And a few more:

There are many remarkable pieces in this exhibition:

Ms17 has a couple of pieces in a ceramics exhibition at the #LaJolla Historical Society. You can tell the artists have been inspired by the ocean:

This is the only politician I've ever given $ to.

She is so touching

Prof. Robert O'Connell of LSU Physics (1933-2026):

www.lsu.edu/physics/news...

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I'm so glad the Marsh family gets to perform!

😂

Higher Ed Has a Trust Problem. Yale Thinks It Has Solutions. A group convened by the university’s president cited three main factors fueling the loss of public support: cost, admissions, and speech. It proposed reforms in each category.

@emmajanepettit.bsky.social, Higher Ed Has a Trust Problem. @yale.edu Thinks It Has Solutions. www.chronicle.com/article/high...
"'The absence of any clear academic standard is difficult to reconcile with a mission built on academic excellence,' the report says."
Listen up, @ucsandiego.bsky.social!

At Valley Center early this morning for Ms17’s 9am first race at the Jaguar Invitational.

Pope Leo, up to the past hour, in Africa and putting out the most incredible stuff on X-Twitter (which perhaps is especially where it needs to be heard). I”m sharing these screenshots here as he’s not on Bluesky. This is pure liberation theology. Other churches/faiths: don’t let this pass you by.

Joan Naviyuk Kane, co-editor of Circumpolar Connections: Creative Indigenous Geographies of the Arctic, was interviewed by David Naimon on the Between the Covers podcast. Check out the interview here: milkweed.org/between-the-...!

#joannaviyukkane #circumpolarconnections #interview

Native Poem-A-Day #12 No Alaska Native poetry highlight is complete without a poem (or three) from Inupiat poet Joan Naviyuk Kane. She has so many gorgeous, thoughtful poems and books out, and it’s impossible to select …

Day 12 of 30 Indigenous poems for #NationalPoetryMonth

“Epithalamia” by Joan Naviyuk Kane

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We're excited to give a sneak peek to our forthcoming print issue! Read “Trail Coltsfoot” on our website now from Joan Naviyuk Kane’s with snow pouring southward past the window published March 3, 2026 by University of Pittsburgh Press.

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The tensor product of PSD matrices is PSD. (And Y - X is PSD.)

How UC turned politics into institutional practice and fueled campus antisemitism Faculty have been encouraged to engage in “anti-normalization”—in other words, the total exclusion of Zionist perspectives, speakers and programs from academic life.

Rossman-Benjamin @amchainitiative.bsky.social, How @uofcalifornia.bsky.social turned politics into institutional practice and fueled campus antisemitism www.jns.org/opinion/how-...
@uofcalifornia.bsky.social, please enforce Regents Policy 4408.

Opinion | Can American Studies Save Itself? The field is under attack, but turning back the clock isn’t the answer.

@nataliapetrzela.bsky.social, Can American Studies Save Itself? www.chronicle.com/article/can-... "the solution to the field’s 'credibility problem' does not lie in balancing it with more positive depictions of the American past but rather in a recommitment to dispassionate scholarly rigor"

Opinion | How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities Administrators, ideologues, and yes — professors too — share the blame. But all is not lost.

@smith-ruiu.bsky.social, "they preserve no real memory of the existence of a humanistic tradition that, rather than allowing its practitioners to burrow further into themselves, instead brought [them] out of themselves & onto a horizon that was much, much larger" www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Opinion | How Humanists Helped Wreck the Humanities Administrators, ideologues, and yes — professors too — share the blame. But all is not lost.

@smith-ruiu.bsky.social, "Nothing has been more useful to admins seeking to transform the entire university into a business school than to hear from humanists themselves that tradition is really only the propaganda wing of white supremacy, patriarchy & imperialism." www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

My daughter will also start college next fall, probably @cornelluniversity.bsky.social although I’d prefer she stayed here & went to @ucsandiego.bsky.social. We’ve tried to let her make her own choices, but there are many influences, not just us.

Congratulations to you both!

Solutions for Sale: Inside the Discord Marketplaces Undermining America’s Top Math Competitions On a November night in 2025, a Bay Area high school student sat at his desk preparing for an important test. But, instead of reading a textbook or solving practice problems, he sat staring at a phone....

Solutions for Sale: Inside Discord Marketplaces Undermining America’s Top Math Competitions tatler.lakesideschool.org/8567/showcas...
This is so disappointing, but "As one of a few major ways to demonstrate mathematical aptitude for pre-college students, many value top scores on these exams highly."

The book "with snow pouring southward past the window" on a wooden surface: the cover art is by Tulluk, "Kubulujuu," 2024, pen on paper. It shows a drawing in black pen on white ground of a bird-angel-figure rising above a stylized sea and an island/iceberg with two stick figures on it (possibly a man and a woman). Seedlike shapes fall from the bird-angel-figure and form a heart-like shape as they do so. The sky is dotted, maybe insinuating constellations. The title forms a half-circle around the figure to its right

Elixirs for words to come The first thing I will do: make myself indecipherable to you, for our understanding revises a kind of hunger. My language has taken on all manner of smog. I come to fear: "I come to fear" the things that inspire me in the wake of our destroyers. I dream of my dead peers. I see how they do not want pretty things. I know they do not want me to describe pain of any kind. They gesture to the gold dredges hinging into the earth, [cont'd on next slide]

they sink down as gelisol thaws, as we all slink down into a kind of hell. Let us wash ourselves in those waters. Let us thirst because we cannot drink them. Let our mothers tell us of their girlhoods: the ones they lost when they rolled willow leaves tight in toilet paper: smoked not to get high, not to die, but only to see visions of Mary, that Mary, who was some kind of mother.

In which the poems and poets agree that they are the result of choices they have made along the way The silver of the lake caught in the net, like a provocation. The translation under the writing— "How long have you been running?" I tried to answer, am still trying. A poem, too, holds secrets that it cannot tell. Gone septic from a spider bite, the anger only troubles like sorrow until it goes away. "You wish you were home?" Yes. But— mitiktuq—it came unraveled. I used to think I preferred to dream with a man only afdter he bedded me and then there are the real poems where the language creates it own tension. Where the language reminds us to create a story and to become part of it, to stay alive until we come back.

"The first thing I will do: make / myself indecipherable / to you, for // our understanding / revises a kind of hunger."

Let your hunger be revised by @naviyuk.bsky.social's WITH SNOW POURING SOUTHWARD PAST THE WINDOW (@upittpress.bsky.social, 2026) in a way only she can. 💫✨💫

#NationalPoetryMonth

Magnolia tree (I think) blooming outside Founders Hall @cornelluniversity.bsky.social:

McGraw Tower @cornelluniversity.bsky.social at night:

McGraw Tower @cornelluniversity.bsky.social on a fine spring day:

Opinion | Harvard’s grade inflation experiment — The Washington Post Like monetary inflation, runaway A’s in higher education are a collective-action problem.

@washingtonpost.com, Harvard’s grade inflation experiment
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“the core purpose of campus life is learning, not socializing or networking, and academics have been excessively devalued @harvard.edu in recent decades”

Even the cleverest game theorist could not devise a rationality-based model in which this furthers their goals. It's time for the social-science profs at Wharton who gave Trump Ds to own up to it!

an old 2014 JPSP paper has three Figures that are exactly the same. Two are supposed to be different. Fun sad fact: I emailed the current Editor and have not heard back 😱

But if she chooses @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, I’ll be back!

We leave Sunday morning. We’re here for admitted students day tomorrow, but got here today so Ms17 could meet some professors and sit in on a couple of classes.