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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's damnable what an unsurprising development this is, isn't it?

Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hey hey hey! Check out this smart, savvy, and positively glowing review of @franciscondine.bsky.social's brilliant COALITION LITERATURE (Stanford UP, 2025) by Grace Tierney up now at @asapjournal.bsky.social. It's front and center—you can't miss it! 🧡

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Anybody who’s still advocating putting these tools anywhere near a school is not doing so despite the cognitive collapse they cause, but because of it. dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, we study how generative Al affects homework productivity and learning. The data combine monthly closed-book exams, high-school and college entrance exams, and homework scores and completion time across nine subjects. We exploit staggered Al adoption in a difference-in-differences design. Al adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months.
High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. The losses are largest in social science subjects, followed by STEM and languages, and are especially large for junior students, high-achieving students, and boys. The learning losses are concentrated among roughly 80% of Al users whose behavior is consistent with homework outsourcing, as indicated by exceptionally short homework completion time coupled with high homework scores. Al users who maintain similar homework completion time as non-Al users experience small learning losses.

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Debra Rae Cohen @debraraecohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Student journalists showing the rest how it's done, again! Santiago Campos <3

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

“I asked ChatGPT”- ok well I asked the mycelium and it said to plant more trees and to tell you to return to the forest

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Stephen Hopkins @phil-lol-ogist.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

A photo of a cat biting a dog's neck with magnificent lighting worthy of Caravaggio

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Friendly reminder to submit your abstract proposal for What Miracle: New Revelations on the Prose Poem by the end of the day!

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

IT'S NO JOKE! TOMORROW AT ND: PROSE POETRY TRANSLATION WORKSHOP co-organized by the Notre Dame Dynamic Translation Lab and Prose Poetry Network

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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Oudone Lothirath missed four out of five chemotherapy appointments while in ICE detention and received no medical care there. Now he will likely die in a matter of days. www.startribune.com/how-ice-deta...

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Detained by ICE, he missed multiple cancer treatments. Now he’s in hospice.

Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.

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Jenie Gao @jeniegao.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Wood Boar, part of my Asian Diasporic Zodiac series which reimagine the zodiac animals as if they were shaped by the landscapes of Turtle Island / North America. Inspired by the spruce trees and snow on my daily walk to the Leighton Studios during my Banff Centre art residency. #inkdrawing 🐡

Surreal ink drawing of a wild boar whose skin is patterned with wood bark and back is covered in spruce tree branches.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

And, please note: the conference proceedings will be held two blocks from the Colosseum.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 1 What Miracle: New Revelations on the Prose Poem A Prose Poetry Network Conference at the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

CFP: WHAT MIRACLE: NEW REVELATIONS ON THE PROSE POEM A Prose Poetry Network Conference at the University of Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway Abstract proposals should be submitted to the scientific committee by March 15, 2026. More details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Side note: that logo placement is *chef's kiss* Thanks, Reuters!

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

[A foppish twink takes the ice.] Johnny Weir, unironically: This strapping young man, he's like if the Brawny Man could skate. [Skater holds the pose below.] Johnny, probably: This rough, blustering top is bound to stun with his feats of raw masculine power.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!

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🌱 ⓥ Francisco Robles ⓥ 🌱 @franciscondine.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...

Signature image for the "Translation" seminar; black letters on a purple background.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work" and sharing it with my students!

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!

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Nikki Wallschlaeger @nikkimwalls.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

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House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I love everything about this.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Yeah, it's even worse today here in South Bend.

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2025

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.

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Matthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 24/06/2025

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

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Brandon Menke @bamenke.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?

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