Coming to you live at 9:30pm on a Friday night to tell you all that the ArcGIS map I've been wrestling with for 4 hours finally works how I want it to work. Good night.

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I don't believe this for a second. There's no way Trump has friends.

Worth taking a look at the recruitment strategies here in my write-up on religious studies departments. Associate's degree holders are the most likely to major in the humanities at a 4-year school. Religious studies is way ahead of the rest of the humanities in outreach to 2-year schools.

Most of the time I'm wishing I could know who a reviewer is so I can ask them why they felt the need to be so unnecessarily mean. Today I'm wishing I could know the reviewer in a volunteer position who was kind, encouraging, and incredibly helpful to this early career scholar.

No one loves to say something like this more than someone who used to live in NYC. Look for it in between comments that name drop specific street names as they desperately try to prove that they are still New Yorkers at heart.

Every once in a while I get a small wave of new followers here and it's never after I share anything that has the potential to be called even mildly interesting.

Love to leave little writing notes for myself to come back to in a couple of weeks and think "ah, now what do we think I meant by THAT?"

Have we learned nothing from watching powerful university after powerful university bend the knee only to be painted with a larger target on their backs? California is one of the world's largest economies. The UC system is widely recognized for its strength nationally and globally. Fight back.

I feel like I spent a stupid amount of time in grad school being forced to have discussions with men who think like this.

I know SO many academics who need to take some time with this and be sure to REALLY think about how vulnerable they truly are. There is no protest without risk. If you aren't risking anything, what are you actually protesting?

More cowards. Brown will be receiving a strongly-worded white lady email from this alum.

First publication from the new job! This gathering is the beginning of more work to come from the Academy on cultural spaces and their communities.

Thinking about this CONSTANTLY the more conversations I have with faculty friends, especially up here in the rust belt. We're seeing a lot of concerning policies come down the pipeline, and whenever I ask "what are you doing about it?" I am met with claims of powerlessness.

According to POLITICO reporter @kyledcheney.bsky.social, a federal judge has blocked the cancellation of NEH awards by DOGE.

Who was the president in 2018?

Back on my bullshit (designing logos and stickers for things that don’t need logos or stickers)

We're back in New Forest Cemetery! Oneida County History Center intern, Caroline, starts the process of recording data from headstones for the next section of the Digital New Forest project. Thanks to @ach.bsky.social, she is getting paid for her work!

It was a little over a year ago that staff had their retirement benefits cut. Pretty much crickets from the faculty after. And now... As a former higher ed staff member often treated poorly by faculty, it's hard not to see a "first they came for..." kind of pattern here www.wktv.com/news/educati...

Cowards.

Beyond bleak to be getting advertisements on Instagram for ways to immigrate and find a job in Canada. But also 👀

If you are inspired by Mamdani, now is a great time to do some research on your local elections and find out how you can get involved. NYC's election results are buoying, but keeping up the momentum for all local elections is crucial.

It's ILiADS week.

First of all, this IS ripping healthcare away from Americans. Second, you can't just keep labeling every awful thing Republicans do a "distraction." By this logic, the only "real" thing happening is fighting over this one bill.

This episode is full of great reasons why serious readers of this book shouldn't be lapping it up and why readers looking to "understand how the other side thinks" also shouldn't read this book.

Terrible news for my haters.

In this very academic writing retreat, a clear difference between the professors and the few of us for whom publishing is not part of our job descriptions is making itself apparent. Very different levels of need for things like structured writing periods and guided goal setting.

Yes, but what of the hog cholera?

Someone was killed, Amy.

Cheers to Brett Bobley on his last day at the NEH. It cannot be overstated the impact Brett had on the agency and on all those who had the pleasure of working with him, myself included. #ThanksBrett for all your years of service to the humanities. @brettbobley.bsky.social

Presenting in and listening to papers from #ACH2025 is reminding me that the very first ACH conference I attended was made possible by the staff of the @neh-odh.bsky.social, who paid for the memberships and registrations of the students working in their office for the summer.

Thank you to all the staff who guided me through 3 stints at the NEH when I was just a baby grad student trying to figure out how I could have an impact on the humanities working beyond the academy. It's hard to put into words the difference my time at the agency made for me.

It is RIF separation day at NEH. More than 100 of us lose our jobs today. Our hearts are heavy and broken. None of this had to happen. Fellow NEHers, we cross this threshold together. One we hoped would never appear. We will continue to stand as tall as we can. 🤍 #NEH #Resist

It's so important to keep reiterating this. Despite everything that has happened at peaceful protests over the last few years, there are still a surprising number of liberal and left-leaning people who think the police and the military are responding to violence from the protesters.

Makes me proud to be from Los Angeles and proud to be a Los Angeles Kings fan. Great speech and sweatshirt choice.

Would have loved to have seen it covered that a member of the council invited the pastor to speak up early outside of public comment in what appears to have been an effort to prevent her comments from entering the official record www.romesentinel.com/news/local-p...

🚨🚨 We're cooking a special session at the @ach.bsky.social conference on "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired." Modeled on the format of the NEH/ODH directors' meetings, we'll be featuring lightning talks from those impacted by the closure. Submit by form by Monday, June 9th - forms.gle/9A8WvfNvEVcK...

If you're looking for a place to send some money this Pride Month, QLL is a very good option.

If these donors really wanted to make a difference, they would invest in local newspapers. Keep them from being snatched up by conglomerates like Gannett and fully staffed.

This list would have been better just from a reporter running up to people "Billy on the Street" style and yelling "NAME A BOOK" at them.

First outdoor training ride of the season. First time forgetting to put sunblock on the back of my hands.

Tonight I get to be on hyper-local television to talk for a full two and a half minutes about why local history is so cool and why the community should give our local history center money so it can be even cooler. oneidacountyhistory.org/telethon

So many people are going to uncritically accept this.

@nehgov.bsky.social announced new awards today from their March Council meeting. Let's compare with awards from prior years, shall we? This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects. +

JD Vance killed the last pope, so I don't think it's out of the question that Trump would kill this one out of jealousy.

BREAKING: Federal judge finds, in multistate lawsuit, that Trump's EO targeting three entities — Institute of Musuem and Library Services, Minority Business Development Agency, and Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service — likely violates the APA, Take Care Clause, and separation of powers.

Probably not even the most deranged letter Garber has received in his time as president of Harvard.

While you would, unfortunately, still have to pry my phone from my cold, dead hands, it feels like I'm switching everything around me that I can to some analog form. In related news, I'm so close to getting a 15-minute hourglass.

"The “wrong” kinds of Jewish women will always exist, and our existence should be taken as a threat to authoritarians. If they didn’t fear who we are, they wouldn’t try to tell us who we aren’t"