The National Endowment for the Humanities is hiring an IT Cybersecurity Specialist with a starting salary of $121k. Proceed as you will, but in mind that less than a year ago, #NEH terminated the careers of 70% of its employees - over 100 people in total. #humanities #IT #cybersecurity

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

In 1900, German colonial authorities hanged Mangi Molelia for resisting their expansion into what is now Tanzania. A few days ago, his great-grandson Tony Molelia visited German to pray with Mangi Molelia's bones, held in one museum, and to wrap himself in the cloak his murders also stole.

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

please RT! if you've ever contacted a journal or publisher to have your name changed on a publication, a friend and colleague of mine wants to hear about your experience! drexel.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... #phdchat #academicchatter

Friends & colleagues: please allow me in little self-promotion. I'll be in Ghent 25 May-15 June and Leiden 16 June-7 July for research (geopolitics permitting!). If anyone would like me to come talk to their group/class about my 1572 project, I am happy to do so. Just send me a DM. #earlymodern

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

question for @deborahhamer.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @bramvanleuveren.bsky.social @henklooijesteijn.bsky.social @onslies.bsky.social and other Historians of 'Insolence': can we approximate the modern value (sterling/USD) of 16000 guilders c. 1645 ? Dank and dank again! #earlymodern

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

would love to know who this is, nothing on the back

Thank you @quinnanya.me for sharing this moving and inspiring piece on Crafivism in a Crisis. I am so, so grateful to be part of the community described in this story, and so motivated by everyone who does this work. quinndombrowski.com/blog/2026/02...

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

The January job numbers dropped this week: Layoffs announced: 108,435. This is the worst for the month of January since the 2009 Great Recession. New jobs announced: 5,306—the lowest January total ever recorded.

Question for the Restorationists: Does anyone know anything about a particular ‘stocking incident’ that happened c. 1671 that was so indecent that it couldn’t be described in a letter or printed in an 19th century volume of correspondence 👀

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Today, on Fred Korematsu Day, we honor the man whose refusal to comply with the mass removal and confinement of Japanese Americans during World War II became one of the most significant challenges to government authority in U.S. history.

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Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers. The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second. And the Hunter hunters are silent. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Anybody out there have any policy language on personnel assessment of creative activity related to printing/making, esp in the context of a humanities department? My dept (English) is expanding the scope of what counts as research & creative activity, & I want to provide some guidance on this front.

The same Deloitte that the University of Wisconsin paid over $3 million to produce a report claiming that any degree outside of an MBA is worthless? The same Deloitte that just had to pay back the Aussies because their "report" was AI slop? #jfc #highered

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

His name was Geraldo Lunas Campos. If you pay taxes in the US, you paid 4 ICE officers to hold him down while a 5th choked him to death. This murder is more likely to be justified as a natural consequence of being a "criminal alien" than to be prosecuted. We are hurtling quickly down a dark path.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:

‘Terrible things are happening outside… Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return… to find their families gone.’ Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

i personally think we should build a global security architecture where war is considered stupid

2026 is seeing that the U.S. Army is mobilizing a unit specialized for winter conditions, but not knowing if the intended mission is violent repression of an American city or stealing territory from a U.S. treaty ally.

Remembering the Abu Ghraib trophy photos. Abuse like this should be cause for firing and loss of pension when applicable.

Happened to check the website for my book (trying to recall a chapter 😅), and I didn’t know it’s available in paperback and thus much cheaper! www.routledge.com/Trade-Global...

This poll shows that 74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting getting rid of the agency. Any elected Democrat who wants ICE to exist is outside the mainstream of their party and the people they purport to represent.

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

Nearly 15,000 unionized nurses at some of NYC's wealthiest private hospitals will go on strike starting at 6 a.m. today after hospital management refused to agree to a tentative deal to avert a strike

WSJ investigation: In the past 6 months ICE agents have fired at vehicles 13 times, leading to: * 8 people shot * 5 of which were U.S. citizens * 2 died * no victims drew a weapon The playbook: Agents box in a vehicle, block attempts to flee, then fire www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...

Everything is stupid. let’s do some good. On January 17, I will send these hand knit mittens to someone! Maybe you! Donate to any org in next msg or some similar org. Literally just go support some good group, and send me a pic of the receipt. Every $5 is an entry. Boosts welcome!

Funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities continues to be preserved. So why, then, were 116 #NEH staff terminated from their positions nine months ago? 🤔

In retaliation for a solidarity event for Palestinian political prisoners in Israel and a screening of the film “Hind Rajab.” For this they shot students.

Come ON #emilyinparis #inrome - you’ve only tried truffles once? I’m also a midwesterner and we eat them in tons of pubs. Just watched an ep of Futurama all about truffle pigs. It’s not THAT fancy

A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:

A good friend brought me a little 4-shaft table loom, and another good friend is helping me deal with the wood of it while I attempt to restore it to working order (after which I will attempt to learn how to work a 4-shaft loom.

THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

How much does it cost taxpayers when Trump sees heads of state at Mar-a-Lago instead of at the White House or Camp David?

Millions of Americans remain at jobs they hate for one reason: the health insurance they receive. That’s absurd. Universal health care will give Americans the freedom to choose the work they want without worrying about health care coverage. Another reason for Medicare for All.

Trump cares so deeply about Nigerian Christians that last week he banned them from getting any business, tourist, student, or immigrant visas. Merry Christmas!