New to me: Theories of Race: A Reader, 1684–1900. Some great resources here. I mean, most of them are terrible, obviously, but good for teaching/understanding. www.theoriesofrace.com

Theories of Race

An annotated anthology of essays on race from 1684⁠–⁠1900, edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey Galt Harpham.

theoriesofrace.com

ICE and assorted local thugs are hitting LA and San Diego (surprise, surprise) hard right now. If you're in the groups being targeted, please take extra care and caution. If you're not, please check in with your local support orgs to see how you can help. ✊🏾💜

Are you an MLIS student or new-ish librarian worried about navigating convos around AI? Join @juliesetele.bsky.social & me for a free webinar hosted by Rutgers LIS students. Let's talk strategies for finding your (AI skeptical) people & finding ways to push back. 📚 scarla.rutgers.edu/event/talkin...

Talking AI: A Guided Conversation on AI Critique and Refusal in Academic Librarianship - SCARLA

Are you a current or future librarian against AI? Do you want to learn how to advocate for AI refusal in professional environments and job interviews when faced with opposition? […]

scarla.rutgers.edu

This is an issue @cucfa.org will be taking up this year. Our student:faculty ratio just grows higher and higher—much higher than comparable institutions. Meanwhile we’re buying campuses and hiring more and more administrators. www.sacbee.com/news/local/e...

UC is hitting its enrollment targets. But permanent faculty hiring lags

Faculty say the University of California’s reputation for academic excellence and its contribution to new ideas and innovations is at stake.

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My parenting advice is, never trim a sandwich into little “PB&J sticks” because then you will be stuck doing this for approx the next 10 years #notevenonce

Z-Profile, an application from Tim Sherratt for making a static academic research profile website from a Zotero collection. Host on your own or on GitHub pages. wraggelabs.com/z-profile-do... "Z-Profile was handcrafted by humans, without AI assistance." 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

If you're casting about for amusement in London on the evening of Friday 20 November, I'm giving a talk at KCL on mushrooms and social reproduction. They've got a bit of security at the building, so if you're not at KCL but would like to go, contact aaron.rosenberg at kcl dot ac dot uk

🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 4d ago

Archive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...

I asked my first-year undergrads today if they considered themselves Gen Z or Gen Alpha and they we so indignant! “Gen *Z*!!!” Yeesh. I didn’t know it was so sensitive!

Register for our AAUP webinar for the 3rd segment of our Toolkit series on intervening in institutional procurement TODAY Wednesday 10/7 at 3pm ET introducing our "Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work" resource with Cynthia Conti-Cook! www.aaup.org/event/strate...

Strategy Playbook for Addressing AI at Work

This webinar spotlights a strategy procurement playbook that outlines various tools and strategies for workers in higher education to democratize procurement practices around AI and other technologies...

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Keep your eyes peeled for these positions being filled by those who are full send on pumping AI into collections management, exhibition curation, and marketing.

kelsey ables@kelseyables.bsky.social · 5d ago

New: The White House is conditioning $190 million for the Smithsonian on compliance with its executive order "Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History" through legally-binding footnotes in recent OMB apportionments. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

"Talking Objects is an attempt to contextualise objects that were plundered through colonial domination. It is an experiment in building a decolonial archive for decolonial knowledge production." africandigitalheritage.org/talking-obje...

Talking Objects - Building a Digital Archive for Decolonial Knowledge Production

What comes to mind when you encounter the term ‘Talking Objects’? If we challenged you to let your imagination run free and restrict every impulse to limit your thoughts and ideas, what do you picture...

africandigitalheritage.org

It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

This makes sense.

Max Read@maxread.info · last wk.

for the new york times magazine, I wrote about why everything is "gambling" now (the short answer: actually everything is the statistical style now, and gambling is just how most of us understand that)

New to me: the Museum of Looted Antiquities (an @omeka.org site, incidentally!) mola.omeka.net

It’s weird to see so many higher education leaders beat their chests about “the decline of trust” from the public while refusing to acknowledge the conservative movement organizing to destroy it. Imagine someone stabbing you repeatedly while you complain about not having enough blood to bleed out.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · last wk.

I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.

That debunked claim about autistic people not having empathy is so cruel and has done so much damage. Really pisses me off.

Writing something where I will be liberally citing @lilymasonphd.bsky.social's latest and realizing that I can't cite every single thing I would like to because then I'm just reprinting her work. So, I've gotta thread about it instead. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

I want to know how the 13yo changed my contact info on my own phone

One of my favorite things about my 6yo is that when I give her a compliment she goes, “Yeah, I know.”

Over the summer I more or less took a break from social media and just read all the time and to be totally honest I’m finding it very hard to get back on. I really do miss being in the loop and I need to keep up with everything for work, but it’s been a challenge.

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....

Surveillance Watch

This interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

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Tyne Daile Sumner@tynedaile.bsky.social · 4w ago

A reminder that this exists and that it is, verifiably, very cool: www.surveillancewatch.io

It’s REAL??!!

Dan "Mr. Bones and Me" Greene@dmgreene.bsky.social · 2w ago

Aaah look what I got in the mail! Congratulations to @miriamposner.com on publication and congratulations to everyone else who finally gets to read this incredible book.

Why is UCLA (admin) LIKE THIS? The week before the fall quarter starts, we got told that all computers will be disappearing from classrooms. Especially frustrating for those faculty who don’t have a UCLA-supplied device. Thanks to @ucaft.bsky.social for pushing back. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

UC-AFT: Computer Removal/BYOD Survey

It has come to UC-AFT’s attention that the University has begun the transition to a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) model for computer access in classrooms, and has already removed computers from several...

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My laundry app now offering payday loans

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

I don’t know anything about the Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies, but they definitely have some cool-looking classes. (Grad level, non-degree-granting.) brookfarminstitute.com

Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies — Humanities Seminars in Cambridge, MA

Brook Farm Institute for Critical Studies offers humanities seminars in Cambridge, MA — exploring literature, philosophy, history, and political thought with leading scholars.

brookfarminstitute.com

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Jennifer Romig @jennifermromig.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Notetaking in meetings is tiny case in point - used to be some predictable social assumptions who would do it; now anyone can offer to do ”notetaking” by turning on the AI listener. Further interesting scenario is human recollection / notes (taken by habit by a person) conflict with AI summary

Evil www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

Hospitals Shut Youth Gender Clinics in Deal with Trump Administration (Gift Article)

At least six hospitals have struck agreements with the Trump administration to pay fines and stop providing gender-transition treatments to minors.

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