So *this* podcast is on awe and wonder. The academic just mentioned how his team surveyed lots of people across countries to give examples of awe and what if we just asked thousands of college students about a moment where they felt like they belonged in a classroom. (Please do this I'll help)

There are few things in this world I have absolute contempt for. One of those things is people who yammer on academically about change and capitalism and then have never lifted a single finger their entire life to try to change a single policy at an employer.

How to replace @ssrn.bsky.social? Look to @socarxiv.bsky.social, talk to @philipncohen.com. Buy lawarxiv.info and have Claude or even real humans(!) code a reboot. Get on the law librarian listserv and spread news about the new common repository. A collective action problem, but solvable.

My sister is looking for dog owners who have had recent surgery (the human, not the dog) or relatives of seniors with dogs to participate in a short conversation related to product development. If this sounds like you, you can reach her at [email protected] with days/times you are available.

This came across my IG feed and it's too good to not share here

Breaking news: correlation is still not causation.

Happy Pride Month. If you know a young person (age 13-26) in the US who is getting their access to queer library books restricted because of local small-minded folks, please refer them to the Books Unbanned program. More people should know about it. #pride booksunbanned.com/card

There is a cygnet stuck in the rocks in the canalized part of the Mohassuck River right by the Statehouse. The wildlife rehab people aren't allowed to rescue swans. Providence Animal Rescue is closed on weekends. The police Animal Control officers only respond to cats & dogs. DEM won't do anything.

You can either join your union, go to the meeting, and get in the fight, or you can watch them kill higher education in the US. This will not pass. There will not be a natural reset. You fight or die.

Yay! A group of RISD alumni including Overpass Projects are doing a craft and art sale at Farm Fresh (10 Sims Ave PVD, near New Harvest coffee, free parking) tomorrow Sunday May 31st, 1-4pm! So if you were bummed by the sidewalk sale rainout today and want to support cool artists, go there!

"In addition to the traditional concept of true commitment that means you are willing to die for what you think is right, we will make equal space for the womanly concept of commitment that means you are willing to live for what you believe, and for the sake of whatever it is that you love." From

Yes! Faculty please more of this. Your statements on the impact of the library for your research and teaching carries so much more weight coming directly from you

A woman walking down the sidewalk just pulled two flowers off of my peonies while walking down the street. I yelled out the window not to take people's flowers and she just kept walking. She'd clearly picked flowers from prior lawns up the block.

It won't ever happen, but it would be really interesting if someone like Weingarten would admit that she got caught up in FOMO and made a mistake by so quickly partnering with Big AI.

"Heterosexuality: abnormal or perverted sexual appetite toward the opposite sex." (Dorland, The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 1900.) You history of sexuality people already knew this, but I love learning new things. /1

No one will convince me that originalism is anything other than "No Blacks Allowed."

An audience member asked me about leftist pronatalism.

Nothing like marching in white with hundreds of uncommon women & gender diverse ppl & singing "Bread & Roses" together on a Saturday morning in May, just like we did a quarter century ago. iykyk

IMO, having a conference under a crappy association -- where we can have space to meet and talk, about genocide and everything else -- will do more good than harm.

Friends, please help support the TWP Education Fund with a recurring donation--even a couple of dollars a month will help a ton as they work to develop future arts activists who can make a difference in our broken world. givebutter.com/twpef

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Guy checking us out in the supermarket: "just out of curiosity, why are you wearing a mask? Just to stop you from touching your face? Because they don't protect against anything airborne." Upon pushback, he clarifies "well, unless they have filters."

People writing letters for job-market candidates from Ph.D.-granting departments: do you tend to personalize reference letters with the particular position the applicant is applying for?

Good thing we focused on poster-wielding college kids so we didn't accidentally train our fight against anti-semitism on the ruling regime, which is now mandating Christian worship in the weapon-wielding department that decides who is deemed an enemy of the state.

In addition to the moral problem with the Fetterman/Plantar ‘protect social security and grant people the license to say slurs’ approach to politics the practical problem is that is nearly impossible to maintain the solidarity necessary to maintain social security when folks are hurling slurs.

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You. Enjoying a lovely spring Saturday in Lil' Rhody. Then you hear the Feds want to add a warning to any TV show/movie depicting trans folx/gender identity talk. Incredulous, you spring into action, clicking here glaad.org/fcc/ and letting those rat bastards know how you feel. Due 5/22/26.

I think about this alot. #forthechildren

We couldn’t agree more. At UT Austin, 4 departments are being consolidated under intense political pressure & a punishing timeline, w/ devastating consequences for students, staff & faculty. African American Studies, Mexican/American Studies, Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies, &American Studies. 😡😭

Great and important thread.

If AI makes college obsolete it won’t be because of how it credentials or if it credentials at all. The far more likely scenario is that AI’s necropolitics will finally decimate the liberal state’s zombie institutions for which credentials are produced. So, yay AI, I guess.

Reading June Jordan's "Some of Us Did Not Die," published in 2002. She could see the future unfolding in the present that was. If only we had listened.

Has anyone seen any data on how many institutions of higher ed are generally no longer willing to consider candidates for faculty jobs who would need visa sponsorship (even among those already in the country and not subject to the $100k fee)?

The rough (and perhaps ironic?) part of this is that these conversations did happen, rather loudly, decades ago, through what was then known as the "open education" movement. Those of us in those spaces started a whole "domain of ones own" movement. We were mostly laughed at by administration.

If you're a Smith alum, a small thing you can do to support trans rights is sign this petition urging their Board of Trustees to continue enrolling trans women. I've heard that Smith does not intend to back down, but letting them know you care can only help. www.change.org/p/to-the-smi...?

did you know i am doing a dissertation on workplace leave use among full-time workers in the US who have experienced miscarriage? well now you do! and if you think you may be eligible, you can take a screener survey at go.uic.edu/leavestudy or scan the QR code. #reprosky #healthpolicy #miscarriage

It never ceases to amaze me how boards & admins of institutions of hiring education, who usually claim to be some sort of business mavens (in a way that we silly faculty can't understand), think the best move is to become just like everyone else rather develop & market distinct strengths.

UIC grad workers have been on strike for a week now and we have just learned that UIC admins are considering locking out grad workers in the summer (cancelling any contracts) and not hiring any TAs in the fall

People have absolutely no idea how much it costs to do these cases well. None. Zero. If you want people to fight this shitty government, it takes money. You can't just show up and say "Hi judge this case sucks, please dismiss it." Believe me, I wish I could.

If you want to see what most “professors” make.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

This is a form of corruption

My pet peeve (to put it mildly) is attending a meeting with 97 AI notetakers.

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

publicising your interim victories IS important during a prolonged period of resistance, because authoritarians want you to give up hope. so they need you to believe they are ten times more cunning, capable, disciplined, smarter than you, but they simply aren't, and it helps to say so & show it.

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