Next month! Join us for the latest Stories of Taiwan short story reading group! www.facebook.com/share/1LRgBj...

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

I've watched very little but this photograph is fantastic.

Un poco de dignidad ante la cobardía de Wim Wenders y la Berlinale.

me in any conversation about anything lately:

"The most transformative aspects of education — such as intellectual identity, ethical reasoning, interpretive sophistication, and epistemic humility — are difficult to quantify." www.chronicle.com/article/asse...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.” For these Americans, that wasn’t true. (Published Oct. 2025)

There are 70,000 people in DHS concentration camps. 3000 are children. Close the camps. Being our neighbors home.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Looking forward to this!

"(...) from the grassroots through the perfumed circles of the black bourgeoisie (...)" www.marxists.org/archive/newt...

Using teaching evaluations for selection and promotion, despite all the empirical evidence showing how they negatively impact the career prospects of scholars from underrepresented groups in academia, is a political choice.

Dear Blueskies, question: could you recommend a recent-ish, peer reviewed study on implicit/unconscious bias in faculty hiring? I know the classics, but I am wondering what new(ish) research is out there that could be used in a workshop setting. Thank you very much! #AcademicSky #EduSky 🗃️

saudades.

Anyone potentially interested in writing a review of Bad Bunny's halftime show for The Black Scholar (750-1,500 words)? www.theblackscholar.org/submission/

his routine display of fear isn't cowardice, it's proof that he's powering through fear in the name of a familial bond

y'know. in courage the cowardly dog, courage is regularly protecting muriel and eustace, an act that requires him to be, well, courageous. his name is not ironic, it's earned

Etsy just kicked witches off their platform. What could possibly go wrong. www.vice.com/en/article/e...

A coyote walks through the Streeterville neighborhood Monday evening in Chicago.

Limes #🍋‍🟩 #oilpainting

My colleague points out the equally relevant Luis Figueroa's book Sugar, Slavery, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico uncpress.org/978080785610...

One of the biggest wastes of academic productivity is the variation in page/word limits across journals in the same/related fields.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Deportation Data Project - Resistance Directory resistancedirectory.com/links/deport...

'The Durham branch of the University and College Union said on 9 February that 63 per cent of participants in a ballot had backed strike action in a row over working conditions and job security. Turnout in the vote was 54 per cent.' 1/3

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

"That is what my mother dreamed: That when the slave catcher called her, she was far away from the master’s house, in the center of the sugar cane plantation, and that his voice was just a distant noise (...)" My piece selected for Best Small Fictions 2025: inkfishmag.com/she-is-there...

Sugarcane fields for Caribbean Latinos are what cotton fields are for African Americans. Sites of enslavement, brutality, and stolen labor, but also where resistance was born. Revolutions, maroon communities, and fights for independence started in those fields soaked in blood and defiance. #Badbunny

Researchers estimate that the life expectancy for people forced to work in cane fields was mid 20s. They were slaughterhouses. Being sent to one was functionally a death sentence.

Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (Published 2023)

Book Review: "Democracy Despite Itself: Liberal Constitutionalism and Militant Democracy" journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

You've heard of Kent State (1970) & maybe Jackson State (1970). Did you know #tdih 1968, 28 students were injured and three killed (one a HS student) — most shot in the back by state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, SC? 💔 🧵 Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/or...

A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A Historically BLACK University cannot say Black. A HISTORICALLY BLACK UNIVERSITY cannot say Black.

A reminder that “Auschwitz,” “Treblinka,” and “Terezin” were towns before they were extermination camps. They still are. But their names will always mean genocide.

If you are a US trans/queer person looking to move to Canada for safety, I am happy to share my experience to help you understand your options. If you are an LGBTQ+ refugee from elsewhere in the world, I may be able to refer you to a resettlement path to Canada. No guarantees, but get in touch.

I should write a story.