Here it is, a very special--& especially supersized—250th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Please add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Witch hazel in bloom, mid-autumn. Appreciating the color 🌱

Imagine if we did this but instead of paying people to racially profile and terrorize communities and grab mostly innocent people we did it for teachers

It is every American's patriotic duty to read this entire thing: www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

#Farmaid40 is where we are tonight! Direct broadcast, not network. Let's hear it for family farms, for Black farmers, for soil health!

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Must read www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

Once again, Makena Kelly hive, stand up: Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social on the federal govt’s redesign efforts www.wired.com/story/doge-o...

Copyedits are done and that means it's the end times for making any edits. It's the final countdoooooown AHHHHHHHHHHHHH That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book 🎉 Preorders help authors and books enormously 🫶🏽 #BookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

just got word that my department's being shut down. two things: 1. no, i'm not okay. i've no words for how hard i've worked for this department and this institution. i feel betrayed, frankly, though i know it's not personal. 2. we rocked, y'all. i've no words for how hard we rocked, either.

I'm telling you: this is happening everywhere. Don't give me your dissembling about budgets or private/public or whatever. There is a complete wholesale attack on knowledge production and it is dismantling every university. They're starting with the Humanities b/c they know you'll let us die first.

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Article in Nature from a former NIH employee and Bethesda Declaration signer... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here’s an excellent capsule history of U.S. immigration from 1848 to the present open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

ALL CAPS THIS IS CATASTROPHIC FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND ASTROPHYSICS ... GLOBALLY CATASTROPHIC, NOT JUST FOR AMERICANS 🔭🧪 www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Black raspberries. 🌱 #gardening

Summer colors. 🌱 #gardening

Once more before Sunday ends, here’s today’s thread. Please share widely! 🗃️

This bee is sleeping on the Butterfly weed. Happy solstice! 🌱

It's late evening on the Solstice. This one is asleep.

Solstice 2025! 🌱

"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance

House Democrats need to bring articles of impeachment against Kristi Noem, while Senate Democrats need to bring that chamber to a fucking halt.

New water garden, and lily is blooming. 🌱

Hey, fellow Asian So. Cal Fam: ICE is visiting local Asian grocery stores like HMart and 99 Ranch - just heard this from a local contact. Please be careful AND please take this as a sign - this impacts us too. Call. Protest. Donate.

Naomi Tutu, daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu (and an Episcopal priest herself) fully addresses the lie at the heart of the claim of that white South Africans are “refugees.” Amplify her voice. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

All, if you've had your federally-funded research disrupted due to the admin's chaos, consider this funding opportunity from Robert Wood Johnson: Rapid Response Research Rapid Response Research awards are exclusively available to applicants who have already received federal funding... 🧪🧵

Shagbark hickory tree seedling unfurling its leaves to grow in the new season. 🌱

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Beautiful flowers from @butterbeefarm.bsky.social where we are experimenting with compost extract on flower beds. 🌱

My PhD student's NSF grant was terminated today. Her dissertation investigates why air pollution monitoring, metrics, and regulations don't properly capture the harms experienced by marginalized communities--esp in the most polluted Detroit neighborhoods. She and I are happy to talk with press etc.

Yellow iris in bloom! 🌱

Fothergilla in bloom. Happy spring! 🌱

BREAKING: Last night, the Harvard faculty chapter of the AAUP and the national AAUP filed a lawsuit & TRO to block the Trump administration from illegally demanding that we keep quiet and change how we teach and research at the point of a financial gun. actionnetwork.org/user_files/u...

Act like an emerging market trade like an emerging market

SCOOP: Palantir software is being used by IRS to ingest and sort agency data as part of the mega API project. www.wired.com/story/palant...

About that hackathon… read @makenakelly.bsky.social

We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Fellowships! This year, the program will award more than $3.5 million to 62 scholars, recognizing outstanding research in the humanities and social sciences: bit.ly/4jwiyEq

What does it mean to teach in a classroom where some of our students can't attend? What does it mean to walk on a campus where some people's status have been revoked for no reason at all? Should I put a sign on one of the desks for the 'missing student'? 2/

This week 17 CUNY students showed up the SEVIS lists. Some have been offered pro bono counsel by their institution, while others were offered a list of paid counsel or nothing at all. I spent the afternoon talking to a terrified student on an F-1. Like what do we do? 1/

I hope other university alliances start pooling resources and engaging in the kinds of collective action Rutgers is proposing here for the Big Ten. senate.rutgers.edu/report/resol...

In light of the recent visa withdrawals, here is a PDF with advice for international students at UCLA. I’m so sorry to have to share this. drive.google.com/file/d/1x8_z...

Peaches are in bloom! 🌱

Poppies! 🌱

Important #academicsky #higherer @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social