Yes!!! This Fall, Jody Greene and I will be doing several workshops (online and f2f) to organize faculty (and even administrators) who do care to engage and fight. "Faculties: A Diaogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times @dukepress.bsky.social UP bookshop.org/p/books/facu...

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"The Government cannot escape liability for DOGE’s work by scapegoating ChatGPT." A US judge slammed DOGE's use of AI in a decision today blocking the termination of $100M in humanities grants, finding DOGE lacked authority and unlawfully based decisions on race and viewpoint buff.ly/Qw0qcDH

If you’re an academic and you use generative AI in your writing I have zero respect for you. If u tell me this I am not nodding or being sanctimonious I am throwing up

I have a very specific question about washing inscriptions from early modern books that I wonder if anyone can help with: is there a chance the water used would be salt water?

The only AI thread literary studies needs

Still think we should float cis white dudes out to sea on a barge. It's the only way

a) this is a super cool and unusual discovery b) strongly suspect that it is a case of semi-shoddy burial practices rather than a special ritual use of Homer - the embalmer was most likely sans correct ritual papyrus, and grabbed any old papyrus lying about which means ... (1/2)

Because what everyone really wants is a Tuesday night game between 19-13 Wake Forest and 18-14 Mississippi State

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This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Deadline approaching for our grant-supported Institutes on Reading and Writing Pedagogy in California, Louisians, Michigan, Utah, and Wisconsin. www.mla.org/Events/MLA-I...

This pendant world, in bigness as a star/ Of smallest magnitude close by the moon

Stop callinge them "data centers" and start callinge them "slop peripherals" www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...

no, it simply isnt. People are talking about capital using gAI as an excuse to conduct mass lay-offs, about students losing learning because theyre being lied to about gAI in education, about the mass theft of the work of artists and authors to train LLMs, about CSAM and nonconsensual sexual images.

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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It was wrong and harmful - and quite possibly unlawful - to cut already approved NEH grants because Donald Trump hates "DEI." But the way DOGE went about doing it was even dumber than you probably imagined. They fed abstracts into ChatGPT and demanded an answer in fewer than 120 characters.

RIP, Einstein bot? companion.ai/einstein

very important video please watch

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

The booke of love ys long & boringe No folk kan lyft the damned thinge Crammid ful of charters & lore & rubrics And ynstructiouns for daunsing - But Ich? Ich love it whan thou readest to me; And thee, thou kanst reade me eny thinge. ("The Book of Love" by The Magnetic Fields)

Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k) www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

I second this! Today colleagues received messages purporting to share files from their Department Head (me!) which I did not send. Be careful!

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

If you are an author who is writing about reproductive justice, well I have good news. The University of Iowa is launching a special book series focused on RJ and we are looking for contributors. Details on the website and a kick off event tomorrow! lrj.sites.uiowa.edu

Today marks six months since nearly 70% of staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities were fired without cause. If you do nothing else today, please read and *share* this recent article outlining what this year, mostly without us, has looked like at #NEH. archived: archive.is/LgVyh

Upcoming Margaret Cavendish Society Conference! Call For Papers: www.unb.ca/fredericton/...

If you’re in the Deep South and you want EC on hand, we’ve got you. Discreet, free, and delivered with the kind of care our state refuses to provide.

"[R]eflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." zenodo.org/records/1567...

The seminar on Women, Gender, and Culture in the Early Modern World invites YOU to our December 4 Zoom seminar with @laradodds.bsky.social and Michelle M. Dowd! They will discuss their new book on early modern women's writing. 5:30pm Eastern. Register here: wellesley.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Y'all, It's TOMORROW. Imani Perry and Tananarive Due discuss a titan of Afrofuturist fiction, Octavie E. Butler, and her masterwork, "Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogenesis Trilogy". My favorite is"Dawn" Mon, Nov 24 from 6- 7pm EST Online, Free www.eventbrite.com/e/the-radica... #Lit #OctaviaEButler

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

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I can’t believe how stupid everything is

Ok, but how are the robots going to feel when they find out ‘robot’ comes from the Czech word ‘robota’ which means “forced labor”??

At this point, it seems all too quaint to call AI a bubble; it's a black hole. It's all you're allowed to think or talk about, when you're allowed to think or talk at all. Students whose entire lives will be poorer and sadder because of AI have learned to praise it instinctively, imagine […]

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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...