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seen today in Western NY. Would love to know how these got here ...

Saw this documentary earlier this week and it is indeed fascinating ... and timely ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

WTAF

I just took a survey and realized that it is now time for me to check the "senior academic" box at the end.

But wasn't this the company that the Atlantic just claimed was preoccupied with the ethics of AI? 🤔

Need something warm to listen to on this bitter cold day? Check out Music Man for Africa, tracing the life of Leo Sarkisian--master field recordist, self-taught ethnomusicologist, ambassador and producer of the very popular Music Time in Africa for Voice of America-- soundcloud.com/shortwaveolo...

First measles, now TB.

Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” 🧪 eos.org/research-and...

NEW: The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting applications for its 2026 grant cycle. But this time, it has unusually specific criteria: It “particularly welcomes” projects that align with President Donald Trump’s vision for America.

Breaking, from me: An executive order from Oklahoma's governor directs most of the state's public colleges to "phase out tenure." #AcademicSky #HigherEd @chronicle.com www.chronicle.com/article/tenu...

The original design featured Toussaint L'ouverture but the IOC rejected it claiming it was "too political". The new design features a riderless horse and the word Haiti. (Wow, damn!) The look created for women also has gold hoop earrings and a Haitian tignon which women were once forced to wear. 🇭🇹🥇

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

Everyone watch this

can we make this a new holiday?

I would genuinely love to see some numbers on peer review requests, declines, and acceptances for leading journals by gender. Because I am increasingly convinced that men in academe are not doing their share of peer review work.

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In the fall my students told me they were in middle school during the pandemic and I said "all of your professors are still traumatized by this very recent event"

The Trump regime got rid of 10,109 PhDs in science and related fields, representing 14% of the total number of PhD scientists in the federal workforce.

I guess it's not just us?

How shameful for the Institut de France to welcome this charlatan www.liberation.fr/economie/eco...

This is what happens when university presses outsource your copyediting or maybe don't do it all. For shame, @oxfordunipress.bsky.social.

Someone make this dude read a history book: “I think also, as you look at polio, we need to not be afraid to consider that we are in a different time ... our sanitation is different, our risk of disease is different ... " www.statnews.com/2026/01/22/v...

They really want to kill us all

Does the U Chicago really deserve a $500,000 grant right now? Have they been managing their $$ well?

But I thought DOGE was about saving $$ and not stealing the personal data of millions of Americans🤔

This has been widely reported in the French press, but Americans seem not to know that this is how our country is behaving in Europe--attempting to intervene in court proceedings to defend Trump's crooked European cronies.

One of my students told me on the first day of class about her chemistry professor using AI to generate worksheets that contained mistakes in the problems. They are *not* pleased. Especially when they are paying a lot for their education!

We think of the postwar world order as having been built by the US. But as Getachew makes clear, that world order was completed by the intellectual giants of the African, pan-African and African diaspora liberation movements. It is no coincidence Trump & Miller are targeting its fundamental tenet.

The amount of steps required just to publish a book review!!!

Is ScholarOne the worst peer review management system? Correct answers only.

Everyone read this story

This is appalling: Top DOJ officials are actively pushing for a criminal investigation into the widow of Renee Good, leading prosecutors to quit en masse, NYT is reporting. Who in the White House ordered DOJ to do this? That's the next thing to establish.

Why Greenland? "Peter Thiel, who wants to set up crypto-empowered 'network states' on undeveloped territory, has invested in Praxis, a start-up that aims to do just that and which has scouted Greenland. Trump’s ambassador to Denmark, Ken Howery, was a co-founder with Thiel and Elon Musk of PayPal."

How is anyone getting anything done? This is a question I have asked myself 10 times everyday for the past week as I try to work on my syllabus for next semester.

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I think Rochesterians need to get a little more exercised about this. Especially given the price of groceries.

A great piece about the Nazi confiscation of bells & the ways the soundscape of Europe changed as a result. Always so nice to read historians writing for the public -- and citing so many other scholars as well! #soundscapes

I once opened an envelope inside a carton in the French National Archives and it contained a silk stocking. Unfortunately this had absolutely nothing to do with my research.

Working on designing my students' research project for next semester. Suburbs perennially exercised about the "city" it seems

an interesting approach to the AI dilemma, while also teaching undergrads how to collect and organize data?

Western Civilization ... sigh

How much trauma does this generation have to endure before the adults in their lives get their act together? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/u...

it's nice (and surprising) to see some folks who still have integrity

This piece is so good. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...