Reposted by Erika Supria HMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 6hCalling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants. 223110653462
Reposted by Erika Supria HDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Free fallin' into this day like this fetus did in 1582. 515334
Reposted by Erika Supria Hmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 161177244392
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The Journal of Popular Music Studies (JPMS, in @iaspm-us.bsky.social) seeks an associate editor for our "Field Notes" section. Field Notes is a front-of-book feature made up of essays about popular music. Come work with fun colleagues! Here's the call: iaspm-us.wildapricot.org/Calls-and-An...iaspm-us.wildapricot.orgInternational Association for the Study of Popular Music - US Chapter - JPMS Call for Associate Editor 062
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026This is so heartening! The open and joyful support of artists and musicians in the city, and arts orgs big and small, is something to see—and that it's coupled with programs that actually make it possible for people to try things out, to be curious, to *go to the opera* to see if they like it...! 💕 153
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Big-time plug for what is imo the next important book on hip hop, written by my friend and colleague Dr. Kevin Holt, and officially out I believe today: global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 282
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026In an email announcing we will not be getting Adobe Acrobat Pro access, we are encouraged not to use PDFs in our courses 🙄and also informed accessibility is a campus priority. 251
Reposted by Erika Supria HDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The fact that this is imaginary is perfect. The whole premise is based on a fantasy that the optimal form of public education is the midpoint of a polarized society. Just split the difference between the science of climate change and the lobby of denialism. 21741150
Reposted by Erika Supria HThia2 @thia2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026huh...the financial statement for 2024 shows they made $40 million net income. You know, the year before Trump and cronies came in and destroyed it. projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...projects.propublica.orgJohn F Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts - Nonprofit Explorer - ProPublicaSince 2013, the IRS has released data culled from millions of nonprofit tax filings. Use this database to find organizations and see details like their executive compensation, revenue and expenses, as... 071
Reposted by Erika Supria HMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026someone needs to do a story on how much stuff the National Symphony currently has stored in the KC, whether they can access it (hearing reports about staff being barred and hardhat requirements) and where they are going to rehearse 328773
Reposted by Erika Supria HWOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course. 181270440
Reposted by Erika Supria HKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh, the world. But the knots and loops for the closure on this parchment binding are so lovely. (It's a mss travelogue with maps @jcblibrary.bsky.social ) 21006
Reposted by Erika Supria HMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 13/09/2026“The contraction of used book stock & the inflation of used book prices is happening simultaneous with the reduction of library collections, the defunding of physical archives, & the enshittification of digital archives, & all are at least partially caused by pressures from frontier developers.”open.substack.comGuillotining Books Is Not Quite Guillotining Humanities Scholars. Not Quite.Booksellers are benefitting from AI developers destructively scanning print books, but the activity is not victimless. 38942
Reposted by Erika Supria HLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Today at SBU, Prof Nancy Tomes kicking off a project called Zones of Devastation: Writing Long Island into the History of 9/11. The project looks at 9/11 thru 3 lenses:workplace disaster & occupational health, impact on US higher ed, & climate of fear & anxiety (inc intensification of Islamophobia). 093
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Forgive me, I am a child, but as far as error messages on our university website go, this rules. 100
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I'm imagining a story Borges might write about a land named America, where every town and city, every body of water, every mountain, every road, in short any geographical feature or site or community that might be put on a map, was named "America." 1/ 170
Reposted by Erika Supria HBrad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026This is quite literally an extinction level event for graduate education in several fields in the United States. 301551528
Reposted by Erika Supria HLisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The images from Nepal are terrifying & upsetting. That we are witnessing this devastation & also learning that a geology prof at West Point has been fired "for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change" just adds to the horror show. 213546
Reposted by Erika Supria HJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026An image for #InternationalDogDay 'Canis Irlandicus' by Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt, c. 1596-1610 (Rijksmuseum) 1247
Reposted by Erika Supria HSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is what I’m talking about! Our institutions should be doing the work for us and not leaving us to jury rig together the collapsing infrastructure around us. More of this. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news/s...chicagomaroon.comSosc Core to Institute AI Ban, Technology-Free Classrooms This FallAll social science Core classes will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students... 623270
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The most beautiful animated film I have ever seen: Frédéric Back's 1987 The Man Who Planted Trees (L'Homme qui plantait des arbres), narrated in English by Christopher Plummer (French by Philippe Noiret), produced by Radio-Canada. 1/ youtu.be/gVFsbaHw-gA?...youtu.beThe Man Who Planted Trees - Frederic Back -HDYouTube video by Nannamation 120
Reposted by Erika Supria HSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Oh my GOD this essay is good. 312122
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 22/08/2026One of the speaking events I'm most excited about this year is a roundtable discussion of the crypto-conservative Vanderbilt Report, taking place on October 7 at Stony Brook: calendar.stonybrook.edu/site/humanit... Still deciding how to frame my contribution, but not planning to hold much back.calendar.stonybrook.eduReflections on the Vanderbilt Report, a Roundtable DiscussionReflections on the Vanderbilt Report, a roundtable discussion of the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Science commissioned by Vanderbilt University and Wa... 2308
Reposted by Erika Supria HStephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026jobs.utoronto.caAssistant Professor - Global Anglophone LiteratureAssistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature 15852
Reposted by Erika Supria HChristine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026A new #reformazing metaphor has just dropped in the fever swamps of the online right. Apparently universities are the latest iteration of the Tudor monasteries, and therefore some metaphorical Henry VIII must dissolve them. Let's parse this a bit. 1/n 24215
Reposted by Erika Supria Hconifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 19/08/2026What’s the appropriate response to grotesque Islamophobia regarding Abdul El-Sayed? Every single one of us — no matter whether we agree with El-Sayed — has an obligation to reject those using this Senate race or policy disagreements to advance Islamophobia. 2023071
Reposted by Erika Supria HDeidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+ 21920551
Reposted by Erika Supria HMayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 16/08/2026Mayor David Dinkins once described our city as a gorgeous mosaic. Today, I saw that mosaic in the Hindus and Christians, Muslims and Jains, Buddhists and Sikhs across the Indian diaspora who have helped make our city what it is. To all of them, I say: it is an honor to do that work alongside you. 91402144
Reposted by Erika Supria Hkate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net · 12/08/2026I wrote about the Obama Presidential Center for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/cult...thenation.comThe Nostalgic Architecture of the Obama Presidential CenterWhere hope even has a gift shop. 4440492
Reposted by Erika Supria HJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Whatever else was wrong with the United States, we truly did have a higher education system that was the envy of the world. Now we’re lighting it on fire because some people are bored and racist. 451817522
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"Responsibility-Centered Management" (making university depts pay for the square feet they take up by uh teaching and researching) might just be the one corporate euphemism that finally does the humanities in. 120
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026just the constant undercurrent of panic that sets in a few weeks before the semester starts 010
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"What concerns me is how little space remains for a genuinely progressive critique of institutional diversity practices – one capable of scrutinising how for many organisations and corporations symbolic representation has been a substitute for deeper reform..." 010
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The alternative to "progressive" is not "moderate" and it's bananas that that's the framing 031
Reposted by Erika Supria HBon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Lloyd Robertson was a staple in Canadian news. He graced our lives with the day's headlines for over 60 years, first with the CBC and then CTV. We trusted him to bring us the facts. Lloyd was awarded the Order of Canada. Rest peacefully, old friend.💔 www.ctvnews.ca/video/2026/0...ctvnews.caCTV National News: Legendary former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92Former CTV National News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson has died. Genevieve Beauchemin reports on his extraordinary career in journalism and his enduring legacy. 812041
Erika Supria H @drcanonic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026One day I will form a Monochord Ensemble, who's in? (Also Deirdre's work is wonderful and everyone should read it). 140
Reposted by Erika Supria HOlivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I’m going to be sick. Even the photo they chose — I painted in that exact spot during a concert one of my summers. From the 1970s to the 2010s, which includes the three years I attended. When my friends were there. Back to when some of their *parents* were campers. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...mlive.comEpstein, 46 others linked to decades of sex assaults at Interlochen, over 70 victimsAn investigative report two years in the making was released Tuesday, July 28, detailing decades of sexual abuse at Interlochen Center for the Arts by staff, trustees, visiting artists and Jeffrey Eps... 19893354
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Big fucking ups to this quote from Dr. Davis tho: “It’s bewildering. It seemed weird and laughable,” Davis said of the indictment. “It felt like the length of the indictment was a cover for how thin it actually was. I’m a professor. I’ve seen people pad out papers when they’ve got nothing to say.” 1588
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives 4258129
Reposted by Erika Supria HDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 28/07/2026A short story of dogs doing things (in a manuscript of 1300 AD). #dogsky 310822
Reposted by Erika Supria HBenjamin Tausig @burrata.bsky.social · 27/07/2026As next school year draws closer (eek), I'm curious to hear an update on your anti-AI defenses, if you're teaching? Policies, sure, but also how you're redesigning assignments and building guardrails. I might write something about all this. 8289
Reposted by Erika Supria HJoel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 25/07/2026The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares. 891835363
Reposted by Erika Supria HTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026shutting down academic programs is virtually never about the quality of those programs and often it’s not really even about their actual student numbers or “appeal” very little management policy towards the humanities is specifically “about” research or teaching in the humanities at all, in fact 316151
Reposted by Erika Supria HMark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny. 535592
Reposted by Erika Supria HAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/07/2026Thinking about this in relation to the divide between the impossibility of assigning physical books in classes at UMass-Amherst (bc no student will buy them) and the fact that at Amherst College that is not an issue since the College just buys the books for students: www.amherst.edu/academiclife...amherst.eduAmherst College Textbooks | Supporting Students’ Academic Success | Amherst College 3377
Reposted by Erika Supria HT. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Carney: Wildfires are really bad and I care about the people affected by them. Me: Reminder that Carney, who says this about wildfires, has cut every relevant federal agency, is rolling back climate protections, and pushing more pipelines. Carney fans: YoU sHoULd BLaMe tEh PrEMiErS. 1616941