Reposted by Christopher NygrenMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 07/08/2026strong strong agree on this www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...insidehighered.comStudents as Conscientious Objectors to Gen AI (opinion)We should listen to them—and treat their objections with respect. 14513
Reposted by Christopher Nygrenjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 24/07/2026interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country” 18190252610
Reposted by Christopher NygrenMatthew Segal @segalmr.bsky.social · 21/05/2026CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get? LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire. 242479518
Reposted by Christopher NygrenKai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Holy shit This is vile “With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona. The battleship, now a military cemetery reachable only by boat, has stood as one of the nation’s most hallowed sites since Japan bombed and sank it in 1941.” apnews.com/article/fbi-...apnews.comEmails show FBI Director Kash Patel's Hawaii trip included 'VIP snorkel' at a Pearl Harbor memorialGovernment emails obtained by The Associated Press show that FBI Director Kash Patel went on a “VIP snorkel” session last summer at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor. 53796200
Reposted by Christopher NygrenCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 30/04/2026Delighted to be able to share a first teaching and research resource relating to The Firearm Revolution: a compilation of links to primary sources - visual, objects and translations of texts that I cite in the book #academia #earlymodern #skystorianscatherinefletcher.infoPrimary sources for The Firearm RevolutionAre you teaching with The Firearm Revolution? Or perhaps you’re an independent researcher with an interest in the history of firearms. With the help of my PhD student Guy Reynolds, I’ve … 27939
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Today is the official publication day for my new book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art. It is out in the world, and I would like to thank @yalepress.bsky.social for all they did. I’d also like to tell you a bit about why this publication means so much. 78919
Reposted by Christopher NygrenSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Spread the word! My department at UMass-Amherst is inaugurating a Pre-College Summer Program in the History of Art: Visual Analysis and Exhibition Design. www.umass.edu/art-history/... 26727
Reposted by Christopher NygrenSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 03/03/2026When Bender shared our piece a couple of months ago, she issued an important quibble w respect to my & @cnygren.bsky.social's specific argument regarding resistance to the AI industry's takeover of education. A story broken by student journalists at GW reveals that quibble to have been prescient. 1/ 35610
Reposted by Christopher NygrenSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/02/2026Art History will continue to be seen as an elitist discipline if the public apparatuses for communicating it refuse to acknowledge the scholarship that has drawn attention to art's role in serving and subverting power. Read the righteous review by Sherry Lindqiust here. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews...hnanews.orgLes Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry - Historians of Netherlandish Art ReviewsThe Château de Chantilly justifiably billed its exhibition as a landmark show, and for early modernists and medievalists, it was the most anticipated 515156
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 09/01/2026If you are attending @historians.org #aha2026 please join us at 330 this afternoon when we discuss our project, “Transforming Humanities Education in a Time of Gun Violence.” We discuss various approaches to tracing the long history of guns, gun control, and legislation. 031
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Really not sure what to make of this as a prediction for 2026… 120
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 31/12/2025For any early modernists who are upset by the Compact piece, this is a great thread. And the point about Celenza’s “Lost Renaissance” is spot on. Some people saw changes to the field coming a mile away. Others got bitter 010
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 30/12/2025What we see in the last paragraph is striking wrt some discourse on here in the last few days re: AI. 10 children _claimed_ to have been killed by COVID vaccine, and now the whole of Gov is moving to pull the hand break. 120
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Take a few to read this. it is fire. “The humanities are not in crisis. The humanities are in the vanguard. The project of public education, perhaps the closest thing there is to a lasting success authored amid the broader failure of Reconstruction, is in danger.” 041
Reposted by Christopher NygrenBen Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird... 6823741211
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 16/12/2025I’m very pleased to announce the latest from me and the inimitable @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social. In it, we lay out vision for why and how faculty and students should be resisting the AI in education. Please share. 43911
Reposted by Christopher NygrenSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 19/11/2025My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...careers.umass.edu Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst 010479
Reposted by Christopher NygrenSam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.apnews.comOpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusionsOpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues. 1156432088
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 08/11/2025More exciting news coming out of Pittsburgh! My department is searching for a Teaching Assistant Professor of Architectural Studies. This is a permanent position in the Appointment Stream (i.e. non-tenure-track). networks.h-net.org/jobs/69451/u...networks.h-net.orgUniversity of Pittsburgh - Teaching Assistant Professor in Architectural Studies | H-Net 112
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 30/10/2025🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...cfopitt.taleo.netWilliam S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or ArchitectureClick the link provided to see the complete job description. 44639
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 28/10/2025If Chotiner calls, you’re not obliged to pick up the phone. My god… This man just continues to destroy people. By…. By simply asking follow up questions. Others could really take note. 030
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 26/10/2025This is worth a read. As he says, this shouldn’t be on us. Companies do have agency, and that also implies culpability 0174
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 19/10/2025Students never asked for this and done like it 060
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Attention early modernists! Now is a great moment for you to get a copy of Titian’s Icons. 60% discount on @psupress.bsky.social using code WHS25. It’s a beautiful book, and it won a major award, so it is worth having a copy on your shelf! www.psupress.org/two_week_sal... 021
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 25/08/2025Good luck to all those starting the academic year today. This is going to be a tough year for Higher Ed. I will try to remember why I got into this: to help students realize that art shows us how many different ways humanity has manifest itself across time. The future is not yet written. 160
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I do not know of a single public university president or chancellor who has even _tried_ making this point to the student body and their parents. It is such a pathetic abdication of leadership 010436
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 11/08/2025I am giong to sound snooty, but if you can outsource your wine list to ChatGPT, you should not be running a place with a wine list.... and other stories from our dystopian present all wrapped up in one little article www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.com21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at WorkYes, it still makes plenty of mistakes, but it has become part of the job for many. 250
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Art Historians still live in the wake of Obama's derisive comment from 2014. Study after study shows that the humanities provide skills that are evergreen - the ability to critically assess sources and data far exceed the "skills' of any moment (see prompt engineering). harpers.org/harpers-indexharpers.orgIndex Archive 0326
Reposted by Christopher NygrenAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...mellon.orgMellon FoundationThe Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all. 8465274
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 01/08/2025One year ago today, we had to say goodbye to Zenzero, King of Cats and Loaf of Loafs. Yesterday, we welcomed into our home Slinky. Like his name, he is long and squirmy. Z shall never be replaced, but I look forward to smothering this guy with love (the "cone of shame" will be off soon!) 150
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Very pleased to announce that my forthcoming book, Sedimentary Aesthetics: Painting on Stone and the Ecology of Early Modern Art, has been awarded a Millard Meiss Publication subvention. Get it from @yalepress.bsky.social in spring 2026! www.collegeart.org/news/2025/07... 071
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I got the official jersey (no number) in fifth grade. In sixth grade I begged my parents to have the numbers added. Wire it for game 7 in 2016. Rest in peace, Ryno 040
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I got the official jersey (no number) in fifth grade. In sixth grade I begged my parents to have the numbers added. Wire it for game 7 in 2016. Rest in peace, Ryno 010
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 16/07/2025This is amazing. And the second post has a link to the actual job advert. This is not a hoax. Any university president ought to be able to write their own speeches. If they cannot, one might fairly argue that they are not qualified to lead an institution of higher ed. 1100
Reposted by Christopher NygrenAlex MacLaren @alexmaclaren.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Whole thread worth your attention 053
Reposted by Christopher NygrenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/07/2025Whatever you do, don't use this online form to tell them to resign in shame. Don't do that. Do not do that. 55698183
Reposted by Christopher NygrenShana V. White (she/her) @shanavwhite.blacksky.app · 04/07/2025After today, should make it crystal clear for everyone that "all lives matter" was a lie. 316228
Reposted by Christopher NygrenKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/06/2025This is a really thoughtful piece from @davehitchcock.bsky.social on the threat that AI presents to history and historians alike:hitchcockian.medium.comThis is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week.I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I… 12406132
Reposted by Christopher NygrenNeil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 29/06/2025“ICE gets a bigger budget than the Marine Corps” is a simple fact that should be communicated very widely because it clearly expresses how crazy and radical this is 150112265038
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Focuses on K-12 education in contrast with higher ed. But on point and shows that educators need solidarity across that divide. “Calling time savings an 'AI dividend' reveals everything wrong with how we're thinking about this technology. Dividends go to shareholders, not workers.” 031
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Things are getting very real... Wherever fine books are sold in spring 2026 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...yalebooks.yale.eduSedimentary AestheticsAn unprecedented investigation of painting on stone in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italy that considers the ecological and artistic forces that made t... 020
Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 26/06/2025I know this is a fool's errand, but let's just for a moment play the game of "what if a Dem president had said something like this?" "I said it's fine." .... it's fine. 011
Reposted by Christopher NygrenJerad Walker @jeradwalker.bsky.social · 22/06/2025From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11. 1101673357
