Garden certainly did well in my brief absence

Very astute 🧵

Wrote this thread about peer review, timelines, & workloads a yr ago & it remains true & hopefully helpful. It’s a bit screamy (sorry!) but, well, I was going through it & what I didn’t know is that things were about to get much worse on my end and I would be out much more. Again: hope it’s helpful!

The Algerian team in Lawrence, Kansas has a bigger celebration than the one at the White House for the 250th anniversary of American Independence

Hell yes

"What is particularly obnoxious about the moral case against the Weather Underground is the implication that their limited recourse to violence constituted some unique and inconceivable evil, that Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers crossed lines unimaginable to Henry Kissinger."

Welcome to the AI future l, everybody

It is actually useful to talk about straining ceasefires rather than assuming every bullet fired requires scrapping everything

This was a fantastic conference. Thank you Dónal and team for all your hard work making it so.

There are key differences between the UK HE crisis and the US HE crisis but also many similarities. This is one of them👇

I feel like this is the epitome of every single academic historian's experience...

Lol. Lmao.

“Root cause” thinking is often a way of preserving the status quo. “We can’t put in AC—we must fix climate change” okay you’re consigning elderly and vulnerable people to death while nothing happens to the root cause

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

A theological imperative that you should be writing

Maynooth University

People will do literally anything in order to avoid funding excellent public higher education

Abolish formal conference panel comments

Walked in here unknowingly and got roped into reading a passage of Ulysses for a crowd unexpectedly lol

If the US is going to recover from this attempted fascist takeover, Dems will have to support policies that a year ago (and even now) seem radical, even revolutionary. Dems need a strong left to drag them kicking and screaming to the right place, bc Dem leaders will resist almost all of it.

Schools of civic thought are a cancer on American universities, undermining faculty governance while indoctrinating students in non-peer reviewed research against their will: www.uncivilcollective.org

The fictional forecast as I understand it (my french is rusty) was supposed to be for a "typical" August heat wave in 2050, while the current actual map shows a *record* June heatwave. But the basic message--that we'll see more and more of these extremes as we continue to warm the planet--holds.

I don’t even think that is possible because the operating epistemic principle of civic centers is “viewpoint diversity“ and the operating epistemic principle of the university is peer review, and these are fundamentally incompatible approaches to knowledge. asheeshksi.substack.com/p/introducti...

I mean I guess the good news about the North Atlantic Current collapsing earlier than we expected is Europe won't have to worry about heatwaves for very long

Not at all surprised to find the History department at Trinity College Dublin is housed in a brutalist concrete behemoth, lol

it is impossible to overestimate how stupid and horny occupying dipshits are, whether they’re Chechen soldiers or ICE agents

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.

There are so many things to say but if you can't handle a grad class saying things like this drop out. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

There is the heat and then there are the people desperate to escape it in a country that isn't set up to accommodate that. "40 people who are reported to have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas across France in recent days"

Climate collapse is now www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Campus looking well ahead of #FCHS26. Looking forward to welcoming all the delegates of the @frenchcolonial.bsky.social to Maynooth.

Algeria played well. Now we'll have to bank on vengeance for Gijón against Austria!

every time you see a headline that begins with “we have to,” replace the “we” with “you” and you’ll immediately understand the purpose of the piece and the power dynamics at play

Dans le Figaro du jour il y a un hommage à Marc Bloch (comme dans tous les journaux du jour), ce qui a déclenché chez moi le reflexe d'aller sur Gallica pour voir comment le Figaro parlait de Marc Bloch de 1929 à 1940. Je sens que je ne vais pas être déçu.

Picture the John Hancock Tower in Boston. Lay it on its side, then fill it with 82 MILLION POUNDS OF MEAT. Add insulating foam and anhydrous ammonia to taste. Now set it on fire and let it smolder for six days. Then let it bake in the California sun.

In Europe they don't play commercials on the hydration break so you can see that nobody's hydrating and it really is just a commercial break

Mbappé!

Children weren’t the target of federal food program changes, but they’re increasingly “collateral damage,” one expert said. The drop in the number of children receiving SNAP benefits is a “public health crisis” in the making, said another expert.

...... i'm sorry, they wanted to invade greenland because red lobster nixed the unlimited shrimp promotion? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Et c'est reparti pour un tour au mois de juin.

"Because faculty no longer control the curriculum, Texas A&M is quickly becoming an institution of dead dogmas." - Martin Peterson His full resignation letter below. Hear from him directly at our next Resistance Salon - June 24 @ 12pm ET. Register 👇 www.resistancestudiesseries.com/salon

Drove up the Conner pass and got some pretty fantastic views of the Dingle Peninsula

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

I do wonder, though, once the World Cup is done, if folks in Lawrence and Kansas City will have actually learned anything of significance about Algeria. The sudden explosion of locally-produced "Algeria" merchandise makes me suspect the interest may be more viral than permanent...

The richest man in the world dismantled USAID which has led to an Ebola outbreak and developed a technology that identified a girls school to bomb.

I have never rooted for anything harder than I rooted for Ivory Coast to upset Germany

Somehow managed to get a sunburn in Ireland lol