Nice to see this come out of Yale Medicine: journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Open Repositories 2026 kicks off today — fully online and global! IOI's Lauren Collister is attending all week (June 8–11) and would love to connect with fellow attendees.

Happy Monday! I have to use my phone as a phone today and do healthcare. I am very annoyed.

I’m so frustrated that I have to argue 20th century philosophy about whether machines are people and 18th century science about whether germs are real and fucking 15th century colonial bullshit about whether people are human beings.

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Ok nerds, who else is watching Star City? Don’t make me go to Threads for this.

I was annoyed that I couldn't find a database of David Attenborough documentaries where I could search for a specific episode by topic. So I made it. attenborough-100.vercel.app

Oooh it’s theater kid night isn’t it?

Its almost uncanny how academics with shitty disability politics can be relied on to have generally poor takes on other things lacuna.org.uk/equality/dis...

How was Bob Packwood still alive?

the pipeline from a facile understanding of "what if we afford nonhuman actors agency in sociotechnical systems analysis" to "the computer can think and it's my girlfriend" is such a thing to behold

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

It's absolutely infuriating that blue-state governors do not see this as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch their schools into the stratosphere. And I don't mean that in a greedy way. I mean that they could actively work to save US higher ed AND make their schools even better.

This is a pretty wild disclaimer to read at the top of a document called "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences." In other words, if this would not pass peer-review, why has it been released?

The commanding heights of universities are not liberal spaces

The Chronicle's dominant position in the higher ed media ecosystem is one of the biggest problems that we face. Endless right-wing grift, just like the New York Times.

I love graduation regalia so much and please knock it off I do not need a PhD right now.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Zoom added GIF responses. I am sorry in advance for the full on, culture-association menace I am about to become for every colleague.

NOT ANTHONY HEAD YOU TAKE THAT BACK.

Last call for you to join us as Associate Director in charge of Publishing Services! If you are questioning yourself, you should apply anyway! Many folks opt out of applying for roles like this because they think they are not good enough. Give yourself a chance!

I'm CPD, boys. I love sitting in my car at the lake watching teens, being divorced, sitting in my car at the lake watching teens, OLD GLORY, sitting in my car at the lake watching teens, bargain bin jeans, and let's not forget my one true passion in life—sitting in my car at the lake watching teens

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]

I wrote about a particularly embarrassing few weeks for AI hype, and how big tech is desperate to get ahead of an economic collapse they'll be directly responsible for (in more ways than one)

Man with blow torch makes infographic of the buildings in his city that he intends to torch

Way to go Dark Horse: www.darkhorse.com/newsfeed/sta...

LET WOMEN HAVE HOBBIES

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

Meep’s truest love in the world is the battered spider plant in my partner’s house. He brings her leaves to chew on so it can recover in peace. I would get one for the office but there’s no windows.

First sunflower bouquet for Meep, who loves to chew them.

UMD fired 84 people today, largely staff. In addition to the (many more) vacancies that are being closed. Guys with 25+ years of service. Moms who gave birth last week. The amazing woman who puts in 18 hour days to make our college commencement happen. In the richest state in the union, per capita.

Imagine being in the control room at your grownup TV job the first time you realize that television is created by people making choices, and doesn’t just happen organically.

“I’m Kid Rock.” “I’m Naomi Wolf.” “I’m Kanye West.” “I’m Matt Taibbi.” “I’m Catturd. Those stories, plus Rob Schneider, tonight on 60 Minutes.”

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

PMC dancing plague garbage all over my inbox, like the bill won’t skyrocket as soon as the contract expires.

Everything is terrible, but perhaps you'd like to think about collage — through academic and artists' talks, workshops, exhibitions, a book fair, and more — for a few days in July in the beautiful Hudson Valley? www.transformingcollage.com

Have heard from students that companies are doing “chatbot optimization” by flooding the internet with “blog” posts featuring their own advertising slop. The AI version of SEO

I want to say one thing about this. This has been the hiring process for low wage workers for awhile. Wal Mart et al have been using automated job application systems to gamify everything from postings to schedules. The crisis, such that it is, is that it is now happening in middle skills jobs.

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

also like, my measure of "wealth" now is how much of things going wrong you can bounce back from and maintain a basic standard of living. It is not about improving said standard of living. I want a house so I can't be priced out of my apartment. I want retirement money so I'm not homeless at 70.

I'm doing well! I never could have dreamed I'd be doing this well ten years ago. I'm still not spending more than $100 on anything without wanting to cry about it because I expect to be destitute the moment literally anything goes wrong.

The Economy being good means nothing to me because it's a measure of how confident assholes feel in their line going up, and everything they do to make the line go up hurts me and devastates everyone who's doing worse than me. This isn't fucking rocket surgery.

They will lay me off, they will end my health insurance, they will raise my rent until I can't afford it anymore, they will destroy the tools I use by making them shittier or subscription-based or both; everything I depend on or enjoy will be Disrupted for some boy-king dipshit's funding round

so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.

Really pleased to share our next #CALC26 recording. This is our first keynote from Rodney E. Freeman Jr. discussing his journey of discovery in the history of Black Librarianship in the USA and his new film 'Are You a Librarian?' #CritLib #LibrarySky #Skybrarians 📚 youtu.be/7PBLdGVPW9U

That email coming at the very end of the day was a bit much. I continue to wonder what unifies university administrators that leads to this kind of decision making. It’s gotta be a class thing, right? They like AI because it mimics the output of the PMC?

have I mentioned that I teach first year writing here and that I am being laid off

happy international whores’ day to my fellow book lovers! 😘

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

I guess I don't understand what it's like to confuse merch from a drag queen with half zips for dudes who need frictionless lives and think they can make burrito taxis a betting market.