And here we go—kicking off the 2026 @humetricshss.bsky.social Values-Enacted Leadership Institute!

HuMetricsHSS@humetricshss.bsky.social · 3w ago

We’re at T minus two minutes for the second edition of the Values-Enacted Leadership Institute…

For folks asking why bother commenting because the OMB won't care: comments help build cases for the courts by explicitly laying out harms. That's why it's really important to have your comments be as specific as possible. Also, contact your senators and reps! They actually do care about this.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Monday is the deadline for public comment! The Heritage Foundation has been mobilizing its members to leave comments in favor of the rule change, so every unique comment matters (don’t use a form letter or copy/paste—similar comments are batched and treated as one).

That way you can't hold us to our expressed ideals!

Simon Hewitt@leedshewitt.bsky.social · 4w ago

Reminder: our strategy session for NEH grantees is coming up today at 2:00 p.m. ET. If you were notified that your grant would be reinstated and want tips on navigating the reinstatement process, join @jasonrhody.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social for this free event.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEH grantees: join us tomorrow, 9 July, at 2:00 p.m. ET for an MLA strategy session on how to reinstate terminated grants. You'll get guidance on navigating the NEH’s instructions and have the opportunity to ask questions about the reinstatement process. Register at www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

If the proposed OMB rules pass, the Trump admin could strip funding for scientific researchers at any time if they decide a project no longer fits the "national interest.” Have you filed a comment yet? The deadline is Monday, July 13. #AcademicSky

Stand up for Science

Stand up for Science

fight2win.standupforscience.net

AAUP Alabama@alabamaaaup.bsky.social · 4w ago

Check out Elizabeth Ginexi's excellent breakdown of the OMB's proposed changes to the federal grant rules: open.substack.com/pub/elizabet... Public comments close Monday, 6/13, so we're holding a drop-in Comment-a-Thon tomorrow on Zoom and writing comments together. Message us for the link!

For the evening crowd.

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 4w ago

Questions about how to reinstate your terminated NEH grant? Join us for a free MLA strategy session tomorrow (Thursday, 9 July) at 2pm ET where we'll review the process & answer questions. Register at the link below, and please share with others who are trying to get their grant reinstated.

Questions about how to reinstate your terminated NEH grant? Join us for a free MLA strategy session tomorrow (Thursday, 9 July) at 2pm ET where we'll review the process & answer questions. Register at the link below, and please share with others who are trying to get their grant reinstated.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEH grantees: join us tomorrow, 9 July, at 2:00 p.m. ET for an MLA strategy session on how to reinstate terminated grants. You'll get guidance on navigating the NEH’s instructions and have the opportunity to ask questions about the reinstatement process. Register at www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

Questions about how to reinstate your terminated NEH grant? Join us for a free MLA strategy session tomorrow (Thursday, 9 July) at 2pm ET where we'll review the process & answer questions. Register at the link below, and please share with others who are trying to get their grant reinstated.

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEH grantees: join us tomorrow, 9 July, at 2:00 p.m. ET for an MLA strategy session on how to reinstate terminated grants. You'll get guidance on navigating the NEH’s instructions and have the opportunity to ask questions about the reinstatement process. Register at www.mla.org/Events/Webin...

In a win for the 1st Amendment, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit has struck down the higher education provisions of Florida's Stop W.O.K.E. Act, and called the law a "breathtaking assertion of power to ban unpopular ideas from public discourse": www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Amazing fellowship opportunity for PhD students in MLA-related disciplines. Deadline July 9!

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · last mo.

Reminder: applications for our Edward Guiliano Global Fellowships are due one week from today, on 9 July. Through this opportunity, the MLA provides PhD students in MLA-related disciplines awards up to $2,500 to support travel and research. Learn more: www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Weizenbaum does not mince words! He describes as "obscene," "an attack on life itself," "all projects that propose to substitute a computer system for a human function that involves interpersonal respect, understanding, and love" ...

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

Still time to comment on the proposed OMB rule.

SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon@sunyufspresident.bsky.social · last mo.

Today, the SUNY University Faculty Senate Executive Committee approved this urgent call to action. Please share widely. It includes the most current and comprehensive compendium of opposition to OMB’s proposed rule attacking research for the public good we could compile. hdl.handle.net/1951/89039

wanna learn more about myths and lies, and truths and numbers, on lifetime employment opportunities for english majors and other humanists? we've got (free) merch! humanitiesworks.org

Regulating monsters. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

Please speak up. Record your objection. This is crucially important.

Save America Movement@saveamericamvmt.bsky.social · last mo.

Russ Vought — the Project 2025 architect — is rewriting an OMB rule to seize control of $1T+ in federal grants: roads, hospitals, fire departments, food banks, elections. By law, public comments must be read & answered. Yours matters.

MLA Chairs' workshops are an amazing resource for current --and aspiring-- departmental leaders, and the virtual seminar provides an accessible option for faculty without summer travel support. I benefited tremendously and look forward to participating again.

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us this summer for humanities-centered leadership training & professional development. Department chairs, directors of undergraduate and graduate studies, program leaders, & those preparing for leadership roles are all welcome; you will learn... www.maps.mla.org/Seminars

For those looking at their NEH grant reinstatement, highly recommend looking at the Award Reinstatement Instructions, which are much more specific about what is/isn't a change of scope, what budget changes need approval (nothing w/in 25% of total award), & what staffing needs approval.

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm actually finding these Award Reinstatement Instructions more useful than the Restarting doc. The Instructions are more specific about what they are actually asking for & what actually constitutes a change (& what doesn't!). Read carefully before starting. www.neh.gov/grants/manag...

"Dear Recipient, Your terminated NEH award is eligible for reinstatement pursuant to the rulings issued on May 7, 2026, in the consolidated cases ACLS, et al ..." 🤘

NEH grant recipients who received notification that a terminated award is eligible for reinstatement can find more information about initiating the restatement process here: shorturl.at/0GwBc

"Dear Recipient, Your terminated NEH award is eligible for reinstatement pursuant to the rulings issued on May 7, 2026, in the consolidated cases ACLS, et al ..." 🤘

Plenaries include: + Creating & Sustaining Enrollment Growth in the Humanities + Navigating the New Funding Landscape + Reimagining Credentials: From Certificates to Majors + Generative AI & the Humanities: Bridging Enthusiasm & Refusal + Recruitment, Retention, & Career Readiness in the Humanities

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s still time to register for our virtual MAPS Leadership Institute! Join us 22–25 June to get advice, share resources, and build your professional network. You’ll come away with strategies for curricular development and institutional change. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/MAP...

Deeply appreciate this careful dissection of the "evidence" underpinning the State of Scholarship report. With a special shout-out at the end for the World Humanities Report that included the perspectives of "over two hundred participants in thirty countries."

Michael Bérubé@michael-berube.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My response to that "Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences" is up. tinyurl.com/y39crkzp As I say on Facebook, I back-loaded the good stuff, like showing that the authors' account of the 2017 Hypatia controversy reveals them to be unreliable reporters.

When asked if they will released the AI-generated reports that fueled their claims: "Wilentz: I do find a certain irony in this. People who rail against objectivity, say that there’s no such thing as objectivity, suddenly want more evidence." So much to unpack there www.chronicle.com/article/insi...

Is a New Report About the Humanities ‘Diabolically Evil’? We Questioned Its Authors.

K. Anthony Appiah, Paul Boghossian, Katherine Fleming, and Sean Wilentz on what’s gone wrong in the humanities.

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I *so* wish that awesome World Humanities Report had gotten even one percent of the attention it deserved. Kudos to Sara Guyer and CHCI for putting it together-- over six years! worldhumanitiesreport.org

Matthew Cheney@melikhovo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Good piece here — and I especially appreciate that Michael Bérubé concludes by noting that the more thorough World Humanities Report didn't get anything like the attention of this report from an "eight-man, two-woman hit squad" who are scared of trans people & think the left killed everything good.

english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?

🎯🧵

Jason Rhody@jasonrhody.bsky.social · 2mo ago

More on the Vanderbilt report. In “The Nature of the Problem” section, the authors claim that “liberal skew in the professoriat” plays a role in “discouraging full participation in academia on the part of students who find themselves culturally and politically alienated from their professors.”

When you ask ChatGPT or any popular LLM to tell you a story, one name keeps coming up: "Elias Thorne." Depending which chatbot you ask, he's a lighthousekeeper, clockmaker or explorer. His stories are also flooding Amazon's AI-generated book market, YouTube slop, and fake news. Who is he?

Chatbots Keep Telling Stories About Lighthouse Keeper 'Elias Thorne'. We Might Know Why

LLMs including ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude are obsessed with telling stories about lighthouse keepers and clockmakers, and one character named 'Elias Thorne' has made his way from chatbots to Amazon bo...

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Plenaries include: + Creating & Sustaining Enrollment Growth in the Humanities + Navigating the New Funding Landscape + Reimagining Credentials: From Certificates to Majors + Generative AI & the Humanities: Bridging Enthusiasm & Refusal + Recruitment, Retention, & Career Readiness in the Humanities

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There’s still time to register for our virtual MAPS Leadership Institute! Join us 22–25 June to get advice, share resources, and build your professional network. You’ll come away with strategies for curricular development and institutional change. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/MAP...

Research funding opportunity -- share with your graduate students!

Modern Language Association@modernlanguage.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are now accepting applications for the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship. Graduate students can receive up to $2,500 to support travel and research toward publication, dissertation completion, or transformative experiential learning. Submit your application by 9 July. www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...