Always make friends with dogs.

And how did I deal with the problem of one of the sources being in Greek (which I don't speak) and the other in Sanskrit (of which my knowledge is only moderate)? Colleagues and other experts. That's how. I asked other experts.

Are you organizing an #event or #conference? @aketchum22.bsky.social share her insights on to how to make them inclusive & accessible. ⬇️ @microcosm.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #EduSky #BookSky

What happens before and after the #book deal? We dig into this writer‘s guide to finishing, publishing, promoting and surviving. 🎧⬇️ newbooksnetwork.com/before-and-a... #PhDChat #BookSky #Writingsky #AcademicSky

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

I think alongside assigning books for students to read, we should also show them how great it is to be a reader.

The Society of Authors (SoA) and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) have published joint guidance for authors amid what they describe as an "alarming increase" in AI-driven scams targeting writers 👇

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This is your reminder that sometimes it feels like the world is ending and we're all doomed but all you really need is a sandwich. And probably some water.

Daisy and Thor must be academic Dobermans, because they’re exhibiting end of semester exhaustion like the rest of us.

Asking strangers for cute animal pix is not a replacement for therapy but it's cheaper and available on demand.

Today’s jobs: - Writing my department’s counter-proposal to the plan to sack over half of us - counselling students - dealing with Canvas hack fallout - trying to imagine what might be taught next semester and by whom (this bit failed).

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

We need dictionaries! They are one of our most requested books, soft-cover strongly preferred. Email us at [email protected] to set up a drop-off!

Good news from #NEH for 1400 of my fellow #Humanities scholars: #AcademicSky #BookSky #EduSky #PhDSky www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Mothers' Day for Peace, as originally proposed by poet and philanthropist Julia Ward Howe in 1872: "Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking of carnage...Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience."

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

"Although journalism layoffs are affecting multiple demographics, BIPOC and women have been disproportionately affected. However, Black reporters already represent a small portion in the industry. A recent Pew Research survey found just 6% of reporting journalists in the U.S. are Black."

“A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them . . . It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.” —James Baldwin NO NAME IN THE STREET

Funny but true: The President of the Heritage Foundation, Kevin Roberts, wrote his PH.D on enslaved African Americans in Louisiana. Indeed, his master’s thesis was entitled, African-Virginian Extended Kin: The Prevalence of West African Family Forms Among Slaves in Virginia, 1740–1870.

We can’t make curiosity and the luxury of learning only available to rich people. State colleges are not corporations and 5 majors in French is fine.

how many coffees must one drink to get through grading

“Use AI to brainstorm but not to write.” “Use AI to help you outline but not to write.” These are commonly proposed as “ethical” ways for undergrad students to use AI, but I’m sorry, brainstorming & outlining are just as integral to writing as the actual construction of sentences.

The starred review from @publisherswkly.bsky.social highlights Glawe's "distinctive voice and honesty" in his upcoming memoir publishing June 1st, 2026! Preorder available now. Read the full review here: https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781588385734

A 1989 law-review article by Kimberlé Crenshaw was responsible for introducing the term “intersectionality” to conversations about race, sex, and their joint legal protection. Read more about the history of the term, and the woman who coined it newyorkermag.visitlink.me/We4YRA

We need to have a long conversation in higher ed (and ed in general tbh) about our dependence on proprietary software platforms, especially learning management systems

Bye bye Doinge gradinge on tyme Thei seyde Canvas Left our campus And all files are wiped And the goode olde profs are wearinge ironic smyles Sayinge thys ys why we hadde paper fyles

This has been a heavy week all around. I want to take a moment to remember two dynamic colleagues we suddently lost from our academic community in the last few days. They were both doing important work and meant a lot to their respective communities. May their souls rest in eternal peace.

Well, let's give it a shot again and see what we get.

I’ve said before and I’ll say again that I had a fantastic advisor who I love dearly, but I knew all too many people whose advisors saw grad students as, at best, nothing more than consumable reagents to be burned without hesitation or concern.

Applications are still open for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. These grants help to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4t0MDRl

On Friday afternoon before the Bank Holiday, colleagues in the Humanities department were called to a meeting on Tuesday. They were informed that the University Portfolio Review had decided that English Language, English Literature, Philosophy, History & Creative Writing UG degrees would close

Also worth noting are the very many specialist UK history societies which support researchers of differing backgrounds and career stages. We've a new listing of 100 such organisations and scholarly communities bit.ly/4uu1yUr, with further listings of record societies & BlueSky networks #Skystorians

Support college #journalism

The air is starting to escape the balloon. Companies and executives can inflate the value of AI, but the ledgers don't lie. Gift link. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/orac...

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

It's awesome when you finally read a book that you knew it was going to be great, and it is just as good as you expected it to be. Isadora Mota's "Freedom Horizon" is definitely one of those. Extraordinary archival research to recover Black resistance from 1848 to 1870 and many wonderful stories!

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

Every teacher at every level needs to hear "you're not a salesperson and it's not a skill"

I don't quite have words yet. I'm stunned, grateful, disoriented. My deepest, deepest thanks to the five families without whom this book would not exist. It has been the honor of my life to know and learn from you.

The paperback of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress is now in my hands! There's new jacket copy! There are review quotations on the back: 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/

Just a remarkable public space, the New York Public Library main reading room #hatm

Without grants, America's basic research--the risky stuff that lets us understand how things work and lay the groundwork for research that mission-oriented government agencies or for-profit companies pursue--ends. So does its ability to train new scientists.

Shakespeare in the Kitchen is officially published today @routledgebooks.bsky.social !!!! Thank you to everyone how has supported my work / my Cooking in the Archives project & made this book possible. 📸 of the Pear Pie recipe from my chapter on The Winter's Tale by @gaypanek.bsky.social

Look what's here! Just in time to order for your fall classes! It's the affordable paperback version of *Plantation Goods* from @uchicagopress.bsky.social

🚨 Public health scholars! 🚨 JHPPL is seeking proposals for an upcoming special issue on "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics," edited by @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds, and @sarahgollust.bsky.social! Proposals due May 15! Submission guidelines: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/pages/...

Uncivil Democracy is now available worldwide!

Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality is finally out in the world! Combining nationwide survey evidence, state administrative data, and 111 interviews with patients, physicians & others, it tells the long-overdue story of coverage barriers and their deepening of burden an inequity.

I continue to believe that my policy of keeping my head down and waiting for everything related to AI to blow over on its own is the right approach.