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Yale AAUP @aaupyale.org · 01/10/2026

Tell President Maurie McInnis: Defend Yale’s public mission. Email president@yale.edu. Ask her to reaffirm public service and an ethical, diverse community, protect academic freedom, and give faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents a meaningful voice in Yale’s future. 5/5

Cream AAUP Yale graphic with an illustration of a hand pressing “Send” on a phone displaying an envelope. Heading: “Tell McInnis: Defend Yale’s public mission.” Text: “Email Yale President Maurie McInnis: president@yale.edu.” Readers are urged to ask her to reaffirm Yale’s commitment to public service and an ethical, diverse community; protect academic freedom from political interference; and ensure faculty, students, staff, and New Haven residents have a meaningful voice in shaping Yale’s future. Closing text: “And read more at bit.ly/CHE_WhatAilsHigherEd.”

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20h

Tremendous turnout and energy at the Democratize Yale protest on Friday! Huge high five to hundreds of students, faculty, workers, and alums who are fighting for academic freedom and freedom of speech while telling President McInnis and the trustees NOT TO CUT A DEAL WITH TRUMP!

Yale students smile and clap at a Democratize Yale demonstration - one holds a sign reading "TRUSTEES: LISTEN. RESIST. DEMOCRATIZE."

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Jacquelyn Ardam @jaxwendy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My center is hiring an Assistant Director! We are looking for a humanities or social sciences PhD w/ admin experience to run undergrad research programs at UCLA. We are moving fast, so apply early! $87k salary, Dec start date, hybrid work sched, pretty okay boss (me) recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF11365

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Undergraduate Research Center (HASS) - Assistant Director

University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!

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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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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Last night we nearly filled the theater on a blustery Friday for a screening of Tarkovsky's STALKER—the second in our "Cinema of Contamination" series from Films at the Whitney at #Yale. @yalewhc.bsky.social

Sepia film still from Tarkovsky's STALKER: a woman faces the camera and says "Because in that case, there wouldn't have been any happiness."

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Wee Hugo meets Otis. New friends are a good thing in the world! 😍🐶

A small white puppy on the grass with a black dog.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 29/08/2026

Amherst College is looking for a Director of Public History and Engagement: networks.h-net.org/jobs/70277/a... 🗃️

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Amherst College - Director of Public History and Engagement | H-Net

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In the @bostonglobe.com from colleagues @ryanenos.bsky.social and @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, in a very welcome show of support for #Yale faculty, students and alumni who are fighting to keep our leaders from caving to Mr. Trump. #YaleDontCave www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/27/o...

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Yale shouldn’t cut a deal with Trump - The Boston Globe

Yale should resist rather than negotiate away its independence.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Tonight I'm reading Montaigne and grieving the loss of the generous, brilliant Tom Conley, who died Friday. Je veux qu’on agisse, et qu’on allonge les offices de la vie, tant qu’on peut: et que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux ; mais nonchallant d’elle, et encore plus de mon jardin imparfait.💔

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Ms. Magazine @msmagazine.com · 19/07/2026

A caved-in roof. A crumbling porch. A memorial water wall in need of restoration. These are just a few areas of the $10 million of deferred maintenance needed at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

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Saving Seneca Falls: The U.S. Birthplace of ‘All Men and Women Are Created Equal’ Must Be Preserved

A caved-in roof. A crumbling porch. A memorial water wall in need of restoration. These are just a few areas of the $10 million of deferred maintenance needed at the Women’s Rights National…

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/07/2026

In Wales, an artist sews names of Gaza’s infant victims on christening gown aje.news/er30ek

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 11/07/2026

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

This is your occasional reminder that Agatha Christie wasn't just the bestselling crime writer of all time but also she had a surfboard called Fred

A black and white photograph of Agatha Christie as a young woman standing on a beach in front of a surfboard which has the name Fred written on it.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Pat Bagley almost always gets it exactly right.

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The Yale Review @yalereview.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

“I have so little sense of living what I’m living while I live it that I have to relive it to finally live it.” —Annie Ernaux yalereview.org/article/anni...

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Annie Ernaux’s Previously Unpublished Diaries on the Writing Life

Never-before-seen journal entries spanning forty years of Annie Ernaux’s life.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) at Yale invites applications from humanities scholars working at select HBCUs for a Faculty Fellow position for spring semester 2027 (January 1–May 31, 2027). Details here: apply.interfolio.com/186520 #hbcu

A series of three windows in a brick hallway in the Humanities Quadrangle at Yale University

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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

everyone, I have produced a report on how to remedy the decline of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. here it is: Executive Summary: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences. Body: Fund the Humanities and Social Sciences a hell of a lot more. Please cite this as the Carroll report.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Please help spread the news far and wide! We have a new, full-time, permanent Lecturer in Global History of Science job @stsucl.bsky.social Don't be fooled by the application of deadline of only 9 June 2026. This is an open search #histsci #skystorians www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Postdoctoral fellowship at Yale in humanities leadership (working with me and my team at the Whitney Humanities Center). Please share!

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Academic year winding down: Jill Lepore, Cornel West, Jhumpa Lahiri, 40 working groups, 38 Fellows, 10 environmental humanities fellows, two film series, and so much more! How about a photo of Otis, who gets quick walks and all the love in between . . . all of it.

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Postdoc in Digital Humanities at WashU in St. Louis. Deadline is May 1. Also, St. Louis is wonderful. apply.interfolio.com/185361

Screenshot of Interfolio position that reads: "Postdoctoral Fellowship, Digital Humanities - Department of Comparative Literature & Thought, Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis - Danforth Campus: School of Arts & Sciences: Comparative Literature
Location
St. Louis, MO
Open Date
Apr 24, 2026

Deadline
May 01, 2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time
Description
The Department of Comparative Literature and Thought at Washington University in St. Louis invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship in digital humanities. The fellowship period will run from July 1, 2026 to June 30, 2028, with the possibility of a one-year extension.

In addition to pursuing their own research agenda, the postdoctoral fellow will teach the equivalent of four courses per year and is expected to participate fully in the thriving DH community on campus. Teaching responsibilities will include at least one regular course each Fall and Spring semester. Additional teaching responsibilities may include additional semester-long lab courses or a series of several short-term workshops. Fellows are expected to be in residence during the entire fellowship period, apart from research-related travel. Fellows will receive a salary of $64,380 per year, plus Washington University postdoctoral benefits and a $2,500 annual research/travel stipend."

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Chris Newfield at our The Humanities, the University, and the World conference—bringing a whole lot of clarity in complicated times!

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Harriet Love, contemporary stained glass artist #Womensart #Sunday

Stained glass artwork featuring a rural scene with fields and hills and two figures in the foreground riding a tandem bike on a track as the sun rises

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Many things are horrible and the world is crashing but: first glimpse of forsythia on a foggy Easter morning!

Photo of foggy woods, empty road, silhouettes of trees, and forsythia in bloom

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Currently reading this remarkable book

Book cover: Shattered Dreams Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement by Brandon M. Terry

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Esheru @esherukweku.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Tonight’s screening of Itu Ninu reminded me of all the reasons we show films at @yalewhc.bsky.social Climate refugees in a dystopian and stark urban space, the power of letter-writing and (Mixtec) language, and even seeds as salvation from faceless authoritarians. 🌱

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My heart is with Minneapolis, where I lived for ten years. I hated the bitter cold but loved my neighborhood, the Somali driving school in the elementary school parking lot, May Day parade, Longfellow, Powderhorn. This whole broken nation is with you, MN! 💪🏽🔥

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

New Haven Green today, and in solidarity with all my Minneapolis people. With heavy hearts and enraged at the murder of Renée Good #ICEOutForGood

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Megan Piontkowski Illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

70+ free printable "How to Report ICE" zines with info on the SALUTE protocol and local hotline numbers for all over the country! Including some in Spanish! There is an info sheet on how to fold and cut the zines and a form to request a zine for your area. drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Aloe plant "reading" black and white illustrated zine titled "How to Report ICE and Help Keep Our Neighbors Safe."

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Pass it on! Tenured, associate professor position in Black and Latinx Studies--reopened until Jan 5. Includes research budget, summer salary, great program, colleagues, students in NYC. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

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Jobs | City University of New York

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 25/12/2025

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

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A real Good Samaritan

One act of kindness that befell Leeds writer Bernard Hare in 1982 changed him profoundly. Here he tells his story.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Amazing postdoc opportunity at Yale.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

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CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

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24 Hours to Save AIDS Research

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Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It should not be lost on anyone that Minnesota Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot to death in her home last night by an assassin, was a gun safety advocate who worked tirelessly to protect her constituents from gun violence.

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

New Haven doing that New England thing of gathering on the town green to oppose tyrants. #NoKings

A street full of people holding signs protesting the current U.S. administration. A neogothic style building is in the background.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Portrait of Otelia Cromwell, the first African American woman to receive a Ph.D. from Yale University, 1926, by contemporary US painter Jennifer Packer #WomensArt

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Next week at Yale: Angela Davis on abolition. Just when we need her most 🔥. whc.yale.edu/program/tann... @yalewhc.bsky.social

Black broken chains on a green background. In the center is white text on a green background "abolition" Below in a white band, text publicizing Tanner Lecture on Human Values at Yale, featuring Angela Davis, April 15 and 16, 2025

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Tenure-track position in history at Louisiana Tech

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Diane Brown @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

The brilliant Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi reading from her forthcoming pan-African novel, Alkebulan: When the Lions Returned at the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale @yalewhc.bsky.social

A woman wearing a yellow African headwrap and red and yellow print dress speaking to an audience from behind a lectern.

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