Felt a moment keenly on my commute home this evening that I would implode if I did not find and listen to a Jeff Tweedy cover of "Oklahoma USA" immediately and I am pleased to report that this does exist

A little less than five hours remaining for West and Amanda to rescind it all and April Fools us

The Moon is none of our business btw

Hard launch Ciara and Jon Hamm

Because you are all talking about Scandoval again

Remembering the time in grad school my non-academic roommate was meeting her old philosophy professor for brunch and she brought me so we could all have "an intellectual conversation" and he and I just bitched about university politics for 2 hours

I kind of think every school should be required to disclose its tuition:instructor wage ratio For each field - some departments have virtually no full time professors who you’d actually normally take a class from

The Testament of Ann Lee is streaming on Hulu now so you have no excuse

Watching the Alabama House livestream discussion of HB580 and Rep. Juandalynn Givan is the best

CAREER MILESTONE: I wrote an academic essay so stupid that a colleague asked to read it and his written feedback was simply "Hahahahahaha"

Every Easter

SOON

STOP HB580 in Alabama:

See you this afternoon, Jacksonville, Alabama!

What does Rainforest Café do with all the pictures they take of every table when no one buys them?

Survived three academic conferences in the month of March, please clap

Attention universities:

I would like to brag that I was asked what I'm majoring in twice this week

The download numbers for this episode have filled me with dread. Hopefully, an indication that we are ready to get organized. In the meantime, remember, print is a rent strike.

just one moment of celebration for getting a major donor to move $3 million dollars this week to rent funds now if only there were more than one generous super-wealthy person and the news hadn’t moved on from this entirely predictable crisis

Has anyone yet written a cultural history of mooning?

Entering my Oingo Boingo era

A cockroach climbed into my ceiling fan and it was so large that it sounded like gears grinding

I've been thinking again about Jamie Kalven's admonition that we not become internal emigres under fascism. I think some people are in fact currently in that mode of survival.

@randallwoodfin.bsky.social Can we bring back this idea?

There needs to be a playlist of songs about flowers/plants. Foxglove by Haley Heynderickx Sawtooth Jericho by Pony Bradshaw etc.

Did you know that Drops of Jupiter is an actual flower? I thought Train was just being whimsical

More reunions in aquariums, please

Just saw a meteorologist post about a cold front coming to Birmingham this week and by this they meant temperatures in the 70s

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Can I come over this weekend and drink your fluoridated water?

"AI cannot hunger or thirst. It can only regurgitate. Seyfried’s performance is mimetic in that it corresponds to a truth, it emits a truth of a life revealed."

I have been tasked with planning a retirement party for a colleague

Royer Perez-Jimenez was 19 years old. He died by suicide at 3am on March 16 at Glades County Detention Center in Florida. He is the 2nd person to die in ICE custody this week, the 13th this year, and the 42nd under Trump. 🧵

Took California less than a day to begin the process of holding people accountable and making efforts to right wrongs. And Chavez was a revered figure! He wasn't some random finance bro pedo from NYC. Funny how the Ivys/prestige universities and the GOP protect Epstein and his buddies at all costs

Sneaking in to call on all Texas higher ed folks!! How is your institution dealing with SB 2615? It seems like at HCC, we are about to become fully on-campus 8-5 M-F workers.

I do not believe that Real Housewives of Miami has lower ratings than The Valley

Remember when the metaverse was sold to higher ed as an essential part of the future of learning (especially online)? And how colleges and universities should go all-in on the metaverse so they could be "pioneers" of this new technology? There's a lesson here for those who choose to learn it.

Leaving the Internet forever after encountering the words "Lisa Rinna's Oscars Dress Was Made From 11 Pounds of Human Hair"

Is the U.S. like 3%?

Shoegaze on the weather radio

Currently upsetting myself by looking at mascots that are just men with abnormally large baseballs for heads

Walked 4.5 miles today in my own city

Shout out to climate change for the three distinct tornado watches this week

My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

The other day we were overlooking the Ohio River and my friend was like "What region of the United States is this?" and we were like "It's weird that Ohio's firmly the Midwest but Kentucky is the South" then finally "Oh yeah, the entire plot of Uncle Tom's Cabin"

See you all in C19 Birmingham

One time I was using voice to text and it rendered "public sphere" "Publix fear"

Learning so much