www.thenation.com/article/soci... The Dismantling of Black Studies

This happened today and I hadn’t heard about it until I looked it up just now

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study published Thursday in the Lancet shows. Tools using generative AI are likely to blame, say the Columbia University researchers who authored the paper.”

this is a really good read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

New: Trump's OMB is withholding more than $2 billion Congress approved in February for K-12 and higher education. Advocates and experts weigh in on what this means and whether it's time to panic: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

It’s relatively common for artists to use real people as references, but this is different — it’s using a real Indigenous actress to create an imaginary Indigenous character, coloring her blue, turning her into IP, and building a franchise around her without ever hiring or paying that actress.

COVER REVEAL 📚 How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by @jwashing.bsky.social Releasing July 21st wherever good books are sold (or borrowed). Available for pre-order now.

Publishers Weekly calls it a "Meticulous study . . . A fascinating overview of a dynamic time and place." It's pub day for A PROXY AFRICA by Russell Rickford 👏

I am submitting materials for promotion to Full Professor. I am also starting a new project that feels like a heavy undertaking intellectually. And yet the most exciting part of my day is my baby running to give me a hug when they get home. Motherhood is really different.

Fort Lewis College has spent years taking stock of its history as a federal Indian boarding school and collaborating with local tribes to make amends. Now its first indigenous leader plans to continue the work she helped launch.

And none of us is surprised about this. It's basically reflecting the racism, antiblackness and colorism of the wider culture. It's automated bias. I wouldn't subject myself to it by using their tools. Also, just imagine the impact to impressionable Black kids using it. So damaging. Meta is bad.

“Faculty members do not surrender their rights to speak as scholars and citizens when they participate in university forums—whether in classrooms, public venues, or ceremonial settings. On the contrary, such occasions are among the most visible expressions of the university’s core commitments . . .

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

Preach Preacha!

Pre-print now available! If race is socially constructed, we should study how. We do so by asking who counts as Black. Parentage, skin tone, party id, neighborhood, & spouse's race all shape perceived blackness. Who is doing the classifying matters too. A labor of love. osf.io/preprints/so...

Kevin O'Leary's massive data center was approved by a county commission in Utah last night. At 40,000 acres, it would be 2.5x the size of Manhattan. The commission approved the proposal despite opposition from hundreds of locals.

Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is typically implemented in rural areas, could work in an urban setting. n.pr/3QREdO7

This campaign against trans women is not (as it pretends) an “effort to protect women.” It’s a continuation of a long history of misogyny and patriarchy masquerading once again as “protectors of womanhood.”

WATCH: Last night I had the chance to sit down for an extended conversation with Jon Stewart to talk about the state of voting rights & democracy in this country. Class was very much in session! Thank you @thedailyshow youtu.be/SCse1FFEKLM

GameStop’s CEO struggles to answer the question of how his company worth $12B can afford to buy eBay for $56B. This is amazing television.

If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2

Stronger Together: BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press Join Forces scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/05/05/s...

Hard times bring lots of clarity. Take the clarity and build from there, with love.

Following the latest iOS update which requires UK mobile Apple device users to verify their ages, Pornhub’s parent company Aylo is lifting its ban—but only for people using iPads and iPhones.

While we're all talking about the Supreme Court and Callais sucking shit, make sure you read this new piece about how the Supreme Court and Callais are even worse than you thought ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/alito...

After visiting her pen pal of 40 years in New Zealand, an AP writer wondered: Are pen pals still thing? It turns out that pen pal programs have survived and evolved in the digital age even as postal systems struggle.

Our Fall 2026 catalog is here! Check out all the great new titles we have coming out between June and December this year. Some are even available for pre-order now, at 40% off with coupon SPRING26. buff.ly/eoJvSOK

Instead of that bullshit, if you’re looking for craft books about writing memoir, I’d recommend BODY WORK by Melissa Febos and THE ART OF MEMOIR by Mary Karr. (I often assign Febos’s book in my classes; Karr’s book was very helpful while I wrote HOW WE FIGHT FOR OUR LIVES.)

The most popular type of Salt of the Earth Profile in USA is ‘We took a white guy at face value when he blatantly lied about his reasons for letting the Racist Red Meat Guy take all his generational wealth’. I guarantee that this guys’s children, who are broke now, will grow up to blame Black ppl

The world's first automated double dutch machine, invented by mechanical engineer and Penn State professor Tahira Reid Smith. She first drew it up as a third grader.

You can order pills from overseas clinics and mutual aid groups. *Possessing* mifepristone is not a crime (except in Louisiana). I'm not saying I have some but I am saying if you are someone who can get pregnant or knows people who can, order some now. www.plancpills.org

Today in white folk are not well: An old white lady at the store told my 1 year old he was too pretty to be a boy. I just stared at her.

Exclusive: The Trump administration accidentally exposed Social Security numbers of health care providers listed in a Medicare directory, The Post found. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services say they are addressing the problem.

I’m hosting a weekly ten-part radio series on English Culture through the mind of Professor Stuart Hall, featuring never-before-heard recordings from lectures delivered in the mid-80s - the height of Thatcherism. Starts on Wednesday 11am-midday on @resonancefm.bsky.social www.resonancefm.com

56 years ago today in my hometown on "May Day": "Thousands of protestors from around the country joined Yalies and New Haveners on the New Haven Green to rally in support of the Black Panthers." Read more about it here 👇🏾: yaledailynews.com/articles/mem...

On May 23rd, from 3:00PM - 7:30PM 9th Annual Stuart Hall Public Conversation with Fred Moten www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/9th-a...

WRITERS! Apply today to @banffcentre.bsky.social 's new MEMOIR WRITING residency with faculty KYO MACLEAR, DIONNE BRAND, and IVAN E COYOTE!: www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Ya'll don't even know how big a deal this is So many Indig people still MASSIVELY distrust giving birth in hospitals. Forced sterilization, nurses pressuring new moms to give up their kids for adoption "so they'd have a good life" all reasons why having sovereignty over birth MATTERS

I wrote a plea. Black women are being killed by Black men at alarming, epidemic rates. We have to stop this. Us. Black men. We have to. andscape.com/features/bla...

Here’s to caregiver-educator coalitions against Big Tech! And as @alliethrall.bsky.social and I begin analyzing survey responses for our caregiver edtech resistance study, we’re seeing some caregivers attuned to building relationships *with* teachers rather than seeing them as adversaries.

Environmental racism is exhausting and everywhere.

We are happy to discuss projects for the series. Contact us: [email protected] I’m guessing it goes without saying that we are eager to work with scholars of color.

Saint Augustine's University ending its lawsuit against its accreditor and declaring bankruptcy, permanently ending its ability to receive federal financial aid. Yet they're trying to remain open by offering certificates and apprenticeships. That's going to be tough. www.st-aug.edu/sau-takes-st...

AND further evidence of confusion about what teaching (and even knowledge) actually is. Knowledge is NOT a synonym for information. Teaching is not just communicating information.

The way I cackled just now 🤣🤣🤣

Esam has beautiful newborns. Please help him and Sahar support their family through this ongoing violence.

55% of Americans now feel that their financial situation is worsening — a higher level than during the Great Recession and the pandemic, according to Gallup. news.gallup.com/poll/708905/...