From the Archives : Ted Chiang : Exhalation | Milkweed Editions Excited to share this classic episode from the archives with one of the great short storytellers of our time, Ted Chiang. This conversation happened in 2019 at the studios of KBOO community radio in P...

Today's conversation is a classic from the archives, with SFF legend and short storyteller extraordinaire, Ted Chiang
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A dark wooden desk featuring the following books of poetry together: Diane Callahan and David Dixon's The Ship and the Storm Darren Demaree's Now Flourish Northern Cardinal Zoe Brigley's lycanthrope Danny Caine's Jewish American Dream Travis Chi Wing Lau's What's Left Is Tender Emily Patterson's Birth of Undoing Adrianna Kimbrough's Woman in Pieces

Absolutely speechless: so honored to be named a finalist for the Clintonville Books inaugural Poetry Award and in such esteemed company.

These same boards are the same ones pushing “AI literacy” into every corner of our institutions, so the convergence-effect Ted describes in this thread—increasingly powerful boards filled w/ rich ppl whose anti-intellectual, airport-book obsessions drive research & teaching—is also the story of “AI”

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Make a one page encouragement zine Collect notes of kudos to keep you going on doubtful days

I love this idea for a zine: "All the lovely messages and comments I’ve saved over the years—small acts from others that probably took seconds to write—have buoyed me during times of doubt."
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These fuckin chuds

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

Ohio's public universities are eliminating nearly 90 degree programs as a result of Senate Bill 1 • Ohio Capital Journal Nearly 90 degree programs have been identified to be cut at Ohio’s public universities since Senate Bill 1 was signed into law a year ago.

If you think legislation that targets “low enrollment degrees” only impacts the humanities please look at this list. Degrees in chemistry, math, physics, political science, data analytics, psychology and economics are being eliminated. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/04/16/o...

I want a "conference" where every academic cooks a dish for everyone and we all talk about our work casually while cooking. People can sous chef for each other. We eat and talk about our work in progress. You submit an abstract and a recipe.

Brooklyn Public Library art exhibit asks visitors to imagine world without prisons “The Warehouse” is a collaboration between artist Vic Liu and abolitionist organizer Mariame Kaba builds an environment for possible answers

The terrific @prismreports.org wrote about The Warehouse!

If you're in NYC, check out this free exhibit through June 27.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

This narrative—that the only reason universities are experiencing a legitimacy crisis in the 2020s is because of bad-faith right-wing attacks—conveniently ignores the neoliberalization of higher education.

Listening to a guest on the excellent @draftingthepast.bsky.social talk about having different writing voices, and realising that the big change for me in recent years is feeling the complete opposite - my voice is my voice. We all tone-switch, but my academic & public voices are basically the same.

Once you notice that fascism only has prominence in our society because of lavish subsidies, not any sort of organic or natural demand for the ideology, it’s hard to unsee it… and you’ll be angry about it, a lot.

Just like we always follow up “states’ rights” with “to do what?”, we need to follow “viewpoint diversity” with “by adding which views specifically?”

Guggenheim Fellowship: Supporting exceptional individuals in more than 50 fields — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists Discover the Guggenheim Foundation, offering Fellowships to artists, scholars, writers, and scientists under the freest possible conditions.

We're thrilled to announce our 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. Huge congratulations to these 223 exceptional individuals in the Creative Arts, Humanities, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and a range of interdisciplinary fields. You can find out more at www.gf.org. 🎉

Authoritarianism 101 - AHA Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...

This looks tremendous (education modules) from @historians.org--contributions from a couple dozen top historians with expertise on authoritarianism & its many political, social, & cultural contexts!! #authoritarianism #fascism #postcolonialism #history

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Hampshire college served a very specific purpose extremely well: it taught me and my friends to trust each other and know that some institutions actually valued their mission more than their survival. As it faces the inevitability of its own end it actually seems more human than most other schools

Colleges that are scheduled to cease operations this year: Providence Christian College (CA), Sterling College (VT), Lourdes University (OH), Trinity Christian College (IL), Siena Heights University (MI), Hampshire College (MA). California College of the Arts is slated to close in 2027.

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

One great poem to read today: Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly” This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in April 1996. To celebrate, the Literary Hub staff will be recommending one great …

To continue our series in honor of National Poetry Month, we recommend reading Jane Wong’s “After Preparing the Altar, the Ghosts Feast Feverishly.”

I’m very happy to be one of the inaugural Alliance For Higher Education fellows. Higher ed faces some unprecedented challenges and it is an all-hands-on-deck moment for folks working to protect the field.

Screenshot of figure 4 which shows the percentage of all fellows with the top US institutional affiliation. To explore this, we dug deeper on institutional affiliation, finding substantial variation in the percentage of fellows with the top institutional affiliation for each fellowship (Figure 4). Radcliffe has the highest share, with over 20 percent of fellows having a Harvard affiliation at the time of first award. In addition, both RSF and CASBS have at least 10 percent of fellows from a single institution (Columbia and Stanford, respectively). On the opposite end, the Guggenheim and NAEd have the smallest percentage of fellows with the top affiliation at slightly under 5 percent. NAEd top institution is Wisconsin and Guggenheim is Berkeley when considering all years and Columbia when only considering since 2000. NHC comes in the middle with between 5 and 10% of fellows having the top affiliation (Duke for all time and UNC Chapel Hill four fellows since 2000).

Screenshot of figure 5, percentage of all fellows with the top 5 US institutional affiliation. We see the same stark divide in institutional affiliations when we expand to the percentage of fellows with the top five institutional affiliations (Figure 5). For CASBS, RSF, and Radcliffe, about 30 percent of all fellows (whether looking across the lifetime of the fellowship or since 2000) have one of the top five institutional affiliations. For context, these institutions have employed only about 1.5–2 percent of faculty overall in the US in the last few decades. NHC is around 20% and NAEd and Guggenheim are between 15 and 20%.

The concentration within some fellowships is honestly astonishing. We knew it was concentrated but not quite this much.

Update 22: Secret Stretch Goal #3: Solo Journaling Game! · Public Access Analog Horror Mystery TTRPG Hello! Yesterday's Kickstarter meltdown seems to have resolved itself, and we have unlocked Secret Stretch Goal #2, Odyssey Tapes: Journeywoman Cycle! And so with that, here on the final day of the ca...

It's the last day of the Public Access campaign, and we have just revealed the final Secret Stretch Goal, a solo journaling game called Public Access: Apartment 319!

Read more here, and be sure to back before it's too late!
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Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution.

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"Intellectual exchange requires accountability, and it is both cowardly and hypocritical for speakers at a state-funded and brazenly partisan gathering to keep the public from knowing who said what."

One of the stranger objections I see to the idea of neurodiversity (or neurodivergence) is that it implies most people are actually neurotypical.

No!

It started as a reaction against the idea that the majority are normal, while outliers are wrong and disordered. It's founded on rejecting that.

Alice Wong, an Asian-American woman in her early 50s, wears a black t-shirt that says “keep masks in health care”. She rocks a rich plum lipstick and cool multicolor sunglasses. She has a tracheostomy attached to a ventilator. The text reads, “The Sick Times. Alice Wong showed us Disability Justice makes our advocacy stronger. By Charlie McCone.”

Alice showed me I can lead a meaningful life — and be cool doing it — while sitting with my pain and limitations. And while we, sick and disabled, channel our rage back at those trying to ignore and erase us.

In the wake of her passing and her recent celebration of life, @loscharlos.bsky.social shares how Alice Wong taught him the power of Disability Justice and how she wielded it to bridge the hesitancy between disability, Long Covid, and COVID-cautious communities. bit.ly/4mohc12

Why You Should Read Academic Books (Even If You Aren't An Academic) History publishing operates along largely two tracks: the first is the more traditional scholarly monograph published through an academic press (Cambridge, Oxford, Brill, etc.). The second is what is often called "popular history" and is published through a trade publisher (Random House, etc.). People can be real snooty about this

Continuing my "meta" arc, this time I'm talking about why its worth reading academic books even if you are not an academic. Also why I think a lot of the criticisms against academic works don't hold up, and how the line between pop and academic work isn't always clear cut. #medievalsky #history

Another new resource on our site is a guide for scholars looking to start shifting into public scholarship or adding it to their repertoire.

Please check it out, share it with first gens, grad students, and ECRs, and make any suggestions for additions!

Also see our other resources on the site!