Prediction: Universities will continue to pay exorbitant amounts for AI even as the prices continue to rise and it's abandoned by businesses.

It always has been. A fable of perseverance is also a fable of futility. Depends on who is selling the tale.

OUR FIGHT: We have taken legal action against The Times for using AI programs to surveil and monitor our members. Read The Verge article here: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Black folks seeking justice, hell any marginalized group seeking justice, is often framed as revenge especially when justice involves the restraining of the oppressor’s capacity to do violence and the interruption of a lifestyle predicated on it.

oh no, i see it. i feel sorry for my nieces and nephew.

getting through my chore list today by dreaming about the risotto i'm making later. this is why i love watching epicurious videos with my morning coffee. this video features a "no stir" method i'm *thinking* about trying... we'll see.

if you can write it, you can write it shorter, shaily.

it's me. i dismiss the "canon" as "a collection of dead white men." sorry not sorry. scholars from the global south have had to innovate entirely new canons, epistemologies, methodologies. we have to be conversant in multiple canons, and sometimes, the dead white guys ain't it. get on our level.

Indeed, this is a memorable weekend to revisit Elizabeth Castelli’s incredible Martyrdom and Memory with this forum on Ancient Jew Review! @ancientjewreview.bsky.social

i really love reading colleagues' in-progress work. some of y'all are simply incandescent in print. it's motivating!

this thread. the whole thing.

Yo everybody! I made this! I need a dollar, dollar, dollar that's what I need. Still working it out after a cyberattack on PayPal. Still needing support. Please, oh won't you please consider assisting your community member who doesn't have enough so I can continue assisting you?

if roopika risam's _data empire_ isn't on your summer reading list, it should be.

🗃️ CfP for a really cool workshop next year in Dresden! PhD students and postdocs warmly welcomed

i like this. this is the way.

my niece has aged out of facetime calls with masi and i'm never going to get over it.

On this fraught, frustrating, profoundly American holiday weekend, here’s my 277th #ScholarSunday thread of public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely please, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

*sigh*

i’ll spend my whole life waiting for an opportunity like this.

"So it may come as a surprise, especially to younger Americans, to learn that DHS was originally conceived in the interest of unity & harmony – & that the phrase 'homeland security' was originally meant to be reassuring." NO. Activists & privacy experts sounded the alarm at DHS' inception.

“Two people were shot and wounded in an encounter with Secret Service near the White House on Saturday,” CNN reports

tomorrow night is the culmination of the rise and remember festival marking the 6th anniversary of george floyd's murder by minneapolis police. brass solidarity band leading a processional from the square to the say their names cemetery is always such a wonderful moment

no kitty visits yesterday. but i’m planning to make a little shelter today. fingers crossed.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Book in the wild #NAPS2026 #GenderViolence www.ucpress.edu/books/gender...

How do sperm and egg fuse? Surprisingly, we still don’t fully know… Our field has uncovered many pieces of the fertilization puzzle, but not how they fit together. We identify ✨ SPARK ✨ - a conserved sperm complex that couples sperm-egg binding to fusion. tinyurl.com/34cm4xat Read on! 🧵👇

Victoria is a force of nature who is redefining our understanding of fertilization in vertebrates like us. I wish i still taught this as she solved a decades old puzzle I presented as a unsolved puzzle. 🧪 Shes been remarkable since I knew her in her early PhD -if you're hiring, she's the one!

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

i love the work IR does. i’m not at #IR48, but it’s pretty fucking awesome to see my work being referenced there! that’s been one of the best things about writing this elements project — it’s useful to folks in other fields. you can’t ask for more than that, really. 💜

ftr, iowa is shuttering half a dozen programs because of — *checks notes* — low enrollment. now.uiowa.edu/news/2026/02...

shoutout to the student who put this on my evals. yes, i am.

this is the way. commencement speakers should be funny, demonstrate clarity about this shitty world students are graduating into, and still find a way to be encouraging and inspiring. you don’t tell students what’s what; you respond to the best in them and they’ll show you what’s what.

okay, i have decided to woo this cat. first step is getting it to trust me so i can take it to the vet, at least. i’ve put out food and water. what other tips do y’all have for wooing stray cats?

there’s a stray cat in the neighborhood. i’m not a cat person. i’m allergic to cats, actually. so why do i see cat trees and lots of zyrtec in my near future?

get better commencement speakers, schools. y’all really want your students’ time at your school to end with a scoldy speech like this? i don’t expect schools to care about students, per se. you’d think they’d care about alumni sentiments, though.

Two novels! I wrote TWO novels! With ten fingers and 85% of a brain and there was absolutely NO AI at all! The second JUST came out! JUST NOW! My eye is twitching with fury again.

The San Diego Islamic Centre shooting was not an isolated act of hate. It was part of a far-right “curriculum of violence,” where attackers study, cite, and try to outdo one another. My new piece for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-san-dieg...

it’s stormy outside. i made a big pot of chai. headphones charged, fountain pens filled. the perfect recipe for a peaceful and productive writing day. 💜

Our AJR #forum about Elizabeth Castelli's Martyrdom and Memory draws to a close with a response from the author

Fascinating world of ancient #glass: unique #Roman flasks in the shape of a pair of sandals. They were used to hold oil or perfume. Found in a woman's burial in Cologne, dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD. 📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln 🏺 #archaeology

visitors: omg, look at all the deer! 😍 locals: these fucking deer, i swear.

who decides these commencement speakers? fire them and convert half a dozen contingent lines.

remember when Google offered unlimited digital storage to colleges and universities and then when adoption reached the right levels rescinded that promise, capped everything, and started pricing those services without the subsidies? idk man just something I think about a lot

been a long time since caught the sunrise. 🙂

NEW BOOK! I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line academic.oup.com/book/62279

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

It's publication day! Mine and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social's book is now available anywhere books are sold: www.mqup.ca/Books/F/For-...

relatable. 😂

this is a wonderful essay.

US secretary of state says WHO was ‘a little late’ in identifying deadly Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda