(A) incredible and (B) an excuse to post this

Meanwhile let me recommend David Morris's book on PTSD, The Evil Hours.

Cue Auburn joining the new “state run” accreditation group, the CPHE, after it thumbs its nose at a primary SACS standard. And oh yeah, ending a faculty senate and creating a prez board is what got Spartanburg CC censured by @aaup.org (I was on that investigation)

Honored to share that I’ve been invited to participate as faculty for this year’s Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute at Duke University

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

"Juilliard believes ... “Accountability frameworks should reflect the diverse ways graduates build careers and contribute to society, rather than relying on a single measure that may not accurately capture the value of their education and their potential."

1. Don't believe the headlines. Trump's $1.776 billion slush fund is not "dead." The Trump administration wants to the public to believe it's dead. But their ACTIONS tell a very different story.

Please watch! Please sign! Bit.ly/uhhum

Getting info from A.I. is like reading a novel with an unreliable narrator. You get info but always have to think, "Hmm... I wonder if that's true, or partly true, or sort of based on truth but twisted in some weird way, or just a total unhinged delusion." You need to see what other characters say.

MIT (endowment: $27B) shuttering three of its four main libraries is one of those news items that just knocks you off balance, auguring, as it does, profound and permanent changes to the entire institutional apparatus of higher education in this country.

UPDATE: After loud backlash, @KnoxSchools has put ‘ROOTS’, a Pulitzer-prize winning state book, back in schools. tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/26/k...

We are going to savor this one. Our client, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is freed of these outrageous, vindictive charges. It’s a good day.

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...

My campus just had to make across-the-board 7% budget cuts (after making cuts last year as well) yet UMS found $1.39 million for a 2-year contract with OpenAI.

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The AAUP is committed to a higher ed system where universities are the engines of democracy & human flourishing—not silent partners in a reckless technological arms race that burns through public resources & weakens the very institutions needed for democratic society. ➡️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-ba...

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

One more comment about this. You thought A&M was bad for censoring Plato's Symposium? Well, Texas Tech said "hold my beer" and banned Plato's REPUBLIC from a philosophy class because there's a brief mention of homosexual love in it.

"Fascinatingly, I never had problems doing my Duolingo Irish lessons, which required just enough cognitive effort to help my brain remember how to operate normally without overtaxing it, which is probably a real knock against Duolingo as a learning tool."

Yes, I do want to get left behind

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Nine women were finally set to testify about how Tennessee’s abortion ban endangered their lives—until state Republicans abruptly halted the trial days before it began. msmagazine.com/2026/05/06/t...

universities have the brainpower, resources,+ community obligation to develop on-site secure NON PROFIT learning management systems + ed tech overseen by actual educators, not data-extraction censorious surveillance profiteers! VOID THE CONTRACTS theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

Today, Texas Tech students sounded a death knell for academic freedom on their campus with a staged “funeral” to protest censorship during the system’s Board of Regents Meeting. Read more about the demonstration and the students involved here: pen.org/texas-tech-a...

what if we just never logged back into canvas ever again

As a PhD, I can confirm that the academic term for this situation is "fuck around and find out"

Please don’t forget that the story about the hack broke widely on MONDAY. And instead of preparing campus contingencies, administrators kept it quiet. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

We are so here for it. There should be at least one bookshop per 10,000 readers, and at least 2/3 of them should be used book shops. Each shop should have a different vibe, different focus--and that's easy and fun to do. I keep my neighbors' phone numbers at the counter to refer business to them.

A federal judge granted the motion for a summary judgment on all counts in favor of the AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social in our lawsuit to restore the NEH, ruling that the mass termination of grants was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect." 🗃️

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty.... I was honored to have Tom Alter speak at Texas A&M - San Antonio. It was a great event

trying to push more women out of the workforce.

Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

Wyoming lawmakers say tight new restrictions on abortion are needed to grow the state's population. Demographers and others say economic conditions are more to blame for an exodus of young people. n.pr/4uo77E0

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

This right here is/was achieved through science and effective government health policy. It can be accomplished anywhere if one removes the charlatans and grifters from positions of power, silences the anti-science and anti-vaccine mis/disinformation morons, and makes medical access free.

Reading this, slightly longer than original edition but still very short for such a good introduction to this immensely important topic…

Tasha's not on here, but her book is coming out, and it's incredible. I encourage everybody to read it! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Thank you, AHA. We feel like we're in free fall here. Statements like this help us feel less isolated.

“What the UNC ‘School of Civic Life & Leadership’ is doing is inverting the potential of this University, turning the promise of what we have here at UNC-Chapel Hill on its head.” — Abigail Hatcher, VP of the North Carolina Conference of the AAUP. @ncaaup.bsky.social

“The US has experienced a remarkably sharp drop in institutional autonomy compared to other countries”…The decline began in 2020 + intensified last year, driven by “an unprecedented array of coercive federal executive measures.” www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi...

Goddamn, he nails it. Y'all, please read this. "We do not need to be lectured. We do not need to be rescued. What we need is support. Many of us see staying not as an ethical failure, but as the very fulfillment of our values." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

If you're still resistant to clicking through and reading, here is the post by ASU professor Chris Hanlon that inspired the article in the first place.

I am begging everyone to actually read this story. The details are RIGHT THERE. ASU Atomic is: - not just impacting adjuncts - very much enabled by Canvas - neither opt-in nor opt-out; faculty weren't even notified this was happening - inexplicably open to the public - hot garbage

I've been covering curricular censorship at Texas public universities for awhile, and one question I continue to wonder is: Why isn't SACS responding? I've started to answer it @insidehighered.com: www.insidehighered.com/news/governa... #AcademicSky #highered

🔔 new paper alert 🔔 Justine, Su Lin and I spent the last year and a half trying to understand how LLMs are being sold — what are their supposed ‘capabilities’? how are these measured? etc and, more importantly, what does all of this discursive work *do*? what kinds of world does it presuppose? 1/

This was, in all seriousness, the point of the Harper’s Letter

If only Indiana University had a big, tacky ballroom . . .