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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 23h

You can never really sit on a park bench again, I'm afraid

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Anthony Reed @blackpoetics.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

📣Everybody! Vanderbilt English is hiring a tenured associate professor of Global Modernism. We especially welcome candidates who study Anglophone modernisms comparatively alongside other modernist traditions of the early 20th century. Please help me get the word out! apply.interfolio.com/194557

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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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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Banger cover -- can't wait to read!

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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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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I could barely make it through Fire Weather, it was so harrowing

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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I taught Ducks alongside Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were with bits of @mltondre.bsky.social's Object Lessons on Oil. We even had a workshop were they drew 6-panel graphic narratives exploring their relationships with oil. All very good, if challenging work

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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 · 30/07/2026

I just flinched reading this 😅

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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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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Excited for you to get to the ending

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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I recently read this one too -- It is WILD

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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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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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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In my book I discuss how Austen uses "very minor" characters at the end of novels (Susan in MP, Marianne in S&S and Anna Weston in Emma) to imagine/conjecture counterfactual iterations of the main characters' fates

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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Not quite the same, but I'm about to start teaching Bleak House serially for the third time. It's a Victorian lit course but the theoretical focus is seriality

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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

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James Gardner @jegcomposer.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Eviscerating thread… 🧵

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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Oh wow--didn't know this existed 😯

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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 · 03/04/2026

This looks like an amazing issue--congrats, can't wait to read!

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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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Adam Grener @adamgrener.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Is this the Ohio one? I might have to watch 🫣

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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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