THIS THIS THIS. ALL OF THIS THIS is why faculty resist technological strategies for teaching. There is no engaging with Edtech without this context

DEVIL: You shall stay forever young, but this picture of you will bear the marks of your sin! DORIAN: Can I hide it? DEVIL: Well, yes, but— DORIAN: And there are no other consequences? DEVIL: This… This picture will become so foul! DORIAN: Again, probably I’ll hide the picture.

I can’t get over how one directional Instagram feels… I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.

Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video

Good riddance.

What's an insult you'll never forget?

Freaking love this city and all the people in it so much….a bunch of people went and turned the 4 train into the Polar Express giving out toys to kids along the way from the Bronx to Brooklyn….shoutout to the @newyorkers.live account on IG for doing this 🙏 www.instagram.com/reel/DSnsvWS...

The haunting Carol of the Bells song may be best known to Western audiences from the Christmas film Home Alone. But it started as Kyiv's political message to the world a century ago — one that still resonates today.

t’s obvious the artist had never seen a real dragon

Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

Happy 100th birthday Dick Van Dyke!

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback

What fun. The seven minutes you didn’t know you needed.

Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱

Having imagined what this painting would look like for years (based on the engraving), it is so amazing to see it come to light. Marvelous work, and given crazy art world prices for some works recently (Klimt), what a relative deal. apnews.com/article/fran...

“…students must be comfortable and adept at grasping new concepts. This requires a flexible intelligence, driven by curiosity. Perhaps this is why the unemployment rate for recent art-history graduates is half that of recent computer-science grads.”

This is not a peace plan. It is a proposal that weakens Ukraine and divides America from Europe, preparing the way for a larger war in the future. In the meantime, it benefits unnamed Russian and American investors, at the expense of everyone else. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

JOB POSTING! Andrew W. Mellon Curator of Rare Books and Prints at the @folger.edu amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

He doesn’t miss a beat.

damn that’s french as hell

We rounded up some of our favorite Sandwich Guy puns for you, because it’s Friday and we so seldom get nice things.

I learned a lot about Nancy Pelosi this week — including her very early advocacy for AIDS patients. She visited them in SF General’s AIDS ward and convinced the Reagan administration to allow the AIDS Memorial Quilt to be displayed on the National Mall in 1987. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

The President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, PPFP, has been a jewel in the crown for faculty development and recruitment at the University of California for years and the results have been an expanded faculty with almost 100% tenure rates — unprecedented success.

A really good one from @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social

Any day looking slowly and closely at a Chardin is a good day. And we all need more of those. Thanks @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social !

A House of Dynamite is the best film in years on nuclear war. You may think the risks are small, but even a small danger, multiplied over a number of years, sums to an unacceptable chance of nuclear annihilation. My thoughts on the film, below, and this short 🧵. newrepublic.com/article/2016...

My new op-ed is out today in TIME: Trump’s Campaign to Defund the Arts—and Rewrite History. It’s about the systematic assault on America’s cultural institutions—and why it matters.

He’s working the degenerate art angle hard.

“People with long COVID reported worse disability than 98% of the general Australian population. A total of 86% of those with long COVID met the threshold for serious disability compared with 9% of Australians overall.” theconversation.com/long-covid-i...

Crazy. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

once upon a time we actually liked this guy in san francisco

Wow. I can't imagine they will go quietly

Lots of attention on this Marc Benioff article, which is excellent and full of jaw-dropping quotes. It reminds me of how he was when I did a story for NPR about him secretly buying hundreds of acres of land in rural Hawaii. Things got weird. www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1...

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505

Empathy + Action = A Better World Thank you, Jane Goodall

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Somebody made the comment on here the other day that this looks like nuclear winter and I can’t get it out of my mind.

It’s just so, so good.

Two adorable Egyptian figurines: a roaring hippo and a baby hippo, dating ca 1,800 BC. Hippos were associated with life and rebirth. On display at Neues Museum Berlin. 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky

Correct

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall. It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Students don’t like doing them, faculty dread them, and administrators fetishize them. And grades have become meaningless as a result. What a terrible system. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

someone bought david lynch's home and renovated it

York Minster Chapter House