Mayor Mamdani: Veto Intro 175-B! The New York City Council recently passed a bill, Intro 175-B, that would repress free expression near educational institutions, including CUNY campuses and worksites. Our union, the PSC, is firmly op...

I just wrote a letter via @psc-cuny.org: Mayor Mamdani: Veto Intro 175-B! Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/c0f9...

New MSA contingent / independent scholar essay award h/t @nissaren.bsky.social and @cupress.bsky.social ! libraries.clemson.edu/press/2026/0...

From where I live I can see right into the back deck of my caddy-corner neighbor. The only time I've seen them at all was when they came out to drop a rope ladder from the second to the ground floor #RearWindow

From where I live I can see right into the back deck of my caddy-corner neighbor. The only time I've seen them at all was when they came out to drop a rope ladder from the second to the ground floor #RearWindow

A @cuny.edu alum!!!

Really liked this! Thank you for the recc, there're definitely many overlaps!

Forgot my book for my commute and I've now read – and closed – three (3) open tabs from my firefox window 💅🏾

One of the brightest sparks I've met talking about SF cinema!

The Barbara Johnson Collective - Northwestern University Press Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson’s legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditionsAcross an archive of essays on abortion a...

if you want to preorder this bad boy & set some of its very, very good essays on your fall syllabi, you can use NUP2026 to get 25% off —and I bet some of us would love to Zoom into your classes to talk?! 💗

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Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—th...

Without the paywall

Street haunting if you like your Woolf :)

The Next Innovation in Higher Education: Vibe-Teaching™ As the associate vice provost for the Office of Asynchronous Online Courses for Student-Centered High-Impact Learning (OAOCSCHIL, an office we crea...

"In lieu of learning outcomes, we now ask whether students have a warm sense of what learning might feel like and whether they can recall, with confidence, that they took 'chemistry.' If so, we mark that as 'exceeds expectations.'"

Miriam hates being poor and loves being around beautiful elegant things. She hates having to work so hard at teaching that her brain is fried for thinking. Many things she thinks and feels are ugly but none untruthful

The doctors in Henderson are only slightly less hateful than the ones in Mrs Dalloway but Mirry feels such relatable outrage at the world of authority by men who know so little and think they know so much

Just finished book 3 of Dorothy Richardson's Pilgrimage series with 20 yo Miriam trying to look after her mother while there is no money for treatment that would actually cure her mother and the woman takes her life offstage in the penultimate chapter while the father is on a "take it lightly" kick

How "heroes" destroy civilisations Joel P. Christensen shares a provocative reflection linking modern geopolitical rhetoric to ancient Greek myth, exploring how hubris, heroism, and “main character” thinking continue to shape war, leadership, and the fate of civilisations.

"Superficial readings of Homer lead audiences to imagine that heroes are admirable. What each epic shows, however, is that the vast majority of people in heroic communities suffer because of their excesses...

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A t-shirt with the outline of coke bottle and the word relatability on it.

In a desperate attempt to look forward to something: I'm making official Relatability shirts to promote my book--and you could be wearing one in the very near future! I'll send one out to the first 10 people to preorder the book and let me know about it: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) finishing his morning cup.

Caffeinated for a new day ☕️

Ha! Commissioning editors cmon, this is an opportunity

Suddenly down on the Very Short Intros as a whole after spotting 3 "seminals" in the wild in a particular volume that shall not be named. Can we pls stop semenizing ideas TY

Better pacing than an old WB cartoon

Other films I hate watched this weekend besides Jay Kelly:
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire
Project Hail Mary

There's so much else to think about this a.m. and yet here I go, continuing my anti-Baumbach-Gerwig campaign

Ah yes, another Noah Baumbach vehicle where he invites us to feel for the most obvious cutout characters having their not very deep emotional epiphanies!

Migrant City: Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” - Public Books “I have lived here for twenty-three years, but I am afraid to call it home. There is always a feeling that I will have to leave.”

“As a film about migrant care workers in urban India, All We Imagine as Light is marked by its own itinerant status.”

The 2024 Cannes Grand Prix winner was passed over by the Film Federation of India for the nation’s entry to the Oscars.

Snippet of the introduction’s title line, “The Material Conditions of Victorian Poetry,” with two versions of the phrase “Victorian Poetry” laid on top of one another. One version is not italicized and refers to the field of study. The other version is italicized and refers to the journal, which has undergone a series of seismic transitions as a direct result of the erosion of literary studies and higher ed.

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

I'm still looking for panelists!

Every climate solution is also a solution to like 100 other things

Climate collapse meets empire collapse