This week marks a milestone in my life. As a Neurodivergent Scholar, I am proud to share that our Handbook on Neurodiversity and Applied Linguistics is available for pre-order. Thanks to Maria Rosa Brea, Suresh Canagarajah and Nick Walker for their support and all authors. tinyurl.com/ndalbook

I was in Belfast last week, where a local resident said the attacks were not about immigration, but racism. He knew white immigrants who took part in the attacks and Black Belfast-born residents who were attacked.

For a long time, scientists thought water simply rose up through the trunk. But researchers have discovered something astonishing: trees contract and expand, pumping water like a slow-beating heart—except that this pulse beats roughly every two hours.

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

"The lawsuit also alleges that OpenAI knowingly stripped copyright management information from publishers’ work — including author bylines, copyright notices, and terms of use information."

This scene right here is how I've been feeling for the past few nights due to the heatwave going on in the UK. Being Davis' second fully directed WB short, there is a solid amount of energy here as the fox is struggling to get some shut-eye. Cartoon: "The Foxy Duckling" (1947, Art Davis)

One of our locals is advertising “industy” night every Monday and Tuesday.

Mamdani got everyone's attention, because he saw an opening to use power and he took it unapologetically. What people on the broad left are ultimately arguing about is whether his ends are wise, and whether he advanced them well. www.offmessage.net/p/shared-the...

UN demands probes into US ICE custody deaths nordot.app/144322537840...

The future liberals want

Cannot wait to read @sarialtschuler.bsky.social’s newest book

Two Christine O’Donnell references on two different podcasts today. Still not a witch.

Very nice not only to have good news but to have it shared - thanks @martindoyle.bsky.social @uccresearch.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social

Hormonal contraception is a gift to human survival, capacity, & health on par with vaccines. But because it’s mostly women’s survival, capacity, & health that it preserves, the right’s attack on it isn’t seen as the anti-science, anti-human regression as the anti-vax campaign is. That’s a mistake.

Ever dreamed of a sun-soaked retirement overseas? Plenty of older Britons chased that fantasy in the late 20th century as my new article in @conteurohistory.bsky.social reveals. But retirement migration was also a space of racialisation and postcolonial anxieties. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The Supreme Court purports and even flaunts their neutrality. But after their recent decisions it makes it apparent they aren't neutral. Today's latest from Eric Scarffe looks at these decisions and distinguishes the difference between originalism and neutrality.

Good morning all! I did my first Daily Brief for @bradleyonishi.bsky.social 's Axis Mundi Network, on Florida's new far right AP exam replacement. Give it a listen, and happy Friday! substack.com/@axismundime...

"We need a culture that respects free inquiry." Listen to AMERICA UNFINISHED contributor @rtushnet.bsky.social on the How Our Constitution Works...And Why It Doesn't podcast discussing freedom of speech: bit.ly/4oShD4W @mitpress.bsky.social @hls.harvard.edu @wcooperbooks.bsky.social

Satire, but still…

With Ireland likely to break its national heat record today, find out how UL Graduates are tackling climate and sustainability challenges Our new MSc in Sustainability and Climate Futures develops skills in climate risk and resilience to tackle the urgent risks we face: www.ul.ie/gps/news/ul-...

Number of people in Dublin emergency accommodation falls for first time since Covid

I too “almost wish we…liv’d but three summer days”

sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines

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Mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus have been detected in three Minnesota counties, prompting health officials to urge people to take extra precautions.

Ed Norton in a Radio Head shirt. Love that.

Jesus the Old Manor House takes its sweet time getting going, doesn’t it?

There are some uncomfortably eugenicist vibes in Trump’s latest disability policy, which authorizes states to institutionalize more Americans. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

I've just been alerted to this very lovely review of People of Print: 18th-Century England in this week's @thetls.bsky.social, penned by none other than the remarkable Thomas Keymer 😵: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat... #18thC #18C #BookHistory

The Supreme Court's "history and tradition" test for gun safety laws is the dumbest version of heads-I-win, tails-you-lose jurisprudence. Anytime a legislature enacts a meaningful gun restriction, the conservatives find a reason to conclude that the historical "evidence" just isn't strong enough.

We better win this sportsball since I’m staying up after my bedtime

Abstract submitted for the Ann Radcliffe conference. Now to work on my abstract for the Walter Scott conference.

In 2025, Sen Tina Smith, a leading advocate for the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in Northern Minnesota, introduced the Boundary Waters Wilderness Protection Act to put permanent protections in place, in this 250 minute from @hcrichardson.bsky.social & team. youtu.be/zTV2XIks7z0?...

Announcing a new book series with DeGruyter Brill / @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Connected Worlds in Early Modernity Series Editors: Christina Lee & Julia Schleck brill.com/page/518510 Pls contact me - [email protected] - with questions &/or book proposals!

If anyone at the @startribune.com would like to recruit a historian to write an op-ed about how the grandparents and great-grandparents of Tom Emmer's constituents were hated by the Tom Emmers of their era, I'm sure you could find a couple hundred volunteers.

They’re showing some Swedish bloke wearing Pippi Longstocking pigtails

Summer is here! Read essays by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Luke A. Fidler, Tara Fickle, Alexander Freer, Hannah Cohen, Chris Reitz, Maurice Ebileeni, and critical responses from McKenzie Wark and Emily McAvan. criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/past_issues/...

I am so delighted and honored to be a part of this Past & Present Supplement, “Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850.” It was a pleasure and so enriching to work with @hsmurphy.bsky.social and the editors at @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/past...

I don’t actually think he’s wrong. But that’s an indictment of our media

White House adviser Stephen Miller was the driving force behind the Justice Department’s recent memo authorizing states to institutionalize people with disabilities rather than fund community-based care, said people briefed on the situation.

A theological imperative that you should be writing

This is so obviously racist and stupid. We still fight over the correct way to pronounce “sauna” because of the Scandinavian influence in Minnesota.

An exciting project to catalogue Charles #Darwin's personal library is underway! Learn about it in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=32108

Johns Hopkins University lays off over 100 employees due to federal research losses

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a scathing dissent as the court struck down Hawaii’s gun restrictions. trib.al/MfE57ny

I’m reminded of Lemuel Gulliver’s characterisation of a lawyer to the Houyhnhnms as someone who “says that which is not.”

Fantastic piece by my always-great co-author @andreascoseriakatz.bsky.social about Taft and today.