Historian friends, I'm trying to organize an AHA panel that uses haunting as a way to think through issue of the dead's consent to have their memories repurposed. Do you have material that might work? If so or if you want more info, message me!

Good analysis as far as it goes, but surely the death of long-form magazine gigs, criticism as job, and death of tenure are related to the dearth of quality book-length nonfiction? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

This is the fundamental problem with academic writing

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

The Olympics said don't boo Vance but as Vance is incredibly boo-able, it had to happen

Interesting costuming choice to make it look like this woman isn’t wearing pants

So uh will be curious to see how that gets edited for the prime time broadcast

Oh yeah they are definitely booing the concept of the USA

So far this opening ceremony needs more heavy metal-backed guillotines

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

Sociologists, I love you. That is all.

Most unhinged story of the day: Olympic ski jumpers are allegedly injecting hyaluronic acid into their penises to make them bigger and therefore increase the surface area of thier suit for a competitive advantage. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articl...

For you policy nerds, here's the final rule: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

Great. Federal employees will no longer be able to provide expert assessments or advice without fearing for their jobs.

Definitely 1, I was forced as a young acquisitions editor to have lunch with evolutionary psychologists. Cancelling that series increasingly feels like one of my greatest professional accomplishments

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

I will not spend all morning rehashing 2010s science writing I will not spend all morning rehashing 2010s science writing I will not spend all morning rehashing 2010s science writing I will not spend all morning rehashing 2010s science writing

Not unrelated, remember Seed Magazine and the ScienceBlogs network? An Epstein library search for Adam Bly returns 1,746 results. www.justice.gov/epstein

DiChristina also invited Epstein to attend an editorial meeting for the Scientific American, where she worked as editor-in-chief. Correspondence from 2010 also showed DiChristina on a guest list for a meeting on “the islands,” though it was not immediately clear what Epstein meant by “islands.”

If you’re unfamiliar with the “literary agent” in question in the Epstein files, it’s John Brockman, who ruled science/tech writing in the 00s and 10s, as widely reported in the late 10s, eg newrepublic.com/article/1548...

I wrote about the Epstein Files and the (incredibly unhealthy) need to monitor, to bear witness. lithub.com/finding-the-...

I am a known sap for Islands in the Stream, more Muppets pls

day 2 of I hate Gemini so much

Clearing the air of PhARTs www.inquirer.com/arts/philade...

the Post news is gutting for many reasons, but I can’t help focusing on the books section—how great it was, and how essential. So many worthy books barely get reviewed. I’ve had authors reach out to thank me because mine was the only post-pub coverage they got. Just awful for readers & for writers.

Mourning the death of the book review

I am halfway through this book and am increasingly convinced she eats him to survive

Because I know how to wind down with a nice, relaxing read

Gemini is providing me with an ai summary of emails with friends about dinner plans and I hate it

The Brockman/Epstein nexus isn’t news to folks in science writing/evolutionary biology circles, but I’m glad it’s becoming better known. At least half of the science wars drama lays at these guys’ feet. It should never have been taken seriously. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The problem with this claim is neither “hot fish” nor “NY.” It’s that the picture shows a sandwich with a lid. Tuna melts are open-faced sandwiches! This is canon!

The Goddess has released you from any and all demands made upon you by anyone who ever invited Jeffrey Epstein to visit or who was chummy with him by correspondence or aided & abetted him They are hereby nulled and voided You are free

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Yes I’m still mad, why do you ask??

Like, do you know how much effort STS and #histSTM folks have had to expend convincing conservative peer reviewers that evolutionary psychology is trash?

This race was such a massive swing blowout that Democrat Taylor Rehmet literally won a city called White Settlement

I will never get over being asked to treat evolutionary psychology as a serious intellectual endeavor

know there's nothing any of us can do about it but I really resent this drip drip feed of Epstein files, around two to four days a month will apparently forever be dedicated to thinking about powerful creeps and paedophiles but hohoho we don't know which ones! it's always a surprise! just very grim

For hundreds of years, African Americans have shaped the story of the Midwest. These monuments, museums, and historical sites celebrate that legacy. www.midwestliving.com/inspiring-pl... #blackmidwest #tellthemwhatwedid #bhmat100

"One agent told PW she was 'reeling' from the scope of the layoffs." www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I recently saw this in the other review report for something I was peer reviewing, found it a bit odd.

A sincere question for scholarly book editors and reader. It seems someone (?) is advising history and sociology authors to include “tables” summarizing their arguments. In books. In books published by presses hypothetically reaching crossover audiences. Is this in fact a thing you want?

A ridiculous tabata helped somewhat but this feels like a axe-throwing kind of day

Your* daily reminder that if everyone is an asshole you’re the asshole *For me, this reminder is for me

interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”

The Trump admin already failed to get an arrest warrant on him—magistrate judge refused so DOJ went to appeals court, prompting that letter from the chief district judge torching the DOJ, and appeals court denied too—so God knows what this new one is, or if they even bothered to get a warrant.

Everything about this Homan presser is rage inducing

ICE took the Baileys

Philly, Council will be considering a fantastic package of ICE Out bills tomorrow. Today is a great day to call your councilmember, all the at-large councilmembers, and the mayor to urge their support. Tomorrow, pack council chambers to show your support!

I need these!!