PRE-ORDER. THIS. BOOK. NOW. so so so so excited for it!

Does anyone have NLR access who could send me a copy of the Loic Waquant "Against Abolitionism" piece from the newest issue? (Asking because I'm already mad about the piece and I haven't even read it yet LOL.)

This year, FAs successfully defended trans care, HIV research, and community health programs at the UC from feds' illegal attacks. Yet, political interference in higher ed continues, shuttering programs and censoring what we teach. As we celebrate Pride, we must remember that the fight continues.

In case you needed a reminder: union baristas are still asking you to NOT BUY STARBUCKS at ANY location. Delete the app off your phone, and sign our No Contract No Coffee pledge to get updates on local calls to action! nocontractnocoffee.org

Quantifying the explosion of fake AI citations in the research literature--146,932 BS cites in papers from 2025 alone. Depressingly but unsurprisingly, social-science work had the most fake citations. Write-up of these results in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Man I loved being able to use the internet to find things, instead of being presented with a constant generated word slurry that assumes I am simultaneously a baby, 1 second away from killing someone if I don't get my answer right now, and happy when things are wrong

ICYMI: @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social 's review of @anniemcc.bsky.social 's Beneath the Wage ( Zone Books, @princetonupress.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

Amazing news--congrats UPTE!!!

This thread is super interesting on how LLMs work by using familiar structures/patterns/genre conventions to produce something that appears meaningful (b/c it resembles other, actually meaningful text) but in fact is totally empty.

Hey labor comrades, CUCFA is looking to hire a part-time field organizer for the Bay Area region: unionjobs.com/listing/3062.... Feel free to share in yr networks!

More of this please

If your campus subscribes to Canvas at "Canvas Next" tier, check out the option (disabled by default unless campus IT are rash) being rolled out in tomorrow's release: IgniteAI "study tools" let students "summarize" pages & generate flashcards on content! community.instructure.com/en/discussio...

Asking LLMs political questions in languages other than English generates markedly different responses, reflecting pro-government biases in training data dominated by state-controlled media. This is super interesting and important work!

YES WE WON OUR UNION VOTE!!! ✊🏼❤️🙌🏼

AND THAT'S NOT ALL 🤯 Even MORE baristas just won their union elections!! CONGRATULATIONS to Starbucks workers in ✊Austin, TX ✊Inwood, WV ✊Suwanee, GA ✊Pikesville, MD

I'm trying to write something expanding on my misgivings about the idea of emotional/affective labor as a framework for understanding service work. What do folks think are some of the best/most compelling accounts or theories of emotional labor? Doesn't need to be recent or famous. Thx!

We stand in solidarity with AFSCME 3299 as they begin their open-ended strike on May 14. Read on for ways to support our UC sibling union workers!✊ @afscme3299.bsky.social

I am moved beyond words by this beautiful, generous, thoughtful review my my book by the amazing @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social.

This is the University of Central Florida. So many people really have no idea how much kids hate this shit.

What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.

Finally, when students ask why I don't use Canvas, I point them to the article "EdTech" by @anniemcc.bsky.social and Louise McCune in University Keywords (ed. Andy Hines). Today's Canvas outage and resulting disruptions may offer some time to read that article. Attached are some highlights.

Really enjoyed doing this interview about the book with @publicseminar.bsky.social! publicseminar.org/2026/04/inte...

This is an incredible story

A nice little interview about my book... press.princeton.edu/ideas/annie-...

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

AI is profoundly unpopular. A recent NBC News poll found that among 18-34 year-olds, AI's net favorability rating is -44. *Negative 44*. Those are basically serial killer numbers. It's not much better among women 18-49. (Men over 50 and upper class are the only ones who like AI, and just barely.)

This new bullshit of getting 4-5 emails PER DAY trying to scam you with a "marketing" or "outreach" opportunity for your newly published book is so f'ing annoying, especially b/c the emails are just terrible AI summaries based on your own bookcopy which is alienating and also just, like, a bummer.

the left hates AI so much because its offenses cut across the new left / old left, artistic / social critique divides. it alienates human capacities, homogenizes culture, encourages inauthenticity, devastates the environment, promotes centralization, lessens worker power, increases unemployment.

If a DoorDash grandma tshirt doesn’t make you feel nauseous about late stage capitalism idk what will

It’s telling to me that UMass is aggressively enforcing this on faculty re course materials even as it does nothing to address the numerous ableist/unhealthy infrastructure issues on campus dailycollegian.com/2023/03/umas...

For those hereabouts scrambling to remediate course materials in order to meet the end of the month deadline for compliance with new federal ADA Title II standards, here is the endgame as I see it: 🧵

This is SO telling--as I often note to my students, if you ask genAI to assess/evaluate something without directly *asking* for critique, it will ALWAYS fail to be negative/critical.

it's officially out! :)

Coming to @aydelottefound.bsky.social later this month. Vandal Live with @alybatt.bsky.social & @anniemcc.bsky.social. Lots of help from @andyhines.bsky.social Currently reading this pair of new releases, both available from @princetonupress.bsky.social aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...

An excerpt from Ted's amazing book, _American Literature's War on Crime_, is up on lithub!

I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!

I wanted to take a moment to let folks know that Ted Martin's extraordinary book _American Literature's War on Crime_ is out! The book surveys almost 100 novels to explore how the War on Crime was waged on the page & how fiction made the policies & ideologies of crime control legible. It's amazing!

Donated! Prof. Willoughby-Herard followed her duty and put herself on the line to protect students protesting genocide. The UC and the state see her as a threat and want to make an example out of her. She needs our solidarity and help.

The Return of the '90s (edited by me & @seanobrien.bsky.social ) will be out in June & can now be pre-ordered from @plutopress.bsky.social! Featuring work from many wonderful contributors, with an afterword from Annie McClanahan (@anniemcc.bsky.social): www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

Hi all--The amazing scholar and activist Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is still facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against disciplinary action at UCI. Please consider donating and/or share within networks.

Oil prices are going parabolic. This is insane.

So this is gonna be like when we all started following epidemiologists in March 2020, huh.

For reasons @ubiquity75.xyz helps unpack, this interview with UC President Milliken on why the UC refused to join THEIR OWN FACULTY in SUCCESSFULLY suing the Trump admin and preventing UCLA from being forced to pay 1 billion in extortion money is reeeeeeeeally something....

Kirkus Reviews calls Annie @anniemcc.bsky.social's "intelligent and timely" Beneath the Wage "an eye-opening look at today’s service work and the forms of solidarity that have emerged to meet it." Read the full review here:

A useful thread about today's UCLA lawsuit. He suggests that the significant narrowing from the "giant" Title VI case--involving a fine, funding freezes, and a slew of "demands"--to this might reflect an awareness of "the major weaknesses" of the Title VI case...which CUCFA/AAUP are so far winning!

UCLA faculty stopped a $1.2 billion ransom payment to Trump while their bosses hid in the corner

I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

I got to give a talk last week about one of my very favorite topics--prison education! So much gratitude to @ucilifted.bsky.social