the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow.

Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)?

Terrific list of resources for NLP teaching here!

Existential question! Folks who have taught an intro to NLP course in this, the year 2026. What did you teach, and how?!?

"Running a similar classifier task on Appiah’s own academic CV helps show the absurdity... When I asked an LLM to classify the published titles and book descriptions in Appiah’s CV... I found that Appiah would seem to be part of the trend he wants to critique" www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...

This is crucial and often unmentioned. Almost every single diagnosis of declining faith in universities fails to mention that it is runs in parallel to declining faith in almost all American institutions. Any failure to recognize this means it is really flawed or not a serious effort.

As with so many things, it is critical to realize this is not bumbling or ineptitude or not thinking through policy implications. On the contrary: making it impossible for foreign students to do the doctorate here is THE WHOLE POINT. It’s about starving higher ed under the guise of America first.

We join with faculty in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas to note with dismay that central tenets of the AAUP have disappeared from the Principles of Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges and Universities (formerly SACSCOC). 🧵 1/8 sacscoc.org/principles-r...

Best read of the day!

Text as Data is happening at Berkeley right before COLM. Please share!

Surprise, surprise!

This will be a great conference!

I thought of a less troublesome way to do this: here's a quick form to fill out if you'd like a postcard featuring the cover of Seeing Like a Supply Chain! (And don't worry if you've already responded via email or DM; I've got you covered!) docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Holy COW. Text analysis of comments on the OMB rule: overwhelming opposition, overwhelmingly not form letters. (But 9 in 10 comments supporting the rule ARE form responses, LOL) Whatever happens next, folks have stepped up.

Do it do it do it!

Scholarly folks who have ever received federal funding: today is the deadline for public comment on proposed revisions that will decimate our national research capacity and replace expertise with political whim. Please consider throwing in your 2¢. See below for some useful links and encouragement.

Just a quick note of thanks to Cody Kommers and @mmvty.bsky.social for organizing this workshop at #ICML2026. It affirmed my sense that there are shared problems in this space and fabulous people (esp ECRs) taking them on from a range of disciplinary perspectives, around the world.

I'll accept this as a transformative use of the day

Excited to share that we are now inviting proposals for our upcoming Critical AI Studies? conference at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social on Oct. 9&10, 2026. Please see the full CfP here: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Submissions are due July 31, 2026. For questions DM me or @owenleonard.bsky.social.

The MIT Data + Feminism Lab is hiring a one year postdoc! We are working with Andrea Parker (GA Tech) and Brooke Foucault-Welles (Northeastern) on a project related to youth as co-designers of civic technologies to support neighborhood community wellness. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

If you like this sort of storytelling with data (some beautiful examples here!) please consider applying for the PhD fellowship in narrative data visualisation we're hiring for! Job ad here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... and examples of narrative datavis here pudding.cool/process/how-...

It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/

Excited to see that my @slate.com article on Franklin's reprinting of a (very accurate! and explicit! for the time) herbal home abortion recipe appears in @byreginamahone.bsky.social 's article in @thenation.com. Her co-authored book Liberating Abortion is absolutely essential reading

English ofc!

ACH is the antidote to both the breathless AI adoption and breathless AI rejection. I feel so inspired and excited by the ways people are experimenting with open source and small and medium models. No vendor pitches; just humanists and librarians actually figuring this out, curious and skeptical.

Anecdote is not evidence, until it is!

Last day last day!

Russell Vought is an evil man. This plan is nothing short of a personal take-over of federal grant making. It will affect ALL of us. Political commissars will now be in charge of all agencies, reporting to him. But we are not powerless. See what you can do below. 1/ www.thenation.com/article/poli...

So thrilled to hear that Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society, will be back in PRINT @datavizsociety.bsky.social #dataviz Online is awesome, but I love to see how they do it on paper nightingaledvs.com

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: JCA seeks a Managing Editor to support day-to-day operations of our peer-reviewed, open-access journal at the forefront of computational and data-driven approaches to humanistic inquiry. More info on requirements and how to apply: cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Love to see this work on Wildchat, one of the most bonkers datasets of our time

I didn't know Data by Design is available for pre-orders, but look at the book plates!

Extra bonus! Preorder from B&N before Friday and get 25% off AND a bookplate (which you will be able to stick in the front of the book once it arrives) www.barnesandnoble.com/w/data-by-de...

These are best-in-kind guidelines—no surprise, given who wrote them. Thanks to @lukewaltzer.bsky.social @maurasmale.bsky.social and @mkgold.bsky.social for their intellectual leadership and addressing the challenges posed by genAI with characteristic criticality, nuance, and care.

Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...

Having ridden the Cyclone, I am here to say that this is astounding

five-alarm fire in a year of nonstop five-alarm fires.

Pulling out the heavy hitters for this ICML talk in two weeks!

Please share! Please apply! @culturalanalytics.bsky.social cdh.princeton.edu/opportunitie...

Is this the motivation I needed to finally get my preorder in? Yep.

Riso-printed! Hand-signed! An actual physical thing you can get in the mail! We're sending these bookplates to everyone who preorders DATA BY DESIGN. Drop your address here and we'll send one to you: forms.gle/tK4Dyx1DFvte...

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Admittedly, I only held this CR because there are so few women invited to Dagstuhl, who are also on Strava, who are also fast runners, but it still makes me sad

As one does

"How Disability Shaped American Citizenship" Mother Jones interviews @sarialtschuler.bsky.social on her new book! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Work with me! Late-breaking opening in the English Department at Davidson College. We're hiring a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor of post-1800 Brit Lit.

New favorite (anti) AI book is @carissaveliz.bsky.social's PROPHECY. Two thirds of the way through and the philosophical zingers just do not stop! AGI to underground bunkers to Hannah Arendt on destruction is *chefs kiss* www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/759692...

Hive mind! What are your favorite papers (technical or humanistic) about how models "reason"?

"The real AI problem is the miscalibration of collective communication at large, and it is a political problem that debates about AI rarely even touch on."

I had an idea for *years* to do a home makeover show but for digital projects. Start with an awkward interview, light banter, and foolish notions, then we bring in the project managers, data curators, ux designers, and technical writers. Then poof! All done in 25 minutes.