I often think of how more people are employed by art museums than by coal mines now.

"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

Not the most important point here, but I’m also thinking about those tenure and promotion cases that are screwed because the faculty weren’t able to secure enough external funding for their research. The finances and reward structures of universities are not prepared.

France has today gotten around to repealing the 1685 Code noir, which classed enslaved humans as property. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

No. If you’re doing this, then you shouldn’t be teaching or doing research. Now pay me consulting rates for that expert advice.

On the tube

From an expert: Those are carpenter tool bags, not plumber tool bags The tool on her hip does not exist There’s another half a crescent wrench in her tool bags The pipes behind and in front of the sink The American flag is wrong The tool in her hand does not exist Also a lady plumber (joke)

The best thing about liberal arts colleges is that they effectively break lineal descendancy and the inherited trauma of PhD programs. Because I don't train "the next generation of scholars," I have no need to inflict my pain on students. I'm just here to educate these kids into the world!

carrying this bag around work so people* know what’s up *who read japanese

I talked to several professors and scholars about this, and they all said what bothered them most wasn't the ownership rights, but the idea that their work would be misinterpreted by people trying to learn about their subject:

this is real

It's Monday!

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

Remember kids, it’s only corruption when black and brown people do it. When white people do it it’s ✨ sparkling business ✨

Harvard is a hedge fund masquerading as a university.

Students in the Crafting Resistance class with the hand quilting on the frame: pull up!

Did a yacht write this?

Israel learned that no one will stop them from doing endless war crimes, so they are continuing to do endless war crimes

The United States has just bombed Sharif University in Tehran, the most prestigious university in Iran and among the top one hundred in the world in civil engineering. Ironically, it has been a hotbed of student opposition to the Iranian regime.

not to be all everything is gender but damn

My tongue-in-cheek, yet seriously meant, critique of Global University Rankings. Interestingly, this is some people's favourite read from my blog. I argue that university rankings grossly misunderstand who universities are for in how they universalise the provincial. folukeafrica.com/global-unive...

🇸🇳 Non-fasting Muslim community throws Ramadan celebrations in Senegal Despite the dust and the heat, thousands of members of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, are busy preparing the iftar meal for breaking the Ramadan fast — but they themselves neither fast, nor pray.

Wow. www.ft.com/content/16c5... Belgian aristocrat to face charges over murder of Congo’s first premier

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

In Western Nebraska, 25-35 mph is normal in March. And big grass fires are also normal, though usually in late summer. Few people, few structures, and few trees typically make these fires unremarkable. But this is 858 sq miles.

Abolition is the floor. The minimum. A reasonable compromise.

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

Absolutely incredible episode of 60 Songs. Hanif Abdurraqib talking about desire/sex, the sacred and the profane, in D’Angelo’s music really moved me. (I also watched the Untitled video for the first time, and whew!)

Once again I propose that we put all the men in space, until we figure out what is going on.

One of the many lessons I hope people take from this entire thing is that being a billionaire is not a moral achievement or a sign of intelligence. Stop letting people pronounce on random things because they are rich.

Remembering all those “Has #MeToo Gone Too Far?” thinkpieces.

"According to the experts, these acts could amount to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

xyz “with no criminal record” … just stop it. The targeting and detention are the criminalization. let’s banish the police from our hearts and minds

I don’t want what’s happening in Minnesota to stop until ICE leaves there and every other community. But I do want people to recognize that there’s a race element here. There’s a reason people are treating the protesters of Minnesota as somehow nobler and more patriotic. More "American."

Today, after Sen. George Mitchell's name was discovered in Friday's Epstein emails dump, the Mitchell Scholarship renamed their entire program and website to the US–Ireland Alliance. The board's actions here are heartening in the face of so many mealy-mouthed defenses elsewhere.

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

@cjwade.bsky.social and I are teaching a class this semester called Crafting Resistance, where students learn (the political science of) resistance movements globally and the role of textile artists in them.

IYKYK: "going back to South Dakota" from a Minnesotan is a real burn

Incredible, as usual, from @chrislatray.bsky.social: "Movements of everyday people are MIGHTY. It’s the only way things change. Anything truly good that has happened on Turtle Island while under colonial subjugation has been the result of people, everyday people, making them happen."

ICE out of schools & churches? People can't go to them. They cannot move safely in their neighborhoods. They cannot socially exist. They will rightfully remain afraid. Because the problem is ICE. There is no reforming ICE. Dem leadership needs to stop pretending there's anything to negotiate. 6/

"CBP stays at border"? Where is the border? Border crossing installations, e.g. at airports, road checkpoints, & ports? Because I hate to break it to you, but CBP interprets "the border" as being within a 100-mile buffer zone of the line on a map that most people think of as the border. 3/

this is an interview of Aru Shiney-Ajay from Twin Cities Sunrise Hub by @ericblanc.bsky.social. please read and share www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.

The perfect illustration of the multiple forms of masculinity

Why t.f. does his citizenship matter?

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.