Yesterday evening like a little cocoon – at a bookshop literally named the Big Red Bookstore, on a sweet couch, grilling @markhussey.bsky.social about his superb new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel, to a full room of regular "common readers"

Hwæt! 🐉 Ever wondered what the epic poem Beowulf sounds like spoken in Old English? #NationalPoetryDay

I have to imagine even his parents hate Stephen Miller

Don’t think it bodes well for AI that this is now a way to market something

Three Irish citizens among activists detained as Israeli forces seize flotilla ships, organisers say. Thinking of Sarah Clancy - all eyes on the flotilla #speirgorm jrnl.ie/6832196

Alanaaaaaaa - who does all the work, all the time and is the most fun to run into at any conference!

Pls give Gabriela's book a read! I'll never see Sweeney the same away again after her archival work

Hi #ModWrite #Modernism peeps! If you've been to an Eliot Society meeting, you know we love our grad students and early career scholars. We have annual awards to show where our hearts lie! Winners of the 2025 Fathman Awards are: Gabriela Minden and Nicholas Smart

For the record I would like to shop at Walmart never

I wrote about how our weak, screen-addicted president is bullying the weak, Trump-addicted medium of television. For @newrepublic.com, on the TV beat: newrepublic.com/article/2000...

This should be repeated constantly: "In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone." We need to have a real response to this!! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

What do Charlie Chaplin, Pablo Picasso and Gabriel García Márquez have in common? The US once denied all of them visas because of their beliefs.

Just finished the first two books in @adapalmer.bsky.social 's Terra Ignota series. They are so excellent. They took me longer than usual to read, because I would constantly have to stop and think about what I read. Sent me down a rabbit hole about Diogenes ... Team Utopian. #books #booksky

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Yeah I'm all for "being humans in a room together" until it's an all-college meeting without a zoom option

This little bluejay burying acorns in our flower pots in autumn hoping for a feast in spring... except I move the pots in winter and turn over the soil... is some kind of larger life symbol if I could just figure it out

MSA coming up in ~2 weeks!

"First they came after immigrant communities, then they came for federal unionized workers, then they came after trans people, & they will continue—they'll come for ALL of us—unless we dig deep & find the will, strength & means to continue to organize." -- PSC Secretary Andrea Vásquez #ICEOutofNY

Native Forward Scholars Fund, the largest direct provider of scholarships to Native students in the U.S., has announced a landmark $50 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott—her second major investment in the organization... Read More ⬇️

Today in media studies class I found out that all but 2-3 youths out of 30 have very strong feelings about the weaponisation of civility discourse that we're seeing (I gave them Roxane Gay's op-ed) + I taught them the word "enshittification" so that was a good use of an hour

I try to maintain healthy skepticism about the metrics, but stuff like this boggles my mind. I know I'm still making a niche academic humanities podcast, because I live that everyday. But, y'know, maybe the academic humanities aren't as niche as we've been lead to believe.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Made plum torte last weekend and will make it again tomorrow

Chantal, stop making me feel feelings dammit

So many of the half-baked AI implementations are happening in professional arenas that have been hollowed out by extraction and divestment. No journalist needs a writing aid unless they’re being paid too little to write too much, no teacher needs a commenting tool unless they’re overextended.

So do you march up to the front of the movie theater and sit where the faces loom over you obliterating any thought of checking your phone completely submerging you in spectacle, or are you normal

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

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#AncientSiteSunday - Labraunda, the site of the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos, situated in the mountains that overlook the Milas plain. It was a major sanctuary in Caria, particularly during the 4th century BC, when King Mausolus, the satrap of Caria, made Labraunda his family’s sanctuary.

"You look less happy in the photo hugging X and more happy in the photo hugging Y" says my mother demonstrating perfectly the kuleshov effect

Have now come across 5 "seminal"s across 3 papers written post-2015, for the love of every madwoman in the attic please desist!

CUNY friends, we're getting organized! The CUNY Alliance for Defending Higher Education is organizing faculty & staff to stand up to attacks and advocate for a CUNY-wide defense compact Follow us @cadhe.bsky.social and sign up on our website to support and stay informed! cadhe.commons.gc.cuny.edu

Labor Day feels and materialistic desire meet perfectly in the PSC CUNY gift shop

It's college move-in week for some of my young friends this year, bringing to mind my own favourite memory of this time: catching my dad chain smoking out my dorm room window when I got back from some team building group activity I hated

A very #ModWrite problem is not much liking The Waves yet liking everything written about The Waves

Happy birthday to Jean Rhys. She's tired of you, but it's probably not your fault.

The Lure Of The Underground, by Alfred Leete, 1927.

Pure brag post 💅🏾

Yet another reason to drop everything and read Ada Palmer’s Inventing the Renaissance is that it provides a field guide to the richness of historiographical and theoretical debates over “humanism” while elucidating their political and cultural stakes in past eras and our own! @adapalmer.bsky.social

🔍 Did you know that we have a searchable dataset that draws on records of Londoners of African, Caribbean, Asian and Indigenous heritage in our parish registers from 1561-1840? The project started in 2000 and, thanks to our staff and volunteers, now has records of 2600 Londoners! #SwitchingTheLens

The Waterlily Weigh Off of 2025 the only thing giving me life rn

Honestly there's something so satisfying about turning off AI chatbots that I recommend going through all your devices and doing this for Firefox, Outlook, Adobe, and various apps. Give yourself the little power kick we all need in late August!

good morning happy back to school to all who celebrate, happy one week of summer left to all the syllabus scramblers, happy grr to the quarter system people, here's some help for all of us in the college classroom against-a-i.com

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

Dolly Parton with her 500 million dollar net worth gives out 2.4 million books every single month. But Elon musk won’t do anything other than steal tax dollars, shutter USAID, and blow up rockets

Thank you @mmodernity.bsky.social! Hello world, here's my piece on Modernism, Crosswords and War - it took its first steps at the Illusions/Disillusions conference at @cunyenglish.bsky.social for which it was tentatively born.

Have gotten into yet another fight I can never win and yet will not give up on (employer multi-factor authorisation app)

When I say "technology" I mean the zoetrope

(Atheistically) wish the local church choir would start singing, we've been waiting with windows open for an hour