What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Maxims from architectural history that are spot on comments about right wing classicism, ca. 2026: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc: In architecture, there are two necessary ways of being true. It must be true according to the program and true according to the methods of construction.

Governor DeWine has vetoed HB 472, the very bad bill that would have made it much harder to vote by mail for many Ohioans and would have introduced new identity fraud and privacy concerns for voters. Thank you for listening to election officials and everyday Ohioans, Governor DeWine!

Congratulations everyone!! 👏👏👏

A very nice write-up on why data users should be concerned about the new Commerce Dept. policy, which likely means a lot of granular, local-level data used for economic development is about to disappear. agglomerations.eig.org/p/a-new-thre...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

Launching Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning by Daniel Galland @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social & @drjwharrison.bsky.social at @regstud.bsky.social Conference in Gothenburg 17 June 2pm w/ Jennifer Clark, Andy Pike, @mrglassphd.bsky.social & Simin Yan www.routledge.com/Regions-in-E...

The RSA has launched its strategy for 2026–2030, setting out how we will support regional researchers, champion evidence-based policy, and promote sustainable and equitable regional development over the coming years. Find out more at www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-202...

New paper published today! It considers the opportunities and potential for **healthy industrial strategy** @jacknewman.bsky.social, Sarah Ayres & Geoff Bates 📕 Published in @regionalstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & Ron Boschma for their paper: "The dark side of the geography of innovation: relatedness, complexity and regional inequality in Europe" doi.org/10.1080/0034...

The 2026 Policy Debates Best Paper goes to Rama Krishna Reddy Kummitha for 'Smart city governance: assessing modes of active citizen engagement.' Read it at doi.org/10.1080/0034... Watch @prt1969.bsky.social present the award at www.regionalstudies.org/news/2026-policy-debates-best-paper/

New Article 🚨 @regionalstudies.bsky.social!!

Congratulations to the winners of the 2026 Regional Studies Best Paper Award! Flavio Pinheiro, Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Dominik Hartmann & @ronboschma.bsky.social! @regionalstudies.bsky.social

📣 We're partnering with Wikipedia on a new course, "Wikipedia for Researchers: Building reliable knowledge through citations." Free, self-paced, open to all. Our own Carlos Areia (Senior Data Scientist) is an instructor! 🔗 Enroll today: https://ow.ly/WZFb50Z6xk0 Wikimedia Foundation, Altmetric

📆OTD: June 4, 1919, Congress passed the 19th Amendment, extending voting rights to women. 👩🏾‍🦰👩‍🦱🧑🏽‍🦰👱‍♀️👩‍🦳🧕🏽It was the result of decades of organizing and protest by women from all over the country, from every class and demographic, who refused to accept a democracy that did not include them

"Federal judges have repeatedly found that Mr. Trump’s efforts to restrict various immigration programs were at odds with federal immigration law as Congress wrote it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

The November 3 Midterm Election might still be ways off but deadlines sneak up on us all! Bookmark this post so none of these important dates pass you by. 💫 Now: Request your absentee ballot- No need to wait!

Go Spurs Go! ❤️

This is outrageous. For me, it’s professional and also personal. My mother was an academic librarian AND tenured member of the faculty. 👊 This is the wrong timeline. I am embarrassed for the leaders and institutions that don’t know and can’t find their core values. Pitiful. Do better.

You know it is too much rain ☔ in Columbus when the ducks 🦆 take over ALL of Schiller Park (note: this is not supposed to be a pond!). It does not look good for Shakespeare in the Park tomorrow night! 😔

Peony time! (it smells fantastic too).

The San Antonio I remember ❤️https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/spurs-faithful-san-antonio-nuns-213920816.html

Proud to see this brave and accurate account from the dedicated, professional, and ethical faculty of Ohio State. We are still here doing the work. Solidarity!! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I don’t bring it up often but I live in an #Arsenal household. And it is always a journey. What I love is the way Arsenal, under Arsene Wenger and now Mikel Arteta, shows how a manger gets excellence out of talented, young players. Not every day but on some days. open.substack.com/pub/cannonst...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Huge if true

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. 🎪 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/b...

I’m old enough to remember when we were just talking about eggs. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/b...

Happy Mother’s Day to my mother. With us always.❤️

get caught up on the backstory while you can't get caught up on grading theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/historyofc...

BREAKING: Federal Judge Rules to Restore National Endowment for the Humanities Funding In Historic Case This afternoon's ruling declared that the mass termination of more than 1,400 grants by the NEH was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” https://bit.ly/4wmbFg8

Members made this possible. Collective action requires the collective. Whether MLA, AHA, or another society, please join, engage, and participate. Together, we can accomplish some pretty amazing things.

Ummm. I’d like to report a violation of the Institutional Data Policy 🙄. It’s almost like requiring 40,000 university employees to take (and pass) a data security short course annually isn’t actually providing data security? 🤔 🫠 www.wired.com/story/canvas...

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.

This is close to my 1st week of May plan🪻#alliums

🌟Are you a PhD student or ECR? Join the RSA Student and EC Conference 📆3-4 September 2026 🌟 🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research 🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK For detailed info, view the cfp and submit your abstract: 🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh 😊 🔁

New #openaccess article ‘Uneven regional development in a contentious world of changing global production networks: ‘chips war’ and the geopolitics of semiconductor production in the United States and Southeast Asia, by Henry Wai-chung Yeung Read for free at doi.org/10.1080/21681376.20...

Perhaps said another way: ‘If you stand for nothing, [Yale], what’ll you fall for?’ #wesleyan

The SAVE America Act looks set to die in Congress, but 23 mostly Republican-led U.S. states have recently changed their voting procedures to mirror key aspects of Pres. Donald Trump’s sweeping package of voting restrictions in time for ​November’s midterm elections www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Are we tired of winning yet?

I appreciate rabbit/bunny themed content on Easter. Good times. 🐣 But I sincerely hate Updike’s Rabbit Run. Hard pass. As Auntie Mame would say, “How vivid.” 🤢

Tulips started to bloom today.

New RSA Policy Impact Book just published: “Improving inclusive innovation outcomes: Lessons from post-industrial and post-conflict cities” by Michael Glass et al. Find out more at www.regionalstudies.org/news/improvi...

🚨 Three days to benefit from the Early Bird rate for #RSA26 🚨 Normal fees apply from 1st April. 🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World 📆 15-18 June 2026 🌍 School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden To register: 🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH 😀🔄

🚨Ohio has a new absentee ballot deadline that requires mail-in ballots to arrive by 7:30pm on Election Day 📬 If you vote by mail, request your ballot now so you are one of first to receive it: ohiosos.gov/elections/elections-administration/forms-and-petitions/absentee-ballot-application-html-to-pdf

In a recent @theatlantic.com article on the SAVE Act, LWV CEO Celina noted that the bill would disproportionately affect the approximately 8 in 10 married women who change their names. Full article: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Democracy Summer 2026 is happening! Hope + Action = Change. 🗳️ Learn how to get involved here: www.wesleyan.edu/about/democr...

US Colleges & Universities are engines of regional economic development. They educate the new workforce, partner w/ industry to train incumbent workers & foster innovation and incubate new technologies. They employ thousands of people in cities and small towns. We need more investment not less.

Thank you to @acls1919.bsky.social @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social for leading this effort to restore the normal functioning/funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities. This is the advocacy we need from our learned societies and professional associations in these times.