we need a literary rhetorical term for when the novel-within-the-novel or film-within-the-film is aesthetically superior to the actual novel or film containing it, something something matryoshka metalepsis something something

Excited to have a new article out: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... — this media history explored meta-journalistic discourse in obits for journalists who died IN their newsrooms (or close by) or doing…

How a Nature Cruise Turned Into a Nightmare www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/w...

Congratulations to our @manshipschool.bsky.social Proud of you — go do great things

As part of a @knightcolumbia.org project on “Lawyering Without Law,” we’re convening leading legal scholars and political theorists to address the role that the legal profession can and sometimes does play in the defense of democracy against authoritarian attacks. knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-...

Opinion | How Not to Talk About Your Colleagues in Texas and Florida We’re not fighting a lost cause. By Ben Wright: https://bit.ly/41Z4Xi1 #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Ben sums it up well. "When scholars outside TX and FL declare that colleagues should quit, they risk turning a complex set of personal, professional and ethical choices into a too-tidy litmus test. They also risk erasing the agency of those who choose to stay out of commitment, not complacency."

Fun to “swing by” #frenchquarterfest #FQF26 :)

Russia and China are helping Iran but Trump is angry at... Europe Iran used Chinese spy satellite to target US bases - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Chag sameach! to those who celebrate

A federal judge has knocked down the core of President Trump's executive order barring federal funding for NPR and PBS, saying it violated the broadcasters' First Amendment rights on its face.

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist