i just deleted a dumb post without sending it. where is my cookie?

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Naive of me, but I hadn't realized that all of the higher ed job boards cost hundreds of dollars to submit postings.

There is a person on here who is extremely wrong.

Looking at social scientists and STEM folks worrying that AI is going to decimate the employment prospects for their fields, it's comforting to know that my field was already decimated using time-worn artisanal techniques like funny math and telling us our work isn't important or valuable.

A student took her kid by my office today, so that he could see that people with ADHD can still be successful.

My department at West Texas A&M is hiring a creative writer (with a Ph. D. required). Please encourage anyone you know who might be interested to apply. I'm also glad to answer any questions that anyone might have. Job listing here: tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/WTAMU_Extern...

Dear all, I have a brilliant incarcerated student who is trying to interleave historical research with autoethnography in their work. I could really use help on lit on how to rigorously write auto ethnography. Suggestions?

Jellyfish, a Portuguese man-o'-war John White, c.1585-1593 'This is a lyuing fish, and flote vpon the Sea, Some call them Carvels' (British Museum)

important for metal fans

have gotten obsessed with how indigenous feather art transformed European early modern aesthetics.

I just feel like if I put two words into your website's search bar, and it returns OR results instead of AND results, you should be put on a prison island.

The below is an eloquently detailed articulation of the sentiments in this print, which is now on my wall directly in front of where I sit to use my doomscrolling machines. It's exhortation has been a real challenge today

A nationwide book ban bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives. Here's what you need to know about HR7661, including who is behind it, the history behind such bills, and what you need to do to stop it. bookriot.com/hr7661-book-...

Opposite Day is such a logistical nightmare.

Thank you to the CHE for this incredible illustration of what academia is like now

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

in human life you are ALLOWED to be some writer i've never heard of who talks out your ass about an industry whose principles you have mostly assumed. surely i fill this role for others sometimes! but time was, you said it to your friends, and not nobody. it turns out nobody can get WAY angrier.

Detail from Crivelli’s Virgin and Child with Saints Francis and Sebastian @nationalgalleryuk.bsky.social #snail @earlymodlancs.bsky.social

preordered!

I have some concerns with the politics of How to Train Your Dragon (2010) (1 of 323)

#quakerbluesky, any ideas?

For sport, I read passages like this out loud to my husband and offer no explanation other than to read it aloud in modern English so he gets the full effect.

Did you know that in 1633, a woman called Catherine Tuggy had a plant nursery getting rave reviews, on the site of an old monastic garden in Westminster? Women belong in horticulture. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/catherine-...

My problem is that I don’t trust that most humanities professors know anything about ethics or computers.

@earlymodlancs.bsky.social www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... just fyi!

People who have run a faculty search committee before: any non-obvious advice about what would be smart to do?

I think people often wonder this, and it's a great question, so let me explain the advantages of 3D printing whistles. There are many. The 3D printing effort started from one of our organizers who started by sourcing mass-produced whistles.

hear me out: Hootie and the Blow Phish

On #Fronteras: Poems like "To be a pocha or not to be" take the Bard's influence and transform them to address colonialism, slavery, and the erasure of language and culture. @kathrynvsantos.bsky.social writes about this in "Shakespeare in Tongues." @texaspublicradio.bsky.social shorturl.at/Cjbmw

we're not really confronting a "misinformation apocalypse" so much as we're being forced to confront how others interpret information on a mass scale for first time in human history.

i don't know who needs to hear this but the book i ordered about the spoons of africa has arrived

man whoever left that cake out in the rain must feel like a real idiot now

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

teaching 80 Days (game version) today by making students try their hand at writing a scene, and man that game is just brilliant

I don't know why, but the judge is now citing the historical precedent of Charles I of England. This is an incredibly ominous sign for Yoon.

The Magdalen Reading by Rogier van der Weyden, c.1399–1464 (The National Gallery, London)

A queer reading of Franklin’s Poor Richard that really digs into “a Ploughman on his Legs is higher than a Gentleman on his knees” 👀👀👀

@literaturegeek.bsky.social has been a major inspiration in my own dipping my toe into print!

alternatively, send clowns on figure skates to chase the skaters.

Back in the time when the sun was pink

happy humiliating pedagogical error day to all who celebrate

If, as Judith Butler says, "gender consists of the social meanings that sex assumes," then to be a person in a bear suit is to resist the materialist act of gendering the (performer) human body while inviting the semiotic act of "sexing" the (performative) animal body. In this essay I will

For secret reasons, I'm trying to extract paragraphs with topic sentences that do what our 8th grade teachers told us they do — preview the thesis, focus, or thrust of the whole paragraph. They are *rare* in 19c and early 20c books. Less than 1 in 200 paragraphs have them.

when i lived in austin, there was some musician who performed in a full body bunny suit. so when i started hearing about the success of bad bunny, i assumed it was the bunny costume guy. for twenty years.

new maronite chronicle just dropped