Huge shoutout to my department colleague for this recognition of his amazing work bringing music studies to incarcerated populations. www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

Come work with me and my wonderful colleagues!! hmu if you have any questions music.unc.edu/2025/10/08/w...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

I analyzed the entire list of local and state agencies participating in ICE’s 287g program. Of the 1154 agreements, Florida has the most with 334. Texas has 220. I compiled this list for posterity to maintain public access. Find out if there are any in your state. open.substack.com/pub/antagoni...

Humanizing AI does not help your users. www.nngroup.com/videos/human...

Radiation exposure happens in suburban St Louis. Sacrifice zones are in our own backyards.

"I get a lot of emails from people who say my brother doesn't think this is real, he thinks it's a scam. There are a lot of people who don’t want to send their documents because they don’t trust the federal government." www.ksdk.com/article/news...

I’ve got ideas™️ about how to effectively let AMS hear the membership’s calls. DM me tho I don’t want to tip off my opps

I’ve got thoughts™️about the state of our learned societies today, but I’m mostly grateful for the people with whom I get to stir the pot, complain, celebrate, laugh, dine, scheme, think. A society thrives with members like us.

One of my grad students said knowledge production is like key lime pie but maybe it’s more like the Baja Blast pie.

A meme in the corporate world is that legal’s idea of a perfect company is one that produces nothing and has no customers. I think this meme is now pertaining to our academic societies, a society that produces no knowledge and has no members.

*Curb theme plays in background*

YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions" Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:

This pie isn’t for Gen Z it’s for the millennials who are obsessed with “what the kids are up to” and making reviews like “I tried the Baja Blast pie so you don’t have to!”

To help out the this teacher: gofund.me/f09be1da5

Go Fund Me for the teacher who was kidnapped in front of children in her classroom today: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

This is horrible news. This program is a huge success, identifies brilliant scholars and gives them a transitional landing place that can help them land a tenure track job in the system. It’s a win for students, their programs, and all the schools in the system. Why end it?

Ah yes. The day-after-election cruel optimism…

I love Society drama coming to me right before the National Meeting this weekend. 🤭

From a friend: The story is not “bad guy makes monster,” it’s “happy nerd plays with science”

My publishable thoughts on Frankenstein (2025): poor Mary Shelley. You grieved so deeply in your life and men continue to tarnish your legacy long after your death.

I need a documentary about growing giant produce ASAP

It is my birthday you have to rt the thing I'm trying to make a big deal of

Our students are tired of AI! They want to learn!! dailytarheel.com/article/opin...

“Man” = acting agent of BoT and BoG

go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary "employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class." www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...

Nothing is more emblematic of our moment in US history than visitors being turned away from visiting the Liberty Bell bc of the government shutdown.

#carrboro #nokings

Not the AI x nuclear headline I was expecting but here we are www.404media.co/man-stores-a...

What even is a Vice Provost of AI? (wrong answers only) www.unc.edu/posts/2025/1...

My niece and her imaginary friend

Civic duty etc etc Durham does have the best town puns with the nickname Bull City.

BEST BIG CITY IN THE US 9 YEARS IN A ROW. While critics try to paint Chicago as something to fear, the rest of the world knows the truth — this is the best big city in America.

I’m. So. Tired. I don’t just want you to pay attention to Chicago because I want you to understand our plight. I want you to see how hard people are fighting and know wtf you’re made of. We’re not just fighting for this place. This is for all of us.

I’m sad to say that Filipino restaurant is closed. I really miss my kababayan… I’ve never not lived around Filipinos from Manila to Chicago. It’s just not the same without my fam, my food, my culture

Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the @sunypress.bsky.social website: sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-.... Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗

Yes yes yes. A lesson in this even for people who aren’t CEOs but who are a little bit of a somebody.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

omg I would be so embarrassed

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

currently researching music education in the Philippines during US colonization. Across my desk is scattered paper cranes etc from Japanese kids I met during my travels to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Just a reminder that the p*lice are defunding YOU

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

London recs for me please! I’ve never been

I know where the university can make up their $70 million budget deficit

Somewhere in the White House maybe

I just watched my first YouTube essay. And now anything else will have to live up to this bar (it won’t) youtu.be/QwpanShgOp4?...

happy LABOR day weekend! find your WORKERS OVER BILLIONAIRES protest! almost 1000 planned in all 50 states and DC www.newsweek.com/map-list-cit...

To the person coming to do a book talk in our big downtown theater: