I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

I work in an academic library where patrons can chat with a human librarian 24/7. We use a co-op so librarians across the world help each other when your specific staff are off duty. This is a pretty common service, and it generally provides better info than AI for reference questions. Jusy FYI 🤷🏻‍♀️

My forthcoming book— For which I began research in 2006. Is now posted on the website for Princeton University Press. Cover will be added soon. The King’s Slaves: The British Empire & the Origins of American Slavery

Join us Monday 12/15 at 5pm to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday! with @dlspratt.bsky.social Austen scholar! bonnets encouraged but not required!

If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...

This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus

Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social

We've published a list of resources from the Information Exchange about the NEH Appeals Process that was hosted by ACH, AHA and MLA earlier this week. buff.ly/JVOBxP0

3 ways to fight for the NEH: 1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming 2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have. 3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

NEH just sent new guidance about terminated awards that includes the following: "7. Appeals--NEH is not offering a means of dispute resolution" Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.

If you've had an NEH grant terminated, join us tomorrow (4/30) at 11 a.m. ET for an information exchange about the NEH appeal process hosted by the MLA's @jasonrhody.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social from @ach.bsky.social‬, and Sarah Weicksel from @historians.org: ach.org/news/2025/04...

I am leading a bipartisan and bicameral effort to denounce the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities and to demand POTUS and NEH Acting Director Michael McDonald restore funding for grant recipients.

@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov we need you to speak up for the NEH! So far, DOGE has terminated 43 grants in the state of IL, totaling ~$11.7M dollars. That is less than one thousandth of the federal budget, but it makes a HUGE difference for our state! Please help us protect this agency!

Receipts: impact.ach.org You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @pelosi.house.gov What are California Senators and Representatives doing to save NEH funding and staff?

If your NEH grant was rescinded, contact your representative and help @humanitiesall.bsky.social track grant terminations by using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Serious question: has anyone with an NEH grant or cooperative agreement NOT been told it’s canceled? This week has been a bloodbath for so many of us.

Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Do not fuck with librarians; they know everything, and incredibly organized, and will come for your ass (I can't wait)

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure

little pieces of language are ours slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines

Good news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The CSU's literally *shutting majors & firing faculty* at the same time as it *pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies* for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.

Dr. Mildred García serves as chancellor of the California State University and can be reached at: (562) 951-4000 [email protected] California State University Chancellor 401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210 bsky.app/profile/dust...

In case anyone is wondering, there was zero faculty consultation about this. Do better, CSU!

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

For any members of the CSUN community, please request help from the Matador Relief Fund if you've been displaced by the #LAFires csun.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

On this Giving Tuesday ASECS is asking for $18 (get it? get it?). $18 can do a lot for our colleagues and our field:

"By then, I knew that what I had always wanted from a story was what I had wanted from life: to make it mean something despite what seemed like utter chaos." Samantha Colicchio on her journey with the hit TV show Lost. the-rambling.com/2024/11/23/i...

Turkey trot your way over to @therambling.bsky.social straight away, because our latest issue is out—from Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading the essays at the-rambling.com. 🐌🦃

Excellent volume in our Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures & Societies series to be published this week: Letters and the Body, 1700–1830 Writing and Embodiment Edited By Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey #skystorians #c18th #c19th www.routledge.com/Letters-and-...

SUPER postdoc at ASU Film & Media Studies: looking for U.S. Latina/o/x Studies; subspecialties in African American, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx Literature, Visual Culture Studies, and/or Women of Color Feminisms. 2 years + possible conversion to a T-T position. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/159508

Los Angeles! We are collecting blankets and maternity clothes (6mo+) for our unhoused neighbors. We have two pregnant community members at the same time! Warm blankets and comforters are also appreciated, it's getting cold out. And if you have large scraps of new carpet (6ft x 6ft ot larger)

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

"Our job is not to protect the institution or its timelines or its profits or its myths of impartiality. Our job is to be strong for our students & to protect them every way we can so that they can realize their own visions of peace & liberation for Palestine." 6/6 Debicki & @zugenia.bsky.social

Please share and use: a spreadsheet documenting the cuts announced by 87 (!) US universities & colleges during the 2023-24 academic year … so far. A long, dispiriting list of college closures, faculty/staff layoffs, academic program eliminations, and significant budget cuts.   1/

pls. RT Global Equiano opens fresh conversations about enslaved & free Black people as they navigated spaces dominated by violent, colonial forces, & considers the Black Atlantic futures they imagined. 20-21 Sept #18thc #romanticism earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/globa...

grateful to my GU colleagues who stood in their regalia today and read out names & academic biographies of the 100 scholar-teachers killed in Gaza

If you are a member of ASECS’s Women's Caucus, we have a new email address: [email protected]. Add us to your safe list. Not a member of the Caucus? We can add you. The caucus is open to people who do not identify as “woman” even though our panels focus on women’s issues.

Noticed/participated in lots of ASECS conversations about how we might be in solidarity with Palestinians. Here is one extremely modest thing we can do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

My friend is establishing a trust to support her neighbor, whose disability status + benefits were revoked despite extensive medical evidence, + whose gender affirming care is at risk due to back pay of disability benefits. Pls support Heather if you can! gofund.me/bbf0e777

Hi Janeite friends! Do you have an absolutely favorite Austen adaptation you can talk about for hours (or even 3-5 minutes)? Submit your ideas for Virtual JaneCon now! What is Virtual JaneCon? It’s a radically inclusive, free Jane Austen con. No bigots allowed. virtualjanecon.com/submissions-...

Virtual mentoring happening now. You don’t have to be registered for asecs—if you want to come chat, about anything, log on now!

Join us now at the virtual Doctor Is In session! #asecs2024 #asecs24