David Mislin

Say what you will about daylight savings time, there’s always something magical about that first night when all of a sudden it’s light after dinner.

Ugh, sorry! Hope you’re feeling better and are able to enjoy the rest of the trip!

I mean, yeah, but also…fundamentally this isn’t new. A decade ago I’d have students reading from SparkNotes on their laptop in the room thinking I wouldn’t notice.

It varies by discipline but lots of this can be fixed by setting expectations and modeling substantive participation, not box-checking.

She’s actually gonna underperform Scott Wagner, isn’t she?

I’m petty bearish on Talarico‘s chances, save for the fact that Elon’s algorithm seems to be in overdrive amplifying anti-Talarico content, which suggests that some folks are running scared today.

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

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Nothing makes me think "I regret submitting to this journal" like review processes that needlessly drag on forever. Getting rejected is fine! Desk rejects even better. If you never get rejected, you're not aiming high enough. It's manuscripts that just sit. That'll have me swearing off that journal.

And second fun read of the year is done—the book I should have read first. Also a very fun book with terrific characters and a solid whodunit. I found the plot somewhat less engrossing than “Man Who Died Twice,” but despite some predictable turns along the way, the ending totally surprised me. 9/10

Thank you. Your efforts are a big reason I’m not super worried about this (though I am annoyed that it’s probably yet another fight to be had).

1. This won’t work.
2. It’s exhausting that it’s constantly one thing after another we have to keep from working.

Annoying consequence of going to a school with a uniform: they drummed the idea of ”dressing well for doing work” into my head so much that, three decades later, I feel guilty wearing sweats on a day when I’m writing by myself at home.

Oh wow, this looks great. I wish I were more confident in my available brainpower for the next six days to put something together.

My TL this morning is one CFP after another for conferences I’d love to present at. I’ll submit to a few but it’s gonna be some tough choices.

Curious to see if she does even worse than Scott Wagner.

Important thread. And to this point, I’m becoming more convinced by the day that doomer prognostications have become nothing more than a way to avoid doing the hard work of meeting the realities of the moment.

Love this! The figures were great. I was always sad they never released one of Westphalen (I think there was a prototype?).

We in the academy resisting AI need to do better than denial and rejection. We need to post and speak and write more about our affirmative vision for learning, reckoning seriously with what AI *can* AND *cannot* do.

I’m excited to be presenting at @shgape.bsky.social’s first standalone conference. The program is up and looks fantastic!

Looking forward to seeing folks in Chicago in June and—after a project that has taken me far into the 20th century—getting back to my scholarly roots!

www.shgape.org/program/

TSA says PreCheck still operational after previous announcement of suspension during funding fight The Transportation Security Administration said Sunday that its PreCheck program would remain operational.

Update for everyone who was crediting the admin with playing twelve dimensional chess.

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I do agree that this does require some messaging from Dems, which they often fail at. But posts like the quoted one continue to show a frustrating pattern of assuming the worst about ordinary Americans—when ordinary Americans are the ones who have stepped up again and again over the last year.

Genuinely perplexed where this idea came from that people with precheck are “rich and powerful.” As someone who has it + travels a lot, the people this is likely to piss off are educated, middle/upper-middle class folks who are already at their wits end with this admin.

Stop assuming the worst.

The more I think about this essay, the more irate I become. Did he miss the mass resistance in Minneapolis? Is he ignoring every election result since April?

To read this, you’d think we’re all eating bonbons and thinking hopeful thoughts.

Sad as it is, since this is far more trivial than most of their bad policies, this is an extremely useful issue to drive a wedge between admin hardliners and GOP-friendly business travelers.

Call your GOP senators. Be outraged. This will affect people whose opinion they care about A lot.

DHS suspends trusted-traveler programs TSA PreCheck and Global Entry as partial government shutdown drags on | CNN Politics The Department of Homeland Security is temporarily halting TSA PreCheck and Global Entry, two of the most widely used trusted-traveler programs in the United States, amid a partial government shutdown...

Yet another example of this administration being completely incapable of grasping that making everyone hate them doesnt actually increase their leverage

www.cnn.com/2026/02/22/p...

Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

With respect, what’s the point of this essay (other than promoting a book)? “We wait for the moment…when the fever breaks…but that moment probably won’t come.”

What historian writes this kind of fatalism? Especially when change is possible If people are motivated!

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

Why didn’t any of you tell me that Mare of Easttown is so good?

(Kidding. You did. It only took me five years to getting around to starting it.)

I miss the days of waking up, checking the news, and finding that nothing had happened