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Good luck to all those starting the academic year today. This is going to be a tough year for Higher Ed. I will try to remember why I got into this: to help students realize that art shows us how many different ways humanity has manifest itself across time. The future is not yet written.

I do not know of a single public university president or chancellor who has even _tried_ making this point to the student body and their parents. It is such a pathetic abdication of leadership

I am giong to sound snooty, but if you can outsource your wine list to ChatGPT, you should not be running a place with a wine list.... and other stories from our dystopian present all wrapped up in one little article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Art Historians still live in the wake of Obama's derisive comment from 2014. Study after study shows that the humanities provide skills that are evergreen - the ability to critically assess sources and data far exceed the "skills' of any moment (see prompt engineering). harpers.org/harpers-index

Oh please.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

One year ago today, we had to say goodbye to Zenzero, King of Cats and Loaf of Loafs. Yesterday, we welcomed into our home Slinky. Like his name, he is long and squirmy. Z shall never be replaced, but I look forward to smothering this guy with love (the "cone of shame" will be off soon!)

Very pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art, has been awarded a Millard Meiss Publication subvention. Get it from @yalepress.bsky.social in spring 2026! www.collegeart.org/news/2025/07...

I got the official jersey (no number) in fifth grade. In sixth grade I begged my parents to have the numbers added. Wire it for game 7 in 2016. Rest in peace, Ryno

I got the official jersey (no number) in fifth grade. In sixth grade I begged my parents to have the numbers added. Wire it for game 7 in 2016. Rest in peace, Ryno

This is amazing. And the second post has a link to the actual job advert. This is not a hoax. Any university president ought to be able to write their own speeches. If they cannot, one might fairly argue that they are not qualified to lead an institution of higher ed.

Whole thread worth your attention

Whatever you do, don't use this online form to tell them to resign in shame. Don't do that. Do not do that.

After today, should make it crystal clear for everyone that "all lives matter" was a lie.

poetry can be amazing

This is awful...

This is a really thoughtful piece from @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the threat that AI presents to history and historians alike:

“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is

Focuses on K-12 education in contrast with higher ed. But on point and shows that educators need solidarity across that divide. “Calling time savings an 'AI dividend' reveals everything wrong with how we're thinking about this technology. Dividends go to shareholders, not workers.”

Things are getting very real... Wherever fine books are sold in spring 2026 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

I know this is a fool's errand, but let's just for a moment play the game of "what if a Dem president had said something like this?" "I said it's fine." .... it's fine.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

This is so out of control. If congress ever decides to take its job seriously, there are so many reforms to make to law enforcement.

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ICE is so far out of control...

Trump Mouths Lyrics To ‘Happy Birthday’ While National Anthem Plays

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

wow.

a legitimate question... Once upon a time, oaths mattered.

2/2 Now, some other possible headlines that would fit same space, match just as well with the data in the piece, and convey an entirely different impression. And—my opinion— say more about what the realities actually are. Entire rest of world envies this US model. (Byline for these heds? JMF)

here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

"This is exactly what the architects and enforcers of Project 2025 want us to do: They want us to fight over who deserves the biggest piece of a pie that is so diminished and distorted it doesn’t even look like a pie anymore."

Echoing my co-author @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social. I am excited to see our piece from the ICMA being read outside of pre-modern art history. Check out on p. 25 of this PDF, if you haven't read it yet. static1.squarespace.com/static/55577...

Before any of you share this article, please take a moment and refresh your understanding of digital technologies often fundamentally misunderstand portraiture. Begin with this piece by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...

If you are anywhere even close to Oxford, OH, you need run (not walk) to hear this. Cincinnati is a 52 minute drive. Indianapolis: 1hr48min. Dayton: 1hr3min. You won't regret it. Saving the humanities begins with smart people like @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social

...and that's assuming that "efficiency" is always a good thing. Which it's not. Especially for teaching and learning. thebrokencopier.substack.com/p/the-senten...

For any of you who liked the piece I co-wrote with @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social on why we're not using AI in the classroom, consider that the "shot." Here is the "chaser."

For those of you who have found me through my piece with @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social, hello! We have written elsewhere at greater length on Art History and AI. dahj.org/article/art-... It might be worth looking at that piece, which predates ChatGPT but is nevertheless pertinent.

Hello Bluesky. I’ve finally decided to make an account, and I shall inaugurate it by sharing a piece of co-authored with he brilliant @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social . Our thoughts on AI in the classroom.