2026–27 Fung Global Fellows Program
Princeton University, USA
Politics of the Archive. 10-month residential fellowships for early-career scholars in humanities/social sciences employed outside the US.
Deadline: 17/11/2025
93 applicants for this museum curator job I've applied for. Some of whom probably have specialised training and years of experience as #museum employees. Unlike myself.
Friends don't let friends do PhDs in the #Humanities!
Just remember the reason the Australian government wants to stop paying people to do humanities courses is so that they won't know they are being misled and to stop them from thinking for themselves.
I work in STEM but you need the Humanities too - this is why we now have Ethics boards.
Just think if Americans had a fundamental humanities background... do you think they would have Trump?
Mein Mechanismus von #Antikythera und ich sind unterwegs an die #ScienceComm in St. Gallen. Heureka!
https://www.thomasweibel.ch/anticythera2/
#archaeology, #astronomy, #antiquity, #history, #humanities, #digitalhumanities, #virtualreality, #blender, #opendata, #openglam
If the University of Chicago Won’t Defend the Humanities, Who Will?
https://archive.is/xxGbN
BTW, as article cites, apparently they also did a seriously bad investment in crypto and lost badly. The kind of investment Harvard recently did and that some hoity toity "expert" jumped on my feed to tell me "It's Harvard. They got money. They'll be fine."
Uh huh. Anyhow, #humanities on way out.
#CfP: Special Issue “Celebrating 60 Years of ELIZA? Critical Pasts and Futures of AI” of the Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society (WJDS), co-edited by
@strippel (WI) & Magnus Rust (@unibasel ).
Submission deadline: November 17, 2025.
#research #AI #history #society #Technology #chatbot #Weizenbaum #socialscience #humanities
@FOKUSpublic @WZB_Berlin @freieuniversitaet @tuberlin @CAISnrw @zevedi @snurb @dietmarkammerer @Rainer_Rehak @fiff_de @informatik
"The humanities are minimally unprofitable in a context in which all research must lose money. If a provost wanted to cut their losses they would transfer lines from computer science to East Asian Languages and Civilizations."
https://utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/08/liner-note-37-chicagos-gift-to-trump.html
@Lstn2urmama An education used to involve what would now be known as a degree in the #Humanities... Learning science, math, geography, other languages, art, literature, philosophy... A little bit of everything, AND critical thinking skills! It's a good foundation for everyone, and these courses should be offered at the high school level!
This is what you get when you have Board of Directors, Event/PR Managers with no background in humanities.
Degrees in Arts/Humanities actually matter.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/aug/22/how-the-bendigo-writers-festivals-code-of-conduct-caused-a-walkout-and-claims-of-censorship
#AusBiz #AusPol #Humanities #HumanRights #FreedomOfSpeech #BusinessManagement
A weird thing about the Scandy #Humanities:
Almost nobody continues to publish any research after they finish their PhDs. During the PhD programme though, many take part in debates about what their discipline should be like. So there's this huge literature about how #archaeology should be done, written by people who then never actually produce any body of work.
Again and again it's a PhD thesis, then two articles, then become an archivist or a civil servant, and silence.
„If we are inspired only by literature that reflects our own interests, all reading becomes a form of narcissism.“
Terry Eagleton
I majored in humanities, mostly because at that time the Air Force Academy didn't offer a major in Russian...so I minored in that.
All that humanities schooling at a military academy, plus all the mandatory engineering/math/science courses mean that when I see a car roll by at night on The Strip, and it's got purple lights installed on the belly to shine on the pavement so that it looks like some alien sci-fi vehicle...I can recall all the history of the visual arts (tache, sfumato, impressionism, chiaroscuro, cubism, yadda-yadda-yadda) as well as the history of science, electromagnetic radiation, optics, human vision...which allows me to richly, fully, and completely understand and appreciate how stupid that is, lol!
I'm old, but not to the point that this music is too loud:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1jmM2k6uU4
Reading Eve Sedgwick on the conventions of gothic novels. What a powerhouse. "These novels whose chief incidents are so similar are not predictable, either, in their resolutions, for comic endings, tragic endings, mixed endings, and endings where the book simply seems to die from exhaustion are all possibilities."
How lucky I am to get to spend my days reading and writing, and sharing what I know (and love) with my students.
Who knew? Edgar Allan Poe foreshadowed The Big Lebowski in the essay, "The Philosophy of Furnitue," where he writes: "A carpet is the soul of the apartment."
The joys of studying the humanities!
Mellon Foundation: It's time to get out the word that humanities grads can find a great job. They do just fine in employment rates, job satisfaction, and salaries.
“What has always fascinated me and that I’ve admired are the layers of culture that inform each other – #Uzbekistan’s rich ecumenical heritage — it has everything from petroglyphs, #Zoroastrianism, #Buddhism, #Christianity, and #Islam. Being able to witness the birth of a republic is an extremely rare experience as well.” 
#Uzbek #Asia #CentralAsia #Literature #Culture #Humanities #Nashville #Tennessee cc: @olaskoolkitchen @TheTimesofCentralAsia https://timesca.com/from-tashkent-to-tennessee-uzbek-stories-bridge-worlds-in-nashville-debut/
Hey guys, gals, and nonbinary pals!
My name is E. and I've decided to join Mastodon. Let me start with this small introductory toot.
I'm 23 y. o. guy from #Russia who loves #history and #humanities . I'm also very enthusiastic about #coffee , #furry stuff, #nature , and #cycling .
I'm also a bit of a #femboy ! Unfortunately, it's dangerous to explore this part of myself while I'm in Russia. One day I'll leave and will be able to wear a skirt proudly.
Once again, hi everybody!
@RaymondPierreL3 I cannot speak for Australia, but it is clear in the US. The Republican Taliban prefer the uneducated who have not be taught to think and to look for better ways, because (they think) these people will make better workers and not question authority. People in the humanities are by definition taught to question everything, think critically, and debate authority, even biblical authority, and those in power here see that as blasphemous, especially if those people are female. When our nations decline because we breed and educate to create morons and automatons, "there will be no joy in saying ‘we told you so'."
Greame Turner, as a final comment, writes:
“The attack on the humanities that has slowly gathered momentum over recent years, and which is perfectly encapsulated in the self-serving utterances of university administrations defending their latest round of reckless and ill-informed depradations, is just plain shameful.
We should be doing better than this.
There are consequences, and they will eventually come, but there will be no joy in saying ‘we told you so’.”
That’s the bit that scared me the most in his short blog about the current plight (decades in the making) of our priceless tertiary institutions, its ‘consequences’.
I did not discern a specific answer to what he was asked: Why does the govt hate the #Humanities so much? But he does unpack that question very well. If we are to fix anything, it is imperative we know about what needs to be fixed. Turner goes some ways to lay it out and is worth the read.
If his writing doesn’t spur you to action (whatever that action might be) then you still do not understand the problem. If that is so, please endeavour to find out more about the plight of our tertiary sector and its vital importance to our society.
#AusPol #Anti_Intellectualism #TertiarySector #NeoLiberalism #Corporatism #MarketDrivenMadness #ANU #Go8 #BeanCounters #RunawayCapitalism #Education #NationalDictionary
Read more:
https://graemeturner.org/2025/07/20/why-do-they-hate-the-humanities-academics-are-asking/
> Opinion – Nicholas Hartlep: Cuts to humanities funding would weaken the very soul of the Commonwealth https://nkytribune.com/2025/07/opinion-nicholas-hartlep-cuts-to-humanities-funding-would-weaken-the-very-soul-of-the-commonwealth/
Note: Hartlep is a faculty member and endowed chair in education here.
