While I don't have children, my sister shared how harrowing it is, indeed, to watch your child injected with multiple shots early in life, but reminding oneself that the reason we do this is because otherwise, most children will die, can be a helpful motivator. www.propublica.org/article/vita...

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This is one of the reasons I hate the framing of “discovery” — a beautiful graphic novel doesn’t need to erase the academic work it draws from. Now more than ever we should remember scholarship is human-made — & academic books often cost FAR more to research/write/publish than they will EVER make.

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, [email protected]. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

Landmark new research shows the risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 is now ‘close to zero' after the HPV vaccine.

We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

I also recently saw some stats on the gender divide re ai. I can’t help but think that women and people of color have had to fight so hard to be in academia that we are more resistant to the lure of ai.

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

Can anyone suggest any articles relating to the importance of writing in the 18th century, relating to travel. I don’t mean actual travel writing in the sense of narratives and guidebook, but rather the physical act of writing, and the importance of writing equipment for travellers.

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

Romanticism folks, I am looking for new contributors for The Year's Work in English Studies (YWES). YWES is an annual review of scholarly work. It's the largest & most comprehensive work of its kind. I am looking for two people to join the poetry team and one person to take over drama.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Hey, Pony people, I find myself with the sudden need to find a (lightly) damaged Red Roses, the Perfume Puff unicorn from G1, for customization purposes. The only one on eBay is too nice to use as a custom base.

Just in time for pride, my latest video explores the possibility of an asexual gothic through @seananmcguire.bsky.social's Wayward Children. 🖤🩶🤍💜 youtu.be/bImiFPekMco

Today we're thinking about something special – our Special Issue on Eliza Haywood! As its editor Manushag N. Powell wrote, these essays "show the unique vitality of Haywood scholarship."

I understand that trade presses take different approaches in acknowledging the research that goes into history books, but I picked up a new book that contains no footnotes or endnotes, no bibliography or further reading, and no index. The publisher is asking me to engage in an act of faith. No thnx.

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social

Canadian employers are paying the price after AI proves unable to replace laid off staff www.theglobeandmail.com/business/car...

“In a preliminary MIT Media Lab study, 83% of participants who wrote essays using ChatGPT couldn’t quote a single sentence from what they’d submitted moments earlier. “It passed from the computer screen onto the homework assignment without ever entering their brain,” So said.”

New issue of Journal of Fandom Studies is out now @intellectbooks.bsky.social #FanStudies intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

Former human rights lawyer here: under international human rights law, bombing or gassing a medical facility is a crime against humanity. Last night, the NJ state police gassed the medic tent at Delaney Hall over and over and over again until medics had to abandon it and flee for their lives.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

"John Crowne’s 1682 play City Politiques is arguably the most specific and topical political play staged during the Exclusion Crisis." Read more in Jane Wessel's “Staging the London Charter Crisis and Policing Political Participation in John Crowne’s City Politiques" @janewessel.bsky.social

Anyone who writes emails with fucking ChatGPT should be hung drawn and quartered in the fucking public square and anyone who doesn't agree with that has either never been on the receiving end of fucking ChatGPT emails or is using fucking ChatGPT for emails and should be first on the fucking list

“An Associated Press investigation found that at least 10 detainees, all men, have died by suicide since President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, a pace that far exceeds the growth in the detainee population”

As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!

University administrators two years ago: we can’t allow social justice movements to change the university as we know it University administrators today: in order to accommodate the new probabilistic bullshit generator no one likes we must change everything about the university

Israeli warplanes have conducted airstrikes on Kfartebnit, Khirbet Selm, and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah in southern Lebanon in the last hour. Israeli attacks are ramping up across Lebanon and Gaza today, in violation of both ceasefires.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified…… History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - George Orwell -

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

PSA, this is a great outlet, and transitions like this can be brutal for their sustainability. If you supported already, make sure you continue through the transition. If you didn't, consider starting now.

Hey #earlymodern peeps and #skystorians! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World," and we'd love to see wonderful and brilliant article ideas! Check out the CFP here, and let me know if you have any questions!

"Meanwhile, Canada is tightening its own asylum system. New legislation enacted in March has created further ineligibility rules for refugee claimants, prompting critics to accuse Mark Carney’s government of introducing Trump-style immigration policies." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

We're open for submission! We welcome essays that contribute to our understanding of Restoration literature, history, and culture, trace Restoration texts or ideas through adjacent or subsequent periods into our current moment, or explore pedagogical approaches to teaching material from the period.

Hard to overstate this. We think of the internet as forever. Vast stores of information have already disappeared.

#JobKlaxon We are looking for a permanent Lecturer in Global Medieval History to join us at @leedsims.bsky.social! Applications due 1 June. Happy to talk to anyone interested in an informal capacity. If you are in Kalamazoo, find me at #ICMS! #leedsmedievalstudies jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

Request for information: I had a request from a prospective PhD student who is looking to work on fanfiction and AI writing. Do you know anyone who might be in a position to receive a proposal about this? (I cannot supervise PhD students myself.) Thanks. @fanstudies.bsky.social #FanStudies

More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began collecting data more than three decades ago.* Two-thirds of the journalists killed were by Israeli forces.*

Grad students, this is well worth winning - you get TWO years of free registration for GMS, and your essay will be considered for publication in the peer-reviewed Medieval Feminist Forum. It's a good thing to have on your CV.

"[Alexander] Pope, this article contends, was actually one of Ogilby’s closest readers." Read Richard Hughes Gibson's “On Not Overlooking Ogilby’s Homer" from our Spring 2025 Issue, 49.1 doi-org.proxy-um.researchport.umd.edu/10.1353/rst....

Re-upping for the morning crowd, and the hopes of visibility.

This is great! Also, how to support an academic: - read their papers - cite their articles and books - tell your friends and students about their work - include their work in your reading lists and syllabi - ask your library to buy their books - tell them you liked their work or that it was helpful

Also maybe they were friends. Maybe they had an expansive and historically complex notion of friendship, and our very narrow and marginal status for friendship is the problem.

Another timeline cleanse