Jacob Chansley, better known as the QAnon shaman is suing a host of entities — including the federal government and President Donald Trump — for $40 trillion. In the process, the Phoenix resident is claiming that he is the rightful leader of the United States. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/phoenix...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Livestream from the Flotilla has 18K people watching right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

It is Book Launch day for @amaramarasingam.bsky.social and My edited volume "Contemporary Far-Right Culture The Art, Music, and Everyday Practices of Violent Extremism" www.routledge.com/Contemporary...

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

Putin has signed a law pulling Russia out of the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture (Russia joined in 1996). International monitors, who last saw Russian prisons in 2021, will now lose all access. Prisoners, including captured Ukrainians, routinely report torture

First submission: July 2023 / Re-submission: yesterday. Yes the paper evolved for sure, but I dont want to see it anymore 🥹

Colombian President Gustavo Petro gave one of the most chilling speeches in recent history before the United Nations, and it has been totally ignored by US news media.

She wrote about the danger of tech bros over 20 years ago

Today we'll talk about the latest crackdown on the opposition by the Erdogan regime in Turkey and the opposition's response.

Turkologentag 2025 was a great event! We came for the science and we stayed for the people 💜 @petradebruijn.bsky.social @melispyp.bsky.social

This is hilarious on so many levels — it’s meta AF. On a fundamental human level, all cooking involves ingredients and steps. The greedy numbnuts were so clueless about the function and labor of preparing meals that they were incapable of training the generative AI. 🤦🏾‍♀️ Junk in = junk out.

techbro cannot make a sandwich because of poor wifi, great start to the semester @candanturkkan.com

God, these pro-Mamdani commercials are getting better and better

Your email found me. It deserved what happened next.

Deadline : ToDAY

I am so sick of all this.

WHAt ArE tHE maJoR tHemEs of ULysSeS

Zeki Müren de bizi görebilecek mi?

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🚨📢 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Computational Political Science at the University of Antwerp! 💻 Focus: NLP + ML + political text analysis 🗳️ Project: ERC DEMO-LIES (disinformation in democracies) 🌍 Location: Antwerp, 🇧🇪 📅 Deadline: 16 Oct 2025 www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

Fatih Altaylı: Gürsel Tekin beş gün önceden kayyım olarak atanacağını biliyordu kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...

Now ready for pre-order @versobooks.bsky.social

Old me, grading papers: This sentence is incomplete, this one has a comma splice, this one could be more clear. New me, grading papers: You wrote your own paper! You have thoughts! You are an excellent student! #academicsky

UC Berkeley Depart of History tenure-track asst prof job in Global History of Technology. History of technological artifacts & infrastructures through a global & transnational lens. All fields, areas, & periods of #HistTech considered For more info: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05065 #HPS 🗃️

The Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University invites applications for a two-year Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the area of “Science, Technology, and Governance.” #HPS #STS #PhilJobs academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

back to campus #newsemester

been english teachering today too much to understand if we're mad or glad about the english teacher announcement. cultural analysis send skeet?

Out of the blue, Trump called the Norwegian finance minister to ask when he would get the Nobel prize suggesting he would impose tariffs if he did not www.dn.no/politikk/fre...

Mary Isbell's book Searching for Wonder: Teaching Literature with Student-Selected Texts is free and available for digital download now! unewhaven.pressbooks.pub/searchingfor...

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

We lost another inspiring scholar, RIP Messick. I’m grateful for your The Calligraphic State which made me (over)think several issues taken-for-granted about Muslim cultures 🙏

proofs 😭 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

🚨 BIAA-led Workshops on Researching, Writing, and Publishing on Gender, Culture, and Society 🚨 ➡ Call for Participants OPEN until September 13, 2025! ➖ Meet Associate Prof Selin Akyüz (TED Üniversitesi), another brilliant tutor joining the workshops. ➖ 📬 How to apply: biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...

Dr Peter Cherry has three questions for you: 1️⃣ Does your research engage with #gender? 2️⃣ Are you a final-year PhD student at a university in Türkiye? 3️⃣ Did you finish your PhD within the last five years at a university in Türkiye? ➖ Appply at biaa.ac.uk/call-for-par...

The first volume of my anthology of early modern texts about slavery should come out later this year (paperback, hardcover, and e-book)! The cover image is by the amazing NYC artist Ivan Forde. Here's the table of contents: global.oup.com/academic/pro... #philsky #academicsky #slavery

I’m reading the comments to cool down. Fuck you Mr. Yale Professor

Postdoctoral Fellowship – University of Tokyo, Japan Fully funded #interdisciplinary #research under “The Earth and Human Society in 2050” Eligibility: PhD Deadline: 30 September 2025 Details: higherjobz.com/postdoctoral... #PostdocJobs #AsiaJobs #EarlyCareer #AcademicJobs #GlobalResearch

“It’s…well it’s *Dr* Chat GPT-5, actually”

#Istanbul #Monday

#OtD 9 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing tens of thousands of civilians. General Dwight D. Eisenhower said it "was completely unnecessary… as a measure to save American lives." More info here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1087...

“Patriarchy is so nasty. Always acting like their dicks are gods.” “Love who you love. Speak your truth. Be good and roll with life. You can’t have or control everything or everyone.” “The best thing about being human is that we die.”- Death Of The Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Yesterday, Turkish Council of Europe youth delegate Enes Hocaoğulları was imprisoned in Ankara after denouncing, last March, the torture of peaceful protesters. This outrage exposes once more Erdogan’s systematic assault on democracy.

What I would like to remind everyone talking about Sam Altman talking about the “PhD level intelligence” of the new ChatGPT is that Sam Altman dropped out of college so he… has no experiential construct for what grad school even is.

My eyes! My eyes!

This is exactly my type of girl math!