I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The years ahead will be rough. Now is not the time for despair or to quit, but to shift energy. Get into community. Learn how to organize. Get grounded physically, spiritually, and creatively. If you haven't already, start NOW.

Just found out that Taylor & Francis has sold access to all Routledge Books data to Microsoft to train their AI. This includes my publications. I get no payment for using my research labour, never mind the bigger problems of this energy-intensive extractivism...

Rarely have I seen AI described so succinctly.

Had this idea right as I woke up

Join our first edition of “What Have We Learned?” after one year of Israel’s Genocide with Noura Erakat @4Noura, hosted by Bassam Haddad Bassam Haddad. Scholars, journalists, activists, and authors select 5 themes/topics and analyze what we have learned about them in ~ 35-40 minutes.

The Department of African American and African Studies at The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American history. hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EMPL…

📣Join us on Thursday, Sept. 26 at 12pm ET/7pm Palestine with Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt, Luigi Daniele, & Nicola Perugini to discuss how Israel appropriates International Humanitarian Law to mask atrocities in Gaza. The event will be live-streamed. Register: palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656131

Good morning my fellow teachers and students. Remind each other that education is essential and is more needed and desired than ever. Meanwhile the Business of #HigherEducation(TM) continues to exploit our energies, and profit off our pedagogies. Make sure to give it the finger.

Louis Allday New Left Review “we live in a time of comrades and cowards, the dividing line between the two becoming starker by the day. all love to the comrades, nothing but scorn for the legions of cowards in academia and beyond…” -geo maher

FanGraphs' projection of the #MNTwins playoff odds throughout the season definitely captures the mood. fangraphs.com/standings/play…

UPDATE: yesterday Routledge Books Taylor & Francis Research Insights told all staff that it's extra important to meet 2024 targets as they have promised the LLM companies a quota of books for them to digest to train their AIs. So if your editor is pushing you to meet that deadline, this is why!

It is *possible* the #MNTwins make the playoffs. But having just gone 1-3 vs Cleveland 1-2 vs Boston 1-2 vs MIAMI … I do not WANT the emotional crush that this team will inevitably bring us in the playoffs. We know you tried, guys. This season was a massive Front Office Fail.

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I don’t think it’s appropriate for universities to invest in weapons manufacturing even if there wasn’t a genocide happening.

Yesterday during a lab meeting, my mentor informed me that I may no longer progress in my career due to my so-called 'infamy.' I was told that I was to blame for the challenges I've been facing in publishing my work—that my 'negative' political activism might be provoking the

1/ I am an historian and Israeli citizen. Over the past year I have been writing publicly about events in Gaza during the war, while collecting and documenting thousands of pieces of evidence and dozens of reports.

We are delighted to inform you that the website of the 25th International Congress of #ByzantineStudies has now been launched. Please visit us at icbs2026.org #ICBS2026 #ICBSVienna

1/ I am a historian and Israeli citizen. For over a year, I’ve been documenting the war in Gaza and periodically publishing my findings here & in link. Today I update the section on hostages. Here’s what I found 🧵: witnessing-the-gaza-war.com

Where does "Christian" or "Western Civilization" originate? EUROPE?!? LOL Try: Jerusalem, Antioch, Damascus, Alexandria, Carthage, Caesarea, Beirut, Istanbul (Constantinople) ... The Vice President JD Vance is mispronouncing "The Middle East, Egypt, and North Africa"