A little bird tells me the math majors are making Stifter references. My work is done. 🫡

Teaching German adjective endings be like...

Shameful. The $30 million going to "AI and robotics" for farmers seems like a clue in the overall shakedown. statements.cornell.edu/2025/2025110...

I pass Bhalswa on my way to work. www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

The wood veneer panel on minivans was as puzzling to me at age 6 as it is now.

Will spread far and wide.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

Oktoberfest is long over, but I finally bottled my Märzen. Travel messed with this year's #homebrewing calendar.

What are the chances I could get Guillermo del Toro to come to the faculty meeting tomorrow?

Gonna regret going for that carbon frame, I see.

Now available in English for the first time, Rex Levang, reflects on the challenges of translating Theodor Fontane’s, Count Petöfy, and why the novel remained neglected for so long. buff.ly/uVMQzkr

I'm sorry, Wikipedia. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...

Four great novels about architecture so you don’t have to read The Fountainhead

This week: indoctrinating 97 first-year undergrads into the Adalbert Stifter fan club. 😈💃

As a kid my mother used to tell me you couldn't see stars in the city. I looked up, doubtful, because there's a star and there's a star. Then at 10 I went camping for the first time. Seeing the Milky Way for the first time is one of my most charmed childhood memories.

First day of my large lecture class was me explaining that the poem they were looking at was more than the sum of its technics.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

Happy Diwali to you too. 😷 #LetDelhiBreathe #MyRightToBreathe

Car culture, militarism, and a beautiful landscape scrubbed away by sprawl: the featured image encapsulates all the things I dislike about San Diego. Next time someone asks me why I'm so disaffected by where I grew up, I'm showing them this.

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

du sagst ein Märchen aus uralten Zeiten geht dir nicht aus dem Sinn ich sag geh doch mal joggen

there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows

It never stops.

The Klingons understand this!

75 years later, the joke is on us.

"If only their continents had been turned the other way." -Jared Diamond

And I'm here for it. 🐳

An interview with yours truly regarding my book, "Ecology and German Realism" available from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social www.ashoka.edu.in/ecology-and-...

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

BRB, exercising my right as a democratic subject by engaging in a public expression activity in the designated area.

Luckily I'll never be famous enough to be anyone's research topic. Because if you went into my archive and saw... Editors save authors from themselves.

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

Highways too are technologies of separation. #BanCars

Screaming in San Diego 😱

1998 was also the model year of the only reliable inkjet printer I have ever owned.

This guy is absolutely right we should teach all children AI in the classroom! bc i need the job security that comes with being permanently smarter than them until im 85

If you are at #TheGSA2025, might I suggest stopping by the @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social table and checking out this book by an author who is me. I'm pleased to see it in such fine company!

Hello America, I'm here for #TheGSA2025. It's my first visit to the US in four years, did I miss anything?

My supervisor, Bhuta, monitors the bottling of the Scottish Heavy. His face is on the bottle, so he has much at stake in the quality control process. I was aiming for a lighter red than the reddish brown. Not that this color is anywhere out of style, I just wanted a prettier red.

In a rigidly hierarchical society like this one, people on these machines are barely a rung above pedestrians in the eyes of drivers and urban planners. But every time I see a person riding one, I think, they probably have no idea how hip they would be in Brooklyn. #BanCars

"AI" made the shitty singularity even shittier. #ShittyFuture

We committed the original sin with Napster. And not because of copyright.

Admitted to my students that my publication in my school's undergrad research journal could be found in the bowels of the internet, and everyone promptly pulled up Google. 😬

Those of us who care about efficient and just transit systems for a liveable yearn for the 1890s. #BanCars

This technology is so clearly designed to profit off cheating and struggling students--its insidious. And yet universities keep announcing how they're allowing this company into its midst, to exploit and incapacitate our students even more