Sonja Drimmer

Why is LA less hot (notice I didn’t say “cooler”) than Northampton, and how is this fair?

Misuse of “I” when one should use “me.”

Example: “Leave it with Jo and I.”

<<twitch>>

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

Working as a consultant for movies or tv is my DREAM. That sounds like such a cool thing to do!

For real it is.

Go you!

I actually think it’s a good thing that there are people who devote their working lives to studying something that may only be of interest to a small number of people, who get on here with great excitement and say “I nerded the heck out of this for three years, I’m proud of me, read my article!”

The problem isn’t technology. The problem is that no one in charge thought that technology has politics and that those politics need to be managed seriously.

Remeber folks: lecture capture COULD have been an equitable solution to the problems faced by students w jobs & caretaker responsibilities & chronic illness. It could have been, had our institutions devised systems for distributing these recordings responsibly & ensuring the protection of our speech

*I say, not teaching one of my 200-student lectures this coming semester.

Get in losers, we’re evading punitive and exploitative surveillance and data capture of ourselves and our students by disabling lecture recordings, taking our classes completely off LMS, and assigning textbook and hard copy readings only.

Opinion | How Trump's ‘antisemitism’ deal with Brown University actually endangers Jewish students The agreement, the latest between the Trump White House and major universities, raises pertinent issues about who is protected and who is not.

For MSNBC Opinion, I wrote about Brown’s agreement with the Trump admin and how promoting the idea that “DEI” is bad for Jews and also simultaneously that only Jews are entitled to it is totally counter to promoting understanding of Jewishness/fighting antisemitism

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Rooting for your sweet girl. ❤️

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Executive SummaryEducational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight.

I hope that faculty across the country read this report from the AAUP on AI & the Academic Professions, share it with their university administrators,& collectivize to create communities that use this document as a roadmap towards gaining agency over higher education. www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

When your dog refuses to drink from the bar’s communal dog bowl…

I endorse this message.

An Artful Relic: The Shroud of Turin in Baroque Italy By Andrew R. Casper Winner of the 2022 Roland H. Bainton Book Prize from the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference

Do yourselves a favor and read, instead, the award-winning book by art historian @andrewrcasper.bsky.social on the Shroud of Turin.

www.psupress.org/books/titles...

In all seriousness, these are pretty unserious lines of inquiry that sidestep the kinds of issues that the historical humanities are really good at answering, like: how is "authenticity" of a relic determined in any given age? What are the economies of authenticity in which an object enters?

No.

😂 To see it thump the carpet while he’s asleep is a thing of joy!

I chose to spend the first week of this month teaching a course on the other side of the country to add SPICE to my anxiety.

AHAHAHAHAH! He would have gotten an even bigger head from such an interruption so I guess it’s for the best you didn’t.

A large black and cream Labradoodle in a sit position in front of a Bush with heaps of yellow flowers. He is looking in the direction of the camera with his mouth open and tongue out.

LOOK AT MI BEBÉ.

The Alpha Bet Sometimes you have to repeat yourself. Sometimes you didn't say things clearly the first time. Sometimes your intended audience didn't hear you or they didn't listen. Sometimes there were louder voice...

Hello, good morning, I received Audrey Watters's newsletter in my inbox this morning, and it cites me, which is thrilling. But also, everyone should read Watters.

2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/the-alpha-be...

THE CHORTLEMUFFIN EFFECT

aka the generation of a "fact" from citations that cite but don't check the preceding cite

Having recently read Careless People, I know this is totally on brand for Zuck and his ilk. Still, the twisting of history here - the industrial revolution gave all of us so much glorious free time to *create*, and so will AI! - is particularly grevious.

I am begging people to read a history book.

They did heinous things while wearing top hats and bustles.

As I have said before and will say again: fuck the 19th century.

“The thing you blame on medievals is actually about Victorians.”

David Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social just gave a BRILLIANT presentation for graduate students on writing public scholarship, op-eds, etc. He’s doing a great service for the historical humanities and the dissemination of scholars’ work to the public.