Matthew L Reznicek

Take that, Asimov!

JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service says it was requested for ‘safe navigation’

JD Vance had army corps engineers in Louisville, Ohio, take the unusual step of raising the water level of a lake to accommodate his family boating trip. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“The focus on monetary damages paid by the university and restrictions on campus protests and diversity policies obscures the Trump administration’s imposition of the right to interfere directly in university admissions, hiring, and promotion decisions.”

—Aaron Nisenson, AAUP Senior Counsel

Dear colleagues, experts, and everyone:
What's the best single volume history of the Holocaust to assign as supplementary reading for an undergraduate course?
Thanks,
Sam

Colleges don’t know what the hell they’re talking about when they say they’re training students for careers in AI, but this is it. Figuring out how to tweak every form of human activity or interaction to bend toward the algorithmic capabilities of a shitty guess machine. Sounds like a great career.

It's stunning, isn't it?

“Are you abandoning your jobs?”

🔥 🔥 TEXAS DEM REP. ANN JOHNSON: “Yeah no — abandoning your job is going to Cancun in the middle of a deadly freeze…”

A+ answer from Rep. Johnson here. @texasdemocrats.bsky.social

The Campus Crisis Toolkit

lfg! preorders for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT edited by @thetattooedprof.bsky.social and Lisa Di Bartolomeo are now available! get 30% off the low, low price of $29.95 with code SBACK25 during @sunypress.bsky.social's back-to-school sale. 💪📚 sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...

YouTube video by Nottingham City Museums 2022 onwards Byron 200 - Newstead and I stand or fall together: Byron and Newstead Abbey

Come explore Newstead Abbey and experience it through Byron's eyes with me!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1v_3...

What the Humanities Can Teach Us About Climate Change We can’t save the world. But we can learn how to live in it.

What can an English professor teach anyone about climate change?

My answer for The Chronicle Review.

www.chronicle.com/article/what...

Note this is based on a report that @ossoff.bsky.social did.

amazing how fast and easy the party was able to deal with this. almost like they could’ve done it years ago, but were too busy scamming. oh well, onwards…

Too many podcasters are not enunciating when describing Trump's "far right furore." It sounds too much like Trump's "far right führer." We need clarity in these times, lads.

Doogie ICEr

Thank you @myhnn.bsky.social for featuring this except from Chapter 7, “Founders on Foundings” from my book _Lineage_ about the many forms of genealogy’s power in early America.

Why mRNA vaccines are so valuable, explained: 🧪

How to rally the Democrats without even trying

It’s not a democracy if the outcome is predetermined by rigged districts.

Do you really need to read to learn? What neuroscience says about reading versus listening Whether reading a book or listening to a podcast, the goal is the same: understanding. But these activities support comprehension in different ways.

Reading still matters, even when listening is an option.

Each activity offers something different, and they are not interchangeable.

buff.ly/8kFOPQ3

Article 1, Section 9 & 10 have been removed from the official Govt website on the US Constitution. Among numerous points:
•Section 9 forbids suspending The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus
•Section 10 forbids ex post facto laws

This better be a joke. Ignoring these is full blow dictatorship

Make them pay rent!

Dismay as north of England universities miss out on share of £54m talent fund Exclusive: MP presses minister for explanation as thinktank says omission undermines innovation in the north

As I've been saying, it's clear that the UK has decided to concentrate university spending and R&D on a very small and geographically-concentrated elite. Now okay, that's a decision that will have positives and negatives, but it should at least be made explicit. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Had to google some of these terms, Nush!

Ralph Wiggem “I’m in danger” meme

*Academics in early August

Mute Compulsion - Public Books The trauma plot and the slut-shaming dossier are actually parallel formations, reveals “The Guest.”

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera

(h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

My alma mater is hiring. Theology/ Open-rank Professor - Tenure Track in Liberation Theology; Latin American/Latine Theology; Black Theology.
Great place and great people. Check it out:
apply.interfolio.com/170877

Update: checked the shelves in the library, not there. Checked home, not there. Checked office again, not there. It has well and truly disappeared.