The perfect last-minute holiday gift is actually Mark's history of slow motion, which is weirder and more political than you think cup.columbia.edu/book/downtim...

Sarah made an incredible index for University Keywords and highly highly recommend her work. What a gift to work with her!

A Sarah Osment index! The perfect last-minute holiday gift for the author in your life, or the author that is you, which is why you don't really have a life . . .

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Hi all: reupping my perennial call for indexing and editing clients for Spring / Summer 2026. It might be my last year doing this work, so get it while it's hot! Email at [email protected] for rate and availability. Feel free to share!

More details to come but… 🎉🎉 I just learned that my book has won the first ever Biennial Book Prize from MELUS, the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States! I’m over the moon! 🎉🎉 cup.columbia.edu/book/writing...

student evals are in and all of them are good to glowing except for one unknown, absolute hater who is definitely not my waiter and is in truth more like a stockholder or sole proprietor

my first chicago tree 🍊

in an extremely embarrassing turn of events, an apparently popular cast member on saturday night live used a viral tweet of mine from 2017 as a punchline in his standup

end of quarter is always harried but then there is that one first-year student who writes a 1200 word final essay about Dickinson's use of "just" in 632 cc @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

man

still looking for one ticket to cameron winter dec 16 or 17 in case you have extras s'il vous plaît

happy birthday emily thank you for going so hard

I've been testing this out with those close to me and now I'm ready to share: "Arrow Through Me" by Wings is the best Beatles song

extremely sad news that Asad Haider has passed away. i didn't know him personally but it'd be impossible to overstate how important his writing and editing in Viewpoint was to my trajectory. as I said last night, we are losing too many comrades.

my Spotify wrapped told me that I died in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871?

first big snow of the season here; Berman's still right about the acoustics

saw a truck driver make a turn so tight everyone in the intersection clapped, including him

A huge thanks to @llassabe.bsky.social for inviting me to spend some time talking about AI in higher ed on American Campus!

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

normalize serving Oaxacan food at Thanksgiving

friendship

47 done, 1 more to go (tomorrow) everybody say you can do it sarah

D’Angelo was right: the opening of “Heard It Through the Grapevine” is terrifying

teaching a banger today

In awe of the way student journalists at Harvard and elsewhere have been modeling the value of well-reported and well-written stories when basically every major media outlet has failed them by capitulating to capital

The AI bubble may be about to bust. Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock. We all need to say this very clearly: NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH! Expropriate their asses instead. They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet. They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3

Border Patrol has been targeting the elderly heavily. Today in Santa Ana, that’s almost all they took, including this man and his cane.

Today marks my fortieth seminar of the quarter, this one on how to structure academic arguments through reverse outlining. There are eight more to go next week. I'm so glad the administration agreed that my colleagues and I are teachers after two years of organizing.

stopped dyeing my hair two years ago and was growing accustomed to mostly grey but now my roots are dark again. is temporary grey a thing?

google elisa new + nas for one of the most embarrassing videos of all time

two years into living with my dog and he still stretches his back right leg out to me when we fall asleep because I was anxious about him staying alive when he was small that I held his paw to feel his pulse while we slept

literally me rn www.youtube.com/watch?v=57PE...

zohran’s victory has me thinking I don’t even NEED my mouth guard tonight

If I can get a little too sincere: Tonight is the first time where I can believe with my whole heart that I can live in the place I love for the rest of my life, and live in the way I want to, and I am jubilant at the possibility. This is what politics is supposed to feel like.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

DEBS 😭😭😭😭😭

if Mamdani PR is listening I humbly request a victory speech cut to Mobb Deep

every free little library offers the contradictions of the moment

Complicity of liberal institutions with the crackdown on student protest paved the way for the crisis of academia. To defend our work we must sever the link with the security state. Come join us at U of C tomorrow, where we will discuss how to confront the hiring of the inveterate liar John Kirby.

our neighbor got abducted the other day and the neighborhood is raising money to help out his wife and kids until he gets free. Any help/shares are appreciated gofund.me/7c2338d40

good morning chicago find your neighborhood group docs.google.com/document/d/e...

officially knows the word “yam” 👇

For ICE, "an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is [considered] a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status," & any other evidence (incl birth certificate) is irrelevant if the app returns a positive match. Who made the app? What databases does it use? How does it work? Nobody knows

seeing cindy lee next week

shout out to all the adjuncts and freelancers

being slapped is a nice reprieve from being beaten to death

is there any way to monetize this