Elliott Visconsi
@visconsi.bsky.social
Provost @ Coll of the Holy Cross ; early modernist ; working on free speech in the digital age. #avfc
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Twentieth-century US history job at Cambridge. Closing date for applications is October 27 (next Monday!)
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor, History of the United States since 1920
The Faculty of History is seeking to appoint an Assistant Professor in post-1920 U.S. political history and/or the history of the United States in the World since 1920, beginning 1 October, 2026. The
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October 20, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Twentieth-century US history job at Cambridge. Closing date for applications is October 27 (next Monday!)
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.
Chemerinsky: The Trump extortion demands are unconstitutional as well as odious (gift link). Me: Any school that signs must be shunned, faculty affected must walk. No room for this.
Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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October 8, 2025 at 1:50 PM
"It is not hyperbole to say that the future of higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher" ed.
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Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech
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October 3, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078
Donate to Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague, organized by Angel Matos
Recently, our colleague Melissa McCoul was fired from her position as a S… Angel Matos needs your support for Help Support Our Children's Literature Colleague
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September 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I overlapped with the instructor, Melissa, as grad students in Notre Dame's English department. One of her former ND colleagues has started a GoFundMe for her: gofund.me/3f5b12078
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What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
Advancing science- and evidence-based AI policy
Policy must be informed by, but also facilitate the generation of, scientific evidence
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July 31, 2025 at 11:27 PM
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
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NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Assistant Professor – Global History of Technology - Department of History
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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August 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration.
I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
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My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.
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August 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My department at Princeton is hiring an assistant professor specializing in the study of early Christianity. First round materials are cover letter, cv, and writing sample. Letters will be requested for later stages. Deadline: September 30, 2025.
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Job Opportunity!
Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history)
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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history)
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Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) | H-Net
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August 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Job Opportunity!
Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history)
networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...
Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history)
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The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
July 18, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The narrowing of what we imagine as "the liberal arts" to a subset of humanities subjects (literature, philosophy, art, etc.) should be rejected.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.
The liberal arts in fact embrace *the whole range* of non-pre-professional subjects, including the natural sciences.
That's the vision we should defend.