Pretty sure that some of the colleges playing in these weird-ass bowl games are made up

Make a Bond movie academic The Spy Who Reviewed My Submission You Only Report Productivity Twice Em Dash Another Day

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

The star of A CHRISTMAS STORY remains this kid

OK friends, time to turn it up to 11. Now watching:

Oh wow, absolute power corrupted you absolutely? That’s so weird, I got absolute power last year and my subjects say I’ve only gotten wiser and more virtuous

Who held the meeting to tell online cooks that their reels needed quick cuts and they should make a mess like they don’t care?

How this Christmas will be different for single digit billionaires.

“My name is Manousos Oviedo. I am not one of them. I wish to save the world.” #Pluribus

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

This is the most Sorbonne thing ever

"While [OUP] has continued to grow—most recently w/ acquisition of Karger Publishers this Nov—it has also been hit by layoffs. Last month, OUP laid off 113 UK employees & in Sept 2024, OUP laid off its US design team & content transformation & standards team" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

me dressed up and exercising at the airport before my 8 hour flight

New issue is out

Ouch

Our Dept’s grad director has just set up a new MA internship for a student already training in digital tools with the creative team leading these two important public resources in our field—and yes, this is how we reinvent the humanities.

New volume in the series, meant for intro readers. @equinoxpub.bsky.social

The nice thing about being off teaching for the spring is that I'll have some space to reimagine my fall courses and part of that is going to be handwritten essays in class on shit they'll need to have read thoroughly enough to remember it.

Judging colleges by how they teach vocational skills misses the point, argues an engineering professor. The skills employers need most include initiative, critical thinking, navigating ambiguity, and more – and those come from blending humanities and STEM. buff.ly/FWQuzll

Why would I use AI for anything when my stuff is way better and I’m paid a good salary to do my stuff?

Straight and narrow. On the level. Fly right. Above board. Clear sailing.

Less is more.

My mom told her physical therapist she wears a mask because her husband and daughter are immunocompromised. The PT said she is too but isn't worried bc she knows if she dies she is going to heaven. Then her co-worker yelled, “Shut up Debbie you wear a seatbelt and take blood pressure meds” 👀

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

This dude on the train just said, out loud to the dude he was sitting with that everything about the US is better than here in Canada and proceeded to say "they don't pay any income tax down there" haha so, yeah, we have idiots up here as well. At least 3 people around us gave that guy the stink eye

It seems college administrators think their next job will be based on whether their cv says they made these cuts at their last job. www.kcrg.com/2025/11/24/c...

Thanks for the pic @vtouna.bsky.social — new edition hot off the press (not seen it yet) and at the @equinoxpub.bsky.social booth at #aarsbl25 in Boston.

From that other site.

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A @chronicle.com reader wrote a post for our blog after seeing their recent coverage of the challenges currently facing our field. religion.ua.edu/blog/2025/11...

A new review symposium on Drudgery Divine at 35.

Monday

Proofing. @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

my Dean (who used to chair the English department) sends an email to William & Mary faculty every F & divides it into a top part everyone should read & a “below the line” creative musing that is optional. I look forward to it each week. I wish more administrators were creatives.

I feel the same way about my field. The only answer I have found so far is to just create something (with other brilliant collaborators who are willing) so that what we do will continue to exist. But it is a very very heavy lift, and I'm starting to lose energy and hope, even in these efforts.

Yes. Absolutely. And by centering the conversation on what's happening in HE, it would be even better to include effective ways to support student care and well-being.

@aarweb.bsky.social #aarsbl25 #sblaar25

“Personalized echo chamber” = monetization strategy. After all, the customer’s always right.

Just published, with 20 new entries + all of the original chapters. @equinoxpub.bsky.social equinoxpub.com/projects/abs...

A new initiative from @seedpods.bsky.social — for programs in our field working to secure a place on their campus. Contact him for more info. religion.ua.edu/blog/2025/11...

Sunday vibes

I’m a product of big government. Everyone likes to shitpost the government. California taxpayers and the regents of the University of California saved my ass. fortune.com/2025/11/06/s...

“Whole kit and caboodle” used by the lady at the checkout in the student center today. Refreshingly old school.

Noon EST Mon Nov 10 aarweb.org/event/religi...

Recent conversation with Raj on the future of the field now posted. newbooksnetwork.com/our-primary-...

Camille & Jeff, our newest colleagues, staffing the dept table at the annual faculty research day, promoting digital work in the dept.

Poached from our Dept’s site

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST