Eric J. Schmidt

Advisory to Academic Workers In a moment when it is becoming increasingly difficult to predict the consequences of our online speech and choices, the AAUP and Faculty First Responders are issuing guidance to AAUP members and othe...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

I've had lots of AI student work make me sad and disappointed, but having students use AI to write an assignment about Fela Kuti today was a new low

Today is August 1.

Asking an academic how their book is going is a felony.

YouTube video by themisfitoddity Tom Lehrer - Lobachevsky (with lyrics) '1953

Since we're sharing Tom Lehrer faves, here's one I don't see come up often that my research methods students have enjoyed: "Plagiarize! Let no one else's work evade your eyes!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlf...

I feel like I recently encountered mention that someone is working on a biography of him—but I can't remember for the life of me where I saw it, or who was doing it.

This is the highest quality of those 1 likes lists you’ll see.

Ethiopian War Pigs cover!!!

If you're not writing your long book what are you even doing. It's the summer of writing your long book, not the summer of experiencing happiness

In addition to many other important programs, IU Bloomington is eliminating its Folklore and Ethnomusicology Department, one of the most storied and successful in the country.

Volume 37 Issue 2 | Journal of Popular Music Studies | University of California Press

📣 New SPECIAL ISSUE of Journal of Popular Music Studies on MUSIC, DIGITALIZATION & IP IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH! Articles by Geoff Baker, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Pablo Infante-Amate, Aditi Deo, Oliver Bown and me, w/an intro by Born and me. Dig in! online.ucpress.edu/jpms/issue/3...

My HS played one called “Chappaqua,” which is in NY, but it was around that time period.

Here's a long thread on an issue dear to my heart. This Tuesday evening I’m doing an Intellectual Publics with Macarena Gomez-Barris on publishing. Like last year’s conversation with Denise Cruz, or the prior year’s with Racquel Gates, we will talk about how to find a publisher, turn a thesis... 1/

And Lordi was my introduction to Eurovision!

Forthcoming from my fellow Norton author, Catherine Conybeare. wwnorton.com/books/978163...

NPR and PBS' history starts in the 1920s, founded on the conviction that the general public--everyone--should have equal access to local, regional, and national news as well as educational programs such as Sesame Street. Shepperd's article offers crucial background for the battle over NPR and PBS.

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

More info circulating.

Teaching Americans foreign languages, especially those they might not learn as much otherwise, is 1) cheap 2) good policy

This is so heartbreaking. The IFLE folks I've worked with are incredible colleagues, and these programs do so much to bring out the best in what the US can be as a community of informed, talented people who care about engaging the world collaboratively, rather than US-exceptionalist brutes.

What would jazz education be if not for the Omnibookification of every celebrated performance? (I jest...sort of!)

Students should study the humanities not because it makes them better workers but because it rips you open and breaks your brain and changes everything you thought you knew. I *promise* you this. I *promise* it has this ability, no matter how smart you think you are. I have seen it countless times.

Stumbled on this by accident, but I love it: a fantasy map of a Niamey metro system, 2058, submitted for an urban mapping competition. Hard to imagine what the city will be like in 35 years—it's already expanded so much in the short time I've been visiting.

metrorouteatlas.net/lmp/challeng...

Anyway, as a teenager playing with a bunch of much older adults who were living on free beers and some corned beef for over twelve hours straight earned me the role of the band’s “Designated Piper”—the only person sober enough to keep playing by evening.

I was underage, but being tall and decked out in a kilt and marching in playing pipes with a whole band, never had trouble getting into bars. (For years one of the local pubs had a picture of me on their wall from one of these events—aged 15, unbeknownst to them.)

Not a winter holiday thing, but: I played in a bagpipe band in high school. I grew up in a semi-rural area in California so on St. Patrick’s Day we toured bars and parades across the whole county.

“76% of respondents said that they could no longer treat patients in accordance with evidence-based medicine.

21% said that they were either considering leaving the state or already planning to do so;

13% had decided to retire early.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Honestly, a curious move on the part of Macron.

If you'd like to learn more about the Thiaroye massacre....there are links to a recent documentary and a review in AfriqueXXI. Both are in French.

I'm glad to read that it sounds like migrants are safer in Niger now, but I’m curious how this is playing out in Libya if there’s no evidence of increasing arrivals in the EU.