This is the dawning of the age of the ukulele. What do I need to know??

Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/

AG Ellison staying at the No Kings rally despite being on the assassin’s hit list to tell the crowd to not be stopped, to keep marching is exactly what I needed in this moment.

Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today

NEW: In the city where US troops are turning on US citizens, an uprising. This is LA right now. Thousands protesting against Trump, authoritarianism and fascism. “These numbers are absolutely overwhelming downtown Los Angeles.” - MSNBC #NoKings #50501Movement

Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul.

Pussy Riot on the steps of City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, unfurling a banner that says IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE RUSSIA. #NoKings

Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians

Hundreds of all ages in Pittsfield, MA!

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

A few more cronies for funsies: Kushner: Harvard/NYU Ramaswamy: Harvard/Yale Thiel: Stanford Sacks: U of Chicago/Stanford Andreesen: U of Illinois Bezos: Princeton Zuckerberg: Harvard Epshteyn: Georgetown/Swarthmore Wiles: U of Maryland Lutnick: Haverford Patel: U of Richmond/Pace

Trump: Penn Vance: Yale/Ohio St Musk: Penn Miller: Duke Hegseth: Princeton/Harvard RFK Jr: Harvard/UVA Rubio: U of Florida Bondi: U of Florida Bessent: Yale Ratcliffe: Notre Dame Vought: George Washington Roberts: Harvard Alito: Yale Thomas: Yale Gorsuch: Harvard Kavanaugh: Yale Barrett: Notre Dame

The Library of Congress just delivered a masterclass in independence—blocking Trump appointees after he abruptly fired the Librarian. Staff stood firm, called Capitol Police, and refused to cede control. A bold stand for the separation of powers when it matters most. This is the way.

Everybody, guilty or innocent, is entitled to due process.

Call for Contributors! @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals! Deadline: 30 September 2025 More info here 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...

Lawsuits by major national organizations have been filed to fight grant cancellations at IMLS and Dept of Ed. Why has nothing been filed to fight cancellations at NEH, most especially the state humanities councils? Letters objecting to the cancellations aren't enough. www.salon.com/2025/04/21/t...

The Association for Computers and the Humanities is offering $1K start-your-project awards for folx "facing barriers in initiating digital scholarship." Applications due 1/27! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This👇

"If the cuts are upheld, however, small local museums and libraries will almost certainly close. Efforts to digitize local newspapers have ceased. The book festival your kids love each summer? It won’t happen without funding to the state humanities council that supports it."

I'm still formulating my thoughts about the devastating impact of NEH ODH's closure on the entire digital humanities ecosystem. In the meantime, I threw together a couple bar charts to visualize the number of programs and the total funding at stake in the NEH cuts. #DigitalHumanities #NEH

all too relevant piece on German universities in the 1930s by Iveta Silva "what made Hitler’s orders stick was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order." theconversation.com/universities...

I don't what this means, but I just had a good conversation with a staffer in Erin Houcher's office (IN-9) about the illegal terminations to NEH grants--a loss of over $2M in the largely rural 9th. The staffer asked me a number of good questions-please call (202)225-5315 if you are in the distinct.

We can confirm official RIF notices are starting to be sent to staff this afternoon. Our hearts are breaking for all.

Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities

Here is a direct link to tips for those NEH grantees who have received an email terminating their grant: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Some excellent tips and action items in response to the near destruction of the NEH

Very smart of UBC. And Vancouver is gorgeous!

Please read this post that my colleague and collaborator, the amazing @patriciaingham.bsky.social, wrote about our 2024–2027 NEH grant that was terminated by DOGE last week #medievalsky #humanitiesinitiatives (cc @altnehgov.bsky.social)

A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Just finished the 6th TBS (The Bloomington Symposium) at Indiana University, Bloomington, on Ecologies. A wonderful event with heaps of intellectual abundance for difficult times. Thursday night, I learned my NEH grant was terminated by the DOGE crew. These events are part of how we fight back.

Hearing reports of NEH staff being put on administrative leave (not sure yet how many are impacted). Grantees—remember to use eGMS for all correspondence but that staff may have severe restrictions on access to email & work material. NEH staff—we appreciate you & we’re so sorry this is happening.

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

The Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting brings 10,000 scholars together. International members are afraid to travel to the US, and a Bible-study group is gathering information on how best to keep its members out of inaccessible detention centers. This is where we are. #academicsky

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

What a monumental, whiny-ass, little crybaby. This was a bunch of middle aged and senior women saying mean things to a cybertruck owner. No violence, no threats, no vandalism. Just protest. And the richest man in the world is having a massive pout about it.

Rutgers University Senate proposal for a mutual defense pact of Big Ten schools. Rutgers faculty, show them the way!

I'm sorry, WHAT?! A new piece of the Bayeux Embroidery has been found?! OMG!

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture initiative seeks a postdoc with exp in data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. INFO academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746, contact @lindsaythomas.net

They banned smartphones in some czechian schools (Europe). Kids became more friendly. Btw www.europeandissemination.eu/social-media...

Bloomberg: US District Judge Loren AliKhan has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new directive to halt payments of federal grants, loans and other assistance to an array of programs across the country. ordered the pause during a hearing in Washington on Tuesday

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

If only the newly re-installed President were judged by the content of his character, not the paleness of his skin.

Here are the stats for NIH funding in Indiana: $414 M in funding. Over 5000 jobs and $1.1 B in economic development. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities'