Dr. Ted Howell

LLM use in research and writing doesn't just mean students aren't doing the work, it means they literally abandon the very skills development and knowledge acquisition necessary for any intellectual job, let alone to know whether or when LLMs are giving them bullshit or useful info. 2/n

The Long Heat Warming is about to hit one and a half degrees, perhaps two degrees soon after. What do we do then? In the overshoot era, schemes abound for muscular adaptation or for turning the heat down at a later...

The Long Heat, the book by Andreas Malm and I on carbon removal and geoengineering, will be released by @versobooks.bsky.social in October. It's available now for pre-ordering:

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Time to drop the really big bomb:

The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

Have a nice day!

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

Time for universities to take a long, hard look in the mirror about what they are doing, and need to do, to remain vital parts of our democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

In this dissertation, I study the political economy of pre-10am April 7, 2025.

YES PLEASE!

Again, I'd implore my colleagues in the media to stop using euphemisms around "diversity" and "anti -DEI".

And start saying that this these efforts are racial and gender purgings. That these efforts are segregationist.

One of the deepest lessons of Parable of the Sower is that change is inevitable and at any given time, we are never going back to the time before.

MAGA is very literally about denying that essential truth, and unfortunately the same sort of denial has been animating Dems since at least 2020

Brown University professor deported despite judge’s order, defying US court US prosecutors allege Rasha Alawieh had ‘sympathetic photos and videos’ related to key Hezbollah figures

“Despite judge’s order” is the line. There are no other boundaries to cross. This is the difference between a republic and a dictatorship in a single phrase and they walked over it not just knowingly, but eagerly.

A blue Tesla Model 3 has been crushed by an Olmec statue. A man with long black braids leans against the hood of the car with his arms crossed, staring down the camera.

Tesla Model 3 crushed by an Olmec statue
By Mexican sculptor @chavismarmol.bsky.social

needed this today

thank you!

as if higher ed institutions are not instead exemplars of equity if they even have an "adjunct lounge" where their wage slaves can sit down for a moment and maybe even, God forbid, use a microwave or a computer

I also dearly want this as a sticker! I'd buy a dozen

holy smokes this is AMAZING

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”

Pathways Carbon Capture Project Is Not Viable, Expert Warns New report says CCS proposal is a subsidy-dependent 'financial risk' with 'limited revenue potential.'

say it with me: CCS is not a real solution. More and more evidence continues to pile up www.desmog.com/2025/02/26/p...

Holographic stickers that read “FUCK ELON M*SK”

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Price: $3.99 each or 3 for $10
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Message me your mailing address and I’ll make sure it gets to you 🚀 If supply runs out, I’ll try to print another batch 🇺🇸

They screwed this all up.

People are gonna study in like 70 years how "The Last Jedi" contributed to the collapse of the U.S.

pedophile has problem with anti-pedophile song

Goldenrod T-shirt that reads Maggie and Adam and Charlotte and America and Fanny Assingham

squidward from spongebob is standing in front of a door ALT: squidward from spongebob is standing in front of a door

always a joy to teach Walden to a new group of students and hear their thoughts. Today a student compared Thoreau to Squidward and I'm dying 🤣

evil incarnate

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Exclusive | Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department Administration officials are discussing executive order that could shut down key functions of the agency.

Trump administration officials are weighing executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of the campaign by billionaire Elon Musk and his allies to shrink federal agencies and slash the size of the government workforce. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

called my awesome new senator @kim.senate.gov to thank him for leading folks over to the US AID office and his clear account of the severity of what Musk and company are doing. Attempting to call @corybooker.com to ask him to step up but can't get through 🤦‍♂️

I almost cannot believe how good this book is

managing through these cold, terrifying days by leaning emotionally on Ursula le Guin

My 76-year-old mother just informed me that she is going to her first "sex party" and doesn't know what to bring.

After some awkward questions, I said, "Gender reveal. You're going to a gender reveal."