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Adam Grener

@adamgrener.bsky.social
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English Literatures and Creative Communication Programme, Te Herenga Waka; curious about c19 and nonhuman worlds; co-director of dickensnotes.org

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are delighted to be hosting three brilliant keynotes at Unsettling Shakespeare - the biennial ANZSA conference: Vanessa Corredera, Nandini Das, and Te Haumihiata Mason. Come join us! Paper proposals due 15 October! - conference.anzsa.org/keynote-spea...
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Keynote Speakers – Unsettling Shakespeare
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A question for those involved in PhD literature admissions: I'm gathering resources for MA students considering PhDs. It's been a while, y'all! Any advice/insights/tips that you'd be happy for me to pass on to students? (I'll paraphrase but also happy to share attributed quotes.)
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
... rather than protecting our rights: to clean air and water, to privacy, to good education, to healthcare, etc. And rather than doing something about the massive wealth inequality all of this is also driving. >>
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Actively resisting is not ignoring 😎
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Crystal Palace Dinos @cpdinosaurs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
An incredible photo from a great vantage point! Shots from the 1970s are fairly rare 🏆
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I wrote about the importance of literary friction and how the acts of thinking and learning and growing are anathema in our increasingly fascistic world. Which is all the more reason to double down on them. lithub.com/in-praise-of...
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In Praise of “Wordy, Old Prose.” (Or, F*ck Your AI Reading Buddy)
More than two years ago I wrote an angry piece about how lame the bulletpointization of books is: the point of reading and engaging with books is not so the reader can consume little bullet points …
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
When i see the words "thought leader" I know I do not have take that person seriously at all
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Anna Gibson @annagk.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Are you teaching Dickens this semester? Check out our new teaching resources at Dickens Notes, and consider incorporating the working notes and serial publication into your course!
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Teaching Dickens this year? Check out the updated teaching section of Dickens Notes for ideas and resources for incorporating attention to serial form and compositional process into the classroom.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
An ethical stance like this is expensive as well as honourable: “It's so wrong. Our role is to keep books alive, to keep them in the world. We're book lovers. We want books for the good of humanity, not just to transfer knowledge for private profit, going into building LLM machines.” 👏🏻
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com
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AGAINST AI -
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Thank you for your service🫡
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Click the link to read our first ever Book Talk! Book Talks include an hour of conversation between an author of a new book in Victorian studies with an interlocutor of their choice. Read the conversation between Nathan K. Hensley and Anna Gibson now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090
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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Still time to apply for the two-year Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, working with my stellar colleague Professor @maebhlong.bsky.social in the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies @universityofotago.bsky.social…🍀
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Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellow in Irish Studies
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
If you're in or around London on July 2nd, go hear @annagk.bsky.social talk about Dickens and compostional process!
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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Come join us! Te Herenga Waka is looking for a senior academic to join our climate change teaching and research programme - apply by Monday 22 June.
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
manual citations till I die 🤘
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
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Nose Stuck in a Book Blog @nsiabblog.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Books are amazing #booksky
Books are amazing bc a stranger from 200 years ago can still ruin your afternoon emotionally
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James Gardner @jegcomposer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Eviscerating thread… 🧵
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Here @parergon.bsky.social our call is open for proposals for special issue 45.2 (2028) - please circulate widely! www.parergon.org/index.php/pa...
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Parergon Call for Themed Issue (45.2 - 2028) | Parergon
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Please encourage any early career & NTT scholars doing fantastic work on Victorian poetries to submit to @victorianpoetry.bsky.social ‘s 2026 Early Career Prize — more info in the thread (have not had enough coffee, text of the call is embedded in a reply to the post linked below)!
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
single daffodil on George Eliot's grave today 💛
A single daffodil blooming from George Eliot's grave in Highgate Cemetery
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
What a wonderful day at the V&A / National Art Library talking about Dickens's Compostional Process and ways of engaging wide audiences with his material archive. @dickensnotes.bsky.social is on Bluesky now too 😀
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A slide of imperative verbs (addressed to himself? Or to the narrative?) gleaned from Dickens’s memoranda and notes as part of www.dickensnotes.com project and a session with the manuscripts themselves in the V&A National Art Library. Thanks to Anna Gibson and Adam Grener for a great workshop!
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
My general feeling is that every summary tool shortcuts the library shelf. In grad school there were few things I adored more than finding a book on the shelf bc I inevitably found six or seven other books on proximate shelves that I didn’t even know I needed! Process is the point!
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Dr Hannah Murray @hlmurray.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
You’d think that teaching and writing about books wouldn’t be that high risk a profession… and yet!!
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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Pretty much every winter Olympic sport--including curling--feels like a death sport to me
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
By cancelling the Climate Emergency Response Fund, the government was telling us there was nothing to see here. The past week has shown they could not have been more wrong. We need a government that takes climate change seriously because it's only going to get worse. #nzpol
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I used to teach an autobiography of an AI engineer in my robots in literature class where he supposed that all medieval monks could imagine as progress would be a bigger pen and parchment, but we know that the monks were conceiving of worlds insane enough to melt your eyeballs out of your head
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case. "My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
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Yorrike. @yorrike.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’d just like to remind everyone that the first iRex ferry would have just entered service had the coalition not cancelled them purely out of spite for the opposition, Wellington and the South Island.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Not sure why this dross, dated Dec 1, seems to be circulating now (and why it didn't cross my feed a month ago), but wow what a terrible essay. A few comments, in a short 🧵>> bigthink.com/the-present/...
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The rise of AI denialism
Computer scientist Louis Rosenberg argues that dismissing AI as a “bubble” or mere “slop” ignores the tectonic technological shift now unfolding.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It is EXHAUSTING not only being made responsible for coming up with new kinds of assignments for our students; it's also tedious reading op-eds that suggest the core problem is a crisis in teaching. But, as Chris and I lay out here, this isn't a crisis in teaching; it's an attack on learning.
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Zach Samalin @zachsamalin.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
When I went to college a hundred years ago (2000-4), my school was actively recruiting humanities majors, w scholarships etc. Institutions incentivize areas of study in order to grow them. And they underfund them intentionally to strangle them. It’s not a random natural phenomenon.
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
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Cathy Waters @catherinefaver.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In the Great Expectations country last Sunday, how’s this for a Dickensian scene @dickensfellowhq.bsky.social
Rotting ship timbers at low tide on marshes North Kent coast
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
For my book I thought a lot about this position, which really does rest on a presumption, nurtured by first world, usually male perspectives that have been shaped by habituation to empowerment, that for something to count as victory it has to be total & complete; anything else is “failure.” +
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
some days you just feel so lucky — this was one of them — i can’t believe i got the chance to share new work with such a generous, thoughtful audience — the very best version of academia — the whole conference was warm and sincere, a testament the kind of community-building nikki does 🤎
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 20/11/2025
“But the most absurd & preposterous of all… was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled ‘A company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is’” —Charles Mackay (1814–1889) on the South Sea Bubble, in Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Adjuncts, indie scholars, publishers, journal eds: please spread the word about this and help me do recon! It's so hard w/ social media being so fragmented to learn about all the great lit studies articles and books pub'd this year by contingent/indie folx. I know there's lots! Deadline: end of Nov.
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Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
This - the Wheatley Census - has been at the center of my research life for the last year (and a half, honestly)! Proud to finally share the first iteration of it publicly. Take a look. Poke around. And send me your info about copies you work with!
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
One of the biggest issues with the synthetic text extruding machines is that we have well-formed linguistic output with no accountability. Solution: OpenAI should be accountable for everything that comes out of ChatGPT, period. (And likewise for Google with Gemini, etc.)
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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Scholarship opportunity for MA with the wonderful @nikkihessell.bsky.social
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English Literatures & Creative Communication-THW @elccprogramme.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We have MA scholarships available for theses on 18th-century/Romantic poetry and/or settler colonialism and Indigenous sovereignty in poetry and other literary forms ... details here! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...
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MA scholarship in English | Scholarships | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
"Stop he's already dead" Simpsons' meme but it's George Eliot destroying Moby-Dick
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