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.

We’ve highlighted the most-read articles from each journal in 2025. Explore the list at www.regionalstudies.org/new...

☎️ Call your Senators! Tell them to Stop the SAVE Act. Requires a passport/birth certificate to register to vote. 14% of women keep their names when they marry ➡️ Their current names don’t match their birth certificates. 🙄 A passport costs $130+. This bill is🦇💩 insane. Voter suppression + poll tax.👎

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD Student to join the Board of the Regional Studies Association. www.regionalstudies.org/news/rsa-stu...

The @lwvohio.bsky.social said the SAVE America Act could limit women, rural Ohioans, students, older Ohioans, Black Ohioans & those with disabilities from voting. These groups are less likely to have qualifying IDs, which can be expensive and time consuming to acquire. www.nbc4i.com/news/politic...

Worried about this election? We have the antidote: be a poll worker. Nothing will make you feel better about voting, democracy, or our country than seeing what happens behind the scenes and connecting with neighbors, we promise. Go here pollworkertracker.ohiosos.gov/signup to sign up today.

300 in less than 24 hours. But we’re aiming even higher. Sign and circulate to everyone who values Ohio State, in any capacity. We need a transparent and inclusive process. We need to turn this ship in the right direction. actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Recently published #openaccess in @rsa-rsrs.bsky.social "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 Yeung doi.org/10.1080/2168...

This #IWD2026, we're celebrating 7 years of the RSA Women's Network! Since 2018, we've grown into a vibrant, welcoming community where women across regional studies collaborate & support each other at every stage of their careers. 

For some reason, in my little corner of the world, everyone is humming the theme song from Top Gun at work today. 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbyo...

Thank you to friends, family, colleagues, community in Minnesota for the work. Your solidarity is an inspiration. We grieve with you, we stand with you, and we win with you. Stay strong out there!

🌟 Registration is now open for #RSA26 🌟 Join the RSA community in Gothenburg in June. 🔶 Regions as Arenas in a Changing World: Rethinking Spatial Theories 📆 15-18 June 2026 To benefit from the early bird rate, register by 31st March 🔗 bit.ly/4atPUlH 😊 🔁

Democracy Summer!!! “...a network of hundreds of schools and allied organizations are uniting for Democracy Summer, a nationwide program to educate citizens and protect our elections in the coming year.” The Nation Faces a Crisis. Colleges Have a Unique Role to Play. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

More architectural historian commentary today from @benjy-flowers.bsky.social! 🏙️🌇 nypost.com/2026/02/28/r...

🎇Our 2026 Regional Futures Conference will take place 📆 12-13 November, London 🎇 For more information on this popular conference and to view the full call for papers: bit.ly/4roSG1j 🔁 😊

🌟The abstract portal is open for our 2026 Student and Early Career Conference 🌟 🔶 Emergent Directions in Regional Research 📆 3-4 September 2026 🌍 Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK For detailed information and to view the call for papers: 🔗 bit.ly/4kJkYBh 😊 🔁

Upcoming Lecture 🏟️: Stadiums: Architecture and Iconography of the Beautiful Game Prof. @benjy-flowers.bsky.social @knowltonosu.bsky.social March 5th Virtual and In person! #stadiums #sport #architecture sportsandsociety.osu.edu/events/stadi...

Quite rare to see a chart that says quite so overtly that no one involved has the slightest clue what’s happening here

Please let your representatives know! The LWV @lwvus.bsky.social is a nonpartisan voting rights advocacy organization with an intelligent analysis and easy tools to reach your representatives. They say no to the SAVE Act and so should we. Details below ⬇️

🚨🗞️ What can cities do? 🏙️ "The Columbus City Council is using its limited authority to curtail federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities with a host of legislation.” www.dispatch.com/story/news/p...

Birds take time to discover an available box, so it’s best to place them before spring starts. Take advantage of the tail end of winter to post a nest box (or a few). We’ve got free plans to help you get started:

“Silence is not neutrality; it is permission. The record that university chancellors, presidents and trustees create in this moment — who spoke, who acted and who stayed silent — will be studied long after today’s political actors are gone.”

So proud of the work of our amazing City and Regional Planning students and faculty! 👏 Check out this video on Prof. @galashine.bsky.social UG Studio: “Roadmap for Inclusive Living" knowlton.osu.edu/news/2026/02...

Thank you to all those who took this to the courts @aclu.org and @neatoday.bsky.social. Thank you for standing up and standing with university students, staff, and faculty. www.aclu.org/press-releas...