring Kit Heyam as our wonderful guest speaker). Here's the reading list! docs.google.com/document/d/1...