I’m struggling to find words for how callous, horrible, and unsettling this is.

Saying the work of government agencies should be more visible to the public: Good and Correct.

Saying the Artemis II launch is the kind of visibility government work needs: Lmao, guy what are you even SAYING.

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

Just confirming that Made by History will now be back up and running in the next few weeks with a new home and new partners at the Philadelphia Inquirer. Exciting! So, if you have pitches, now's the time to start sending them to madebyhistory@inquirer.com 🗃️ #MadebyHistory #HistoryMatters

Part of the reason that folks are more likely to cite women not being able to open bank accounts than laws permitting marital rape as proof of structural misogyny is that consumption is essential to US culture. We are more than buyers, and political equality cannot be achieved via markets alone.

This is the right take.

Yes, the pressure to skim, rely on book reviews, and cite material we haven’t read has increased as our institutions demand more research.

No, that doesn’t mean we can stop doing the reading or, worse, let AI review the literature for us.

Arson: “At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely”

This would be absolutely devastating. Public and private funders have already cut humanities, social science, and arts funding to the bone. These decisions can only be interpreted as indifference or active malice towards our disciplines.

I wonder if T.S. Eliot considered April the cruelest month because he spent so much time around academia…

I am very tired this week.

The Extractive Midwest CFP The Extractive Midwest Call for Proposals for Edited Volume Description: Typically defined as a fertile, renewable, and nurturing region, the Midwest has also experienced a long history of extractio...

Call for Proposals! I’m co-editing a collection on “The Extractive Midwest” with @brianleechphd.bsky.social, Jeff Schramm, and Sarah Mittlefehldt. We seek 300-500 word abstracts for book chapters between 6,000-8,000 words (not including notes). Send us your submissions before August 30, 2026!

Chromebook Remorse: Tech Backlash at Schools Extends Beyond Phones

“But after tens of billions of dollars of school spending…studies have found that digital tools have generally not improved students’ academic results or graduation rates. Some researchers &organizations like UNESCO even warn that overreliance on technology can distract students and impede learning”

U.S. higher education is imploding, but it’s heartening to see graduate worker, staff, and faculty unions fighting for—and winning—better conditions.

I am amazed that the stock market and some political analysts are still treating Trump as an oracle when he’s actually Pandora with worse hair and a shelf full of boxes.

Post from Andrew A.N. Deloucas @aandeloucas.com: In line with discussion about the job market, the latest majors being closed at Syracuse University: Nine majors "sunsetting": • Classical civilization • Classics (Greek and Latin) • Digital humanities • Fine arts • German • Latino-Latin American studies • Middle Eastern studies • Modern Jewish studies • Russian ALT

The First University in the Nation to Build a Center Dedicated to the Creator Economy Syracuse University is creating something that doesn't exist anywhere else in higher education. The Center for the Creator Economy is the first academic center of its kind on a U.S. college campus. Led jointly by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and the Martin). Whitman School of Management, the center reinforces Syracuse University's commitment to bold, forward-looking academic leadership. By aligning strengths in entrepreneurship, media, communications, athletics and digital infrastructure, the University is charting how higher education can prepare students for the 21st-century economy.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

If Kafka were alive today, the D.C. airports would be the first thing he would write about.

@nccomfort.bsky.social teaches a class on eugenic thinking from the late eighteenth century to genomics, and it’s telling that doctors and scientists still tend to conflate “individualized” medicine with classifying, treating, and more or less explicitly ranking groups.

Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.

Not nearly as surprising as Skocpol, but Cass Sunstein is another name that stood out on this list…

Then there's Christy's, @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social and Iro Filippaki's agenda-setting article on injury studies! A truly interdisciplinary emergent field (and a powerful network, check them out!) that has the potential to disrupt some of the most established concepts in #medhums and #histmed

So excited to see this online!

We hope folks find the essay useful and encourage anyone working on injuries to check out the Injury Studies Network website and / or to contact me to join the mailing list!

injurystudies.org

The latter.

Is there anything similar to this tool for natural gas costs?

Photograph of Presto Hot Dogger

Oh yeah, it’s definitely more dangerous. The head-scratching part for me is the sheer number of devices made exclusively to cook hot dogs. Who eats this many hot dogs? And why are so many of these things designed to cook with electrical current?

Photograph of Hot Diggity Dogger hot dog toaster

I’ve come across a couple of really strange cooking appliances like this one. The Hot Diggity Dogger comes to mind:

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Daylight has been saved, but at what cost?

for what it cost for our allies to shoot down three of our own planes by accident in a murderous illegal war we could have funded the NEH at 150% of its historic peak funding for a year

“Professional” Program Redefinition Endangers the US Healthcare Workforce Nurse practitioners are a lifeline for the millions of Americans who live in healthcare deserts: 87% are trained as primary care providers, and 80% care for Medicaid patients. Yet an obscure commit…

87% of NPs are primary health care providers. “Yet an obscure committee now promises to strip them of access to educational funds, putting the healthcare system, the nursing workforce, and patients at risk,” writes Cory Ellen Gatrall in this week’s ER essay. nursingclio.org/2026/02/23/p...

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine invites applications for research fellowships in their eponymous topics.

For more details see: www.chstm.org/fellowships

#histmed #histstm

Reposting with tags because I’m incompetent: #HistSTM #STS #HistMed #InjuryStudies #HistSci