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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve gone over my entire day and the only possible explanation for the weirdly symmetrically scrapped elbows is alien abduction.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Can someone explain how I scratched both my elbows from a day of sitting at my desk and walking around a classroom?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It might be because of the state of higher ed or it might be because it's Friday, but I really want to apply for this job. Even better, I actually meet the requirements!

NOW HIRING
DOG HIKER
Seeking active and responsible people who love dogs for dog hiking positions with a fast growing pet care company in South Denver.
All positions include care for dogs in the outdoors, dog-hiking, VIP customer service and additional hours for in-office marketing duties.
MUST HAVE:
- Prior Dog Care Experience (professionally or personal)
- Ability & Desire to Hike 3+ Miles (in all kinds of weather)
- Exceptional Communication Skills
- Basic Computer Skills
- Valid Driver's License and Clean Record
- Social Media Awareness
- Independant and Unwaivering Accountability
Early Start...
Mid-Afternoon End!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Kimchi micheladas"?! Come on!

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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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REBRAC - Rede Europeia de Brasilianistas de Análise Cultural @rebracweb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Luso-Brazilian cultural studies since 1800, Columbia University. Areas include: broader Latin American and/or transoceanic perspective on literature, visual arts, film, music; Afro-Brazilian studies; indigeneity and gender jobs.chronicle.com/job/38045295...

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Assistant Professor position in Luso-Brazilian cultural studies since 1800 - New York City, New York (US) job with Columbia University | 38045295

The Department of Latin American & Iberian Cultures at Columbia seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Luso-Brazilian cultural studies since 1800

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I watched The Drama last night and, hmm not much to say imo. BUT it did make me nostalgic for my years at Boston (green line and all) and miss ordering Tatte Bakery lunch from my office, walking across campus and having it be ready for pick up as soon as I walked in.

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Patricia Hswe @pmhswe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Friends, please check out this new report on community-based archives, "Powerful But Precarious," linked from the Mellon website. A participatory action research study, it provides a rich portrait of these organizations—their aspirations, wants, and resilience. Enjoy! www.mellon.org/features/com...

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

TWF when you deliberately choose to do an annoying thing just so you don't have to think about another more annoying thing 🫠

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hey, my grad students shared this wild copy of Unamuno's Abel Sánchez with a “Dutch door” die cut page vocab section. They know me well.

A Special Note on the Vocabulary
This volume offers a new departure in the handling of the Vocabulary. Instead of placing the Vocabulary at the end of the book, we have sliced the pages in two, so that the Vocabulary (Lower part) is a separate dictionary which is used independently of the text (upper part).
This "Dutch-door" arrangement enables the student to look up words with the greatest speed and convenience. He does not have to hold his place in the text with one hand and hunt at the back. As he reads his text page, he merely turns the pages
pendent of each other.
Words in the text that are marked with an asterisk are given extended explanation in the Vocabulary. The explanation appears under the asterisked word. (For example: the text passage that reads "Es una figura que ni a posta*» is explained in the Vocabulary under the word "posta," since "posta" is the asterisked word.)
The Vocabulary follows the usual procedure. On the next pag you will find the list of abbreviations.
THE PUBLISHERS

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Whitney Trettien @whitneytrettien.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

At the MoMA today for THE SURREALIST BOOK, a fabulous new exhibit by Jodi Hauptman & Starr Figura. Ft. artists' books from the Zell collection, spanning surrealism to the present. I wrote the catalogue's epilogue on artsy bookmaking & "new" media. It was fun. Come see these gorgeous books.

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The Surrealist Book: Tomorrow Lives in Mirrors | MoMA

Exhibition. Oct 4, 2026–Jan 23, 2027. A book bound with shards of shattered glass. A manifesto enshrined in polished metal. Love poems seamlessly merging with solarized photographs. For artists and wr...

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hacía muchísimos años que no escuchaba la palabra ñandú -- la cual sospecho solo aprendemos de peques por ser una de las pocas palabras que empiezan con Ñ. Leerla de casualidad ahora, me transportó.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Here to report that the collaborative annotation exercise went great! Good individual comments and, much more importantly, super generous and generative responses among the students! One small hallucination seeped in (likely from a bot overview), but others helped correct it, before I got to it!

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Miguel Martínez @fusonegro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gente de Bsky. Buscamos colega en la Universidad de Chicago: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Modern Iberian Studies. Tenéis todavía margen para solicitar: el deadline es el 15 de octubre. EOE/Vet/Disability. Más info aquí: apply.interfolio.com/191615

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No? Really? Just me? You're all very lucky!

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Can't really believe it's been a whole year

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do others have colleagues who also like to play "guess how many emails from you I can ignore so I don't have to go through the toil of signing a docusing"?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’ve moved my campus schedule to start my day at 7ish and I get a ton more done! Those two hours before anyone starts emailing, getting together for meetings, or dropping by my office are everything. Of course, it is now after 4:30pm and I need to have dinner and go to bed.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yes, I know it’s officially Fall, but why not make one last summer cake??

A four layer chiffon cake sandwiching whipped cream and strawberry slices. It’s topped with halved fresh strawberries.

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Charco Press @charcopress.com · 23/09/2026

Ship manifests, letters home, colonial decrees: the General Archive of the Indies holds 80 million pages of empire. In Unveiling Stories, ten writers from Spain and Latin America write back. Out now in Charco Essays, with thanks to @hayfestival.bsky.social. charcopress.com/bookstore/un...

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Otrebordm @otrebordm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

En su perdurabilidad intervienen sus méritos y las aportaciones de la máscara (no ocultadora, sino creadora de identidad) y el seudónimo que implica religiosidad y misterio 🤍 Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "El Santo" 🎂🇲🇽 🤼🏻‍♂️ nació el #23Septiembre de 1917. #FelizMiércoles #ElSanto #OtrebordmXCultura

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Pedí un pozole y unas quesadillas de La casa de Toño justo al aterrizar en cdmx. ¿Quién llegará a casa primero, yo o el pozole?

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Cecily Raynor @cecilyraynor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Happy to see this go live today! “Computational Approaches to Latin American Literary Production” is now available in the Palgrave Handbook of Digital Latin American Studies. The editors were a joy to work with, and I’m grateful for the opportunity to contribute ✨ link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

www.acla.org/seminar/fde3... great seminar at ACLA on Digital Memory & World Literature!

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I taught with hypothesis today and let me tell you how much historicizing I had to do of the very practice of annotating texts online and online collaboration. Understandably, it turns out first year students have a hard time believing any text online is worth their time and effort…

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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We are hiring for several positions in the UW Information School, including a tenure-track position in Library and Information Science. Please share with anyone interested in these areas! Deadline October 30. Job: apply.interfolio.com/192127

Screenshot of job ad that reads: "The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to our Library and Information Science (LIS) research, with areas of relevance including, but not limited to:

Libraries - Academic, Digital, or Public

Librarianship - Leadership, Innovation, or Education

Information Technology - Ethics, Public Interest, and Justice-Oriented Approaches

Data - Archives, Public / Open, and Humanistic or Scientific Applications

Artificial Intelligence - Public Interest, Library or Cultural Heritage-Centered, Open-Source Applications in Information Institutions "

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How is it Monday again? At least this week, we get Larraín/Enríquez’s Mis muertos tristes (My Sad Dead)!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Got my seasonal shots after work today and supplies for an achy/feverish weekend on the couch. Any movie or show recommendations appropriate for my upcoming state?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the campus Latine Heritage Month celebration, red elote or concha earrings?

Two pairs of earrings. One in the shape of elotes maked with beads. The other in the shape of conchas.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Re Hispanic/Latinx/Latine Heritage Month, how did organizations get from "no Latinx" (for a variety of reasons), to putting an accent on Latiné? And the only, admittedly grumpy, conclusion I've reached is folks overpronounced the E at the end of Latine making folks believe the stress goes there?

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

For the morning crowd, this gift link should work.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Embedded Pedagogies is out! Available freely online through @openbookpublish.bsky.social and for purchase in a variety of different formats. It's a tough time to teach, and it's easy to feel helpless. In this book I argue for an expansive view of teaching and the work it can do in the world.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Still processing the rewriting of national myths that took place in only a few minutes of tv during Bulmaro Juárez, Yocelyn Morales Pliego, and Tsi-tsi-ki Félix's intro segment right before Sheinbaum's grito 1/3

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Please do share and complete Mariana's survey of sounds you have found culturally / personally important, wherever you have lived in the world! As noted, if you, or know others, who have lived in Latin America, Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Ukraine, their responses would be especially welcome 🙂

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dartmouthspport.bsky.social @dartmouthspport.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Dartmouth Spanish & Portuguese invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Latin American Medical Humanities. Spanish fluency required; PhD/ABD required. Review begins Oct. 15, 2026: apply.interfolio.com/192064 #AcademicJobs #LatinAmericanStudies #MLAJobs #HumanitiesJobs

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Maria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We're hiring in Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder! ☀️⛰️ Machine learning and NLP people, please apply!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A book club that turned into a hiking club.

A group of 14 Latinas smile at the top of Mt Blue Sky. They’re wearing all sorts and colors of hiking attire.

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a bad edible: PB&J Harvey 🫣

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

It’s my beloved house! It’s in Denver! It’s for sale! Buy it!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Anyone know why the 2dCloud edition of Virus Tropical has *no number pages*? Was it just a mistake? My students are getting an intense introduction of why book conventions exist/matter!

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

For some reason I hadn’t registered that MLA 2028 will be in Denver!! Skiing side trip anyone?

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Élika Ortega @elikaortega.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I got in the shower wearing my glasses this morning. How's your Friday going? 😴

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Richard A Carter @richardacarter.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My aspirations for academic impact

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