Seems to be a lot of confusion on social media lately. Y’all are out there doing a great job commenting and debating with 🚗 🧠. Thanks and keep it up!

This! Ebikes are a far more effective way to make a more sustainable world than electric cars. Our family of FIVE drivers can get by just fine with just ONE car, in part, because we have an ebike with a large basket that essentially acts as our second car—and for a fraction of the price!

If only the “America is the best” crowd could truly understand this. I was raised that way, and it took me living in Europe for my 20s to fully realize how distorted that view is.

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This is a pretty fierce piece of writing: observing the strange overbuilding & underfunding, bandwagon-hopping, donation-seeking, corporate remaking of elite universities. The case study here is Hopkins, but almost the same could be written about some others. www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

I think the media understands the difference between e-bikes and illegal e-motos. They are intentionally conflating the difference between legal e-bikes and illegal e-motos to stoke fear and get clicks. It's could destroy the e-bike revolution if we don't find a way to stop it.

The natural color vs the crazy filter I accidently applied. #SantaCruz #Bikelife

So powerful! So important!

Seeing views like these are why I ride. #SantaCruz #Bikes

Absolutely perfect temps in #SantaCruz this afternoon.

New from #HistoryInFocus — More on the Doctoral Futures initiative, which aims to rethink graduate education in History and beyond. Plus, I recap my time at #AHA26; spoiler alert: it was mostly podcast-related sessions. 😀 🎙️ @historians.org www.historians.org/podcast/doct...

Insane glow along the coast as ultra thin marine layer creeps in. #SantaCruz

Morning in the city #SF

Thanks to Neil and Jen of the Continuing Studies Podcast for inviting me back to chat about podcasting, scholarship, and the future of audio. You’ll also hear me talk about my new gig with @inpursuitusa.bsky.social! www.continuingstudiespodcast.com/episodes/do-...

Not too shabby...

We must stop the purchasing of our elected representatives by big money seeking favors.

Season 5 kicked off last week, and Jeff Roche shows us how you can imagine exactly who your audience is. buttondown.com/draftingthep...

Chicago 🫶🏻

Final session of Sinclair History Podcasting Workshop series is now in the books. Bigger and better this year. So many great conversations. Thanks to everyone who helped and showed up! #aha26 @historians.org

#aha26 History Podcaster Meetup—today (Friday, 1/9) at 6pm. We'll meet at the Hilton bar. All are welcome! And please spread the word.

Starting this #AHA26 morning off with the debut of "The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast," now available on your favorite pod app. It's written & produced by Sebastian Garcia and John Lancaster of the University of Central Florida. Give it a listen! @historians.org podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Hey #AHA2026 folks. This Friday, come for a sneak peak of the upcoming, "The Memory of Negro Fort Podcast," a fascinating story about about a community of free Black and Indigenous people near Tallahassee in the era of the War of 1812! @historians.org aha.confex.com/aha/2026/web...

Headed to #AHA26 today, recorder and mic in hand! If you see me in the book exhibit, come say hi and tell me the most influential writing advice you know!

New from #HistoryInFocus — a conversation with new executive director of @historians.org Sarah Weicksel. We talk about her path to her current position, he work as a historian of material culture, and her vision for the AHA in this challenging moment.

Cyclist Now Comes to Complete Stop at Every Stop Sign, Unsure Why Drivers Still Hate Him - Just Wants To Be Liked. Creativebyrovelo.com/therovelorecord

I'll be interviewing the terrific hosts of @npr.org's Throughline podcast for a session at #AHA2026 later this week in Chicago. If you'll be around, please considering stopping by. Will be grand! @historians.org

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Hey, #SantaCruz...👀

A tough one today...55 miles and 6,000 feet of elevation. 🚵‍♂️🥵

Robotaxis make urban transportation more fragile. If you want resilience, invest in transit.

I've always loved this illustration depicting Joseph and Mary looking for a room. I am finding it especially powerful this year

Somewhere near #SantaCruz...

Riding after the rain...

Between the rain...

In this piece I wrote about how AI is harming teaching and the academic job market, but of course it’s also undermining scholarship

🧵A leaked DOJ memo shows the Trump FBI is drawing up an enemies list that could encompass well over half the US public. If you align with any of the following, congrats. You may be headed for Bondi's list. Also set up a cash reward system for people who turn in anyone who promotes these thoughts.

UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

My final manuscript in! And now I give you..... COVER REVEAL (US cover, UK is sooooo different but it's not public yet)

The new Jeff Buckley doc is pretty good, not least for the fact that it includes not a single interview clip with Brad Pitt.

Today on #HistoryInFocus, we revisit our episode on W.E.B. Du Bois’s 1935 magnum opus Black Reconstruction. Thanks again to Elizabeth Hinton for narrating this one, and for writing the long overdue review for AHR. @historians.org #historypodcast

The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort: www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...

New from History in Focus: A look at the recent special edition of the AHR's History Unclassified—"Mistakes I Have Made." I talk with HU editors Kate Brown and Emily Callaci, plus we hear from the nine contributors to the issue. @historians.org #historypodcast

Thinking about the Jill Lepore “students got difficult in 2016” thing: there’s a point for all of us when “youth opinion,” such as it is, no longer feels intuitive. It happened for me in the last few years. To understand where they’re coming from, you might have to do a little research.

Riding home from work today, I was close passed at high speed on a side street, just before a stop sign, and as an oncoming car came by. I, by the way, was going near 20 mph on my ebike. The Age of Cars could not end soon enough. 🤬 #thewaroncars

Bikes ≠ automobiles ❌Weigh 2-3 tons ❌Encased in a steel box ❌Kill thousands of people every year Bikes shouldn’t be treated as vehicles and shouldn’t be required to follow the same laws. Idaho stops are a perfect example. The increase safety when preformed correctly and make cycling safer!

As the 36th anniversary approaches, consider listening to my podcast project on the 1989 earthquake and its effects on Santa Cruz County...

Our first major storm yesterday. Predictably, this morning all of the car lanes were neatly cleared of debris, throwing into stark contrast the bike lanes where much of said debris now resides.