So grateful to @emilybstanback.bsky.social for this blurb: "Reznicek offers a compelling...of the national tale, calling attention to the foundational ways that concepts of health, illness, and disability have been used to define national identity" www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

We're just about twenty days away from the release of Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale. If you would be interested, can I ask you to recommend the book to your library? www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

New story from me @lightspeedmagazine.com, maybe the bleakest I've ever written. It's about: -AI’s effect on teaching literature -what literature can (& can't) actually teach us -trans fatherhood -the road to hell being paved with white saviorism www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/tell...

When universities tout their partnerships with OpenAI, parents, faculty and everyone really should be asking how they intend to account for the increasing evidence that their technology is hurting people, especially young and vulnerable people. How many instances of harm will be enough?

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Well I guess I'm going to be kicked off of Bluesky soon... 🫠

No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time. "You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

In Greensboro, NC for a family wedding and snuck off to go to the International Civil Rights Museum, the site of the famous 1960 Woolworth lunch counter protest—a week before teaching Anne Moody in my World Literature course.

you could ask your library to order if you want

A pedagogy essay about disability and teaching I wrote in 2016 as I was preparing to complete my doctorate has finally appeared in Romantic Circles Reviews & Receptions: www.romantic-circles.org/index.php/pr...

Social media can be a cruel place. Amidst all the muck, there are glimmers of hope. I wrote about disabled outrage and a recent hashtag I created on Twitter #PodSaveJon disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/d...

The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from July 23rd-25th and online August 1st-2nd. Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference20...

We're advertising a really fun interdisciplinary PhD on the biodiversity of churchyards and the barriers and opportunities of community-driven biodiversity action: Churchyards as a microcosm for biodiversity gains in the UK's cultural landscapes. Apply here: www.york.ac.uk/professorial...

LOVE the drama of this Italian fan, c.1806 – forget flowers and lovers, give me NIGHTSCAPE VOLCANOES 🌋🌋🌋 🪭 at the Met Museum: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #18c #19c #histsci

Election Day!

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology