Can confirm that the collegiality cannot be beat

If DAWSON LEERY has to auction off memorabilia to pay for health car bills, how the heck are the rest of us supposed to make it? Check out this article from USA TODAY: James Van Der Beek auctioning 'Dawson's Creek' memorabilia to pay for cancer battle www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I've been unsuccessful in locating info on annual conferences for the Chinese Association For Japanese Studies 中华全国日本学会 and Taiwan Society of Japan Studies 當代日本研究學會. Namely: Is registering as a member required to present? Are there event participation fees? If anyone knows, it would be appreciated!

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...

At extremely long last, my chapter on a new approach the literature review is live to the public here: iopn.library.illinois.edu/pressbooks/d... And if you're interested in checking out everything else in the book, here's the link for that as well: doi.org/10.21900/pww...

Starting today, don't cross the picket line.

Reminder that Ken Starr was canned by Baylor University for covering up multiple sexual assaults when he was the school’s president…

VISITING FELLOWSHIPS: Applications are now open for 2026-27! The deadline for applications is Friday 28 November 2025. For more information on how to apply: https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/bodleian-visiting-fellowships

Hey, @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social! First they came for your time (cutting prep and research hours). Then they came for your space (hotdesking in shared offices). Now they're coming for your pay (15%+ cut for indefinite period) or pension (bear the cost of moving to another scheme). Come to the EBM!

University of Cambridge - Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400: memorients.com/news/univers...

How you can support the fired journalists instead of subscribing to Teen Vogue:

With alt text and a reminder to unfollow. They fired all the Black and trans journalists and will no longer cover politics.

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025. www.rsa.org/general/cust...

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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

Students and staff are trying to save the University of Nottingham's music and modern languages courses after their suspension was announced. #HigherEd #music #languages www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

Really enjoyed chatting with @kellyfaircloth.bsky.social about all things dirtbag medievalism, and delighted that the article is out now at Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

SEATTLE CURE YOUR VOTES PLEASE

Sometimes the Garmin is great and seems super accurate, and other times it's like, your heartrate is a nice low 68bpm and you've had a very easy day while I'm over here feeling the anxiety clutching at my heart

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Furiously finalising my campaign so I can press "launch". One last chance to sign up for first dibs (the limited rewards are very limited); the next reminder will be once the campaign is already live!

The original Dem demands were: 1) Permanent ACA subsidies 2) Medicaid funding restored 3) No more blank checks for the regime (rescission) They dropped Medicaid immediately. Went silent on rescission. Cut back to 1 year of subsidies on Friday. And surrendered today. The Senate Democrats!

Senate primary recruitment is so much tougher than for other races. But if there’s any cycle where someone goes for it instead of waiting their turn it should be this one.

I've checked, @hassan.senate.gov, and CareFirst doesn't allow me to pay my health insurance premium with "shame"

I contend these are not democrats and that these individuals are absolutely in on the fix. Watch the $ and vote them out.

To be clear: D senators trusting R senators who promise a vote on ACA subsidies at some future point is nothing more that a liar convincing a sucker. A sucker for believing the lie, and for believing that Johnson will ever bring it up in the House.

Okay I'm going. It's better than sitting in my kitchen crying.

I cannot overstate how much I hate phone calls but it’s so much easier when you can leave a voice mail

I'm the spouse of an air traffic controller and I could not be more livid at the news that Dems might cave. I called and left voicemails for my Dem senators. If my family can hold the fucking line, so can they.

Call them!! Please!!! If you are in New Hampshire call them and let them know that under NO circumstances will you EVER vote for them again if they sell out the ACA to appease Schumer and Trump!

Get on the phone if you have a dem senator and ask them if they want to end their first good week in years in total abject dejection by their entire base

Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

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We are also currently hiring a curatorial fellow to work with the papers of Rosalind Franklin and others in the History of Molecular Biology Collection! This is a 2-year staff position in the archive with a salary of $55k/year and full benefits: www.sciencehistory.org/research/fel...

Urgent. Read this piece from Reagan-appointed federal judge Mark L. Wolf. Repost it. Make sure everyone you know reads it. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I will also add: I can do this for evictions in Illinois too, if SNAP benefits being cut off or the government shutdown means you can't make rent.

Today's #ToDoList musts: walk self and dog (8ish am) strip bedding clear off desk into box get truck (11am) move big things into storage return truck shower attend CA wedding via Zoom (515pm) grade write edit

Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D rb.gy/8hqqzb

If you know anyone who works on medieval Judaism, please send them this! Binghamton is hiring a Talmud/Rabbinics assistant prof: half in Judaic Studies, half in the Med/Ren center. A killer R1 job for the right person, and not a ton of applicants so far....

Dear senator: Publish your threats. If the Capitol Police won’t protect you, say it. You are being blackmailed into silence, and the only way to deal with a blackmailer is to refuse, to stand up. The more you bow down, the more your abusers will kick. They WANT your acquiescence. Stop cooperating.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Y'all, the hospital where I had my surgery is running trials to see if GLP-1 medications can help people suffering from long COVID. It's open to any person with documented long COVID who lives in the US. Please pass it on!

The Mississippi Free Press is looking for new Voices writers. Submit opinion columns to the MFP at [email protected].

CPL is an absolute palace to the people and these proposed cuts are abominable. Artificial austerity. Chicago folks, read this, check the links to bug the mayor and your alders—this can be fought and won.

Thus far, I have: done the morning 3-miler; voter reg meeting; gotten boxes; tried and failed to get a quote; done 40min editing for 1 client; and done 3 of 5x for 1 PT exercise. Oy.

#GLAM friends, quite a lot of you went to IU for your undergrad, MLS, and PhD! Those of us still here would appreciate alumni support against the upper administration’s nonsense, especially in regard to academic/intellectual freedom