The most important thing in writing is to finish. A finished thing can be fixed. A finished thing can be published. A finished thing can be made into a movie. An unfinished thing is just a dream. And dreams fade if you don't hold on tight enough. So finish the thing.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

You could do worse, especially if you are not a Southerner (or especially if you are a white Southerner) than reading @tressiemcphd.bsky.social and @jamellebouie.net talking about some of the adverse ways in which the white South is become America. (gift 🎁 link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/o...

This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "A Thousand Young" by Andrea Pearson from the 2025 anthology TALES OF SHUB-NIGGURATH. deepcuts.blog/2025/10/18/a...

When we see mental disorders on BART we call the cops. When we see it in Cupertino we call it eccentric.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

My 12 year old just started playing Silent Hill 2 (PS5 remastered) for the first time and knows nothing about it. Going in absolutely cold. I'm so excited for her.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, in the church’s nearly 500-year history.

We collectively mistook the means of delivery for human communication for the connection itself. Soon, we will pay the price for that

The fact that this article on soy causing deforestation doesn't cover how all that soy is being used is a wild media failure. The vast majority (70-80%) is being fed to animals. It's not the "world's taste for soya" it's the world's taste for meat. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"Give yourself over to absolute pleasure"

Today's perspective: “I don’t like when people call us camp,” he says. “Camp means you don’t know you’re ridiculous, and we know what we’re doing. We’ve always known what we were doing.” -Fred Schneider, The B-52s.

Here's something you learn in business school- data is not information. Learning a fact, *by itself*, does not make you any wiser. You must understand the context around the fact as well- how it fits into other facts, what it implies about the past, present, and future.

Nebraska's move to cut their education administration department is part of a trend across universities, with colleges/schools of education facing severe program reductions or, in some cases, their complete elimination. #highered www.insidehighered.com/news/busines...

It looks like one of my graduate schools, Queens University of Charlotte, is merging with Elon University, who will take over the operations of Queens. When this passes this will be the second university on my CV that will no longer exist. Strange times. #highered charlotte.elon.edu/elon-queens/...

Framing social media posts as representing just you instead of your employer used to generally protect you from sanctions, just like a DOJ leader does here. But that won't protect rank and file employees in 2025. Personal social media is no more. www.chronicle.com/article/clem...

There used to be a sort of social contract that the PMC classes had with red states that has been completely ripped apart and I honestly don't know how that's going to feed into housing market growth and corporate relocations.

‘ANDOR’ has won the Emmy for Best Writing in a Drama Series. See the full winners list: bit.ly/EmmyWins25

Ridiculous on every level. If the govt was serious about vocational education they'd put funding into community and technical colleges, the backbone of American workforce education. #highered www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, Florida faculty laid out their frustrations in a recent survey. #highered www.wusf.org/education/20...

I regret to inform you that Gen Z is having nostalgia for "Y2K" aka The Two Thousands and it's made its way from my HS daughter's slang to Taco Bell commercials and its made this Gen Xer feel so old I may turn to dust.

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

I'm only at the national anthem and this might be the worst product the NFL has ever produced.

Me, an Old, watching a YouTube commercial about YouTube filled with people I have absolutely never heard of. Also, "YouTuber" isn't an actual thing no matter what you've been told.

Unpopular take: The NFL should be seen on broadcast network stations (and their respective apps for cord-cutters) only. You shouldn't need to subscribe to a dozen streaming services to catch a game.

“When you look at the factors weighing down Democrats, it’s not crime or trans rights or wokeness. It’s the deep-seated belief among independents and Democratic voters that Democrats are weak and feckless.”

I wrote about the humility of expertise and the arrogance of ignorance, the profound laziness that attends believing that you can find knowledge by ignoring the accumulation of inherited human knowledge, and the ways lazy arrogance fuels narratives of fascism. www.the-reframe.com/your-ignoran...

*I used to warn people that weblog platforms would become dead media some day, like 8-track tapes or mimeo machines, and they were like: "How could that be? Everybody knows that the Internet is Forever" everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08...

a bunch of you really believe that trump is the unstoppable god king who can do whatever he declares and it is dumb as hell

Every few years a major media outlet runs a story about how most students aren't attending elite institutions, only to immediately pivot back to covering the Ivy League. #highered

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Fearmongering about how AI will take people’s jobs just makes people hate the tech industry and will cause a backlash when people figure out LLMs aren’t that smart.

Saw a bad parenting opinion by someone who doesn’t have kids I might not even care if a parent has an opinion but if you’re not out here in the drop off line trenches I definitely don’t give a fuck

#highered #ai

My piece on the Trump administration's attack on higher ed for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/cons...

"Don't feel bad if you're not reading every great book. No one ever has, and no one ever will."

Nobody is doing this.

"I’m just trying to rapidly live in reverse to hold on to any shred of the Olden Times that’s left. This is called denial and nostalgia—wish me luck." - Paul Thomas Anderson

The Mountain Goats Cinematic Universe needs to be explored.

We are in desperate need of a new Rage Against the Machine album.

Astonishing. For anyone wondering why Texas always has so many job openings in higher ed, it's actions like this. How long before other red states follow suit? www.texastribune.org/2025/08/07/t...

A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵

We have to get comfortable telling people they’ve been acting like suckers and the things they believe are cultivated for suckers. Radical honesty.

Nature is undefeated. metro.co.uk/2025/08/06/m...

Every mainstream media story about San Francisco was designed to make people hate San Francisco.

What it is going to take is one university after another simply saying, we will not deal. This is not a legitimate way for the executive branch to interact with universities and we will not do it. Full stop.

This feels like the essence of my public management class. The likelihood that the people of government haven't thought of your brilliant idea is very very small. Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard work.

This working paper looks really cool. "The Education-Innovation Gap" 🧵🧵🧵