Let’s say you had the opportunity to assign college students *1* thing (article, video, podcast) to help them understand what edtech is, how it’s funded, who benefits from it, and how it preys on their data. What hits these bases in a comprehensive, up-to-date, and powerful way?

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I wrote about my love affair with Hulu’s All’s Fair, a show that seems like trash until you realize: it’s pure melodrama. Lowbrow culture, meet highbrow theory.

The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time." Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...

Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...

Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Can’t wait to read this book!

A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi

Uh, this is wild

The American academy has to ask whether it is ethical to have any in-person conference under Trump www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...

It's wild that he funds two systems that are incompatible with each other: intellectualism and conservatism. He only cares about the University of Oregon's football team and nothing else.

1/2. After California passed a law to curb legacy and donor admissions at colleges and universities, Stanford decided to stop accepting funding from state student aid programs “in order to comply with recent California legislation.” www.highereddive.com/news/stanfor...

I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.

THIS IS SO COOL

i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Here's a twist for this #Thanksgiving recipe: swap mac and cheese for a creamy #risotto with #honeynut squash, #pancetta, and fontina this #Friendsgiving.

"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Strange Horizons is open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors! The window will close after 500 stories are received. More information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti... If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit. #fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi

"How to Report ICE" #Charlotte edition zine is up! drive.google.com/file/d/1p_vF...

For me, it’s been the New York Review of Books, and what a joy.

20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate are now compiled into an easily searchable repository. Find it here:

LOL

This man is extremely dangerous.

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122

MUST WATCH REPORTING FROM @thebaltimorebanner.com

YES! So under-appreciated… buried beneath misguided anti 70s sentiment

We have entered the Hunger Games

This is honestly the best part of Halloween night.

In 1900, Black librarian Daniel Murray began a bibliography of works by Black Americans, his goal “to secure every book and pamphlet in existence, by a Negro Author”, exhibit them at the 1900 Paris Exposition, and then archive them at @LibraryCongress: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

If you attend, work for, once went to, or plan to send your kids to a University of California school, write to the presidents and board of regents and demand UC stand up to Trump's attempts to bribe and cower the greatest public unvierstiy system in the world: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/u...

Wow: “A million-year-old human skull found in China suggests that our species, Homo sapiens, began to emerge at least half a million years earlier than we thought… It also shows that we co-existed with other sister species, including Neanderthals, for much longer than we've come to believe…”

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Today is the 52nd anniv of the Battle of the Sexes. And while that event was seismic, I think the entirety of Billie Jean King’s 1973 year was a model of athlete activism that culminated on Sept 20. Here’s my piece for @texasmonthly.bsky.social from 2 years ago: www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Does your teaching touch upon the Black Death? Then don't miss the one and only Dr. Monica Green's open-access, introductory teaching module for the History for the 21st Century (H21) project! www.history21.com/owit-module/... #earlymodern #histmed #medhumanities #medieval #worldhistory

Stanford University Press is still accepting applications for our Marketing Assistant position. Apply via the link below - but some tips before you do (general suggestions, not just for this job, but for any, especially entry level or early career positions):

What’s up with Peter Thiel’s secret Antichrist lectures? Let us pierce the veil. For the @newrepublic.com I studied his past Antichrist speeches to decode his message—a chilling fusion of Nazi political theory and scripture. Consider this an urgent warning: newrepublic.com/article/2004...

This is why they’re deleting studies

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

This week, Inquest remembers Attica—Tuesday will be the 54th anniversary of the uprising's start—and reports on the hope- and health-crushing burden of carceral medical debt. Get the full recap here: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...

YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...

Something I teach my students is that reading is a rhythm. They need to build a space-time where the rhythm of longer form reading is available to them. Generally this begins by having them inventory the various kinds of noise (cellphones, screens, work/care/social commitments) in their lives.

📢 FREE EVENT! Join us in-person or via livestream on September 19, 7PM (ET) for MORE THAN WORDS: HOW TO THINK ABOUT WRITING IN THE AGE OF AI. #AI #AuthorEvent #MarkTwainHouse #Literature #Connecticut #Hartford #ArtificialIntelligence @erinbartram.bsky.social

Chris Evert’s relentless and painful hyper-criticism is ruining this tennis match for me, as always. Please please find better commentators. Please. #usopen #tennis

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

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