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If you are shocked this am that Trump’s government executed a search warrant against a Democratic Member of Congress and ignored a judge’s order then you haven’t been paying attention. Stop saying this isn’t how it works in the US. It is exactly how it works under Trump.

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 18h

“a trail of books sold under duress …” “that many of these books were acquired in circumstances morally dubious at best, clearly illegal and unethical at worst, can no longer be ignored.” Say #provenance - you hear the loudest ‘Shush!’ in the library… #bookhistory theconversation.com/when-europes...

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When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting

The forgotten story of how Britain acquired Europe’s rarest books.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Another autumn of another language program in the current state of academia roundtable.beloit.edu/2026/10/07/a...

Image of sad Frenchman cliché with following text: It was formally announced Sept. 16 at Beloit College’s Academic Senate meeting that the College will no longer be offering a French major or minor for students to complete. The current cohort of seniors majoring or minoring in French will graduate with their degrees, but students will not be able to earn a degree in French from Beloit after this academic year. French is not the first modern language program to cease operating a major or minor in recent years at the college, as the last decade has seen the departures of the German, Russian, and Chinese departments. Introductory and advanced Chinese courses are still being offered, but there are no degrees available. Two seniors will finish their French major this semester, but according to Associate Professor of French Joseph Derosier, there are no other students who have declared a French major.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thank you for your talk tonight, I cannot express how much we needed this talk on campus and how grateful we are for you.

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D. A. Powell @dapowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Course Description: Students will be asked to daydream, speculate & conjure. We'll meet a bunch & talk a lot & I'll ask you to throw away about a third of everything you generate, so that means you have to be somewhat fearless & unsentimental. My goal is to make you into a ninja.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's not the main thing we need, but we do need a David Lodge style Changing Places exchange program so that professors realize the way their institution does things is not standard nor inevitable

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

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Opinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)

If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Studies find that universities see an INCREASE in applications and donations after bad press about mismanaged sexual assaults. If you’re a Cornell alum, you should write to your alumni association and vow not to donate. Redirect your funds to your local rape crisis center instead.

sciencedirect.com

Any press is good press? The unanticipated effects of Title IX investigations on university outcomes

Since 2011, when the landmark “Dear Colleague” letter declared that the Department of Education (DoE) would use equal-access requirements of federal l…

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TOEBI @toebi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

📢Happy #medievalmonday, #medievalsky! 📜The #OldEnglish Resource of the Week 📖 Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts ✍️Elaine Treharne 📲 ARC Humanities Press: www.arc-humanities.org/978180270086...

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Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250 - Arc Humanities Press

This study uses a series of medieval texts to address a set of urgent critical issues in Humanities centring on categories of L/literature, history, periodiz...

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"the students...are being groomed to become spokespeople for the colleges & universities they may one day lead, caught in the rapture of hypocrisy & conflict that only manufacturing goodness as a logic could summon." Excellent essay that reminds me of something: www.publicbooks.org/manufacturin...

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Manufacturing Goodness: What Administrators Really Do and Why - Public Books

“When trying to rectify or at least understand the administrative, and thus, the university, problem, it is the logic of goodness—and in particular the manufacturing of goodness—that is most necessary...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Mathematicians out here saying it is not the proof that matters, but the human understanding of the proof. We are all humanists now.

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HELL Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 10/09/2026

The United States: where giving a frail voter waiting in the Georgia sun a glass of water is punishable by a year in prison, but the president can offer everyone $5k to vote for his party.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Yesterday a student wrote about how frustrated he was with Chrétien de Troyes's Perceval for all of his flaws and then quickly followed that up with a realization that he was frustrated because he saw himself in Perceval and it was one of those moments when it feels like literature still matters.

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hilarious that these incidents wherein AIs "break containment" and cause problems are being cited as evidence of consciousness. They made a dangerous product that causes damage it isn't supposed to cause, and people are spinning that as something awe-inspiring.

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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Wonderful to be next to so many other digital classicists in this new volume. Can’t be any prouder to be a small part of this digital humanities volume. Also, let’s go maps! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF
Digital Classical
Studies
edited by
ELTON BARKER
OLYMPIA BOBOU
RUBINA RAJA

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

it's been almost a year since I adopted this goblin, and she was frail and injured and now she is fearless and fit

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I'm a literary scholar, and I always worry that I am assigning things that are too obtuse for first-year students. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social's Introduction is not. My students had so much to say, and they got it. I cannot recommend this text more.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

For my Intro to Literary Study course, The Quest, I had students read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social's Introduction to Close Reading for the 21st Century today, along with Marie de France's Prologue to the Lais and Lanval.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

It was super simple! “check out an item from the Morse library that is related to the Quest or King Arthur; bring it to class and present the item (≈ 2 minutes)” the results were better than I could have hoped for, each item said something about the student who presented

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

For my Intro to Literary Study course, The Quest, I had a scavenger hunt-icebreaker where students had to bring in one physical item from our library present to the class. Items ranged from an 1858 (!) edition of Mallory to erotic fanfiction about Tristan and Lancelot from 2024. It was AMAZING.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I made a worksheet with a quote from page 1 (starting “You read a poem, play, essay, story, or novel...”) and then presenting the five stages with the fifth as aspirational rather than an expectation for first-years. I'll second how wonderful this book has been to read.

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Gabriel Hankins @gabrielh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I'm having a great time arguing with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social's essential Close Reading for the 21st century -- so much to think about! And seeing some great international proposals drawing on their framework too. Will need to write up responses at some point!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19/08/2026

anyway, i'd say that the most *useful* coursework i did in college was all in the religious studies department

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Per the police shooting in Madison, WI today, this bears repeating: ICE, CBP, local cops; their violence is all connected. ICE represents an escalation of that violence to be sure. But we wouldn't be here here without years and years of collectively tolerating "regular" cops killing people.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This admin doesn’t have to implement this for the humanities because they’ve been so starved of funding by the state for so long that corporate foundations and the tech industry has long been a supporter of very specific kinds of humanities research. See: Elon Musk funding the Vesuvius scroll prize.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social

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Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I didn’t really have any interest in seeing The Odyssey until I read this. open.substack.com/pub/flintdel...

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Actually, Nolan IS kind of making a point about trans people

And I have the (ancient) receipts

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I can't breathe the air, I can't eat lettuce, I can't afford gas, and my kids have measles. But at least now our soldiers will have enough testosterone.

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joseph p. derosier @derosierjoseph.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

As a fan of Madonnaʼs 2005 album, this sequel feels less like a sequel and more like what they'll be playing for Gen X and Millennials when we're in nursing homes, like a new Lawrence Welk.

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Maddie Stone @themadstone.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I’ve spent more than a year reporting on how the fossil fuel industry has infiltrated academia over the last 30 years, shaping fundamental paradigms on how to address climate change. My first story in the new @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social series, “Carbon Captured”, is out today.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We wanted to understand why so many young New York City Democrats turned out in last night’s primaries. So we talked to three retired Republicans at a Capital Grill in White Plains

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The Justice Department has issued a new legal opinion stating that federal disability law does not require states to provide community-based services simply because a person with a disability could live outside an institution.

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

It is absolutely true that Dems need to win swing voters to win elections. The misdiagnosis is that swing voters are “moderates.” They are not. They have almost entirely incoherent politics. You don’t win them from the middle. You appeal to your base with conviction and hope swings like the vibes.

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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

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AI’s biggest casualty could be history itself

The Internet Archive is a vital resource that has helped the search for truth in more than one global event, writes Anthony Cuthbertson, but it is in danger of becoming the latest collateral damage of...

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Kill me now

From NYT “'Both Parties Kind of Get It Wrong': The Young Men Who May Swing the Midterms
Many Gen Z men who voted for the president are dismayed by his time in office. But they are not hearing an appealing pitch from Democrats, either.
7 MIN READ

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Colleges will under-hire, expend zero time or resources to expand a major, and sink money into expensive boondoggle programs that send students into other pathways and then turn around and say the market has spoken so they’re shutting down a major.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/05/2026

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

New compute partnership with SpaceX
We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center. This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month. This additional capacity will directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.

This joins our other significant compute announcements:

An up to 5 gigawatt (GW) agreement with Amazon, which includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026;
A 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom, which will begin coming online in 2027;
A strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA that includes $30 billion of Azure capacity;
Our $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.
We train and run Claude on a range of AI hardware—AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs—and continue to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online.

As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.

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Mikey Says Hey! @erlking.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

My debut in the guest summer host chair over at @thespouterinn.bsky.social — talking about Joan Didion’s Year of Magical Thinking and @daviddemchuk.com’s novel Red X. megaphonic.fm/spouter/92

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92. The Year of Magical Thinking / Red X. | The Spouter-Inn

Joan Didion’s essay The Year of Magical Thinking and David Demchuk’s novel Red X.

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