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Ashley Rattner

@ashleyrattner.bsky.social
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Utopia enthusiast and former Internet personality

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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 3h
@ashleyrattner.bsky.social won an award tonight for her brilliant article about Benjamin Lundy in Early American Lit, but the real award was when she talked our septuagenarian & v cool tour guide into giving us a sneaky tour of the tunnels underneath the Oneida commune. He also let us into his apt.
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Chuck Pearson (he/him/etc.) @shorterpearson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Literature people: you WANT to work with Rattner.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My department is hiring in 20th-century American Literature! Happy to answer questions.
careers.jsu.edu
Assistant Professor of English (20th Century American Literature) - Jacksonville, AL (Main Campus), Alabama, United States
Assistant Professor of English, 20th Century American Literature Position Description We invite applications for an Assistant Professor of English in 20th-Century and Contemporary American Literature,...
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I learned who Riley Green is yesterday and now I can't stop saying "I wish every state had a Birmingham"
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could fix Raskolnikov
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
lol right? Has NYT opinion ever published a higher ed essay from a community college prof? Even one?
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I learn so much from my students
appalachiancryptid.com
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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution
nytimes.com
Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)
If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HOT TAKE: If your industry is impacted by this, you should pay workers with college degrees more.
npr.org
Under a new federal rule, colleges must leave grads better off or lose financial aid
If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, that program could be cut off from federal student loans. But is a degree just about making more money?
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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Justice for Sister Carrie
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Stop making Sense and Sensibility adaptations. No one has adapted McTeague for the screen since 1924
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/09/2026
Andy Beshear is proof that you can win a red state without abandoning trans people.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my dept sees a hopscotch version of this: -majors decline & class sizes contract -students love their smaller classes -…so much so that their friends start to take our classes -majors go up, enrollments per class rise -kids hate big classes …rn majors are up 25% from AY25 but I know what’s coming
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Actually that Taylor Swift album is about Grover Cleveland
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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You should not be doing three rounds of interviews for a campus club, you should be sitting on a porch listening to music with your friends. Early careerism is poison.
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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
My column from Monday. The emerging consensus to drop Alabama’s grocery tax (yes, non-Alabamians, we tax food) is a reminder that Alabama is only a low-tax state if you own a forest or reside in the top federal income tax bracket, and that we need top-to-bottom tax reform.
alabamareflector.com
Commentary: The grocery tax must go. But Alabama's tax system needs a complete overhaul. | Alabama Reflector
Alabama taxes people based largely on how important the state government views them. And that makes life in this state more expensive.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I wrote this story for Slate 3 years ago. It's an as-told-to perspective from the mom of a trans boy who accessed top surgery in Texas at 14 years old. This is the kind of Texas family who Talarico wants to ban from seeking healthcare. slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com
We’ve Been in Texas for Generations. Our Trans Kid Is Being Treated Here. It’s Getting Dark.
His doctors agree that this care is right for him.
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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"Now, some faculty and alumni blame her for fostering a culture where academic leaders aren’t held accountable to the same standards as students" "When rules around AI use are treated as 'optional for people in power, what exactly is the college expecting its faculty to be saying to its students?'"
bostonglobe.com
‘Tremendous hypocrisy’: Dartmouth provost accused of using AI to write op-ed about AI use - The Boston Globe
The news comes as the Ivy League school celebrates its 70th anniversary as the birthplace of artificial intelligence.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you find a puppy on the side of the road, you should automatically get three months off work.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nobody in RHOSLC's face moves anymore
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
About 29% of our daily cognitive load could be eliminated if we lived in an opt-in only culture.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got a new work laptop and so far the most prominent difference is there's a perpetually unread notification I can't turn off urging me to turn on Apple Intelligence
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You ever see a post that, for professional reasons, you want to print out and laminate
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Rachel Banner @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
back in the good old days, Emerson biographers used to acknowledge that it was extra-offensive when a young wife died a painful death if she was also hot.
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Phil Szostak @philszostak.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Malevolent Maelstrom @chemicalchaos.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026
yes it is
The gas prices sign from I Am Legend, regular is 6.63 a gallon
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The entire Internet is conspiring to try to force me to watch short form videos and I never want to see a short form video
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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So many solutions are to simply stop using AI and simply stop electing fascists. Very simple things to do.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
every day of my life I think about the people using “she” to describe this computer program who still need to be convinced to use it for trans women
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fester's quest @nmohlmann.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Jonathan Edward's famous quote about how "God...holds you over the pits of [heck]."
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Vaccinated against COVID and influenza for the 2026-2027 academic year at long last
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Also when I explain Puritan theology and it doesn't let me say "damn"
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Clara Endicott Sears: A Lookbook
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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
*shrieks in former adjunct*
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today I uttered the words “data center” in class and the class immediately erupted in unbridled rage
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I refuse to learn what you people are talking about
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Because it's only 94° out? 
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rose @breadnrosie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i think it should be more commented on that jacobin put out a 57 page report that basically says candidates need to moderate on social issues, in particular trans rights
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Need
independent.co.uk
The country that is paying its people to take up reading
National Library Board chief says ‘we want to see a nation of readers who are curious, thoughtful, discerning and equipped to navigate an increasingly complex world’
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Virgo's Constant Groove @ceencrumpets.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A lot of things that have paywalls actually do not if you use the library.
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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 13/09/2026
I've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.
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Ashley Rattner @ashleyrattner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
FYI this is happening at every state school in Alabama. Auburn and UA were exempt from this particular state law but are choosing to comply anyway
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
macklemore and dave matthews will be our pete seeger and woody guthrie won’t they. 70 years from now they'll be remembered as principled songwriters whose music is ideologically admired but rarely listened to. it won’t be any of the earnest folk revival types it’ll be macklemore and dave matthews
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I co-chaired the campaign to raise the minimum wage in Minnesota when folks told us it couldn’t be done. Now, let’s do the same in DC.
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