New job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in History of the Mediterranean World The College of the Holy Cross jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70213

New job: George and Bernice Wyss Phillipp Professor of History The College of the Holy Cross jobs.h-net.org/jobs/70101

FEATURED JOB: The College of the Holy Cross - George and Bernice Wyss Phillip Professor of History networks.h-net.org/jobs/70101/c... #job #education #academia #highered #history

My Go Big or Go Home thoughts for this Saturday: I make the case for why we should consider amending the Constitution to create a fourth branch open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

We Need a Fourth Branch

Why our most vital institutions should be placed in a constitutional vault - beyond the reach of any President.

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The leadership and clarity of @MIT President Sally Kornbluth www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/26/o...

America built the world’s greatest research engine. Now it’s shrinking. - The Boston Globe

At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed.

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Twentieth-century US history job at Cambridge. Closing date for applications is October 27 (next Monday!) www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 11mo ago

Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.

Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"

California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’

Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech

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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

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I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078

Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos

Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague

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What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy

Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence

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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.

Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.

Job Opportunity! Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...

The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected. The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences. That's the vision we should defend.