They keep booking these guests thinking that they’re informing Americans by asking “tough questions” into the air, and having them ignored. If you want answers, invite actual experts. Look some people up. Do some “reporting” and find someone knowledgeable. Come on, already.

this is my biggest issue with "AI" in higher education, the amount of time it eats up--time and energy I DO NOT HAVE

Two weeks ago, my colleague Dr. Badar Khan Suri was ruled deportable by an immigration court. Badar and his family find themselves once again in a terrifying, opaque, and costly legal ordeal. Please support/share?

🎯 @robsandia.bsky.social on Private School Vouchers (for the wealthy) — “CALL THEIR BLUFF… if they want public dollars, they should have to follow the same rules as public schools… it’s not a ‘COMPETITION’ when not everyone is playing by the same rules.” (cc: Speaker Sexton)

Universities are assembling larger and larger teams to deal with academic integrity issues--mostly focused on AI--while simultaneously holding AI "writing" contests, AI-themed events, "hey, come play with these fun tools!" The messages are so mixed, it's criminal. Because AI is bloated with money.

No. It's donors. It's still obscene but it's not state money. What it does do, though, is reflect a higher ed environment in which university admins will ask donors for $54 million to pay off a coach but they'll never ask those same donors to fund the English or history or sociology departments

All of this thread, plus a favorite example from my own research: a computer transcription would pick up the "correct" signature of one of my guys writing his code name in a secret message but not the fact that underneath it he had (oops) accidentally started to sign his real name.

NEW: Since the start of this year, more than 600 immigrant children have been placed in government shelters by ICE. That number, which has not been previously reported, is the highest since recordkeeping began a decade ago.

Isaac Chotiner tricked me into revealing that when I text "I'm on my way" I have in no way left the house yet.

If you are not familiar with Contingent Magazine, check it out - it's broad and imaginative in its approach to history and what "writing about history" should look like. You can also support it through a one-time or monthly donation! contingentmagazine.org

Agree on the sheer variety of (apparent) choices in the 21st century, but the questioning of the social order and attempts at self-(re)making are also not new phenomena. Villagers in England in 1650 would know that their King had just been executed and the monarchy ended. 1/ 🗃️

For the What's History Feed 🗃️. This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications. ✍🏽📚📄

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic

The "demanding practice" of Christianity here means standing for the very long Divine Liturgy and fasting regularly. Not standing for hours outside the Broadview ICE facility in protest, not fasting in solidarity with the hungry (or to help feed the hungry).

the only thing musk should be remembered for

Research and teaching in the humanities doesn't require a lot of resources! Cutting humanities programs is an ideological, not a budgetary, choice.

This entire thread is 💯 Make sure to read down to “The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.”

An ingenious solution to the blight that is big-time college athletics!

If you think what we do is worthwhile and want to help us do it better, consider joining our board! *very low time commitment*

Just heard that after 27 years on Louisiana’s death row, Chris “Jimmie” Duncan is finally getting out. Not exactly sure when, but I’m told he’ll be home for Thanksgiving. This is wonderful news. Here’s my 2009 piece on the forensic fraud that got him convicted:

Elon Musk's ideas on history directly impact his personal and professional decisions Clip from: "The Fall of Rome: Debunking Elon Musk" See full video on YouTube, Archaeology with Flint Dibble: youtu.be/s2fEaglzsR0

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Why on earth would I want this? No one wants a “high quality” pastiche of Hemingway from an MFA. That’s basically the literal opposite of what an MFA trains people for.

I'm honored that BLACK RELIGION IN THE MADHOUSE is on this list of @sciencenews.bsky.social's 10 favorite books of the year and among so many important works.

From my perspective? I’d rather universities simply not address the crisis at all unless they are fully committed to removing structural organizational stressors. I’m exhausted by exhortations to self care and wellness from the same folks who are knowingly amplifying my grinding anxiety.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

The @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social has been on fire lately, and this is oped is no exception. (And worth noting as an aside that no LLM could produce an article of this power and precision). www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

United Academics of the University of Oregon -- the faculty union at UO -- stands up to the Tr*mp administration's war on knowledge and education. #WOKE #UAUO #edusky www.opb.org/article/2025...

lest we forget the mutual interest in ⚪️ driving Harvard-Epstein entanglements. “His funds thus helped promote a current of thought that_promoted the idea that the existing order is the natural result of evolutionary selection and adaptation” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

For the What's History Feed: 🗃️

I want to watch a six-part series on the Haitian Revolution 😕

AI models don't "analyze"; at best they categorize and then spill out probabilistic language related to those categories. Hence the "autocomplete" of colonialist language. They can be trained away from colonialist language, of course, but they can't be trained to analyze.

it's easy to dunk on what is a risible, even unconscionable headline it seems to me however that the emails throw a spotlight not so much on a "lost" New York, but rather a _new_ one -- the NYC that emerged after the 1980s, when the Reagan Revolution & globalization transformed the city, 1/

Anyway, it’s been an open secret for a long, long time that significant numbers of the mostly men professors at Harvard not only harass grad students but undergrads as well. They hold their power over students heads to try to coerce them into going along with the harassment, & sometimes also assault

Thanks to @juansaaa.com for letting me know that this excellent Johnny Harris video on ICE enforcement is out. I talked to his producer for over an hour during the research process and I think it's a good overview of how we got here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDbt...

For the What's History Feed. 🗃️

A "geographically expansive" district, notes Politico. But that's not the politically relevant fact. Tennessee's 7th District was designed to scoop up part of Nashville, one of three districts the formerly D-held 5th was split across in R-led gerrymander. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenness...

Dank! So much lighter weight than I thought? I wonder if at least some of this cloth was purposely produced for the Guinea trade (would love to have some sense of the manufacturers) Permit me to observe that this is the most wonderful resource (and works perfectly for the English trade as well)

Wonderful news on a (literally) dark day here. Note who's *actually* protecting these institutions: the people who work and study there, not leadership

Once again, the AAUP takes the lead in defending higher education. If you teach or conduct research in higher education, join now @aaup.org

You'll ignore this, but every time you tweet angrily about crap like that Nuzzi piece you're confirming NYT editors' intuitions/incentivizing more of it. The entire intellectual/journo model here is, "Does this person get people angry? Yes? OK they're provocative/get talked about. Write about her."

1. These changes aren’t about budgets or enrollments. 2. My colleague has been deeply involved in this :waves hands: all along the way. What he shares here isn’t performative handwringing wrapped in clever rhetoric.

3. ALLIES: We have big plans coming up.

 On 11/17, join us to hear updates from the strike line and to learn more about what you can do to support baristas' fight to end union busting and win a fair contract. RSVP here - us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

Using this post to once again hype my feed of independent and nonprofit journalism. Read and share their work, and if you can, financially support those who are important to you. Journalism is expensive. Accountability journalism even more so.

Hello @support.bsky.team why has @sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

A plea as well to break the link that meaningful work = paid employment.

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.