For years I’ve used this activity, created by @rpanchasi.bsky.social, that asks students to reconstruct an entire monograph from the endnotes. It’s a fun and brilliant way to show them that citations are entire scholarly conversations in themselves.

Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

“The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus. This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism.”

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

The “turn off the machine” point should have been when Chat GPT helped a teenager die by suicide. That my uni system spent $17m that we do not have to give this to students, over the objections of faculty, and with zero guard rails for safety is abhorrent.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The idea that an instructor can and *should* be fired for daring to teach something not explicitly mentioned in course catalog is the pinnacle of the "students as customers" idiocy that's been steadily destroying American universities for decades now. You're taking a class, not buying a product.

Californians! A revised version of AB 715 was released last night, a mere 24 hours before a scheduled Senate Education Committee hearing. While the new version removes some of the worst problems of the previous one, there are still major concerns. 🧵

Awesome that we’re burning down our kids’ futures for this.

Californians, AB 715 is a threat to public education. Call your state reps, unions, etc. If, like me, you are a Jewish Californian who does not want to be used as a mascot for an assault on free speech, does not want to be pitted against our Palestinian friends and neighbors, tell them that too.

Matt Walsh's imaginary professor: "good morning student-comrades. today we learn how to bayonet a white Christian capitalist while taking trans hormones" actual average professor: "folks, I am begging you, please do the reading for tomorrow this time. it is five pages"

Decades of mechanistic talk about university degrees as if they were bundles of 'skills' and 'prep' are about to be proved completely wrong (obviously). Want to get a real boost? Do History or English.

Ms. Rachel is braver than the troops.

Thanks for absolutely nothing, Columbia and Harvard. Two of the wealthiest universities with the most cultural clout in the world, but rather than fighting, they laid down like doormats and let the government walk over them to destroy the rest of the sector.

The Trump administration is using claims of antisemitism to cripple universities--along w/ independent media--because they are centers of resistance to authoritarian rule. And the ADL is applauding this assault on liberal democracy. What a shameful moment in American Jewish history.

The United States government just disappeared a lawful US resident because it didn't like his speech. You should care about this because it shouldn't happen to anyone, but you should also care because it could happen to you. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/n...

The Educational Bookshop in Jerusalem has been raided by Israeli security forces. Mahmoud and Ahmad Mina have been taken to custody. Anyone who’s visited Palestine knows how serious this is for freedom of speech and cultural organising in Palestine and Israel.

During the takeover of the federal government by an unelected billionaire, the impending elimination of the DOEd, and a devastating 8% budget cut to the country’s largest public university system, the CSU is paying $17million to OpenAI to give all my students ChatGPT. edsource.org/2025/cal-sta...

Come see my colleague’s amazing and amazingly relevant work!

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water. Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?

We're pleased to call for nominations for the Grace Abbott prize, honoring the best book in English on the history of children, childhood, or youth (broadly construed) published in 2024: www.shcy.org/news-announc...

BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU. “This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson. ⬇️ www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...

Public universities, especially in non-"revenue producing" departments, are simultaneously being starved and worked to death. The UMass history department replaces maybe 1/2 the people who retire or leave, while the work load increases for those who remain.

From my brilliant colleague, @loriclune.bsky.social theconversation.com/i-wrote-a-bo...

Grateful for the opportunity to have an in-depth conversation with Digital Childhoods about my research. shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/juvenile...

Beautiful day for solidarity in Sacramento! CFA on strike!