Happening in Troy, NY next month! If you are in the NY capital region, this event on climate change and ecofascism at Rensselaer Polytechnic is open to the public. RSVP here: forms.cloud.microsoft/r/1z8jiVQmjq

What kind of fake ass phd do you complete in 3.5 years??

Where my Laxness-heads at?

Ah that feeling when you read something that says everything you're currently trying to write, but better. Love this piece on progressive education by @annieabrams.bsky.social: thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

Mowale pwummeting because of mean whetowic

Man, why don't you shut up and get to work on letting me attach a file that's still open to a fucking email www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

It is really just that easy to say

YEESSS

Today in medievalcore technofeudalist hypothesis

Yeah, but do some people have bad politics that make them suck though?

Love how these "Mamdani will have to learn the grownup reality of compromise" pieces still (though inadvertently) just make him look cool and sick as fuck nymag.com/intelligence...

New years eve 1999. (Finally got this on DVD. How is this banger not more widely available!?)

"Other billionaires who appear to be making moves to decrease their presence in California include" literally just one guy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/t...

Brb, hiring eight CERCs in A.I. and Entrepreneurialism

I need to know what is up with this genre of spine on books lately!

Grading got me ready to ban the word "complexities" next year

Broke: Thanksgiving Woke: Boeuf Bourginon just cuz

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

"This film could have been good I guess--if only I didn't, personally, hate it for reasons I won't explain." jacobin.com/2025/11/del-...

And is this sandwich in the courtroom here today?

Sick.

Formatting a forthcoming essay on how its bad for higher ed out here, which I wrote in, uh, 2023

Doesn't Harvard already have a Center for Conservative Scholarship? I think it's called "Harvard"

Deadline extended! TEACHING 21st CENTURY LITERATURE calls for short essays of avid, teching-oriented criticism. CFP: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

Gave a talk at Siena College the other day on 1930s sci-fi fandom's anti-fascism, tech broligarchs, and the salience of Marxism to contemporary science fiction. This gave me a chance to form some thoughts on recent archival work, and I'm happy to share it here: www.mitchrmurray.com/blog-2-1/sci...

Before the eldritch terrors of our current moment, I reviewed @katemarshall.bsky.social's Novels by Aliens on how eldritch terror is, uh, realism. Up now at ALH: academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

Even though it was a forgone conclusion, turns out it still sucks to receive the NEH rejection!

If you ever wanted to read about Donald Glover's "Atlanta," trap, and the Hollywood Dystopia that is Atlanta, then have I got the essay for you: asapjournal.com/feature/disn...

Men, what's stopping you from speaking to God in AI form and tapping into the ancient archive of the creation of the universe?

Open call for chapters for edited collection TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/04/...

CFP in brief: I'm editing a book titled TEACHING TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY LITERATURE. It features 3000-word essays of avid, teaching-focused criticism. Each contrib. selects one key C21 text that, in their institutional context, teaches exceedingly well. Email or DM for details/to pitch!

What?

The planes just burst into flames *before* they take off now

Getting in that last vote for Kamala

Does anyone know grad students or very early career teacher-scholars who are also outstanding pedagogues? I'm seeking contributors to round out a project on teaching 21st century anglophone lit. I'd like to include more people who fit this description. Recommendations welcome and appreciated!

Jay Taj was robbed, man

Just heard on good authority* that Dua Lipa is "so obsessed with [me]." *Spotify wrapped

Just finished this excellent book! Thanks, @jordanscarroll.bsky.social, really taking one for the team by reading these freaks www.upress.umn.edu/978151791708...

Had a blast teaching @isabel.kim's "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid in the Omelas Hole?" in sci fi class today: clarkesworldmagazine.com/kim_02_24/

Highly recommend following MTC. Some of the best in (what remains of) the biz

The only reason I have NYT--maybe the only legitimate reason anyone should--is that my login from my old work gets me access to NYT Cooking

Please pray for me. This is the end of my tumeric I brought to NY from Your Dekalb Farmer's Market in Decatur

let's get to know each other! Quite this & tell me: 1) a project you are working on & 2) an odd idea/theory you keep thinking about. 1) a literary history of speculative fiction publishing and fandom from 1952 on 2) teaching and building humanities presence at a STEM institute

Ayo, I been on Bitch, pap-illon, King Charles tints on Blenheim prints on

Professional achievement unlocked

Since the dawn of time, there has always been The Good Class and The Bad Class

Read immediately my review of @annakornbluh.bsky.social's Immediacy for ASAP/J (with thanks to @michaeldango.bsky.social): asapjournal.com/review/get-i...

Trying to see something: If you had to pick only ONE work of literature from the past 24 years to teach in a contemporary literature class, what would it be?