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

Reposting with #alttext

"Cambridge Digital Humanities seeks to recruit a fixed-term Teaching Associate, to be appointed to the Faculty of English. The appointee will take up the post in September 2026 for a period of three years." www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teachin...

Faculty everywhere should be incredibly concerned that our employers will steal our teaching materials just as Arizona State has. Absolutely shameless.

🥳 _Advertising Pornography, 1822-1870_ is now available on Nineteenth Century Data Collective! This is a package of two complementary datasets derived from advertising material issued by major figures in the early Victorian pornography trade. One draws on sales catalogues, one on periodical ads +

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

pls repost! Are you an academic or someone who has published academically who has requested name changes in your works because you were married (or used to go by a former name)? please let me know via reply/DM/the contact form on my website if you're willing to chat about! #AcademicChatter 🗂️🗃️📜📚

New video this morning on four fantasy novels that I love teaching. Less formal than my usual videos, but hopefully of interest to some of y'all. #booktube #SFF youtu.be/0eoIGS3bUaU

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

The problem is not that older faculty are sticking around - it’s that they are not being replaced. The argument of this piece is quite pernicious as it substitutes a class war btw workers and a neoliberal administration w an age war btw different ranks of workers

Had a blast chatting about my favourite @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan. Was so happy to be included on this latest edition of The Great Guy Gavriel Kay Read!

Reading 17th-century secret history and drama together to think about the transmission of the affects envy and spite through literary and dramatic representation ... heavily influenced by Sianne Ngai's Ugly Feelings.

Cis people who did some thinking before coming out to themselves as cis tend to be some of the most reliable, honourable and secure people I’ve ever known.

Had a blast chatting about my favourite @guygavrielkay.bsky.social novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan. Was so happy to be included on this latest edition of The Great Guy Gavriel Kay Read!

To the people complaining these sex abuse cases have created a world where men now have to think 10 times before they touch a woman. Yes, that's the point. It's called consent. Welcome to human decency.

Looks to me like folks knew what was up about 109 years ago.

This! So often, I have a great idea when returning to a project, then I look at my notes and see that I have had the same idea multiple times before.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

“You gotta learn AI or get left behind!” is a bit galling given that the entire purpose of AI seems to be to steal our work and fuck our brains and shit up the planet, which is to say, its GOAL is to leave us all behind. That, in order to make its owners rich.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Transformative Works & Cultures Spotlight: "To love and to labor: The Black female fan experience" by Onyinyechukwu M. Chidi-Ogbolu from #TWC issue 44: Centering Blackness in Fan Studies. Read here! journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/2551/3237

The flood that is expected to hit Peguis First Nation in less than a week is considered to be a 1-in-100-year flood. APTN’s Julia Ross spoke to community members volunteering to fill sandbags to protect their homes and infrastructure.

🔥 CFP: Indigenous Feminist Pedagogies, Fall 2027 issue of WSQ. Submit by July 31, 2026! feministpress.org/pages/curren... @feministpress.bsky.social

*The Pitt* Fans Aren't Happy With Journalists. We Need Real Etiquette When Reporting on Fandom www.teenvogue.com/story/journa...

At #PCA2026? Interested in the gothic, vampires, and queer theory? Come hear me present about all three in @seananmcguire.bsky.social ‘s Wayward Children series at 9:45 am Thursday (today!). #pcaaca2026 #pca2026

The concept of time may feel fake but none the less! You've only got 1 MORE MONTH to submit to present at the 2026 FSNNA #fanStudies Conference!!

Targeted Call for Chapters: Larp, Pedagogy, and Institutional Practice (Routledge Edited Volume) evolutionofstory.info/call-for-cha...

When you provide people with healthcare, food and housing … their lives change. Their health improves. They’re happier. They’re able to show up in the world. When basic needs aren’t being met everything else falls apart. We are all worthy of care and safety.

Only caught a few panels at #pca2026 today thanks to a delayed flight but panels on gothic in SFF and reimagining Dracula were a great way to start to the conference. #pcaaca2026

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Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

Social media engagement overall has stalled, even decreased. It's not a single platform issue. In digital marketing, our metric is now "engagement." Not traffic, users, or views. About 30% of social profiles are fake, and 30-40% of web traffic is just bot traffic. www.noemamag.com/the-last-day...

Terrifying reality check on Al Jazeera. Israel is systematically detonating and completely destroying entire civilian towns and homes across Southern Lebanon. This is not a war, it is a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing and total erasure of Lebanese communities. Where’s the outrage 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

ICE has kept a disabled double amputee prisoner for over 14 months. Rodney Taylor has been denied access to his prosthetic legs. Forced to crawl across dirty floors to access food. Placed in solitary. Denied medical accommodations. They’re killing him & he needs the community to make noise!

This is why all of my indoor flowers are made of Lego.

This speaks directly i think to the devaluing of skill and experience. When you buy a hand painted thing or knit sweater or a book etc you are paying not just for the object, but the years of expertise that created it. Same with hiring a plumber or lawyer etc. Skill matters. Experience matters.

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power AI to feel warmer average temperatures in their local area