Jason Rhody

Are you a humanities graduate student or are you a faculty member with grad students on the market? This is a great opportunity to get detailed advice about why and how to pursue a career at a community college. First session is tomorrow, Oct 7!

www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

Funding opportunity for the humanities. Deadline October 29. Please share!

Deadline for @modernlanguage.bsky.social Pathways Step Grants is Oct 29! Looking to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate humanities students? Reach out with questions and please share!

www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

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Join us at 2pm Eastern today (Monday, September 29) for "Supporting Faculty Research in Difficult Times," a free webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Sharing again for the Monday crowd.

Each 55-min session will take place at 5pm ET, Oct-Dec 2025.
- 28 Oct: How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan
- 4 Nov: Rapid Threat Assessment
- 11 Nov: Understanding Budget Models
- 18 Nov: Should You Merge before They Merge You?
- 2 Dec: Operating from a Position of Strength

There's a lot happening in higher ed. If you're looking for support & community as you navigate this evolving landscape, consider the @modernlanguage.bsky.social 5-session virtual workshop series "How to Plan Strategically When There’s No Time to Plan."
www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...

"Many history curricula already discuss the past in a way that doesn’t allow nuance, & National History Day gave me a path to explore the people, events and injustices that are traditionally ignored." - thank you for these words, @mariumzahra.bsky.social
#NEH #Texas #NationalHistoryDay #humanities

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Don't miss out on submitting a Just in Time session for the MLA convention in Toronto. Deadline is September 18!

Funding opportunity -- if you are working on improving humanities undergraduate recruitment, retention, and/or career readiness initiatives, apply for support by 29 October! Follow the link to sign up for an information session on 8 September from 2:00–2:45 p.m. ET. Please share!

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Happy to be a co-author of the Doing AI Differently white paper at the The Alan Turing Institute. This is a call to action for meaningful change in AI, w. collective insights from arts & humanities. And includes a mention of neuro-symbolic AI :-).

www.turing.ac.uk/news/publica...

Boosting..

Fmr. Social Security boss: Trump & DOGE created ‘greatest theft of personal data in U.S. history’ Fmr. Governor Martin O’Malley (D-MD) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss DOGE employees unprecedented “pirating away” of Americans’ Social Security data and how it could lead to the “largest class act...

Martin O’Malley, former Social Security Administrator, says the DOGE bro upload of SSA to cloud is the biggest data theft in history and could maybe lead to need to mass issue new SSA#s. 🤯 www.msnbc.com/the-last-wor...

We are rapidly experiencing a world governed by uncritical use of AI—literally influencing (certainly not “informing”) the highest levels of government policy, health, etc— and we can already see how harmful (& stupid) the outcomes are. The incentive rigging is the tell. Maybe pay % of lives saved.

I still maintain my friendly Bluesky guide (tinyurl.com/DHbluesky) if you want to learn more or help incoming folks be aware of helpful settings like this. 3-step or incredibly detailed versions! Suggested starter packs to follow. Aimed at academics, GLAM, DH folks but broadly useful.

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.

Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

Daskalakis: I very specifically use the term pregnant people, and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy of trying to erase people

Facts often are inconvenient to the narrative!

Trump Deals A New Immigration Blow To International Students Trump officials have proposed a new rule limiting international students to fixed periods of entry, making a U.S. education more precarious.

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew
Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Meta products found to be harmful to users/society. This is my surprised face.

Feel like this needs to be said again and again and again.

Public Science Call for Papers Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy

Call for Papers! 🧵

The Public's Science–A New Social Contract for American Research Policy a Special Issue of The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Editors: Alondra Nelson (IAS) and Jenny Reardon (UC, Santa Cruz)

Abstract Deadline: Sept 19

www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pub...

Says the dude using the phrase “tiresome canard.”

#tiresomecanard

Yes, it must have been our use of “unhoused” that caused rioters to storm the nation’s capital on January 6. I see that so clearly now.

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants My brain hurts.

The Supreme Court hands down some incomprehensible gobbledygook about canceled federal grants www.vox.com/scotus/45886...

ASU Humanities initiative launches as one-stop shop for all things humanities | ASU News This August, Arizona State University launched ASU Humanities, which gives students and community members a one-stop shop for all things humanities at ASU.The initiative’s new website highlights caree...

“The humanities are strong across ASU’s campuses,” says @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social, Foundation Professor of English & dean of humanities at The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

A new website highlights #ASUHumanities' career-focused academics & community impact.

Learn more: ow.ly/zfm250WIZux

Amplifying for the morning crowd. Humanities funding opportunities are increasingly scarce these days, so please share and sign up for the Q&A session on 8 September (2:00–2:45 p.m. ET).