Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

This is just to say that “with” is doing a lot of work in this post. This is @shruti-jain.bsky.social’s vision and work, every bit of it! 🤎🩵🤎🩵

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For real: Sanitation workers are heroes! Trash pick up around mountains of snow is no joke! Especially in this cold.

Blessings, on blessings, on blessings to the neighbor who cleared the sidewalk ALL the way to the curb. Walking in the snow and ice with one leg still healing is hard. I was so grateful for a safe path this 🥶 morning!

Undiscipline, Decolonise, Repair invites you to an online session on Black Studies in Europe. The three editors discuss their recently published anthology. Friday, 13th February 5.30 pm (Paris time). Online. Registration link👇🏽 undisciplinedecoloniserepair.wordpress.com/next-event/ Spread the word.

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We are so lucky to have brilliant Shruti Jain hosting and producing the @race-regency.bsky.social podcast!

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this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune

So wonderful!

The French NYT column has problems, but this really crystallizes part of the current crisis.

So check out the column if you would, share it widely if you’d like, & solidarity as we continue to fight for a nation in which the law is king, & we have no other. @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2026/01/cons...

Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-... This looks like a fantastic opportunity! Research Associate @jcblibrary.bsky.social

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/... Assistant Professor of Black Studies

In case you missed it…new pod episode with Adrienne Childs about ORNAMENTAL BLACKNESS (Yale UP) @yalepress.bsky.social www.raceandregency.org/podcast (link to platforms on website) Subscribe!

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And then by virtue of @triciamatthew.bsky.social 's Race and Regency Lab, we connected a recent acquisition of a plantation map--a plantation owned by Jane's father's cousin --to the work of archival recoveries. Read the post and the links and Tricia's scholarship! 5/ jcblibrary.org/news/race-an...

I wrote a birthday card to Jane Austen for @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. lareviewofbooks.org/article/happ...

Today is Austen’s birthday! I’ve been thinking (a lot) about my place in the Austen250 commemorations. The “how it started” vs. “how it’s going” of it all. 2017

Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.

Just heartsick about this latest spate of shootings. Heartsick.

Guess which Regency figure I’d have tea with? Hear me discuss sugar, archives, #quilts, #quilting and my next book project! #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #booksky #history #artsky

www.raceandregency.org/podcast The Race and Regency Pod Episode No. 4 with Kim Hall!

Friends, if you want to learn a bit more abt The Sweet Taste of Empire, watch this INCREDIBLE conversation with @triciamatthew.bsky.social w.bsky.social, Debapriya Sarkar, Jennifer Morgan, @kwazana.bsky.social & Tapiwa Gambura! www.youtube.com/live/a-Npxq-... Then you can buy it at 40% discount.

www.raceandregency.org/podcast The Race and Regency Pod: New Episode featuring Mathelinda Nabugodi

Doesn't seem like its trickled down to classes yet, but bould you imagine being at admissions at another school and trying to interpret equivalent classes & degrees for transfer? No one will be able to figure out what people were studying in class.

The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

A quote: "In the Trump era, we’re familiar with the idea that Stage IV capitalism has collapsed satire into reality."

15 depts in College of Humanities and Social Sciences will be completely eliminated and replaced by ~ School of Human Behavior & Well-Being ~ Center for Interdisciplinary Programs & Writing Studies ~ Institute for Y (e.g. Intelligence, Value, and Societal Structures) Wth? Sounds like BBC show W1A.

It feels like we’re well into this process at my institution.

More devastating "restructuring," this time at Montclair State.

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont... Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

This is a grotesque assault on faculty expertise and self-governance. I was fortunate enough to start my academic career as an assistant professor at Montclair State. Solidarity with MSU humanists being buzzworded into a new School of Human Narratives and Creative Expressions none of them want.

Ghastly. I am not surprised to see the increasingly sinister term 'Well-Being' deployed in these plans.

Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous

Weapons in the dissolution of the humanities are "Born-old buzzwords": “synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing.” Adam Rzepka on the pursuit of “excellence.” academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...

"This urgent order to clear away the entire, centuries-old idea of disciplinary governance in one fell swoop is both radical and without even a functional ideology—an especially pure plane of the empty-mind austerity satirized from Office Space to Severance." Adam Rzepka wp.me/p8xr4h-dil

This is definitely coming to many more public universities. Particularly the dissolution of departments and creation of large schools/institutes.

1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments. 2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.

academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t... My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.

If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?

Completed full rotations today! 😀🥹