My book is out today and I got to write an essay reflecting on disability in romance for LitHub! Check out the article below🥹

Great piece from @quinnanya.me. A personal goal of mine is to convert my anger and frustration at current events into something productive, and this really resonated. #DHmakes www.quinndombrowski.com/blog/2026/02...

“We reach for [LLMs] because our world is asking for altogether too much: too much work without the time to do it well, too much caregiving without the community infrastructure to support it, and too much pressure to perform academically without the foundational skills to make it possible.”

One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way. The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’

Yessir that's my colleague Jorell Meléndez-Badillo (@jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social) and here's his history of Puerto Rico - available in English and Spanish press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting. (And follow @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and @leahsottile.bsky.social’s new publication @thewesternedge.bsky.social which will be amazing bc they’re amazing)

Dearest hivemind: I'm gearing up for a brief residency and wanting to actually make some progress on my new project on faith, faithlessness, and the spiritual. Who are your favorite poets / books even tentatively related that you'd suggest? Queer and non-Judeo-Christian even better!

Hey Everyone, What are good world literature books/stories dealing with time and possibly time travel? I have a bunch but was hoping to crowdsource more 🙏

Ich koude wynne a gold medal at the olympics yf ther was an olympic sport called worryinge about everyethinge all the tyme

"I can't mitigate [these harms] through more personal effort, education or professional experience." #academicsky

"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."

New blog post! How did Jaleco adapt their Mega System 1 hardware to the needs of mahjong? And the plot of this game is... what? Mahjong Daireikai! nicole.express/2026/spooky-...

Happy to say the @wsj.com still does book reviews. My latest looks at a new read from Dr Alanna Skuse: 🧪🗃️📚 www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

I've seen some discourse about how it seems like everyone in the elite circles knew about Epstein. I'm reminded of the piece of information about the Tuskegee Syphillis Study that I end classes with: Congress had hearings about the study and re-confirmed funding Every. Year. For. Forty. Years.

The main conceit of "AI" (namely chatbots and "agents") are the twin promises of control and productivity. The mechanism of control is that you can be replaced more effectively by a machine, or someone who wields the machine more adroitly than you.

“Helping people forge new connections.” A fuck app. “A new way to invest.” An S&P 500 fund. “Decentralized currency.” Money you can use to buy drugs.

My entire lesson plan whenever I teach this.

Have I ever mentioned how surreal it is to be an Editor-in-Chief of a journal called Vaccine right now? www.science.org/content/arti... It’s pretty wild, at least by typical academic journal editorial office standards.

A deadly encounter on the streets of 21st Century Kyoto in the wake of devastation from an earthquake that also unleashed a horde of demons - and magic back into the world. A point-and-click and RPG hybrid that received an English translation in 2019. 📺: Makyouden, Nihon-Create, 1992 (PC-9801)

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Where are your citations?"

Af-Am lit major Jodie Foster chose her field because of an interest ‘in literature that is as emotionally important as it is intellectually.’ In fact, she argued, Af-Am literature is perhaps the most American of all literary genres this country has produced..” www.harvardmagazine.com/radcliffe-in...

also yesterday i got my contrib copy of the new disability poetics anthology EVERY PLACE ON THE MAP IS DISABLED. it’s available now from northwestern university press: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014973...

Today is the start of LGBT+ History Month in the UK. I joined some cool people a while ago to reflect on why queer and trans histories are rich and powerful. Our histories can illuminate the possibilities of activism and politics, as we work to build a better world. Keep the conversation going. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

A month on from publication my book 'Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain' remains available from publishers Bloomsbury with discounts on the hardback, paperback and e-book versions. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/magic-ray...

Slid into my first snow-covered ditch on the way to work. Was terrified but as if summoned by my moment of need, a wonderful person came to pull me out. Car is a little scuffed but really glad it was only minimal damage to the car and not to me.

I’ve been thumping the table about this for years. Now it’s accelerating. I wish I could get my private college colleagues to realize that if it’s not stopped, it’s coming for us, too. “But we’re private!” Sure, ask Orban or Erdogan what an autocrat does with private higher ed.

and without Lord Byron's own daughter, Ada Lovelace, you wouldn't have the computers for Asimov's robots or rocket ships

Untrue.

Thoughts on Gentleman Bandit, a solo game of heartful poetry to be found upon the corpse of the bandit's victim allisonarth.itch.io/gentleman-ba... 1/

Zoom ahead less than a decade and bathouses became a major location for HIV/AIDS prevention education. Anti-sex and anti-safe-space puritanism has a terrible cost whatever the decade. Lives ruined needlessly.

Helen Andrews, who once accused @adamserwer.bsky.social of writing the "most toxic piece of journalism" of the era and who recently argued that women are basically the main problem, is currently waxing rhapsodic about how the issue with Asian Americans is that they are too good at school.

We only want the good immigrants who study hard and don't commit crimes, unless they try to take little Brayleigh's (28 ACT, 1350 SAT) God-given slot at an Ivy away by being smarter, in which case Korematsu didn't go far enough

Tenure Eliminated at Oklahoma Colleges Regional and community colleges professors will no longer receive tenure; research university faculty are spared, with some exceptions. https://bit.ly/4tlEtUq #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

How do you do, fellow carbon-based life forms?

“One of the main challenges is that oral vaccines must remain potent despite the highly acidic pH of the stomach, changing pH throughout the digestive tract, and gastrointestinal enzymes that can break down proteins. The composition of the gut microbiome can also significantly affect the efficacy”

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

STRIKE READY: More than 80% of our @propublicaguild.org members have signed onto a pledge, saying they are ready to strike. Now is the time @propublica.org -- stop stalling and agree to a fair contract including protections on AI --- NOW www.propublicaguild.org/updates/the-...

"Why did they do this? Because I asked them to, and told them it was worth it. I said that time was precious, and that we needed to take some of it back for ourselves. So we did." Walt Hunter for The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trying to wrap my head around the fact I'm turning 36 in a few weeks. I feel like I'm starting over in so many ways in my life, where this new year feels like the cusp of lasting change. I'm honestly scared as hell but ready to feel better in this body and in this life of mine.

Interested in the intersections of #medhum and #envhum? Join us for another instalment of our Weather, Climate, and Health Research Theme's online talk series with our wonderful colleague @drhick.bsky.social (Newcastle University). All details and registration (free) via link below.

Stop playing games when you're done with them, whenever that may be: "Although there are plenty of 'good' reasons for dropping a game[...]I’m also allowed to put a game down for no reason beyond simply having had my fill of it." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2026/02/02/l...

An extraordinary number of banger lines in this masterpiece of the genre of critical academic book review, but this in particular is straight up🔥: doi.org/10.1215/2834...

When a debut novel gets a lot of attention, is it because a cabal of powerful insiders is pulling the strings? I wrote about “hype”: what it is, where it comes from, who controls it. Also: some tips on publishing a debut. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

"The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin, even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they’re manifestations of the same thing." – Mae Jemison 🌙🌙🌙 Happy Black History Month ❤️🖤💚

my dear friend @travisclau.bsky.social co-edited this robust & satisfying volume, & invited me to contribute. he stuck by my inclusion & this project, even through challenges like finding a new press to home the book. i’m proud to be part of it & to hold it in my hand!

That’s our book!! Hoping this year holds more press and readings for this absolutely inspired collection. #publishing #disability

I cried a little bit when I opened the mail yesterday. I joined the editorial team for this new anthology of disability poetry in 2020 when I was so deeply uncertain about whether I'd have a job, so deeply isolated and scared for the future at a time of mass pandemic disablement.

What are some examples of literary analysis in a trade book? Is it possible with regards to fair use/ copyright? (Also always interested in literary books for non-specialist audiences that aren’t just author biographies)

You *shall* come out and play in the snow, papa! You *shall*!