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Our university’s president was forced to resign. Our student publication responded. thebatt.com/opinion/edit...

Yesterday, Apple made the decision to pull The Savant from its release schedule due to politically sensitive topics. Now the show’s star Jessica Chastain speaks out: ‘We’re not aligned on the decision to pause the release.’

can't wait!

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

New from me: There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo. Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post. Read and judge for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

It won't get better. OpenAI's more advanced models produce *more* hallucinations. The proposed solution: more human involvement (...hmm)

identifying themes is precisely what I tell undergraduates not to do

Y'all are simply unprepared for me.

blurb: "Along the way, she calls on us to resist colonial approaches to space exploration and instead imagine a better path forward in our pursuit of humanity’s undeniable connection with the stars."

‘It feels like a betrayal.’ Ohio college students experiencing effects of new higher education law ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/08/25/i...

One of the things that drives me up the wall is when people say students “need to learn how to use AI” to succeed in the workplace. It is EXTREMELY EASY to use a chatbot. That’s the whole point of it! You do not need training to type in the box! What are you even TALKING about?? +

So my employer's little team is playing my alma mater today, and I feel dead inside about it.

you really couldn't make many movies from 40-50 years ago today. this is due to the unavailability of certain discontinued film stocks and the deaths of many principal actors, directors, and other various crew members

sunday mid-august is just about the sundayest. balm for the sundays: this solidarity guide to back-to-school support against the AI assault against-a-i.com

Just in time to welcome students to campus… President Carter & OSU admin continue the assault on free speech by banning the time honored tradition of chalking on campus. Whether governments or administrators, once they start rolling back free speech, they don’t stop. fod.osu.edu/news/2025/08...

Periodic reminder that the Humanities are often financially in the black due to lower overhead. Also freshmen composition/communication courses are cash cows for universities and that $ is often “disappeared” from the discussions of English or Rhet Comp budgets and needs.

As an English prof gearing up for the semester, I’ve been thinking a lot about getting students not to use AI, what the constructive (not just miserable) path forward is, and why not using it is a good choice in the first place. Some thoughts below. I’d love to hear what others think.

Today, the AAUP released a new report, "Artificial Intelligence & Academic Professions." The report calls for policies that prioritize economic security, faculty working & student learning conditions as AI tech accelerates. www.aaup.org/news/new-rep... 🧵1/9

Thinking about this more and I really like how it opens up reading as a learned skill that is embodied in a context. I think that's a powerful way to think about it in the wake of AI and in reports of literacy problems.

Calling all OSU faculty and everyone else who cares about fair working conditions for nurses. Come out and support this informational picket Wednesday 11am, outside the hospital. Solidarity with our AFT siblings in Ohio State University Nurses Organization (OSUNO).

A FUNNY THING will be out this Thursday, June 5! Ask your libraries to order it! If you read it, tell me which parts made you laugh!!

I get it, I feel it. Still... What is "reading for pleasure"? Who's been doing it, or not? How is it classed? Now, & historically? Do all genres count? How about lovers of dystopia or horror? (for ex.) How about "reading for pleasure" online? The provocative essay? The smart Substack article?

Just discovered Criterion's Closet Picks series. It's like competence porn with artists. A little personality, a little aficionado. Here's Janelle Monae on horror. youtu.be/iBpffnfc3AI?...

Happy Birthday in advance, and thanks for doing this! If anyone wants to treat themselves to a book on the science of zombie bugs, I've got you covered. Think the zombie-ant fungus that inspired The Last of Us is grim? You ain't seen nothing yet 🧟‍♀️

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century is in such a nice font @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

La la la, just looking at Met Gala pics all day

So popular that there's now a waitlist. This is really exciting not only for itself but as an example of how to build otherwise.

Funnel your $ buying books into indie bookstores instead of that other place. @bookshop.org makes it easy online. Today and tomorrow, free shipping!

This is Tuna. You have once again taken him to the vet instead of the park. Fool him once, shame on you. Fool him twice, even more shame on you. 13/10 (IG: tunathekahuna)

Finally updated my Blackademics starter pack, now including Katherine McKittrick, Imani Perry and others. Grad students and other scholars: follow the #Blackademics feed to participate in the conversation. Thanks as always to @rudyfraser.com for hosting us on Blacksky!!! go.bsky.app/SSc7tNL

The Senate Faculty Council at Ohio State have voted to join the Big Ten Mutual Defense Compact. 💪

Eliminating huge swaths of degrees is disastrous for students and communities. SB1 and its backing legislators - and our universities who are leaping to obey its spirit - are wreaking havoc for Ohio.

More than 100 college presidents sign statement against Trump’s overreach. #AcademicSky www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Thread. Thank you, NAVSA and Nathan & organizers for thinking of this.

Local news coverage of Indiana University-Bloomington's Faculty Council endorsing a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC). Faculties of three state flagships so far have called for a united front: Rutgers (whole system), IU-Bloomington, UMass-Amherst. Michigan starts voting this week Who's next?

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting and treatment of international students is completely unacceptable.

They call on their own president to convene the process to create it. Link to full resolution below. I strongly believe that higher ed is better positioned than most sectors to respond to the prisoner's dilemmas that authoritarian leaders deliberately create. 🧵 senate.rutgers.edu/wp-content/u...

Rutgers University Senate proposal for a mutual defense pact of Big Ten schools. Rutgers faculty, show them the way!

If you are interested in: 🔹legacies of the 19th century in the 20th/21st 🔹modernism’s uses of the Victorian 🔹imperialism & its afterlives 🔹ripple effects of Atlantic slavery in indentureship, bonded labor, migration 🔹aesthetic effects of delay, recursivity, suspension PLEASE SUBMIT TO NAVSA 🌿🙏

@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, and I draw on our research through the Crowd Counting Consortium to show that there is far more protest happening in the US than is commonly understood, and that the shift to economic noncooperation shows powerful potential for future collective action.

"It’s not just the news. It’s the sheer, intolerable nihilism so many people have no problem espousing without a second thought." "The smartphone has deskilled seemingly everything, even something as fundamental to human life as reading. But it’s especially deskilled political organizing."

Just a girl and her football.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

The current attack on universities and higher education is inseparable from the attack on pro-Palestine activism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If Ohio's SB1 passes, faculty would be under a "grotesque surveillance system" and easily fire-able. So much for academic freedom.