In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

Continuing my "meta" arc, this time I'm talking about why its worth reading academic books even if you are not an academic. Also why I think a lot of the criticisms against academic works don't hold up, and how the line between pop and academic work isn't always clear cut. #medievalsky #history

Another new resource on our site is a guide for scholars looking to start shifting into public scholarship or adding it to their repertoire. Please check it out, share it with first gens, grad students, and ECRs, and make any suggestions for additions! Also see our other resources on the site!

#ASECS26 folks: don't forget to print 2 accessibility copies of your papers! @asecsoffice.bsky.social Travis Chi Wing Lau and Jason Farr have written this helpful guide: profession.mla.org/toward-a-mor...

If you're a poet or a lover of poetry please help me spread the word about these remarkable books by some of the finest disabled poets writing today. www.ninemile.org/propel

SCREAMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Introducing the 2026 Writing Freedom Fellows! Haymarket Books and @mellon.org are honored to recognize these 20 writers and their remarkable work. Read more here:

It's an honor to be part of the editorial board for this disability-centered series of poetry -- so happy to be helping publish new crip work. Thank you to @stevekuusisto.bsky.social for inviting me into this initiative. www.ninemile.org/propel

Sometimes, the perversity of every day life just primes itself for my teaching.

New: 150 unionized ProPublica workers are on strike TODAY over AI, layoff protections, wages, and more. They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom. www.theverge.com/news/908401/...

Staring at another reminder to accept a review out of my expertise right now. The system of academic publication and review required a supply of TT folks with time to do this work as part of their jobs. NTT teaching faculty (like yours truly) now do what we can, but the system is unsustainable.

That’s two years’ worth of the TA stiped I earned at Iowa during my PhD, for the record.

Finding my way back to my monograph for #ASECS2026. Looking forward to seeing some familiar faces and folks I adore.

#Introduction: Theoretical physicist. Black Feminist theorist. Writer. I do: dark matter, neutron stars, & science studies. Web: chanda.science Newsletter: news.chanda.science Insta/threads: chanda.prescod.weinstein Author of award-winning #DisorderedCosmos and now #EdgeOfSpaceTime!

NEW: Preliminary findings released today from the AAUP’s annual Faculty Compensation Survey reveal that real wages for full-time faculty decreased & remain below pre-pandemic levels. The FCS is the largest independent source of data on faculty salaries. Check out preliminary findings below. ⬇️

Through the years of multiple world crises (plus smaller ones of my own health) I have felt each term my teaching falling a little more apart. By falling apart I mean my ability to adhere to the bureaucratic regimen, and to get closer to my own expectations for getting resources together or revised.

I’ve been teaching Gen Z for 7 years and I can tell you right now, the issue isn’t intelligence, it’s skills. Writing, note taking, studying, close reading. We’ve replaced those skills with Chrome Books and AI and then wonder why they struggle. We failed them, not the opposite.

I’m sorry I haven’t answered your email; it found me unwell.

Anyway, we have ample research on how living under a state of sustained terror and stress causes life-long health problems as well as intergenerational epigenetic effects. This feels like it's making you sick because it actually is making you sick.

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

Counterpoint: Every year, "means-testing" across Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc entails a multi-billion dollar transfer of state and federal tax dollars to third party consultants who build and maintain these systems of administrative burden

This is not lets-propose-this-and-see-what-Congress-says. Their plan is more like USAID: eliminate before Congress can weigh in.

I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.

We are hiring 3 full-time lecturers in the English Department at University of Illinois at Chicago! 3/3 teaching load. Eligible for union membership (UICUF). Join us!

International students, should they come despite the danger, pay full price and colleges and universities have long relied on that funding. And as Trump's new budget proposes slashing funding for students pursuing college and university educations. No "investment." www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

On April 22 some of our fantastic editors and contributors for The Nursing Clio Reader will be talking at the Dittrick Medical History Centre. It’s available on Zoom too! artsci.case.edu/dittrick/upc...

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

This also goes for TTRPG supplements and works. We're all creatives here. I don't care how "woe is artless me" you think you think you are. We're all fighting the same battles here.

Testing companies have been developing and using machine grading for decades. If you took the GRE in the last decade, the writing sample was graded by AI. It's called an eRater.

AP administrators have long wanted to automate grading because scoring 600,000 essays just in English Literature was just drudge work. But they paid, and I did it. I made some amazing friends. It was fun until it wasn't. To get rid of scorers and their expenses--food, hotel, travel--oh hooooo!

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My contribution to the discussion about social media platforms is that everyone on the left should read this book www.upress.umn.edu/978081669864...

Getting to return to UT Austin as a poet-in-residence with the Crip Narratives Collective was such an emotional reunion.

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.” -Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.

I'm so grateful to @devingarofalo.bsky.social for organizing this special issue and for offering me the opportunity to contextualize the events at St. Norbert College within a broader range of attacks on higher education. The thinking that went into writing this has been vital to me, in all senses.

Some opportunities really do feel like dreams come true. Beyond thankful for the chance to talk about my work with the Georgetown community and be in dialogue with such a generous audience.

Oh so now copyright matters.

Cried a good long while when this arrived in the mail. Thank you Sandy Ho for giving me this opportunity to write in celebration of @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.

Issue One is live and full of nerve! Featuring work by @emmabolden.bsky.social, @jacqdoyle.bsky.social, @williamfargason.bsky.social, @sonyahuber.bsky.social @mattkendrick.bsky.social, @gabemontesanti.bsky.social, @zachpowers.bsky.social and more! www.nervetowrite.com/issue-1

Some demoralizing history about Monopoly that I only learnt in passing recently! 👀 www.womenshistory.org/articles/mon...

"As Rooks explains in her book White Money/Black Power, early investment in Black studies favored programs over departments: curricular arrangements rather than independent units with their own hiring authority, degree-granting capacity, and governance structures.

Only three more days to enter! triohousepress.submittable.com/submit Who will be pressmates with @susanlleary.bsky.social, @joustingsnail.bsky.social or @introspectiveant.bsky.social?! Maybe….you!

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

The MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @historians.org have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

For this piece with @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, we argue that French writers' use of names, including in abolitionist lit, mirrored the logic of slavery itself: authors liberally detached these names from the cultures in which they had originated, and turned them into markers for an undifferentiated "Other"

NEW: The NIH has been policing language in research proposals to weed out “DEI”—a term seemingly loosely defined to mean anything relating specifically to minority groups. I spoke with an early-career researcher who says his work is being censored. www.importantcontext.news/p/rewrite-al...

If you missed last night's reading, you can find it here! youtu.be/U3I2QCVYxRI Stay tuned for details about our next reading on May 7!

This week, I asked my readers for feedback and what they are looking for from political writers. Their responses tell of a pervasive sense of exasperation with politics, the search for ways out of this mess, and the longing for optimism amidst all the chaos. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

To my surprise I got invited to be on a panel here called "The Problem of AI" and took the opportunity to try to shift the discussion from boosterism & normalization, however "thoughtful and deliberative," & toward the political economy of higher education nathankhensley.net/uncategorize...