What if the world is already in the midst of an energy transition? How would this affect the way we understand current events, aesthetics, fast-changing social and cultural trends?

Congrats to the great Juliana Spahr, and GO READ ARS POETICAS!!!

OMG I have been waiting for this book to come out my whole life

Orban was a cornerstone of the international anti-trans movements. Hungarian trans people were among the early targets of his authoritarian regime. It'll take a long time to come back from it all but I hope Hungarian trans people sleep slightly better tonight.

Hard not to be jealous of anyone bobbing gently the Pacific with three friends and no signal right now.

The opening of this post (clearly bought-and-paid-for by the corporations who are heavily invested in AI), is so ominous. 1. There are lots of opinions about AI. 2. You, though, should hold only one of those opinions. (that AI should be integrated into the classroom.)

If these are the positive examples of responsible AI use we are in deep trouble. Training students to please the AI assessed rubric. There’s no long term future for teachers in this vision.

there's a reason why printing presses look so much like guillotines

Good lord this is embarrassing

raise your hand if wikipedia has higher standards than your own university

just this week: -- OpenAI killed Sora -- Disney subsequently cancelled its investment in OpenAI -- Wikipedia is now banning LLM-generated content ...tell me again how this is all "inevitable" and you have to "get on board or get left behind"?

Powerful stuff from our students: "AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it.... With our own university leading the charge, AI is now corrupting those few sacred spaces and leaving us with nowhere to engage in true scholarship."

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people mentioning their surprise at discovering, after probing, how much their students resent AI in education—even if students feel obligated to use it. We really shouldn’t assume we know what they think.

This reminded me of this eminently sensible proposal from a student for a set of principles to guide *teachers’* AI use. refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/a...

"Mama, guess what? The groundhog saw its shadow and that means we'll have six more years of winter!" Yep, kiddo...sounds about right.

I like it when the best folks show up on @poetsorg.bsky.social — and they also happen to be one of our best poets in our moment.

Ok

Look at this: @inquirer.com has digitally preserved the interpretative signage removed by NPS, and used annotations to explain what specifically was flagged before removal. This keeps the content publicly accessible (for now) while doing newsworthy reporting www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Publishing Job: Managing Editor Yale University Press New Haven, CT $68-120.5K "Oversees editing, file preparation, proofreading, indexing, and proofhandling of all general-interest and academic titles produced by the New Haven office of Yale University Press." 👇

We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Find full details, including fee and residency requirements, below. Application deadline: 15 February, 2026 buff.ly/yibsATf

good advice to read this book, from a rally in Boston yesterday. @alexvitale.bsky.social

Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom

Note to self!

“Adversarial poetry.” Love this. Obvs.

Good mail day

[bursts into the room] [extremely elder millennial voice] You know, Milwaukee is the only American city to have elected three socialist mayors. Also, “Milwaukee” is from “mili wau kay,” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”

Do LA next!

The 100th episode of American Vandal. Launching the 12th season. Live at UPenn English Faculty Lounge with @cnewf.bsky.social, @whitneytrettien.bsky.social, & an incredible assembly of faculty, students, visiting scholars, & friends of the pod.

It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school

when public libraries' and universities' IT cannot function if AWS goes down, you have a private company operating in the capacity of a public utility, but without the regulations that (you hope) public utilities must be subject to

Philly! new feminist art opens next week!

Periodic Reminder: If it weren’t powerful, they wouldn’t be trying to destroy it.

“How to Report ICE” zines now available for these areas: NYC Philly Durham, NC All of Massachusetts I will add more as I get them done. Download them to print here: drive.google.com/drive/folder...

It will never not be depraved that universities sanctioned and participated in the harassing and criminalization of student activists for saying one day we would all be against this when now, suddenly, everyone is against this.

There is no special primary status for alphabetic scripts above ideographic ones, iconic signage, mathematical and scientific notation, or charts and diagrams. We read them all; none of them are subordinate to another, except out of literary and cultural prejudices

Remembering #EricGarner, sharing this poem by Ross Gay, posted by poet Othuke Umokoro, from TwX:

How is poetry like psychoanalysis? I had a fascinating conversation with Daniel Katz (@danielkatz.bsky.social) about Jack Spicer and his poem “Psychoanalysis: An Elegy.” open.spotify.com/episode/78hE...

Only just now discovering this Lucille Clifton poem dedicated to Clark Kent.

For what it's worth, this is precisely the reason the Klan wore hoods when they terrorized communities and disappeared unfavored minorities. Historically, it wasn't called doxxing it was just recognizing a fascist community member.

New Rosa Alcalá!

a place to start go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

Buy their books, buy their books, buy their books; ask your libraries to buy their books

Statement from @aaup-penn.bsky.social on our admin’s capitulation to Trump’s department of ed

Massive Attack does an excellent job of putting the Vylan controversy in perspective (from their Insta).