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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!

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us. www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes? Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Started/Going in Louisiana 368 cases of whooping cough 63 hospitalized, of whom 75% vaccines not up to date, and 41 were infants

Happy to hear of this ruling, but also frustrated that my book, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org and used by Anthropic, does not appear to have been registered for US copyright, and is thus not eligible. Live and learn -- I think I always assumed registration was automatic!

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against). * pin it & share it * Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

Going into the fall semester like….

Who could have seen this coming? MIT researchers find that only ~5% of businesses using AI are seeing growth, adding to earlier research showing AI only completed 30% of the tasks it was assigned. Is that a bubble pop I hear? mlq.ai/media/quarte...

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact. futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

i think about this tweet every single day

This is really, really sad. A superb press with a great list run by a fantastic editor. With the loss of this lively, reliable, rigorous avenue, our field gets smaller and quieter.

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes. “The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you :)

Good news (for me!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. Bad news (for everyone!) my gender bias paper from 2023 still replicates with GPT-5. arxiv.org/pdf/2308.14921 hkotek.com/blog/gender-...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Vandalism! At some stage in its nearly 500 year history, someone cut out the printer's ornament from the title page of our 1544 copy of Aesop's Fables.

Every rich person is going to tell *you* how great AI teaching is while sending *their* kids to the kind of schooling the Ancient Greeks would recognize. I just wish everyone would think about why that is.

Very sad that I am not located near the Huntington so that I could apply for this awesome-sounding job! rs4vp.org/curran-index...

Delighted to receive these beauties in the mail today: the newly paperbacked volumes of The Cambridge History of the Gothic that I co-edited with @dalegothic96.bsky.social and @catherinespooner.bsky.social for @universitypress.cambridge.org

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

All I want now is one of these!

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.

the perfect bike accessory does not exis...

🤣🤣🤣“the developers in question expected the AI tools would lead to a 24% reduction in the time needed for their assigned tasks. Even after completing those tasks, the developers believed that the AI tools had made them 20% faster . . . the AI-aided tasks ended up being completed 19% slower . . .”

Lovely marbled edges on these three late 17th century volumes, all printed in London.

Too many vaccines in the first year?Your child is 44% more likely to survive to one year if they are vaccinated than if they are unvaccinated.

Over 7000 pages of medieval medical recipes are now freely accessible online at the end of the Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries project. 👉 Discover more about this ambitious project and its achievements: loom.ly/XFJt-Tg

Me to my students: no block quotes. Me to myself while writing a book: this block quote is so great, not a single word of it could possibly be excluded.

Made a quick announcement for my students working on this week's essay in my online grad class. #academicsky

On the Intimate Connections between Romanticism and Slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K. thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...

This is the fruit of a seed planted in the first Trump administration--a seed of skepticism around "social emotional learning" that, I'd argue, was planted to test whether fear-mongering around "too much empathy and not enough real learning in schools" could be used to justify attacks on DEI. 1/🧵

One of the Herculaneum burnt scrolls, currently on display at @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social (I've never seen one before)

Did you ever buy a real print by J. Gutenberg through sheer luck? We did! Well, sort of... Read more about this incredible adventure in a wonderful @rebpaf.bsky.social blog post by Nicky Voorneveld: rebpaf.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/e... Many thx to @pieterbeullens.bsky.social for his expertise! 📚📖🔍

"information retrieval": so...knowing things? Yeah, definitely want to avoid THAT in higher ed! God forbid.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

Gift article: utterly delicious photo-and-video essay of women working on old books:

DR LIGHTFOOTSOOO OOWORKESOO VOL. 1 OOOOO Spotted this week @queenslibcam.bsky.social

🧵 addressing the argument: “Schools need to prepare students for the jobs of the future.” 1. The skills employers seek haven’t changed much over the decades—and include a lot of “soft skills” like initiative, problem-solving, communication, and critical thinking.

Just going to consult this reference book, “The Consequences of Pursuing Godlike Power,” by The Entire Canon of World Literature

Minerva Press scholarship alert!