students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

Hot take: I actually think faculty have amazing ideas for saving higher ed and the specificity of local knowledge to save their individual institutions. But they are not ultimately the decision makers, even with “shared governance”

Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.

I teach an entire ten week graduate seminar on how money is political and they just ... minted it out.

Dear everyone, As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included. A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.

This is from 1975.

Honestly I need historians to be the plaintiffs in every case I cover because if they make it to discovery you just KNOW those primary sources are going public. Exhibit A: The American Historical Association uploading video depos of the DOGE bros to YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkCz...

absolutely dying to investigate this piano purchase

You couldn't make this up if you tried. These dudes.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Self portrait with madrigal, c. 1578. by Marietta Robusti c. 1550-1590 (The Uffizi) #InternationalWomensDay

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

BBC Verify has analysed verified videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to a hospital, sporting centres, a UNESCO world heritage site and two schools since US and Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, as the number of civilian casualties grows. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

Tehran tonight. Via Vahid.

This case is horrifying. The man had deferred action, was on a full path to a green card, is a college grad magna cum laude, and ICE arrested him randomly while looking for someone else: “What do we do?” said one ICE officer, to which another replied “We’re going to take him with us anyway.”

Universities pay copyright fees. Libraries pay copyright fees. Theaters pay to perform copyrighted work. Artists and authors pay licence fees to quote others in their own work, usually out of pocket.

idk guys some people brag about the number of footnotes but my index of manuscripts is 5 pages long, typeset.

"It's really telling how much more a nonsense MAGA fantasy about Greenland spooked elites in the West than the actual wielding of U.S. hard power in ways that are unprovoked, probably illegal and rule-breaking" -- @ishaantharoor.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mcop...

I am not not guilty of this but can we please

Can't believe I still need to submit my tax return to this government.

Here's what the change means in practice: BC will share a time zone with the Yukon year round November to March, BC will be on the same time zone as Alberta March to November, BC will be on the same time zone as Washington state, Oregon and California

Johns Hopkins is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a hiring and raise freeze. Oh, and some fancy new buildings. New at PB: François Furstenberg on who’s really fiduciarily (ir)responsible at universities.

wE caN't afFoRd MeDiCARe fOr aLL

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

so many of the very first photos my parents took of me are taken in Iran. I was born in India, but lived in Iran, before during and after the Revolution. My father worked in a remote rural hospital for 8 years. These are real people, not the bogeymen of silly Hollywood films. Its always real people.

My heart is with the innocent people who are being terrorized, killed, maimed, because of two monstrous men and the hate that keeps them in power.

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Today I learned that tempura originated from Portuguese missionaries in 16th century Japan, who brought their tradition of breading and frying foods with them. The name apparently comes from the Latin phrase “ad tempora cuaresma” (in the time of Lent) because it was popular Lenten food.

but who will post "BBC SACKS CLASSICAL MUSIC'S LEADING GOSSIP-MONGER" if not, well, you know...

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

but who will post "BBC SACKS CLASSICAL MUSIC'S LEADING GOSSIP-MONGER" if not, well, you know...

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

why are any of you watching the State of the Union when you could be walking into a screening of Nirvanna: The Band The Show The Movie right now like I am

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

I don't waste my time listening to men who grope women.

There really are only two hockey players worth caring about and you know *exactly* who I mean.

As Kash Patel actively covers up the murders of Minnesotans, the Minnesota Wild GM invites him into the USA locker room. Awful look.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

Chicago’s Newberry Library gets $4 million to help tribal nations revitalize Indigenous languages www.wbez.org/museums/2026...

this just in from new york city: we’re hearing that mayor mamdani just signed an executive order making it illegal to NOT stand at your window and fold your arms and say “wow, it’s really coming down out there”

“Going to drown my feelings in maple syrup." Canadians online are mourning Canada’s 2-1 loss to the United States in overtime in Sunday’s men’s ice hockey gold medal game at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics. #CANvsUSA #MilanoCortina2026 nowtoronto.com/news/canada-...

They've created a tech environment that's just so hostile to elders, y'all..

Something is awry in higher education. Indiana University agrees to pay the football coach more than $100 million, shortly after cutting hundreds of academic programs. www.espn.com/college-foot...