When people ask how to get their book published, I would say: first, write a good book. That's the hard part. Then, find some way to get the very best parts of it in front of people who have some clout in the publishing world --authors, agents, editors, etc. That's it .

🚨New College of Florida is suddenly looking for an adjunct instructor of GENDER STUDIES! Richard Corcoran: how do you square this w/ Trustee Rufo's abolishment of the Gender Studies program and calling all GS-related books 'trash' - after YOU threw them in a dumpster just LAST WEEK?

Submitted my dossier for early promotion yesterday, then welcomed our new graduate students at our orientation. Gave them the same guidance Mary Jo Neitz gave my cohort during our orientation in 2005, about going from knowledge consumers to knowledge producers.

OThingstodo Also Derry Girls. Seriously, if you haven't watched it yet, drop everything and go do it now.

Yup. I've always been grateful for reimbursement, but the reporting systems are a huge waste of time and money.

Methinks you’re going to start seeing affluent families pay a pretty penny to send their children to low tech private schools, while everyone else attends public schools where kids stare at screens and click through learning software all day.

Michael Roth, Wesleyan’s president, doesn’t “yearn for entrenched conflict,” and certainly not “harassment or violence.” But with a new semester dawning, he writes, “the last thing any university president should want is an apolitical campus.” @MRoth78 nyti.ms/3MtZHv1

College teaching tip du jour: arrive early to class, and stay a little afterwards. Talk with people.

Michael Roth, Wesleyan’s president, doesn’t “yearn for entrenched conflict,” and certainly not “harassment or violence.” But with a new semester dawning, @MRoth78 writes, “the last thing any university president should want is an apolitical campus.” Read: nyti.ms/3zdCfz1

my favorite new york social code is when a lone person needs to get a stroller up the subway stairs. nearly instantly, a stranger picks up the other end of the stroller, helps carry it up, then departs as quickly as they appeared. no words are exchanged. eye contact is minimal.

An important part of a professor's job is simply to preserve and protect intellectual culture. Our motto might be "thinking is good." Until fairly recently, I didn't understand that it could be a controversial position.

The second amendment to the Constitution does not mention guns.

In my professional life it would have been helpful if I were just a little more... neatly organized. Not compulsive, you understand, just a little neater.

i am going to have to watch a one hour training video to learn how to get reimbursed for conference travel lol

Salaries don't follow majors; they follow occupations.

Letters of recommendation: American: “I am thrilled to recommend!!!” British: “I am willing to endorse” German: “I am annoyed to be asked”