This thread will brighten up your day. 1. The cutest photo at the Paris Olympics.

Waiting for someone to write an article about how many academics have turned away from UP monographs to pursue trade books, and how that speaks to the collapse of university humanities, and, finally, how the best trade deals go to those for whom a collapse exits in different 1/2

I'm just going to go full booster and say it: the monograph is doing GREAT. I am also in a unique position where, acquiring in 800 fields, I get to see its full scope. But there is SO MUCH great work being produced despite crappy conditions, often for both authors & publishers.

If you are/were a TA, or you work in an English dept that uses TAs, when do they typically TA their first class as MA students?

If you are/were a TA, or you work in an English dept that uses TAs, when do they typically TA their first class as PhD students?

For these people, giving birth is the only way women’s lives can have meaning but the same does not go for men. I don’t know whether she’s stupid or naive, but she’s doing the bidding of men who will push her and every other woman out of public life as soon as it is convenient.

Love this for him 🤣

Last semester, 70% of students voted to divest from arms manufacturers — but Cornell University did nothing. Today @CMLCornell took matters into our own hands and showed The Boeing Company and L3Harris that genocidaires have no place on our campus.

Yikes

“why do so many ‘health workers’ have Hezbollah Pagers?” because Hezbollah Pager isn’t a real thing. because that’s what happens supply chains are contaminated. just because the propaganda needs you to be very stupid to believe it doesn’t mean you’re obliged to become that stupid

I have a friend who is a domme, and one of the spaces at their dungeon is "Classroom," but it's much nicer than the classrooms I work in. Am I in the wrong business?

A ten year old girl got her face blown off and I can finally laugh again.

I needed to do something.

Since it is Paulo Freire's birthday, I want to remind everyone what he taught us: there’s no such thing as a politically neutral education, a politically neutral curriculum, or a politically neutral pedagogy.

A single class is just 80 mins. Why do I feel like a truck ran over me after each and every class?

100%. I think more academic presses should be more like streetwear brands.

Israel is detonating personal mobile devices in Lebanon and meanwhile the center for Jewish life at Yale feels endangered enough to deserve 24 hour police protection

Could use something like this for all my books by Perry Miller.

Honestly, I could use something like this for all of my books from a press in SW New England