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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 10/10/2026

Too many folks have to do the work in spite of the institution rather than because of it.

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My book, “Martyrs and Migrants” has received Best Work in the Study of Practices, Communities, or Lived Contexts from the @aarweb.bsky.social! Grateful to the committee for this recognition—I am absolutely thrilled! aarweb.org/news/2026-aa...

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

proofs magic

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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 06/09/2026

"AI" is marketed to administrators as a cheat code that unlocks unlimited "scaling". The reality is that it decimates the educational value of huge classes, but reckoning with that financial reality is too scary. Much easier to circumvent shared governance and double down on parroting the marketing.

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

organizing (with @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social and milad) the final event before my year of khalwa

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/08/2026

A very big deal: www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc... 🗃️

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This year's biggest con in the History discipline is the one where AHA paid consultants to represent their interests in DC only for the consultants to become Washington's lobby in our discipline. TRP advised AHA to align with Trump allies and dump the commitments of our discipline. And AHA agreed.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The American Historical Association hired a lobbying firm to help silence member advocacy on Palestine. In this essay, Adam Rzepka covers @historians.org's relationship w/ Thorn Run Partners, its deep ethical conflicts, & the advocacy crisis AHA has thrust upon us. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

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Opinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secret Washington Playbook

Did the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?

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Critical Noise @criticalnoise2.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

@elizwilsonemory.bsky.social traces the place of the unconscious in progressive political critique. Visit criticalnoise.org/the-unconscious/ to read more

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Brian Connolly @brianconnolly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Looking for more on the Vandy-Wash U report? Over at Critical Noise we are kicking off a forum on it with essays over the next few weeks from Roderick Ferguson, Zachary Levenson, Noelle McAfee, John Modern, Christopher Newfield, and Julia Schleck. First up is @grundrza.bsky.social Links below

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

the language of fortitude and even heroism: yes

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I have a new short essay out in LIMN's special issue This Is Not a Platform titled "Platform Obscurantism: The Hidden Substrates of Machine Learning." ChatGPT is a platform. That may be the least interesting thing about it. limn.press/article/plat... 🧵

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Platform Obscurantism - Limn

ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...

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Tommy Lynch @tommylynch.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Alan Klima's Ethnography #9 is a life-changingly good book. Fitting that a book about ghosts* haunts me now. *This is both generally true and wildly insufficient.

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rajbir singh judge @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I wrote an essay on "Context" for @criticalnoise2.bsky.social, the online forum of History of the Present, in the "Critical Nodes section, an attempt to create a keywords for critical history. criticalnoise.org/context/

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

My opening questions for the Critical Noise forum: “Why do we need a theory of the unconscious? What critical and political advantages flow from such a concept?” TLDR; we’ve become a bit too knowing about what the Ucs can do for us critically/politically. criticalnoise.org/the-unconsci...

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Elizabeth A. Wilson @elizwilsonemory.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Also @zahidrc.bsky.social on truth + Massimiliano Tomba on revolution and @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social on context. criticalnoise.org/truth/ criticalnoise.org/revolution/ criticalnoise.org/context/

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Truth – History of the Present

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Historian Joan W. Scott on Princeton: "Three assistant professors, all in the humanities, who not only supported the students, but signed the letters referred to above (3), were denied tenure in the spring of 2026."

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AAUP @aaup.org · 15/07/2026

AAUP Committee A member Joan Scott on the Illusion of academic freedom at Princeton: President Christopher Eisgruber publicly champions academic freedom but his administration has aggressively penalized faculty involved in Palestine solidarity by forcing resignations & denying tenure. #academicsky

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Endlessly disappointed by historians willing to accept the Dan David Prize. This appeal outlines why no historian who respects their own work or supports our discipline should lend this prize their name.

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📣 CFA STUDENT ORGANIZER INTERNSHIP APPLICATION: Whether you are on campus, at the state capitol, or inside your workplace you can organize to make a difference! Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. Go to: tinyurl.com/SQEApplication to apply today!

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Daniel Jacobius Morgan @jacobius.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My brilliant wife has written this incisive critique of the Pope’s (mis)readings of the Hebrew Bible in his AI encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, and invites readers to reflect on the lessons we *should* draw instead: www.americamagazine.org/short-take/2...

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What ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ misunderstood about The Tower of Babel, Nehemiah and A.I.

The encyclical presents Babel and Nehemiah as moral opposites, but the biblical traditions themselves resist such neat binaries.

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

aaron eldridge, islam at the monastery: on infinity as subtractive truth rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... his commitment to the diagram continues, unparalleled

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rajbir singh judge @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The first issue of the Sikh Research Journal under my editorial direction has been published. The issue is organized around Gil Anidjar's On the Sovereignty of Mothers (@columbiaup.bsky.social 2024). It is open-access, but you have to register. Please read! sikhresearchjournal.org/index.php/sr...

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The new volume "Toward Border Abolition," edited by Nicholas De Genova and @lawprofmorales.bsky.social, questions the assumption that immigration control is necessary or legitimate. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/l6ztc6q

Cover of Toward Border Abolition by Nicholas De Genova, Daniel I. Morales. The cover shows three silhouetted figures climbing and reaching over a tall, wired fence at dusk. A blue gradient sky fills the background. The title is in a large yelllow, orange, and white letters, taking up the upper half of the cover. The author names appear below in a smaller, dark blue font, toward the lower right.

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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The weaselly letter AHA ExCo sent to its membership lambasting its members exercising the right to stand for election is exactly why so many of us are convinced you are sabotaging democratic governance of the AHA over Palestine-related academic freedom. Appalling. Vote for the HPAD slate 🗃️

The election for next year’s AHA Council open on June 1, and this year, your ballot will look a little different. In addition to two candidates for each slot selected by the member-elected Nominating Committee, the ballot will also list several “by petition” candidates, all of whom have been nominated by Historians for Peace and Democracy (HPAD), in collaboration with Historians4Palestine and the Palestinian Historians Group. Believing that this is a particularly important election for the Association’s future, and wishing to explain the origins of this “by petition” slate, the AHA’s Executive Committee is taking the unusual step of offering further context and alerting members to the implications of the “by petition” campaign.

As you are surely aware, we are living through a time of unprecedented attempts to rewrite history and threaten historians’ ability to access, study, and understand our past. In the past two years in particular, the AHA has been courageously engaging in monumental efforts to advocate for our discipline. Despite strong headwinds, we have had some recent wins, such as a successful outcome in our NEH lawsuit. Yet the AHA, like other
organizations and institutions, has faced internal disagreement as to the kinds of actions we should take. To date, the Council and staff have focused the AHA’s work on issues within our core mission: promoting historical studies and supporting and defending the rights of historians to research and teach honest, expert history. For this we have faced severe criticism from HPAD, a 501(c)(4) (political) group that advocates for a much more aggressive stance on specific, political matters

The antagonistic relationship of HPAD’s leadership towards the current AHA Council began in January 2025. HPAD had campaigned vigorously for a resolution on Gaza, which was passed at the Association’s business meeting. Afterwards, the Council vetoed that resolution because, as written, that resolution would have bound the AHA to actions, language, and commitments that lay outside our congressionally chartered mission and would have jeopardized our nonprofit and nonpartisan status, and therefore the legal and institutional foundations that make the AHA’s work possible. At the January 2026 meeting, HPAD again campaigned for a resolution that was again vetoed by the Council on the same grounds.

But we did hear members’ concerns, and since January 2025, the AHA Council and staff have worked diligently to address the resolutions’ central demands. We issued two statements condemning violence against scholars and students, and the devastation of historical sites and institutions. (Statement available here.) We provided numerous opportunities at the annual meeting to discuss and engage with the history of Palestine, genocide, and state violence. In response to the resolution, we created a committee that we hoped could do concrete good to support educational programs in the region, help preserve archives, and to aid Palestinian historians. But HPAD leadership and the groups that had proposed the resolutions have declined to participate, unless and until we accept their specific language. As a result, they have now labeled the AHA “anti-democratic” and have distorted the actions and motivations of the AHA.

Now these groups have used the “by petition” clause in the AHA bylaws to generate a full slate of candidates, the majority of whom sit on HPAD’s own steering committee or advisory board, to oppose the candidates put forward by the member-elected Nominating Committee. The petitions for their nomination were signed by about 200 members (less than two percent of our over 10,000 members). It should also be noted that among our 133 affiliated societies, HPAD is the only 501(c)(4) (political) organization, and the only one with an explicitly political mission. Its status means that it operates under the US tax code just as the National Rifle Association or Planned Parenthood, or any other 501(c)(4), and is not permitted to have formal members. HPAD, unlike the AHA, is not a membership organization and is therefore not obligated to any members and does not elect its own leadership.

The AHA, by contrast (and contrary to HPAD’s claims), has a governance structure very much like the other 501(c)(3) disciplinary associations, with a professional staff and a member-elected Council charged with decision-making. But the AHA is unique among the disciplinary associations in that it is the only one incorporated by a law, or charter, passed by the US Congress. That law charges us with a specific mission: “the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical manuscripts and for kindred purposes in the interest of American history and of history in America.” (Other examples of congressionally chartered organizations include the American Red Cross and the US Olympic Committee.) Our foundational mission is to join together historians, whatever our personal and political views, in the common professional purpose of furthering the study and teaching of history. And we are able to join together historians from all regions, fields, and institution types because we adhere to this mission.

Today more than ever, we need the AHA, and historians need to work together effectively to support our colleagues. The wanton mutilation of institutions such as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Park Service and repeated attacks on academic freedom in universities have been devastating to historians and to the integrity of history itself; the destruction of our national professional organization by means of internal infighting will only add to the wreckage of our discipline. We hope to work in concert with historians of Palestine and of the Middle East, and with colleagues who feel strongly about political or diplomatic issues. But we need to work and act together constructively and through compromise if we hope to maintain public trust in our nonpartisan integrity and expertise.

Because we feel so strongly that this year’s election is crucial to the direction the AHA will take in the near future, we urge you to carefully examine your ballot with the context provided above in mind. We thank you for your support for the AHA, and your concern for the future of our shared discipline.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

To date, AHA has paid Thorn Run Partners about $140,000 to help them "message" anti-Palestinian racism by pitting AHA members against one another like this. There is more to say but for now, I will be using my vote any way I please-and-thank you, AHA.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

p.s. singling out HPAD is also crappy, given that over a dozen AHA affiliates and 3 member coalitions sponsored this year's Democracy Slate. But you know why they singled out HPAD, right? It's because telling you all they are actually targeting Palestinian historians looks worse.

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Stacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

So do you think the @historians.org director wrote that email today or was it AHA's shady Thorn Run Partners consultants who did it for them? It's shameful for a scholarly society to scold its members for using the democratic instruments in the bylaw, and to dictate to its members who to vote for.

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

New issue of the Sikh Research Journal is out; this one's a special forum on Gil Anidjar's "On the Sovereignty of Mothers" with a piece by me alongside lots of other brilliant people: sikhresearchjournal.org/index.php/sr...

Foreword
Rajbir Judge
Foreword: Mothers and Sikh Studies: An Introduction to Forum on Gil Anidjar’s On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal

Sara-Maria Sorentino
Twos, Ones, and Zeros: Mothers, Sovereigns, Slaves

Timothy Snediker
Hagar and History

Marika Rose
Mother Wolf

Leah Kaplan
Neither Mother nor slave: Reading On the Sovereignty of Mothers: The Political as Maternal

Roy Cherian
Umi Says

Theresa Gregor
We Are Because She Was/Is: A Review of Gil Anidjar’s On the Sovereignty of Mothers through Kumeyaay Creation, Maternal Creatrixes, and Rematriation

Zehra Mehdi
To Grieve or not to Grieve? : Reflections on Gil Anidjar’s On the Sovereignty of Mothers

Gil Anidjar
Maternal Difference

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Three things said about AI and social science: it's a topic to study, a thing to critique, a tool to use. My new Daedalus essay argues these aren't three conversations; they're one. A 🧵 on "Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object, and Tool." www.amacad.org/publication/...

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Field Theory: AI as Social Science Question, Object & Tool

Uses of advanced artificial intelligence are changing how societies organize labor, govern, produce knowledge, and make meaning. In light of these developments, this essay argues that AI models, tools...

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

our history of the present issue is now out from @dukepress.bsky.social ! on multiple registers of the "incapacitation" of tradition read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t... hooray

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History UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Congratulations to Prof. Stacy Fahrenthold! Her _Unmentionables_ received the 2026 David Montgomery Award by the Organization of American Historians with co-sponsorship by the Labor and Working-Class History Association for the year's best book on a topic in American labor & working-class history.

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

“A little over a year later, over 1,600 faculty, students and alumni from the CSU have signed an online petition urging the school system’s chancellor not to renew the OpenAI contract when it expires this summer, according to data shared by organizers.” - Tech Policy Press ow.ly/7njC50YyXtp

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Administrators spend $17 million of CSU money on ChatGPT while shuttering departments essential to the job of a university in developing, archiving, and teaching all kinds of knowledge

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

on limits: the critiques of homogeneity and the disclosure of traditions in secularism studies spectrajournal.org/articles/10.... looks great

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On Limits: The Critiques of Homogeneity and the Disclosure of Traditions in Secularism Studies | Spectra

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aunty gormint, bro beeble 🍉 @pashamkhan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Salaam. I have a website now: pashamkhan.com . I coded it by hand (with Eleventy), so you'd better like it. The 8th square will be for my page on Lord Rasgulla 😤✨

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Zahid R Chaudhary @zahidrc.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Next week: Noura Erakat gives the Edward Said Memorial lecture at Princeton @sjp-princeton.bsky.social @princeton.edu

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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

I reviewed The Ordinal Society, by @marionf.bsky.social and @kjhealy.co, for jotwell. I think this is one of the most important books for law and tech scholars, and yet it says almost nothing (explicitly) about law, which makes it a special treat to read!

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Marika Rose @marika.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Deadline is being extended to 11:59 ET on Monday 9th!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Honored and delighted that Professor @julietschor.bsky.social will deliver the 2026 IAS Lecture on Public Policy: “Rethinking Platform Labor” on March 10, 2026. Curated by the School of Social Science. In-person with recording available afterward. Register: www.ias.edu/events/lectu...

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Paisley Currah @paisleycurrah.com · 13/02/2026

And if you want a 5500 word deep dive into the connections between the Trump administration’s anti-trans positions and the rollback of feminism, read this. (DM if you can’t get beyond the paywall) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

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The Anti-Trans Playbook | Paisley Currah

The current crusade against trans people imperils not just their rights but the survival of the legal doctrine built to protect all women from discrimination.

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