Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

a big part of the issue surrounding the use of chatgpt/LLMs in academic research comes down to process vs. product. a lot of us know that the process of doing research matters because that's where intellectual work is done; but some "academics" and lots of techies only care about a fast product

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

literally had a meeting recently where I straight up told someone that it probably isn't realistic for me to accomplish certain tasks until after mardi gras 😭😂

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

"In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent." – Marwan Makhoul

I know this article aims to be helpful & give concrete ways to prevent dealing w/ AI in humanities college classes, but what it illustrates to me is the dismal lack of value on humanities pedagogy training/preparation for university profs compared to in K12 education www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

“Be prudent, be wise, be careful that your use of AI does not limit your true human growth,” [the Pope] told the students. “Use it in such a way that if it disappeared tomorrow, you would still know how to think, how to create, how to act on your own, how to form authentic friendships.” 💯

I come back to this often. My girl YEBBA and her vocal instrument.

a movie that takes place where you're from

more than half of my life engaging with french books at this point and I don't think it will ever not be insane to me that the table of contents for books in french are at the end 🤦‍♀️

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:

welp, this hits entirely wayy too close to home for several universities I have/had affiliations with (aka columbia and LSU)

TRANSITION CO-CHAIR LINA KHAN!?!?!??!

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

That very MUNDANE action that you don't take because you are too busy fantasizing about being a superhero instead would actually DO something for someone. Your fantasy does not.

i'm teaching a caribbean ecologies class and we read a small place by jamaica kincaid. for the students mid-term, they had the option to write a new orleans version of a small place in essay or poetry form to think about how tourism and development impact the city and these are... soo good my god

Fascism is such a fundamental attack on wonder and the human imagination and I think everyone should have the opportunity to let their imagination wonder as it wanders — doesn’t matter what you do for a living. Your mind matters! Your relationship with the universe is meaningful!

gooo phee! may we all have this level of courage and clarity to stand up to exploitative and retaliatory employers. I need to go buy some unrivaled merch now.

this is.... absolutely insane

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

This is must read. Extremely clear-eyed, morally grounded and powerful writing from Ta-Nehisi Coates.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

I think it's terrible that Gen Z and Gen Alpha continue to live in a world where K-12 and college campus shootings are a normal part of life and that's all they've ever known and I think we should arrange things so that any kind of school or university shooting is impossible

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

just bought and started reading this book today and it is so well-researched, thoughtful, and important 🙏

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

The attempt to ban, erase etc.. marginalized people's histories demands responses at the grassroots level. Regular people can be cultural stewards, can be archivists, can be storytellers, can be preservers of oral history. And these are all fun things to do!

"Columbia’s capitulation has turned a university that was once a site of free inquiry and learning into a shadow of its former self, an anti-university, a gated security zone with electronic entry controls, a place of fear and loathing..."

The WNBA All-Stars came out wearing warmup shirts that said, "Pay Us What You Owe Us." The players' union met with the WNBA Thursday and came away frustrated with the economic model proposed by the league. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...

If you find what the NYT continues to publish abhorrent please, PLEASE stop paying them to play Wordle, sudoku & crosswords. The NYT makes a massive chunk of their income from that $4 games & crosswords app. The ONLY substantial power we have when it’s not Election Day is the power of our wallets

🙏👏 finally!! also grateful to many organizers across texas & louisiana who went several times to the extremely remote town of jena to protest, & who, for the day of his hearing, organized buses of literally hundreds of us from all over louisiana and texas to go to jena to add pressure and support

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

We're alarmed & deeply disturbed to learn that @tulaneu.bsky.social is silencing Dr. Kim Terrell. We stand with Dr. Terrell and call on Pres. Fitts protect the critical work of the Environmental Law Clinic rather than trading quid pro quos for development projects. #CancerAlley #environmentaljustice

Watching the Sinners BTS and I really can’t believe some of y’all want AI instead of humans doing all of these amazing things Please get a life

My Fulbright years changed my life, and those of many of my students. This is idiocy.

Every environmental org that latched on to Greta circa 2018/2019 needs to be doing everything they can to advocate for her and everyone else on the flotilla to be released immediately.

The boat was in international waters. So I think this is a kidnapping.

solidarity with the protesters, solidarity with the flotilla

god 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️😩