Just to mention that the discourse over protest and free speech at British universities has a long history, which is covered in my book ‘No Platform: A History of Anti-Fascism, Universities and the Limits of Free Speech’ (now available for 20% off). www.routledge.com/No-Platform-...

I love it when the other side just comes out and says what all of us know to be true.

Liberal pundits get extremely worked up when the right takes steps towards monarchy, but I remember how yall acted when the queen died Let’s all get on the same page about monarchy = bad

Great news! @llassabe.bsky.social and I signed a contract for our edited volume, Degrees of Liberation: Public History, Campus Activism, and the Fight for Educational Justice. The book shows how campus activism drives change and advances public history work with communities. @sunypress.bsky.social

"The pause [in a faculty diversity initiative] was shared the same day that Hopkins announced its partnership with the American Enterprise Institute to recruit more conservative voices into academia, Makalani remembers. It was also the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr."

If you don’t coddle the men, they will become Nazis

This is one of HNN’s most read pieces in 2025? 🙏

Historians! I'm going to be at AHA, and I'm bringing my recorder. Find me and tell me the most influential writing advice you've ever gotten.

"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

An actual problem

What am I doing on this Saturday night? I’ll tell you what I’m not doing. I’m not writing.

Many universities including @umassamherst.bsky.social now claim that federal cuts mean that the institution has to defund scholarship & teaching. My colleague Kevin Young recently published a report showing that in the UMass case, at least, this is completely wrong: drive.proton.me/urls/VS9FJ3D...

Hey I'm on this week's episode of American Campus podcast @americancampus.bsky.social talking about my latest article “The Straight College Strikes Back: 1990s Backlash Against Inclusive Campuses.” Thanks @llassabe.bsky.social for having me!

The Enrollment Cliff is a Miff

Why the steep decline in community college enrollment in the last 15 years? One piece is driven by misleading aggregate federal statistics, because community colleges that start offering 4-year degrees get reclassified as 4-year institutions. Fixing that shrinks the decline somewhat.

Unread and half finished books staring at me as I use these cyber Monday discount codes

Free book idea if it hasn’t been written yet: Writers and Their Stimulants I’m glad to let you interview me about my own caffeine and sugar habits

an author put their target manuscript completion date and their "worst case scenario" completion date in a proposal and I'm 💀. I love it. YMMV but I'm all for smuggling some personality and realness into your materials.

A huge thanks to @llassabe.bsky.social for inviting me to spend some time talking about AI in higher ed on American Campus!

It’s officially pub day for Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America‘s First Opioid Crisis! Available at a bookshop near you. Thanks to everyone who made it possible to bring this research to life! 🗃️ @uncpress.bsky.social uncpress.org/978146968953...

As the @albomp.bsky.social gov (94 seats!) tries to ram thru industry-serving regressive EPBC laws that'll see further biodiversity, climate & environmental damage, here's the current play on the @kudelka.bsky.social bingo card A1, A2, B5, C1, C2, C3, C5, D1, D2, D3, E1, E2, E3

Went tracking down a primary source and am now an hour deep into a brand new rabbit hole

#AcademicSky If you're not listening to @llassabe.bsky.social 's podcast American Campus, you're missing out. Latest episode is about sexual harassment on campus americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

what’s funny (it’s not funny) is how many indie journalists, who—with next to none of the infrastructure propping up the zz’s of the business—not only report incisively on political power but do so without leaving years of embarrassing receipts about their relationships with subjects and sources

I’m on the campus of Texas A&M right now and people really do say howdy

Sometimes I read faculty essays on the so called demise of thinking, AI, low class attendance, etc and realize some people actually just hate their students Faculty working conditions suck, student learning (and working!) conditions suck. Everyone should be punching up

we live in hell

If anyone is interested in a reading list on the history and political economy of the academy, send me a DM and I’ll share a massive google doc

TODAY ON TGS: we’re joined by the incredible Vanessa Williamson @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social to talk about death, taxes, and Martin Witherspoon Gary - a Confederate general who was willing to cause a lot of the former to avoid the latter. It’s a wild ride.

Today is my birthday and look what came in the mail... my first-ever copies of my new book! Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!

I’m on @llassabe.bsky.social’s wonderful podcast, American Campus, talking about University Keywords and how the book orients us towards shared study. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

One of the far right's current obsessions regarding education is that we need to bring back phonics. The idea is that "woke Marxism" has pushed phonics instruction out of schools because "they" want a pliant citizenry ripened up for Communism. Here's that same, far right argument...**in 1968.**

You guys have developmental editing?

Have you seen this? ($5000 for a book proposal is **insane**)

Does anyone want to talk about publicity firms, developmental editing, and the whole enterprise around academic writing pre and post publication? I was quoted $5,000 by a developmental editor when I reached out about *book proposal* materials. Lmao. Yalls depts pay for this, I assume?

Today in incredibly generous things, my colleagues at SUNY Press decided to highlight me (!!!) for UP Week. Have I mentioned that I have the BEST coworkers in the whole world?? This past yr has been the most difficult of my life & they supported me every step of the way. ❤️ you guys. #TeamUP

Chuck Schumer to the DNC.

Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰

Here it is, my 249th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below in comments, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Instead of going to grad school in the humanities, more people should run for elected office.

What are your favorite book review/book news publications? Especially interested in websites, rather than print.

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Socialism starts with me curled up under a blanket on my couch feeling joy for half a second

To a large extent, @teenvogue.com's Politics section was doing the only dedicated progressive reporting on American higher education. While higher ed issues sometimes receive coverage in places like The Nation & The American Prospect, Teen Vogue treated campuses like a dedicated beat.

wym zombie by the cranberries is an anti-IRA anthem? I think I actually need a minute 😭

Had a great time talking about dogs and all the other animals we forget on university campuses with @llassabe.bsky.social for @americancampus.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social americancampuspodcast.buzzsprout.com/2396665/epis...

NEW: 12 Mississippi polling places have moved and 4 have been closed ahead of the Nov. 4 legislative special elections, an MFP investigation finds. Counties also have incorrect addresses in the state system for 11 polling places, risking sending some voters to the wrong location.