There is no chocolate in the house. How is there no chocolate in the house. THERE IS NO CHOCOLATE IN THE HOUSE.

From this fact we can infer who has a vested interest in what is and isn't taught.

An educational system that does not sufficiently teach history will create students who do not sufficiently know how to recognize tyranny as it arrives.

Timeline cleanse. Oh so needed... volume up!!

Come on, @merriam-webster.com, do obloquy.

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

Oh! The book already has a placeholder webpage. Still, exciting! 💡🌃🌌 uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295... #lightpollution #artificiallight #ALAN #night #darkness

Migration Alert: Over 470 million birds are forecast to fly across the eastern Midwest tonight. Turn off all nonessential lights from 11 PM to 6 AM to keep them from becoming disoriented. More than a 1B birds die in glass collisions every year. Discover ways to help them: bit.ly/stopbirdcoll...

A week ago, I was taking photos of the Milky Way at Boolcoomatta. Great dark skies up there.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Original post, replies, RTs (reskeets??) are fab. (Yes, I learned a bunch of things, too.)

OUCH

BINGO! First journal article review query that explicitly mentions don't use AI.

#SatelliteConstellations #lightpollution

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It looks like I will probably be able to offer a funded PhD position in #RemoteSensing using nighttime lights this fall. If you are interested yourself, or if you know someone who might be interested, please direct them to contact me. #academicjobs

Is it too early to suggest possible Christmas presents for the nature lovers in your life? Here's a new book that just came out: https://theexperimentpublishing.com/catalogs/summer-2025/living-night/

Please consider donating to Environmental History Now: A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community #envhist #envhum ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Cancelling Disney+ and boycotting Target are excellent. But nothing will do more than what we can do together. Join a union. Solidarity is the power we really have as individuals. Nothing could be weaker than the feeble might of one. It’s the union makes us strong. @cornellaaup.bsky.social

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work https://theonion.com/relaxing-tea-better-fucking-work-1819579209/

This is gonna be 🔥🔥🔥

Today I offer a reminder of the word ‘forswunk’ (13th century): exhausted from too much work. To be ‘foreswunk’ (my own version) is to be exhausted before you even begin.

{taps mic} Whispers: It's in. 📑📘🌃🌌

Historians nod in IBM and the H0l0caust

The troubling rise of concentration camp euphemisms

The Cat insisted on crawling under the covers this morning. I don't blame him. At all. He's still there.

If you have a book with US copyright that may be among those stolen-for-profit by Anthropic (🤬), you can proactively enter your book & contact info here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

My annual rant. Child care grants. Cool cool. But/and what about dependent grants. Especially since elder care can E A S I L Y cost 3-4x as much.

Congratulations to Cory Doctorow, for coining an all-too-useful word.

Reducing light pollution at night helps migrating birds. Turn off the lights for them!

🔴 Indigenous constellations show how much beauty we lose to light pollution. ✨ Our ancestors’ rich star lore is fading from the night sky. 🎥 Watch Dr. Danielle Adam (~39min): youtu.be/MAn3z1ClONM #Astronomy #LightPollution #DarkSkies

🐦 City lights keep birds awake Analysing 60 million recordings from 500+ bird species worldwide, researchers found light pollution makes birds call for about 50 minutes longer each day, disrupting natural rhythms. 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scie... #SciComm 🧪 #LightPollution #Birds

📣 We are hiring a postdoc! “Science, Technology, and Governance" (where all three terms, especially governance, are understood broadly) #sts academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30301

Etsy ad: "Dark academia decor is a mood." LOLSOB

How many light/darkness puns am I allowed to make in a 90K-to 95K-word book ms?

I had avoided looking til now. JFC. Yup, all the books and more. Consider adding your name. Let's get these f***ers.

Amid endless 🔥 doing final revisions on the book (see: surreal). Still banging my head against the wall on many of them, but pleased that I have nailed some, rare writing moments when you can almost see others underlining the sentence in the book. Bonus: I've come up with a few zinger phrases, too.

{looks at calendar} {stares in feminist}

Yay Muppet! (And yay Slivensky family.) We need heroes.

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

Keep shoving this unwanted AI shit on teachers and we’ll go back to fucking quills and inkwells

TFW you are ripping apart a chapter too close to your deadline. 🤦🏼

I missed this article. Had been wondering and worrying. If carried out, it would be an enormous loss. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The bibliography is currently 82 double-spaced pages. Over 16.5 words. 🤦

Appreciative of this Brown University write-up, especially as the work of humanists is not always recognized as "research" these days. Worth mentioning here that NEH funding helped make this book possible-- and without the NEH, future scholarship is going to suffer. www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...

Wake up, women. Every dollar they cut is another round of work for you.

🧵 and disorganized* rant (1 of eleveny million, as a former elder caregiver x2): On this and thread? YUP. And just tip of iceberg. Here we go. *This will be disorganized because I am so angry, I can't see straight.