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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

the tech industry is about to invent books

Andrew Yeung
@andruyeung
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We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

People sleep on CUNY but it is one of the absolute JEWELS of U.S. Higher Ed and has been for decades. And what's the thanks the system gets??? It has to fight for its life every single year because it has been systematically defunded.

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Detroit Metro Times @metrotimes.com · 11/09/2026

Michigan students are heading back to hotter classrooms and aging school buildings. In a new Metro Times op-ed, Rep. RashidaTlaib argues corporate polluters helped create the climate crisis while students, families, and schools are left paying the price. www.metrotimes.com/news/tlaib-m...

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Tlaib: Michigan schools can't keep up with a heat crisis that corporate polluters created — and students are paying the price - Detroit Metro Times

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib says Michigan schools need major investments in cooling, clean energy, and infrastructure as extreme heat increasingly disrupts classrooms.

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) and LIS Data Center are hiring a 3-year postdoc for work on public policy, welfare and socio-economic inequality. Open to economics, sociology, pol sci and related disciplines. Apply by Sep 15th: jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

The largest and oldest Black studies departments in the country have been closed, but a bunch of people decided the eugenics guy was the crucible for academic freedom.

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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 23/08/2026

Rolling out “academic freedom” as a rallying cry now, after the CRT panic led to a bunch of Black scholars and theory to be literally banned from classrooms, shit is too rich lol

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If I couldn’t read, I would talk less. But that’s me.

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!

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House Society

The world is in the midst of a deep and worsening housing crisis. It has caused rents to soar in Britain, millions to protest in Spain, and a government to collapse in Sweden. Under a global ideology ...

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Editing a longer draft into shorter drafts is writing, is thinking, is deciding things. It’s as intimate, perhaps even more intimate, as human, perhaps even more human, as any act of writing.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

faculty! Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas faculty! please answer this anonymous AAUP survey docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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2026 AAUP Faculty in the South Survey

The Georgia conference of the American Association of University Professors [AAUP] and its partners in states across the South have been at the forefront of fighting attacks on higher education. To as...

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, “Researchers spend too much time either proving trivial things or beating back hostile critiques, and activists devote immense resources to fighting scandals rather than sources.”

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Nick Caverly @nickcav.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Do you work on language in relation to wellbeing? Wellbeing is meant broadly (technology! environment! politics! survivance!) My department is hiring a linguistic anthropologist or fellow traveler! Excepting many dumpster fires common in (US) higher ed, we’re ok careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: Social & Behavioral Sciences Department: Anthropology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: ...

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PSC-CUNY @psc-cuny.org · 03/08/2026

“I don't know what they expect us to do,” Melissa Checker, chair of the Urban Studies Department at @queenscollegecuny.bsky.social, told the Eagle. “How do they expect us to be able to run this college with so many ongoing cuts?” queenseagle.com/all/2026/7/3...

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Queens College faculty calls for CUNY to reverse cuts — Queens Daily Eagle

Faculty members at Queens’ largest City University of New York college are pushing back against budget cuts, which have led to a number of cancelled classes and layoffs of adjunct professors.

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Harvard is embarking on a new and exciting experiment to determine whether one truly needs to have a university that does university things in order to maintain an endowment the size of a small nation’s GDP.

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Juan Llamas-Rodriguez @llamasjr.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

UT Austin’s denial of Iván Char Lopez’ tenure is enraging and disheartening, not least because it demonstrates how the recent dismantling of faculty governance across UT has left little recourse for independent oversight to appeal this type of one-sided decisions:

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Really captures Massachusetts politics

“Inside ICE’s only contract with a blue state”

“In fact, Massachusetts is the only state that voted against Donald Trump in 2024, and where the governor is a Democrat, where a state agency is contracting with the 287(g) program. It’s also the only state where Democrats fully control the state government that has such an agreement.”

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.

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Violence in Blue

‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10/07/2026

Hey, I have these postcards of my book's cover (by Vera Villanueva for Yale UP). I'd love to mail you one. Will you send me a screenshot of 1) your pre-order OR 2) your (free!!) request that your library purchase the book? And of course an address to mail it to.

Book cover for Seeing Like a Supply Chain: the Hidden Life of Logistics by Miriam Posner shows a colorful arrangement of lines that branch out as they descend.

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Colleen Chien @colleenchien.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

@BerkeleyLaw is hiring a tenured professor in AI, Law and Society, as part of an interdisciplinary campus-wide cluster. Please spread the word, and consider applying! Deadline is September 4. Happy to field questions. aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05397

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Professor - Artificial Intelligence, Inequality, and Society - School of Law

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Why Graham Platner should be the next president of Harvard.

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Nick Caverly @nickcav.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

All I know is that they’re what to use in damp prone areas (like a washroom) but not places that get wet (like a shower). Learned cause our shower tile needed to be redone bc someone used one of these rather than waterproofed backer board

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Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

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Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Come be my colleague! American University's History Department is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of science, tech and society. I am chair of the search and pleased to answer any questions either on here or email (grao at american) american.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/AU/job/Main-...

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Assistant Professor

American University is a student-centered research institution located in Washington, DC, with highly-ranked schools and colleges, internationally-renowned faculty, and a reputation for creating meani...

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Have they considered reading the textbook and actually attending class?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

There are less than two weeks left to secure 0.5% of the NYC City Budget for libraries! Write to your City Council Member today to let them know how vital funding our libraries is for our communities. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

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City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!

In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is orders of magnitude more "politically incorrect" than The Office, is in fact still being made today

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/06/2026

If I am ever so fortunate as to become a very senior academic, let me not become so addled by junior scholars’ failure to pay me obeisance that I am co-opted into signing my name to a report whose malevolent intentions are clear to literally everyone else. 🙏

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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No One Is Coming to Save Us

The realization can either break you or liberate you.

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LeeSean 立翔 @leesean.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

The New School announced that the program I've been teaching for ~10 years will close after the current students finish next year. I stumbled onto The New School's 1919 founding document. Reading it feels like a diagnosis of exactly what's happening there right now. medium.com/@leesean/the...

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The New School Has Become What It Was Designed to Resist

The New School is in the middle of an “identity crisis.”

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Jason Kosnoski @jasonkosnoski.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

As an alum, I wrote this to the NS President. "Another similarity exists between my experience at the New School and my current experience at UM-Flint—the experience of sacrifice. I know many students, including myself, sacrificed quite a bit to come to the New School. 1/

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A really crucial source of these sexist & anti-feminist sentiments by left/liberal pundits is their insecurity that their soft-handed lives of white collar work mean that they're not real men. They think they can reconcile with masculinity through an aspiration to a kind of brutish, hostile sexism.

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The New School AAUP @newschoolaaup.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

In the last 48 hours, The New School has fired almost two dozen colleagues in humanities and social sciences, many of them tenured faculty of color, and multiple staff members, including in social justice.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Job Opportunity! The Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is seeking outstanding candidates for an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) position in the history of U.S. political economy from the Civil War to the present. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

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Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 28/05/2026

BREAKING: New proposed OMB regulation, applying to all federal grants, requiring grant reviews by senior political appointees and re-emphasizes that "peer review remains advisory and does not replace agency discretion". #standupforscience public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10817.pdf

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UAM-UMD @uam-umd.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

IT.IS.OFFICIAL. Our bill—giving 9K faculty across MD collective bargaining rights—was signed into law today! Huge thanks goes to @govwesmoore.bsky.social @senbillferg.bsky.social @mdhousedems.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aftmaryland.bsky.social @afthighered.bsky.social @local6741.bsky.social!

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

one member of Los Angeles County's board of supervisors has more constituents than the U.S. senators of 12 states

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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

“Video footage obtained by The Sun shows Students for a Democratic Cornell members Aiden Vallecillo ’26 and Hudson Athas ’27 being struck by the car. In the video, no person can be seen touching the vehicle before it drove into Vallecillo and Athas.” www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’

President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 30/04/2026

"In Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts were majority Black. Does that seem fair to you?" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...

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We Believe That Combating Racism Is the Real Racism

“In Louisiana, where Black people make up roughly a third of the population, the congressional maps were specifically drawn so that a third of the districts ...

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