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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is why I can’t do drugs, friends… JUST SAY NO, me! 😆

Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Ah, the magic of those first moments after my morning tea, when I’m soaring the great heights of caffeine & glucose & I can accomplish *anything/ everything*… 5 min later it wears off & the executive dysfunction whacks me in the face, but I dream in those post-tea moments!

White porcelain teacup and saucer of milky black tea, sitting on a wooden table.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

LOVE this. My Blockbuster video card (from my early twenties) sits alongside my childhood library card, and both have pride of place amongst my keepsakes!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We do the things that keep us interested and having fun!

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I asked a former coworker I haven’t seen in a decade if she wanted to go lie in the grass and cry with me and she said yes enthusiastically so I think I will start asking other people this rather than drinks/coffee

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I feel this deep in my soul (and as I sit on my couch and stare at my yoga mat on the other side of the room).

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I DON’T KNOW because I am no longer a youth and have sadly lost all my youthspeak. Sigh. (And lol).

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Side note: I officially just followed you based on these posts (because I’m interested in this topic, too), but REALLY I followed because of your knowledge of the 😂 vs the 💀 of the youth. HELPFUL. ✅

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Happy Trans Day of Visibility, peeps! 🏳️‍⚧️❤️ (Image by Transpainter on Insta).

Image of flowers with “trans rights are human rights.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

To whoever did this at the #NoKings in Boston: Thank you.❤️ It made me tear up. And we must to be reminded of needless damage to humanity that results directly from the careless, bellicose bluster coming from the Pentagon and White House.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Get out there, my US peeps! Be joyful but careful. ✊❤️ NO KINGS. NO ICE. NO WAR.

Poster from ACLU stating “know your protest rights.”

Yellow poster advertising No Kings and featuring an image of the US covered with blue circles representing protests.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

That’s wild! I’ve been reading a bit into the history of US English Education (as it does and doesn’t relate to the development of YA lit), and the Cold War parallels are also feeling VERY familiar right now…!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

PS Keith Brymer Jones’s teary exclamations of “it’s brilliant” are my ideal form of masculinity. ❤️ (Seriously: watch it—you’ll see what I mean. As the kids might say, we love a supportive king)!

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a man in a yellow shirt is making a face with his hands

Alt: a man in a yellow shirt is saying “it’s brilliant.”

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

My lurgy continues… …so I blow my nose and sleep on the couch while watching episodes of the Great Pottery Throwdown and trying not to fall into nostalgia for the time before we entered the Fourth Order of simulacra. Wheee! 🏺💃🏻

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

I like this form of partying. 👍 (I’d even attend the rave version of this form of partying…)

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It’s weird, right? I feel like quotation marks are no longer working, and it autocorrects to its own terms (even though those terms don’t apply to what we want)! It’s like: algorithms and large learning models may give us what the general population seems to want, but not what the individual wants…

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Strong recommendation to teaching faculty to just say no to this stuff, even if you are AI curious/enthusiastic. This is meant to reduce faculty autonomy and capture human labor with automation. You're selling out your future self and the profession as a whole. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

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Canvas Unrolls AI Teaching Agent

The new AI agent aims to save faculty time on “low-value tasks,” but stops short of fully automating grading. But some experts worry that the rise of agentic AI could lead to a dead classroom, where c...

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Admittedly, I’ve switched to DuckDuckGo, but I’m wondering if some of these tools might work on it, as well. 🤔 My fave, unlisted tool: adding -ai to a Google search bypasses the automatic AI summary.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

THIS. Cutting based on numbers in majors and minors is a lazy form of administration, and one that disproportionately affects the arts and humanities. Do the hard work of factoring in nuance & allow students to take the courses that let them grow as humans, and not just as future workers…

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

SAME! (Ah, to be young and able to focus again…) 😆

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Oh, I so know what you mean, and do the same thing! (I'll admit that I wish I were one of those people who could listen to music as they write, but... I need the full and total silence. Alas!)

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Must write. I use the vibes from images to keep me focused, but I’m starting to think it’s a bit weird to do so… 😆 Still, it helps me. I get bored, hop onto social media (usually evil FB, alas), see these, and flow back into a writing vibe. Anyone else do this?! #academicSky #DarkAcademia

Wooden table with an open copy of Pride and Prejudice next to a cup of tea.

Three shelves filled with library books.

Dark wooden door with a metal plaque that says “Library.”

Peeling papers that show the close-up of a painted eye.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I just saw videos of two different men being kidnapped by I*E this morning, 5 minutes from where I live. Dear world: Don’t come here. Don’t buy US goods. Pressure your governments for sanctions against the US. No human is illegal. Never support this.

A man is being kidnapped by ICE agents. Two are holding him, and a third man, fully masked, is nearby. Guns are clearly visible on two of the agents.

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

2026 basically

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I measure my life in discussion posts and emails. You don’t know how good you had it, Prufrock.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Please enjoy this photo of leftover chocolate cake with two wishes stuck into it. The cake was gluten free so that we could all enjoy it. The wishes were whimsical and written on pink paper flags. In sum: in these dangerous times, I’m learning how to live BEAUTIFULLY through cake & good people! 💖

Narrow slice of double-layer chocolate cake on a large white plate. Two pink flags are sticking out of the icing on the cake.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It was an absolute privilege to work with these wonderful scholars. I hope that people enjoy this special issue on YA and series and romance!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Giant thank you to @groenbot.bsky.social and @benfried.bsky.social for organizing this terrific conference. Not to sound too hopelessly enthusiastic, but I'm really enjoying hearing about all of the ideas that will emerge in the Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary Editing!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I just finished participating in a WONDERFUL panel with Claire Battershill and Alice Staveley. They gave a fabulous presentation on their investigation of Virginia Woolf as an editor (SO interesting and thought-provoking), and I yammered on about junior novel editors and the making of American YA!

Presentation slide with the words "JUNIOR NOVEL" beside an image of the novel, Seventeenth Summer, and the novel's author, Maureen Daly.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Oh gosh, I totally understand that doubled-conference experience! I was able to watch your panel, but then had to dash to run a session at another online conference, and so never heard your Q&A! (Why do all of the good conferences seem to happen simultaneously?!) 😆

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Okay, this sign is GOALS!!! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for sharing!!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It is ***BEAUTIFUL*** and I love it! 👏👏👏👏👏 Thanks for sharing!!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Okay, peeps. I need No Kings Day sign ideas. Have you made your sign? Care to share it?

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

I've REALLY enjoyed attending the #QueerBibliography conference these last couple of days! Giant THANKS to the organizers: Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social, Kirsten MacLeod @abroadabroad.bsky.social, and Sam Bailey @18thcenturysam.bsky.social! May there be more Queer Bibliographies to come!🌈

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Ack—and Sonya Sawyer Fritz! I can’t believe I missed including her in this list of fabulousness!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

About to drop into what looks like a FABULOUS #ChLA2025 panel titled "Girls and Maturation in 19th-Century Transatlantic Literature," featuring Anne Phillips, @melaniejfishbane.bsky.social, and Miranda Green-Barteet (who I'm pretty sure is here on BSky, but I can't remember her @)!

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Just thinking about how calling Greta Thunberg’s boat a “selfie yacht” is an example of the type of anti-feminist, ageist discourse that uses popular aspects of girl culture to undermine and ridicule.

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Valid. (I wouldn't either, if I didn't live here currently).

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm getting legit scared to re-enter the country once I leave.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/03/2025

restoredcdc.org/www.cdc.gov/

BREAKING: Volunteers have recreated the Old CDC Website from before Trump took office here: restoredcdc.org
Please Share

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Amanda K. Allen @amandaallenphd.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Happy International Women's Day, peeps!

Illustration of many women from different racial and cultural backgrounds. The superimposed text reads "International Women's Day! Our day is intersectional and trans-inclusive!"

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 05/03/2025

American exceptionalism is the bill of goods they sold you so that you wouldn't realize that other countries give workers rights, reasonable minimum wages, and health care that isn't job dependent.

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AAUP @aaup.org · 05/03/2025

Our colleges & universities should encourage, not suppress, open & vigorous dialogue & debate about even the most deeply held beliefs. Trump’s threats against student protesters are antithetical to the mission of higher education. We strongly condemn them. www.aaup.org/news/threats...

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Threats to Student Protest Are Antithetical to the Mission of Higher Education

The AAUP defends the right to free speech and peaceful protest on college and university campuses, a time-honored tradition protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Donald T...

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