Literally worse than chili pepper era Rate My Professor

maybe they meant Canadian Rapture, which happens in October

"you are the ones with the most to lose. My colleagues & I may have to leave this cherished institution & that would be a great loss for us. But we have already lived lives of consequence and can find other pursuits. You, however, would lose the education you deserve." 🔥 thebatt.com/news/anonymo...

“You also now must fear one another. Under the new normal, a single student can record a class discussion, fail to protect your identity, and post it online in violation of the safeguards provided by Student Rule 24 and FERPA, dragging you & your classmates into a national scandal without consent.”

I am going to be so angry if they eliminate Corey Feldman from Dancing with the Stars tonight

The anti-trans right heavily praised Gordon Guyatt as the “godfather” of evidence based medicine. He worked for SEGM and was responsible for their GRADE reviews. Now he disavows them, says evidence supports transgender youth care. Great coverage from Henry carnell.

So, like, every variety of human condition can be hellish under colonial capitalism and also autistic people are fucking awesome

An ICE detainee died in custody out here on Long Island, just a couple days ago. 42 years old! I have questions. longisland.news12.com/ice-detainee...

Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

www.arabnews.com/node/2613905... Reflecting on this as I start a new academic year with our students

With my enthusiastic blessing, @derekbjenkins.bsky.social is culling our (his) record collection, but he put my childhood copy of Sesame Street Fever in the discard pile and now I am making him listen to it so he may fully know the error of his ways

Spent the afternoon in the park with people and poems and what a way to live, 10/10 would do it again every day for the rest of this human lifetime

The Alchemy Lecture 2025 Sound—at the Interregnum Glen Coulthard Canisia Lubrin Madeleine Thien Immanuel Wilkins Date: October 30, 2025 Time: 5 - 8 p.m. (Reception: 5 - 6 p.m.) Venue: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, CIBC Lobby (Location) YorkU Event type: Hybrid – in person and online

Zines have always been central to D.C.’s punk and indie music scene, connecting fans and fueling movements. Now, they’re back. Contributor Taylor Ruckle looks at the resurgence of zines—the “paper boom,” as one zine maker calls it.

Hey so I’m reading some poems in Toronto this afternoon

stop throwing yourself wantonly into the moshpit everybody, my wife says it's the end of DBS (Dumb Bitch Summer) and the beginning of TOBLSPA (Taking Our Bodies' Limitations Seriously and Proactively Autumn)

I am so here for the Disney Adult revolution

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

This is exactly why tenure has been so important, historically. This man is advocating Marxism and socialism. He's a professor of working-class history. And he was deliberately targeted by an influencer and then unlawfully fired. www.kxan.com/news/local/h...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Academics, what’s stopping you from doing footnotes like this???

now they're going after Dr. Karen Leader

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Wake up Babe, a new euphemism for students getting drunk just dropped

I'll be speaking with @jwassers.bsky.social on Friday, October 3 (3:30pm) at the Wagner School at NYU on the topic of music, Southeast Asia, and transnational aesthetics. It's a joint book talk! Jeff's is lovely (and available as an audio edition). Come one come all. www.nysean.org/events/songs...

I call this piece the “Hypocrisy of Rosenbury: A story of American Fascism”

Thanks for the reminder it's #WoodblockWednesday! Below, @sudasana.bsky.social shares a link to vols 1-8 of 32 from an incomplete copy of Shi Chengjin's (~1658-after 1739) 家寶全集. BSB also holds a second, complete, & lower budget edition produced later 1/ www.digitale-sammlungen.de/en/search?fi...

I just spent four wretched hours steeling myself for a dreaded meeting this afternoon that it turns out is tomorrow afternoon

spermy heaps

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

To repeat: The typical university admin has the same views on unions as Wal-Mart

🎶Young mother down at Smithfield 5 AM, looking for food for her kids In her arms she holds three cold babies And the first word that they learned was "please" These are dangerous days To say what you feel is to dig your own grave🎶

I’ve been listening to Sinéad O’Connor reading her book Rememberings. “Black Boys on Mopeds” is a song that changed my life when I was my kid’s age, in ways that it will take me a lifetime to fully understand. I’m listening to it now.

Releasing the Epstein files would be a great palate cleanser

I would like to remind everyone that the #Nazi order to euthanize those with mental health issues (and other #disabilities ♿️) was called Aktion T4. This involuntary euthanasia killed 300K people by conservative estimate. Kilmeade is promoting Nazi killing protocol. Literally, he is saying we should.

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

If astrology isn’t real then how are Milton and Blake both Sag suns

Featuring Ian Gavigan of @higheredlabor.bsky.social on how the bipartisan neoliberalization of higher ed laid the groundwork for Trump’s all-out assault. Workers must unite on every campus, articulate an alternative vision for the university, and fight to win it.

Really worth considering that the entire project of endlessly proliferating administrative offices in higher ed is to manifest a reality in which there *is* a higher authority than the actual researchers in the field.

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field

The Texas A&M System Chancellor described teaching gender theory as “insubordination and indoctrination.” And professors and department heads were fired for it.

America, this is only going to get worse and worse. Tenured faculty can't hide behind privilege forever. SPEAK UP. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t...

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

The recording is chilling. Solidarity with my colleagues in Texas who teach gender studies & are facing these coordinated attacks on academic freedom.

I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better

Remember: as your employer erodes the resources and support you receive to do your job, it is important to do your job proportionally more shittily

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

I’d love to live to see a world in which the only cops are Hot Cops

I thought this would just be a "has trans gals and drag queens dancing" but yeah no it is hard to get a clearer message than a few dozen signs saying PROTECT THE DOLLS and TRANS RIGHTS NOW and TRANSPHOBES CAN'T GET LAID Good fuckin work, Sabrina

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.