Anyone who wants to hear me talk about what I do everyday feel free to listen to the @llassabe.bsky.social and I did. And thanks to her for the opportunity! www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Six months after launching into a new career as an independent writer, I take stock of where this experiment stands. A reflection on the pitfalls of the newsletter economy – and what the future holds for Democracy Americana. I Need Your Support:

We’re saying it was science because Science has ALWAYS been capable of horrendous things and implicated in slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust. Not because we believe that racism, ableism etc are scientifically ‘valid’ or ‘defensible’ Begging you to think beyond memes.

You asked for it.

Book two coming soon!

This is one of the best guides for folks created by @literaturegeek.bsky.social - docs.google.com/document/d/1... - in case you haven't already seen it.

Shout out to @llassabe.bsky.social for reminding me that Southern Miss had a eugenics department until *at least* 1975

Approaching three quarters of K12 educators are women, and yet the EdTech, testing, and "reform" commentariat is...

I am really excited to announce the publication of the report "Academic Freedom and Collective Bargaining," published by @highered-cb.bsky.social and @aaup.org's CDAF! Thanks Bill Herbert, @timcain.bsky.social Erin Ward, Anita Levy and Kathryn Ritchie (& Kate Taylor) www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

i need dramamine after taking this journey

Some of you may remember a day last year when @ceaubin.com and I found each other at the museum. I'm so excited to reveal what came from that meeting! Join us and @mattseybold.bsky.social at @marktwainhouse.bsky.social in May for a live dual podcast recording. marktwainhouse.org/event/he-des...

I discussed my recent column about the myth of Jesse Jackson chanting at Stanford with @llassabe.bsky.social on her American Campus Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

Two of my favorite people in @llassabe.bsky.social & @jreedmo.bsky.social talking Cherokee education and systems of learning podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

You ever write something and there are so many parts you hope people engage with that you can't figure out which ones to quote? I'll do a wee thread on the 3rd, and final, essay from my Red Scares series www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

I recently had a lovely time talking to @llassabe.bsky.social and the American Campus Podcast about Catholicism, radical traditionalists, and Triumph magazine. Listen here: americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

what the fuck are we doing www.wsj.com/business/med...

Presenting Spotify's star, absurdly highly paid podcaster, Joe Rogan. The millions they pay him would, in a just world, be paid instead to the musicians whose work Spotify makes a fortune off, NOT to promote Nazi-style demonization of minorities. Your Spotify subscription supports fascism.

Maybe doing some outreach to foreign press would be a good thing for the new communications guy to do 🤷🏻‍♀️

Are you a PhD student/postdoc/early-career scholar studying immigration? Want to spend time this summer in Mexico City w other immigration scholars? Apply to the UC Davis Global Migration Center summer school! I'll be there w 3 other amazing economists! globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3

Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is a development of 'Construct 46. Arbutus, Kathleen Kersey for Morris & Co. / Malevich drawing', paint and wallpaper on canvas (2006). cdn-app.haymarketbooks.org/books/2785-k...

And you can find our show, You're Saying It Wrong, on all your usual podcast platforms, and stations can find us on PRX! exchange.prx.org/series/46496...

"In a rapidly evolving situation, the best way to assess the specific challenges+ leverage that workers have is to go out to our departments or labs to figure out who is currently working, what their jobs are, obstacles they might face, and what next steps workers could collectively build towards."

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In retrospect, it was probably futile, but I do at least hope some people who have clicked “history” as one of their likes on Facebook got a thrill by being confronted with an article about a medieval depiction of trans Jesus.

I’ve been trying to use capta consistently, where appropriate, and have been pleased to find, for many, no explanation is needed. It is very intuitive, as disciplinary jargon should be.

Crafting a version of reality in which right-wing college students are being persecuted for their strongly held beliefs not only legitimizes the firing of so-called liberal professors, but makes these actions necessary to save students from systemic harassment at the hands of a powerful institution.

ASTRONAUT 1: Wait, is “the campus left” just a fantasy object the center right can displace their cognitive dissonance on? ASTRONAUT 2 [cocks his gun]: Always has been.

I’m still not done thinking about Chomsky and Epstein. Dibs on his obituary.

I promise to stop reposting SUNY P soon but a) I’m obsessed with this cover art, b) it’s about representing the (ahem) lumpenproletariat, and c) it’s available open access thanks to funding from Emory U, the author’s uni. Heavy on the Greimas and Jameson (complimentary).

[1] When bio-ethics are taught in Univ, the use of a woman’s cancer cells, in 1951 without agreement, is a significant example of unethical behaviour. Henrietta Lack’s cell line has been used for decades. A little justice is served & it’s something I worried about for years. We do…

It’s been two days and he has still not rinsed out the purple shampoo

Does anyone want an academics in the Epstein files episode with @andyhines.bsky.social ONE LIKE and I’ll release it Sunday

Want to know more about the sweeping trend of state mandated taxpayer financed and hyper empowered civics centers, and the political project they embody, as in Ohio? See this excellent @theguardian.com article @osuaaup.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

📣📣📣 @nimishabarton.bsky.social academeblog.org/2026/02/04/t...

Sorry this @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social episode is so late, but we went *deep* on this one! In "Once Upon A Time at Bard College" Moira walks me through one college president's relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, and what it says about sexual violence on campus. www.patreon.com/posts/episod...

They did not fully wash the purple shampoo out of this man’s hair

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.

what even is the fucking point

Getting 1099ed for travel reimbursement is wild though

Spend your morning listening to the brilliant @llassabe.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

This was gonna happen sooner or later, but all of y’all who give me $5 a month made it sooner. Bless you.

An update to this, Eleanor Roosevelt was indeed the First Lady when she accompanied Vassar students to tour a eugenics facility www.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

Imagine this kind of student organizing against Ed Tech / AI. “I lost out on learning! Relationships! Oh and all of my personal data, too!” www.bbc.com/news/article...

Next on the chopping block: the Big Science Cartel (NSF and the rest of the ahem, scientific deep state of child mutilators)

Next in the TBR pile www.versobooks.com/products/306...

My graduate readings this semester, minus Brownell's 24/7 Politics (Princeton has a silly desk copy system that I had a tough time navigating but enroute now). The course is recent US history.

A particularly urgent episode of @llassabe.bsky.social’s reliably good pod, featuring @profferguson.bsky.social.

Sharing the other link to this article so you can see the linkcard www.chronicle.com/article/a-mo...

New OA article just out on "assetizing academic content" led by @jkom.bsky.social with me, @keanbirch.bsky.social & Klaus Beiter, exploring how academic materials are turned into value-generating digital assets by HE institutions, edtech platforms, and AI companies link.springer.com/article/10.1...