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Anna-Lise Santella

@anna-lise.bsky.social
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Musicologist, editor of really big books, player of assorted string instruments, retired Jeopardy! champion; opinions are my own, not my employer’s

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, feminist trailblazer and award-winning journalist, dies at 92.
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Gloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, dies
A pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please check out this wonderful review of Defending the Music reviewed by John Adams in the @nytimes.com Book Review. Congratulations to editors Susan Feder, Jacob Jahiel, and Marc Mandel!
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From the Kindertransport to The Boston Globe: Remembering a Master Music Critic (Gift Article)
“The eloquence and depth of his prose remain for me the gold standard,” John Adams writes of Michael Steinberg, who excelled at his craft in the 1960s and ’70s.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/08/2026
Every word of this:
The material poverty of the constituent disciplines have long held humanistic scholarship back, back especially from full participation in creating public knowledge in the company of other fields. This poverty is a standing invitation for the categorical dismissals, the snobbish incredulity that runs through the report.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Please submit your abstract for the Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience! The deadline is 01 September 2026 and we want to hear from you! Details at the link below; and you can read the first batch of published articles here: academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The decision by Trump to dissolve USAID — once the world’s largest humanitarian donor — gutted maternal and neonatal care, decimated nutrition programs for millions of pregnant women and children, and left scores of birthing centers devoid of equipment and medicine..." apnews.com/article/usai...
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USAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dying
The Associated Press has found that the decision by the United States to slash its foreign aid funding last year has increased pregnancy complications and deaths in Nepal.
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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+
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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This was a delight.
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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I’ve gone on at length about this, and am working with the many, many others behind the scenes, but if you are alumnae (yes I fempluralized) or simply an admirer of the program, and you care about the future of the program, you might send your notes to the provost’s office. The general idea is that
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Currently in the middle of a pine forest in Maine listening to a brass band playing Pink Pony Club while two Irish step dancers practice on the porch of a neighboring cabin. I love you, #mainefiddlecamp
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Check out the launch of @academic.oup.com Oxford Intersections: Environmental Change and Human Experience Here are the Food articles. If you are interested in writing for the Food series reach out! Many other cool topics as well academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Oxford Intersections: Environmental Change and Human Experience
Abstract. Environmental change is a fundamental concern across the humanities and social sciences. This Intersection explores the changing interrelationshi
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Gabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Are you writing about food with an environmental aspect? #EnvHist #FoodHist #FoodStudies Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections is a fast, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
Dutch still life with shellfish, oysters, lemon, orange, grapes, olives and knocked over silver saltshaker.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The Oxford Intersection on Environmental Change and Human Experience is seeking submissions across its different sections. I am editing 'Water' and would love to see more articles on -Rivers/freshwater More-than-human perspectives Militaries & water Trade & transport academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Current Calls for Papers
Oxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Want to write a peer-reviewed, Oxford Intersections article on the #EnvHist of disasters? Check out our call for papers! Oxford Intersections offers a quick, respected, high-impact publishing format - perfect for new research in environmental history. academic.oup.com/oxford-inter...
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Flatbush porch audio, July, 6:45 pm: -red Dodge pickup blasting Enya (Sail Away) -slow moving cyclist playing Miles Davis (Bitches Brew) -Toyota van playing Bhangra -horns blasting as 4!cars enter the intersection without observing the stop signs
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
The cicadas have woken up in Brooklyn. It’s the earliest I remember hearing them here.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It is nearly midnight.
Screen shot from a weather app showing a temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Trump and Republicans radically raised health insurance premium costs -- doubling them on average -- and so 5 million Americans who used to have health insurance now can't afford it. More than half the people who have this kind of health insurance live in GOP districts: www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...
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5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket
Enrollment in Affordable Care Act insurance fell much more sharply in the first months of 2026 than it has in years past. Trump officials blame fraud. Health policy experts blame costs.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Was woken up this morning by someone whistling “It’s a Hard-Knock Life” outside my window. Hoping this isn’t an omen for the day.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
"Mr. Pelley also wrote that senior managers at CBS News had pressured him to insert bias into stories for “60 Minutes” this past season, though he did not provide details about specific segments." Pretty important part of the story re his firing. Maybe *the* most important part. CBS = new Fox.
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CBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’
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Stephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/05/2026
Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.
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Benjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This a hell of a move to make when professors are rapidly moving back to paper everything …
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Jordan Carmalt Stokes @floreustebius.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
There’s so much going on right now that the ever-growing attempt to erase trans people is slipping by some folks.
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Chris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I see they’re axing their undergrad degrees in music theory and musicology as well. OSU has an outstanding music theory program and (no inside knowledge) I would bet you that the faculty maintain this small major on top of their regular teaching load at a cost of zero additional resources
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
“To the extent that we reduce or restrict the humanities to strictly conscious and intentional rational or cognitive modes, or, frankly, social and historical modes,we will not see all that the humanities already are. [1/2]
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
3 editors, including my colleague Dan Taber, discuss University presses (and I am hoping for a "collaborative, combative, considered" @academic.oup.com T-shirt) www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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3 University Press Editors, 6 Publishing Questions
Susan D’Agostino talks with editors at Oxford, Princeton and UNC Press about book acquisition meetings, unconventional book launches and words in book proposals that make their hearts sink.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
When the alt text is even better than the photos (this whole account is stellar in this regard; h/t @robertahannah.bsky.social )
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Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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Sarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Making philosophy inclusive means not only translating from English, but finding ways to express philosophical ideas in ones own language. This insight comes from Cesar Schirmer and Gabriel Zaccaro and their project translating philosophy of memory into Portuguese. Check it out! #philsky #philscisky
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
'some creative arts graduates don’t appear to earn a significant graduate premium, but the UK’s creative industries are worth £125bn a year or, to put it another way, more than £1 in every £20 in the UK economy – a larger proportion of the nation’s wealth than almost any other country on earth.' 1/3
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Creative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidy
Johnny Rich argues that low graduate salaries in the arts aren't a sign of poor courses – they're a sign of an industry that profits from exploiting its workforce
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Really important piece in today's @nytimes.com about possible, disastrous next target of MAGA wrecking ball: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/a... H/t to my friend @timothynoah.bsky.social for pioneering on this story: newrepublic.com/article/2010...
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It’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The GOP blames women for undermining them on issues like abortion & ICE & thus hopes to pass the “SAVE Act,” which will make it harder for married women who changed their last names to vote. But they want you to think it’s about “election integrity”. 1/31/26 #HandmaidsTale 1/
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This one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa Mahdawi
The Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/01/2026
BREAKING: Republican lawmakers unveil the Make Elections Great Again Act — a new bill that would impose the most extreme federal voting restrictions in history. The measure would go beyond the SAVE Act by imposing strict voter ID to vote, mandating voter roll purges, banning mail voting and more.
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New GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights ever
The MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
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John Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Bob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21/01/2026
If ICE is now training new officers that they can forcibly enter residences based on an administrative warrant, "more training" is not the solution to our ICE problems.
The memo itself has not been widely shared within the agency, according to a whistleblower complaint, but its contents have been used to train new ICE officers who are being deployed into cities and towns to implement the president’s immigration crackdown. New ICE hires and those still in training are being told to follow the memo’s guidance instead of written training materials that actually contradict the memo, according to the whistleblower disclosure.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
saving this screenshot forever
screenshot of Fox News broadcast with chyron "frozen pickle yells at ice" and a man in a pickle suit, with a face on it that has a little blep toungue, is facing the camera
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Jenny with a Green Ribbon Around Her Neck @readingtheend.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
FREE MINNEAPOLIS
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
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The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
this seems specifically designed to break mail-in voting (where deadlines are defined by postmark)
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
finally meaningful bipartisan legislation
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Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Hi I fixed it. (seriously extremely grateful, always, for the HUMANS who peer review academic books)
Image of the TIME book cover that says person of the year: Human Peer Reviewers
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
RIP Raul Malo youtu.be/QVcZALxO7f8?...
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The Mavericks - What A Crying Shame
YouTube video by Nor'west Arch
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Jon Pareles @jonpareles.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
#BandcampFriday reminder. Musicians can use the support.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This is absolute perfection. And also, it Linda Shaver-Gleason would have loved this.
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Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Getting my house prepped knee surgery recovery and why do medical supplies sound like they were branded by Homer Simpson?
Photo of a medical ice pack reading Rester’s Choice—relieves pain easily
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