That student specifically went to cause trouble. They should be sanctioned for creating an unsafe environment for learning for all students in that course. Instead, the professor is being investigated and has had their courses cancelled. Shameful behaviour.

Stained glass 'vege garden' by Annie Rie, stained glass artist inspired by the English countryside #womensar

Hey real quick what do the big grey bars represent?

huge W

🚨 Job alert! UPenn Libraries, on behalf of @digitalscriptorium.bsky.social, seeks to appoint an early career library professional or postdoctoral researcher with a background in premodern manuscript studies for an NEH-funded, 22-month Manuscript Data Curation Fellowship 📜

Watch as big companies slowly walk back their AI initiatives. It’s already happening. The lack of accuracy, hallucinations, and other issues are really being seen on the backend. Universities are about to sink a lot of money into something they may have to rescind.

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.

The new Covid vaccine guidelines follow the same script as anti-choice heartbeat laws. "Technically," vaccines and abortions are "available." But the impediments to getting them are erected so high that they are not, in fact, available to the vast majority of people.

A couple of #histSTM #histsci #philsci positions opening up: Asst Prof in Philosophy of Science & Technology (TT) at University of Toronto, apps due Oct 15 (including letters of rec). jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

An updated Dictionary of AI to help cut through the obfuscating buzzwords. sonjadrimmer.com/blog-1/2025/... *with thanks to Joseph Potts and @petertarras.bsky.social for their contributions

Love to discover that the Lemkin Institute (which identifies nations taking steps towards genocide in an attempt to recognise and prevent it) has issued the UK with a Red Warning for Genocide because of recent law changes around transgender people. That's very fun and cool and nothing to worry about

The response to this should be choosing crosswalks throughout the city to repaint as rainbows, one new rainbow crosswalk per day at a random location, as long as this bullshit lasts. The cops can't watch all of them.

16 of 25 authors have now withdrawn from the once respected Polari book prize amid the inclusion of a self-proclaimed 'TERF' https://www.wearequeeraf.com/polari-prize-stands-by-inclusion-of-self-proclaimed-terf-author-as-majority-of-authors-withdraw/

A lot of AI defenders will point to internet skeptics of the 1990s who said the web was overhyped, when the better analogy is much more recent. Remember when the metaverse was so inevitable that Mark Zuckerberg renamed his entire company Meta?

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

grateful for colleagues doing the goddess's work against-a-i.com?fbclid=IwY2x...

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

Job!! Assistant prof. in English Lit 1500-1800, UMass Boston. www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

If you get a letter from the school board demanding you pay extra for your disabled child’s public school education, contact a Special Education attorney IMMEDIATELY. This is a flagrant violation of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act signed into law in 1993. WILDLY illegal.

You don’t have to use a garbage tool just because it’s there, even if “everyone else is doing it” because seriously is there a stupider argument for doing anything?? There are a lot of garbage tools in the world that I choose not to use, because they’re garbage. Generative “AI” is just one of many.

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

“AI” doesn’t lie. It’s not deceitful, it doesn’t have feelings: it is broken. Those who are selling AI products encourage people to anthropomorphize it because doing so avoids language that indicates what a garbage product it is they’re selling. Or, as I wrote here: www.artforum.com/features/gen...

Yes, this! We have so much to contribute! There will be no queer liberation without the recognition and practice of what aspec individuals can teach. Instead of compulsory heteronormativity, there'll just be rainbow-grade compulsory sexuality and romanticism. Queer liberation requires aspecs.

Asexuality teaches us that we can, and should, celebrate platonic bonds in the ways usually reserved for romance 👇 https://www.wearequeeraf.com/exploring-asexuality-has-allowed-me-to-recognise-all-the-love-stories-in-my-life-and-celebrate-platonic-love/

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

So weird how once they realize the people support Luigi Mangione, all news coverage completely stopped.

And this right here, folks, is why aphobia and transphobia are pretty much the same thing. We're not having enough sex, and yet we're also grooming the children at same time.

Four pro-Palestine faculty fired despite strong job performance, despite fully enrolled & scheduled classes for the fall, without prior notification to department chairs, with obstruction of union info requests throughout. Every union needs to keep an eye on non-reappointments this fall.

I love that former NYT public editor @sulliview.bsky.social is public-editing from the outside. "With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani. "And no lofty explanation about the mission can disguise it."

CFP for a special issue on #Medieval #Asexualities! call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/06/...

Charlotte - who was very queer ("I'm not romantic, never was") in her calculating strategy to find a marriage that ensured her safety both financially and physically (Collins is "not vicious") and became "quite content" - instead is REDUCED TO TEARS BECAUSE SHE DOESN'T GET A NICE ROMANCE. FUCK OFF.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Thank you so much to the organisers and fellow presenters at the Women's Scientific Literatures conference: two days of incredibly stimulating papers and discussion. Now I have a reading list as long as my arm of early modern women writers to discover😌 scientificpoetry.org/events/women...

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

Worth noting today that the entire budget of the NEH is about $200M.

This. I realized the same amatonormative arguments being used against singleness were being used against polyamory. If monogamy/nonmonogamy is a yes/no binary, intentional singleness is under the nonmonogamy label. In the same way that bi+ and a-spec orientations are not monoromantic or -sexual

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

tapping the sign

Pargaret Cavendish is now canon (your regular reminder that no one called Margaret Cavendish "Madge" in her lifetime -- the sexist moniker using that name was developed after her death, and we perpetuate misogyny when we repeat it as a historical "fact" -- and her nickname was Peg)

Look what I got today: @wsperrazza.bsky.social 's magnificent new time, fresh off the presses!

NYU conditioned a student's right to speak at graduation on his agreement not to call attention to human rights abuses. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...

If a uni withholds a degree from someone who has met all the requirements for that degree bc they delivered a speech that reflects that student’s ideas and political commitments, then the uni is admitting that degrees are awarded for obedience, not intellectual achievement. Which, hey, may be true.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

60% of Americans have a chronic condition. Among people over 65, it's 95%. Saying most of our health care spending goes to chronic conditions is just another way of saying it goes to health care.