I’ve been thinking about the intellectual and affective labor involved in reading AI Generated student papers. I’m forecasting a little of the proposal that @cnygren.bsky.social and I advance in a piece that’ll be out soon but here’s where I’ve personally landed (o speak for myself not for us both):

Fun fact, indie booksellers are always happy to order books, even if they don't have them in stock, for you to pick up in-store or have shipped. Heck, you can even ask faraway indie bookstores to ship a book, or you can purchase through bookshop.org and support indies across the US and the UK!

Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.

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Make a Bond movie academic Tenure is Forever

<Taps sign> www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Relatable. This was me with graduate school.

If they've learned how to take books to the used book shop to trade in for credit, you've obviously done something right. Kids who grow up wanting to trade books for more books are 💯 ahead of their peers. But if you aren't sure what they like, we're standing by with gift cards and suggestions 📚❤️

Make a Bond movie academic The Man with More of a Comment than a Question

More stories about the second-life of used books please.

Grateful to @academiclife.bsky.social for the great podcast episode with Rebecca Jumper Matheson, whose book "Artisans and Designers" is new in our series with the Costume Society of America. Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/artisans-and...

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

here’s your annual reminder that if you get sensory overwhelm at large social gatherings and need to find a quiet spot to chill/reset for a bit, that is 100% okay and you should definitely do it 🎄

#4 sounds like a lovely book but I didn't write it. Have had whānau up and down the country send me clippings lol Whoever put together this list that has been circulated to regional papers, didn't fact check.

Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, And 1 million Epstein files appeared from thin air

Despite frequent remonstrations from digital archivists, Persephone never accepted that she could not photocopy a whole book in one go.

This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.

"White Christmas" is kinda a scary song if you think it's about global warming

Does anyone have recommendations for good texts for undergrads or masters students that compare/contrast the basic institutional setup of state and local governments? (e.g., council/manager systems in local governments)

Since it’s official. Thanks 🙏 @newyorker.com. This feels pretty surreal.

Thank you, @npr.org, for including THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. "A paradigm-shifting, immersive book... a trenchant exploration of how America's disinvestment in public housing and relentless pursuit of free-market growth have fueled housing insecurity for poor working families."

Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

as a historian i have spent several hours going down rabbit holes to find an original 19th-century newspaper article rather than relying on a transcription or someone else's discussion of it and some folks cant be bothered to verify that the papers they cite are real, far less read them?? 😭

Final grades submitted. Fall semester complete. Sabbatical mode initiated.

34 more Black PHDs entered the world today from Morgan State and I think that’s pretty dope.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

In 2015, my mom went into hospice during finals. It was my senior fall at Wellesley. I was taking five classes (two P/F, thank goodness), and I had never been more on top of my game. I had finished the work for two of my classes before the week had even begun.

I direct Duke’s Asia Pacific Studies Center, so we’ve been working with Carolina Asia. Center on joint programs as much as we can this year to make up for budget shortfalls at both institutions. But this summary closure 🤬

My book exploring how generations of Americans have fought over how to understand George Washington and slavery officially has a pre-order page up! a.co/d/j5sBjLH

I used to teach an undergrad historical methods class and their favorite day was always the one where we listen to @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social telling Naomi Wolf (live, on air on the BBC) that she misinterpreted her data and based her whole book around something that didn’t happen

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

Authors, remember that you CAN insist on human translation for your foreign-language editions and have it written into your contracts. You can no longer just assume you're going to get a human to work on the book whose every word you wrote with intent.

LISTEN! The number of students of color I informally advise on publishing, fellowship applications, dissertations, job applications, fly outs, etc. could fill an auditorium. And the vast majority do not attend the institution that provides me with a W-2.

Treat your energy like money and quit spending it on people you don't like

Wikipedia: Social Murder

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

lol PSA if I ever mispronounce your name, PLEASE correct me. I'm being so serious.

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It is such a small thing. We had a cookie exchange for our faculty affairs/curriculum units today. Some brought family recipes, some bought theirs. Many don’t celebrate Christmas. And it was all great. Fellowship matters, wherever you find it.

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

My quote of the day If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else. Rob Reiner

Just in time for my birthday! Acknowledging theatre education’s loaded inheritance & building on neuroscience to argue why teaching & directing through shock & manipulation cannot continue, we posit a framework for Consent-Based Pedagogy. #theatresky #teachersky #highered

We light the first Hanukkah candle this evening, but we could all use some light right now, so here’s my 254th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from last week. Add more below, share widely, & solidarity, all.🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

my friends and i did a regifting market today. it was so fun, everyone brought newish, or vintage or homemade stuff they had around their houses to make a christmas market we could shop at for free. we even staged it all like a store. i got some good stuff.

We library folk do a good job talking about all the free services we offer, but I don’t see many of us talking about how libraries are one or the only places where you can use services without being advertised to.

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

I was discussing this with a friend yesterday. Both my eldest and I have been present for school shootings. (Neither, thank God, ended up being mass casualty events). This is the norm, not the exception. I have now been both on the sending and receiving of the texts you never want to know about.

lol these days instead of telling people "no I can't do that", I just say "I need to graduate." #phd #phdlife