Your parents were singing you the wrong lullabies

Imagine needing childhood books to be radicalized

Yes, absolutely, imagine the things we’d commission if we took more joy in puzzling future generations (and actually funded the arts!!).

A 1920s oddity and joy! It always reminds me how may decades of people have enjoyed the music concourse

*talking to teenage militant atheist self*

current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church

teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government

current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

For those in the @aupresses.bsky.social community: this is my attempt to make a case for appreciating, fighting for, & studying university presses & UP workers as investors--literally! even as other supports have been withdrawn--& collaborators in the production of scholarly knowledge. Solidarity! 💪

When I present my academic work on the political economy of Silicon Valley, I can't tell you how many times I've heard the response "they wouldn't do that - it would lose them money." But @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has it in a nutshell here - "control, power, impunity" are the real goals.

Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.

Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!

cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...

When bleak humor is all you've got left

WM wouldn’t approve of the nylon material but the foldable totes are particularly good ones.

The Jungle, just so a new generation of undergrads can share my experience of being unable to eat meat for months afterwards

And you will only have an umbrella on sunny days

This guy gets it.

Hey Chuck, I know the Baileys. They are solidly on board with abolishing ICE at this point. Eileen is driving her friend Luisa's mom to chemo and calls me up to say she's just aghast at how scared she is.

Today’s the best American holiday.

Overly larger rodents predicting the weather is perfection. It just needs a traditional dessert choice to go with—snow cones, perhaps?

Hope, not optimism.

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Every month, the most optimistic email I get is my credit union inviting me to a home buying webinar.

Even from way over on the US west coast, I’m looking forward to eating at this place again

A good resolution for 2026

I thought Asta solved all these mysteries?

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, took the midnight train going anywhere

Argus had it easy.

Happy Birthday to Jane Austen—you would have loved reading the latest tabs from The Cut, and its British equivalents.

Been wondering who to send the ad to... At minimum, would commission a Public Books essay of anyone using the class to finagle a meeting with the man himself

Is adjuncting a Springsteen class your chance at fomenting a general strike?

njit.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

the comments on reddit for this video were like “this squid isn’t that giant” and discussion about how a 40 foot squid is not that crazy or scary and I spent all morning upset about the lack of respect

Guess some of you learned solidarity while finding out about singularities from Kip… at least until someone plays a certain bit of Wagner.

What does is it mean that the Seattle tech 4 housing group picked Caltech colors rather than MIT or UW? The least engineering oriented of all the schools…

Pardoned turkeys are Gobble and Waddle this year. Our finest American tradition.

Maybe the East Wing can become a turkey petting zoo.