Including disabled people in our utopian futures pushes back against a eugenicist ideal.

If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at [email protected] or millionbear.44 on Signal.

we are going to win

As funny as the cocaine thing is, it's far more alarming that RFK Jr seems to have been using 12-step meetings as a vector for radicalization

This headline is either a total coincidence or a masterclass in trolling Jim Jordan

The Pride flag at the Stonewall Monument is re-raised! New Yorkers won’t let Donald Trump erase LGBTQ+ history, or trample the rights of our LGBTQ+ neighbors.

Unless you have a disability, there's no need to pearl clutch about bad student handwriting. They can practice in the blue books you're so worried about. Practice is literally what the classroom is for. In conclusion, get in loser, we're bringing back practicing.

Fantasizing about a white American monoculture coming from four separate immigrant groups from four separate nations representing four different languages and four different churches is how I show everyone I am a Very Smart Boy

Normalize telling yourself “I need more verifiable information about this before I weigh in”

Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction should just be required reading for ninth graders now

AI is not inevitable. If we had sane people in government that were not in thrall to billionaire tech CEOs, LLMs could be regulated, forced to obey existing copyright laws, and banned from places where their use is inappropriate, such as college classes. This should be a moderate position.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

I'm an election worker in Ohio. Did you know: - ballots are checked repeatedly by humans and computers - we check ID and do provisional ballots if there is a discrepency - bipartisan party members handle ballots - election sites are graded on our accuracy Election fraud is nearly non-existent.

Wegovy recalled, numerous marinas closed, fishing licenses suspended, due to spreading outbreak of Ahab’s Monomania

This is also the greatest gift college professors in the humanities could receive.

That the Bondi hearing is being chaired by Jim I-Let-A-Doctor-Rape-College-Wrestlers-When-I-Was-Their-Assistant-Coach Jordan is... really fucking painful. "'To say that (Jordan) knew nothing, that nothing ever happened, it’s a flat out lie',” former Ohio State Wrestler Dan Ritchie said."

RE: Ohio State + Rep. Jim Jordan Burn it all down.

Alums, time to organize LOUDLY on behalf of your educators. And alums with any access to donor cash— all the more so.

When AI takes all the academic jobs and the professors who escape the labor camps pivot to podcasts and newsletters some of you are going to be very sorry. This post is for paid subscribers only. Subscribe to continue reading.

Irrationally annoyed that this article fails to mention "the chair is a melody"

the antidote to cravenness is courage.

dear peace monks, you don’t know me but DO NOT GET ON THAT BUS

This professor appears to have effectively extorted UT-Austin for hundreds of thousands of dollars by filing bad-faith EEOC complaints and lawsuits claiming he was being discriminated against for being gay because he researched pedophilia—thereby undermining his claim that the two are not the same

The potential for upheaval is precisely why economic elites wield AI as a weapon to threaten workers, even as we've seen time and again that AI cannot actually replace what humans do. You can take these dynamics seriously without buying into the framing of the people doing the threatening.

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

It’s not often that I am left speechless I am speechless

Sounds familiar

This is a program of re-segregation and supposedly “objective” reporting should state that clearly.

I used to focus on what classical music the #olympics figure skaters chose for their programs - but this year they appear to have entered Wagner's Siegfried himself in competition. (I kid, I kid. I know this is Ilia Malinin, the top American man. The visuals, though.)

What proportion of your beautiful Canvas page is actually used by students? For more than downloading files and getting deadline reminders?

My huge aha moment a last year was that I was spending TONS of time on the LMS all to support ... students who weren't coming to class in the first place. I stopped spending the time on Blackboard and started spending it on writing new lectures and giving more feedback instead.

These are the same weirdos who think women who don't change their surnames when they get married should be stoned

And let me add: I never encountered an LMS until I started teaching after grad school. Coincidentally, I never anticipated how much of my job would be providing tech support to students for the various apps and tools that I'm now required to use

That famously rapid thing that happened super quickly, the fall of Rome

this week's Last Week Tonight is gonna be lit

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30. The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

Personally I would choose Bangor over literally any American university in a heartbeat, especially if it meant I finally got to learn Welsh properly

Woman who's emigrated to Dubai for the schools and the sun wants to defund a Welsh university.

This reminds me of how two separate supervisors at temporary jobs at two entirely different universities told me they were hesitant about offering me a permanent contract because they were worried I would leave for a tenure-track position somewhere else. I'm really not sure what planet they were on

"I wish I could offer stable employment, I really do—you know I do! But the kids these days just hate it, you know? I heard they call it 'precariting' on Tiktok. That’s what I heard. Anyhow my hands are tied!!!"

R1: No we're not hiring on the tenure track because our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track R1: Our peers aren't hiring on the tenure track because we aren't hiring on the tenure track R1: wtf our grad students aren't getting hired on the tenure track R1: No one could know how this happened

will probably delete this because it's embarrassing, but I can't express how profoundly stressful and disturbing it is to be surveilled by your students, especially if you've ever been stalked. knowing your employer will do nothing to help or protect you from harassment is just beyond the pale.

Here, my colleague Petra Rivera-Rideau and Vanessa Diaz, co-authors of P FKN R, directly address all of the pop music pundits who thought Benitobowl wasn't political. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

The base registration fee for the Leeds International Medieval Congress is now up to 347 GBP (= 475 USD or 399 EUR). That just gets you in, & doesn't include meals or anything else. I only attended last year because I was lucky to get into a Leverhulme-sponsored panel. This is unsustainable.

If you're ever tempted by the idea that "the Middle Ages were soooo violent" just remember that no one in William Wallace's (c. 1270–1305) army had to worry about modifying their bagpipes so they could play through TEAR GAS

All the reports showing it either decreases productivity or increases workload or both aside, ethics of incorporating The Great Plagiarist Bot into a university curriculum aside, destroying the planet aside: students do not know enough about anything to even use genAI for its theoretical potential.

I don't want drafts, I just want to be able to report abuse of queer theory

Watching people on this website realize in real time that dismantling universities is a decades-long racist, misogynist project is wild. Welcome, but wild.