No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

“The reorganization strips away the specialized, tailored advising that our students rely on. It burdens research scientists with reams of paperwork previously handled by experts. It will degrade the quality of our graduate programs, many of which are ranked at the top of their fields.”

The bluegrass virtuoso brings back the spirit of Tiny Desk's early days: fewer microphones to capture "the way these instruments are meant to sound." n.pr/3KD1SiI

I think about the consistently misunderstood case of the Luddites. They were extremely advanced machine users (go try to use a spinning Jenny!), but they recognized a technological regime that displaced expertise (and payment) from the artisan to the tool.

In a stroke of good timing, my article excoriating the metaverse (and taking shots at spatial computing) was just accepted at Games & Culture. How do these companies make implausible and undesirable futures seem inevitable? abstract posted here!

Happily plunged back into Area X, with its ever-shifting always-porous often-creepy species and spaces, and oops now I’m rereading the whole Southern Reach series. In other words, if you haven’t already, go read Jeff VanderMeer’s Absolution!

Editing this zine was an immense privilege. I work with the most incredible graduate students—John Mollet, Emily Theus, and Dorothy Wu—whose creativity and breadth of knowledge never ceases to amaze me!! We can’t wait to share this special ephemeral object with y’all 💗

posters, stickers, know your rights flyers, lithographs, broadsides, zines, slogans, these little shards of art are our tools too

Don't forget to register for the Yale Gilder Lehman Center's conference next week on Universities + the Histories of Race, Science + Medicine. I'm speaking, along with @ayahnerd.bsky.social, @jowiph.bsky.social, Carolyn Roberts, David Blight + more! macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...

🎉 As the editor of @yalereview.bsky.social, I'm so proud of our team and our brilliant contributors: This year, we received *two* nominations to the National Magazine Awards, for criticism & fiction. Congrats to @brandyjensen.bsky.social, @dsparis.bsky.social, Ayşegül Savaş, & Anna DeForest! 🎉

this letter in the LRB on Karl Polanyi is a useful quick explainer of the present moment—helpful framing for talking to relatives etc @londonreview.bsky.social

Today at Yale: Rachel Cusk will deliver the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture. Don’t miss your chance to hear this brand new, never-before-presented work! A revised version of the talk will later grace the pages of @yalereview.bsky.social 🖋️📚 whc.yale.edu/light-woman-...

Endowment tax + slashing overhead on federal grants is designed to cripple the university. This weakened university is going to be even more susceptible to the efficiency claims of genAI. All of these moves further concentrate wealth and power in the private sector. Don't capitulate in advance.

SECOND: FREEZE THE SENATE. Call on your Dem senators to engage in political hardball. Blanket opposition and using procedural tools like rejecting unanimous consent and quorum calls to gum up the works.

Libraries and public universities! 📚

Looking forward to talking about Thinking With Moss (+ navigating experimental projects with academic work) with Yale's Whitney Humanities Center Grad Fellows in Environmental Humanities today over a happy hour! Moss + drinks - what's better? Thanks to @meganeodonnell.bsky.social for the invite!

Stop letting unfunny men tell you there’s something wrong with you for not getting their “jokes”. Stop fake laughing. Let their reality reflect the truth of how fundamentally they misunderstand humor. Neuter their ability to use “it was a joke” for emotional cover. Make them see nobody laugh.

One thing about me is that I will fight Nazis until I’m six feet in the ground.

“We protest the university’s exploitation of contingent instructors (its creation of the ‘reserve army of labor’ that Marx said was crucial to keeping workers in subjection), but we grossly increase graduate-student labor, *unpaid* labor, which they undertake in the faint hope of a job.”

Exactly this. I’m sick and tired of critical questions without critical actions. Also, can universities stop boasting about mitigating climate change in one breath and shoveling more than $100 million toward AI engagement in the next?

there are pockets of the profession that simply refuse to understand that coming up through PhD programs amid intense precarity radicalized large numbers of historians— many of whom, having “made it” are now approaching mid-career. for many younger historians there never was a “good old days”

Missed my Khaleesi girl so much when we were away. Just look at those paws on the wall, at that perfect face!!!

This wonderful, magical city filled me with so much love over the past few days, I thought my heart would burst. But then it broke instead. Grateful that we weren’t on Bourbon Street last night, but my soul is shattered and aching for the victims and their families.

Eating, drinking, and dancing my way through New Orleans 💜💚💛 I only lived here for a few years as a little girl, but being back, it’s clear how much this city influenced who I grew up to be. #NOLA #BMFS

Including the interview with @katecrawford.bsky.social - and the terrific idea of AI as a “metabolic technology”

An eclipse of moths is peak collective noun. It’s right up there with an unkindness of ravens and a smack of jellyfish—not that I have a list of favorites in my Notes app or anything.

this thread helps particularize + make concrete why LLM-based algorithmic machines contravene the core mission of a liberal arts education

energy/water use + labor exploitation make it unethical before we even get to questions of pedagogy

Proud CUNY alumna! 💜 My experience at CCNY was nothing short of extraordinary & transformative. FUND PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES. FUND COMMUNITY COLLEGES. FUND HIGHER ED FOR ALL.

My TBR pile grows ever larger.

In this house we resist hustle culture and the grind 🐌 🛌

Good morning, Bluesky! 👋🏻 Trying this place out after giving up on the dreadful one ~5 months ago. I love books, live music, poetry, songwriting, speculative fiction, hyping people up, naps, and advocating for the humanities & arts. 📚🧚🏻‍♀️🖊️✨🌈🎶