Yes, college students have lost their ability to read. I have taught lit for 24 years; the threshold started to decline in the late aughts and nosedived during Covid. A thread with observations + how I get my students to read ALL (or at least most) of the reading I assign: 🧵

A measured response to the violence in France, by someone who was there:

Why are we still talking about Greta Thunberg?

About two years ago---Dara had been on his way home from celebrating the festival last September with relatives in Sihanoukville province — a popular coastal tourism area where his investigative reporting has exposed the inner workings of global scam operations — when he was surrounded by vehicles, many of them unmarked, and swarmed by officers. Screaming orders at him, they pulled him from his car, handcuffed him, and slapped him with an arrest warrant for “incitement” with the intent of causing public disorder. While friends and family frantically searched for him for more than 20 hours, Dara was locked in a cell. “I did not sleep,” he recalled. “I just stared at the handcuffs they [had] locked to the metal bar.” niemanreports.org/arrest-mec…

AI cracking unsolvable math problems while being kinda mid at writing is a much-needed W for humanities majors after a rough 21st century.

It sure is easy to figure out who to block when a fraternity gang rape story breaks

When I was raped at Brown University I was advised by the Title IX office not to pursue a case because due to my psychiatric history and use of psychiatric medications I would be “destroyed on the stand.”

as a non american genuinely what does a frat contribute to university other than rape

Chicher@aol.com would like a word

Massachusetts absolutely cooking right now. Hub of the universe.

the next white lotus should be at the covid-conscious lesbian bar in western Massachusetts

This is great news. Congratulations and thank you, @PhilKlay

I think that's their whole category

Thanks to Jason Arday now those outside of academia knows how little those inside academia know or care deeply about research methods outside of one's own area. Only while writing my own PhD thesis did I learn that "autoethnography," which I'd assumed involved a serious critical framework, is basically memoir.

It was a hell of a week to receive a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University

academics trying to save the humanities

The #Grantagate drama has really brought literary twitter out of the woodwork, I love it! It’s like the old days except I have no idea who any of you are