I'm really happy this paper is finally out!
It's about a course I taught for many years, and it ties together lots of my favorite and most creative ideas.
It also deepens my contribution to the ongoing discussion of the nature of inquiry. [Jump to Section 3.4 for a fun image.]
I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.
Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.
Welcome home, Integrity crew!
Banff Oaxaca!
Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period." ERIN REED FEB 25, 2026 88 5 21 Share Kansas Sate Capitol // farzinvousoughian
1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses.
Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked.
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I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽
Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad
🚨 New research: FIRST EVER county-level study of racial disparities at the arrest-to-court transition in CA. In county after county, arrests of Black & Hispanic individuals reach court at far lower rates than those of white ones. People burdened with records for cases never worth filing. #LawSky
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files.
Except in the United States.
Here: Zero shame, zero consequences.
We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.
"Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’"
"Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain."
Gift link 🎁
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"Things now are better than might have been expected... if the measure of success is the extent to which funding was restored, then perhaps the quiet approach has been validated."
Dr. Thorp may be celebrating too soon.
A graph showing that the US has the highest incarceration rate among founding NATO countries. Source: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/global/2024.html
While the U.S. goes for gold & aims to be the best at the Olympics, it's already #1 among independent democracies when it comes to mass incarceration – and that’s nothing to celebrate.
So much for the “land of the free.”
Important paper. Schools are high-risk environments for respiratory disease transmission MAINLY because classrooms are underventilated. This problem has a workable solution - it just needs political will. Air quality is as important as water quality for public health. MT @martinmckee.bsky.social
Logo of the American Mathematical Society featuring blue text and a dotted arc in blue, orange, and gray.
The National Science Foundation has indicated that, as of February 4, 2026, they are not yet prepared to announce their fellowship recipients. While the NSF stated that results might be released in the coming weeks, this delay places both job-seekers and hiring institutions in a difficult position.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet.
But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
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Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution January 30 of Every Year "Stand up for what is right!" www.korematsuinstitute.org
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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand that CBP be banned from squaring the circle, trisecting angles with straightedge and compass.
Accessible course materials question: I want to use some websites as resources for my class. We all know websites can and do often change, so how can I archive accessible copies to use?
Every few years someone tries to declare that particle physics is dead because it’s different from what it used to be and right now that feels a lot like people saying the academy is dying and has lower standards because it’s diversified
They seem like different phenomena but they are connected 🧵
I've been representing protesters pro bono since Trump 1.0. In that time, I've represented protesters against the Muslim ban, ICE, trans bans, DEI bans, genocide in Occupied Palestine, police brutality, and more.
Want to know why more people don't protest? Here's why.
There are more than 66,000 people watching this training right now
This is terrible! I’m so sorry to hear this, BK
