I'm really concerned about the long term impact on our students. I keep thinking about how they changed the strategies for teaching reading to empirically less effective ones and now we have a generation of less developed readers. It's going to be like that x1000 www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

One year ago today, I published with Taylor & Francis in The Black Scholar. Sharing my article here so that it may impact someone else's research: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00064246.2024.2432247

ESPN isn't covering the bombing of one the most famous stadiums on earth so.... my latest piece @thenation.com "The Razing of Iran’s Azadi Stadium Is Straight Out of Israel’s Gaza Script" www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“This study is probably the most depressing project I've been involved with in my entire life…It's distressing to see others engage in fraud &in misleading others. But if you believe that science is useful & important for humanity, then you have to fight for it”🧪 www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Cecilia D’Anstasio on Roblox’s efforts to protect children from pedophiles.

Wow, this looks like a cool job for the right person!

Horrifying scenes from Tehran as oil depots are on fire, poisoning the environment. As with Gaza, the goal is ecocide, to make Iran unlivable. aje.news/64yl8m?updat...

Transvestigations have been going on for a while on the internet, but wildly, now the right seems to be eating its own with the conspiracy theories. www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-...

"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

I’m taking a break from socials in Q1. Email is the best way to contact me. Take care of yourselves and each other.

This is worth mentioning to your friends who traded their ChatGPT for Claude subscriptions - Claude helped kill all of those little girls at school in Iran. Anthropic isn’t ethical AI.

We Must Defend Black History — It Fuels Freedom Dreams of Students Under Attack | George Yancy Historian Elizabeth Todd-Breland discusses how schools have become a key site of struggle amid rising fascism in the US. truthout.org/articles/we-... | @truthout.org

I've reported 2-3 stories in my career that have sucked the spirit out of my body and this was one of them. But! Seeing the response of the fgc to help their brother genuinely put it right back. Im humbled to have been trusted with this. Help your neighbors friends those in need are all around you.

This is the highbrow version of getting rid of sex ed in schools so that kids don't have the language to describe the abuse they're suffering.

Jill Scott’s long awaited NPR Tiny Desk concert will premiere Monday at noon EST:

OPINION: "[Ida B. Wells'] articles about Black life and racism became popular, appearing in many of the 200 Black newspapers in the U.S. at the time. In 1889, she was invited to join the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight as a reporter and co-owner," Richard Campbell writes.

“Your data is yours and yours always,” said Oura CEO Tom Hale. This doesn't mean... anything? Oura data *isn't* end-to-end encrypted, it's stored in a way that allows Oura *staff* to access sensitive health data, and Oura's spokesperson has admitted it has received government demands for user data!

Facial recognition + bad data protection structures + "AI" that regularly gets behavioral prediction very badly wrong + glaring holes in tech regulations & privacy laws + a stunning & nakedly bigoted authoritarian regime= a threat surface, a bottleneck, & an arm of oppressive state control, all in 1

P.T. Barnum, the so-called Greatest Showman, made his name by exploiting a blind, elderly Black woman— even pulling out her remaining teeth to convince people she was old enough to be George Washington's nanny— until he worked her to death and sold tickets to her autopsy. Her name was Joice Heth.

“The arguments that justify adjunct labor can be and are turned around on those who thought their positions were secure, a point adjuncts have been making for decades.”

You have to read this. Must read this. Nick Shirley is taking his vigilanteism across the country, terrorizing childcare providers well beyond Minnesota. This is how the American right works. Vicious losers like Shirley get elevated, profit from terrorizing innocent people. ⬇️

For those looking for freelance work in the wake of WaPo layoffs: I'm an editor at large overseeing Ideas & Culture at Bloomberg, including our Books coverage. Find me at [email protected]

Last night, Eve received her second career Grammy at the Recording Academy Honors presented by The Black Music Collective.

A lot of independent bookstores closed yesterday in protest of the gestapo which means today is a good day to shop indies like @loyaltybooks.bsky.social 🌈🤸🏽💙📚

Are you a creative and intellectually curious editor ready to grow lists in environmental history, history of medicine, urban history, and labor history? We’re hiring an Acquisitions Editor to help shape our history lists 🙌 Interested? You can learn more here👇 
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Health insurance costs are up. Women and LGBTQ+ people are paying the price —  as some dip into savings, take on second jobs or go without coverage at all. written with my colleagues @shefali.bsky.social @bcrodriguez.bsky.social

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion. These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science go.nature.com/4sTPWdp

Families were promised their children's data would be protected. Instead it was fed into shoddy, pseudoscientific research making claims about race and IQ. Now amplified by AI bots, compounding the harm. We need an honest reckoning with how genomic data can be weaponized for scientific racism.

🚨🚨🚨 "At least 63 times since 2007, data from some of the 28 human genomic repositories that the N.I.H. controls was improperly released to researchers, used for unapproved purposes or made vulnerable to theft..." (Gift Link) www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

I’m taking a break from socials in Q1. Email is the best way to contact me. Take care of yourselves and each other.

The site, now underwater, was once home to Japanese Americans seeking safety during World War II.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social is officially Mayor of New York City! 🎉🗽 We spoke to attendees at the new mayor's block party what they hope he accomplishes in his first term. ⬇️

There is no state in this country where you can live a comfortable life on $15 an hour.

Lawn darts, Four Loko, and Panera death lemonade had a lower body count combined and were banned faster.

And disproportionately affects Black people with uteruses — I’ve seen reporting that 50-80% have the condition. This from the Mayo Clinic says 90% by age 50, it’s outrageous mcpress.mayoclinic.org/women-health...

We are not living the same reality because we are dying a faster death. Premature death. Black New Yorkers, who are not also Latinx, have the lowest life expectancy.

Carmen de Lavallade, Dancer Whose Career Spanned the Arts, Dies at 94 Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes de Mille and Harry Belafonte www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/a...

The Academic Work Tracker spreadsheet is now updated with 2026 dates! If you don't already, 2026 is a great time to start treating your academic work like the wage job where you are paid to work a certain amount of hours that it actually is: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A year later, Altadena fire survivors confront hard choices about housing Sell, rebuild or just wait? The residents of West Las Flores Drive embody the many different ways people say they are recovering from the catastrophe. wapo.st/3MZF7pQ

A suite of pro-EV federal policies have been reversed. Well-known vehicles have been discontinued. Sales plummeted. But interest is holding steady.

There is a water main break every 2 minutes in the US. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

There is no more “state of the humanities” as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack...We are all humanists now. /1

Having lost my grandmother 7 years ago to this terrible disease, I am so happy for this advancement. At the end she didn’t know who I was—I never want others to experience that loss.

Now is not the time for subtlety, nostalgia or neutrality on screen. n.pr/4jBeRP3

All of the top-10 books borrowed through the public library app Libby were written by women. And Kristin Hannah's The Women was the top check-out in many library system around the country. n.pr/49tGkyq

The Detroit Chamber polled MI in 2024. 58% of voters believe avg student debt is about $50K. Consequently, only 8% of voters thought that a BA/BS was the "minimum to be successful in MI" and only 27% said *any college* was important to getting a good job (1/X) www.detroitchamber.com/survey-paren...