Doing page-proofs on an essay in a volume and I just found an obscure but widespread consistency error (use of state abbreviations for place of publication in the footnotes and bibliographic essays) that may be a huge pain for the editors to fix. So now I feel like a pain in the butt.

"Skip the airstrip to the sunset," Kristi Noem! Noem around the world if you must.

Boston harbor a crackpot tonight!

History folk: did you have an undergraduate mentor who inspired you? If so, now's a good time to begin reaching out to your schoolmates and think about nominating that person for a Roelker award. Applications open in a few weeks, deadline May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Maybe I should teach the popularization of Calypso in my NYC class--Harry Belafonte was from Harlem and Irving Burgie was from Brooklyn... Then again: classical, minstrelsy, jazz, showtunes, rock, soul, R&B, doo-wop, salsa, disco, punk, funk, boogaloo, the blues, new wave, hiphop, garage house, etc

We never find out whether Angelina was any good at the concertina.

Social historians from the 1970s are all like, “come on board!”

Two acquaintances just ran into each other at the gym and hugged and I guess that’s a choice

"I've been thinking: do you think I should move to Switzerland?" "I'm sure it'd be difficult in some ways, but their flag is a big plus."

Robert Carradine has died; not to be confused with David Cannadine or Richard Carwardine, who I believe are still with us

Have I mentioned how much I hate the “essential personnel”/“non-essential personnel” distinction? It always feels like the non-essential personnel are the ones who will be left off the spaceships or shut out of the bomb shelters. We’re all part of the essence, man!”

❄️⚠️ Due to the severe weather, Brooklyn College will continue fully remote learning and operations tomorrow, Tuesday, February 24. Essential personnel are required to report to campus for normal scheduled shifts.

I did not know that Jacob Lawrence has a CUNY painting!

What if the American Revolution was also a supply‑chain crisis? This post rethinks independence through the lens of logistics, scarcity, and survival—using Nova Scotia (1783–1794) as a revealing case study. 👉 Read more: ageofrevolutions.com/2026/02/23/a...

Seems like a good time to remind people that you can totally ruin Ezra Jack Keats's "The Snowy Day" by adding "...and they never returned" at the end

“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”

"In this case...we maraud for ears." (listening to old hip hop) @cuny-ears.bsky.social

I literally wrote about this for @nursingclio.bsky.social! The draft included a section on hazing and the military in the 1990s, which conservatives opined was essential to being made into a man. (I originally bragged about my blood wings and E5 party.) nursingclio.org/2025/06/04/n...

Sometimes it’s better to engineer context collapse yourself, in my view

I just got asked to explain the difference between peer review and fact-checking/"content review," and that is actually a somewhat interesting distinction!

Shame on me for thinking Wordle would be racist today

You laugh, but while most people grow out of believing in Santa, some folks never grow out of believing in George Washington

I get that Janie had to put a bullet in her daddy's brain, but why exactly did Manny have it coming? What did HE do? #aerosmith

If I ran the city, I would do this every week just to remind myself that not everything is about crime, school inequities, vice, trash, corruption, budget shortfalls, fires, pollution, rats, housing shortages, snowstorms, and kaiju

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

My playlist just queued up "Squeeze Box" by the Who, and now every time I hear that song I think of this hilarious scene in "Freaks and Geeks": www.reddit.com/r/TheWho/com...

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

GC History Program is the lead story here—a place to find love amid the pigeonholes. As co-chair of admissions, I need to send chocolates and roses to the Office of Communications and Marketing! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

I want Jamelle to come to my neighborhood and talk to the dog owners

Party in the trash room

Paused for a moment of reflection

Forty degrees! And the birds are singing! 🐦🫠

Being a reply guy is kind of like being a financial advisor—you find a stream of likes and then peel off a few percent of the likes

If you were to design a 10-course Gen Ed sequence for every US undergrad, what would be in it? I'd say once you've qualified in basic writing, math, and a foreign language: 1) US history 2) other history/religion 3) philosophy 4) literature 5) stats 6 & 7) sciences 8) arts 9 & 10) social sciences

I always always say that the two undergrad courses I regret not taking are statistics and a basic art history sequence. (Maybe I’d throw in a basic music appreciation class too) —I did do philosophy, lit, Econ, poli sci, architectural history, and plenty of history

Never been happier to spell my name as is

And to think I once scorned all the people who moved to Florida during the pandemic… 🥶

I need to break my habit of logging onto Zoom meetings early.

I really enjoy reading a glowing letter of recommendation written by someone I know. It makes me like the letter-writer even more. One of academia's fleeting little pleasures. (I don't know, maybe it's evidence of corruption, but obviously LORs are just one part of a person's file!)

Why is every Bluesky post after an Isaac Chotiner interview the same? Can't we vary it a little? If Isaac Chotiner ever called *me*, I'd have pizza for breakfast and take up clog dancing. Your move, Chotiner.

Forget the groundhog, I don’t need to be reminded that it’s endless winter

No king but the King of Suede youtu.be/Gl1vulzQDwU

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: 1. Biology of Birds 2. Religion in Modern America 3. The Mexican Revolution 4. History of Quebec/French Canada 5. Multi-Variable Calculus

The collective rage of New Yorkers (after several days with heavy snow on the ground) when they can’t pass slow people on the sidewalk…

That’s two unrelated stories I’ve read about key fobs in the last 24 hours

Colleague: "Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed response." Me: "That’s what people always say when they think I’ve gone crazy."

Idea for the #Mets : just move the fences in about a hundred feet, then it doesn’t matter if everyone’s an infielder

The Wikipedia entry on the evolution of Lucky Charms marshmallows is surprisingly long