Reactor knows! November is Strange & Norrell time

something I'm trying, and am happy about so far: have now turned off all email notifications on my phone, personal as well as work

Not my genre, but any #EdiBuddies interested??

"I didn't want to say immediately it was me," fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux said. "With this photo there is a mystery, so you have to make it last." n.pr/3WOLsWT

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We are hiring two editorial assistants at Columbia UP! One for the philosophy/religion/theory editor & @philipleventhal.bsky.social (lit/film), & one for the sociology/Black studies & the editorial director/editor for lit in translation/Asian studies. Apply for both at the link.

oh no, I'm finally getting to THE BUFFALO HUNTER HUNTER and it starts with someone not having enough of a publication record to get tenure? 💀

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

"As a childless person who doesn’t teach I’ve been happily unaware that, due to standardized testing requirements that favor close reads of excerpts over whole books, there’s an entire generation of students who have very little contextual framework for the literature they’re being taught in school"

Please, my data centers for my plagiarism machine, they are very sick

a lot of these findings seem circular to me, but I feel somewhat reassured by a couple of points: • "heaviest AI users are thought leadership writers (84%)" (lol) • "Excluding fiction authors, the writing professionals least likely to use AI in their work are copy editors (33%)" (❤️ u, 67% of CEs)

—Larry Krasner & Bragg win —Coloradoans fund free school meals —JD's half-brother loses —PA Dems flip Erie County exec, Bucks DA + sheriff —PA Dems oust all GOPers from Bucks school boards once 'ground 0' of right-wing takeover —Charlotte approves transit tax —Dems flip CT towns like New Britain.

the eternal optimist in me (she's very small) says it's time to try again

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5:30 and nighttime, I hate it

for the past few days I've been immersed in a difficult editing project, trying to get through it in time. wrapped it up after midnight last night, and today I feel like Rip Van Winkle

wearing my little "I Voted" sticker while I sit alone in my apartment, working on my computer

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Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

hard times made even harder

everyone hates leafblowers yet we are constantly surrounded by people using leafblowers

a bad proofreader, maybe

I know giving food feels like it’s helping (and it is!) but giving money goes so much further! Especially for produce, meat, and eggs.

general strike when

Big news: our longtime director is retiring and we're on the hunt for a successor (never a replacement!). Pros: we're a small, collegial team dedicated to publishing important regional and scholarly work; Oregon is a great place to live. Con: some might consider my interest in goats excessive.

This is SUCH great news!! Huzzah @jenbenka.bsky.social, Mellon, and all the other organizations involved in this venture! We appreciate you all so much. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

this weekend I went to an event at a winery with a polo field at which the players dressed in costume and did a little parade around the field before the game

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

"...the university is paying OpenAI $16.9 million to provide ChatGPT Edu to more than half a million students and staff." CSU is paying a private company so that company can access the captive market of students and faculty. Meanwhile CSU faces funding shortfalls.

bf and I disagree on whether it is preferable to see the team that beat your team go on to win the championship or suffer a humiliating defeat in the next round

do you need an editor or do you actually need a therapist to help you come to terms with your own decisions

this headline hums with ancient autumnal dread

A cute Tufted Titmouse perches along the nature trail in the Fall foliage.

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Again, your mostly non-profit mostly uni press humanities publishers are not the thing making a wreckage of scholarly publishing. Paying for their work is a good thing, and we should keep doing that.

should I keep a thread of books I'm not finishing, too? choosing not to finish books other people are into is probably the closest I'd come to posting outrage bait on here

Harvard boldly maintaining its elite status by producing fewer PhDs, publishing fewer books, and rarely to never tenuring its faculty www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I love "Move Slow and Make Things" and feel lucky to be part of a field where that is kind of the unofficial motto already (for as long as that lasts!)

when public libraries' and universities' IT cannot function if AWS goes down, you have a private company operating in the capacity of a public utility, but without the regulations that (you hope) public utilities must be subject to

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the vibe I'm getting here is that people love a jewel thief

it's 7:30 and nighttime, I hate it

Hi all. A little clarification: the Purdue student journalists did OFFER to do this but "Unfortunately and understandably, the IDS declined the offer, fearing expulsion of its student leaders and more firings of its professional staff." They printed and delivered a statement of solidarity instead

Helpful: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I haven't had the capacity to keep up with moderation lists for a bit, but this one is really obvious, so I'm stealing some energy from Future Me: a list for the extremely obvious wave of inauthentic accounts following today's newly-created US gov accounts bsky.app/profile/did:...

"As interactions with loved ones converge with all the other kinds of media on smartphones…'our relationships are becoming a part of that consumption behavior.'” I've been SAYING that the shift from "friends" to "followers" is indicative of a larger problem with how we relate to people online.