Well, this is horrifying.

Charles West@pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 5d ago

"The Education Department intends to use IRS data to determine students’ salaries four years after they graduate and compare them to those of people similar in age who just have high school diplomas". via @gsoh31.bsky.social

Deep and sincere gratitude to all the medical professionals who put their lives on the line every day to get (most of) us through a global panidemic, from the policy leaders and the lab workers through all the hospital staff.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon)@peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · last wk.

This is indeed one of the greatest benefits of studying history!

Hannah Sparwasser Soroka@hannah-historian.bsky.social · 2w ago

The fundamental, delicious paradox of studying history is that: 1. These people are radically different from me, and I may never properly understand them. 2. These people are exactly like me.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌@chanda.blacksky.app · 2w ago

WELP I WAS ANNOYED AND HAD THE TIME: “When men say she should be grateful for the attention, they’re saying a woman’s scholarship only gains true meaning when a famous man shines a light on it.” news.chanda.science/archive/an-o...

It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society

Yep, we still need to teach humans to think.

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

'An Economist feature this month cited Federal Reserve Bank of New York data putting American philosophy graduates’ 2024 unemployment rate at 5.1 per cent, against 7 per cent for computer science – the reverse of what a decade of “learn to code” advice predicted.' 3/3

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Sarah Shachat@sarahshachat.bsky.social · 4w ago

This, from Morocco's run last WC, remains one of my favorite jokes ever.

Absolutely! 👇🏻

Joanne Freeman@jbf1755.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m a historian who stands with Lonnie Bunch. Let’s hear from more of us!

First France goal tonight scored just as we walked through a packed Place Edgar Quinet in Paris so that 6yo got to witness it and the local crowds joy in real time--and there is still magic in the world.

NPR used to feature an array of Black staffers reading the Emancipation Proclamation for Juneteenth. I'm not sure if it is happening today. But in case it isn't, here's a link to hear me and several other staffers of color performing the reading from 2020: https://loom.ly/fBoaADE

This is the central line when I teach the History of Human Rights: rights rhetoric and discussions move forward meaningfully when new groups pry their way in to make the case that they should always have belonged.

"MAKING SPACE [by @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social] remains a highly readable and valuable contribution. Ongoing research projects on the segregated urban histories of Paris and Lyon can productively build on its insights," writes Frederik Doktor for Connections. bit.ly/4vgjAtV

its too bad Texas universities have banned the study of gender.

NPR@npr.org · 2mo ago

Soon after winning the Texas Republican Senate primary runoff, Ken Paxton attacked Democratic nominee, state Rep. James Talarico as "too low-T for Texas," putting manhood front and center in the race. n.pr/4a5uElp

Behind the Blogging 2026 www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/behi...

Behind the Blogging 2026 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Scott, Dave and I founded LGM on May 31, 2004 towards the end of the Early Days of the blogosphere. The site rapidly found a small but non-trivial audience, and became a small part of the bigger blogo...

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

Between the new encyclical and the Salesian Spurs Sisters, the Church has had quite the 24 hours.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery

Pope Leo XIV has made a historic apology for the role the Holy See itself played in legitimizing slavery.

apnews.com

Excellent thread 👇🏻

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

The fact that Nyong’o’s beauty is causing a war between two rival cultures in America right now is proof enough that she is the perfect Helen of Troy.

Texas parents deserve to know who is really in the driver seat when it comes to decisions that impact our kids who attend public schools. Spoiler alert: it’s increasingly NOT the elected leaders you would assume have the most say in curriculum and instruction. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Texas SBOE member questions who controls required reading list

An email from a Republican SBOE member highlighted questions over the relationship between the State Board of Education and Legislature.

statesman.com

Wrote about the college kids booing AI, and how, in a moment rife with economic precarity, affordability crises, and collapsing job prospects, AI has become a new avatar of American capitalism

AI as the new avatar of American capitalism

Why

bloodinthemachine.com

This is so crucial!

Tobias Wilson-Bates@phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There's a tendency in pedagogical discourse to focus on student learning loss when they incorporate generative tools into their processes, but it also eliminates my learning as their instructor. I no longer see the shape of their thought and consequently I can't adjust my teaching to support them.

News & Reviews featuring @alicerudge.bsky.social @profmkbyrnes.bsky.social @michaelclair.bsky.social and more!

News & Reviews

ICYMI Robert K. Fitt's In The Japanese Ballpark was featured in the New Yorker! Reviews The Last Cows Review in Terrain: "Wilder has carved her place as a woman rancher over a lifetime, in many contexts, but the toughness required by that lifestyle coexists with softness. . . . It’s a treat to revel in this book’s potent mix of family and place—each an analog for the other, and like Wilder herself, 'strong except sometimes.'"

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New piece in Science: Sudden elimination of USAID grants triggered waves of violence in affected regions in Africa, undermining civic governance and fueling civic unrest. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Aiding peace or conflict? The impact of USAID cuts on violence

Less than a week after its inauguration, the second Trump administration issued a blanket stop-work order for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the largest national human...

science.org

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Gonna die on this hill but efficiency is the opposite of education. Learning is not efficient.

Nathan K. Hensley@nathankhensley.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"We understand that in the dynamic landscape of higher education, efficiency and effectiveness are paramount. That’s why we offer a comprehensive suite of services designed to streamline processes, optimize resources, and drive strategic initiatives forward." 🥴

The Canvas hack that brought campuses globally to a standstill got me thinking about a piece that I wrote in @techpolicypress.bsky.social, about how “technology is the spinal cord of government.” I wrote a few thoughts on what this looks like in schools. www.thehomescreen.org/p/technology...

Technology is the spinal cord of everything... including your kid's school.

Schools globally have outsourced their operational backbone. The Canvas hack just made what has long been an invisible dependency visible.

thehomescreen.org

"@profmkbyrnes.bsky.social’s book is a masterful example of local history, drawing the reader into specific examples and individual stories that, taken together, give a sweeping view of North African migration," writes Danielle Beaujon for the Journal of Modern History. bit.ly/4d0tZm8

This was actually my dissertation!

Barry Deutsch@barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Slightly diminish a book. A Tale of Two Suburbs

Slightly diminish a book: -Precarious Liasons

Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Slightly diminish a book. To Injure an Affectionately Teasing Bird

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."