A reminder that this is why we make fun of The Odyssey. The book would not exist if Odysseus was not such a complete chaos goblin who was busy causing problems for himself by arguing with Gods and being a shit navigator. There is no way to make an extremely serious movie out of this material.

Ugh!!!! ASU “is no stranger to testing out new ways of delivering education. This month, the institution began piloting a new artificial-intelligence platform that, for a fee of $5 a month, purports to turn faculty lectures, slide decks, and quizzes into instant, personalized courses.”

People love to tell us how the students think universities should be run but like there's a reason we're the ones doing the teaching and not the students.

I demonstrated two things today: that driving faster increases the risk that someone will die and that, after the pandemic, people started driving like bigger assholes. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

I remember when Sununu's dad took a government plane to go to a stamp collecting convention. It was a big scandal, back in the olden days!

This is ghoulish. Forcing people to work their entire lives just because they’re not rich

"If I said I’d meet someone at a bar at 10 p.m., I just stood there alone sipping my amaretto sour. If they didn’t show up, I didn’t get a text saying: Running late. I just went home and assumed they had moved or died."

In a new book, Thomas Asbridge argues that although medieval and early modern people harboured theories about the plague that strike modern readers as ignorant, the authorities tried their best

Politicians are still caught on record in pursuit of racial gerrymandering today. Even if you completely reject structural racism as a concept the need continues because people are actively racist *today*. Forget “indefinitely into the future” handwringing this is happening now.

This administration is making health scientists a non-sustainable career. #NIH #academicmedicine

NEW: DeSantis unilaterally declares that the 2010 "fair districts amendment" passed by 63% of FL voters is unconstitutional + null and void. Not only has no court ever found it's unconstitutional, SCOTUS cited Florida's anti-gerrymandering measure approvingly in 2018. www.wlrn.org/government-p...

SACS basically gave up full enforcement with FL STOP WOKE Act (such a bad name) and I remain frustrated by that reality

Josh Blackmun’s take on this disrupted speech at UCLA Law is as dumb and dishonest as you would expect. Note, in particular, how he conflates things that actually disrupt the speaker (like yelling and making noise) with things that are just speech he doesn’t like (mean signs). /1

Full 80 week retatrutide obesity data will be revealed in 45 days! I want to highlight a couple things besides weight loss from phase 2 that were shocking at the time and will be MORE shocking in phase 3 data. For my cardiology & lipid nerds this thread is for you! 1/

The Texas Legislature gave university boards of regents absolute authority over curriculum, instruction, tenure, and faculty research. Republican Greg Abbott hand-picked every member of the Texas Tech board of regents. This is the result of giving one politician unilateral control of a university.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

It is becoming clearer to me that books, like dissertations, possess the unfortunate characteristic that you only understand how to write them after they’ve been written

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

So glad free speech on campus is back. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Great to have someone who can do epidemiology in his head without having to collect any annoying data running HHS

There’s about to be lots of doctrinal analysis of the Fifth Circuit’s 10 Commandments case. But the outcome was easily predictable, for reasons that @richschragger.bsky.social and @nelsontebbe.bsky.social laid out in our paper on Reestablishing Religion: lawreview.uchicago.edu/print-archiv....

Just great. Can't wait to see the 10 commandments adorn the walls of every classroom in my kids' schools. Where's my Mahmoud opt-out?

And Dame Averil Cameron (1940-2026), historian of the Byzantine empire bit.ly/4ex8POD #Skystorians

New open-access historical sociolinguistics of Persian from the Achæmenid period onward. www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Good luck with that. HEB is our Dolly Parton.

I’m at my childhood church and the minister is giving a Biblical sermon against AI-images and ChatGPT and how we must do the difficult work of storytelling, interpretation and history ourselves and I am very proud to be have been baptized and raised at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

“Participants include the secretary of state, Marco Rubio; the secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth; and the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy.” Will Hegseth be reading Ezekiel 25:17?

"CAPTCHAs help separate bots from humans. But what if you only want your content to be seen by humans in their 30s with passions for subway tile and posting JLaw reaction GIFs in Slack? For this purpose, we have created the Millennial CAPTCHA."

How many times does this have to happen and how many immigrants terrorized. Same result every fucking time. This country does not run without immigrants.

Very sustainable way to manage diplomacy.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

This sounds great: "Villanova University and the University of Notre Dame will meet in Rome, Italy, in November 2026 for a unique celebration.... student-athletes from both institutions will open the 2026–27 NCAA basketball season with a marquee men's and women's doubleheader on November 1, 2026."

Study in 🐀 however...I think you'd see similar results in humans as well. "Retatrutide transforms dysfunctional white adipose tissue into a metabolically competent organ by simultaneously enhancing lipid oxidation, suppressing inflammation and fibrotic remodeling, and restoring endocrine function"

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old) We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

"God becomes what elite Roman villa owners only dreamed of becoming: the panoptic enslaver" some real banger lines in @chancebonar.bsky.social's book, folks... www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).

🧵America's boldest, most unique educational experiment is ending. Gutted as a @hampshirecollege.bsky.social grad. This is dire for critical thought, intellectual leadership, and left activism in academia and in the US. More than a *school* -- it was a world changing, status quo-upending revolution:

I never thought I’d live to see the day when there’s a full blown meltdown over the lack of teen pregnancies. Good grief. Also? Maybe make it easier to afford raising kids?

They aren’t even attempting to veil it anymore that they want a permanent underclass of indentured servant by having teens get pregnant and loosening child labor laws.

“It’s a real example of what the administration is doing in terms of its mass deportation plan and who it’s targeting,” New today: After 35 years in Ameria, Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now in an ICE detention center.

The question that I get asked most often these days is: Even if the ceasefire in Iran holds, has the war already imposed large irreversible costs on Americans? So I made a video about these issues. The stakes may be much larger than you think: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTuS...

I would love to read some qual research where people ask faculty their ideal uni to work at, while factoring in where they currently work, and where they got their terminal deg. I'm genuinely curious when and which people preference status over, say, living near family. Someone please do this.

Zelensky just out with a long comment after the latest Ramstein meeting. Optimistic and gives thanks to many partners. Not a single mention of the US helping Ukraine. The Ukrainians are not hiding the fact that the US is no longer their friend.

Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

Many things are bad, but you don't have to be. You can be reliable and stable for yourself and the people you care about. Try to eat something, drink a big glass of water, and do one thing at a time, even if it's an email. I know how hard and overwhelming everything feels right now. Max loves you.

More higher ed discourse like this please

"People deserve to buy a home at a price they can afford, a price that will somehow also cover my entire initial investment, three decades' worth of repairs and home improvements, allow me to purchase a new condo, and fund the next two decades of my retirement. It's that simple." buff.ly/eb04d9q

“I’m not saying all this to defend humanity. Humanity sucks. It’s totally terrible. I’m saying this because I believe in an old-fashioned virtue called Doing the Freakin’ Work.” - @colsonwhitehead.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Are you in a red state w a Republican governor? Or republican supermajorities? That’ll do it