Syracuse University has "paused" admissions to its undergrad History of Architecture major: dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

I don’t pretend to understand what’s going on, but the members of Junior’s radically reconfigured Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices don’t seem to understand either. www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Folks, get off of Academia[.]edu. Delete your accounts. Put your work on a faculty webpage, on hcommons, on your own webpage. But not on Academia[.]edu. www.academia.edu/terms

Climbing advocates are urging the public to oppose the proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule, which could open up prized Wyoming climbing zones such as the Wind River Range and Tensleep Canyon to activities like roadbuilding and timber harvesting.

If you haven’t, there are only three days remaining to submit a comment on the planned rescission of the roadless rule in the National Forests. Losing this means a loss of biodiversity, wilderness areas, and recreation.

San Francisco, get thee to the de Young to see Rose B. Simpson’s Tewa-style lowriders.

It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

A good change, but long overdue: “Other wildfire-prone nations, such as Canada, Greece and Australia, provide their firefighters with masks to prevent lung damage and smoke-related diseases . . . and have not seen increases in heat stroke among the crews.” www.latimes.com/science/stor...

As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

RIP Ken Dryden. Stellar career and a great memoir to boot.

In "Rwanda's Genocide Heritage," coming in November, Delia Duong Ba Wendel contends with the forms of justice and sovereignty enacted through sites of violent memory. Read the introduction, available free on our website, now: buff.ly/y45k4u5

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leaders’ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

A reminder that Sen. Susan Collins voted YES to confirm both Robert Kennedy as HHS Secretary and James O'Neill as HHS Deputy Secretary.

The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

Federal immigration officials in Washington state arrived on the scene of the largest wildfire in the state on Wednesday and arrested two firefighters who had been working to contain the blaze. stateline.org/2025/08/28/i...

For @thenation.com i wrote about how I think Trump’s ballroom is vaporware and also about the 80s lore behind his choice of architect www.thenation.com?post_type=ar...

ICE took 2 firefighters OFF THE FUCKING FIRE LINE!?

SPAB fellowships in traditional builiding trades. www.spab.org.uk/learning/fel...

New episode of THE podcast on pioneering women in American Architecture out today: “Not Only Survive, But Flourish: the Women’s School of Planning and Architecture” on a very cool and super 70s hands-on summer institute podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

NEW: Offshore wind opponents and their lawyers are pressuring a climate lab at Brown U to retract its research, and saying they will escalate their complaint to the Trump administration. Gift link:

In Opinion | Almost every new lifesaving drug starts with government-funded research. But what happens when that funding is cut? In this Opinion video, meet the scientists who are trying to save the lives of you and your family.

Actually I swore an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States with my hand on @bpl.boston.gov’s 1782 edition Aitken Bible—also known as the Bible of the Revolution.

Blueskis, this letter is worth reading in full. Mayor Wu is a badass. And the people of Boston will not bow to tyrants.

This op-ed makes excellent use of graphic design to explain clearly principles of scientific research related to vaccines and how those principles can be (and are) manipulated by anti-vax advocates to create false results: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The U.S. Forest Service has spent decades blocking efforts to better protect its wildfire fighters, sending crews into smoke without masks or warnings about the health risks, a New York Times investigation found. nyti.ms/4mm9oMr

Did you know you have access to cutting-edge microscopy equipment at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health? 🔬 hsph.harvard.edu/research-res...

👂 from folks who are having unprecedented trouble getting even their old standbys to ✍️ letters. Ppl are maxed out. I used to be one of those ppl who’d jump in at the end 🛟, but no more. It’s in part why I resigned. The whole LoR system has always been unsustainable + inequitable. It has to stop.

Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.

POST-DOC: McNeil Center, Barra Fellowship, U Penn 2 years "any aspect of the histories and cultures of North America in the Atlantic world before 1850. Applicants must have earned the PhD no earlier than 2022" www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Forest Service firefighters were warned they’d be short-staffed this summer. Now, that prediction is being fulfilled. As fire season ramps up, thousands of Forest Service firefighting positions are vacant.

It is genuinely shocking how little Trump's attack on universities relies on law and policy. Even this profile of May Mailman, a Harvard-trained lawyer, who is active in the Trump administration's plan to transform higher education, barely mentions legal predicates. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/u...

Library of Congress digital collection doing quality work keeping the patrons amused:

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HAPPENING NOW: “Science and Trust” with IID Prof. Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire. Join us for a live event at 9:30 am ET featuring Dr. Corbett-Helaire, a leader in vaccine development and public engagement, as she explores the critical intersection of science, trust, and society. 👉 loom.ly/v8XEdQU

New, from me - I wrote a piece on the alarming lessons for other universities from the Columbia settlement (Contains a lot of arguments I’ve floated about here before!) www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. 1/

Worth reading the Columbia agreement in detail. The terms are shocking. president.columbia.edu/sites/defaul...

This year’s winner of the “fell for it again” award: 17. Nothing in this Agreement prevents the United States (even during the period of the Agreement) from conducting subsequent compliance revicws, investigations, or litigation into Columbia's future admissions practices …

New Pioneering Woman of American Architecture: Phyllis Birkby! pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/noel-phyllis... Also the subject of a current exhibition at the Center for Architecture, "Fantasizing Design" www.centerforarchitecture.org/exhibitions/... + we did a podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

A new account of how Haiti under French colonial rule became a violent sugar plantation state. Malick W. Ghachem's The Colony and the Company is out now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...