Final baking flex, check out the golden flaky crust on our tourtière (yes, I gave it a smiley face)

Breakfast was also a success

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Former head of trust and safety at Twitter, Yoel Roth, demonstrating the intellectual dishonesty of “In Covid’s Wake” by showing how they distorted his own words to make them say the opposite of what he was arguing.

Bûche de Noël is done; sugar cookies are frosted; cinnamon bun dough is rising. Major progress in Christmas baking!

Watching One Royal Christmas because I am a huge Aaron Tveit fan & somehow missed that he did a Hallmark movie — what?! So far it is *amazing*, he is a prince stranded in a snowstorm somewhere between Boston and Connecticut. They can’t go back to Boston because it’s closed. Boston. Because of ❄️. 😂

My goal for 2025 was to lift heavy, both metaphorically (full working draft of book manuscript) and actually (with a barbell). ✅ and ✅

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Has anyone else encountered a glitch with Word where it scrolls back from the page you were reading to the page with the last comment?

What’s this about how people are using em dashes as “proof” something was written by AI? Oh hell no. Some of us just love punctuation!!!!

I have been so confused by young people saying “that’s so aesthetic,” what does that even MEAN? (I know what they mean; let me be a curmudgeon)

For years I’ve used this activity, created by @rpanchasi.bsky.social, that asks students to reconstruct an entire monograph from the endnotes. It’s a fun and brilliant way to show them that citations are entire scholarly conversations in themselves.

I am *not* defending AI but none of you complaining about the AHA report are addressing the actual problem that students use AI to solve: having to write a research paper but without knowing enough to identify topics. Telling your students to print the readings doesn’t solve that problem.

Honored to be included in such amazing company! And so cool to see @tgpeterson.bsky.social amazing artwork in the pdf version : ) journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

By insisting that gravity exists, physicists are excluding those who think it doesn't exist — and reducing the number of ideas by half. I am a professional political commentator.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

The Vanity Fair photographer with a lot more courage than many titans industry and brokers of power

While I’m screaming into the void: apparently some kids formed a K-Pop Demon Hunters club at school. Awesome!!!! My 8yo is obsessed with!!!!! Oh, what’s this I hear, IT’S ONLY FOR GIRLS????? Huntrix would never.

I have a hot take on the “male loneliness” discourse as a mom of 2 boys. It is shocking to me how there are so many more fun socializing opportunities for elementary school age girls. To give one example: Girls on the Run. Seems so fun! I would love to do with my kids! Oh, they’re boys, so I can’t.

Let me understand you correctly, governments can care that people are being murdered?

Your Dentists Are Inexperienced and Unqualified. Is That a Good Thing?

And needless to say, imagine if someone had written what Trump did about Rob Reiner about Charlie Kirk. We would have had days and days of front page exposes and job terminations and arrests. When is enough enough?

My favorite thing about astrology is that I have an extremely intense chart (Scorpio sun, Leo moon, Aries rising) and I enjoy watching people’s jaws drop when I share my signs.

A friend asked me to explain the scientific revolution to her students and so naturally I brought my buddy Steven Shapin along with me

For example: even though it is 2025 and surely — SURELY — software should be capable of understanding that a class with HIST in the title counts toward a History degree, even if it also counts towards Asian Studies. No, not Workday. It requires a manual override.

"Since 2006, Workday, which provides software for payroll, talent management, and expense processing, has been making a mint creating misery where painless processes could be. More than half of the Fortune 500 companies use Workday to pay, hire, onboard, and administer benefits to their employees."

We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.

This is in fact precisely why I subscribe to Disney+.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. [I could make this even harder: I watched this movie at least six times (easily) before graduating high school. I was born to be a dix-huitièmiste 😂]

Prediction: The continuing feminization of higher ed will lead to continued declining "public" support for higher ed

Just a couple of happy historians ♥️

I’m just a simple country historian w/o a law degree, but it’s more than a ‘long standing tradition’ when its IN THE CONSTITUTION

Wherein I make the case that Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of the Star Wars Universe Seriously, though, this was the most fun I've had in a while. Big thanks to @jwsfh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social and @rpanchasi.bsky.social ! 🗃 journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article...

Remember when I said I wished some French historian would write something smart about Andor? @rpanchasi.bsky.social and I made it happen, and the smart French historian is none other than @tgpeterson.bsky.social! Check out our chat to find out why Mon Mothma is the Chuck Schumer of Star Wars 😂

Senator Cassidy should join this call. Bill Cassidy gave us RFK Jr. He now bears central responsibility for his support of Mr. Kennedy.

No one tell me this isn’t true, I love crows so much

All credit really goes to my 10yo, who is proving to be quite the lucky charm in this his first year of watching football.

THIS IS A GOOD HEADLINE.

Seriously, @by-cjewett.bsky.social, as a citizen, a parent, and a historian of medicine, I am begging you to do better. It was already so hard this year to get COVID vaccines for my two children, even though they have asthma and Covid could be dangerous for them.

This is how the NYT frames this? Is there no subject they won’t force into a “both sides” framework? If the FDA failed to provide proof, that failure should be evaluated on its own terms as a betrayal of the scientific processes that are supposed to guide FDA conclusions and recommendations.

Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.

too real, lol

@bachynski.bsky.social says that vaccines are like an athlete’s training regimen. All they do is get your body in shape to play the game (fight infection) on its own.

Cheese plate Roast turkey Gravy Cranberry sauce Garlic mashed potatoes Leek and sausage stuffing Corn pudding Sweet potato casserole Green beans Glazed carrots Brussels sprouts Chocolate pecan pie Bourbon pumpkin cheesecake Snickerdoodles

I’ve been looking forward to this episode all day, & it’s worth the wait @kawulf.bsky.social @katecarp.bsky.social @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

I totally agree with the value of state schools but I’m hung up on the comparative claim. Don’t other countries have big public universities? Also, I feel like SLACs are pretty American?

This was my position for a long time but my husband, ever the traditionalist, devoted years of study to perfecting his turkey roasting and save its place on our table. He won, his turkey is legit delicious.

Working on a 18thc doctor named Hallot and literally every time I read his name Lionel Richie pops into my head.