“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

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Why not combine the two worst things ever created?

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Rothbard is a patron saint of the Broligarchs' efforts to establish their own personal empires offshore-which is why the subtitle of my new(ish) book is "The New Colonialism."
Rothbard-inspired techbros are styling themselves as imperial potentates.
See also, @raycraib.bsky.social's cool history.

Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.

'prime minister Keir Starmer...confirmed that the University of Lancaster and the University of Surrey had been given approval to open new campuses in India while on a trade mission to Mumbai, joining six more institutions already in the country.' (Lancaster is mooting 20% academic redundancy) 1/3

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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Any university AI policy that doesn't also include the range of real and documented environmental consequences from its use does a disservice to students who may not know how harmful it is. IME, many do use it differently when they're expected to make informed decisions vs just following rules.

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing.

I’m sure many of you might be interested.

#STS #HPS #HistSci

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I am super happy to see this multimodal article published! It is part of research in @visionproject.bsky.social on #transborder work between #Poland & #Brandenburg #Germany, based at @dezim-institut.de, @unisalzburg.bsky.social and University of Amsterdam, funded by @volkswagenstiftung.de.

This has been a concerning trend for a while. #profjohnfriedman #criticalthinking #curriculum

Deleted mine, should have done it sooner

"Academia.edu has created a robot replica of you based on your published papers. Expect a knock at your door. Expect a new you."

New AWR article!

In 'Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy' Johanna Mugler argues anthropological studies of work and education in de-industrial settings should examine the social critique of industrial work in concert with its aesthetic critique.

Great thread (and speculative editorial in @lmt-journal.bsky.social) about the past present, and possible future of academic publishing. A future with new publishing practices that respect the labour of authors, reviewers, and editors is one we are actively working towards.

How a Group of Students in the Pacific Islands Reshaped Global Climate Law www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

Excited to discover that all the higher ed consultancies and think tanks seem to be discussing the future of higher ed without actually talking to any staff

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results:

1) Does UBI work? (yes)
2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Academics are under unrelenting pressure to accept the narrative of the inevitability of #generativeAI & to embrace it in teaching & learning. We resist - because it is ecologically destructive, ethically corrupt, & because it undermines the thinking abilities that make us both human & intelligent.

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In this new AWR article, Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey examine how India's digital self-help gurus help cultivate entrepreneurial citizenship through the 'work of mourning', and the 'work of dreaming'... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Long read: Many fear algorithms will displace academics but artificial intelligence is already eating itself and its long-term business model remains unclear, says Martin A. Mills. He explains why we must resist bots’ damaging features for the good of students, society and AI itself
#academicsky #AI

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"even as a wide range of essential American institutions—universities like UChicago, but also hospitals and health insurers—increasingly sacrifice their duties to society on the altar of asset accumulation, they fail at accumulating assets." stanfordreview.org/uchicago-los...