Marisa Mercurio
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PhD in 19c literature | Acquiring Editor, University of Michigan | (she/they)
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
10 days ago
Splendid review to start the week at SH today -
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on the curious Neo-Gothic of Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby (
@berkleypub.bsky.social
). āA novel filled with such potential should be a pleasure to untangle.ā
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Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
Scholarly analysis of an historical oddity may not be paramount to the success of a Neo-Gothic novel; but this context speaks to Slashed Beautiesās larger issue of flattening gender relations.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/slashed-beauties-by-a-rushby/
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404 Media
about 2 months ago
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
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A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
https://www.404media.co/a-small-town-is-fighting-a-1-2-billion-ai-datacenter-for-americas-nuclear-weapon-scientists/
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Marisa Mercurio
Academic Publishing News
3 months ago
"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs."
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AI Exacerbates Labor Issues for Library Workers | H-Net
A guest post fromĀ Feeding the Elephant: A Forum for Scholarly Communications.Guest post by Marisa Mercurio, acquisitions editor, University of Michigan.
https://networks.h-net.org/group/discussions/20124830/ai-exacerbates-labor-issues-library-workers
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Marisa Mercurio
The H-Net Book Channel
4 months ago
"When we embrace genAI without examining the domino effect it will have on library workers and users, we fail to do our jobs," writes
@marmercurio.bsky.social
for
#FeedingTheElephant
. How has the embrace of AI affect publishing, research, and teaching. Find out! ā”ļø
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Feeding the Elephant | H-Net
https://networks.h-net.org/feeding-the-elephant
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My article with
@crimereads.bsky.social
on one of the best, longest-running, and somehow overlooked Holmes adaptations.
crimereads.com/elementary-i...
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Elementary is a Masterclass in Sherlock Holmes Adaptation
In 2012, the cable network CBS introduced the world to a new Sherlock Holmes. And he was going stateside. Set in the present day, Elementary places Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) in New York City where ā¦
https://crimereads.com/elementary-is-a-masterclass-in-sherlock-holmes-adaptation/
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Alice Speri
5 months ago
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvardās feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an āeducation and Palestineā issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the āPalestine exceptionā to academic freedom
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jul/22/harvard-educational-review-palestine-issue-cancelled
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Let's get vegetable Gothic going as a subgenre. Bunnicula takes first spot.
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
6 months ago
Wednesday's review is the excellent
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on Margie Sarsfield's Beta Vulgaris. She goes in excited to discover the vegetable gothic, and finds surprises: "readers of Strange Horizons should know that Beta Vulgaris might not fulfill your expectations of a horror novel."
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Beta Vulgaris by Margie Sarsfield
These beets arenāt destined for dinner plates.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/beta-vulgaris-by-margie-sarsfield/
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Marisa Mercurio
Joe Katz
9 months ago
They're trying to kill Rumeysa Ozturk for writing a fucking op ed
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Marisa Mercurio
Dan Hartland
9 months ago
Today at
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
,
@marmercurio.bsky.social
on Marx and horror in the Pacific Northwest. āCarson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.ā
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A Spectre is Haunting Greentree by Carson Winter
Carson Winter shapes his horror novella around the friction between the bourgeoisie and proletariat.
http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/non-fiction/a-spectre-is-haunting-greentree-by-carson-winter/
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