Reposted by Antonia AlksnisJack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Teaching Swift today, and will always share this on “Modest Proposal” day. 581794374
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisArrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 22/09/2026It is a must read. Here is the unlocked 🔓 article for everyone: archive.is/XKGxY 0119
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Recently reminded of when I got commissioned to do a few illustrations for Italian audiobook covers about #romanhistory Got sad; future beginner artists won’t get opportunities like this. Small companies that used to be willing to pay ~50 € for little illustrations will just use AI. 010
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 11/09/2026I also find it hilarious how universities are justifying these expenditures using the language of 'equity.'"If we don't buy these tools for everyone, then only the rich kids will be able to afford them, and that's unfair." But you don't buy books assigned by profs for anyone? Why not subsidize that! 644580
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisLaura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Can’t let people see how many women died from the new abortion laws before they vote 13986398
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026How many times has Satan tempted you to neglect Learning, and follow Gaming? 88327
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026What if we made a petition for free coffee to be served more frequently #APSA2026 110
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Flight to #APSA2026 will /allegedly/ be departing after 9 hrs in the airport and 1 cancelled flight. Phone is getting nonstop emergency warnings for "DESTRUCTIVE WINDS." But I can't give up. It's too important that I share my absolutely groundbreaking research on Rousseau's stupid romance novel. 010
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisThe Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 25/08/2026BREAKING: Doug Ford challenges Donald Trump to a corruption fight in the school parking lotthebeaverton.comBREAKING: Doug Ford challenges Donald Trump to a corruption fight in the school parking lotQUEEN’S PARK - Ontario’s premier has officially challenged the President of the United States to a corruption fight in a parking lot behind a local Etobicoke high school. 42925289
Reposted by Antonia Alksnisthey/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I think the biggest thing here is that people’s reading comprehension and general communication skills aren’t good enough even to notice when the AI is substantially changing their meaning. This just caps off decades of criminal, willful neglect of our education system. 24711
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026What if I made a playlist that’s just the Misters 000
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisLinotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Universities take note about using private cloud vendors for their infrastructure. 0185
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Opened my old copy of Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan, and apparently I used my jury summons for a bookmark 000
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisEmerence 🍁 @damemyniah.bsky.social · 07/08/2026If you’re a Canadian, a junk drawer must contain Canadian Tire money. 2351
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisDaniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Check out Simone Edgar Holmes's review of Nicholas Walton's "Orange Sky, Rising Water: The Remarkable Past and Uncertain Future of the Netherlands," published in 2025 by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social #envhist #envhum www.h-net.org/reviews/show...h-net.org 023
Reposted by Antonia Alksniswill pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026incredible discovery here: the 1762 original of the ha ha ha yes sicko cartoon courtesy of thomas waters new book “Magic” 13494156
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Rousseau at some point I hope 👀 He was so delightfully obsessed with how clothes affected politics and vice versa 020
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisFabula, la recherche en littérature @fabula.org · 21/07/2026Rousseau et les inégalités. Une série de podcasts édités par la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau www.fabula.org/actualites/135704/ro…fabula.orgRousseau et les inégalités. Une série de podcasts édités par la Société Jean-Jacques RousseauRousseau et les inégalités. Un cycle de rencontres organisé par la Société J.-J. Rousseau en partenariat avec la Maison Rousseau et Littérature. Les cinq rencontres du cycle Rousseau et les inégalités sont désormais disponibles en... 011
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026My job is the best bc sometimes I’m wrestling with complex philosophical arguments and moral & political problems, and sometimes I’m laughing at ugly #18thC pictures of frogs. And both tasks are equally important to my research. 231
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the great irony is that Trump has exempted Canada's abundant fossil fuels from the tariffs he just imposed in retaliation for the border-scorning smoke generated by climate-change-fueled forest fires www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...nytimes.comTrump to Impose 50% Tariff on Many Canadian GoodsThe administration will use an untested legal provision to put significant duties on Canadian exports, reigniting a clash with one of America’s biggest trading partners. 1103
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisSandyLee🍁 @leeram.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Doug Ford and Mark Carney post posted about pipelines today. 21812
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 14/07/20268 years ago today I first laid eyes upon one of the greatest works of art ever made. Under-appreciated masterpiece. 000
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Library etiquette back in the day was just awful. Someone straight up took a chomp out of this page smh 220
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 15/06/2026my privacy is worth 6 dollars and 15 cents #facebook 010
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisNatalia Luka @nataliyan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026One of my growing pet peeves is people clearly using AI to write an email that just needed to say: “Got it, thanks” but instead is a 200 word essay that sounds like it was written by a diplomatic mission 1357
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisNina Marotta ☢️💙 @mrschief7.bsky.social · 07/05/2026What I guess I don't understand is that I'm seeing a lot of the general public saying we should sink the Hondius and all it's passengers to "prevent another pandemic"... But I thought the general consensus was that COVID was nothing? 🤔 I'm just tryna understand the median voter... 241
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 29/04/2026get high-resolution images through the power of duplicity. follow for more political theory hacks. 041
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisSandra L Lester 🇨🇦 #KillBill22 @sandrallester.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Doug Ford is ramming through legislation right NOW that will HIDE Doug Ford’s text messages!!!! Right now!!!! In the middle of the night!! 🌒 Please repost and sign NOW: #ONpoli releasedougstexts.careleasedougstexts.caRelease Doug's TextsWhat Is He Covering Up? 077
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisMarilyn777 @marilynsargeant.bsky.social · 23/04/2026mikeschreinergpo Right now, Doug Ford is holding a late-night sitting to ram his shady FOI changes through the legislature. Just how much corruption is Ford trying to cover up? He needs to be removed. 201
Reposted by Antonia Alksniskatt-888bsky.social 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 @katt-888.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Add your voice now to support Marit Stiles' motion to Ban Predatory Pricing in Ontario! share.nwmd.social/s/haVw0mEishare.nwmd.socialBan Predatory Pricing Now! 134
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisLouise Seamster @louiseseamster.bsky.social · 15/03/2026“Educational institutions are like beekeepers,” according to the report. “While their principal aim is to provide education and raise people’s earnings, in the process they create an array of external benefits...society indirectly benefits, just as orchard owners indirectly benefit from beekeepers.” 13816
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisDr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 14/03/2026🚨 A new frontier of coordinated disinformation. Fossil fuel industry front groups are using AI platforms to flood clean air regulators with fake public comments—submitted under real residents' names, without their consent. @robbonta.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...sfchronicle.com‘This was forged’: Residents deny sending emails pushing Bay Area air policy changeAt least 10 people listed as sending letters in favor of an air quality policy change said they have no recollection of doing so and weren’t even aware of the proposal in the Bay Area. 18543359
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Recently realized that when I circulate working papers, I have to start asking people not to use AI to read it. Not sure how to phrase the request to balance force, explanation, and brevity, without sounding like the crazy killjoy I am. 110
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 06/03/2026struck the space key by mistake, making a strangely poignant typo 020
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisAntonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely! 068
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 21/12/2025New in Political Theory, by me: Does this guy's chain look like a necklace to you? ↓ Scholars have treated it as a necklace. By reading it as a chain instead, I recover Rousseau's paradoxical insight: pride can help us escape corrupt, unequal social conditions journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 070
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisKari Maaren @angrykem.bsky.social · 20/12/2025The whole point of being an academic is that you need to be willing to spend three days creating a 700-word footnote that you will later delete. And you need to LIKE IT. 24896162
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Now open: call for abstracts for the 2026 Berkeley Graduate Conference on Political Theory Keynote: John T. Scott (UC Davis) Submission deadline: January 31 Date: April 11 Submission form: forms.gle/xZUupQbhSfD7... Please circulate widely! 068
Antonia Alksnis @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social · 15/11/2025While home sick for a few days, I successfully broke my caffeine addiction! ☕ ❌ 😌 Here's how it's impacting my life & work 👇🧵 100
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisCongresswoman Lateefah Simon @replsimon.bsky.social · 28/10/2025I joined my Democratic colleagues in instructing USDA Secretary Rollins to use SNAP’s emergency reserves to keep food assistance flowing for the 42 million Americans who rely on it, including 16 million children, and 4 million people with disabilities. (1/3) 29631
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 31/10/2025look, I'm no fan of the Bourbons, or of monarchy in general for that matter -- but to invoke them to characterize Trump is I think deeply unfair to Versailles and the French absolutist monarchy 2175
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisAlexander Agadjanian @agadjanian.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Department floor is having a halloween door decor contest, I think our office wins for scariest @antoniaalksnis.bsky.social 051
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisMeagan Tyler @drmeagantyler.bsky.social · 29/10/2025The writing / academic-ish / research meme side-quest continues! And with halloween almost upon us, what could be scarier than Reviewer 2? #highered #academicsky #resdev 2448
Reposted by Antonia AlksnisPaul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself) CFP and submission guidelines can be found here: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...read.dukeupress.eduSubmission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University PressSubmission Guidelines | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press Submission Guidelines CALL FOR PAPERS Special issue of French Historical Studies on European-Indigenous ... 17048