Happy Monday!

That is excellent news!

In a similar vein, this is why I’m so glad I will be publishing my Mausoleum project as a Cambridge Element. It was too big an idea for an article and stretching it to a traditional “whole book” would have been ridiculous. We need to allow for more creative formats/lengths and actually value them.

This is a great thread by Ellen and contributes to my fervent belief that academic NOTES need to be valued more in e.g. tenure & promotion. How many puffy articles could have been an exceptional 4-6000 word note?! We’ll never know!

I see Simon woke up this morning and chose violence.

please stop calling me out like this on main

Every AI commercial is like "Hey AI, what goes good on a sandwich?" and then the AI is like "Have you considered... cheese?" And then the narrator is like: THE FUTURE IS HERE.

Incredible.

A Knight's Tale. Endlessly rewatchable and has never once failed to lift my mood.

Paul Bettany has never been better.

I think it’s basically passed now (the sirens appear to have stopped) but yeah… such fun living in this region!

Love hanging out in my closet on a Friday night thanks to a tornado warning 😵‍💫

My pun was "Cicerodinger's Women," a term I created to describe the phenomenon of assuming that prominent late Roman Republic women only exist when Cicero is actively thinking or writing about them. Instead, I suggest an elderly Sassia, Clodia Metelli, or young Publilia at Hortensia's revolt.

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This is the whimsy AI-bros want to take from us.

Third post in the Earth Month series is now live! Featuring Andy @acfox.bsky.social 😁

The College Affordability Crisis is Real, but the Media is Looking at the Wrong Schools Sturges Hall (Photo by Keith Walters ’11) Opinion By Costas Solomou, Vice President, Enrollment Management Published by the Office of Enrollment Management When Yale University released its Committee ...

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend

their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives."

www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

I refuse to take seriously any critique of higher ed that does not include a serious recognition of the impact of adjunctification.

Can we put out a non-elite report on higher ed?

I wish I had answers 😔 it’s so maddening. People (including friends and family) hear “professor” and just have this vision of a career and financial stability that is so not the reality.

I've always found the framing around men and women's dating choices re political "opponents" really telling. Men are supposedly more tolerant - but for the most part they're not being asked to date people who literally view them as second-class citizens undeserving of bank accounts and voting rights

And the thing that pisses me off so much is that so many media outlets continue to report on higher ed as if everyone is operating like the Yales of the world —which is why we are all supposedly “elites”, even though the majority of faculty across the country are just struggling to get by.

For two years, I taught 4-4-3 at a small public university in order to make $50k CANADIAN with zero benefits (so I could support myself as a single person) and it almost broke me.
The people who wrote that report could never.

Un-sanitized version of this tagline could be:
“Never mind rape culture — meet the women voting for the Greens”.
LIKE THE SECOND THING IS WORSE?!?!

The thing about the right is, they want to be able to attack their opponents as if politics were an existential battle of good versus evil they are on the right side of, but demand to be treated by them as if politics were a good faith disagreement among gentlemen about optimising the tax code.

NYTimes alarmed to learn that cultural and intellectual cache is not actual fungible currency.

This week on the show: Aven McMaster chats with us about the creation, content and context of Virgil's Aeneid!

We learn that the jokes about it being a cheap, Roman knock-off of Homer are way off the mark - and if you haven't thought about reading the Aeneid yet, this episode might inspire you

What these admins will never tell you is that the *courses* in these majors are often full. Students don't *major* in these fields, but they really want to take the classes. They use number of majors as a metric on purpose so they can achieve their cuts.

a cartoon of donald duck is laying in bed with his eyes closed ALT: a cartoon of donald duck is laying in bed with his eyes closed

Allergies AND a migraine? 😵‍💫