Natalia Cecire
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Academic in Hove.
Wonderful audio microhistory of an interracial, gender-nonconforming couple in post-Reconstruction Arkansas by Rachel Trusty: "Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas"
soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s...
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S09 E03 | Chesser & Holly: A Collision of Love, Race, and Law in Nineteenth-Century Arkansas
In 1888, James Chesser and Georgianna Holly married in the growing city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. A few months later during James's arrest, courts argued that Georgianna was legally a man. Legal and so
https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s09-e03-chesser-holly-a-collision-of-love-race-and-law-in-nineteenth-century-arkansas
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Nathan K. Hensley
about 8 hours ago
sorry team, he didn't "doubt climate change" or "have skepticism" about it, he orchestrated a campaign of disinformation that strategically obfuscated his own scientists' findings to maximize profitâwhich you can see him doing in documents like this (1996)
climateintegrity.org/uploads/dece...
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madeline odent
about 12 hours ago
an editing service I offer on a âpay what you canâ basis, by the way, is that if you are writing a novel (esp romance but any genre) set in the USA or U.K., particularly Oxbridge, and you are not from there, I will read it and check this stuff for you
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James Andrew Smith
about 8 hours ago
Bots are ruining the internet. And our libraries.
www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/202...
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Omni: Limited viewable results due to high bot traffic - York University Libraries
Latest news, features and events at York University Libraries.
https://www.library.yorku.ca/web/blog/2026/06/05/omni-limited-viewable-results-due-to-high-bot-traffic/
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It's increasingly difficult to find out who teaches on a course on a university website
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Margot Finn
about 14 hours ago
Academic staff in chemistry, materials science and East Asian studies are currently in a consultation period over 22 job cuts.' UCU 'said the university was looking to move to a compulsory redundancy selection process, if necessary, in September with staff leaving by 31 December.' 1/2
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Job cuts risk at University of Sheffield departments
Staff in three departments at the University of Sheffield are being consulted over 22 cuts.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czde1dvy219o
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Will Davies
about 14 hours ago
We are closing
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after 12 years. Here I reflect on the times and what we made of them
www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
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Looking back on PERC - Political Economy Research Centre
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
https://www.goldperc.uk/project_posts/looking-back-on-perc/
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Jacqueline Antonovich
1 day ago
The first sentence of this review is, "Kylie Smith wrote an angry book." 1. The construction of that opening line is sexist AF. 2. It's sexist AF, but in an academic book review, it's unacceptable. 3. Everyone should be angry about racism in psychiatry. If you're not, that's a you problem.
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Rebecca Colesworthy
1 day ago
We love to see it! đđ
www.insidehighered.com/news/student...
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CUNY Launches LGBTQ+ Institute
As some colleges and universities scale back Pride displays, a new institute strengthens support for LGBTQ+ students, preserves queer history and funds systemwide programming.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/student-success/health-wellness/2026/06/10/cuny-launches-lgbtq-institute
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Nathan K. Hensley
1 day ago
In the final moment of Jamesonâs *Years of Theory* lectures, he admits that some of the questions heâs just spent weeks lovingly summarizing donât interest him at all âbut that this is a reflection of his own limitations. And that to think the new you need to know what came before đđ
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Caroline Dodds Pennock
1 day ago
I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.
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Ted McCormick
1 day ago
Itâs official: there is one way to get to the future, and the people selling this product have found it. Coincidentally yes, itâs this product
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Joseph Rezek
1 day ago
The past is CRAZY. Absolutely BANANAS. Learn more about this insane family in Chloe Northrop, FASHIONING SOCIETY IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY JAMAICA (2024, pp 94-128)
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Colin Dickey
2 days ago
I wrote a thing about Backrooms, Us, the underground labyrinths of the Bay Area where I grew up, AI slopplegangers, and what's really lurking underneath Silicon Valley. It's my first for
@oaklandreviewofbooks.org
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The Undervalley
Why is the Bay Area emerging as the preeminent setting for underground labyrinth horror?
https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/bay-area-horror-silicon-valley-backrooms/
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Brian Thill
1 day ago
I went to college *many* years ago, and I can state unequivocally that Dr Toombs was the single most important educational influence I ever had. He lit the spark that transformed me from a bookish hayseed to an adult with an actual political consciousness, simply by speaking the truth, then as now.
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Nadia Whittome MP
2 days ago
TransActual, Trans+ Solidarity Alliance, and Scottish Trans have helpfully created an email template here:
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Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
https://equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode
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Eryk Salvaggio
1 day ago
We often desire the symbol more than what it represents: people go into debt because a new car makes them feel like theyâve âmade it.â Generated text is a symbol of text in this sense, a cognitive debt that allows people to âthink they have thoughtâ about it when they have moved away from thinking.
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"Decisions arrive without clear rationale. Restructures are announced before the evidence that triggered them has been shared. Policies are reversed before they have been embedded. Courses are closed or launched with speed."
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403
3 days ago
This could be a good sign - that
#NEH
needs more staff (no kidding) as they prepare to reinstate grants - but also note that these positions are being advertised as GS-7-9 - paying $30k+ less than in the past. To do the same work as those of us who were fired. Think that through for a moment.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
2 days ago
The interesting question is not who uses Zotero or does not use Zotero. The interesting question is which academics enjoy working conditions that allow them to make scholarship central to their professional lives, and which academics have to do scholarship <in spite> of their working conditions.
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Charlotte Clymer
3 days ago
So, I'm up at this Havahd bah with my buddies one night, and frankly, I'm bit surprised because it didn't look like a bah you might find up at Havahd. I thought there'd be equations on the wall and shit, but we're havin' a good time after our guy Case got us through the line. (thread)
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Kathleen Bachynski
2 days ago
Iâm heartbroken by whatâs happening at Muhlenberg & grateful to the students reporting on it. I was thrilled when my amazing new public health colleague joined in fall 2025. I am shocked the college decided to lay him off months later w/no explanation of the criteria they used to make this decision
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Muhlenberg cuts faculty and staff to combat $10 million deficit - The Muhlenberg Weekly
On May 19, 13 faculty received letters of non-reappointment following the 2026-2027 academic year, and nine staff members were laid off. Additionally, the administration announced that 16 vacant staff...
https://muhlenbergweekly.com/news/muhlenberg-cuts-faculty-and-staff-to-combat-10-million-deficit/
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Also true for academics happy to just tell anti-intellectual ghouls what they want to hear, as we have nauseatingly seen once again this week
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Marisa Kabas
2 days ago
100%. i've shared this before, but this NYT pitch rejection (from bari, lmao) really spells it out.
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Eric Rauchway
2 days ago
It's okay to use citation software. It's okay not to. Using citation software isn't even a little bit like using Gen AI to write, read, or summarize (citation software is deterministic: same inputs, same outputs). These are actually easy things to know and understand and avoid Discourse about.
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Gabriel Hankins
2 days ago
John Wilson says about everything that needs saying about the Boghossian report.
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Simeon Shtebunaev
2 days ago
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie
2 days ago
Trump may already be deporting newborn Americans while the Supreme Court dawdles on birthright citizenship: pregnant teenagers in immigration detention having been giving birth to U.S. citizens but those girls and their babies are now missing
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birth...
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The Supreme Court Hasn't Ruled On Birthright Citizenship. Trump May Be Deporting Newborn Citizens Anyway
The Trump administration is refusing to answer questions about the health and safety of undocumented young mothersâand their newborn U.S. citizensâin its custody.
https://ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/birthright-citizenship-missing-girls-and-babies/
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alice
4 days ago
what is your go-to literary text for a first-year close-reading which blows their minds and changes their lives forever and has them all falling in love with literary scholarship etc
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flyingrodent
2 days ago
I think that if you understand whatâs happening here as ânone of us have a clue what weâre doing but weâve bought these magic beans off a wizard and weâre quite optimisticâ then that will cover you for most of the ensuing outcomes.
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Martin Paul Eve
3 days ago
Totally appalling. University "leadership" is utterly lacking at the moment - and has been for as long as I can remember. Sick.
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Dundee UCU
3 days ago
ÂŁ20m more staff cuts being put to the Universityâs Court today. Around 250 people will be made redundant if the plan goes through and remove all of that ÂŁ20m every year from the local economy and high street. Over 1000 staff gone.
@dundee.ac.uk
@thecourier.co.uk
@eveningtelegraph.bsky.social
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Joseph Rezek
3 days ago
Saidiya Hartman said âcritical fabulationâ requires âNarrative restraint.â Itâs not just âmake stuff up.â Right there in âVenus in two actsâ â restraint is âa requirement of this methodâ (p.12). Before you go all fabulating pls re-read the part about it being âcritical.â Thx!!!
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Denali
3 days ago
I really enjoy EB White's take on New York and New Yorkers.
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SunRaUniverse
3 days ago
Sun Ra and John Cage performed together at Coney Island NY on this day June 8 1986
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J. Anderson Coats (she/her)
3 days ago
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. đ§” 1/
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Edinburgh has a budget surplus
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein đ
4 days ago
Once a decade somehow the entire country becomes very invested in this question that should be up to individual professors
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Matt Gabriele
4 days ago
let me add too that we were ostensibly closed because our major was "unsustainable," but the state's - and university's - own metrics showed that our enrollment has been growing consistently since 2012 this wasn't about money and it wasn't about metrics. it was about something else.
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Rebecca Colesworthy
about 1 year ago
What's that? A new
@sunypress.bsky.social
volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please! As the kids say, we are so back.
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Ryan Boyd
4 days ago
Every good teacher I ever had was someone who 1) confidently loved sharing knowledge and 2) had the academic freedom to go off-menu and not just teach for some test scores
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique
5 days ago
It's the privatization of intellectual freedom. In private prep schools, educators will be free to teach the very same texts, ideas, and histories to a select elite; in public schools at all levels, educators will be denied the ability to do this for the benefit of everyone else.
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Sam Bergman
5 days ago
In Auburn's case, this gives away the whole game: the board knows full well that they have utterly departed from how they are meant to function as a governance and financial oversight body. And so they are inserting nonsense language into their charter equating their personal opinions with the law.
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K2S0'Hara (hypernarcoleptic)
5 days ago
Important thread on boards of trustees and universities.
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Nathan K. Hensley
5 days ago
I do believe that the ppl inside academia generating new culture war discourse thatâs prĂȘt Ă porter for this kind of media treatmentâ however recycled, derivative, & divorced from reality it may beâessentially know theyâre participating in this informational circuitry + should be judged accordingly
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Jeff Sharlet
5 days ago
When a politician stays on the case like this, especially when the political press keeps trying to âmove onâ to new sensations, Iâll boost them.
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The Bi of Hormuz
5 days ago
The problem for Boghossian is that *he's* the one living in a debate that's over. The debate *happened* in the late '90s. He should know that. He was there. His 1997 article on Sokal is directly about this issue, and I've read and taught it in courses on the so-called "science wars."
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Jordan S. Carroll đč
5 days ago
"why is it that occasionally scholars make overblown claims about their work?" "I don't know, maybe we should ask that in the job interview for the last position in our field."
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Chris Newfield
5 days ago
Just a reminder: the Carroll Report is the most important humanities report of our time
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Jordan S. Carroll đč
5 days ago
there's no problem in scholarship that wouldn't be solved by hiring way more tenure-track faculty and giving them more time to research.
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