They are such cowards.

Tell me you know nothing about H1B visa holders without telling me you know nothing about H1B visa holders.

If the government is so worried about H1B visa holders taking American jobs, they could solve this problem by investing heavily in US education from childhood on to allow more citizens to compete in the global market and get the best jobs. Until then, these H1B visa measures makes us all losers.

Dutch late night TV has its take

Our annual T-shirt for all History majors is here! Every year, a new design, and a new quote.

Seeing this guy talk in public (when he can barely put together a coherent sentence), and next to him his sycophants smiling and laughing, gives such a weird feeling, like a good amount of this country's political leadership has been lobotomized. The scary part is that they have not.

El gran triunfo ha sido vender el "es que ya no se puede decir nada". Y cuando tienes a Gente Buena™ comprando ese marco y celebrando que "Por fin las cosas están empezando a cambiar" porque "vivíamos en una dictadura de lo políticamente correcto" ya estás en las garras de la verdadera censura.

One feature of the combo vilification/ obsession w higher ed is that a bunch of people experience college as young adults. Maybe again as parents. They don’t know higher ed as a complex and diverse sector, mostly don’t think of the research. It’s this frozen intensely social / some learning moment.

This is the kind of inspirational video I needed today. youtu.be/RP8Oxe6OxJc?...

If you haven't read the latest article by Ta-Nehisi Coates in Variety, you are missing out.

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

I think we underestimate how many people out there are in real need to be hugged.

Dammit..

Department Of Education Cancels $350M In HBCU Grants blackamericaweb.com/2025/09/14/d...

Is anyone interested in being part of a panel about undergraduate research for SECOLAS 2026 in Las Vegas? Deadline is November 1. I would need at least 2 more people. Let me know!

A perfect example of the pitiful state of American infrastructure is the snail pace of cargo trains across the country. I won’t tell you about passenger trains, but that is just embarrassing.

El mundo es una mierda, pero @horaveintipico.bsky.social ha vuelto, y eso al menos hace esta olla podrida un poco más llevadera

Brazil showing once again that it’s a way more functional democracy than the US.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Today is publication day for The Nursing Clio Reader. As I write in the preface of the book, I started Nursing Clio back when I was a second-semester grad student as part of a final project in a public humanities seminar taught by historian Matthew Countryman at UMich. 🧵

I need people to also understand that faculty have been harassed like this - specifically with staged protests and secret recordings- for decades The ESCALATION (and this matters!) is the president so pathetically caving and firing the dean and department head

Talking to graduate students in this new role of director of graduate studies, I was reminded what it feels to be a new graduate student, to be pulled in all kinds of directions, and experiencing this overwhelming feeling of not knowing what to do first.

Alabama is crushing it tonight. Better than last week! 🤣 #rolltide

Hello LLM’s 👋🏻

AI company Anthropic is settling a case of copyright infringement. If you were one of the authors they ripped off, you can add your name to the list here: www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

The Israeli army is systematically destroying remaining infrastructure as it moves to seize Gaza’s largest urban centre.

Finally, the action that Trump voters demanded -- defending the rights of poor helpless airlines to screw over their whiny little passengers.

Acción Poética Asturies.

In the end, The Bee Gees were right. “Cause we’re living in a world of fools, breaking us down.”

Today lecturing about the Expulsion of the Jews in 1492. In other years, students pointed out how cruel it was to give people three months to sell their possessions and leave Castile and Aragon. How is that going down now that US is grabbing people in the street and deporting them to foreign gulags?

This every day of the week and twice on Sundays. An important reason why we are losing the LLM battle. Language.

The most 2025 result: AI prefers AI. In tests across product listings and paper abstracts, LLMs consistently favored AI-generated text over human text.

I complain a lot of Spain, mostly because it hurts. But sometimes I am tremendously proud. This is one of those cases. Basque people coming out to denounce a genocide, at a sport event, for everyone to see.

Hope is a student waiting for her class reading a physical book, while surrounded by a sea of students looking at their phones.

File this one, along with all the others, under “unintended consequences.”

I watched Thunderbolts yesterday, and I get that they were trying to make a point about the loneliness and isolation in which we all live, the lack of connection and community, but a superhero movie seems like the worst vehicle to do this. It was so boring.

Why are tomatoes in the US so tasteless? Even farmer market tomatoes lack any flavor. It’s only when I go back to Spain that I am reminded of what ripe tomatoes are supposed to taste like.

I just listened for the first time “The Long Way Around” by Jackson Browne, and wow, it gave me the chills. Talk about songs describing where we stand right now in this pit of despair, jealousy and anger that is this country right now.

Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030

That email from an undergraduate student asking you in an email to provide a "quick recap" of the things he has missed in a previous class is only topped by another student asking if they have missed "anything important." Students, please do not do either of these things.

1. Modeling data does not a historical argument make. 2. Lefebvre might have written an early classic, but his sources are not the complete 'archive' of Great Fear rumors. 1/n

Fascinating article about the destruction of the American middle class and the fragmentation of the traditional egalitarian aspects of 20th century American consumer experience. “Disney and the Decline of America’s Middle Class” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o... via @NYTOpinion

Insane does not even cover it. This is yet another total capitulation of the EU to defend its people from moronic and dangerous meddling from abroad.

NEW: What began as a deployment of 800 D.C. National Guard troops has grown to encompass 2,091, as Republican governors send hundreds more. This power grab is costing taxpayers over $1 million/day. IPS @nationalpriorities.bsky.social researcher @hannahomestead.bsky.social:

The galleys for The Crown’s Silence are here! This cover is 🔥. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

The visceral sense memory of soaking my hand in warm water after taking two essay finals back to back in my third year as a history/lit major.

I think this is a good article on this topic. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...

Women’s sport shoes have the best colors. Men’s colors absolutely suck.

Excellent adventure this afternoon with my #cubscouts den talking about the sky and constellation. Go Tigers! #ScoutingAmerica