Megan is very impressive. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does next.

Ok, this was one issue of The Atlantic that I opened immediately.

Canvas will do this but still won't let us search our courses by student name.

I’ve been out of the game for a while and lost track of people in the move to this place, so if you’re an adjunct/VAP/postdoc in history, can you reply and let me know what you work on? I am an editor at @contingent-mag.bsky.social and we are often looking for book reviewers etc.

My forthcoming book, "Reds, Revolutions, and Rebellions: How China, Cuba, and Vietnam Transformed Guerilla Warfare," with @CornellPress now has a webpage! Scheduled to come out on July 15, 2026. You can pre-order now. www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Relevant to the moment. The farmworker movement is not Cesar Chavez. It was (and is) a whole community of people doing the work.

"Woke," with its current construction and similar connotation, goes back at least 100 years. The Houston Informer, 24 May 1924:

A good case study in "sticker price ≠ cost of attendance for a majority of undergrads"

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

We're starting with a fertilizer fact in honor of SINNERS, which is getting shut out of the Oscars so far & that's a tragedy You know CAFOs? Those "factory farms" that keep animals indoors & make tons of poop? Once upon a time, they were the sustainable farm solution that was gonna save the South.

Did a quick video on how the "oh no fertilizer" headlines are clickbait.

Not something I think about ordinarily, which made this a super-informative thread.

This DOGE boy dissolved my Fort Negley grants, taking money earmarked for descendant-led archaeology and oral history collection because he was given power that indulged the fact that he is too arrogant to see the value in the histories of Black Tennesseans and how they have shaped ALL of the US.

reminded of @resnikoff.bsky.social's excellent piece: publiccomment.blog/p/you-ll-nev...

Who could have predicted this?* *Everyone, that's who.

This is my shocked face.

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

Also consider: many of the biggest LLM skeptics are spending hours every day reviewing the "work" of amateur prompt engineers using the free version of mass-market tools.

Panic! At The Fertilizer Desk, US Edition Americans: this is your regular reminder that maybe 0.01% of people who write for the news actually understand how fertilizer works. But their editors all found out that scary headlines about "GLOBAL SHORTAGE??" get clicks.

US media outlets are FINALLY having the "Do we actually need to do farm subsidies?" talk and I am extremely here for it. (yep it's clickbait thumbnail for the YT crowd, but dw it's a very nerd-centric video) youtu.be/-YJ-ZhDG7Jo

Reupping that we should judge people in positions of authority who delegate that decision-making authority to AI tools.

Yesterday I got to incorporate my dissertation research into a classroom lecture in a meaningful way for...the first time? Ever? It was pretty great.

This is certainly a take.

NC primaries I'm watching tonight: Congressionals in NC-04, NC-11 Does Phil Berger hold onto his state Senate seat? Does Rodney Pierce fend off Michael Wray? Who emerges in Cumberland County Commission At-Large and District 1? Does the incumbent not yet elected sheriff hold on in Cumberland?

Do you like Caribbean pirates? Everyone does (myself included), but most people don't really know why. Why have we come to love characterizations of individuals who were so violent and brutal? 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

The hazard of using AI to foist off responsibility for bad decisions is you still chose to use the AI to make the decision.

Sarah lays out in this video how the "agricultural ladder" worked in the US midwest in the early 1900s. It's been interesting comparing it with colonial Haiti, where:

University presses should pick: Either only giving reviewers the pdf OR using endnotes instead of footnotes. Not both.

Big news out of Chapel Hill: "Part of the reason to scrap it, in addition to the fact that it’s clearly created a lot of disquiet…is that [since] the original incident…I have not heard of a single instance…in which we debated surreptitious recording and decided to do it. It just hasn’t come up."

Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm surprised people take this Alpha School thing at all seriously. Does no one remember Rocketship or AltSchool or the other attempts at this digitally automated schooling? Time to re-up this from the AltSchool days. www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-v...

Some thoughts on academic freedom, and what just happened in the UNC System. 🧵 (1/8)

FWIW using Einstein would violate my university's acceptable use policy because it would be sharing PID and passwords with outside parties and allowing unauthorized access to the university network www.vt.edu/acceptable-u...

Yes. Having more people learn in depth and breadth and engage in free inquiry, civil discourse, and dialectic thinking has tremendous benefit for all of us.

One problem with using ChatGPT for brainstorming is it takes students down the most well-worn paths when part of the writing process should be discovery.

Ballerina Farm's back in the news, for raw milk problems this time. The reporting has been a little sparse on details with exactly what happened. So since I have some professional food safety experience, I went through the reporting to fill in some of the blanks. youtu.be/mdOyeNCkC0I

The quiz bowl team had a come-from-behind victory to clinch their spot at the NC state tournament next month by a mere 10 points (10 pts = just one toss-up or bonus part!). #ProudCoachDay

As someone who benefited greatly from Florida's National Resource Center on Latin America, I'm glad Chapel Hill's centers will continue to exist rather than close entirely and look forward to the day when their funding can be restored.

This is very welcome news.

Great questions to ask about AI in the workplace from @rawsignal.ca: "Are there tasks or sensitive areas of the work that should be human-only?" And then: "When we involve AI, what are our thoughts on when we need a human in the loop, and when we can let the AI run free?"

This piece is much better than the headline suggests it will be. Helping students take time for literature, to step away from the constant, anxious buzz of careerist skill-building, at least for a little bit.

Also in this video, Sarah talking farm economics with @petebuttigieg.bsky.social.

I keep seeing news spots on farmers who aren't into Trumpism. What I *don't* see is real talk on "Who are they? Why are we like this?" So let's talk about the 20ish% of farmers who aren't right-wing. Why we'll probably stay a minority. And what our existence can tell us about deep-red politics.

A great piece. Especially: "One of the byproducts of any automating technology is the erasure of context. GPS erases the work of navigation. Using writing for LLMs erases the experience and unique intelligence behind a text."

One of the hazards of using ChatGPT to "save time" is you're prioritizing saving time over doing something well.

Very important thread, including on how DHS is ignoring federal law and court orders.

I care a great deal about civic discourse and how universities can promote it. One challenge: the tremendous potential for irony. To wit: "...who teaches in the Salmon P. Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society."

Today was one of my favorite class sessions: bringing ~40 books from my office related to the last few modules, students all pick one, spend 30 minutes taking notes on their selection, and then share out.

Love to summarize the Eighty Years' War into one (1) slide.