Matthew L Reznicek

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

And after that, this:

In first speech to her FDA staff, Høeg says she’ll scrutinize RSV shots and SSRIs in pregnancy The top drug regulator at the FDA told staff she plans to question the safety of taking SSRIs in pregnancy and of RSV shots given to infants.

In first speech to her FDA staff, Høeg says she’ll scrutinize RSV shots and SSRIs in pregnancy www.statnews.com/2026/02/19/t... by @lizzylawrence.bsky.social via @statnews.com

She wants to "question the norms" [read: ignore science & push MAGA agenda].

Dark Age 2.0.

This is absolutely the case. Leaving things the same, or investing resources in long-established disciplines, doesn't help them climb the next rung on the ladder

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

Gaslighting and Double Speak, aka BLATANT LYING, go pretty far until they get into a court of law and then, under evidence, they fall apart.

But there’s another serious problem for the people charged. By the time their trial gets to court, the economic, …
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These are all adult cops escalating into violence against teenagers. Many of the students are now being held by the cops who assaulted them.

It's still an awkward construction

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

The last pope who spent time with JD didn't make it a week.

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending *** As of the end of January, there have been no convictions."

5 authors by whom I've read at least 5 books:
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Kate O'Brien
Sydney Owenson
Walter Scott

Midwest Pope with championship levels of passive aggression. Love to see it.

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.

The logic here only makes sense if you assume AI and human beings are in a competition for resources (which in some meaningful sense might be true), and that the most efficient consumer of resources for performing AI-related functions should be allowed to win (which is pathological).

a bald man is covering his face with his hand while another man looks at his phone . Alt: a bald man throws a water bottle to the ground in frustration before rubbing his face and head with his hands to calm down.

The amount of piddly crap it takes to put together a dossier for promotion

The elusive Yetwink

COYBIG

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

“…the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

We're in the process of deciding what ours should look like: coverage or instructor-specific depth

literary+cultural studies friends working in grad programs! does your program offer a required introductory seminar for new students? teaching ours again, eager for suggestions of themes, readings +assignments for theory foundations+cohort-cohering. (some past versions in thread below in return)

Just last week, Fuentes called for women to be placed in “breeding gulags” where the government will “determine which ones are acceptable” for release. This is the flip side of the coin for eugenics totalitarianism, and it has a clear precedent in authoritarian and fascist regimes of the past. Nazi Germany implemented a program of forced sterilization for those it deemed “undesirable” while also creating forced breeding programs for those it deemed racially desirable. They believed that controlling who could reproduce, and under what circumstances, was a key part of their project of domination. Fuentes is now the most important bridge between white nationalist ideology and looksmaxxing culture. He and Clavicular have appeared together publicly, co-streamed, and cultivated overlapping audiences. Fuentes has echoed looksmaxxing’s central obsession. He has also publicly attacked Vice President JD Vance as having “a fat face, no jawline, no chin,” and then pivoted immediately to saying that “his wife and kids are not white.”

Im a disability historian, and teach eugenics histories almost every year. And since 2017/8, Ive been posting about how eugenics was being normalized in social media/national discourse, and I am so angry at all the people (physicians, journos) who said people raising the alarm were being hysterical

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Today’s Kurt Cobain’s 59th birthday. A few years back I got to write the "official" government dedication for Nirvana and grunge. Probably the one thing that I've done that'll still be read 200 years from now. www.loc.gov/static/progr...

The biggest problem translating British and Irish recipes to America isn’t the whole metric thing; it’s the complete lack of different types of potatoes

What else are graduate theory seminars training you to do?

Refusing Generative AI in Writing Studies Visit the post for more.

I'm listening to a talk by expert in rhetoric Jennifer Sano-Franchini ( @jsanofranchini.bsky.social ) about refusing generative AI in writing studies.

She shared a resource for refusing genAI that might be helpful for other folks in academia:

#academia #genAI

refusal.blog

Gotta throw down for tune livestreams.

And tomorrow, Brandi Carlile action!

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Major congrats to Alvin on this!

Donald Trump illegally stole $1700 from you is a gift midterm message.

The Trump Tariffs Case Is a Preview of Bigger Supreme Court Fights to Come The conservative justices built the major questions doctrine to thwart a Democratic president. They are reserving the power to do it again.

It is good that the Supreme Court spiked Trump's cartoonishly illegal tariffs. But the six conservatives also made sure that next time a Democrat is in the White House, they'll be free to use their "major questions doctrine" to strike down any policy they don't personally like