"Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, Feb. 9." @uawregion9a.bsky.social www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...

the roundtable talk I gave yesterday. my topic: what irritates me in ecocriticism, and what I like: "I’ve been so irritated so often and for so long." medievalkarl.com/general-cult...

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Tonight!!!!

The degree to which both of these people are so completely full of shit, name checking things they have no understanding of, free associating “deep thoughts” & yet so perfectly confident in their half-assed knowledge, helps clarify why the entire elite class is so desperate to get us all on ChatGPT

free them all

Read this. You won’t be sorry.

Hate having to do this: "I’m sorry I must decline your invitation,. Routledge signed an agreement with MS to feed its author’s work into generative AI training. Contracts have no opt-out option. They are shamelessly predating on the publishing requirements of academic careers...

As someone who is in an academic department that is positively pullulating with global talent, I would just like to note the gratuitous, excessive emotional and financial stress and strain suffered by talented globals in the context of swingeing visa regimes and hostile environments.

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

The government’s consultation on its proposed settlement proposals closes on Thursday. Over 130,000 responses had been received with a week to go & 232,000 people and 107,000 people signed two petitions about this debated in Westminster Hall on Mondsy www.gov.uk/government/c...

Michel-Rolphe Trouillot: *turns to look at camera*

"the humanities, designed to make people of all backgrounds and wherever located masters of their technology and not its unthinking servants." 1965!!!

Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams

Racism has a material impact on people's lives. I don't know what else to say. It leads to premature death on a daily basis.

This brilliant book begins with huge throngs at 1939 worlds fairs coming to see a woman dressed in artificial fabric & follows the plastics through WWII militarization & into women's undergarments in the 50's and then into implants and trans technologies. Capitalism, engineering, gender production!

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

the kids need to understand that we used to pull one of these bad boys out of our pockets when we were bored instead of our phones

'A lecturer whose job is at risk has said a fully costed proposal has been put forward to the University of Essex in a bid to save 400 full-time roles.' These include 'Changes to the career-break policy, enhancing the voluntary redundancy offer and allowing staff to move to fractional contracts'.

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

This is why I can't understand the incrementalism. There's horror shit happening to kids in these places. Horror shit. OK? That has to matter. The longer we wait the longer these kids suffer.

Since there's been some conversation about historical analogies for the present stuff with ICE, I figured I'd share this. In it I argue the similarity between (opposition to) border enforcement and (the effort to abolish) slavery. buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago. jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

Thank you, Victor. I spent a few weeks on this. As usual, it’s always a negotiation with length. So a few other bon mots: 1. The admin has issued DOJ guidance to challenge state laws that would regulate AI www.wired.com/story/ai-sup...

Imagine---imagine!---getting through an education or a career without anyone, ever, describing your fuckability

So it looks as though you can access my new book already if you’re subscribed to OUP. Here’s the link :) 🎉✨ academic.oup.com/book/62228?s...

An important read: 1) to learn in detail what this government intends to do to people wanting to live in the UK permanently. 2) To help you think through the nasty consequences of these proposals 3) To help you craft an effective response to the government consultation www.gov.uk/government/c...

Attribution underpins research and scholarship; it is not optional metadata - it is how we trace ideas, establish credibility and ensure reproducibility. AI systems routinely fail to attribute or accurately credit the source of the information that they are 'remixing' & presenting to users.

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this is really easy with the guide -- some people are saying 30 minutes but it didn't even take me that long. guide is particularly useful for the questions that are obviously leading/loaded, it just tells you not to bother answering them.

Just as we all suspected: Bach's cello suites are antifa www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Take the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.

one of the most devastating things I have read about AI

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it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government

An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support. People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is good, as far as it goes - but sometimes the only way to avoid burnout and stress is for there to be more staff to do the work. That does not seem something that is of interest to university SMTs at the moment.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

There's still time to respond to the consultation on the awful proposed changes to settlement rules

This is the reality. The British state MILKS immigrants ruthlessly for money. Thousands and thousands of pounds. And then declares they're all dangerous spongers.

Jay (first author of our Sullivan Review paper) in their thread discusses one of the lesser known parts of the Review: its offensive against established principles surrounding ethical review, research governance, and community involvement rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

"From my standpoint, [Epstein] was one of the two (maybe three) smartest men I’d ever met," -Yale prof to a local outlet Monday after showing up in the emails So glad they hired David Brooks to restore trust www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Stumbled across this article from 2008. How times have changed – not just the policies but also the tenor of political discourse 😔 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

A problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.

Unbelievably bleak in a way that is very familiar to anyone who works at a university these days