- The latest Grad School Achebe not-so-mini-episode is up! This one is about two of Achebe’s short stories, “Marriage Is A Private Affair” and “Dead Man’s Path.” It was one of our best conversations yet, on some of the slightest literary territory we’ve yet staked out…
- More good podcast news: the Ranged Touch Homestuck podcast is a reality.
- ICYMI: I’ll be doing a lecture and seminar series as a virtual scholar-in-residence @TheRosenbach this fall on four of Octavia Butler’s novels. Here are the details! We’re reading Kindred, Wild Seed, Dawn, and Parable of the Sower…
- CFP: LGBTQIA+ Fantastika Graphics: A Digital Symposium November 20th, 2021.
- An assistant professor position in transgender studies at UC Davis.
- The results of Marquette AAUP’s financial analysis of the university is also out: Independent Analysis Reveals That Marquette University Finances Are Solid — Faculty Demand Greater Role in Financial Decisions and an End to Layoffs.
- A long-delayed interview with me for the Schmitt Fellowship “Leadership” project is up now with lengthy disclaimer indicating that I speak for no one but myself (which is true!).
- Cornell helpfully announces its intention to violate the ADA.
- Why Mass Effect is some of the best sci-fi ever made.
- Blood, gore and a healthy dose of catharsis: why horror can be good for us. The H Word: Post-Human Horror.
- John Carpenter Interview: “I’m not the biggest fan of talking about my films – but let’s do it.”
- Inside the Nichelle Nichols conservativorship battle.
- ‘Welcome To Cleveland’ rooftop still baffling Milwaukee passengers decades later.
- ‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families.
- Unnerving gender hypothetical corner.
- Milwaukee took a big hit in the new census numbers. The question is whether they’re accurate.
- ‘Be Paranoid’: Professors Who Teach About Race Approach the Fall With Anxiety.
- Higher Ed Has a Credibility Problem.
- July was world’s hottest month ever recorded, US scientists confirm. It’s now or never. “How long can a fish hold its breath?”
- Andrew Cuomo: A Life. Time’s Up to re-evaluate conflict-of-interest policy in wake of Cuomo scandal.
- Why California is beating Florida and Texas on the Delta variant (so far). Inside America’s Covid-reporting breakdown. In the West, a Connection Between Covid and Wildfires. Delta Variant Raises Questions as Campuses Start Semester. Hey, Is Delta Bad for Kids? Yes and no. Why Parents Shouldn’t Hunker Down and Wait for a “Return to Normal”. COVID School Year Three. Covid Vaccines for Kids Can’t Wait.
