The Library of Congress has three buildings on Capitol Hill but that’s STILL not enough space to store all of the collection items in the world’s largest library. Here's a look at one of the off-site Library storage facilities in Fort Meade, Maryland.

My rapture outfit

I feel like this fragment of music might be very useful in these times.

Ted Chiang: "The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write [...]. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning."

JOB: FSU is hiring an Assistant Professor of Music Theory (tenure track)! I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. societymusictheory.org/resources/jo...

Over the weekend I read the mystery novel, History Lessons, by Zoe Wallbrook, which contains this delightful passage.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Today's historic find. 1909. Minneapolis women's club paper by Louise Dorr quotes Rose Fay Thomas in advocating teaching music to boys as well as girls, as it doesn't make them effeminate.

"Canvas’ parent company InStructure has entered into a partnership with OpenAI to retool Canvas. OpenAI is a company with substantial US military contracts to develop AI for military and surveillance purposes,” Tahir’s message reads. yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/09...

@aaup.org has prepared materials for faculty who face these threats and harassment. 6/ www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

Since I'm starting to think my full-time job may now be "cleansing the timeline" (in addition to teaching art history @huntercollege.bsky.social), here is Jacob Lawrence's 1999 screenprint "Play," one of his most joyful & exuberant images

I finished painting my house today

Tenured folks, you may not know how to catch up on preparing, so some starting points from someone who was once faculty & is now a higher ed labor organizer: -Join your campus AAUP chapter. -If you don't have one, start one—talk to another AAUP chapter in your city/state to make connections. /cont

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.

Posted a funny gif. Saw the news. Took it down. I'm so tired of the lives we all have to live now.

No AI, I don't need a summary of this dissertation. There's this thing called an "abstract."

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Sept. 7, 1925: John Wesley Work, a collector of Black folk songs who was instrumental in preserving slavery-era spirituals, dies at 54 of heart disease in Nashville. He led the celebrated a capella choir the Fisk Jubilee Singers and was president of Roger Williams College.

Slightly diminish a book. Pride and slight bias.

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All of the books I was going to read this summer. [Image credit: Emma Mildred Cowell, www.redbubble.com/people/gentl...

Bay Area friends, there's a concert in Oakland tomorrow with multiple Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel world premieres and talks by @henselpushers.bsky.social herself! Someone go on my behalf please and thank you

Today at the Univ. of Iowa's Musicology/Music Theory Colloquium, I will be speaking on Ada Crogman Franklin's Milestones of a Race, an African American history pageant presented at least 25 times in 15 cities in the 1920s with music by Black composers and casts of as many as 500-600 people.

I think that since the overwhelming majority of mass shooters are cisgender men, we should take their guns first.

Please be a persistent pain in your senators’ and reps’ butts about this – it shows you mean it! It takes 5 minutes over lunch to make sure I heckle my most flippable senator, at minimum, ~every day.

#indbq #indivisible #healthcare #healthcareforall #vaccinations #contagiousdiseases #medical #trustdoctors #rfkisthedisease #supportcdc #publichealth #supportpublichealth

New post: greg wickenkamp covers an Iowa City rally opposing the state's decision to close the State Historical Society of Iowa archives. www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/08/31/a...

Hi folks. At my house we’re discussing how to pronounce “buoyed.” Anyone know for sure?

I've just written to my Senators, volunteering to head the Pentagon. I'm just as as qualified as this guy.

Why is it, when you have the coolest, most amazing topic, no one invites you to give a paper?

Here's to search and submit author information for settlement bsky.app/profile/alex...

Academics, please file. It stole my book, articles, and even little book reviews, which means it got yours too.

I filed a claim and so should you (if you qualify). They knew exactly what they were doing when they trained their AI with our stolen work.

Maybe I should get this for my office?

Today’s historic find. 1925. Wichita, Kansas’s Black baseball team beats the KKK team under the eye of white Catholic umpires.

i know this isn't a great image for making an ID but if you happen to know who this guy is and how to contact his mom in WV or wherever i'd just like to chat with her for a sec

Classes start tomorrow, and so far it's going great! I've already sent the first assignment to the wrong class.

It’s the U of Iowa Grad student union band singing the Disappearing History Blues. #SaveIowaHistory.

The meeting to save the State Historical Society in Iowa City is standing room only. #SaveIowaHistory

Hey Iowa, this is the guy closing the State Historical Society in Iowa City without a good plan for dealing with the collection. I wouldn’t vote for him for dog catcher.

Post a non-religious photo you think of as holy.

Ad. Why don't you investigate why your staff is burned out and figure out how to treat them better?

@aaup.org Youtuber Hank Green (with 3.94 million followers) has made a video about Trump and higher ed. He's provided a link to the AAUP. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQwh...

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

BREAKING NEWS: MIT has just completed the first brain scan study on ChatGPT users—and the results are terrifying. Turns out AI isn’t making us more productive, but cognitively bankrupt. Here’s what 4 months of data revealed 👇 DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872