In case the scam here isn't obvious - Grammarly is, without permission, creating little LLM agents based on the work of academics and then claiming this is the same as their "expert opinion" - using their names and reputations for free without consent.

One last reminder: please get your proposals in today!

I'd never pretend to be part of "elite academia" but the idea that colleges are hostile to servicemembers is pure culture war fantasy. Our many veterans and future servicemembers (JAG and otherwise) are respected members of our student body and bring valuable insight and experience to their studies.

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

I want Anthropic to survive long enough to be destroyed by paying out billions to the artists and writers it stole from.

Same OpenAI that's partnered w the American Federation of Teachers and whose models are used by popular ed-tech products like Khanmigo and MagicSchool. School admin/teachers who've ignored this company's disdain for people and planet need to explain why they keep doing business w these ghouls.

Regret to announce that we’ve reached Wrong Coat season. Every coat you wear from now til mid April will be The Wrong Coat for the weather

Not to be a cringe West Wing fan girl or anything (plenty of Sorkin critique from me, don't worry), but when Bartlet said "our job is to raise the common denominator, not appeal to it" we should have paid more attention.

I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.

I really can't emphasize enough that you are a complete freak if you care about Boy Scout genitals

Just a few more days to submit proposals for the Music & Labor Symposium (May 15­–17 at the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington)! Details at the link -- please share widely. I'd love to review lots of proposals! (Yes, really!) careers.amsmusicology.org/opportunity/...

So excited for this Saturday's performance which I believe will be the US premiere of Anna von Schaden's B-flat major piano concerto. Such a fabulous work. The second movement breaks my heart EVERY time! And what an honor to be joined by the inspiring, amazing, @classicalbeat.bsky.social .

Just a few more days to submit proposals for the Music & Labor Symposium (May 15­–17 at the Friday Harbor Laboratories at the University of Washington)! Details at the link -- please share widely. I'd love to review lots of proposals! (Yes, really!) careers.amsmusicology.org/opportunity/...

in honor of a certain surgeon general nominee’s hearing today, here is the story of (among other things) the time I tried to take her advice about milk www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

For those of you (esp. Louisville-area folks regardless of UofL connections, or university-affiliated folks anywhere) who kindly expressed interest in this petition effort, here it is—I would warmly welcome your support.

WHAT: Prada (fall 2026) OCCASIONS: high-school-best-friend-who-would-always-ditch-you-for-a-guy’s engagement party or violinist at conservatory getting super (we’re worried, Ann!) into Mahler IF IT WERE A SCENT: inkwell (toppled) EMOTIONAL RANGE: Joan of Arc/Marian the Librarian #MJMfashionGuide

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

So apparently some nimrod used my email address to sign up for a dating app and I am getting so, so many messages. Like, looking good, Vicky in Oklahoma, but you're not really my type dear

Imagine telling kids: Listen, rich people made this somewhat crappy product they're going to make you use when you end up having to work for them, so we have to teach you how to try to use it and that's a lot of work for both of us because it's pretty crappy. That's called "AI literacy."

This one in a library copy of Amiri Baraka's Blues People has stuck with me since 2009.

Ms Graves said I could help by telling you all about the show so I’m telling you twice washnatopera.org/treemonisha

I'm asking you politely: Please don't litter on the internet? AI generated art and music smells.

surely we can teach the children how to ethically use this product designed for unethical use by unethical people

BLEAK. Bleak. I’d been paying attention to Columbia selling out its governance to the Trump admin, not so much its stance on AI. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2026...

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

InsideHigherEd did a little story about our Research 1 institution of higher education putting its acclaimed preschool/childcare center to the torch

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

If you are radically altering someone’s job duties by asking them to do something outside the highly specialized job you hired them to do, you should be prepared for pushback. This is not complicated.

Glad to see this. Maybe he can have a chat with the KY state Senate murraystatenews.org/205504/news/...

Your #BanjoAunti is here with a special guest: Ed Helms! While filming “Ode to Mary Jo” Ed and I got to have some banjo time behind the scenes. Today we’re demonstrating the difference between clawhammer and Scruggs-style banjo.

Something something "two wolves" (Truly a little annoyed at how well these mugs capture my personality (such as it is))

Up next, pants!

Schaut, welche Perle jetzt durch die großartige @evameitner.bsky.social für Klavier zu haben ist 🎹 Études von #Komponistinnen! Jaaaa, ENDLICH mal anderes Repertoire, mit dem man genauso gut lernen kann! Möge es zum Standard werden 🚀 www.fabermusic.com/shop/etudes-...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Sometime last week, I mentioned having given a paper about tuning conspiracy theories and solfeggio tones at a conference. I spent some time turning it into a blog post, and you can read it here: www.williamohara.net/blog/2026/2/...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

ICYMI: I introduced my Trans Bill of Rights with @markey.senate.gov — legislation to defend trans people across this country as Republicans continue to push anti-trans rhetoric and bills. To our beloved trans community: We see you, we love you, and we will always stand with you.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction should just be required reading for ninth graders now

Two PhD positions in #Musicology advertised at Uppsala University--and in Sweden a PhD is paid employment! The department is lovely and particularly strong in #EarlyMusic & #MusicalBookHistory. Closing date 26 March 2026; interviews can occur throughout application period. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

HE folks, this seems extremely non-ideal. The linked video is bonkers

The point of the AI project is to provoke despair in creative people. They haven’t produced profits or anything anyone wants, just a steady stream of articles about how us artistic types can’t do the thing we’re already doing, making art. Jokes on them, we’re even better at despair than they are.

You see this all the time when writers who have never cared about classical music deign to write something about some new pop-classical crossover act, and it's always "the new Mozart is..." Babe, the new Mozart was Beethoven. We've moved on from 1790.

"As AI trans­forms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Christine Turner’s documentary about the Afro-Futurist band who lived in Germantown for decades screened at the Black Star Film Festival last year.

A Franklin County judge ruled Thursday he won’t dismiss a lawsuit brought by a group of Kentucky students alleging the state has failed to provide an adequate and equitable education. www.lpm.org/news/2026-02...

journalists are workers who deserve to be paid fairly for our labor and I think that far too few consumers of media recognize or even care about this fact