Because Americans are dying for some of their politicians to demonstrate some ethical leadership and actual guts. My students understand clearly why AI is threatening and problematic (even if they still use it because uni admins enable them).

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

a gift for everyone who spends their holiday break fulfilling administrative tasks for their university

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

You know what else is disgraceful? Telling faculty they *must* use it for various administrative and/or service tasks. Ask me how I know...

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

I still want to read that Vanity Fair piece. Someone send me a gift link?

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

someone tell this to my university's administrators

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

Tomorrow is the last class of the semester. I'm not sure how it went by so fast but I also can't bring myself to prepare.

Just a reminder that you should check to see if your childhood MMR is still providing immunity. Mine wasn't. I got a booster. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/11/30/r...

You don't say ...

taking bets at how many students will show for tomorrow's class at ... 3:30 p.m.

Such a great essay!

He looks very unwell. Which is maybe what happens when you sell your soul and conscience

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

This is such a scandal www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

ICYMI: The Oxford University Press has begun a collective consultation process, which The Bookseller understands, if approved, would result in 113 redundancies 👇 #BookSky

Today is the only day of the semester where I get to play both Johnny Hallyday and Jacques Tati in class!

As someone who has just finished her 3rd peer review for the same journal since May, it is clear that some people in the scholarly world are not pulling their weight. That is all.

The U.S. Air Force Academy's academic accreditation is under review following a formal complaint that the institution no longer has sufficient Ph.D.-level faculty as the federal government reduces its civilian workforce // Story by @thenoellephillips.bsky.social

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

My Ukrainian-American dermatologist went to Yale and took a history class with Tim Snyder that he loves to discuss. He also reads Heather Cox Richardson's newsletter. Just in case you wondered whether historians are making a difference in the "real" world.

HOPE

Merde

New awareness campaign

Nobody show this to @laprofmme.bsky.social

It's not about $$ .... as anyone who is paying attention knows

I want this!!

Everyone read JB's work -- it's important to understanding contemporary attitudes toward autism in France!

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Having three quarters of American universities reliant on Amazon cloud servers seems like a bad idea.

Wow, an actual job in European history

Everyone thank Bezos for destroying one of America's iconic newspapers. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

this is amazing

If you are appalled by the audacity of people using AI to grade student work, I recently overheard someone professing that "there is nothing to be done" if faculty are using AI to write T&P letters

THIS

It's Banned Books Weeks. Fully half of the top challenged books in the U.S. are LGBTQ+ related and literature for adolescents (+Toni Morrison). Let's all buy one. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

I was just there this morning. This is the block. Nothing is on fire. There is no destruction. There is no War Zone. We were out for a 22-mile bike ride on a beautiful Sunday morning. Our biggest obstacle was repeatedly encountering the ongoing PDX marathon route.

I think about this almost every day.

you're also screwed even if your book(s) are copyrighted but were scooped up by Anthropic in a period that is not part of the class action.

@stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social look at this crowd! My thanks to Jessica Hardin, @rebeccapscales.bsky.social, @rit-cola.bsky.social and RIT students for a great Conable lecture last night. Such great conversation about our new book ‘In The Land of the Lacandón’!

ooh ...

Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)