*Raises hand* I wrote an article about this very thing happening in the 1920s.
Antonovich, Jacqueline. “White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 94, no. 4 (Winter 2020): 439-469.
this is a crucial part of the NEH doge story that the NYT leaves out
🧵 up and down if you want to understand what happened to the civil servants at the National Endowment for the Humanities who worked every day to uphold the Constitution (hint: it's the same thing that happened to your grants). #NEH
I knew it would be bad & went in expecting to hate watch it, but somehow it was even worse than my expectations
There are more important things to post about right now, but: if anyone has a real version of that device from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that erases bad memories, I could use it to erase the horrific new Wuthering Heights film adaptation from my brain. It’s like Temu released a movie
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
NEW: The bad news about international-student enrollments at American colleges just got worse. An exclusive @chronicle.com analysis of just-released State Department data shows new visa issuances in the summer of 2025 dropped by more than a third. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
In this model, faculty are disposable, decisions are made from above with no input from educators, and students‘ learning conditions cost $$$ but are easily discarded
Drexel sent out an email last week to all NTT faculty announcing an expedited review of NTT contracts, which proposes to cut all contracts down to 1 year or 3 years max for senior lecturers. This is a unilateral topdown scrapping of policy faculty fought to implement & that was only approved in 2023
One vision of the university sees no faculty at all, just revolving door of the seamless provision of managed services and tuition fees. Another, shares this vision by having all faculty permanently on strike.
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The quotidian surreal dystopia of living under authoritarianism, this story sounds like a nightmare from a work of fiction
New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
I realize this isn’t portable to all subjects or pedagogical situations, but a species of assignment that’s remarkably robust against AI is "reflect critically on this activity we did/object we examined in person"
You could iterate with an LLM, but it would require work nearly equal to just writing
🔥HOT OFF THE PRESS🔥
"No Safe Harbor: Martin R. Delany's Figurative Emigrations"
by Michael Soriano
Please Share!
www.insurrecthistory.com/archives/no-...
The brief 24 hour window in which I’m totally caught up on grading before my students turn in final project proposals 🙏🥳
Things are going well in this country for the rich and the racists.
Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.
I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.
This gofundme was started by a Drexel student whose father was taken by ICE. If you are able to, please join me in donating
www.gofundme.com/f/support-th...
He is seriously amazing & under appreciated at Drexel!
Since 2019, one of the proudest services I do for the profession is collaborate w. @rcolesworthy.bsky.social & Erin Bartram @contingent-mag.bsky.social to compile a (limited) list of pubs by contingent lit studies scholars.
Here is our 2025 compilation.
contingentmagazine.org/2025/12/16/2...
For Jane Austen's 250th Birthday I am sharing my article for @theconversation.com that warns against pretending Austen was radical or "wild". She was a Conservative, supported of empire and mainstream tenets of white supremacy and heteronormative primogeniture.
theconversation.com/jane-austen-...
Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it.
You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Thank you! I’m familiar with AAUP’s report but hadn’t seen this article. Thanks also for your article - I shared it with some of my colleagues in Drexel‘s AAUP chapter. Sending solidarity from Philadelphia 🙏
Reading this, because Drexel just announced that they are also cutting a deal with OpenAI for Chat GPT Edu
an Ancient Aliens meme from the Our Marathon project’s meme collection is the most viewed file in Northeastern’s Digital Repository Service. Appreciate my old coworker Sarah Sweeney sharing this data point and others! librarynews.northeastern.edu?p=276987&fbc...
Cover of the essay. It depicts a Black man, visibly tired and sad, holding a bleading heart that reads The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Today, DWI publishes a powerful essay by @mgasia.bsky.social, who works impersonating an AI sex companion: data-workers.org/michael/
This piece offers a rare glimpse into the psychological and economic realities behind one of the fastest-growing sectors: AI-assisted intimacy.
The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky
