A potentially engaging distraction: watch me close out a conference on AI in LAM by talking about how all the vagaries of archival description and discovery that LLMs can't address
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hm_...
Protest sign from MN that says, “DEARLY BELOVED. WE ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY TODISMANTLE THIS THING CALLED ICE.” with a picture of Prince in the left hand lower corner.
10/10 ICE protest sign
If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...
well shit
The entire field of 19th century studies is about how wrong this summation is
#19c
well it is certainly not the first as Northeastern did this with Claude months ago--every student, every teacher, every staff member. Ugh.
Job standing in front of a car
Bradford, job and two friends hanging at dodger stadium
Bradford and job sitting in his car
Bradford, Job and two friends hanging
ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity.
ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/. New issue just released. Scholarship on Aphra Behn, pedagogy Concise Collections on Teaching Phyllis Wheatley Peters and much more.
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity
Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.
The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%.
Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.
Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...
Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...
Good job @NU and shame on the silent Ivies
Picture of the table of contents for the journal, available through the linked page
True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too
muse.jhu.edu/journal/754
@cignahealthcare.bsky.social Really? Seriously????
check out Juliana Spahr's new collection "In the six ars poeticas, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades." together.https://lithub.com/listen-to-the-firespitters-seven-poetry-books-to-read-this-february/
Here's where you can go to email them your complaint: www.nps.gov/ston/contact...
Holy cow.
This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.
The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.
So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.
www.arts.gov/news/press-r...
yes please
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...
Stop
Complying
Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."
We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."
Please send us your abstracts!
Delighted that the DTA now has an Oakland campus presence!
A job, working with me and other cool people supporting the Humanities at NU northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Who is working on the not enshittified version of Meta? Having a hard time leaving that Nazi site bc of its less public social emotional connection to folks (friends from HS, college, grad school, former students & colleagues I care about but am not in intimate text/convo connection with).
As well as fighting for abolition
