Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wrong Anna-Lise, I think, but congratulations on passing the torch! 110
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaNBC News @nbcnews.com · 03/09/2026BREAKING: Gloria Steinem, feminist trailblazer and award-winning journalist, dies at 92. nbcnews.toGloria Steinem, fierce feminist trailblazer, diesA pioneering activist and journalist, Steinem was one of the women’s liberation movement’s most outspoken advocates. 1112083
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Please 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!nytimes.comFrom 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. 140
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/08/2026Every word of this: 03416
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Please 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... 011
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaRachel 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...apnews.comUSAID fallout: In Nepal, when the aid workers stopped coming, the women and babies started dyingThe 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. 16322211180
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I 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.+ 21920550
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaIrina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 18/08/2026This was a delight. 0103
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaAdia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I’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 5353181
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Currently 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 0110
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaGabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Check 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...academic.oup.comOxford Intersections: Environmental Change and Human ExperienceAbstract. Environmental change is a fundamental concern across the humanities and social sciences. This Intersection explores the changing interrelationshi 064
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaGabriella M. Petrick, Ph.D. 🍇🍇🍇 @gpetrick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Are 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... 079
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaMarianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/07/2026The 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...academic.oup.comCurrent Calls for PapersOxford Intersections reflects the critical role that peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research plays in helping policy- and decision-makers tackle the world 3109
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaDagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Want 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... 11413
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Flatbush 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 060
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 05/07/2026I find this fascinating. I was involved in a sit-in my freshman year of college and the process of trying to have conversations amongst all of us involved ended up with us largely reinventing Robert’s Rules. 040
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The cicadas have woken up in Brooklyn. It’s the earliest I remember hearing them here. 030
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Am currently dissolving into a puddle at the Essex St station. 130
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Trump 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...npr.org5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocketEnrollment 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. 15326931189
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Was 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. 050
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaMehdi 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.nytimes.comCBS News Fires Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ 431116823586
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaStephen Monteith, World's Greatest Secret Author @stephens.website · 29/05/2026Why 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. 0382150
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I 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. 16639329
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 27/05/2026This a hell of a move to make when professors are rapidly moving back to paper everything … 13812
Reposted by Anna-Lise Santellaeileen 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...fnl.mit.eduLament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter 551526684
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Every now and then I think fondly of Geocities University (i think that was what it was called), where humans taught other humans how to code websites. For free. Graded my assignments and everything. 0151
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaJoanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 05/05/2026There’s so much going on right now that the ever-growing attempt to erase trans people is slipping by some folks. 1518873
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaChris Brody @chrisbrody.bsky.social · 17/04/2026I 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 22810
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 17/04/2026And we will make them increasingly culturally irrelevant and spiritually insignificant.” —Jeffrey K. Kristal, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents, Moral Objections , New Realities [2/2] #talkaboutthehumanities 020
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] 150
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 07/04/20263 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...insidehighered.com3 University Press Editors, 6 Publishing QuestionsSusan 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. 030
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 28/03/2026When the alt text is even better than the photos (this whole account is stellar in this regard; h/t @robertahannah.bsky.social ) 031
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaMary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...newrepublic.comPalantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic PowerThey’re saying the quiet part out loud now. 21523411490
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaSarah Robins @sarahrobins.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Making 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 0123
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaMargot 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.' 1/3wonkhe.comCreative arts graduates aren't the problem – they're the subsidyJohnny 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 517193
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/02/2026Really 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...nytimes.comIt’s Been Called the ‘Sistine Chapel of the New Deal.’ Don’t Destroy It. 12424159
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaJenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 31/01/2026The 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/theguardian.comThis one weird trick could stop US women from voting | Arwa MahdawiThe Save Act – which would do the opposite of its title – could have a huge impact on the midterm elections 581369839
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaDemocracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 29/01/2026BREAKING: 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.democracydocket.comNew GOP anti-voting bill may be the most dangerous attack on voting rights everThe MEGA Act represents one of the most catastrophic proposals for democracy in the United States. 94609510
Anna-Lise Santella @anna-lise.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Pomodoro is the only reason I can still function in this environment 020
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Huh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty. 234133143713
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaJohn Drake @johndrake.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Wake 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 7569411408
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026A 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. 5154719314178
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaBob Collins @mylittlebloggie.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Today's murder courtesy of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. 4407134
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaAna Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 21/01/2026If 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. 311563495
Reposted by Anna-Lise SantellaMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/01/2026saving this screenshot forever 027254