Universities' "top-down implementation ignores severe institutional risks: imminent workforce displacement, inherent, unfixable data hallucinations, work intensification, systematic intellectual property theft, and widespread student skepticism."

What's going on in Ohio: the disastrous SB1 has hardly been around for a year, there's been much overcompliance, and the House is trying to push through a bill, HB698, that would make the effects even worse.

Widow's Bay. Recommending this charmer, the light-horror for our times.

Lots of folks (correctly) point to the failure of the first Reconstruction as the root of contemporary problems. But the failure of the second, post-Civil Rights movement reconstruction, which left segregationists in positions of authority, also did a lot of damage.

⭐️ I’m absolutely delighted that my article ‘The Volcano and the Vampire’ (@gothicstudies.bsky.social) has been awarded the honourable mention in the @ncsascholars.bsky.social Article Prize! Thank you NCSA! Entries for the 2026-7 prize now open. ncsaweb.net/ncsa-article... #c19th

Noëlle McAfee, chair of the philosophy department: "The trauma of that day, the violence of it, are so massive and so disruptive – and the administration has taken no ownership for what they did, and provided no apology."

👋Hi! I’m Jessica Lussenhop, and for the last 4 years, I served as ProPublica’s first Minnesota-based reporter. But now I’ve got big news: On May 14, ProPublica is launching a brand new podcast! It’s called “Paper Trail,” and I’ll be your host. Thread 🧵

By my great #OSU & @osuaaup.bsky.social colleague @redguju.bsky.social in the #Dispatch www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...

The AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇

Yes please don't forget y'all, it may not be in headlines, but DC is still occupied by federal forces. They're all around us patrolling. They haven't left, they've become normalized. And before you accuse us of being lazy chumps, we're resisting constantly.

On the human narrative sense-making that (not inevitably) powers current perceptions of AI. "AI cannot escape sci-fi because AI, in all the forms we experience it today, is entirely constituted by that genre." lareviewofbooks.org/article/turi...

Justice Kagan: "I dissent. The Voting Rights Act is—or, now more accurately, was—'one of the most consequential, efficacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation's history.'

Voting Rights Act gutted. Disenfrachising as "sunsetting," no. Doesn't work for academic discourse, doesn't work here.

if you only create to refute the enemy, you have decided they are your primary audience

When I was 16, a teacher did a visual conceptual mapping of a novel on the board, and I was buzzing out of my chair because I'd had no idea novels could do that.

in which I do nothing meaningful for an hour to procrastinate and not do the dreaded thing that would take 5 minutes

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

I'm so grateful to @devingarofalo.bsky.social for organizing this special issue and for offering me the opportunity to contextualize the events at St. Norbert College within a broader range of attacks on higher education. The thinking that went into writing this has been vital to me, in all senses.

So glad to call @redguju.bsky.social my friend and colleague. Breaking down what it means to be a good teacher.

"This dynamic, relational, context-aware work is the essence of teaching. Artificial intelligence, although it can mimic the surface of that interaction, cannot participate in it as an accountable, reflective human being. Moreover, faculty are not just information delivery devices."

I'm writing about The Americans and thinking once again about how awesome the marriage depiction is in this series. Also the finale. The train, Paige, everything.

The vast majority of stories do not have morals.

We've seen a *TON* of posts saying Ohio now has a drag ban. NOT SO. HB 249 passed the House this week, and now must start the entire hearing process over in the Senate before heading to Gov. DeWine. SHARE this piece so we're all on the same page. thebuckeyeflame.com/2026/03/25/o...

goooood morning it is chilly and overcast but we had a good loop, visited some guys working on a car, shared our snacks with the crows, and did a quick nose-boop with a dog-friend through a fence, so yes, by all means: Lucy Loved That Walk

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

BREAKING: Nearly 1,000 faculty members at NYU are on strike. The union for non-tenured faculty, @CfuUaw, was optimistic about reaching an agreement this morning. But after giving the university a 3 hour extension, the two sides could not agree, and the strike is now on.

A "dead classroom," AI interacting with AI, no humans learning anywhere. Not hyperbolic. As awful as it sounds. Those not in higher ed: instructors' level of frustration with AI already is unimaginable. Help us fight this.

I'd tell my soufflé joke but it'll fall flat.

You guys, it's true I made less than $6 in royalties on my book last year, but I'm about to make a mint (?) from Anthropic for IP theft. Hooray!

Everyone should teach Sinners.❤️I'm teaching it for the second time this semester and would be happy to share lesson plans if anyone wants to see them.

Nip this racism in the bud.

The Pitt is forgiven its laughable version of an English prof because of its on-time book recommendation

Our members, on and off the board, showing up this morning at the OSU board of trustees event announcing Ravi Bellamkonda as the new president. We spoke to the media about our extreme disappointment with the process and repeated our call for a more transparent, inclusive, and democratic university.

The rushed selection of Ohio State University’s new president forgoes principles of shared governance and ignores input from faculty, staff & students. Read and boost @osuaaup.bsky.social’s statement ⬇️

If you're OSU, an alum, or any Ohioan, watching what's happening to the state flagship, please consider signing and resharing in your community.

Here we go again. We're tired of this revolving door. And we need a real say in what comes next.

NEW: In cases brought by the NEA and AFT, there are now final court orders: Last year's anti-DEI "Dear Colleague" letter is vacated and unenforceable. DOJ/DOE gave up the fight, dismissing the appeal and case in the Fourth Circuit and subsequently dismissing the the second case with a stipulation.

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

In its ongoing war against higher ed—and law firms—the battles MAGA has won are those where the other side surrendered in advance. (The Columbia/UT Austin/Paul Weiss "strategy," vs the Harvard/UCLA/Perkins Coie/etc strategy.) Resistance is not just braver but also smarter and more effective.

A Chase Center affiliate assaulted a journalist trying to interview Gordon Gee. See @dispatch.com coverage of the incident, which includes our statement. www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

That made me happyyyyy

New statement from @osuaaup.bsky.social on DHS violence as a threat to university values: “These are impossible conditions in which to work, to learn, to teach, to exercise academic freedom. Our community deserves better.”

I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.

It’s time for labor to stand up around the country against ICE’s racism and violence - just as unions and working people are doing in Minnesota. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-pr...

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti: "This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE." Full statement: