The AHA’s report on academic hiring in history for the 2024–25 cycle is now available. Read more in #AHAPerspectives.

First faculty meetings of Fall 2026 must involve amending departmental standards and criteria to guarantee an AI-free evaluation to all candidates for tenure and promotion.

There was an attack to try to get me fired for being a “pro assassination” professor last fall (someone wildly mischaracterizing my Bluesky posts, resulting in like 200 calls to fire me and having to get the police involved), so to get this student eval about that this term feels a bit poetic.

And the 8 Dems are: Henry Cuellar (TX), Don Davis (NC), Cleo Fields (LA), Laura Gillen (NY), Vicente Gonzalez (TX), Marcy Kaptur (OH), Marie Glusenkamp Perez (WA), & Eugene Vindman (VA).

We reject the public relations campaign launched by the Trustees and President Kotlikoff. We support the Students for a Democratic Cornell in their call for more democratic governance on campus, including restoring an independent judicial system and ending suspensions of nonviolent protesters.

The Trustees urge Cornell “to foster and uphold an environment where we allow for debate and dissent practiced with civility, respect, and accountability.” This statement rings hollow in light of a process evidently designed to exculpate leadership, rather than establish any accountability.

It is now evident that the investigation was a sham. The speed with which it was conducted suggests the intent was to craft a favorable narrative in time for commencement and reunion. It evaded any consideration of whether the President’s actions were appropriate for the leader of a University.

Cornell AAUP, along with other Cornell community organizations, has issued a statement concerning the recent incident involving President Kotlikoff hitting a student and an alum with his car and the subsequent Board of Trustees investigation exonerating the President and condemning the students.

Kind of feel like we especially don’t need fancy law explainers at the moment. “Can the president just take money when he wants?” A third grader could answer this. A Yale law prof is likelier to write the wrong answer so their 2L can work for Alito

I happened to start this excellent book by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social on my trip. It is about the Jewish Labor Bund, a political group started at the end of the 19th century that was “secular, socialist, and uncompromisingly anti-Zionist”.

I would have stepped right over these small bricks in the sidewalk if my Italian friend hadn’t pointed them out. They are memorials for Jews who had lived in Ferrara and Florence before being sent to Auschwitz. Only one made it out alive. Franca was 28 and Marcello was 15 when they were killed.

IEA reckons nearly a third of new cars sold this year worldwide will be electric. www.businessgreen.com/news/4529970...

the sound of the future they are selling is this podcast generated from a blank pdf

I wonder how many times this needs to be proven before people will stop being annoying about it. Build more.

I believe this is known as liquified natural gaslighting. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"Pfizer, Moderna COVID vaccines 70% to 76% effective against severe illness in kids in 2022, data suggest" Incredible that some doctors devoted their nearly their entire pandemic output to making sure kids didn't get this vaccine.

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

In "response" to the reports that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant is imminent for him, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says that he will ethnically cleanse the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan al-Ahmar in the Israeli-occupied West Bank

Today's escalation:

If you're concerned about news coverage that soft-pedals or ignores the corruption of the Trump administration, subscribe to Law Dork now. www.lawdork.com/subscribe Here's how I covered yesterday's news about the slush fund "settlement" — before Todd Blanche made it even worse today.

"no U.S. university gives faculty, students, staff, alumni, or community residents — either separately or collectively, directly or through representatives... — the right (1) to select a majority of the governing board or (2) to exercise majoritarian voting power over high-level... decisions."

For the years 2015-2019, the UN reported that 52 countries had policies intended to raise fertility rates, and 69 were trying to lower fertility; 19 wanted to maintain current rates, and 52 specified no national policy. These are their stories.

The fact that the AI hallucinated a quote from @merbroussard.bsky.social’s “Artificial Unintelligence” is truly perfection.

SocArXiv bans people, too. “We are aware that any paper we accept will be scraped up and fed to the next generation of LLMs, and we don’t want to contribute to a death spiral of nonsense and hallucination,” says Philip Cohen, director of SocArXiv.

I am so angry at everyone who has affirmed the bipartisan commitment to Islamophobia in all of the ways that it happens: openly violent rhetoric, exclusion from key political stages, attacks on students who show solidarity with Muslims and Arabs, and so on.

Nobody is born Islamophobic. Islamophobic children are made and will continue to be made in a society that treats Islamophobia as a bipartisan norm and even sometimes social good. Islamaphobic children with access to guns are made possible by an Islamophobic society that loves guns.

3 big findings from latest @cplusc.bsky.social report: 1/ Insurance crisis is hampering development & viability of affordable housing supply 2/ Insurers have significant power over what gets built, serving as de facto permitting authority 3/ operators are postponing upgrades & green retrofits

In unusual display of loyalty, Brutus and other Romans surround Caesar.

Did not know until I read this that there's a protected nature area in Tobago as old as the United States, in case you would like a different 250th anniversary to celebrate globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/t...

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

This is a critically important article Trump did this to us here at Duke as well (@michaeldgreen.phd and I wrote about it here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...) His war on diversity in medical education & training will worsen the health of Americans

Donald Trump says America needs a $1.7 billion slush fund to redistribute taxpayer money to pro-Trump felons, including financial criminals and January 6th rioters. His political opponents disagree.

There is no settlement of record, so that piece of paper that Todd Blanche drafted up is a piece of paper. I would treat it as so.

Staggering corruption.

If ours was a world where AI (the ideology, politic, and tech) were, uh, asking these graduates to shape AI this might resonate. But it’s not. Look, you cannot go out and market your new corporate monopoly widget as the death kneel to American workers and then ask new workers to be excited.

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Trump Requests $1.2 Trillion To Have https://bit.ly/3RjdlH1

These plots of actual changes in energy produced vs. what the experts predicted tell an important story. I've created updated plots, and you can get the code to reproduce them, or make other versions, here: github.com/aedessler/EI... #energysky 🔌💡

Democrats should be saying anybody who takes this stolen money will see the government coming after them to claw it back.

BREAKING: The Colorado Supreme Court, by 5-2, orders Children's Hospital Colorado to resume gender-affirming care to a group of trans plaintiffs. Justices Boatright and Samour dissent. Story coming soon.

Six impeachable things before breakfast.. I was thinking yesterday about what the *most* impeachable crimes of the second Trump admin are. Would this make the list? What do you hold on to when trying to navigate the flood of awful? What makes your Arya-style vengeance litany?

Stealing tax payer money to empower traitors. This is remarkably disturbing.

I'm finally on west coast time now that I go home in 2 days, and I woke up to the news that all my archived 538 work is apparently gone. But check out Jonathan's links anyway. goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/more-on-th...

EXCLUSIVE: ICC prosecutor requests warrants for Smotrich, Ben-Gvir "The [ICC prosecutor's] charges against Smotrich include forced displacement as a crime against humanity and war crime, transfer of Israel’s own population as a war crime, and persecution and apartheid as crimes against humanity.”

Broke: emissions went up Woke: we’re tracking RCP2.6 so much less than RCP8.5, let’s throw away SR1.5 Bespoke: whoever made IS92-B had prophetic powers, let’s throw away the last 20 years of research and retVrn to the old days

That age gap 👀👀

"Equality work includes anticipating inequality, strategizing to avoid it, monitoring equality, speaking up about inequality, fixing unequal outcomes, and withholding work... women are not passively accepting unequal household arrangements but striving to change them."

the robot submarines name was “ran” which means “chaos” in japanese in case u were writing a tv series for this