Love that a selling point of refrigeration was “you can go visiting whenever you like”

TFW you have an epiphany about a text, only to realize you're 100 years late.

Woohoo! If you'll be there, we'd love to see you at the Friday afternoon workshop on "Organizing and Advocacy Across Contingencies" Kate Schnur and I have organized. All--whether contingent or not--are welcome (everyone also welcome at the CCIS drinks happening Friday eve).

Women demand pockets, c. 1928

I’ve been sitting on announcing this was coming until it had a cover, but I am so excited about every bit of this!

This is the first time I’m seeing the cover and I am SO EXCITED!!!

Perfectly normal Monday night of having my mind blown by an article in citation systems from 1999

My mom put a couch in the middle of her kitchen, which is simultaneously a ludicrous, Frat-house, choice in decorating, and also weirdly convenient.

Cannot overstate how important this one particular farm stand is for my mental health.

Always fun to find oneself in the research zeitgeist! If this interests you and you're attending MSA, please join Caroline Krzakowski's and my seminar on Bureaucracy and Infrastructure!

My kid let me read him poems out of my c. 2000 Norton to fall asleep tonight, so I think my work is done.

Hope to see you soon!

This is happening tomorrow, and I hope you'll join us! We have a few prepared thoughts, but mostly it's a chance for contingent/independent scholars to pool ideas and strategies for research funding!

These are our Classy bibs.

Please come! We'd love to swap ideas with you!

Come share your thoughts and experiences finding funding as a contingent scholar with us this coming Tuesday!!

Google search got rid of the part of the results page where they tell you how many search results there were and I hate them more every day.

Shoutout to my phone for suggesting I might want to correct my last name to cannonball.

Going to swap out my slides about ChatGPT leading to lawyers being disbarred for slides about ChatGPT killing people.

I have yet to hear a single vision for the cool, AI-powered future being promoted that sounds interesting or desirable. The fact that I'm told it's inevitable makes me bonkers. It's like I'm being force-fed a shit sandwich.

pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

Tomorrow I’ll be the parent of a middle schooler, but tonight he still let me read him my favorite kids book

Ew.

I am well aware of the problems of romanticizing the past, but sometimes I remember that when I was in school we didn't have active shooter drills.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Every time I burn myself on the oven I remind myself this is a core part of the human experience.

Anyways! It's August of 2025 so maybe a good time for a job search resource thread! The Academic Job Market Support Network has sample cover letters, CVs, research statements, and other job materials. You can use them OR add your own. hcommons.org/groups/acade...

Cottagecore influencers have nothing on this pic of me as a flower girl in 1986.

Hemingway scholars/friends better at internet search than I am this morning: does anyone know when the text “a motley group of expatriates" first began appearing in descriptions/jacket text of The Sun Also Rises?

When I say technology I mean the steamship.

One day, walking by a park full of children, I saw an animal half a block away and excitedly pointed and said "look, it's a coyote!" And they all looked and I got closer and it was a raccoon.

Local Costco selling “chicken paws.”

Came here to endorse Freaky Tales!

To-do listing my way through it...

A student asked me to recommend books because "they don't know what they like to read and want to try things out" and I am SO OVERWHELMED.

Why is my mom, a consistently late riser, texting me at 7:30 am to ask if "I know about Sara and Gerald Murphy"?

My 11 year old now performs 50% of the Major-General's Song on request. I'm sure this will make him wildly popular when he starts middle school next week.

Wish I lived near the Huntington and had an excuse to do this work! Maybe you do?

The joy and terror of being bridge program freshmen’s first college professor on a Monday morning!

Today in "the internet is getting worse": for the first time in 21 years of having gmail, I'm waking up each morning to an inbox full of SPAM.

They did!

Annual moment of truth: did my office plants survive my absence?

Every once in awhile I have an internal epiphany so cliché I get embarrassed on my own behalf.

May Birkhead chapter now in print in this spectacular (and truly ground breaking!) volume.

Can’t wait to see you!

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity. Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

Something for everyone.

@sinsleyh.bsky.social I'm pretty sure you tweeted this out years ago :)

Not sure whether to laugh or cry.