such a good thread of the bad bunny show yesterday

Hi all, I rarely do this, but I'm posting that I'm back on the academic job market. As a Californian, my partner and I are trying to stay on the West Coast. Any leads for jobs in History, American Studies, Cultural Studies, etc. in the Western U.S. are greatly appreciated! Sincerely, Nathan

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

I wrote _Unlawful Violence_ about violence in Mexico, and human rights laws, in law and literature. www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650444...

Academic authors: self-promote! 💫 This is not a particularly popular account but: 🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Have been tagged in to provide the reminder about traumatic video because of the Charlie Kirk shooting video going around! 1. Settings -> Content & Media, turn off "autoplay video" 2. Keep your device sound off while browsing so an accidental activation won't include the sound

Every time I feel discouraged about the value of my work in the midst of all of this, I remember that if education did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard. If humanities and the sciences did not matter, they would not be attacking it so hard.

Today is the 5 year anniversary to when I slowly started losing my mind during the pandemic and began dressing up as works of art. As my Twitter account has long been abandoned, why not make a thread of my madness on BlueSky? This was “The Maid” by Wilhelm August Lebrecht Amberg, from 1862

Some German updates rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/h...

on being a student again rebeccajtravels.wordpress.com/2025/03/14/b...

Theoretical physicist who also does research in humanities using critical theories. It’s interesting how when it comes down to it, no one is mad at quantum field theory being confusing — for physicists too — but they’re mad at humanists for also having analytic frameworks that take time to learn.

My AG did not join this lawsuit so my state is not covered by this block. Gonna write them tomorrow morning about this.

This was a good conversation two years ago (gasp, how was it that long!)

MLA, it's not too late.

here's a thread with every workshop, book presentation, and reading group the MSRC has organized since 2020 🧵

“There are very few people who have done more for cake than Marie Antoinette.”

Wrote about Heretic and Secret lives of Mormon Wives for @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ones-a-hugh-...

Historians of Catholic Mexico ( #HISTCATMEX) members Dr. @rebeccacsjanzen.bsky.social and yours truly at #SBLAAR24!

It’s interesting the conversation is about how Democrats should abandon trans people, and not how they should abandon billionaires. 🤔

My uni is hiring 30 -- thirty -- faculty members in AI. This year, not a single hire in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Wrote a review of a really interesting book (content and form wise) www.christiancentury.org/books/healin...

New academia reality tv show in which hundreds of highly trained candidates get winnowed down to one champion, who is awarded the opportunity to teach intro classes outside their speciality with no research support!

We have to boil our tap water before we use it for several days at a time, several times a year, minimally. If this is news to you, it’s time to start paying closer attention to how conservative politics are entrenched and spreading. We are not “red” - we are voter suppressed.

Love that I have to submit receipts for the smallest expenses because I work at a (barely) publicly funded university and electeds get to act like this.

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. The bit that gets me:”The male associate professors in particular made it clear that they actively engaged in evasiveness and did not want to participate if it was not positive for their careers”

ACLS funding rate: 5% NEH funding rate: 7% NSF funding rate: 29% dellweb.bfa.nsf.gov/awdfr3/defau...

Every research report: Humanities majors have great career prospects! Every research university: Here's why sadly we must restructure the humanities,

"So, if the projections by these agencies range from weak growth to stability to very slight decline, why are administrators preaching cliffs, crises, and cuts?"

Immigration is good, actually.

(1/) One thing I wish more people knew about the Belgian genocide of the Congo is how one woman who heard something incredible at a dinner party and took it seriously was singlehandedly more responsible for ending a genocide than anyone else I can name in history. Meet Alice Seeley Harris.

I decided to start responding to all the texts and emails I get from the Dems by asking for a ceasefire and end to military aid.

I would like to return to the time when the internet was good and I read blogs. Since I can’t, I’m blogging about my sabbatical.

I think before we get too caught up in what Bluesky should or shouldn’t be we should soberly acknowledge what it is: a retirement home for 2000s forum millennials

Got to give to the Harvard Crimson lol https://www.thecrimson.com/column/a-school-outside-boston/article/2024/2/13/sperling-milner-new-york-times/

The forever war era of US history.

My Bluesky is lacking one major feature: ability to keep up on University of South Carolina Women’s Basketball. Who can I follow to fix this.

Come on people, social media didn’t make kids bad at reading comprehension. That frames the unacceptable as inevitable. Mass disinvestment from humanities education, from teaching nuance, critique, and deliberation did. Policy is the problem and policy is the solution. Eyes on the prize.

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If you’re feeling stuck with your book writing, may I suggest dictating your answers to this template in a recording or journaling by hand in a cute notebook? Take yourself to a fun coffee shop (or just your couch) and instead of writing your book, write *about* your book.

This is a dream I have but I never knew it had a name: 19th century journalist

Feel even more vindicated for driving a Corolla