From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

Behold the tragicomic catastrophe at Montclair State as their admin tries to replace departments with vacuous corporate pablum, for reasons even they don't understand. Adam Rzepka is blazing on this: academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...

Need some Austen in your December? Try this symposium! udel.libcal.com/event/15550706

If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/

The Dept of Biology at Loyola University. Chicago has an open lecturer position in Gender, Sexuality, and the Biology of Sex. The successful candidate will have a 50% affiliation with the Women's Studies and Gender Studies program and 50% Dept of Biology. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/34131

JOB Assistant Professor in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400, University of Cambridge www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

ok, this is worth being on Bsky for

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky

Event: Victorianist Writing Retreat at Dickens Universe 2026 (Application Deadline: 12/1/25) navsa.org/News/13556934

If you're an independent scholar, faculty, high school teacher, or alt-ac professional, check out this beautiful opportunity at Dickens Universe! dickens.ucsc.edu/vwr/

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Leah and I just got off the stage in DC. More than 200k. Double what we saw for Hands Off! This movement is incredible. We’re better than fear. We’re braver than billionaires. We’re bigger than ever. And we will win. #NoKings

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

📣 JOB 📣: The University of North Alabama is hiring! Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Medieval History, subfield in science, technology, or medicine preferred. Great department in a growing public regional university and beautiful town. Come be my colleague! www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

❌👑 OCTOBER 18 ❌👑 NoKings.org

No Kings, For the love of America.

Job Alert! @uwmadisongws.bsky.social is hiring an assistant professor or recently tenured associate professor who works on gender or sexuality and aging. If this sounds like you, please apply! If it’s not you, please share with your networks. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

The deadline for application is Oct 15. If you or somebody you know works on periodicals and attribution research, do apply (or spread the word).

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

We're hiring. It's a real needle-in-a-haystack search for an experienced teacher who can help reimagine our flagship (i.e., huge) intro course for a new era. 3/3 load. Convenient to Hollywood and Holbox. usccareers.usc.edu/job/los-ange...

You had me at “time”

Delightful doodles of some pipe smoking Georgians found by Maddock Fellow Danielle Magnusson on the works of Ben Jonson, printed in 1616 #Readers #Epigrams

The CUNY Alliance to Defend Higher Education is outraged by UC-Berkeley admin's decision to simply turn over its constituents' personal data to the Trump Department of Ed. We support our Berkeley colleagues and call on CUNY not to repeat this mistake Add your voice here: forms.gle/Kd2PGNagHoLM...

CUNY @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social is hiring two tenured associate professors in Black, Race, and Ethnic Studies! Review of applications begins October 1. See link for more info. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Come be my colleague! Research Chair in Trans Studies position open at @uvic.ca www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

📊The Sociology Department at Stony Brook University invites applications for *two* tenure-track Assistant Professor positions to begin in Fall 2026. [They] seek scholars who specialize in issues of global inequality and justice, broadly construed. apply.interfolio.com/172669

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

#AssistantProfessor in #SoutheastAsianHumanities at UC Berkeley | USA 🌏Tenure-track, start July 2026. Eligibility: PhD. 📅 Deadline: 25 Oct 2025. 🔗 More details: higherjobz.com/assistant-pr... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PostdocJobs #PhDPosition #AcademicTwitter @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! We are a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to current political, social, and cultural issues related to gender and medicine. Please share widely!

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

Please share! We are looking for TWO postdoctoral scholars in African American history and history of the Civil War era. Fellowships are for TWO years, and the anticipated start date is July 1, 2026. The deadline to apply is NOVEMBER 1! Links are in the replies below.

The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

Wait, authors will get paid *and* the AI industry might be irreparably harmed? Beautiful, let's make it happen

Good morning Bluesky! I'm boosting an opportunity to run the special collections and archives division at Case Western Reserve University. You have a great team, exciting collections, and supportive peers. Can answer questions ❤️ @sharpnews.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social

We’re hiring a tenured professor of early modern / modern Jewish history. Come work with me. networks.h-net.org/jobs/68974/u...

This resource maps the growing fields of Asian American literature & scholarship since the 1970s. It includes more than 700 scholarly publications, plus every work cited in them—books, film, TV, video games, etc—and detailed demographic information for their authors. Explore, teach, & build on it!

Job opportunity for an historian at Monticello. This is the 4th time they've tried to fill the role this year (they seem to have given up trying to find a senior person and have dropped the PhD requirement). DM me if you want to know what it's like to work there. www.monticello.org/thomas-jeffe...

Despite and amidst everything we’re hiring in US history, nineteenth century careers.historians.org/jobs/2159497...

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

@cuny.edu is providing consultation with an attorney for all current students and employees who need help with immigration issues! This is an amazing resource and other colleges should do the same. Good for CUNY for stepping up to the plate in this way. cuny.edu/CIAP

Our Flash Sale is back—now featuring more titles than before! Save 60% on select print editions with code FLASH. This extended collection runs through the end of September, so you’ll have even more time (& titles) to explore. Check out the current collection: press.princeton.edu/sale/flash-s...

Accessible and expanding archive of resources tailored for teachers who are trying to explain and engender AI skepticism, create AI-free classrooms and curricula, & think with other scholars and educators who are doing the same.

what a gift to all of us! thank you!