Team: Check out this exciting opportunity from UVA's Center for Digital Editing to discuss how archives and collections shape our understand of revolutionary moments, & how evolving technologies, methods, and public needs are reshaping the editorial landscape. elaboratories.org/event/revolu...

From time to time I think about going through my digital photos and selecting some of them for printing.

My first thought re: the Nature paper today was that AI bro academia needs to urgently read up on some disability theory and that was before I even knew about the Futurama-Hawking argument BUT SURE LET’S GUT THE HUMANITIES BC NATURE IS CLEARLY ON TOP OF THINGS (excellent thread btw).

And, for fucks sake, read some goddamned Freire.

We have the data. My longest columns have more readers, who read longer, and who share them the most.

„Wenn Schluss ist, ist Schluss“ hat einiges zu tun mit „Nein heißt nein“. Wundert mich jedenfalls nicht, wenn (auch) Ersteres Ungläubigkeit/ Widerwillen/ Verhandlungsreflexe auslöst. Anyway, Glückwunsch, Amrei!

Mein Gott, das ist aus so dermaßen vielen Gründen sowas von bodenlos tragisch, ungerecht, unzeitlich und furchtbar…

Trust me, the woman of academia are not at all surprised by the number of academic men orbiting Epstein.

This feels dated to me; such ‚oppositions‘ rarely exist in serious research environments or projects (anymore). For institutions & individuals for whom the effort involved is (actually) worth it, Transkribus, IIIF etc. pp. have been part of workflows for *quite* some time now. Both tech adoption 1/3

yes it’s oil as gender, not oil as traded commodity

It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Reading pieces like Ellen Samuels' "Six Ways of Looking at Crip Time" literally changed my life and the way I care for my disabled body. That research was fostered by peer reviewers, editors, and open access publishing at Disability Studies Quarterly. Today the journal is at risk due to funding. 1/4

Just incredibly desperate to be seething mad at something, anything, if you find that now Standing Up To The ADHD Activists is a cause you find very important.

I'll be holding an online workshop on findings from my research into disabled people's encounters in #BlueBadge parking spaces & how encounters can actively exclude people Fri 12th Dec 12-1pm on Teams with captions, register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/20a4a6... #DisabilitySky

Ach, Helme… danke, mein Freund, fürs Mitaufziehen. 🐷🐔🐭

My nibling frequently calls me „Mum—err—Dad—errrrr—LAURA“ & and that’s my biggest achievement in life and also my pronouns.

One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.

"Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

Brave, funny, loving, shameless, compassionate, horny, and in solidarity with everyone fighting a good fight: Alice Wong was the example of how to live your life. Live it in such a way that people around the world gush about how much they loved you when you pass. Alice knew how to live!

FWIW it’s an ADHD topos… there’s zero actual data on how and/ or why this works, but anecdotally a lot of us like listening to podcasts/ audio books better this way. However, here it’s clearly ND supremacy bullshit; he’s trying to brag about his cognitive abilities (processing speed etc.).

Dear colleagues, we drafted an open letter to the conference of German federal ministers of education asking for a reform of the Privatdozentur, that stage in a German academic's career where your work is not paid - a situation that can easily extend over years.

Die Bundesregierung entscheidet in den nächsten Tagen. Hier gibt es Tipps, was Menschen jetzt sofort tun können, um die #Chatkontrolle noch zu verhindern. chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/20...

Alas, I did not see this in time, but here is how to delete an academia edu account without agreeing to their appalling new TOS:

Wie lange wird es dauern bis ein sog. Legacy-Medium das Wort "Trans-Terror" aufgreift? Ich gebe der Angelegenheit maximal 2 Monate.

Cf Kate Beaton…

Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now. www.weherepress.org

Anas Al Sharif had these words to publish if he was martyred which he was tonight as Israel starts the invasion of Gaza City

The foundation funded my PhD project; we’ve been informed about this attack a couple of days ago. Still early, but whoever did this would/ might have had access to personal data of thousands of students and academics who are/ were members of German trade unions (or otherwise politically active).

Same but with me as somebody working on critical editions who hangs out with the rest of literary studies a lot. My people are unraveling & I don’t necessarily only mean ‚text’.

her link is here, if you can’t donate please share thank you so much for your help. i just can’t stomach the thought of getting her into this room for one month only to them evicted right after xoxo gofund.me/9d3083c9

Sure true, but also plenty academics & ppl with lived experience have been fairly correct in their early assessments re: Trump, Covid or Gaza. And that’s bc they’re thinking in terms of overarching dynamics as opposed to specific things: WWW & AI are new, yes, but so were radio & cinema ‚back then‘.

Day 2 of the Critical Neurodiversity Studies conference @durhamimh.bsky.social and REALLY looking forward to this presentation from my brilliant @ndhumanities.bsky.social colleague @ainokash.bsky.social

There is a GFM set up for Helen De Cruz‘s family. 🖤

@mommunism.bsky.social is a good place to start & look for vetted accounts of people in Gaza; not everyone can always send money, but there’s plenty of GFMs and stories to share (as well as people to talk to) – and every little thing might count towards somebody being able to buy some food!! 💸 🕊️

A fake version of the Disability Studies Reader 6th edition has been put up on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. The 6th edition was never published. Routledge is working to get the listing taken down. Please do not order it because this is a scam. All the previous editions 1st through 5th are genuine.

Anyway, use some pirated version if you must but please don’t assign and make your students buy a text that quite literally knowingly profits off marginalized disabled writers who have asked our work be taken out of the book. api.pageplace.de/preview/DT04...

I am reading several different kinds of writing this month, mostly first and second drafts: dissertation chapters, qualifying exams, edited volume chapters, and article manuscripts. I'm also reading non-federal grants, which are final versions of scholars' work. I can't feed any of that into a LLM.

🇩🇪 Germany’s intelligence agency has officially labeled the far-right AfD as an extremist threat, enabling expanded surveillance powers. AfD is now fully classified—not just “suspected”—as extremist. Authorities can use informants and tap communications. Civil servants may be barred from joining;

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Bisher kann man ohne Überweisung durch den Hausarzt zur Psychotherapie. Im aktuellen Koalitionsvertrag steht, dass sich das ändern soll. Diese Petition möchte das verhindern:

🚨 get your Mastodon accounts ready, and choose a secure server not in the US

Obviously things have got dramatically worse in the US recently, and I don't want to diminish that, but I've been at *so many* conferences in the UK on topics like empire, humanitarianism and development where multiple speakers from the Global South have been denied visas or held at the border

Additionally … this place doesn’t have too many unique norms and standards but alt text is one of them.

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