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Liz Schirmer

@bertilak.bsky.social
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Medievalist, teacher, reluctant administrator; queer solo parent by choice; desert dweller, ocean lover; piersplowman.org

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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Tomorrow/Friday - join us!!
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Zoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I will believe a university actually understands how to adapt to the AI moment if and only if said university actually increases funding for writing classes. And not just the gen ed stuff--specialized ones for helping researchers write actually readable papers, with or without the goddamn AI.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
No joke, it would be cheaper to pay every coal miner $5m every year to not mine coal. There are only 40,000 coal miners, while the coal industry produces >$500 billion in external costs every year, including by routinely burning coal just to burn it despite it costing more ("uneconomic dispatch").
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
the serious answer is that we need a wholesale recommitment on the left to public higher education as a high quality low/no cost public good rather than a jobs training licensing agency. I do not anticipate this happening.
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Innsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
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Prof Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands). Please share widely! tinyurl.com/f7su6urv
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Global PhD on Middle English Arthurian romance
The University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature.
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
Come join us, Friday the 13th!
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte
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Effie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Jupiter says trans rights
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
This Friday - join us!
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Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
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UC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Convo w bff 6 months ago: our institutions are huge and pretty entrenched, and I suspect they won’t be that easy to dismantle Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2025
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....
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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move
Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
go go go!
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Today! Please note time: 12:30 ET (not 1:30).
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty.
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Friday - join us!
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Annette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
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Opinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts Education
Students want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way.
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Tony is a local hero, having rescued two small children from drowning in the Rio Grande. He lives at Camp Hope, where he can keep his dogs and focus on sobriety while working landscaping jobs. Help Tony and other move to stable housing: tentstorents.org.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/08/2025
in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“Gender studies as a discipline…is defined by a set of debates and problematics.” In this 10-Minute Talk, Judith Butler FBA discusses gender as a field of study and its interdisciplinary contributions to research, social analysis and social movements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEvH...
Still photograph of Judith Butler, wearing a black jacket and shirt, and looking into the camera. On the right of the image, white text is displayed saying: "10-Minute Talks / Gender as framework / with Judith Butler FBA
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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."
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A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Join us! Two-day online Colloquium on the medieval English dream vision Piers Plowman. All are welcome. Come for the allegory, stay for the cocktails!
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2025
Congress has decided to claw back previously approved funding for public media. This decision hurts people in communities across the country, but it has only strengthened our resolve to keep Americans informed and connected. (1/2)
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
So Stephen Miller’s really running this show, right?
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/07/2025
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/06/2025
Exclusive: Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon who has been released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for his cooperation in the federal prosecution of Kilmar Abrego García.
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Star witness against Kilmar Abrego García was due to be deported. Now he’s being freed.
Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes is a three-time felon released early from federal prison to a halfway house in exchange for testifying against Kilmar Abrego García.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
we literally cannot afford them taking these weird racist side quests
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Masked Terror
At this point, we have all seen the videos.
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
An incredibly exciting lineup of Langlandians. Please join us! DM me for Zoom link, and spread the word.
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The sign game was strong in Cruces today but the clear winner: “Science keeps your dumb ass alive.”
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
“…a bit desultory”
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Rounding up people at Home Depot looking for day work and small local restaurants means you're not raiding the factories, meat packing plants, and job sites of big Republican donors.
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The Middle Ages in Modern Games @midagesmodgames.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Our first paper of the panel is by Robert Rouse ( @rousemedieval.bsky.social ) and titled “A Left-Coast Medieval: Progressive Values in Age of Empires IV” #MAMG225 middleagesinmoderngames.net/mamg25/a-lef...
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A Left-Coast Medieval: Progressive Medievalism in Age of Empires IV – The Middle Ages in Modern Games
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 29/04/2025
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA, @modernlanguage.bsky.social, & @ach.bsky.social are convening an Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process on Wednesday, April 30th at 11am ET on Zoom. Register now 🗃️
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Information Exchange about the NEH Appeal Process - AHA
Many of our members have had grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities abruptly terminated. In response, the AHA and partner organizations are convening an Information Exchange about the N...
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Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Join us!!
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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 15/04/2025
Just got word from my college roommate - who is the state archivist for the state of South Dakota - that due to the DOGE shutdowns of IMLS, they can no longer fund InterLibrary Loan in SD. This means exchange between libraries, ability to get books delivered across the system, is gone as of 4/30.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Gimli-Legolas three panel meme:
Gimli 1: "Never thought I'd fight side by side with an Ivy"
Legolas: "How about side by side with a 'peer institution'?"
Gimli 2: "*Sigh*, I could do that."
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Eric C. Greene @dnacurtain.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am a professor at Columbia University. All of the student NIH training grants have been canceled and now there are reports that ALL funding will be frozen. Why are Universities not banding together and speaking out publicly and forcibly about governmental attacks on biomedical research?
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It's been noted that the last time stocks fell this sharply, we were in the midst of a global health pandemic. To which I say, please be patient. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
"When we surrender art to automation, we risk losing not just the distinctive voices of individual creators but our collective power for creative expression."
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Opinion | With ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli filter, creativity is being spirited away
An unsettling AI-powered fad reworks photos in Studio Ghibli’s animation style. No creativity required.
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