Walden Pond Books, in Oakland CA, knows how to advertise

#Caturday in Florida with delightful weather perfect for a lazy morning and snoozing dogs

The launch of MTV is now closer to D-Day than to today. More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

What are the fishpeople up to and are the selkies involved?

It was thrilling to watch from the ground 60 miles away! A friend’s partner, who works on the project, took this amazing shot

Scarlet ibis. Extraordinarily designed nature study by Maria Sibylla Merian: today was her day.

This speaks to my soul

I think about “normal to want and possible to achieve” all the time

Story this am fr NYT Vivian Yee about women who support biblical patriarchy --and household voting. And a study from UNLV about views of men who support tradwife phenom linked to higher rates of sexism. All of a piece, & why I write about 18thc family history 1/ 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

In space no one can hear you Teams.

Please - not this year. I don’t have the constitution for it

Student groups, each w/ a primary source relevant that week, summarize & analyze the readings - who was the author? Who was intended audience? What’s the argument? Etc. Then each group reports to class. Then Ss individually write a takeaway report in 5 mins. Bring hard candies for you and everyone!

Ummm, isn’t this the plot of every Norwegian detective show?

A really worthwhile study of what assignments students themselves found to be best for their learning, especially in an AI context. Spoiler alert: it’s NOT take-home essays. It’s all the stuff AI can’t do. And it’s mostly in-person. wonkhe.com/blogs/studen...

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

The good news is that those students seem to be loving it. They like getting messy with markers and flip charts and using flow diagrams and graphic notetaking to use parts of their brain that comes alive in the analog process. It makes them so much better at research design & critical thinking

I keep having to tell students that the true "product" on a homework, essay, or test is not the completed assignment, it's the brain that has gone through the thinking required to complete the assignment.

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

#Buccee’s bikinis - is a phrase that didn’t exist in my head before today. They’re practically a steal somewhere in Georgia along I-95

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

So many stable geniuses in these here parts

The NYT this morning

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

'claude can now research like a phd student!' bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning

Evergreen

Judith Leyster Self-Portrait, c. 1630 (National Gallery of Art, Washington) #InternationalWomansDay

Any suggestions for fun short (4-6pp) piece on any aspect of Early Modern European history suitable for non-major 1st yr exercise in discerning embedded narratives (ie. declension) in popular history? I have some things gathered from Smithsonian, but they’re not exactly fun or quirky. #EarlyModern

For International Women's Day, I want to talk about this woman. Despite the name on the photo, this woman was born Ann Amelia Chaplin in 1863, in Bromley.

This has been my #1 writing tip for students for nearly two decades. It holds up. My advisor gave it to my undergrad self back in the days of horses and buggies

I know we say "main character syndrome"a lot but watching people who genuinely cannot conceive of other people in other countries existing as anything but vectors for American vibes is surreal af to actually watch in practice

I just had a 🤯moment reading this. I’m reminded of Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms and the case of Menocchio. Belief frameworks cannot contain the multitudes and varieties of individual beliefs especially in the age of the internet

Trying to see this as just a cloud and not the thing that will haunt my dreams

Me, at the dentist’s this morning 😬

fyi, i have a podcast and it's really great and fun. and there are a lot of super-smart people who've been on to talk about not just the Middle Ages but how and why it's studied here in the USA. please give it a listen. AmericanMedieval.com

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty's New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News www.getty.edu/news/explore...

we were probably all up last night staring at the ceiling with our own version of the same thought running on endless loop, but mine looked something like this: I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil

#Caturday Cassian in a come hither mood

Loved my MIT Poli-Sci course…

It’s a true pleasure to observe faculty teaching in my current role. Love seeing veteran part-time instructors guiding students to critical thinking, letting them be the experts in the room, facilitating discussion and discovery. Just an amazing day today

a real genius walks among us

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

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Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

‘Ukraine From Within’ is a week-long exhibition at the Social Science Library to mark the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February. The art books on display celebrate Ukraine’s creativity, diversity, & determination. Find out more at tinyurl.com/mr3hbmcf @bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Boosting for help!

#hatm any advice on undertaking the writing process for a book. Looking for a mentor

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

Oh I-4, if you’d just gone to therapy maybe this wouldn’t have happened

What a fantastic, vulnerable, important piece by @liznorell.bsky.social. I cant recommend this enough. For autistic folks, sure, but also for anyone who works with human beings. open.substack.com/pub/engagedl...

To the extent that idealized, more democratic and inclusive "America" has been a reality, it is because of the people in the past who organized and acted and wrote and worked to make it a reality. Such people were no less "American" than the white supremacists they battled against.