Here are my in-class instructions for integrating AI into your work: Don't. Generative AI is a bullshitting, planet destroying plagiarism machine that prevents learning. It's dehumanizing and you deserve better from your professors, your institution, and yourself because you and your voice matter.

At least I can still access Bluesky on my phone. Hope that doesn't change. #Mississippi

“See, Mississippi is not actually Mississippi’s problem. Mississippi is America’s problem because if America wanted to do something about it, what’s been going on in Mississippi, it could have been stopped by now.” —Fannie Lou Hamer

During the first week of September, we'll be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre with several events in and around Clinton, Mississippi. Details at much-ado.net/legislators/.... Please help spread the word!

During the first week of September, we'll be commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre with several events in and around Clinton, Mississippi. Details at much-ado.net/legislators/.... Please help spread the word!

The AI Slop Overload Does Not Taste Good - The Scholarly Kitchen

I wonder when all the national media is going to start breathlessly reporting every day on how all the rollbacks of equity programs, scholarships, and social justice centers on college campuses at behest of this admin makes black, brown, trans, and queer folks feel unsafe

In today's mail! I've been waiting for this to come out. 😁 @upmississippi.bsky.social

"I am, at any given moment, Schrodinger's criminal. So are you. So are all of us."

Honoring Emmett Till's birthday at the national monument in Sumner, MS

This is the small newspaper clipping that I show to my Governor's School students to show the callous establishment reaction to the murder.

Trump Told Park Workers to Report Displays That ‘Disparage’ Americans. Here’s What They Flagged. Descriptions and displays at scores of parks and historic sites have been flagged for review in connection with an executive order from President Trump.

Federal judge temporarily blocks Mississippi’s new DEI ban U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Sunday approved the request for a temporary restraining order sought by a coalition of civil rights and legal organizations on behalf of students, parents and educators.

When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards

"ICE isn’t helping anyone. They’re not making us safer or more prosperous. With every new headline, I find it harder to understand what role they’re playing that would allow us to even call them public servants." I published some thoughts today on ICE and the meaning of public service.

OPINION: Amid federal budget cuts, "Mississippi has lost millions in science funding so far and is poised to lose tens of millions more for biomedical research from NIH alone," Logan Havard writes.

you've heard about the college kids who can't do anything without ChatGPT's help—but what about the students who oppose generative A.I. for myriad reasons and refuse to rely on it as a shortcut? well, I found and spoke with a few of them here: slate.com/life/2025/07...

We can circle the barn all day voicing opinions on using AI for writing but eventually you get to the heart of the matter, which is that you either enjoy thinking or you don’t.

My Mississippi State University Libraries colleague on how federal cuts are hurting universities' preservation of congressional papers

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

"If you want to dismantle democracy, take out the people who can prove why it needs to exist." @staceyabrams.com at @mmei63.bsky.social on why authoritarians are afraid of teaching about people like Medgar Evers

And if you concede in advance, it gives them even more power over you.

not a single person's job, not a single grant, will be saved by surrendering instead of fighting. ask columbia.

*sounds the "that was probably AI generated information, that's why you can't find it and now at least 2 library staff have had to do first an initial and then a cross check of that information to confirm it doesn't exist so yes, we've had double time wasted by your time saving efforts" klaxon*

"Journalism, Truth, and Civil Rights" panel with @fumblebragg.bsky.social, @annawolfe.bsky.social, Howard Ballou, @jmitchellnews.bsky.social, and @nhannahjones.bsky.social

This lady made my day by celebrating Reconstruction in Mississippi! @joyannreid.bsky.social

"Everyone in this country has at least one foot in Mississippi, whether they know it or not." - @wralpheubanks.bsky.social on current events

Great conversation about the stories we tell - and don't tell - with @wralpheubanks.bsky.social, @joyannreid.bsky.social, and Dr. Ebony Lumumba. Thank you, Joy, for the shout-out to Reconstruction!

Powerful talk about Medgar Evers by Michael Vinson Williams

Amazing panel with Bettie Dahmer, @reenaevers.bsky.social, and @kerrykennedy.bsky.social telling wonderful stories about their fathers, civil rights martyrs. Moderated by @joyannreid.bsky.social. Powerful kickoff to a weekend celebrating the 100th birthday of Medgar Evers.

If you see this sign when you visit a National Park, consider writing in and saying: 1. What a great job NPS staff are doing (especially with now limited resources!) 2. That you value full, complex, and truthful histories and want them to be told at these sites

I wish this headline was "POLITICIANS' Anti-Diversity Crusade..." because it should be clear that this is on them. I spoke up because the public needs to see what's being done to our universities, which have worked so hard at diversity and truth-telling... which is exactly why they came after us.

"It turns out that people would rather read a thoughtful essay with an error in it than one of ChatGPT’s grammatically flawless articles about delving into a thought-provoking tapestry of synergy." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

Heading to Jackson this weekend for what looks to be an amazing gathering. Can't wait to see (and meet??) @staceyabrams.com, @esglaude.bsky.social, @nhannahjones.bsky.social, @reenaevers.bsky.social, and lots more people who give me hope while the world burns.

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’

Thank you, @trjackson.bsky.social, for shining a light on what politicians are doing to our students and to such important programs at Mississippi's public universities.

It was great to see our little Mississippi town turned out for this.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

New signs at incarceration camps raise historical erasure concerns asamnews.com/2025/06/19/d... via @AsAmNews

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task www.media.mit.edu/publications...

I'm going to demand a religious exemption to all AI on my campus

Happy #Juneteenth! 🤎🙏🏾✊🏾

The latest issue of Scholarly Editing by ‪‪@editorial-notes.bsky.social‬ features an important essay on how to use documentary editing assignments to help students grapple w the legacies of inequalities, esp in instances where teaching abt these topics is banned. Highly recommend!

.....including on this very post. 🙃

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? Librarians regularly throw away books. We have to. We SHOULD. Social media outrage posts of books in a dumpster are exhausting, as are the inevitable replies to our corrections, and have we ever thought about donating the books? ....😑

This has always bugged me to no end. Teaching is a skill, and lots of professors are really bad at it. Worse: they don't care. Learning how to teach is as beneath them as learning how to operate the fryer at McDonald's.

In today's mail: my official copy of the Mississippi Senate's resolution to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre and honor the lives lost, including legislators James G. Patterson and Charles Caldwell #TeachReconstruction

My Mississippi Governor's School students spent the afternoon analyzing Reconstruction-era treasures (like a John R. Lynch letter and a Blanche K. Bruce document) from the MSU Libraries' archives, touring the Grant Presidential Library, and making buttons and magnets in the Digital Media Center.

In today's mail: my official copy of the Mississippi Senate's resolution to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Clinton Massacre and honor the lives lost, including legislators James G. Patterson and Charles Caldwell #TeachReconstruction