Deadline for @modernlanguage.bsky.social Pathways Step Grants is Oct 29! Looking to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate humanities students? Reach out with questions and please share! www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Join us at 2pm Eastern today (Monday, September 29) for "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times," a free webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Sharing again for the Monday crowd.

There's a lot happening in higher ed. If you're looking for support & community as you navigate this evolving landscape, consider the @modernlanguage.bsky.social 5-session virtual workshop series "How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan." www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

"Many history curricula already discuss the past in a way that doesn’t allow nuance, & National History Day gave me a path to explore the people, events and injustices that are traditionally ignored." - thank you for these words, @mariumzahra.bsky.social #NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Don't miss out on submitting a Just in Time session for the MLA convention in Toronto. Deadline is September 18!

Funding opportunity -- if you are working on improving humanities undergraduate recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness initiatives, apply for support by 29 October! Follow the link to sign up for an information session on 8 September from 2:00–2:45 p.m. ET. Please share!

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-). www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...

Boosting..

Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

We are rapidly experiencing a world governed by uncritical use of AI—literally influencing (certainly not “informing”) the highest levels of government policy, health, etc— and we can already see how harmful (& stupid) the outcomes are. The incentive rigging is the tell. Maybe pay % of lives saved.

I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people

Facts often are inconvenient to the narrative!

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Meta products found to be harmful to users/society. This is my surprised face.

Feel like this needs to be said again and again and again.

Call for Papers! 🧵 The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz) Abstract Deadline: Sept 19 www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Says the dude using the phrase “tiresome canard.” #tiresomecanard

Yes, it must have been our use of “unhoused” that caused rioters to storm the nation’s capital on January 6. I see that so clearly now.

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants www.vox.com/scotus/45886...

“The humanities are strong across ASU’s campuses,” says @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social, Foundation Professor of English & dean of humanities at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A new website highlights #ASUHumanities' career-focused academics & community impact. Learn more: ow.ly/zfm250WIZux

Amplifying for the morning crowd. Humanities funding opportunities are increasingly scarce these days, so please share and sign up for the Q&A session on 8 September (2:00–2:45 p.m. ET).

To find out more about MLA Pathways step grants, view a recording of our information session or sign up for a Q & A scheduled for 8 September. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Want to strengthen your humanities enrollments & student outcomes? W/ support from @mellon.org, MLA Pathways Step Grants provide up to $10,000 to improve recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness in undergraduate humanities programs. Please share & apply by 29 Oct! www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

There's a lot going on in higher ed these days--propose a just-in-time session for #mla26 to talk about the professional issues that matter to you. In addition to your research, the convention offers a ton of prof/leadership development, mentoring, & talks re: the future of the humanities. Join us!

Vibe policy Vibe evidence Vibe data Vibe economics Vibe "journalism"

Statehood for DC is long overdue, and this insanity just reinforces how necessary it is to secure a future for DC as an equal state in this nation.

I always look at college major data, but this article (with star turn from @robertkelchen.com) confirms that the layoffs at the National Center for Education Statistics included all 7 employees who work on IPEDS. (Which the Times calls only "the college dataset")… www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Our lawsuit continues to move forward, with some segments moving to discovery and others moving to the appeal process. Thanks for all your support as we continue to challenge the dismantling of the NEH.

It is still jarring that government organizations like NSF and DOJ now equate racism with including markers of class in application processes

Some really good lines in here: “Great works of history are transformative because they are neither predictable nor obvious; therefore, they cannot be replaced by a technology that simply reproduces existing patterns.”

Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this. Definition of terms: “these people” = Latino migrants “Inner city people” = Black people “We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

So many things to hate about this article, starting w/ “historians becomes cab drivers” jab to historians-are-progressive-and-biased jab to the suggestion (no evidence!) the increased # of briefs = an opportunistic job grab. Hear me out: maybe it’s bc the lawyers are getting the history wrong!

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

“represents the most far-reaching effort yet to scour references to diversity, equity, and inclusion from the University’s official materials as the Trump administration demands their elimination” A haunting phrase capturing a horrific policy.

MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org are pleased by the injunction in the Author's Guild case, preventing reallocation of grant funds, but are disappointed in the ruling on our injunction. We remain steadfast in working to stop the unlawful dismantling of the NEH. www.mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit

This is legit insane. PragerU is straight-up right-wing propaganda. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The NEW DHQ website is now live! New features include enhanced search, smart article recommendations, and improved accessibility. Visit us now at: dhq.digitalhumanities.org P.S. Old links will automatically redirect to the new site but don’t forget to update your bookmarks!

#DH2025 I will be attending the DH2025 conference along with colleagues from Schmidt Sciences. This will be the first time I'm there but NOT as an NEH employee. If you will be at the conference, please attend our HAVI funding session on Tuesday at 1PM. www.conftool.pro/dh2025/index...

* slow clap *

Fabulous.