Do you ever re-read something in prep for teaching and just feel like, gosh, this is so great and I hope it resonates with the students like it has stayed with me? Alison Kafer’s intro to Feminist, Queer, Crip does that to me every time.

It would have been great if someone in Congress, sometime in the last 150-ish years, had bothered to repeal the fucking Comstock Act. Or listened to all the feminist legal scholars and reproductive rights advocates who said that, yes, indeed, this stupid law being in place would be a problem.

Now on SSRN, the draft I've been teasing forever on here: Law and Petro-Masculinity. I would be so grateful for feedback on this piece from the brilliant law and climate communities on Bluesky! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

"if only we made it easy for randos to code, they'll build their own useful software" is a type of magical thinking very much like "if only we give randos the right facts, they'll change their minds"

FemTech emerged in a space where women’s health has been underfunded and under-researched. These technologies hold real potential, but many also present serious concerns around evidence, regulation, privacy, and equity. 3/8

After 2 years of work, our special issue in @contraceptionjl.bsky.social on "Emergency of FemTech in the SRH Landscape" is out! It includes 14 papers on fertility tracking, contraception, and abortion in the digital age, plus our summary Editorial. A 🧵on what we found; please help us share! 1/8

I'm in Paris for www.iaseai.org/iaseai26, where I'll deliver tomorrow's opening keynote on "Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power"

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

We need to have this discussion: how do we fight the AI onslaught while also keeping learning accessible? I don’t know how we thread that needle in a way that scales.

Happy Monday to “Large portion of Uptown”

My Hot Take for today is that you shouldn’t be allowed to package items in packaging that isn’t compostable or recyclable in your region. Looking at you, Plastics #5. And pill bottles. And yogurt cups.

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

Local group works to improve conditions for Mardi Gras clean-up workers The New Orleans Worker’s Center for Racial Justice is providing extra food and protective equipment after Mardi Gras clean-up workers claim the city fails to offer adequate support.

With pipes dating back more than a century, lead experts point to the New Orleans' corroding lead water lines as a significant public health hazard. https://veritenews.org/2026/02/19/exposed-toxic-tap-lead-in-water/

I’m proud of all the students in my intro class who feel like science & math “isn’t for them”, worked hard anyway, and did well on the 1st exam of the semester. I am mad at all the teachers who make math & science “scary,” convincing people that somehow whole swaths of knowledge aren’t for them.

POST-DOC at Institut Pasteur, Paris (passed on to me by a former PhD student). Anthropology & Ecology of Disease Emergence dep't to study human practices in relation to avian influenza, CCHF, and rabies. Fieldwork: France, Zimbabwe, Cameroon, Ivory Coast. Contact: [email protected]

My department is hiring a Biological Anthropologist, spread the word!!! jobs.radford.edu/jobs/teachin...

When Dorothy Mae Taylor’s ordinance to desegregate Carnival krewes passed, Dr. Francis received so many invitations to join formerly all white krewes he couldn’t possibly join them all. Sympathies to his large extended family.

Alright, #STEM #AcademicSky folks... I have a questions about REUs and REU-like summer programs. Many of us have seen a trend lately that students can get better pay in a traditional summer job than in a research traineeship. This was not the reality 20+ yrs ago when I was their age. So,... (1/x)

The Mississippi Free Press is seeking a full-time Gulf Coast Bureau Reporter. Read more at mfp.ms/jobs. buff.ly/qpHZv5s

We gotta dismantle capitalism yall so I can go day drinking

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

I am constantly forced to confront this at various media gatherings (at one today!) and people still talk about it mythically, hype up edge cases, and when I ask regular AI users how it has dramatically changed their everyday life they say “it’s replaced Google for me,” because it summarizes Google.

This whole thread. On how ICE and DHS are ignoring orders to release ppl, moving them to Texas to get favorable judges, and holding them—including young children—in absolutely inhumane conditions. It’s so clear that neither ICE nor DHS are compatible w the rule of law and must be dismantled.

The GenderSci Lab is excited to share a new paper explaining how variation within males and females can affect the way that the sex ratio of migration events in human history is studied. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

In this work, we use population genetic simulations to show that when sex interacts with geography or other factors, modeling individuals of the same sex as interchangeable can change common genomic signals of historical migration. Check out our explainer blog! www.genderscilab.org/blog/gsl-pap...

Last week's piece by @kwanetaharris.bsky.social was so impactful that we got a reprint request from @msmagazine.com -- our first reprint!! Read Kwaneta on how the state becomes you abuser in prison at the link:

Today for @theflytrapmedia.com I wrote about the (techno)fascist push to grant personhood to anything except people

This is such a fucking fantastic piece and I just want everyone who keeps pushing AI at me to read it. This is why I’m glad to throw my money at independent media like @theflytrapmedia.com, because who else is going to articulate all my discomfort with people asking ChatGPT for grocery lists?

I like how "The West" in this article is just the United States. Even poor European countries like Portugal and Poland have high-speed trains!

Or when you walk through Berlin and see the markers in front of homes where Jewish residents were taken from their homes and sent to the ghettos and the camps. Always sobering and a moment for reflection. Exactly the kind of reflection the U.S. has avoided for too long.

"Ballad Health, which owns Unicoi and 19 other hospitals in Tennessee and Virginia, is the nation’s largest state-sanctioned hospital monopoly and the only option for hospital care for most residents in a 29-county region of Appalachia."

I remember being a kid/teenager(?) at this time and seeing the flip and learning that rules and punishments are wielded in ways that protect power (and whiteness). Surya Bonaly *is* the first and I do not accept the current erasures.

I'll never forget Surya Bonaly's name.

I used to student teach in a kindergarten and a student asked me why people couldn’t get young if they could get old and I said because time only ran in one direction and then he said why

“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”

This is profoundly horrific and should not be allowed to happen. And those of us working in any area of health and human rights should be speaking up!

As someone who has colleagues who are jr faculty teaching anatomy…the institutional pressures to reduce lab hours & rely more on simulations to train med students is real. And we need people who believe in good pedagogy and good training to insist that university systems don’t shortchange students.

'There's no reason to ban us from playing': Analysis debunks notion that transgender women have inherent physical advantages in sports www.livescience.com/health/there...

My favorite part of this article, in addition to the interesting new research on beneficial microbes (of course! of course!), is the picture that makes the gut microvilli look like hot dogs at a rave. www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

I wrote today's BW Daily newsletter about last night's crop of Mad Libs-ian nostalgia bait celebrity Super Bowl ads. I am begging the people who buy this ad time to find anything resembling a new or even just moderately clever idea. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Verite News reporters @tristanbaurick.bsky.social and @halleparker.bsky.social tested for lead in the soil at more than 80 New Orleans parks and found about half had dangerous levels of the toxic metal. veritenews.org/2026/02/05/p...

When they say locked up, they mean locked up. Republicans in Louisiana required critical, life-saving medication to be physically farther out of reach in hospitals. They think women need to suffer and die more.

Louisiana’s justices of the peace oversee evictions, but they aren’t sworn judges and they typically hold hearings in informal venues. One attorney has attended hearings at a kitchen table or at a cell phone shop—it can be “like the Wild West,” she said.

Not to be a nimby, but I feel like federal resources could be spent better than helicoptering above the Mardi Gras parade routes. Like, we coulda paid for some childhood vaccinations or some prenatal care instead of all this polluting low flight fuel.

‘Back in 2013, Bill Gates remarked that it would take a decade to know whether education technology really worked. More than ten years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the answer is increasingly clear. …“Imagine if all that money had gone into teachers instead.”’

This short video is a shareable, accessible resource for both educational settings and social media - we invite you to share it with your networks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmLv...

In this work, we demonstrate how factors related to the history of underinvestment in women's sport such as smaller team sizes and lower ratios of practice to competition time may drive observations of higher numbers of ACL injuries in women athletes.