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David B Hobbs

@deebeehobbs.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof of English (modernism/poetry) at ULethbridge, critic (often in The Nation), ghostwriter of Tár On Tár

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 11h
there are PLENTY of writers who come from a blue collar background and have worked in the trades and i can't remember ever seeing one of them publish an op-ed about how everyone should pivot to hard, painful physical labor
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026
Checking in on how things are going over at the Chronicle Against Higher Education:
Screenshot of Chronicle of Higher Education website showing featured articles: "Anthropology Has a Truth Problem"; "The Social Sciences Have a Politics Problem"; "Could AI Be Better at Peer Review Than Humans?"; "Colleges Should Take Linda McMahon's Call to Action Seriously."
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weird menace and excessive bloodletting @gemmafiles.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Fungi have alllllll the sexes
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Andrea DeKeseredy @andiewinnipeg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New piece in the University of Alberta paper on the administration’s recklessly cruel decision to slash 100% of funding to affiliated child care centres on campus The effects continue. They refuse to budge despite the harm. “Have you dropped out, yet?” thegatewayonline.ca/2026/10/the-...
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The effects of the defunded on-campus child care - The Gateway
Campus child care was defunded by the U of A leaving student parents struggling and the university’s dedication to ACB is nowhere to be found.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
no one had laughs like Baudrillard
an excerpt from Baudrillard’s Fragments, the best one is “A pill against your house burning down”
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I got my mail-in ballot yday and it’s eight questions about “dangerous migrants” and then the separatism question
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
not sure why I made this but now you have to see it
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Sarah’s soooo smart + funny
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...
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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now
As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My dog watching me start to make dinner at 9:15pm when bed time should have been immediately after his last walk
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
we as a profession owe David Lodge deep thanks for bursting the dangerously inflated Stanley Fish Bubble
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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Strawberry Juliet @beamposter.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Alexander Manshel @manshel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Require heat in wintertime" and "Ban beige-only classroom decorations" seem obvious to some, though few evidence-based studies exist.
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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
$18 EXTREMELY WELL SPENT! Get at it folks. This book is brilliant.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
real jobscels know that you shouldn’t bring a drink to an interview because a free coffee may be the only thing you get out of it
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I think it’s nice that Texas’s pro-Choice movement has a popular song
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Modest Morgause
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Alberta is introducing a new funding model to directly punish students who are majoring in the humanities, more or less because the starvation model didn’t do enough to discourage majors: thegauntlet.ca/documents-sh...
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Documents show proposed new tuition framework for Alberta’s students
Proposed tuition framework presented to student leaders in late August, may have considerable impact on arts education here in Alberta.
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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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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He imposed Shania Law
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
not to bring everything back to Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” but it strikes me that “I’m the same boy I used to be” is not really a winning line
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
HEY NOW
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UCP support has plunged in Calgary and outside major cities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... and the independence movement is now below 25% support. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... It’s Janet Brown/CBC poll time, folks!
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Danielle Smith’s popularity dips as her party now tied with NDP in support: poll | CBC News
The Janet Brown Opinion Research Poll for CBC News suggests 41 per cent of respondents would vote for the UCP if an election were held today, while 41 per cent would vote for the NDP.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Academic freedom continues to crumble at the hands of Republican Party political appointees at UT.
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/09/2026
🇵🇸 More than 900 all-terrain wheelchairs donated by 1 Australian charities for amputee children in Gaza have remained blocked in storage in Jordan since 2025, The New Arab reported on Wed. COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body that oversees aid entry, rejected a Feb. 2025 app. from the Jordan...
🇵🇸 More than 900 all-terrain wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for amputee children in Gaza have remained blocked in storage in Jordan since 2025, The New Arab reported on Wednesday.

COGAT, the Israeli defense ministry body that oversees aid entry, rejected a February 2025 application from the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation to include the equipment in an aid convoy, citing incomplete approval for medical equipment; the application has since been designated “pending” with no updates.

The wheelchairs were designed for difficult terrain, according to the groups, including the rubble that now covers much of the Gaza Strip. Gaza currently has the largest group of child amputees in modern history, according to the UN.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's genuinely crazy how a pretty blatant act of indiscriminate large-scale terror just kind of got accepted as some combination of a "brilliant intelligence operation" and basically a joke. And how much its defenders see all Lebanese Shia as inherent terrorists.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Every single night / I pray that my oysters aren’t too tight / Ptown restaurant set alight / Babyboy cringe on main, I feel like Bourdain
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Application Deadline: December 15, 2026
The American Studies Program at Boston University is a nationally recognized leader in the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. Our students and faculty study the disparate yet interconnected cultures of colonial North America and the United States as seen in the ideas and actions of its people, and as expressed in a range of forms, especially culture, the arts, media, literature, and institutions - often seen through a global or transnational lens. Formerly known as the American & New England Studies Program, we maintain active collaborations with many cultural institutions in the region, especially in the Boston Area. Our large PhD program has produced tenure-track protessors, public historians, museum curators, and directors at major universities, museums, and other cultural and historical institutions.
Funding Opportunities
PhD students receive full funding for up to five years (12 months a year) under a collective bargaining agreement. During this time, they take courses, teach in their fields and disciplines of interest, and develop and write dissertations. The fellowship package guarantees four semesters of dissertation fellowship in years 4 and 5, with no service obligations Additional funding is available from Boston University for travel to conferences, for archival research, and for internships.
Current students have recently received outside fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Huntington Library, the Smithsonian Institution, the Beinecke Library, the Corning Museum of Glass, the New Bedford Whaling Museum, and the American Historical Association.
Graduate Student Association
The Program's own independent Graduate Student Association (GSA) is comprised of elected PhD students who sponsor events and programs for developing professional skills, while representing our students' interests to the governing faculty.
A list of affiliate faculty, available also on the program’s webpage
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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Last week, Ohio State students violated the university’s absurd ban on chalking to protest having a weapons manufacturer as the official sponsor of our athletic department. Faculty from @osuaaup.bsky.social were there to support students’ rights to free speech, which is plainly under attack.
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Protestors chalk on campus against Ohio State’s partnership with Anduril and the university chalk ban
Colors covered the Thompson statue and bricks around it after protestors chalked phrases like “Democracy now,” “F*** Anduril” and “Divest now” to protest against the university’s partnership with Andu...
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Monday Morning Hysterics Power Rankings: after a strong weekend of Fort-Da, we see pre-season favorite Elisabeth von R on top!
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“They took the handcuffs off, but I couldn't read anything, and I didn't have my watch. …I discovered that the acoustics are really good in there, especially under the HVAC unit. I sang Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child and Big Rock Candy Mountain, which are like prison and depression songs.”
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is such a humiliating province
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
after the farmer’s market, I went to the postoffice to pay $52 of duty on my new Marmoush shirt 🐓
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20/09/2026
students said “Maybe our university should not profit from this” and then donors, faculty, and staff called them terrorists and organized to deport them
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/09/2026
Do NOT vote for anti-transgender Democrats. www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-guide-...
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The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State
These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle.
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Pavel Andrade @pavelandrade.com · 30/07/2026
Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...
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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
embracing “RDZ out”
the nicole kidman pic
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lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Tottenham I don't even want to be around anymore.
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
oh good
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
justice for Ange
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
happy Shaq Fu Friday to all who celebrate
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026
i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress?
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
they should ask me if buying trousers on the internet is addictive
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Emer and I have plans to retrace and recreate Stegner’s epic multi-day backpacking trip through Vermont, if anyone wants to come
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Now that everyone has turned on Ed Sheeran I finally feel comfortable saying this: you shouldn’t be allowed to get a bunch of tattoos if you’re a musician who makes wuss music
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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I stand ready to be the new Foremost Mid Ginger Man With Sort Of Crooked Eyes
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lunch enjoyer @hoaagie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Yuimetal's Shrek Smiling Meme
ALT: Yuimetal's Shrek Smiling Meme
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are literally four tickets left for each of my shows in Cambridge this weekend and then they are FULLY SOLD OUT!
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TCS presents: Josh Gondelman
18+ w/ 2-Item Suggested Minimum. Josh Gondelman is a writer and comedian who incubated in Boston before moving to New York City, where he currently lives and most recently worked as the head writer a...
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