Seems the stock market is okay with death and destruction, but, you know, within reason. Sigh.

Grateful for your kind words!

Thank you!!!

As a California girl, I’m always amazed by the stark quiet of a major snow storm in NYC followed by the intense noise as the City attempts to clean itself up.

OMG

INFLATION INFLATION INFLATION
Just sayin.’ If I were a Democratic politician….
What are you waiting for? The numbers tell the story here.

Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.

Since we’re banning words these days, I’d like to ban the phrase “less lethal.”

People who write biographies for a living….

Just wow.

Was just in a meeting about accreditation when someone had to take a phone call from a federal agency about a grant termination. The Ivies are getting all the attention but this is going on everywhere and it is killing higher education! Let’s try to keep the entire higher ed landscape in mind.

What Are Universities Supposed to Do? I’ve heard from a number of you in response to my posts...

This, from @joshtpm.bsky.social, engages on many of the right questions. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/what-...

🤔

This shouldn’t be so easy!

And I mean that in two ways.

1. Seemingly futile acts of opposition can grow into movements that change history.

2. A record of opposition is what enables historians to write about a past where nothing was inevitable, different outcomes were imagined, the future was contested.

Sweet how you’re just discovering this, Julian.

Izzy has good taste!

What is the conclusion we *should* be drawing, in your estimation? It sounds like you are saying we are living in a race-based fascist state. Is that accurate? And is that how the press should describe it?

Bye bye WaPo subscription.

The Diggins Memorial Lecture coming up historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/3-5-what-is-...

Indeed, Paul! Come one, come all!

My zone (academia—in particular, the humanities) has been flooded. Now, what??? 😳

Not important (in the scheme of things), but… REALLY?! After self-parody comes… ???

Damn we agree on this too!

A temporary injunction on NIH cuts!

Go Article III!

coag.gov/app/uploads/...

And broadcast by Fox!

What would NIH funding cuts mean for Alabama? 5 things to know NIH grants support medical institutions and research across the state.

This is what local news orgs should be doing now:

"In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions.
The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding.
NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs"
www.al.com/news/2025/02...

Yes, please!