Notre Dame have to love the fact he’s wearing one of their hoodies. Just absolutely gold branding opportunity.

The book I posted in March…MARCH…got to St Paul before it got shipped to Chicago for what I’m sure is its sixth trip across the Atlantic.

Para oh my god

My bracket could be tot.

How did I ever do full pad two-a-days football practice in this sort of weather?

Apparently there’s a Dogman book called Mothering Heights. I don’t know what to do with that.

Daniel Deronda… Charlotte Yonge… “The Goblin Market” … a Book Talk and more await you. Here’s the link–you know what to do with it: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090

It’s so humid my sunglasses just fogged over.

I’ve read essays like this: LOOK AT ALL THIS EVIDENCE THAT SUPPORTS MY ENORMOUSLY IMPORTANT CLAIM. Reader, there is no evidence.

Tomorrow at SCOTUS is gonna be like: a. Trans athletes get screwed b. Another campaign finance law is gutted c. Birthright citizenship is upheld ... and we're all supposed to focus on (c) and forget about all the atrocious decisions that preceded it. Let's not, please!

Further evidence of the need to preserve the printed scientific record. The digital version is far too easy to manipulate or erase... #histsci #histSTM 🗃️📜

Housing…big deal. It’s a yawn.

Most attention on last Thursday’s #SCOTUS ruling in the TPS cases has been (understandably) focused on Justice Alito’s whitewashing of the Trump administration’s racism. But as today’s “One First” explains, it also includes an alarming power grab for appellate courts in *all* “interim relief” cases:

Just got to participate in a PhD defence for an outstanding thesis on addiction aesthetics in the nineteenth century novel

Japan could really have fucked my bracket.

The Trump administration is doing a terrible thing by breaking up public schools. Not sure Americans understand how critical these schools are to a democracy and how much better they could be with a supportive President. nancyebailey.com/2025/09/25/b...

Maybe some academics will pursue these projects from whatever "places of authority" we still occupy, but I don't think we get there without discussion of "public goods": i.e., precisely what's being taken away from everyone all the time

CALL FOR PAPERS  📣   Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800   We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

NEW: Justice Sonia Sotomayor denounced SCOTUS for granting Trump power “over broad swaths of American life” by upholding his arbitrary dismissal of the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission. “The result is a President who emerges with far greater power than ever before,” she wrote.

Urgent op-ed by @hebagowayed.bsky.social "They are left at the political whim of people who openly hate them, who slander them from the most powerful pulpits in the nation. (...) The attack on TPS comes amid the total decimation of our asylum system." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Glenriddell Manuscripts preserve Robert Burns’s own chosen poems & letters, illuminating his creative process. After his death, they went on an extraordinary journey before returning to Scotland. Ralph McLean of the @natlibscot.bsky.social tells us more #C18 #poetry www.nls.uk/collections/...

I think this is as accurate as anything could be right now, given the edutech environment's churn, but it makes me wonder: what would be an effective response to our situation? In our situation?

Gonna stage an adaptation of Godot at the Great American State Fair

📣 I'm hiring! Two positions (PhD student & Postdoc) in my ERC project Macroevolution of European Literature. Let's study the cultural evolution of literature using massive data 📚📈 📍Frankfurt | Apply by August 15 Details: www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/career/jo... Please repost to help spread the word!

Who’s the most cited gothic heroine? MLA St Aubert

More evidence for @adamserwer.bsky.social's thesis that the current Supreme Court hates the Reconstruction Amendments and seeks to recreate the antebellum Constitution.

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court struck down a 91-year-old precedent that has prevented presidents from removing members of independent agencies meant to be a check on his power. n.pr/4biY5Rx

#Sneakpeak You can expect up-right apes, blue grains of fog, flesh-eating termites and cracked oil paintings as I "weird" Woolf.

This is now an Erling Haaland fangirl account. Sorry, I don't make the rules, I just work here. Ali: "Are you a boy or a girl?" Haaland: "my dad is a boy and my mom is a girl so i'm mixed xx 💋

OMFG. I cannot begin to describe my gasp at how Roberts & co decided to go all in on LOST CAUSE theory & insist that the Reconstruction Congress did Confederate sympathizer President Andrew Johnson wrong by attempting to keep him from destroying Reconstruction www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Humphrey Clinker’s Executor

We have Slaughter and Cook. By a 6–3 vote, SCOTUS overturns Humphrey's Executor and lets Trump fire heads of independent agencies. But by a 5–4 vote, it refuses to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p... www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

There's no sugar-coating Slaughter. It's an enormously important ruling (far more important than the other three decisions #SCOTUS handed down today). It's a huge win for Trump/the executive. And it's going to have massive ramifications for the functioning of the government long after Trump is gone.

Do not be grateful that the Republican court opted not to blow up the Independence of the Fed.

The old world is dying. Defending the status quo is no longer an option: It is neither an adequate response to the challenge we face nor is it viable electorally. We live in a profoundly disruptive moment. Restoration won’t do. A credible transformation is the only way forward.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO LET TRUMP REMOVE FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNOR LISA COOK

One of a few reviews I wrote this past year has recently been published with IHS.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting a challenge led by the Trump administration.

The Supreme Court's first opinion is Watson v. RNC. By a 5–4 vote, the Supreme Court UPHOLDS state laws that allow the counting of mail ballots that are sent by Election Day but arrive shortly thereafter. Roberts and Barrett join the liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

It’s going to be a scorcher in the Twin Cities and across much of Minnesota on Monday, and it will be hot the rest of the week, too. Here’s what you need to know.

Sure the Supreme Court greenlit a white nationalist immigration agenda and an extremist vision of executive authority, but they did also side with E Jean Carroll so they must be moderate and institutionalist. Edmund Burke, indeed.

As is repeatedly shown to be the case, a premier use case of AI as demonstrated by many of the big tech companies and leading consumer AI companies is the theft and laundering of the identity of human experts to grant a veneer of credibility to some chatbot-based “expert system”.

NEW: The Supreme Court will decide whether Arizona (and potentially other states) may require proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms. A huge case, and I fear the outcome is predetermined. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

The AfD is predicted to become comfortably the largest party in elections in two German states, Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in September....The party is also currently leading in polls of voters at the national level.' 1/4

A political project of restoration centered around defending “the system” and restoring the status quo ante is destined to fail. It is incapable of winning elections. And frankly, the status quo ante isn’t worth restoring anyway, considering that it got us into this mess in the first place.

Add to #Booksky

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

Understanding Our Disruptive Moment in History – and What It Requires The old order is dead. The Right has a revolutionary theory of the moment that promises renewal. Unless we can counter it with a transformative vision, we will lose. Some thoughts from my new piece: 🧵

“We must also show students how to have constructive and productive dialogue across ideological differences.” WHICH CLASSES DON’T DO THIS? I swear to God, the Chronicle is determined to destroy higher ed, and running AI promotion slop like this (oh yes, there’s a chatbot) just drives it home.

“In 2024, Google DeepMind unveiled a ‘Habermas Machine,’ which has been described as a ‘scaffolded pair of LLMs designed to find consensus among people who disagree.’ The philosopher had not given Google permission to use his name, and he was horrified when he heard about the scheme.”