This is exactly my experience as well- so many changes I made to make courses more accessible are the most easily exploited by AI, "an exhausting dissonance" captures it perfectly

We join with faculty in Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas to note with dismay that central tenets of the AAUP have disappeared from the Principles of Accreditation of the Commission on Colleges and Universities (formerly SACSCOC). 🧵 1/8 sacscoc.org/principles-r...

ICE is reportedly pressuring the three witnesses to Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder—his brother and workers—to self-deport. In other words, get the only people who could contradict ICE's version of events out of the country.

Rape is a crime against democracy in the most immediate sense of equality between individuals and the premise that we’re all endowed with certain inalienable rights.

Never mind 1776, here's the Pueblo Revolt of 1680.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

*the coolest shit you've ever seen* FIFA Ref: ...offsides

BTW, if you're wondering how to help Venezuela, World Central Kitchen is scaling up food support to the site of the earthquake. I've made a donation. You can support here: wck.org/news/media-a...

The ethics of historical fiction. This theft of Rachel’s work on Charity and Sylvia is awful and it has costs. Two years ago I wrote about an author writing a mystery about Martha Ballard and slighting *Laurel Ulrich*. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/01/18/m...

BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.

There were actually good ideas, it turns out bsky.app/profile/andy...

"Uncivil, a consortium of scholars and researchers of which Moreton is a member, found that 20 out of the 23 foundations most active in the pluralism and depolarization space also fund conservative policy networks or pro-Israel organizations."

This is very, very bad:

To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close.   The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:

“How much is a magical world worth?” A beautiful thread about Cabo Verde, the Peace Corps, and the World Cup:

Quite. www.artforum.com/features/gen...

This is incredible. So satisfying. I was going to say it’s “cutting” but it’s more a knifing to the gut or maybe a beheading. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Peru's capital, Lima, is sweltering, with unusually warm winter sunshine and ocean waters. Scientists warn that a record-breaking "Godzilla" El Niño may be forming, driven by climate change.

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

AAUP members came together @ the Higher Ed Summit & Biennial to approve a package of critical proposals that will serve as a sweeping strategic blueprint for our Union to build structural power & go on the offensive against the political & economic threats to higher ed in this moment. 🧵

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

"The report finds that ... declines in public funding, drops in enrollment, and the growth in noninstructional costs have contributed to stagnating wages for full- and part-time faculty members, even as compensation for administrators climbs. By now, it’s a familiar story in higher ed." @aaup.org

Another big disconnect in the AI debate is academics/AIbros/AI pushers assuming they understand the methods, theories, debates, and philosophies of disciplines they are not trained in, and appear to have no desire to understand, but are POSITIVE gAI is necessary to those disciplines, nonetheless.

A new "rapid count" of votes in the 2026 Peruvian presidential election now gives Sánchez a slight lead over Fujimori (50.3% to 49.7%). All is still within the margin of error, so the wait (and nail biting) will continue. larepublica.pe/politica/202...

Update: SoFi workers have voted 96% in favor of authorizing a strike, "meaning workers could walk off the job at any moment if their demands are not met." Negotiations continue Monday — but the first World Cup game at SoFi is one week from today

What if they just made an entire guy out of red flags?

This news gutted me. I don’t won’t go into details, but Raul was publicly, bravely KIND to me at a very low point in my professional life when so others were cowardly, weak, and mean. He owed me nothing. He gave because he wanted to. A rare occurrence in my life. jovanevery.co.uk/in-memoriam-...

La Sociedad Mexicana de Sociología lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega, profesor del CIDE y FLACSO. Nuestras más sinceras condolencias a sus familiares, amigos y colegas cercanos. Descanse en paz

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

Heartbreaking news💔 Raúl was such a model for academic generosity. He will be missed.

I agree you should read Careless People, see my review of that book and other big tech books in @academemagazine.bsky.social

What if taxing the rich works?

Just finished this and highly recommend (as a person who typically is not into fantasy/dragon stuff)

AI is the lynchpin of the whole political project. It’s the container for the parallel governance they have promised each other. I truly think that they are surprised that people don’t like it…and that they can’t yet wholesale punish everyone for not liking them.

BREAKING: Israeli troops captured a strategic mountain topped with a Crusader-built castle in southern Lebanon in their deepest incursion into the country in 26 years. Israeli troops held the Beaufort castle for 18 years until they withdrew from Lebanon in 2000.

Also, the only reason I know about this is my kid's social studies class watched this last year, in case you are wondering about what is going on in South Carolina

Also, the only reason I know about this is my kid's social studies class watched this last year, in case you are wondering about what is going on in South Carolina

This is nice and all, but why listen to Mayor Pete when you can have Diddy's take on the Erie Canal www.tiktok.com/@america_unf...

"The New School has been New Colleged" is one of the grimmest sentences I've read recently, and given the general news, that says a lot...

"Atrocities, such as genocide must be named explicitly, because doing so underscores the gravity of the crimes committed by the Peruvian government." TOGETHER WE FIGHT author Ñusta Carranza Ko on a pivotal human rights case in Peru: www.ucpress.edu/blog-posts/c... #LASA2026

I know a thing or two about travel. And I can't emphasize enough how much this is not only policy-wise impossible and economically impossible. It's actually physically impossible. Let's entertain some scenarios... thehill.com/homenews/adm...

This is what is so frustrating about the redistricting thing: the lines in South Carolina suck and they need to be redrawn. But obviously these latest efforts were not the way.

it’s frustrating to me that the AHA asks me again and again- as a historian!- to engage in forgetting that my students were arrested for protesting a genocide.

It is fantastic to hear the news that the South Carolina Senate rejected the redistricting efforts pushed on our state. Our Dem legislators fought so hard for this but many GOP legislators and mayors also worked to stop this.

It is fantastic to hear the news that the South Carolina Senate rejected the redistricting efforts pushed on our state. Our Dem legislators fought so hard for this but many GOP legislators and mayors also worked to stop this.

My book is 95% done. I just have to write the prologue, introduction, all the content chapters, and the epilogue.

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Adelanto ICE detainees launch hunger strike to demand improved conditions. @sbsun.bsky.social story by @ryannemena.bsky.social:

The Handbasket is good stuff as a matter of course, but this one is a barn burner. Every paragraph before an image insert or support link feels like it's tying a bow on the thing, but you keep scrolling and she just keeps on tearing into it.

"Having compassion for other human beings is not a crime."