Made some new friends this am

Oyasumi. Still can’t believe I didn’t incorporate this into my Kyushu lectures back in ‘07 and that the 21yo found it for her honors thesis! (Professor Miner gave me my lowest grade ever when I took a grad course from him—and I totally deserved it.)

This is known in these here parts as the “McTeague Signal” for @natewolff.bsky.social and the dental naturalism crowd

Start spreading the word! Everyone in higher education should sign onto this @aaup.bsky.social letter! actionnetwork.org/letters/emai...

Taught an excerpt from Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter & the Don (1885) in my Honors Lit Seminar on the Gilded Age today, & want to once again make the case that this is a book every American should read. Now more than freaking ever. 🗃️ americanwritersmuseum.org/why-we-shoul...

An open letter to Chancellor Lyons from the @ucaft.bsky.social Bay Area Chapter. Read it at ucaft.org/news/open-le...

#ClimateWeekNYC explore the case for removing 1,600+ aging dams in the Hudson Valley. FROM THE MILLPOND TO THE SEA (forthcoming 11/25) blends ecology, memory & movement—advocating for free-flowing water & restored biodiversity. #DamRemoval #HudsonRiver #ClimateAction #LookItUP tinyurl.com/yc4mf7ee

Hot off the presses! PDF will be available for download soon. Stay tuned!

texas

Guys you have to check out this sky

Proof of golf (All-Black Edition)

Proof of golf (no time to post during round edition)

Central CT State we r in u

Proof of golf (we survived darkness falling in the valley “hoot-hoot” edition)

Proof of golf (I am not as terrible as my score)

Proof of golf (Uncle/Niece II Edition)

Proof of golf (Uncle and Niece Edition I)

Was texting w/a colleague this morning about a development at our university. She noted that her language was intentionally “coded,” given the current climate. Well, it’s too late for me to start being cautious, I answered, as I have a very long record of social media posts—literally thousands.

Proof of golf (Saving Private Woolly Bear edition)

Proof of golf (first tee)

Proof of lunch (before golf)

"Over 70% of Americans Jews oppose Trump's weaponizing of anti Semitism by attacking and defunding universities, according to a new poll" www.latimes.com/california/s...

Really really intense week at work with more to come (stay tuned!) but Friday night with the 21yo and Saturday afternoon golfing with her and my brother make up for my awful picture-taking skills

#MADC #CADHE #StandUpForUC

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Free speech & academic freedom are essential to our country and our campuses. That’s why @afthighered.bsky.social & @aaup.org launched a campaign fighting for higher education for all. Because we know that higher education saves lives, builds futures, & powers our economy. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone

It’s not an exaggeration to say that higher ed saves lives. So many of the cures, medications, treatments, and technologies we depend on to thrive are the result of federal investment in higher education. #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone @aaup.org @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social

As we launch today’s #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone campaign, I feel compelled to reiterate that political violence must be condemned. Our campuses must be safe havens for learning & innovation, not violence and fear. @AAUP.org @AFTHigherEd.bsky.social

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed? Certainly not the US economy. Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer. Certainly not the American people. excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

President of Texas A&M resigns. This is the second Texas A&M President chased out of College Station in two years as a result of right wing politicians and activists attacks on academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

NEW: Hundreds of comedians have signed onto a letter, supporting Jimmy Kimmel and saying that when the government targets one of them, it targets all of them. Read the statement below. bit.ly/Comedians4Ki...

The people responsible for firing the people who have just been fired have been fired.

A #MADC relevant regional public health compact!! www.nyc.gov/site/doh/abo...

I credit our watch party in general and, in particular, my repeated calls in the 2nd half for (a) getting Shakir more involved in the offense and (b) D getting an interception for us for those things happening and the Bills winning 31-21. (A case of selfish fantasy football desires manifesting!)

But as I write in the next post in my Censorship Studying blog series, from its draconian late 19C origins, & even more fully into our fraught & fragile early 21C moment, the Comstock Act has been a force for division & discrimination, esp toward women. americanstudier.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

So for the first post in my blog series on censorship in America, past & present, on what the 1730s case of Peter Zenger reveals about freedom of the press, libel & the facts, & the fragility & vitality of immigrant voices & our foundational diversity! americanstudier.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

Higher ed drives economic growth and innovation, and it’s under attack. Read the new op-ed from @paulakrebs.bsky.social‬ and @ehayot.bsky.social‬ and tell your legislators that research, teaching, and innovation are important to you and your community. www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

Penn State's Eric Hayot knew he could make a convincing case in support of the value of higher ed in the face of these attacks, and he was right. We worked together on this, basing our case in Pittsburgh--but you could make the case with examples from your own community.

Community colleges *cannot* afford to look the other way about this.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Gene Luen Yang’s SUPERMAN SMASHES THE KLAN was exactly what I needed to read today.

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

Today’s the day! Our Fall Planning Meeting—my first event to fully plan for UFS—kicks off in an hour and a half! And our first day should end just in time for the Bills-Dolphins kickoff…. #PublicGoodU #MADC #GoBills dspace.sunyconnect.suny.edu/server/api/c...

Funny, the last time in recent memory university administrators felt challenged by students over an issue of national and international significance, the state had them arrested, their encampments banned, and in some cases deported

Unions unite in defense of Jimmy Kimmel following his sacking. Full coverage on LabourStart: www.labourstart.org/news/country...

noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

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The First Amendment forecloses the government from imprisoning and deporting people for their political advocacy. Here’s our just-filed brief in support of Mahmoud Khalil. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...