Editor @kwissoker.bsky.social joins The Academic Publishing podcast to talk about how the finances of a press work, and how authors should think about the funding of their books, from subventions to list price: academicpublishingpod.alitu.com/episode/500f...

LOL, naturally the NYTimes, engaging in just the most open self-parody, has a big homepage video for Ross Douthat "Mamdani's victory is less significant than you think" so you have to scroll down to see anything else, because they have to be sullen and bitter about it.

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

En France aussi, la peur du grand méchant Mamdani : assumant leur panique islamophobe et leur conservatisme social, les porte-voix d'une gauche prétendument « laïque et républicaine » reprennent tous les clichés d'extrême droite. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Should women be hated as witches or patronized as overgrown children? The paper of record debates the two available options.

from Hackett edition of Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond; or the Secret Witness bsky.app/profile/wome...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Bienvenue à Jean-Pierre Farandou, nouveau ministre du travail 👋 À qui il en reste (du travail) en thérapie.

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

This might very well be the greatest Halloween costume ever.

"David Harvey in Paris: A Tribute for his 90th Birthday" progressivegeographies.com/2025/10/31/d... @davidharvey.org A short piece about Harvey's writings on Paris, posted to coincide with his birthday.

C'est un tournant historique et sinistre : les partisans de l'Algérie française et de l'OAS, jusqu'au-boutistes du colonialisme, obtiennent leur revanche à l'Assemblée nationale avec l'adoption d'un texte du RN dénonçant l’accord franco-algérien de 1968. www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

New in PN: The triumph of bullshit "We’re a long way from 'covfefe' and tumescent hurricanes Sharpied on a weather map. This is an era of lies as policy, where government priorities are based on right-wing conspiracy theories and fear-mongering."

“I am interested in history and Rome constitutes a large part of the history of western civilisation,” Musk said... [AI] would fill knowledge gaps by writing “a new history book based entirely on ancient material and archaeology”. Translation: Grok slop history with only interpretations he likes

Le Nigérian Wole Soyinka, prix Nobel de littérature en 1986, voit son visa américain annulé

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

CFP, Jameson conference at Duke in Durham, April 10-12, 2026.

A mother of 8 was deported within 24 hours of reporting sexual harassment by an ICE contracto She was following the rules & going through the process to get her green card Someone working on behalf of ICE abused her. She spoke out and was kicked out of the country. It’s retaliation & it’s wrong

defector.com/higher-eds-r...?

L’empire s’empire www.mediapart.fr/journal/cult...

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

bsky.app/profile/alic... "A nation that does not colonize is doomed to socialism." Ernest Renan, accidentally left-wing.

« Une nation qui ne colonise pas est vouée au socialisme. » Ernest Renan, accidentellement de gauche.

Who would have thought that 25 times as many people would be getting their daily news updates from a Boston College history professor (Heather Cox Richardson, who has 2.5 million subscribers) than from the Washington Post.

In Zohran Mamdani’s vision, New Yorkers will be given status and privileges that ought to be based on merit. by A.G. Sulzberger

Lecornu lâche sur les retraites pour éviter la sienne Par @paulinegraulle.bsky.social et @ilyesramdani.bsky.social‬

On the centenary of Thatcher's birth, there have been predictable calls for a memorial to her memory. But Britain's 2300 food banks serve that purpose already.

🇫🇷 Lors de sa déclaration de politique générale à l'Assemblée nationale, Sébastien Lecornu a proposé de suspendre la réforme des retraites de 2023 "jusqu'à la présidentielle" de 2027.

En Belgique, une manifestation massive à Bruxelles contre les coupes budgétaires du nouveau gouvernement fédéral

Today is Tridi the 23rd of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate turnips.#JacobinDay More information on turnips

Courtesy of colleagues at Penn

📆Hé mais vendredi 17 c'est la rentrée du SLAC ! 14h, 29 rue d'Ulm Ce sera sur la notion de littérature mondiale, feat. Pascale Casanova et Gisèle Sapiro.🌍 Avec Marianne Hillion et @vincent-berthelier.bsky.social www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Pour Halloween, ils ont sorti le fantôme de Blanquer à l’Éducation nationale

Nous sortons de cette réunion sidérées. Nous n'avons aucune réponse, aucun engagement sur rien. Mais nous savons une chose : le prochain Premier ministre fera partie du "socle commun" déjà testé et désapprouvé 3 fois. Je suis très inquiète ce soir : tout ça va mal se terminer.

« Hegel fait quelque part cette remarque que tous les grands événements et personnages historiques se répètent pour ainsi dire deux fois. Il a oublié d’ajouter : la première fois comme tragédie, la seconde fois comme farce. » (Karl Marx, à propos de la France) www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

Je suis abasourdie par la reconduction de Sébastien Lecornu. Je suis triste et en colère pour la France ce soir, et je m’excuse auprès des Français·es de l’image que cela donne. Mais je me réveillerai déterminée à me battre demain matin. Je vous en fais la promesse.

Enfermé dans son cockpit élyséen, le pilote envoie la France dans le mur. Démonstration est faite aux plus incrédules que ces institutions sont dangereuses : aux mains d’un irresponsable, fou de lui-même, elles plongent la politique dans un abîme. www.mediapart.fr/journal/poli...

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

Do I actually think MIT is a paradise where merit alone is rewarded? No. But is this a good tack to take in response to an administration that is pretending that “merit” is the reason to oppose “DEI” while making the former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment the Secretary of Education? Yes

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Today is Nonidi the 19th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate sunflowers.#JacobinDay More information on sunflowers

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

The New Testament was written in a slave empire. It didn’t call for abolishing slavery in the same way that it didn’t call for abolishing Roman imperialism. It’s so funny to me to be like “this is how it is in the Bible” as if the Bible was recommending that everyone live in first-century Rome

Today is Septidi the 17th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate pumpkins.#JacobinDay More information on pumpkins

Le saviez vous ? Le gouvernement Lecornu est tombé avant que les sondes Voyager 1 et 2 ne reçoivent l'information de sa nomination.