I hope at some point they bring back the restaurant worker with necrotic fasciitis. We heard what happened to her in surgery (no spoilers!) but her story still feels incomplete to me. #ThePitt

Soothing.

Love the side eye in the local news. Best use of “sought” I’ve seen in a minute.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

I once wrote a multimillion dollar multi institutional grant proposal that involved teaching and had to speak sternly to one of the orgs about their teaching budget being too low. They said they paid more than comparable schools, which was true, but it was still way under a living wage.

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

New lengthy ABC News segment on the MLA-AHA-ACLS lawsuit fighting the terminations at NEH. abcnews.com/video/131551...

Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

This didn’t age well

The villanelle is not a French form.

EIGHT MILLION PEOPLE

The local #NoKings protests are top of the scroll in the Raleigh News and Observer, which is good, and the same “thousands of people” phrase is used. My first thought on seeing it was that “tens of thousands” would probably be more accurate, and that’s just for one single major metro area.

Y'know what, I'm still with it "War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

There were (and still are!) far more people at #NoKings in suburban Cary, NC than I expected. People lining the street on both sides for a solid mile, I’d say.

And formally, according to our law, Depose him

Headed to #NoKings today

Today I’m grateful for 27 years of support from the National Science Foundation, funding my education, research, and service to the world. All my grants are now terminated or non-renewed, as I believe too strongly in the American dream of equal opportunity. Until we meet again, federal funding.

I’m going to wheatpaste this article to telephone poles until everyone reads it

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

New comic! Let's take a look at Henry IV's deathbed advice to his son, Prince Hal, which is in NO WAY relevant to anything going on right now. goodticklebrain.com/home/2026/3/... #shakespeare #henryiv #henryivpart2

Have to recommend Anne McCaffrey here, too, especially Dragonsong and its sequels for any teen who’s even slightly musical

Really looking forward to the agonizing shock of that first end credit screen after #ThePitt tonight

Applications are open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, the signal prize in the field. Due May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Seems like this may come in handy. Learn how to cite depositions posted on YouTube in MLA Style. #themoreyouknow #dogebros style.mla.org/cite-a-depos...

All hail primary sources!

Hey there, PID enthusiasts! If you've been planning to submit a proposal for #PIDfest2026 and could use a little more time, rest easy. The deadline has now been extended to Tuesday, March 24! www.pidfest.org/pidfest-2026... #PIDs #metadata #OpenResearch

Our core systems handle 2 billion API requests a month — and some of that code dates back to 2005. We're redesigning it piece by piece to serve a community that's grown from 318 to 24,000+ members. More about the redesign: https://doi.org/10.64000/8mckt-w8m69

10% reduction in feds across the board, but it was 70% at the National Endowment for the Humanities - and our leaving was not by choice. We didn't make the cut on the "Selected Independent Agencies" chart, but every day we remember what the last year has been like. #NEH

"tell us about your work" is a question too embarrassing for them to answer publicly

“The groups also argued that removing the videos would threaten their First Amendment rights, while depriving the public of important new documentation of DOGE.” 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...

Wow. The injustice to #NEH has gone viral. This makes me feel so seen. After #DOGE Deposition Videos Go Viral, Judge Orders Them Taken Down www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...

It’s Buffy psychotic vampire guy! Love this actor. He was also in Tank Girl. #thepitt

Are you studying #ScholComm, #research dissemination or doing a research project in #DigitalHumanities? #CoalitionPublica, an @erudit.org + @pkp.sfu.ca project, is accepting #scholarship applications until April 19 2026, at 11:59pm PT! Learn more and apply: www.coalition-publi.ca/scholarship-...

Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income? Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero. Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit? Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.

I have watched 6 hours of a DOGE bro deposition. The whole thing, start to finish. It's a fascinating, and horrifying, look at the people who caused so much damage, didn't really achieve anything at all, while still being so sure they are right. Here's what they said: www.404media.co/i-watched-6-...

You can now access individual discovery documents, including emails, grant spreadsheets, and deposition transcripts at www.mla.org/NEH-Discovery.

Tons of source materials here from the American Historical Society from their lawsuit that reveal DOGE's activities against NEH and other agencies. Going to take a while to enter these on DOGE Track www.historians.org/why-history-...

For the Monday crowd — a deep insight into how DOGE tore through federal small agencies like #NEH detailed by the NYTimes based on discovery from the MLA, AHA, & ACLS lawsuit. See second post for a link to all discovery materials

Enraging. Grateful that @modernlanguage.bsky.social, @historians.org, @acls1919.bsky.social and Authors Guild are fighting back.

Stood in line for coffee behind Sam Shepard at the brand-new Barnes & Noble in Charlottesville

Every time I see someone mention AGI I think they’re talking about UBI at first.

I saw Mychal the Librarian on a live panel with @tressiemcphd.bsky.social at @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social’s Biscuits and Banjos a few months ago! How awesome!

Last night I watched the 1945 Picture of Dorian Gray with Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford and this fabulous painting by Ivan Albright, which resides today in the Art Institute of Chicago. Fabulous movie visually: it won an Oscar for cinematography. www.artic.edu/artworks/937...

I miss Pocket. I keep reading things and wanting to save them. Should probably just set up some new browser bookmarks folder, sigh.

Just like 🧠🪱 at HHS, Musk makes a claim, orders his flunkies to find evidence for it, and refuses any contradictions. “Bobba said he knew these people weren’t actually receiving benefits and tried to tell Musk so, to no avail, according to SSA officials.” www.propublica.org/article/insi...

I threw out a bottle of organic ketchup from my fridge door that expired in 2022, so yeah, I’m living my best life

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Hear me out, guys: what about a class action suit against the current U.S. president with 342 million or so people in the class. Let’s get our taxes back

Woohoo, an article of mine is cited in a recent article in JSTOR Daily! daily.jstor.org/10-villanell... cc @jstordaily.bsky.social

This is cool -- I think that #metadata creation is one of the best uses of #LLMs