wearing my women in stem t-shirt on international women’s day to celebrate the fact that i was given that and a reusable water bottle instead of equal pay

Hey, read this. Happy International Women's Day. And thank you, Henselpushers!

“Reading Is Fun!” The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

This is good. It's also an entertaining read, but more than that, it's good.

Hey, internet. Cute pet photos needed. Do your thing.

I point everyone to the incomparable @mwilsonkimber.bsky.social and her post marianwilsonkimber.wordpress.com/2020/12/13/g...

I spent hours looking through hundreds of files of materials that have been flagged for review by National Park Service sites around the country. Here is just a small sample of what I found. #NationalParks 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty" Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...

Oh no. I think I have become this person

Share this article, because goodness knows some states, and definitely the federal gov't, are not going to make it easy to find this information.

Read this. So good.

Outwardly calm but inwardly screaming.

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

Chris Reynolds continues to provide amazing new research about women and song on the Women's Song Forum. Check out, "'Fathers’ Lullabies' and Other Songs About Maternal Mortality, 1865–1940." Bonus feature: a piece by my husband, the composer Michael Kimber. www.womensongforum.org/2026/02/25/f...

Crooked tunes from Québec; Laura Risk & Voices of Music www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9Fi...

Absolute shocker of a rights grab - academics may want to push back hard

Dear #readers, I hope you enjoy watching The Duke of Wentworth, it’s a short film (8mins) 🍿and it is just what we need to bring a smile to us on a #Saturday 😁 it is funny and heartwarming 🥰 Location in the film is #Wentworth #Woodhouse in #SouthYorkshire . youtu.be/1iyKOz9ID-U?...

NEW: Countries that bar entry to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse risk missing out on vital investment opportunities, warns Horsemen representative George Osborne

McSweeney's shattering the "this is not who we are" rhetoric.

Here's the whole segment. It's only showing on youtube bc of this egregious decision by CBS. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

Charles Avison is my favorite “bet you haven’t heard of him” composer.”

I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center: If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Happy to see what arrived today! My little chapter is on Fanny Hensel reception and revival.

DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g. Film: 1873 Colfax massacre Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"

Since when is a 3-hour wait "quick care"? (Cough, cough, cough, cough, cough.)

I never thought I’d be working with a student in their lesson playing on a rubber chicken, but here we are.

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

How many more times can I screw up this month? The saga continues.

FREE BOOK OFFERS INCOMING! German teachers! I have a large pile of Death at Morning House in German! I only need one or two. If you teach German or work at a library where these would be helpful, I'd love to send them out to you. Just reply and let me know. Happy to send a box of 10.

Did I mention that the PDF catalog of the Holsinger Studio Portrait Project's exhibition, Visions of Progress, is freely downloadable online? Over 10,000 people saw the show at UVA, then it went to the Black History Museum of Virginia. Now it's touring churches & schools. at.virginia.edu/vop-catalog

I’m imagining the muppets lined up at the mic for the Q&A.

Read the entire thread. ⬇️

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A very, very good piece, written by one of the best

Really glad I already canceled my Washington Post subscription before I had to cancel my Washington Post subscription.

In this week's edition of: "I didn't know one could protest in so many ways:" More than 60 Drummers 🥁 coordinated throughout downtown Minneapolis to play on different street corners and share a unified message that they want ICE out of their city. 🪘🙌🏻 I love their laugh at the end. 😍

How many more times can I screw up today? The Marian Wilson Kimber story.

I was interviewed by Axios on recent protest music about ICE. www.axios.com/2026/02/02/p...

Happy Birthday Felix Mendelssohn! Here's the underplayed Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHAP...

Several of my students have been referring to the "Groove Dictionary," and I like it so much I don't have the heart to correct them.

Life right now.

Okay, now how about the rest of the kids in captivity?

Today's historic find. Girl trombonist in "Boy's Loyalty Parade," Wichita, Kansas, May 1, 1924. (From a film in the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum.)

What do you if you get pepper sprayed from my favorite ophthalmologist, Dr. Glaucomflecken: youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...

"Just minutes into Trump’s speech, the man next to me, Ed Fallon, takes off his coat and reveals a shirt with the word LIAR scrawled in red Sharpie. He’s immediately escorted out by security."

As it is both #InternationalLEGODay AND the publication anniversary of Pride & Prejudice, I give you: LEGO Pemberley (Currently under review with the LEGO people)

I'm not distracted by the state of the world, no, I'm getting work done, I can concentrate, everything's fine, yes, just fine. Today I tried to check out a library book with my driver's license.