In February, USA Rugby banned trans women from all levels of one of the world’s most inclusive sports. What happened next was telling. Across the country, teams refused to comply. The story of the Baltimore Ferals, who are pushing back: www.thebanner.com/sports/rugby...

one week left to send this to us. we've already gotten some good entries but truly the more the merrier

Emily Goldman, your work was never in vain.

this looks very fun

it’s so tough having a classic liberal arts education because i have to go see the Odyssey tonight already knowing Robert Pattinson will get John Wick’d by Matt Damon

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

aw, delighted to get a shout out by Sandeep Parmar and Sarah Howe, two of my favorite poets, in their new poetry podcast for the LRB. This episode is on money and includes a great discussion of Lorine Niedecker: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

appreciated the blue sky in Gloucester this morning, appreciated being outdoors without a mask and able to run. feel like these days will be preciouser each year now

once the air quality index goes above 500 you start to see entire bricks floating suspended in the air. it’s pretty cool actually, you can climb on them and stuff

We invite the public to the final talk in our 2026 lecture series! 𝗠𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆 will speak on “𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱” at 5:30 p.m. ET on Wednesday, 𝟮𝟮 𝗝𝘂𝗹𝘆, in the @rareuva.bsky.social Auditorium and via Zoom livestream. Details: tinyurl.com/RBS-Kelly

The first region to close is The West! Congrats and thank you to the Western states! 11 more states remain. Who's next?? givebutter.com/USS2026

had the experience of being inspired by new scholarship today and wanted to mark this feeling bc it's easy for me to forget. constant apocalypse weather and limited academic freedom granted by my employer so far in negotiations w/ our union and AI all demoralizing. thank you unsocialmediaed scholar

Published by @aeon.co , some thoughts on how we know what we (think we) know about the imperial family of Ming China, subject of my last book @reaktionbooks.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/how-l...

Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

🚨🚨Breaking: @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social today dismissed #Google’s appeal against a €4.1 billion #Android antitrust fine for #abuse of #dominantposition, handing the @ec.europa.eu a major victory in one of its longest-running antitrust battles with Big Tech. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/top-...

"The Board of CPJ will formally change its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, to broadly exclude slain Palestinian and Lebanese journalists who worked for government-funded media outlets." From Mohammed El-Kurd (editor-at-large at Mondoweiss.)

as anti-carceral as i am, fucking life sentences for polymarket dipshits who get caught starting intentional fires in drought ridden areas and spark a wildfire

A lot of media coverage of the ‘AI’ reading of the Herculaneum scrolls really fails to understand what’s happened here. There’s no language processing happening, the AI/ML is not trained on a corpus of texts or language. It can detect ink to see shapes. HUMAN EXPERTS are then transcribing the text.

I think about this whenever I see people moaning about the ”Library of Alexandria.” There are lots of surviving ancient texts that almost nobody bothers to read. But we’re cutting classics programs across the US and UK and kneecapping language education. We don’t take care of what we have.

Are you a 15th century king? Do you want to show that you’re down with this humanism stuff that your scholars keep talking about, but you’re also terrified of your own people & the damn French? Ask your architect if Fancy Renaissance Gate Sandwiched Between Existing Medieval Towers is right for you.

I’m so sad to share that yesterday was my last day at Scientific American. It was an honor to work alongside my incredible colleagues and to speak with researchers across the sciences. If you’re looking to hire staff or freelance, please consider me and my other laid off coworkers (🧵)

#HiveMind: I am looking for a place to stay in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) from 6-11 September. I will be giving a talk there about my research, and only have a small (small!) budget—I won't be able to present unless I can find something affordable. Any leads/tips would be much appreciated!

It’s a really sad day at my job. Consider donating, please. Help give my esteemed colleagues some security while they navigate this precarious journalism job market.

Was pretty psyched to find an io moth here! I’ve done *many* moth nights in the pine barrens but rarely see this one!

Crunchyroll, Netflix, et al are enshittifying subtitles in an effort to make a worldwide standard, and the heroes Gkids are out here using yellow subs and left-justified cyan supertitles in the year 2026

hard to argue with getting Quaker. feeling a little more at home in Philly today

I’m saying this as someone who’s in a 90% teaching position. Teaching vs. research is a false choice. Robust public funding of higher ed that existed without controversy until Reagan is the answer. The answer to “solving” whatever “problems” exist in higher ed is literally “throw money at it.”

This Juneteenth, remember that reparations and Land Back are comingled necessities, regarding generational debts owed: stolen people on stolen lands. revealnews.org/podcast/40-a...

for the Renaissance Society of America in Philly next year, consider submitting a paper to a panel I & Sara Berkowitz are organizing on "Gender Unruled: Beyond Essentialism in Material and Visual Culture c 1350-1700." Full desc here: www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... please forward widely! #earlymodern

My poison books look so pretty on the Grolier Club webpage 💚 Read more about them and my book collection in general here: grolierclub.omeka.net/exhibits/sho...

If you didn't see it, @ncph.bsky.social just extended the deadline for the April 2027 meeting in St. Louis by two weeks. The theme is "Holding the Line," & asks us to think about he have, can, & should fight back against history's many attacks. Please share widely! 🗃️ ncph.org/conference/n...

Fieldwork in Anchorage. Yesterday was an easy first day so we went to Thunderbird Falls on the way back from a collection site. This morning I went for a run through my favorite dog park & saw some swans but no moose :(

Hey STS, historians and sociologists of science 🧬🧪🩺… Can you recommend great writing on the evolution of peer review? Not the philosophy thereof (tho that’s welcome) but as actually done + the institutions + culture norms that support it (Am I allowed to ask @jackiantonovich.bsky.social ?)

NEW from debut writer Linni Kral: there are plenty of criticisms of astrology, but the most important is that it's a form of prejudice.🔮 www.currentaffairs.org/news/astrolo...

ICE will no longer publicly report the deaths of immigrants recently released from detention. ICE frames this as "common sense," when in fact, it's an effort to obscure the true number of people who die as a result of being detained—especially now as in-custody deaths surge.

here is the second game, which I got my nyt spelling bee buddy to start playing so we could both quit. favorite mobile game ever. recalls my delight in sorites syllogisms as a kid and spatialized almost in exactly the same way I'd make a sorting-space in my head for the propositions back then

in honor of what may be my last queen bee day ever (I finally unsubscribed from NYT games), I'm posting here the first of two games that enabled me to quit. recalls intellectually formative moment: watching art historian Irene Winter achieve the lowest Minesweeper scores I would ever witness irl

I was too youthful still to realize that the helmet catch would be one of these eternal grudge engendering moments but I lean into my irrational abyss for this as a healthy sublimation of other resentments and angers

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

Marius Mason has finally been released after seventeen years of a twenty-two year sentence! We're donating $2 to his re-entry solidarity fund for every item we sell at akpress.org in May. So far we're at $2432 (as of yesterday). Can you help us get to $3000 this weekend?

This little spine of mine*, I'm gonna let it shine... *Yes, it's from @newberrylibrary.bsky.social again, why do you ask? 😂

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

A rare absolute is that surveillance tech will *always* be used beyond the scope of how it’s initially pitched.

every month or so I see something that makes me wish my bestie Jean were still alive, just to hear her elaborate verbal condemnation, possibly accompanied by paradoxical enjoyment

cf Plato on Homer

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

506 years ago, on the 22nd of May 1520, the massacre at the festival of Tóxcatl took place. During the festival, Spanish captain Pedro de Alvarado turned on the Mexica of Tenochtitlan, killing performers, spectators and nobles. #otd #history 🗃️

Studied creative writing under Toni Morrison and has given billions to HBCUs. Somebody hand this lady a copy of the Communist Manifesto and get her writing checks like a modern Engles.

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