I gave a talk recently at a foundation. The next day they direct deposited the honorarium in my account. No registration as a vendor or up to 3-5 month delay in payment like CUNY and much of academia.

Then, unis are increasingly spending money on other stuff, so we are a lower portion of the budget. Because our dept budgets are >90% salary faculty may not realize this. But remember that's because they're underfunding each dept & expecting us to find ways to "generate revenue" to do the rest.

Other states should take notes!

Another great job! TT Assoc. or Full Prof. in Pre-Modern History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Great program, great salary, (sizeable) app due Aug 31. #histSTM #histsci #histmed apply.interfolio.com/182469

We had a really mean python at work and I gave him back to his owner and was like “he was trying to kill me” and his owner said “well, he only has so many ways to interact with the world. All he has is a face” and it Moved Me

New evidence reveals some of the true brutality of the US war of independence. Research over the past few years has shed new light on the massacres, ethnic cleansing of Native people, and extreme maltreatment of prisoners that occurred during the war. www.the-independent.com/news/science...

Kyiv is burning already after drones hit the city center and is under such a massive attack at the moment that it might be the biggest ever!😢 Ten bombers took off in russia and also an extremely high number of S-300 missiles are also on the way!🙈 #PalaceHotel #Kyiv #Ukraine #russiaIsATerroristState

No, it's because only 3.1 percent of the Dutch population live in poverty as opposed to 20 percent of the British population. The Guardian really needs to stop publishing irresponsible lifestyle crap as news. (The Avondvierdaagse is a nice tradition though.) www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

One thing I like to do in public talks: mention relevant work @ the host institution. Even just a quick shout out — I see you! — is not only rhetorically advantageous in building pathos; it also highlights projects that are often invisible internally + lets local leaders know abt external validation

I'm finding they REALLY want you to give assignments with clear purpose that they can see how it matters. This is in some part on us as instructors--why assign lazy assignments and expect your students to not be lazy? Design assignments to make genAI use superfluous and the students will follow.

there are several YouTube livestreams of the removal of Trump's name from Kennedy Center (they're still putting up scaffolding--slow process), e.g. MSNOW www.youtube.com/live... Forbes www.youtube.com/live... PBS www.youtube.com/live... even Fox local

Ocean climate solutions are important! Some are ready to go. Others need some work. And a few don't make a lot of sense right now. Learn the difference here.

All so one man can attend seven minutes of a basketball game before he passes out

Reuters: US JUDGE STRIKES DOWN PRESIDENT TRUMP'S $100,000 H-1B VISA FEE - COURT RULING

With predatory companies offering Native Nations much needed energy infrastructure help in exchange for the right to build data centers, less hope more Native Nations see through their scams and protect their nation's water instead.

A new Israeli report confirms what Palestinians, the UN, aid workers, & experts have said for years--not to mention anyone vaguely conscious who isn’t racist--apartheid Israeli has pursued a relentless policy of deliberate starvation as part of its genocide. www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli...

“Generations of Black Americans are coming to terms with the exhaustion, rage and grief from knowing that they and their children will most likely continue to face exceptional headwinds in the United States, a country their ancestors helped build.” Excellent piece by Mara Gay.

This is from nearly 2 years ago; costs are even lower: Need-to-Know: Solar is now cheaper than wooden fencing The price of solar panels has plunged 60% in the past TWO years leahy.substack.com/p/1000-nucle...

This is because learning another language is expertise. As we learn another language, we learn contexts, histories, and cultural touchstones. That's why we read our sources in their original-- translations, by definition, lose something, (even if, with artful translators, we can gain something too)

WOW. The New Jersey AG has charged an Essex County Prosecutor’s Office sergeant for allegedly stealing a photojournalist’s camera equipment while the journo was at a hospital being treated for injuries she suffered outside Delaney Hall. The bag had an air tag and was tracked to the cop's house.

This is such a powerful, personal, poignant work on journalism and ambition. Please do read it.

““I don’t know the people that are trying to resurrect the Confederacy,” Theiling replied. “Obviously someone is,” Fraser said, “because someone resurrected that monument.””

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Post-doc position at @scripts-berlin.eu! If you are a survey researcher interested in cross-national research on how people perceive liberalism, democracy etc, take a look! You’ll get to work with 🥳 @swenhutter.bsky.social: www.wzb.eu/en/jobs/post...

the current director of national intelligence is a guy who two years ago received a trophy declaring he “Fucks Only The Young” at an (oddly dildo focused) event he organized dedicated to the conspiracy that Bed Bath and Beyond never actually went bankrupt

the two tech press stories related to laptops this week are: * who can make a laptop as good as the macbook neo for the same price point (no one lol) * how ungodly expensive are these high end macbook pro competitors with 128gb soldered RAM going to be when they finally arrive

i dont understand, didnt the resistance front see the jp morgan analysis that the strait will obviously reopen today because if it doesnt that would be bad? does iran not know today is june 1?

Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.

We have evidence more harm is sometimes done by _intimidating people out of applying for green cards by telling them it will be harder_ than by people actually getting denied under the raised standard. So I'm pinning this post. Please make sure people know. documentedny.com/2026/05/29/u...

I'm gonna say this in a way that may be helpful for pedants: before AI overviews, if I googled 'overlapping synonym,' all of the results would have been websites with lists of synonyms for overlapping, and there would not have been a smarmy robot involved in the process. Or a guy UM ACTUALLY-ing me.

Learn more about Drum & Spear Bookstore (they also founded a press and published Eloise Greenfield’s first picture book!) and many more Black bookstores in “Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores” by Katie Mitchell with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni. ⬇️ bookshop.org/a/7256/97805...

@triofrancos.bsky.social ist auf Lesereise in Deutschland! Am 10. Juni in Berlin 🌱

Lukianivska, bombed by Russia a week ago, embers still smoldering.

This is a news org agreeing to one candidate's bigoted framing and then telling us it's what really matters. Shame on NPR for playing into this bullshit.

I didn’t know there were FIVE ICE detention hunger strikes going on all over the country.

(Part of what’s happening is that the traits typically associated with toxic masculinity like violence and substance abuse are folded into a general understanding of Blackness which is then also used to stereotype Black people who aren’t men.)

I don’t know what to say. This is just insane:

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

What's really astonishing is not the far right authoritarian party doing this, but the near-total lack of <loud public collective action> by university chancellors & presidents to oppose this existential crisis. Almost impossible to overstate how total a failure of leadership this is.

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

✨OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS✨ UIP and the @theenwsa.bsky.social are pleased to continue the annual competition for the best dissertation or first book manuscript by a single author in the field of women's and gender studies! Prize details here⤵️ www.press.uillinois.edu/books/NWSAPr...

I think a lot about these words of wisdom on voting from the two Rebeccas: “Voting is a chess move, not a valentine.” — @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social “We don’t vote for candidates we admire so much as we vote for the next fight that we want to have.” — @rfkuang.bsky.social

the two times i almost drowned, i couldn’t call for help and didn’t flail around like on tv — an important read Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

I’m always saying the same thing about my book proposal

This is astonishingly evil and cruel. It targets the people who have come here lawfully, done everything right, and qualify for a path to citizenship. It means they must leave the families who live here and the jobs that are the very reason they can work here. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

But more, Pichai is reducing criticisms of gAI to an emotional register of "fear" of change quite intentionally. He and other AIbros are rational, superior, and calm (and masculinized), while those who are critical of gAI are feminized, irrational, do not "understand," and are anxious.

finish them