Drew Flanagan Ph.D

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

"EdTech has been leading this charge since long before the AI craze...clawing shared governance back can help ensure that universities aren’t converted into profit centers for private equity firms."

every day is a good day to be burstingly proud of @jraden.bsky.social

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meme screenshot from The Dark Knight with a guy in a bar saying "Let me get this straight, you think [rest of the text blacked out] ?", and below it a picture of descartes pasted in with the text "I do. And I'm [text also blacked out]."

sorting misc images on my laptop and

"We regret to inform you the leftie oyster farmer has a Totenkopf tattoo" is a truly perfectly executed milkshake duck, though. Textbook.

As I prepare to offer my Fascism and Neo-Fascism course again in the spring, I have decidedly mixed feelings about the number of contemporary reference points I'll need to incorporate into it

The SS Totenkopf is not only a Nazi symbol, but symbolized the part of the SS directly responsible for the extermination of European Jewry in the camps. It is arguably, although arguing such a thing is pointless, a more potent symbol of evil than the Hakenkreuz itself.

Except it seems like it was French crown jewels so...

An important thing about Goonies is its full-throated advocacy for foreign language education, whether for reading Spanish treasure maps or for flipping off criminal goons in perfect Italian #HATM

he's a paleography influencer

Are there still Inspector Gadget-style inventors in family movies now? Have they all been replaced by quirky AI prompt engineers or wacky venture capitalists? #HATM

What have these Italians done to Shrek #HATM

Archival Irruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Congratulations and happy Pub Day to @ktgerbs.bsky.social "Archival Irruptions" tells a new history of Obeah, an Afro-Caribbean religion that was criminalized in 1760 after the largest slave revolt in the 18th century British Empire
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

reading his book on Edvard Munch right now and enjoying it - think his strengths are well-applied to writing about the artistic process, and maybe you get an inkling of that in this passage

An update to the classic Ben Franklin political cartoon ‘Join or Die’ with the original colonies replaced by universities that were targeted by Trump‘s loyalty oath compact. The image has been updated to show that MIT, Penn, Brown & USC have rejected Trump’s offer.

UPDATE:

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Who’s Next?

When students, faculty, & our communities are united, nothing can stop us.

Join us for our national teach in on the growing resistance movement to Trump’s ‘Loyalty Oath’ Compact today at 2PM ET:

us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

#DefendHigherEd

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

Wirklichkeit Books - The New Fascist Body Dagmar Herzog The New Fascist Body The success of new far-right movements cannot be explained by fear or rage alone – the pleasures of agg

Dagmar Herzog (@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social, @historygc.bsky.social), The New Fascist Body (Wirklichkeit Books, 2025; #skystorians): wirklichkeitbooks.com/the-new-fasc...

Das Zitat fand sich auch in der Internationalen Presseausstellung in Köln von Mai bis Oktober 1928, wo unter dem Titel „Raum ohne Volk – Volk ohne Raum“ eine „Koloniale Sonderschau“ stattgefunden hat mit
insgesamt 5 Millionen Besucher:innen.

Any good resources for people looking for some guidance on this?

Marc Bloch will be admitted to the Pantheon in Paris! The date for the "Panthéonisation" is set for 16 June 2026. Meanwhile, @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social has launched a website to keep track of the many conferences to celebrate the event. Some of them start this month.

marcbloch.pantheonsorbonne.fr

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Finally got to see Dupont and Demba in the flesh. Interesting to see that it is now juxtaposed with a commemoration of Captain Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese soldier whose bravery saved many lives in Rwanda but cost him his own.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

💥Cover reveal💥
I’m excited to announce that my book ‘Josephine Baker’s Secret War’ will be published by @yalebooks.bsky.social this spring and is available to preorder now.

🇬🇧 yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
🇺🇸 yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

"Vinegar Joe" Stilwell might rate a mention here

Burnside!

Christopher Clark · How powerful was the Kaiser? Wilhelm II Wilhelm II spent most of his waking hours talking, arguing, shouting, speechifying, preaching, threatening and generally...

How about that one? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

www-lrb-co-uk.pitt.idm.oclc.org/the-paper/v3...

"Incensed by a strike among Berlin’s tramway workers in 1900, the Kaiser fired off a telegram to the Guards Corps command: ‘When the troops move in, I expect at least five hundred fatalities,’ a demand so outrageous that it doesn’t appear to have occurred to anyone to act on it."

"Had he pursued throughout his career a clear and coherent political vision or programme, we could easily measure his influence by weighing intentions against outcomes. But Wilhelm’s interventions were often impulsive shots from the hip and his objectives were diffuse and constantly shifting."