This is also an attempt to bankrupt universities, and it may be working

the country needs to be run by a businessman, they said

I hope that the person who developed the "reaction" feature in outlook got demoted. Because it is now my #1 work email pet peeve.

The answer is no. A million times no. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

‘As a history of Africa in 45 objects, it would be hard to top the developer’s selection here.’ Samuel Reilly plays Relooted, a video game that allows us to pull off heists of African art from Western institutions.

We do still have some adults in this country

Here's some advice for people dealing with estates. Make sure you file the estate taxes several months before you file your own if you are a beneficiary of the estate. I learned this the hard way.

“The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency.” — NEH.gov The NEH has $207 million for FY2026. War in Iran? 1 billion per day. We go through 4.83 NEHs a day for what?

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" this Fall. Please circulate!

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

Definitely do not ask us to preserve evidence of our crimes!

Academics of the world, do with this info what you may. Even better, uninstall it from your devices 🧪

It has been clear from start that "ballroom" was significantly about upgrading the bunker below it. And this came up in NYT's interview with Trump (where he couldn't shut up about the ballroom), but they appear to have treated discussions of bunker as background. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

No notes

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain. Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow. #NoKings

Had an illuminating discussion with my students yesterday about AI. They are very unhappy with universities' insistence on shoving it down their throats and worry about not learning what they need to. They are opposed to be forced to use AI in coursework. I also learned a lot of new slang.

every crisis is manufactured

hmm🤔

It's the stage of the semester where I want to go to bed at 7:30 or drink 10 margaritas. Which is the correct response?

NEW study found chatbots supported violence 80% of the time—providing key details & weapon advice. Here’s the rub: there is currently no legal requirement for U.S. chatbot creators to alert law enforcement when their systems flag potential violence. The result is real-world harm. trib.al/XRqylye

In today's continuing saga of dealing with estates. You start to think about taxes. Which is when you discover that the parents' insurance companies did not send you 1099s for payouts to the estate ... 3 weeks before the tax deadline.

mind-boggling

Postdoc in medical history/humanities at Hopkins!

So absurd. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

i'm sorry this is so funny. great stuff www.404media.co/ceo-ignores-...

Don't anyone send your kids to visit my campus between November and May. Oh wait, that's impossible.

DOGE boys paid more than many full professors to terminate grants that many such people need to sustain their careers.

How about my neighborhood please

There's a lot here that reminds me of Justice Kavanaugh's senate hearing before his confirmation to the Supreme Court.

as a friend has frequently pointed out, the humanities came under attack when larger numbers of women and people of color joined the academy

it's Wednesday evening of spring break and so far I've only managed to check 3 things off my quite long "to do" list. This does not bode well for the weekend.

Why is Kirstin Gillibrand on this list? Why are any of these dems on this list?

This story is wild. I have lots of questions about DOGE, but also the person appointed to head the NEH.

Maybe Iranian hackers will render Canvas unusable. www.ft.com/content/09fa...

“War crimes don’t hide sex crimes” Highway sign in Boston. How can we make this slogan viral?

So Claude used outdated data -- from over a decade ago -- to tell the US to strike a school full of children. Yep, yep, yep, this is definitely a product we should be allowing in all of our classrooms.

Because no one could have predicted this when they let the Christian nationalists loose on the government

Thinking for no reason about this article today.... www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...

Reading about people being told to disinfect their noses and mouths during the 1943 polio epidemic in France with turpentine oil. I guess poisoning people was one way to prevent them from getting polio?

lol this is an incredible video

Currently at the "my conference paper may just be a series of bullet points" stage of writing. And I really just want go to bed and watch Heated Rivalry again, because who can think amid all of this horror?

I just want one candidate to run on the promise of putting everyone in the current administration behind bars for the rest of their existence on this earth. It may not be realistic, but I'd vote for anyone who says it at this point.

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data" This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Claude being used by the US military in air strikes in Iran. But yes, let's definitely rush to integrate this into our university curricula. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

My lovely colleagues Corinne Doria and Marion Chottin have just published a new French-language textbook on disability studies. Check it out!

Yesterday: I will write two paragraphs of my conference paper. (Nothing) Today: I will write half my conference paper (3 sentences).

Women voters knew they were coming for birth control. And this charlatan's argument is that MDs are "too busy" to provide informed consent to women seeking birth control? Also that women have been under-informed about side effects such as high blood pressure, blood clots, & risk of stroke, etc?

There's something else you could watch again instead of SOTU