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I am not on principle opposed to a larger endowment tax on very wealthy institutions but obviously this is a bad faith attempt to take higher ed money & redirect it to evil ends.

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Look what came today!!! Thanks so much to my whole team @hurstpublishers.bsky.social , to my talented agent @aannis.bsky.social, and to all the historians who have generously shared their work with me. Out March 12.

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There are so many reasons university endowments can't make up for the dramatic cuts the Trump administration has planned for science. Here are a few. Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the platform.

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Very on brand for a university that has embraced authoritarianism against its faculty, staff, and students. No wonder Columbia has one of the lowest alumni giving rates.

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Columbia University joins the list of shameful higher ed institutions promoting right-wing extremists. Did Mike Pompeo show "diplomacy" when he repeatedly shouted f--- you at NPR's Mary Louise Kelly in 2020?

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Trump to fund new National Endowment for Inhumanities

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In this latest episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Robert Darnton about his recent book, The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789, which studies the development of public performance and protest among Parisian public against the powerful in society. www.jhiblog.org/2025/02/17/t...

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Meanwhile, in Chicago… www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/14/u...

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Horrifying Canadian higher ed news: York University, one of the country’s major R1s, is apparently suspending admission to a number of key programs (including GWS, languages, classics, and enviro biology)—very likely auguring cuts. This appears to be straight out of the West Virginia playbook.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

NEH introduces new prohibited categories to comply with executive orders. This is an infringement of academic freedom plain and simple, and also nonsense: what is “discriminatory equity ideology”

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The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has threatened to annihilate 60 years of advancements in equal opportunity by eliminating all federal funding for schools that support and celebrate students from diverse backgrounds. 🧵 1/

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)- Durham University #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW082/a...

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It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

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Ian Hacking was born OTD in 1936. “There is no canonical way to think of our own past. In the endless quest for order and structure, we grasp at whatever picture is floating by and put our past into its frame.” #PhilSci #HistSTM 🐋🌱🦋🦫🧪🗃️🧠

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In other news, a new analysis finds that water is wet. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/y...

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For a piece I'm working on reporting, if you're studying library science or are working in a library (especially if you're earlyish in your career), I'd love to speak about what you're hearing & experiencing right now. You can be anonymous. [email protected] or Signal rstauff.20

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Excellent ✍️ by @philipkennicott.bsky.social Time for #HigherEd to come to the challenge in this crisis. "Universities..already wavering in their commitment to the arts & humanities, might make up for lost money by cutting...the arts." 🗃️ #Academicsky 🏺 #art www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Acting archivist, inspector general for National Archives forced out The agency, regarded as nonpolitical, has been the target of President Donald Trump’s ire since its attempts to recover documents from Mar-a-Lago. 🗃️

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So any acknowledgment of race in public life is now a violation of equality regardless of intent or material effects (according to the Trump admin)? About as expansive and individualistic a theory of rights as you can get.

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Thanks, Paul, for pointing to this. Am going to do a thing I rarely do, which is post without footnotes! Three points: 1. The way to defund the humanities has always been through de-legitimizing the value of humanities research and teaching. Not new, but an accumulating menace . 1/

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This speech of @alondra.bsky.social is one of the best texts I have ever read on AI and Humanism. www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...

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As far as post docs for American history go, this is a sweet one. The Mellon postdoc at Cambridge. 3 years. Please share 🗃️ www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50345/

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Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

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A perfect day to discuss @asheeshksi.bsky.social's The Archive of Empire in my graduate course on archives and historical research.

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Opinion | Why the NIH Cuts Are So Wrong Christopher Newfield writes that higher ed has a better counternarrative to share. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky bit.ly/3CSTFTx

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We're recruiting for the role of Assistant Professor in Early Modern History, and seek to appoint a historian working on any aspect of the early modern world, excluding the Anglophone world (deadline 17 March 2025): durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

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A brilliant critique of the cult of entrepreneurship in academia 👇

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My arts world is in mourning. New Kennedy Center board elects Trump as chair. Rutter departs as president. President Trump’s refashioned board of trustees voted him chairman in a meeting Wednesday afternoon. President Deborah Rutter told staff she was leaving the institution. wapo.st/3CCgjzD

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Similarly, the NOFO for general NEH fellowships for individual scholars now includes this language (see p. 16): www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

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I was doom-scrolling the responses to this and saw a bunch of people looking for links to this. The screenshot Hannah shared is from the State and Impact of the Humanities NOFO, but it’s in other grant calls too. Here’s the relevant section from the DH institute, which I downloaded in Dec, vs today.

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We knew this was coming. I abandoned grant plans that I’d spent all summer prototyping because I couldn’t justify the work that was necessary to apply when we’d just get a desk reject. What really kills me is the effect this has on amazing early career researchers out there. +

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NEH has posted updates to the funding restrictions for some grant programs.

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Another article-recommending thread from me! I quite love this piece. For its historical angle, its conceptual framing, its corpus-based nerdiness, its crossing between research traditions, and its occasionally punchy phrasing. 1/ academic.oup.com/rev/article/...

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This is the most lily-livered, non-protest letter I've ever seen in my life. AHA's doddering approach merely serves to advertise its weakness and will serve only to excite the enemies of history and archives.

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Absolutely SHOCKED to learn that Duke University is evading taxes on its $11.9B endowment. www.dukechronicle.com/article/2025...

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A few stray thoughts about what we are recognizing through the NIH overhead cuts.

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UVA and every other major university with a medical school is totally screwed now. Expect massive cuts and layoffs. NIH is capping indirect costs at 15 percent of all future grants. Health science in the USA is over. And the universities won’t be able to absorb those cuts.

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Research universities are often the largest employers in their region. They are often the primary health care providers to communities. This funding shift will not only reduce US research leadership, it will put working people out of work and reduce healthcare access.

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The post-Second World War federally supported research infrastructure that propelled American universities to global prominence is collapsing before our eyes.

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I don’t think arts institutions, art schools, universities, journalism schools, the NYT etc are fully reckoning with the scope of what’s happening here

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