If I knew viewing Guernica would put money directly into the pockets of a still living Pablo Picasso, who had announced publicly that he would be using that money to terrorize, harm, and kill women, not only would I not go view Guernica, it would fundamentally change the meaning of Guernica as art.

Bodily Autonomy for Women Now!

NEW: Cherise Doyley never expected to see a judge while in labor. Yet she found herself fighting a court for the right to make medical decisions about her own body — from her hospital bed. Here’s how her case unfolded.

Our @statnews.com survey of NIH-funded researchers drew nearly 1,000 responses from 45 states (plus DC and Puerto Rico). Here's a short thread on 5 scientists' whose labs and lives have been deeply impacted by federal policies 🧵

You know what Team USA could use? Some immigrants.

"In fact, all AI will do is require that we work more, harder, and on the parts of our job that shouldn’t even be our job."

Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

There is a lovely mandrill picture in the article!

Trumper voters are some of the most unempathetic, reactionary, and cruel people. Most are people I would never choose to associate with. But it hurts their feelings that I wouldn't want to be associated with them so they get editorials reaffirming their humanity while they dehumanize others.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Check out this side eye

FFS LET TRANS PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES IN PEACE

If you are outraged about what Kansas is doing to trans people— criminalizing their very right to exist, seizing drivers licenses overnight and saying if they drive thereafter it’s a crime, which puts them into the PIC under their gender assigned at birth where rape is routine—I BEG YOU

MAKE AN EMERGENCY DONATION to Trans Continental Pipeline right now. They are a Colorado based org that helps trans people relocate there and they are overwhelmed with requests. CO borders KS, and TCP has the infrastructure to help get people out. GO DONATE. tcpipeline.org

Here is a direct donation link. Please use it. I just did. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

Shout out to fellow profs: how do y'all handle the knowledge that students are feeding your lectures into chatbots? It fills me with rage which is just not a sustainable approach in our current landscape. Advice is welcome.

Shout out to fellow profs: how do y'all handle the knowledge that students are feeding your lectures into chatbots? It fills me with rage which is just not a sustainable approach in our current landscape. Advice is welcome.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

Will our institutions get their heads out of the sand before our degrees become meaningless? Hard to say but I'm not holding my breath.

If you really think college students need to learn to use AI (by which I mean LLMs), I suggest you create and fund a department of expert professionals who can teach them. The humanities professors are busy trying to teach those classic texts you keep whining about disappearing from the curriculum

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.

This is awful.

"The policy says if a course includes “controversial topics,” faculty must approach it in a broad and balanced way that allows a discussion of ideas in the classroom. The guidelines do not define specific “controversial topics,” however." OF COURSE, not defining it means it's whatever they say.

It's a sewn boat! India has a number of sewn boat traditions (as does Oman). A very cool recreation of a sewn vessel.

News I’m somewhat late to but apparently the Indian Navy built a ship based on a fifth century painting and sailed it to Oman to recreate the trading route of the Indian Ocean in late antiquity. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Even if you don't have time to read all 83 pages of Judge Reyes's opinion barring the Trump administration from rescinding Temporary Protected Status for 350,000+ Haitians, please at least check out the four-page introduction. It's a tour de force: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After over a year, I finally have a representative in Congress again! www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/hou...

If you would like to specifically aid immigrant children, one way is through getting involved with the Young Center: www.theyoungcenter.org

I hate to keep pushing, but my books are some of the only reliable income I have. If you can, please pre-order my new novel, By The Way, and support an indie and LGBTQ+ author and illustrator! By The Way: shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/by-...

If you’re giving money to a white supremacist who put thousands of my colleagues out of work, decimated American science, and killed millions of people just so you can use a water-guzzling, misinformation-hawking racist chatbot the least I can do is make you embarrassed to admit it out loud.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

The neo-fascist group Patriot Front is building a network of businesses in North Texas in an attempt to create a parallel, self-sufficient white nationalist economy. The Observer identified the men behind 4 of these companies.

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan. A citizen. Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold. "We're from the United States bro!' he screamed. Agents took and sold his phone And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.

The story www.propublica.org/article/vide...

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

🎶 These are a few of my favorite memes 🎶🎄

My newest creation is this fabric art Krampus. I designed and hand-sewed him. I also made his chain and bundle of sticks. He enjoys riding the yule moose through chthonic woodlands. His favorite wintertide treat is eggnog mixed with a bit of human soul. www.patreon.com/jeremycreature

😬 Undoing the damage genAI has done already seems like a monumental task. But we're not even trying to rein in the destruction yet. So it'll get much much worse before it ever gets better

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

I was going to link to my thread about sewn boats, as the Comacchio is one of the best preserved examples from the upper Adriatic. But apparently I haven't made one yet for Bluesky. Something to do after the semester

The Roman shipwreck at Comacchio, Italy, is over 21 m long and 5.62 m wide. It was discovered in 1980 during the maintenance of a drainage canal. The vessel was loaded with amphorae, lead ingots, and boxwood logs. It dates to the 1st c. BC. 📷Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici Emilia Romagna 🏺

yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore I feel like we need this

Anthropology and archaeology colleagues will know her racist schtick well - best for us all to collectively block her and let other folks know.

Made some treats for tomorrow's on campus class. They have been a joy all semester so this is my little way of giving back.

One of the most upsetting articles I've read in a long time www.theargumentmag.com/p/when-grade... UCSD report senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347... We are failing a generation of kids.