Rereading The Hobbit, which my students voted in as our last novel for a Children’s Lit class. This line got me: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, the world would be a merrier place.“ Amen.

Tech wythout heart ys a horror. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience.

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

The evil that men do lives after them

#AICon in #education: we’re not all fans. www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-wi...

"Our subjects need to be allowed to be their subjects, or else their value will fail." Useful reminder of what's happening to our jobs and disciplines.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

“It is essential that we build into our teaching vision a place where spirit matters, a place where our spirits can be renewed and our souls restored. We must become as articulate in naming our joys as we are in naming our suffering.” —bell hooks

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Can we please put to bed the idea that #LLMs can help with scholarly research? After assembling dozens of titles around a research question, I decided (morbid curiosity) to "check my work" with #ChatGPT. 1/5

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

I could see no compass before me to steer by

And today I wrote about the overthrow of tyrants.

Hamlet: am I just an overthinking coward? www.english.cam.ac.uk/research/slo... Can't remember if this speech was in the 2018 Almeida production, but it's never not time for a picture of Andrew Scott; there was at least one show when an audience member replied 'YES!' to the question 'Am I a coward?'

Hello, book! 😍 #earlymodern @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

This is a brilliant thread of contextualization of this moment and what's praiseworthy about it amidst the atrocities.

Last week, with two extraordinary colleagues, Lisa Dickson and @drjessicariddell.bsky.social , we celebrated the power of theatre with our students for a week at @stratfest.bsky.social. We watched three tyrants rant and harm and fail: Leontes, Duke Frederick, and Macbeth. And we saw the reactions.

The evil that men do lives after them

Prevent it, resist it, let it not be so, Lest child, child’s children, cry against you “woe!”

Ok, that’s good. No, it didn’t feel the same. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

In this year when readers around the world are celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday, I’m thrilled to share the news that my novel The Austens will be published by Pottersfield Press. sarahemsley.com/2025/05/16/m...

Yes there are threats and frustrations and heartaches in higher ed teaching: but then there is a perfect convocation day and parents and smiles and really good colleagues who always show up for their students.

Guess I have to start telling students that actuary, data scientist, and pope are all good career options if they major in mathematics.

to quote King lear, “never, never, never, never, never.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/w...

It’s election day in Canada! We broke records for advance polls and could be looking at record voter turnout. The country knows: this election matters, and every vote matters.

Not the biggest Shakespeare story of the day by any means (👋 @matthewsteggle.bsky.social), but here's some news of the new 'Shakespearean Graves' project, appropriate for his death-day: news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Happy Shakespeare’s Birth / Deathday! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

US universities’ faculty unite to defend academic freedom after Trump’s attacks

Students, you can vote now on campus, from April 13 to 16. Visit lpc.ca/how2vote to learn more.

🥳 10 Podcast Episodes!🥳 Listen. Learn. Share. www.shakeracepedagogy.com/shakeraceped...

The tune that is on infinite repeat in my head today.

March on, my fellows!

Ag’d sir, hands off.

Hey Canada, Don't forget to check your voter registration, or register if you need to! Pass it on. ereg.elections.ca/en/ereg/index

For a really good brief explainer of the mess we Canadians find ourselves in — and the fake numbers that are getting thrown at us — check out the More or Less podcast with @timharford.ft.com

There are times I think the NYT crossword is trolling the US administration, and today’s Wordle is definitely a secret message to Canadians. I am tickled by the idea of a resistance organized by puzzlers.

Final reminder: You have until 10AM on Tuesday 1 April to apply for the Events Administrator position.

I’m heading into my last week of a completely #ungraded (contract or self-evaluated) term) term, and the quality of the work these students have done has blown me away. I see so much more engagement with feedback, more cool risk-taking in their presentations and written work, and better attendance.

It was a challenge at first to boycott all American stuff (and I’m sad not to attend American academic conferences) but it’s getting easier and easier. My one exception: I will buy books by American writers (but not through Amazon).

I’m going into my second-last class on Milton’s Paradise Lost, ridiculously pleased with my redesigned certificates of achievement, suitable for framing, because seriously, it is a massive poem and attn. must be paid. (The header honours my own teacher, Jim Forrest, who always said that about PL.)

The Caunterburye Tales was a group chat wher we invited everybodye

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.