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Blueskis, THE WESTERNERS will be out in one week! (March 31) Here's an introduction to the seven westerners whose stories I tell in the book, and whose lives put the lie to the frontier myth. #skystorians #USWest @scribnerbooks.bsky.social

I showed this graph in class yesterday on how measles cases in the United States plummeted dramatically after the vaccine was licensed in 1963. It’s not subtle and I could not resist observing: “This stunning design in measles cases was not thanks to vitamin A. It was not due to beef tallow.”

You might think, that's so Miami, it'll fit right in downtown. But this site is owned by our public two-year college, MDC, a major force for working-class, POC, immigrant empowerment in South Florida, and the trustees voted to give it away to Trump with no public discussion.

Join us TOMORROW, March 31, 2026 at 4 p.m. ONLINE only for a conversation with Boston University professor Joe Rezek on Common Sense and more! This is the launch of our new series The Revolution Is News. Details at jcblibrary.org!

In retrospect this is very funny

Hello! Today is THE LAST DAY to file a claim in Bartz v. Anthropic. GET YOUR MONEY! Check the works list to see if you are on it here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/ File a claim here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/claim-form

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

🗃️📚📜 Any #GLAMS willing to help out?

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Maple syrup under a microscope. That is why Canadians are so happy, we literally eat glitter. 😊 #Canada

A thing we all have to learn (including me) is that we never owe anyone an explanation about our health and it’s none of their business why. Ableism tells us we need to explain ourselves and justify our absence but we never need to go beyond “I wasn’t feeling well”.

What if gaslighting didn’t start in modern psychology, but in the Victorian Empire? VICTORIAN GASLIGHTING traces how power, “madness,” and false narratives were used to control women and colonized subjects, and why it still matters. #SCMS26 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/26pr7kyn

“But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending…studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers &organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning”

I miss being able to walk into a record store without any plans on what I would walk out with. techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/b...

''The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera'' Dorothea Lange, US photographer (1895-1965) #womensart

hey book history pps, who researches the development of prayer cards? surely someone must? yeah they're ephemera and so the corpus is entirely scattered and ad hoc but some have survived, so surely someone studies them??

IMPORTANT DEADLINE Check if your work was illegally used & is included in the Anthropic AI copyright settlement. I highly recommend taking a look, the payout is big. The deadline to file a claim is March 30th. Search first under author's name on their website: anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Re: #Querying: I do not accept AI generated material. It is an automatic pass. Please don’t send this work to me.

my beloved academics, my twofold plea to you: *learn to remove the metadata from your documents *if you already know how, teach your friends

QTR is an open-access journal dedicated to expanding both scholarly and public knowledge about the rich and complex connections between religion, gender, and sexuality. Issue 2:2 is now available. View the TOC and access the full issue for free: buff.ly/zlypSRF

Administrators spend $17 million of CSU money on ChatGPT while shuttering departments essential to the job of a university in developing, archiving, and teaching all kinds of knowledge

The farther out I get from my own undergrad, the more I realize that what I really learned wasn't any particular fact or even subject area. What I learned was how to learn. How to find information on any subject, how to begin to tell bad information from good, how to test an idea, etc.

We should be librarymaxxing right now to ensure preservation of hard fought knowledge.

it’s the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, the site of which — it’s easy to forget — is an active classroom building our Lilly Sabella went there to talk to professors and students about what it means to study on the same floors where the fire took place

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Okay, can we have a moment for the Interimaginary Departures Gate at Austin’s airport?

Hey everyone! You have until MARCH 30, 2026 to file a claim in the Anthropic Settlement. If you have questions about filing--or if you aren't sure if you've filed correctly--call the settlement administrator at 1 877-206-2314.

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Linguists: Is there any recourse to demand overdue payment from an overseas agency? Andovar Pte Ltd is located in Singapore and owes me $1400.

Trying to get informed on Ai? There are many ethicists leading the way, articles about data-center pollution, and the class-action lawsuits representing those of us who had our work stolen. The problems are many including embedded bias 🎧: newbooksnetwork.com/more-than-a-...

‘Nonfiction books are a crucial bulwark against the surging public culture of “alternative facts,” outright lies, and the brazen embrace of ignorance.‘ newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Submit nominations for the AHA’s awards and prizes by May 15. The AHA recognizes outstanding historical work of many types, including exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring, film, and digital projects and resources.

The AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social welcome today’s ruling allowing video footage of depositions to be published online again. The depositions are evidence in our lawsuit to restore the function and funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Ever wondered how dance might represent the piezoelectric effect or the process of magnetic nanoparticles extracting DNA from urine samples? See how researchers have brought the worlds of dance & science together for this year’s Dance your PhD competition: www.chemistryworld.com/news/physici...

One of the best things about teaching undergrads is when they teach you. Here’s my progress through #HuronUniversity’s #linocut workshop, run by our #Letterpress Assistants.

There's a big issue where people only study things at Harvard and then pronounce that their findings show how the world works for all colleges and, when people push back, we're often told that we must be crazy

"Researchers and archivists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have identified what may be the earliest preserved recording of a whale: the song of a humpback, captured on March 7, 1949, near Bermuda." www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

I assure you that if I, a liberal college professor, had the ability to indoctrinate my students: they would read and follow instructions at a far higher rate than is currently observed. If I was *really* good at it, they might also read the syllabus.

Bracket busted? Join the club, & then check out all the winning picks in my 268th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy the March meaningfulness! 🗃️+ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

🚨Don’t upload other people‘s intellectual property to Ai. 🚨

USPS is the bus ride that saves you from needing a $75 cab. It's the public school that saves you $5k in tuition even when the diocese is helping with the funding. It's the public housing that keeps you housed when you don't have money for $3k rent for a private family-sized apartment.

"In the name of the University's final AI principle - responsiveness to the stakeholders involved (i.e. all of us ...) - we ask that the University of Edinburgh not renew its contract with OpenAI and stop using OpenAI as a supplier." docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

That line drives me absolutely BONKERS. It’s up there with the canard that “racism isn’t profitable!” Money is a consolation prize for not having total power. It is actually very rational to pursue that power at the expense of profit.

NIH Fellowship awards for FY2025 by race drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/03/19/n...

Art matters. And what do we do with things that matter? We protect them. Here is information about H.R. 7661, a US book banning bill that explicitly targets books about trans people, and what you can do right now to help stop it.

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Submission Open! We would like your poetry for our official launch at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair 06/26, and beyond! Send your mini/micro chaps! See our guidelines at, sider0xylon.carrd.co#submit

as a young musician I was taught that every rehearsal and every gig is an audition, because you never know who's quietly listening to your performance and what opportunities they or the people around you will hand you next it occurs to me that this is also really good advice for academics