My dog has refused to come out from under my desk all morning, and honestly, I get it.

This 💯

Loved this metaphor!
"...just one of a parade of straw men that Ennos unnecessarily burns in making the case for his work"

Everyone in the UNC system needs to read this story. All faculty and staff are at risk if outside players can use gotcha-videos to demand that faculty be fired for actions like doing their jobs to support students

Daisy-like yellow flower. newhopebirdalliance's profile picture newhopebirdalliance 1d Invasive Weed Alert! This is the time of year to on the lookout for invasive Fig Buttercup (Ficaria verna)growing in your yard, drainage ditches, and streams in natural areas. This aggressive plant disrupts the ecological balance of natural ecosystems and displaces existing native spring wildflowers & native plant communities. Fig Buttercup easily spreads offsite from home landscapes and into drainage ways leading to nearby streams and floodplains. If you spot it, post it on iNaturalist so it can be tracked and removed by volunteers from the NC Invasive Plant Council!

Keep an eye out for this pretty but terrible invasive plant. Fig Buttercup (Ficaria verna) spreads in yards, drainage ditches, & streams in natural areas. It rapidly chokes out natives. If you spot it, post it on iNaturalist so it can be tracked & removed by NC Invasive Plant Council volunteers

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

Sign the Petition Petition to City Council to revoke rezoning adjacent to Sandy Creek Park

Durhamites! Sign this petition to save the birding hotspot of Sandy Creek Park! 🦆💚
www.change.org/p/petition-t...

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

The Early Republic Tracker The Early Republic Tracker documents instances where the federal government is removing facts and stories essential to the public’s understanding American history from public historical sites, muse…

Please circulate and share this important resource: thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

Flier for a Silent Book Club event titled "Beer in ancient Mesopotamia"

Image showing the book cover for In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia by Tate Paulette and listing two recent book awards

I'll be hosting a Silent Book Club event this Thursday, Feb 5, 6–8pm at The Bike Library cafe in downtown Raleigh, NC. I'll talk a little about my book and will bring along a selection of other books about ancient Mesopotamia, beer, and archaeology for browsing. Hope to see you there!

Based on her reaction to this weekend's snow storm, my dog is ready for us to move up North.

Since July, I've tracked at least 2,300 cases in which federal judges have ruled ICE has illegally detained people without bond or due process.

This is one that stands out:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

didn’t realise we were going to celebrate 250 years since the revolutionary war by doing it again

I unfortunately seem to always run out of bread/milk/eggs just as Southern snow threatens and everyone goes insane

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Rest in power, Claudette Colvin. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Flyer with the following text: Participants Needed For Oral History Project on family members of people with AIDS. Participants must be 18+ years of age. The interview will be done through google meet and recorded. Preference will be given for participants whose family member contracted AIDS during the 1980s and 90s crisis. All participants will be entered into a raffle for a gift card which will be sent to your email if you win. For more info or if you want to participate, email pmc60570@ucmo.edu

SEEKING PARTICIPANTS

For their MA thesis, my advisee is conducting an oral history on family members of people living with HIV/AIDS in the 1980s-90s. They are seeking folks to interview. See the flyer for details.

Wondering if folks can share this with their networks. Thank you!

working at a university

It's been a long time since Contracts 101, but wouldn't this dramatically change the rules on all business dealings as well through the postmark rule?

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

Lovely. My university system has put a target on faculty's backs for doxxing and harassment. My new year's resolution is now to try and avoid a death threat as I teach the history of sexuality.

Thank you for this service announcement. As a trans queerio, I had always wondered 'who in the hell...?' while ordering my hot chai on a chilly morning.

I need to learn not to get so emotionally invested in grading final papers. Maybe next semester...

It me, but with ruby-crowned kinglets

News story about a raccoon that broke into a Virginia liquor store and passed out on the floor, drunk and probably regretting its choices

End of semester/2025 vibes.

AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.

A good summarization of where academia is right now with AI www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

All of my American History powerpoints would have 'redacted' all over them under this schema