Reposted by Liz SchirmerZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 09/06/2026I 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. 16617
Reposted by Liz SchirmerMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026No 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"). 441727639
Reposted by Liz SchirmerDavid M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 27/03/2026the 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. 5527127
Reposted by Liz SchirmerInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Democratic 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 280181835
Reposted by Liz SchirmerProf Megan Leitch @meganleitch.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Medievalist 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/f7su6urvtinyurl.comGlobal PhD on Middle English Arthurian romanceThe University of Groningen and Macquarie are offering a co-funded scholarship to support a student undertaking doctoral research in medieval literature. 06670
Reposted by Liz SchirmerRafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I 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" 22109691911
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 05/01/2026I read that as “if we just had a society” and you know… 010
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte 000
Reposted by Liz SchirmerEffie Seiberg is a spooky Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Jupiter says trans rights 111585558
Reposted by Liz SchirmerAriela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social · 07/11/2025160 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.sites.google.comHomeUC Law Faculty to Regents: Resist the Unlawful Demands 111137
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Convo 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 000
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 03/10/2025Other than, like, kick the chair out from under American democratic institutions (or what was left of them). 010
Reposted by Liz SchirmerHistory Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 23/09/2025The 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.... 05027
Reposted by Liz SchirmerDeborah 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...theguardian.comUC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ moveProminent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’ 15632
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty. 000
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Likewise if you think you can hide in a blue state 1530
Reposted by Liz SchirmerAnnette 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...nytimes.comOpinion | This Is Who’s Really Driving the Decline in Interest in Liberal Arts EducationStudents want to study the humanities and liberal arts. But university administrators keep getting in the way. 418974
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Tony 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. 000
Reposted by Liz SchirmerMarie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 15/08/2025in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything... 52945184
Reposted by Liz SchirmerThe 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... 512232
Reposted by Liz SchirmerContingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 24/07/2025"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be."contingentmagazine.orgA Profession, If You Can Keep ItImagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions. 18220
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Join us! Two-day online Colloquium on the medieval English dream vision Piers Plowman. All are welcome. Come for the allegory, stay for the cocktails! 142
Reposted by Liz SchirmerNPR @npr.org · 18/07/2025Congress 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) 32458181914
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 18/07/2025So Stephen Miller’s really running this show, right? 000
Reposted by Liz SchirmerDrew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/07/2025Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...miamiherald.comIs your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a listThe Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database. 3626471188
Reposted by Liz SchirmerKen 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. 13675983158
Reposted by Liz SchirmerThe Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/06/2025Exclusive: 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.washingtonpost.comStar 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. 66055702744
Reposted by Liz SchirmerAnjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 29/06/2025we literally cannot afford them taking these weird racist side quests 211864298
Liz Schirmer @bertilak.bsky.social · 28/06/2025On the right “family” is code for “heteropatriarchy”. Fuck that - keep cooking! 140