Jonathyne Briggs & I are editing a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society focused on #disability in French society. Proposals for articles in English or French due on Jan 15. See the original call on H-France or here (in tiny print). Merci à partager l'appel dans vos réseaux.

A quick note to all the NewSkys: there really isn’t algorithm here. We depend on each other to spread the word. So if you want others to see something, repost it. Liking something adds it to your feed but doesn’t surface it for others.

Ok, I started a starter pack for novel scholars and the people who love them. Long live long forms! Happy to add anyone I missed. go.bsky.app/FcvMAmd

Finally! Excited that Novavax will be available now to people who have gotten mRNA vaccines.

Excited—& a bit nervous—to have this essay in the world. It started as an MLA talk—which I described at the time as the political unconscious of the usual How To Publish Your Book fare—& became much more thanks to the wonderful team at Public Books. Solidarity! www.publicbooks.org/publishers-a...

Harvard library job: sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...

Stunning, vital essay in The Chronicle of Higher Ed by Rebecca Walkowitz. www.chronicle.com/article/gutt... "As with other important disciplines, the study of languages is a long game.... It takes decades of basic research to create the groundwork for major innovations."

It turns out that spending a weekend thinking about civilizational collapse is exhausting and not at all restorative. #climategrief

Still plenty of time to apply www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rje...

A reminder that applications are due this Friday by 23h59 EDT for Harvard's pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies tenure-track position! If you're applying and just sitting on an application that's already complete, please just submit! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490

Hannah Frydman is here! @hannahfrydman.bsky.social

My department is looking for a scholar of Global Hispanophone, with some broad definitions in the add. Please share! joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

Is it just me or did Rosh Hashanah sneak up on us this year? Shana tova! I could sure use a new year! 🍏🍯🥴

I need to lie down now to recover from the energy expenditure of adding a new platform into my life! Feels as disorienting as when Duo Mobile swapped the accept and reject buttons in their push notifications! How do the folks with multiple accounts juggle them? I'm overwhelmed!