Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :)
Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"
Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever.
Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.
I'm no fancy politician, but if I was a member of Congress and the President (the guy with the nuclear codes) was ranting like a madman about killing "a whole civilization," I would end my vacation pretty quickly
The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment
While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
People cast border abolition or ICE abolition or prison abolition as unhinged ideas of leftist professors, but right now reality is taxpayer money funding corporations that turn a profit on incarcerating kids & keep margins down offering no healthcare, education, or good food. But I'm the crazy one.
People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and chanting, “We will ride.”
BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.
That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social
“More workplace democracy, more participatory technology assessment, more inclusive governance boards—all presuppose we know what we value. But when tech reshapes very capacities, self-concepts, desires, there is no stable vantage point from which to govern.”
www.theideasletter.org/essay/social...
Approximately 950 non-tenure track faculty at New York University walked off the job on Monday, after their union and the university failed to reach agreement on raises and better job security.
www.thecity.nyc/2026/03/23/n...
One of many reasons for low public participation in municipal governance is that folks are expected to spend hours during a workday waiting to testify at budget hearings for three minutes. At least there are now virtual options. 10 years ago, those were few and far between.
This spring we will make a difficult but necessary further workforce reduction of approximately 15% across faculty and staff.
The New School announces a faculty and staff bloodbath
I cannot emphasize enough that the problem is not that people “don’t care” about fascism—or any of the underlying oppressions that brought us to this point.
It’s that they think they’re alone in caring, so they lose faith in the struggle.
“Montana Republican Tim Sheehy voted to scrap solar tax credits after installing panels and battery storage at his Bozeman home.” www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Disinvestment and white flight have led to swathes of empty buildings, but demolition has fueled more problems.
"Make people dependent enough, and then make it shitty"
Still giggling at this hilarious video from the Norwegian Consumer Council "A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator" which seems a perfect embodiment of Silicon Valley and tech generally these days
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Up...
because they wanted to do it anyway. Duke pre-emptively got rid of its only endowed Black scholarship, which was endowed by a Black family.
Final caveat being that people in jobs that don’t have external talks in their credit/reward (precarious, non-ac, etc) could require (and we should pay) commensurate w the labor of preparing (not just giving) the talk. Also folks scale for institution (so fancy R1 rate is much more than CC, etc)
Caveat being people who get many invites (3+/yr?) are exceeding the job expectation and could probs ask for larger honoraria. Another caveat being that this is just for a colloquium talk. If you’re being brought in to consult on something (a grant, an imploded dept, etc) that could be hourly/more
Late to this party. A mentor once told me that it should depend on where I was job wise. If a person is in a permanent academic job, assumption is that sharing their work is part of the job’s credit/reward structure, so travel and a modest honorarium (I’ve been offered US$200-500 recently)
If you appreciated my @nybooks.com article, you'll love my new book Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, out from @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social in April. Order with discount code BLUE20 at www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/stuar...
The average rent in Wellesley, MA is $4200/mo
Right now Rikers Island, the physically largest jail in the entire United States, is holding under 7,000 people.
ICE's warehouse plans include detention camps which will hold between 8,500-10,000 people in buildings not designed for human habitation.
My less than gentle reminder that if you scoff at abolishing modern abusive, racist institutions, you more than likely would have scoffed at abolishing things like slavery and Jim Crow. What’s “realistic” is what you fight and stand for. 😬
If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.
Concentration camps:
“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."
"Fifteen months after they began talks for their first union contract, more than 900 professors at New York University will begin voting on whether to authorize a strike on Monday, Feb. 9."
@uawregion9a.bsky.social
www.work-bites.com/view-all/nyu...
There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.