Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 23/06/2025This is the dawning of the age of the ukulele. What do I need to know?? 261
Reposted by Patty InghamMeredith Hindley @mhindley.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Dearest humanities friends, I’m sending up the humanities bat signal. Heard a NEH colleague that orgs aren’t submitting requests for close out costs on terminated awards—which they are entitled to!! Here’s what to do: 1/ 19768
Reposted by Patty InghamWe keep us safe @thequeengeek.bsky.social · 14/06/2025AG Ellison staying at the No Kings rally despite being on the assassin’s hit list to tell the crowd to not be stopped, to keep marching is exactly what I needed in this moment. 132594470
Reposted by Patty InghamMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/06/2025Raskin: You are not our king, and we are not your subjects. We will never be your subjects. All of us born here on this land are citizens and your executive order is nothing but bad graffiti on the Constitution, and we're going to wash it off today 575395229691
Reposted by Patty InghamNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 14/06/2025NEW: In the city where US troops are turning on US citizens, an uprising. This is LA right now. Thousands protesting against Trump, authoritarianism and fascism. “These numbers are absolutely overwhelming downtown Los Angeles.” - MSNBC #NoKings #50501Movement 262335665
Reposted by Patty Inghamdaviss @daviss.org · 14/06/2025Despite warnings from the law enforcement not to attend today’s No Kings rally after this mornings shooting of Minnesota lawmakers with the killer on the lose, the No Kings Rally is happening at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul. 348236646144
Reposted by Patty Inghameric anders @ericanders.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Pussy Riot on the steps of City Hall in Downtown Los Angeles, unfurling a banner that says IT’S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE RUSSIA. #NoKings 3767591354
Reposted by Patty InghamNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Trump’s provocations have turned Angelenos into pedestrians 1375491161
Reposted by Patty InghamCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/06/2025Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation. Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants: 1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process. 2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers. 3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.spencer.orgRapid Response Bridge Funding ProgramIn the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap... 6771333
Reposted by Patty InghamJosh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I'm sure I'll take shit for saying this, but this passage from Glenn Loury's Chronicle interview perfectly captures for me the civilizational necessity of a relatively autonomous academic sphere. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... 17435100
Reposted by Patty InghamJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/05/2025A few more cronies for funsies: Kushner: Harvard/NYU Ramaswamy: Harvard/Yale Thiel: Stanford Sacks: U of Chicago/Stanford Andreesen: U of Illinois Bezos: Princeton Zuckerberg: Harvard Epshteyn: Georgetown/Swarthmore Wiles: U of Maryland Lutnick: Haverford Patel: U of Richmond/Pace 3476
Reposted by Patty InghamJess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 23/05/2025Trump: Penn Vance: Yale/Ohio St Musk: Penn Miller: Duke Hegseth: Princeton/Harvard RFK Jr: Harvard/UVA Rubio: U of Florida Bondi: U of Florida Bessent: Yale Ratcliffe: Notre Dame Vought: George Washington Roberts: Harvard Alito: Yale Thomas: Yale Gorsuch: Harvard Kavanaugh: Yale Barrett: Notre Dame 18471150
Reposted by Patty InghamMr. Antifascism @mrantifascism.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The Library of Congress just delivered a masterclass in independence—blocking Trump appointees after he abruptly fired the Librarian. Staff stood firm, called Capitol Police, and refused to cede control. A bold stand for the separation of powers when it matters most. This is the way. 712728
Reposted by Patty InghamAAUP @aaup.org · 03/05/2025Everybody, guilty or innocent, is entitled to due process.idsnews.comOver 260 faculty, staff urge IU to undo Xiaofeng Wang’s terminationWang and his wife were fired the same week the FBI searched their homes. 422454
Reposted by Patty InghamJosh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 01/05/2025www.acls.org/news/acls-ah...acls.orgACLS, AHA, and MLA File Lawsuit Alleging Illegal Dismantling of National Endowment for the HumanitiesLawsuit aims to reinstate NEH grant programs, divisions, and staff. 038187
Reposted by Patty InghamInstitute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025Call for Contributors! @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social and Cynthia Johnson are co-editing a new Routledge Companion to Book Studies, and are seeking chapter proposals! Deadline: 30 September 2025 More info here 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news/call-co...ies.sas.ac.ukCall for Contributors: Routledge Companion to Book StudiesCall for ContributorsThe Routledge Companion to Book StudiesEdited by Michael Durrant and Cynthia Johnston Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London 13628
Reposted by Patty Inghamjvancamp.bsky.social @jvancamp.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Lawsuits by major national organizations have been filed to fight grant cancellations at IMLS and Dept of Ed. Why has nothing been filed to fight cancellations at NEH, most especially the state humanities councils? Letters objecting to the cancellations aren't enough. www.salon.com/2025/04/21/t...salon.comThe art of resistance: Trump’s attack on humanities triggers a blowback movementThe rise of resistance to Trump takes root in rural America 12810
Reposted by Patty InghamLauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 17/01/2025The Association for Computers and the Humanities is offering $1K start-your-project awards for folx "facing barriers in initiating digital scholarship." Applications due 1/27! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 03024
Reposted by Patty InghamShannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11/04/2025"If the cuts are upheld, however, small local museums and libraries will almost certainly close. Efforts to digitize local newspapers have ceased. The book festival your kids love each summer? It won’t happen without funding to the state humanities council that supports it." 25936
Reposted by Patty Inghamdr. meg smith @megsmith.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I'm still formulating my thoughts about the devastating impact of NEH ODH's closure on the entire digital humanities ecosystem. In the meantime, I threw together a couple bar charts to visualize the number of programs and the total funding at stake in the NEH cuts. #DigitalHumanities #NEH 11811
Reposted by Patty InghamChris Newfield @cnewf.bsky.social · 10/04/2025all too relevant piece on German universities in the 1930s by Iveta Silva "what made Hitler’s orders stick was the eagerness of many academic leaders to comply, justify and normalize the new order." theconversation.com/universities...theconversation.comUniversities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independenceBefore the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state. 012
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 10/04/2025I don't what this means, but I just had a good conversation with a staffer in Erin Houcher's office (IN-9) about the illegal terminations to NEH grants--a loss of over $2M in the largely rural 9th. The staffer asked me a number of good questions-please call (202)225-5315 if you are in the distinct. 042
Reposted by Patty InghamNEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Every grant listed here represents hundreds of hours of work: from our applicants who submit proposals, to the program staff and peer reviewers who read them, to the grant managers who oversee awards. Are we just supposed to accept the abrupt termination of all this labor? #NEH #humanities 112256
Reposted by Patty InghamJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Here is a direct link to tips for those NEH grantees who have received an email terminating their grant: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...mla.orgTips for NEH GranteesIf you’ve spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to draw down funds as soon as possible.If you receive an email from the Department of... 089
Reposted by Patty InghamModern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 08/04/2025We've put together a list of resources on legislative threats to higher ed. Visit the site for tips for NEH grantees, webinar recordings, tool kits, MLA statements, and more. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...mla.orgResources on Legislative Threats to Higher EducationThe MLA is collaborating with other organizations, including PEN America’s Freedom to Learn Network, the ACLS, and the AAUP, to speak out against state and local encroachment on higher education and g... 19061
Reposted by Patty InghamLaura Morreale @lauramorreale.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Some excellent tips and action items in response to the near destruction of the NEH 044
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Very smart of UBC. And Vancouver is gorgeous! 000
Reposted by Patty InghamDr. Liz Hebbard @lizhebbard.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Please read this post that my colleague and collaborator, the amazing @patriciaingham.bsky.social, wrote about our 2024–2027 NEH grant that was terminated by DOGE last week #medievalsky #humanitiesinitiatives (cc @altnehgov.bsky.social) 34333
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 06/04/2025A post on our situation at IU, now up on Dailykos www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...dailykos.comDOGE terminated our NEH project grant, and what that means.On Thursday evening we received notification that our open 3-year NEH grant, “Establishing an undergraduate Book Studies minor at Indiana University” was terminated, effective immediately. We were one... 46131
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 05/04/2025Just finished the 6th TBS (The Bloomington Symposium) at Indiana University, Bloomington, on Ecologies. A wonderful event with heaps of intellectual abundance for difficult times. Thursday night, I learned my NEH grant was terminated by the DOGE crew. These events are part of how we fight back. 1160
Reposted by Patty InghamJason Rhody @jasonrhody.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Hearing reports of NEH staff being put on administrative leave (not sure yet how many are impacted). Grantees—remember to use eGMS for all correspondence but that staff may have severe restrictions on access to email & work material. NEH staff—we appreciate you & we’re so sorry this is happening. 12415
Reposted by Patty InghamNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit. 183135654628
Reposted by Patty InghamJef Tripp @jeftripp.bsky.social · 01/04/2025The Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting brings 10,000 scholars together. International members are afraid to travel to the US, and a Bible-study group is gathering information on how best to keep its members out of inaccessible detention centers. This is where we are. #academicsky 12410
Reposted by Patty Inghamjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/04/2025what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it! 5098115810037
Reposted by Patty Inghamdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 30/03/2025What a monumental, whiny-ass, little crybaby. This was a bunch of middle aged and senior women saying mean things to a cybertruck owner. No violence, no threats, no vandalism. Just protest. And the richest man in the world is having a massive pout about it. 2123361561
Reposted by Patty InghamEileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Rutgers University Senate proposal for a mutual defense pact of Big Ten schools. Rutgers faculty, show them the way! 624371
Reposted by Patty InghamLisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025I'm sorry, WHAT?! A new piece of the Bayeux Embroidery has been found?! OMG! 22685167
Reposted by Patty InghamJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine 11718002334117
Reposted by Patty InghamHeather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Cornell University’s Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination, and Culture initiative seeks a postdoc with exp in data-driven or computational methods in the humanities. INFO academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29746, contact @lindsaythomas.netacademicjobsonline.orgCornell University, English Job #AJO29746, Postdoctoral Associate in Digital Humanities, English, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US 11412
Reposted by Patty InghamFella T 🇨🇿🇪🇺 @fellat.bsky.social · 17/02/2025They banned smartphones in some czechian schools (Europe). Kids became more friendly. Btw www.europeandissemination.eu/social-media...europeandissemination.euSocial media making us angrier, study revealsA new Yale University study published in the journal ‘Science Advances’ shows how online networks encourage us to express more moral outrage over time. 1746569
Reposted by Patty InghamBrian Schatz @schatz.bsky.social · 03/02/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Don’t Believe HimLook closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see. 971305255
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Bloomberg: US District Judge Loren AliKhan has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new directive to halt payments of federal grants, loans and other assistance to an array of programs across the country. ordered the pause during a hearing in Washington on Tuesday 050
Reposted by Patty InghamAuschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time. 10495284522433
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 23/01/2025If only the newly re-installed President were judged by the content of his character, not the paleness of his skin. 070
Patty Ingham @patriciaingham.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Here are the stats for NIH funding in Indiana: $414 M in funding. Over 5000 jobs and $1.1 B in economic development. www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...unitedformedicalresearch.orgIndiana - United For Medical Researcheconomic impact of NIH research in Indiana 040
Reposted by Patty InghamBarred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 22/01/2025I want everyone to understand that rescission of 1965 antidiscrimination orders is literally resegregation and for reporters in the room to press them accordingly also the gall of revoking the *Equal Employment Opportunity* directive. man affirmatively said 'I want unequal employment opportunities' 3526961126