Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth SpraginsButlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf 9661042378
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Sorry to miss your panel, I don’t get in until Friday pm, but hopefully see you there! 110
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Add to the long list of reasons to roast your own coffee. 000
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 20/09/2025www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....journals.uchicago.eduBest Article Prize: Volume 19 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 18/09/2025My whole professional life has prepared me for this one crossword clue. 020
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I’m really sorry to hear this, Donnie. You’re brilliant and hard working and deserve to be employed and compensated in kind. 110
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth SpraginsDavid Wacks @davidwacks.bsky.social · 21/08/2025The University of Oregon is threatening to lay off many faculty and close entire departments and programs in the humanities. Visit strengthenUO.org for more information, including how you can take action. 043
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Call for papers for a two-part workshop on Early Modern Iberian Critical Race Studies, to be hosted at Holy Cross (spring 2026) and Johns Hopkins (fall 2026). Please share the call with anyone who might be interested, and feel free to get in touch if you have any questions. 031
Reposted by Dr. Elizabeth SpraginsMexican Studies Research Collective @mexicanists.org · 24/08/2025Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) joblist.mla.org/job/2000149/...joblist.mla.orgTenure-Track Faculty Position in Spanish (Colonial Studies Specialist) job with College of the Holy Cross, Spanish Department | 2000149The Department of Spanish at the College of the Holy Cross invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor specializing in ... 068
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 24/08/2025Not to mention the increased grade grubbing the grade book produces. 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 19/08/2025media.tenor.coma cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland says the rabbit hole deepens .ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland says the rabbit hole deepens . 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Ready your inbox for early drafts in, say, October or November. 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 15/08/2025🤣 “blessing.” Stay tuned, more coming. 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Even the footnotes of _The Structure of Spanish History_ are chock full of insanity... 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025... Gracias a ellos, cada uno de esos grupos desempeñó su peculiar cometido: el cristiano dominaba y combatía, el mudéjar edificaba castillos y viviendas, el judío administraba las finanzas y hacía todo lo demás […]” 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025"Durante unos cuatrocientos años […] en los reinos cristianos de la Península habían convivido bastante en paz cristianos, mudéjares y judíos, en virtud de un sistema de tolerancia, en su raíz fundado en preceptos islámicos. ... 110
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025To Malkiel I say, "Can he not, though?" 010
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“To preserve purity of caste (a concern, moreover, of Jewish origin), the Spaniard rejected the cultivation of all forms of culture.” 020
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“From [the fifteenth century] on, [Christians] had already absorbed the Oriental feeling that nationality and religious faith are inseparable. In this the Spain of today bears a closer resemblance to Israel and the Muslim countries than to any of the Western nations.” 020
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“If the anti-semitic ‘Old Christians’ of the past ... could have been convinced that the absurdly stupid notion of ‘purity of blood’ really amounted to a Hispano-Catholic adaptation of a Jewish tradition, ... that particular folly ... would have been much less damaging to Spanish culture.” 020
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“Although Hispanism is enjoying a steady development in the United States and Europe, in Spain I have not found a single person capable of explaining to the rest of Europe anything it does not already know about its own culture.” 020
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“If there had been some centauric way of coupling the carburetor of a motor with the circulation of his own blood, the Spaniard could have been interested in mechanical inventions." 030
Dr. Elizabeth Spragins @dr-sprockets.bsky.social · 14/08/2025Welcome to my private text chain with @cleahy.bsky.social about all things Américo Castro was a total nutcase. For your perusal. 1141