Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)... hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

Wow, huge credit to Katie and the rest of the nutrition team at @centeronbudget.bsky.social. USDA has now issued revised numbers because CBPP caught them either accidentally or intentionally making huge errors that would severely underfund SNAP, in direct violation of court orders.

I’m stating the obvious, but when we get through THIS, we need to systemically, inalterably fireproof our democracy against strongmen and oligarchs.

People are turning out in droves wherever there is an election today. People want to be heard, any way they can, to register their rejection of that man and everything he stands for!!!

Job alert: the University of Illinois Library is hiring a Humanities Librarian to serve as liaison to African-American Studies and English Literatures. I’m sure someone here would be a great fit for this job—& we’ve got a pretty phenomenal community here Please share!

'Study in SHAPE disciplines – social sciences, humanities and the arts – develops the skills that underpin a modern workforce: critical thinking, communication and creativity. These are not peripheral to the industrial strategy but essential to it.' 1/3

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Citing a Trump executive order banning "gender ideology," the VA is withholding coverage and treatment for male veterans with breast cancer, an increasing condition among veterans exposed to toxic chemicals during service. 100 male veterans a year are diagnosed with breast cancer.

Calling all independent humanities scholars, non-faculty researchers, librarians, anyone struggling to find time for research when it's not in your job description! This Saturday, 11 PDT. Links below for calendar/zoom & timezone conversion #medievalsky #bookhistory #dh #humanities

fixed that for you

Not great! #TrumpSlump!

What I just said to a journalist: I am not really equipped to speak to the history of White House renovations without doing some research first, and I know you have a tight deadline. What I can say is that this has more in common with Louis XIV than with any previous US president. (1/4)

Let me be clear. I am glad for the settlement- it will help millions of people trying to make college more affordable. But it’s so richly ironic that the NYPost gives credit to the current President & Sec of Ed who we had to sue..for refusing to do this in the first place nypost.com/2025/10/20/b...

So much hand-wringing about SNAP fraud. Meanwhile the people scamming SNAP recipients have an operation that can scam nearly $23million in 2 days. JUST IN MARYLAND. Stealing info from EBT cards esp at gas stations is a real threat. www.thebanner.com/economy/secr...

Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

We are conducting a survey to assess career satisfaction of individuals who completed formal Digital Humanities training during undergrad/grad school in the United States. The survey takes about 20 minutes. Must be 18. IRB protocol # 2024-347. #DH #digitalhumanities forms.gle/PZxYoGHZFa58...

All of the pilfering, vandalism, and outright death caused by DOGE cuts, and all of the thefts from the future by illegally stopping research grants, didn't save a penny, Trump spent the money and more on corruption and incompetent ICE goons.

You will not be surprised to learn that the Society of Architectural Historians is not happy right now. sah.org/2025/10/16/s...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Just to be super clear, if you’re phoning in your peer review to ai you should quit your job so someone else who actually likes science can have it.

I'd yeet this at the heads of professional academic orgs to which I used to belong, but they wouldn't care & power comes from below anyway, so instead I yeet it, more gently, at junior scholars trying to do decolonial work. Every academic should read it. workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/against-co...

ICE is randomly targeting peaceful protesters because the point is to terrorize the public into accepting martial law. Indiscriminate attacks send the message that there’s nothing you can do to stay safe. The regime wants you to cower at home and cede the streets of your city to their control.

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States. Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Greta Thunberg is held prisoner by Israel at a jail in the Negev. Read what Sweden’s embassy in Israel reports are the conditions of her detention ⬇️ Now just imagine: if Israel treats a world-famous Swedish activist this way, how badly are its prisons abusing Palestinians? 1/

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SEIU Local 73 seeks a Staff Attorney to be based in Chicago, IL. Details can be found at: unionjobs.com/listing.php?... #1u #UnionStrong #UnionsForAll @seiulocal73.bsky.social @seiu.org

Finishing a Ph.D. on slavery in early American or Atlantic history this year? Consider applying for the University of California's President's Postdoc program. I'd love to sponsor at applicant if working with me @ucsantacruz.bsky.social might be a good fit! ppfp.ucop.edu/info/how-to-...

the 'civilian' vessels that the drones buzzing Copenhagen arport came from look a lot like the Russian shadow fleet; what temperature of cold war are we now

New post this week is an annotated set of models for how a DH graduate student might have their digital work intersect with their dissertation. Put together for a session with art history grads at the prospectus stage. walshbr.com/blog/the-man...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

If you are currently abroad and on a valid H-1b visa, starting Sunday you'll be barred from re-entering the U.S. - unless you or your employer pay $100,000 to the U.S. government. This de facto travel ban will cause chaos throughout tech and the entire economy. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Including a requirement that hires and students be reported to the federal government by “color” - not ethnicity, “color” - is really bringing the race science all the way back to the nadir.

I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

I’m sorry but let me unbury this lede: *the genAI industry is literally the financial engine that is powering the fascist regime in the United States* I hadn’t even made this connection and now I’m even more horrified by this tech than I have ever been. Boosterism == fascism, literally

I have some good news: my boss resigned and I got her job. I’m now the (interim) director of sponsored programs at my university. 😅 send me your grants!!!

I am opposed to AI products and services because of the extra power they require... IN A CLIMATE CRISIS. I am opposed to AI results - texts and illustrations - because they've been created unethically, via theft and non-consensual use of the work of others. Share if you agree.

FYI: We are hiring a 3-year research postdoc at @camdighum.bsky.social to study AI and the future of creativity. Application deadline Sep 21; more info below. Please circulate / apply! www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/about/news/r...

I highly recommend Elyse Graham’s Book and Dagger: an account of the important role scholars and artists played in WWII, and also a warning of how ignoring the skills of these fields (and their ethics) is catastrophic

Black Americans made up more than a quarter of the national transplant list, yet they are far less likely to receive the organs they need to survive. They also account for just 13% of donors. Why? Word in Black has a short survey on barriers to donation: https://bit.ly/41C3RJg

Since its launch in 2015, the AHA’s Career Contacts program has arranged hundreds of informational interviews between history students and historians who have built careers beyond the professoriate. Sign up for an interview today!

Does anyone on here know if there has there been any sort of formal/organized response by historians to the AHA's "Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education" statement/document?

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

Someone please kill me right now.