I’m old enough to remember when kids were all supposed to learn Russian and Chinese and also go to law school for all those highly-paid lawyering jobs. There’s always some fad coming from outside information that’s ten years too late.

armchair philosophers already were

There should be a captcha that requires you to identify the instruments in representations of the Middle Ages before you’re allowed to tweet about them

academics should also be sharing these things and not accommodating bad faith narratives.

I have been outside of my house for less than 20 minutes and a man has already tried negging me for my outfit. A trench coat is timeless style, not a timeless invitation, thank you for coming to my TED Talk

It is genuinely surreal to watch both the U.S. and Britain decide to destroy their own world-renowned and extremely profitable university systems at the same time.

Same with public universities, btw.

That sound you just heard was Gen X and elder Millennials breathing a collective sigh of relief

THEY DID IT

In case you're doubtful, there are quite a few entries at this level or below on the 2025-6 list.

grok is not a substitute for wycliffe send tweet log off

If you're a parent going on the College Trip, be sure to ask an administrator how many classes your future freshman will be taking with professors who have no health insurance and make roughly as much as the DoorDash driver delivering pizza to the dorms!

"The minimalism is good" *screaming in musicologist*

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

This whole thread is great but I really want to foreground this piece of the puzzle as it seems tailor-made to promote criticism of professors from the right AND the left. There's really no other reason I can think of for the self-proclaimed anti-DEIA government to suddenly promote accessibility.

In 1949, Hayek wondered if copyright law might threaten the stability of capitalism by allowing intellectuals to make a living by writing and selling books critical of it.

I wrote a piece on what I found most fascinating about the Pentagon-Vatican rumors, and that's how it illuminates the problem of Catholic integralism in the far right. Give it a read @religiondispatches.org ! religiondispatches.org/2026/04/10/w...

An economist unfamiliar with the sociological concept of the glass elevator? Groundbreaking

The closest I’ve ever been to experiencing academic freedom was in graduate school.

any chance the person who wrote that insane (complimentary) twitter thread about the confused architecture of the Cheesecake Factory on here? if so I require their input

First Plato—now Dr. Peterson—out the door at Texas A&M! Who’s next? Here is Dr. Peterson’s letter of resignation, which he just shared with the faculty.

I had better not hear the word “sabbatical” used as a synonym for “ill-advised motorcycle vacation” or “federally protected mental health leave” on tonight’s episode of Sad Public Hospital

Some good news in academialand

wait wait I have an unbeatable one BRITISH FOOD IS REALLY GOOD, ACTUALLY

im in ur cave castin ur shadowz

Lysistrata (2026)

My question is how often do we have to go through this, you know? MOOCs were supposed to do this. Pre recorded online classes were supposed to do this. We don’t need to learn that most students don’t teach themselves well, no matter the resources, again

every day there is some new "we're banning trans women from this gendered sport or competition due to we are evil transphobes" news, and then you look, and it's fucking chess or darts or some shit. like it's bullshit in all circumstances, but especially so when it's fucking DARTS

I did my share of protesting back in my own college days. But if I was an undergrad 2026, you wouldn't catch me organizing something as benign as a campus Take Back the Night walk. The risks are simply too high.

I’m sorry, but glazing Sam Altman of all people as the living embodiment of “pure cinema”because you personally can’t decide if he’s a villain or a hero is crazy work

Also colleges restructured the way they function in response to the last waves of protests. My niece’s college did all they could to ensure no large groups could gather on campus for any purpose. Meetings / gatherings for organizing shut down. Kids punished academically.

Polymarket, or as it's known in literary circles, FAUSTUS.

JAVERT’s proprietary database brings you peace of mind in hiring! Are your job candidates who they say they are? JAVERT is on the case. no second careers for those with even a hint of a criminal record even if they’d be great mayors, do parkour, and have invented a proprietary bead technology.

What if all the new tech companies were named after characters in Howards End

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Late Roman Iron Age pre-Claudian elite culture in Britain be like:

I feel like sharing my favorite writing trick with people. When I've finished up for the day, I leave the doc open or the paper out on my desk, having stopped in the middle of a paragraph, w some directions to myself in brackets. That way when I get back to it, I have my task laid out for me.

if you ever need to distract me, this is how

I'm starting to think the self-appointed defenders of European heritage were not actually paying attention in history class

In 1989, conservatives lost their minds over Cher performing in a thong and straddling a cannon on the USS Missouri, an Iowa-class battleship where the Japanese Instrument of Surrender was signed in 1945. I'm just saying, there's some wiggle room here. Literally.

I encourage people to look at what happened to the profession as a whole through the process of adjunctification, a mechanism which degraded the quality and security of ALL faculty jobs, even those who are tenure track and see how AI automation is the same mechanism, only potentially faster.

The publicly-funded Tommy Thompson center at UW-Madison is paying propagandist Rufo a similarly exorbitant fee for a speech this spring.

Intellectual freedom is when conservatives can say what they want (and get paid for it) and you can say what they want (or lose your job)

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

I also have to tell folks that to scrape out a living, an adjunct might have to teach several courses, hopefully get close to 30K, work a ton of hours. And that school might not tell you till last second so hard to plan. and might be on top of research or other work to land some other job

Every one of these propaganda centers struggles in the so-called marketplace of ideas. No surprise. They're drafting off the status of people they hate, subsidizing substandard intellectuals, and making slush funds for potato-faced jetski dealer legislators. Every normal person smells a fake.

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

If you hated this post, here's what you can do: - Find out what your local public university pays part-time professors per course. Public = state-funded = salary scales are public record. - Call your state legislature and yell at them about it. - Mute me because I will never ever shut up about this

This is appalling. It's crucial that people understand that $3900 is the US national average because many, many experienced professors are making much less than that.

Got interviewed for NY Magazine, here's the anecdote that made the cut www.curbed.com/article/dogs...