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."

The Price Lab’s Critical Approaches to AI Working Group has released a white paper in which we advocate for AI-free instruction in reading, writing, & research. These are fundamental skills in the humanities (& in general), & with decisive action we can keep teaching them well in the age of AI!

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

...and if it's the same "prison" or detention center in Texas where ICE has been sending people, there isn't enough food, and everyone is crying and screaming, and people can't get their medications, and no one can get in to help them. A FIVE YEAR OLD.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

“Another adult living in the home was outside and begged the agents to let him take care of the small child and was refused." Instead, an agent “took the child, and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.

Despite all the redactions in the documents released yesterday, there is no question that Epstein’s trafficking was overt as was his language of “purchase” and “slave.”

“The nation’s largest public funder of the humanities appears to be transforming into a vehicle narrowly tailored to the president’s agenda. “ www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

We didn't plagiarize, you made us plagiarize by asking questions to which we stole the answers. "Because its output is generated by users of the chatbot via their prompts, OpenAI said, they were the ones who should be held legally liable for it – an argument rejected by the court."

An archival irruption is a "rupture in the narrative field an archival source that creates an opportunity to write an alternative narration about the past." For those who want the full explanation, you can watch the virtual launch here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Pbo...

An open-access article on hammocks, by @marcynorton.bsky.social and @johnmkuhn.bsky.social, which will interested #earlymodern #histsci and #VastEarlyAmerica folks! 🗃

I’m so grateful for this recognition for THE TAME AND THE WILD! @harvardpress.bsky.social

The amazing @johnmkuhn.bsky.social and I have been talking about hammocks for 12 years! Our article is out today!

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

“Trump’s compact is the greatest single incursion into the freedom & autonomy of higher education to ever happen in this country.” — Todd Wolfson, AAUP President #DefendHigherEd

Apropos of nothing, let me celebrate Anna More's fantastic Norton Critical Edition of Sor Juana's Selected Works. Terrific edition and a great selection of the recent scholarship on a complex figure. wwnorton.com/books/978039...

Happy #InternationalSlothDay! Fernández de Oviedo was the first European to publish a written description of a sloth, in 1526. There was also an unpublished sketch in his notes. Sadly, the original is now lost…but not before being faithfully copied in an 18th c. manuscript, so we have this:

Thank you @scottktaylor.bsky.social !

🚨🚨🚨 And THREE stood up! Penn has joined MIT & Brown in rejecting Trump’s loyalty oath compact. When we join together and fight back, WE WIN! No amount of federal bribery is worth surrendering the freedom to question, explore, and dissent. LET’S GO! #DefendHigherEd @aaup-penn.bsky.social

It contained totally made up book titles and citations, it got the names of judges wrong, it attributed quotes to wrong people 😬 $440k report 🤯 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

TOMORROW: Author Jordan B. Smith will discuss his new book THE INVENTION OF RUM, which explores the history of rum from its origins in the Caribbean to its impact on the Atlantic world, in a virtual event hosted by @jcblibrary.bsky.social! bit.ly/43dxv8o

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi. David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison. Here's their story.

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️ librarycompany.org/events/fires...

Very happy about this!

Delighted & honored !

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

These are the lowest cost insurance options for a 62 year old Georgian making $65k. 2025: $228 2026: $1142 She will lose $704/month in credits because of GOP cuts to health care. This is a crisis. We cannot wait to fix this.

The Trump admin’s offer to give preferential treatment to institutions that toe the party line reeks of bribery in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda. This is corruption. Adherence to ‘loyalty oaths’ would usher in a new era of thought policing in American higher education.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Goebbels denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence"

Read an excerpt from “The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean” by @csschmitt.bsky.social. @pennpress.bsky.social www.hnn.us/article/free...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.“

I’m deeply disturbed by Berkeley’s decision to return to McCarthyism

I try to resist criticizing UC's leaders. They are my colleagues, I believe they love our institution, & they are often prevented from publicly sharing the full context of the difficult decisions they have to make. But I am appalled by what they've done to these 160 faculty, staff, & students.

Botanizing and ethnobotanizing at the INPA herbarium in Manaus with Beto Vicentini and Mike Hopkins: important collections from the early 2000s documenting sophisticated environmental knowledge of the Baniwa and Yanomami people of Amazonas state, Brazi