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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The profit-prestige connection in academic publication & assessment must be shattered.

Saray Córdoba, a retired information scientist at the University of Costa Rica in San José, suspects that some journals might have shifted away from the model "not because diamond open access is financially unsustainable", but because they think that the more commercial models "will bring them more prestige."

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/09/2026

The provost of UMass (R1) literally told a group of historians this: “research” means pulling in large external grants and unless you do that, you don’t matter and get nothing internally. “Research“ is about $ and institutions support only those disciplines that bring in $ or raise it privately.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

instead of rain on your wedding day, how about a new idea for an article when all you need is to finish the &@^% book manuscript

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

anything that tells us more about the origin story of our personal hero Carol Sturka is worth reading in full. Catch up with our thoughts on Pluribus in ep. 108, here & wherever else you get fine audio 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

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ep. 108 | Apple TV+: Widow's Bay (2026) & Pluribus (2025)

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · August 9 · 1h 13m

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

erm... good luck with that? 🥴 Our extended thoughts on this summer's billion-dollar mythbuster in eps. 107 & 110, available wherever you get podcasts 🎧

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CFP Everydayness in an Intermedial Perspective Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic 22-23 April 2027 // Application due 31 October 2026 ceska-literatura.phil.muni.cz/en

Poster for academic conference: Everydayness in an Intermedial Perspective, hosted by Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.

Submission requirements for the posted conference, deadline 31 October 2026.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The ink on TBC6 barely dry in the books & here comes another big highlight of our academic year: the LFA-AAS joint online conference, with a GREAT topic to think on & with! Abstracts due 1 Dec -- see you there!

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CFP Mediations of Nostalgia Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden 16-18 Aug 2027 // Abstracts due 31 March 2027 Full call: www.lnu.se/en/nostalgia...

"Because nostalgia is never immediate: it is always mediated." Photo of a handheld, vintage camera taking a photo of a somewhat fantasy-coded rock formation at sunset.

250-word abstract due to the org team by 31 March 2027

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This makes me want to return to my volcano project from a few years ago, which was (is?) much more broadly about gender and volcanic imagery on screen. fwiw I really didn't like Herzog's Into the Inferno (2016), an earlier work than his Krafft doc mentioned here, which I haven't yet seen.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Do you know what makes for good undergrad research? SMALL CLASS SIZES WITH A LOW STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO AND AN INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE SUPPORTING AND REWARDING GOOD MENTORING OF UNDERGRADS.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is infuriating: $2,500/month to throw at the lying machine, but no money to pay professors for supervision or research. University administrators have been utterly captured by CorporateBrainBorg.

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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 15/09/2026

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Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

TBC6 is happening THIS WEEK! There's still time to register.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

still waiting for my T-shirt that reads YO SOY CAROL STURKA

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

reminds me that I need to clean my office

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Feminist Media Studies @femmediastudies.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📣 CFP: Symposium on the History of Teen Entertainment April 2–3, 2027 University of Notre Dame, Indiana ftt.nd.edu/news-events/... The symposium welcomes research on the history of teen entertainment across literature, film, television, radio, comics, video games, music, and other popular media.

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Call for Proposals | 100 Years Strong but Forever 16: Reclaiming and Expanding Teen Entertainment History

The Program Committee is interested in promoting research on the history of teen entertainment, which we define broadly as popular literature, plays, fi...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Many "existing peer-reviewed studies that say AI is an effective learning tool are based on flawed methodologies and analyses that rely on misapplied, miscalculated or misinterpreted statistics." Good to see the severe limits of research on AI in education covered in IHE here.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

FOOTLOOSE (1984) suggests a potential cure for the manosphere in the form of competitive high school gymnastics. In this podcast we argue... 🎧

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Dr. Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I have an unusual opportunity: I've been offered the opportunity to display the visual art of a tabletop roleplaying game in one of our campus galleries for 6 months. What game and artists (including layout designers) would you recommend? We'd need to be able to set this up quickly!

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New episode, 80s movies! Dig out your dancing shoes, kids, and remember this is how teens worked out their angst before smartphones. Ep. 111 here & wherever you get podcasts 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

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ep. 111 | 80's Dance Movies: Foot Loose (1984) & Dirty Dancing (1987)

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · September 13 · 1h 4m

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Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

💯 I have been saying this about podcasts and video essays as forms for *a while* now (my pinned tweet back in the day was a massive thread of podcast shows). I think both mediums have genuinely revolutionary potential, in different but important ways. 💁‍♂️

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You know what gets a library perpetual access to a book??? Purchasing the physical book. I guarantee the publisher won’t come steal it back!!!

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

not the point of OP but unless capitalism can bring back this specific cellular phone it deserves to be burned to the ground

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

This was a great read! My favorite part was Chapter 3: "Haters Gonna Tweet" and its invitation to reminisce about peak @timgill924.bsky.social on the Other Place. Highly recommended.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There was a Netflix doc series w/ an episode about Britpop that framed that whole era as Oasis vs. Blur. But one of the final shots showed a line of fans standing outside one of their concerts in front of a giant billboard advertising The Verve. Clearly the real winner was there all along.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Three screens in Ankara, one night only! Together, we can Fix Him.

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Professor Caroline Edwards @theblochian.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

OLH flips another journal away from Taylor & Francis!

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I hope anyone with a standing relationship to a T&F outlet rips them a new one for this. And then packs up and leaves for a different publisher.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Even keyword searches can come up short from this angle. Sometimes the real 🔑 isn’t where you already know to look.

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

From the first to the latest: ep. 95 on Del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN wherever you get podcasts! 🎧https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/you-made-me-watch-that/id1622748155?i=1000736966341

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ep. 95 | Frankenstein (2025)

Podcast Episode · You Made Me Watch That?! · November 16, 2025 · 1h 24m

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

A heads' up that at least one university press is doing this, in violation of the infringement clause. Check your contracts, write to your publisher, and upload your documentation to the settlement administrator's site.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

RIP Gloria Steinem. Growing up, the seeds of my own feminism were planted by the back issues of Ms. magazine that my mom had stashed around the house. We all owe her so much.

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You Made Me Watch That?! @ymmwtpodcast.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

TURNS OUT that @taylanakil.bsky.social is On Here after all (young'un doesn't want anyone to know he's spiritually 38, we get it). Mythology nerds & Nolan skeptics UNITE for episode 110, wherever you get podcasts! 🎧

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 31/08/2026

if you or someone you know are invested in higher ed opportunities to nurture deep thinking (and practice!) about alternative approaches to the past, present, future of media technologies, pls share/apply! our Media Studies Dept is once again recruiting grad students docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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CU Boulder Media Studies Grad Program Recruitment!

University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students to begin Fall 2027! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applicatio...

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Joshua Earle, Ph.D. @cyborgapologist.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Anecdotal evidence: I ask my classes (4th year engineering students) how many of them have read a novel in the last year (to gauge their reading endurance). This year, well more than half of the students raised their hand. In most previous years, it's been around a quarter of them.

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I went to Greece for summer vacation and it only took me an hour on the ferry to get back to the mainland. Bringing that built-different spirit to our discussion of Nolan's latest, wherever you get podcasts 🎧

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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

📢 Job alert: The Department of Language & Culture Studies @trinitycollege.bsky.social invites applications for a TT Assistant Professor with a specialization in postcolonial Francophone Studies, beginning July 1, 2027. Details: trincoll.peopleadmin.com/postings/3766 #francophonestudies #teachingjobs

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Quinn Daedal @quinnanya.me · 31/08/2026

Really truly, look through this entire thread for lots of other crop art (and crop art controversy! I had no idea quinoa, chia, and cardamom were contentious!) goodness. #DHmakes

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I think what I find really depressing about AI in higher education is how so many people didn't even wait for the evidence/research before we decided on telling students "how to use AI responsibly" which often includes things like checking grammar, and obviously, we shouldn't have been

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