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Alex Gil

@elotroalex.bsky.social
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faculty of collective wonders for Yale Spanish & Portuguese. materialist spelunker and otrAmerican. he/him/colibri.

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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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jess reia • 何杰茜 @jhereia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We are hiring! ✨ Come work with me at @uvadatascience.bsky.social! We are recruiting an Open Rank Tenured/Tenure Track Prof of Data Science with a background in social science, legal, policy, STEM or humanities disciplines to join our Data and Society area. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/191214
This is a screenshot of the UVA School of Data Science website portraying the school building in the background against a blue sky and trees. The texts reads: Jobs at the School of Data Science. Join Our Team.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Many thanks to @aaup.org @hellobrittparis.bsky.social for putting together the following resources on higher ed and AI www.aaup.org/issues-highe...
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Artificial Intelligence
The uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual prope...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The World Bank estimates that there are between 150 million to 430 million data workers in the planet. The US population is 342 million people. Let that sink in.
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jackie techila @jackietechila.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"For interior enforcement, digital infrastructure is vital. Data pipelines, such as 287(g) partnerships where local police share booking data with federal agencies, turn routine traffic stops into mobility checkpoints. The “same channels” used for commerce are repurposed for extraction."
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Deportation is a Transportation Issue — Streetsblog USA
The shared infrastructure of deportation and transportation highlight an ethical dilemma; can we solve it?
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Historians, help me out: Do we have precedent for what to do when the media interviews members of cults and just platforms them, with zero acknowledgment that they are living inside their own delusions? www.marketplace.org/episode/2026...
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The Hugging Face hack shows what happens when AI agents work together
Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, says the attack presents a narrow window for humans to act.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🎵 Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto Until the day we meet again Thank you very much, Mr. Roboto I want to know your secret 🎵
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Amanda Wyatt! Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"Now is a good time the best time the only time to come together Fractious Kicking Spilling Burly Whirling Raucous Messy Free Exploding like the seeds of a natural disorder" From my #letterpress 🎨 archive: text from June Jordan's "From Sea to Shining Sea".
Photo of a letterpress print on cream paper with various blues for the text ink. It says "THIS is a good time
the best time
the ONLY time
TO COME TOGETHER
Fractious
Kicking
Spilling
Burly
Whirling
Raucous
Messy

Free

Exploding like the seeds of a natural disorder."
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Jennifer Serventi @jenserventi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Highly recommend this new essay. Come for the 29,000 index cards, stay for the introduction of Unicode & implementation of IIIF. One of my fav quotes: "A good research infrastructure should encourage and inspire research, and ours quickly did just that, accelerating the expansion of the data."
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
90% transcription success is not useless at all. It can: a) Power search at scale that is good enough to surface stuff that you just weren't seeing before; b) That's a great first draft for human transcription.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
There goes a whole tileset down the drain.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 30/08/2026
Public support for Supreme Court term limits comes from a simple but fundamental democratic value: No one should have too much power for too long. bit.ly/4glJ7w4
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Supreme Court Reform Gathers Momentum
The public wants a better Court, and politicians are listening.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
My first Shakespeare in the Park. Came with the kiddo and wifey. This is not too shabby. Much Ado About Nothing tonight.
Musicians and actors on a lit stage in Edgerton Park, Hamden, CT
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wow.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Minnesota Truth Council is creating a comprehensive public record of the impacts of ICE operations on Minnesota. The Council will convene at least 4 public meetings and produce a final report with findings and recommendations. Schedule: mn.gov/governor/abo... Join LIVE now & watch recorded mtgs:
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Minnesota Truth Council
The Governor’s Council to Record the Truth of Operation Metro Surge and Operation PARRIS (“Minnesota Truth Council”) was established by Executive Order 26-05 on March 25, 2026, to create a comprehensi...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Not to make us feel bad as a country—👀—but yesterday we had the first day of our first State-sponsored truth commission in this country's history. MN is seeking to document the truth of ICE abuses. You could see many seats empty in the hearing room, and only ~100 people on YouTube. We can do better.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Still don't feed trolls, especially not MAGA trolls. I can read the trolls on some friend's feeds on FB tho. These trolls are convinced they are smart and accomplished professors dumb or "low IQ." Like A. Tate, who says he doesn't read books because he's smart. Why the obsession with being smart?
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Watching the Truth Commission in Minnesota right now documenting ICE abuses. They're calling it the Truth Council Public Meeting. I really would like to see more of these in other states! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRdq...
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Ian Rose @ianrosewrites.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICE made 50,000 arrests in July, the highest monthly number of the Trump administration. The raids aren't just continuing. They're escalating. And yet I see less talk and coverage of ICE on my feeds than I did a year ago. Never let this feel normal. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ice-...
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ICE arrests in Minnesota return to pre-surge levels while soaring nationwide
Immigration enforcement in Minnesota has returned to pre-Operation Metro Surge levels, according to newly released federal data obtained by the Deportation Data Project.At the same time, federal immig...
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Rosa DeLauro @delauro.house.gov · 26/08/2026
I’m aware of recent and increased ICE activity in CT. I understand this can be unnerving for our community especially as kids head back to school and my office will continue to closely monitor. www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-08...
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ICE activity in CT at ‘an all-time high’ as ‘random arrests’ continue, advocates say
Arrests include a father of a high school student, tree removal workers, and a man in need of dialysis. “A clear trend today included random arrests,” according to a report by immigrant community advo...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh, that was insensitive of me to post about the draft. I didn't realize Dolly Parton had died. So sad. An angel that one.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Score is even. 1-1. The 2nd person to read my draft, an absolute rockstar who's already published a groundbreaking book on the subject says, "You wrote the book for me; it fits me perfectly, and it's been an enormous joy reading it." We're back in the game, baby!! ✌🏼
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Encouraging to read measured assessments of AI promises for medicine and health: "the scientific community thinks Silicon Valley leaders are...making grand public pronouncements without showing an abundance of evidence to prove their statements" Gift link: www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-...
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Yesterday, we launched Archipelagos Issue No. 9. Essays are amazing, but I wanted to talk also about the changes to the platform, which may be of general interest to all scholars who want to or run an academic journal. First, this is a static site (low maintenance, low cost, low security issues) 🧵
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Did I mention that issue 9 is our largest issue in terms of essays. That means our submission pool is growing—a sign that the community of scholar-practitioners is growing for Caribbean DH and New Media. I love that for us! 😊 archipelagosjournal.org
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archipelagos
A journal of Caribbean digital praxis
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Galley proofs received let's gooo. Embedded Pedagogies coming together for the fall release. www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Table of contents for an upcoming book _Embedded Pedagogies_: Digital Humanities Teaching and the Infrastructure of Change. Information can be found on the publisher website: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0544
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
On behalf of the editorial team at archipelagos journal, we are proud to announce the release of the 9th issue of archipelagos—Making Networks, Building Archives. I'm proud personally of the way the redesign came out. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org
archipelagosjournal.org
archipelagos
A journal of Caribbean digital praxis
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Half of my origin story right here. The other half is the Magnitude Collective—same time, same place. Learned the power of code from the one, impact beyond the academy from the other, and teamwork from both.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Lol. The editing part was a bit much, but I can roll with the rest for most seminars where the point is to read, think and write.
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Paula Krebs @paulakrebs.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We have grants to give! If you want to work on humanities recruitment, retention, or career readiness, check this out: www.mla.org/Resources/Ca...
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MLA Pathways Step Grants
Step grants of up to $10,000 to support faculty members or teams developing ways to improve the recruitment, retention, or career readiness of undergraduate students.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
So excited to release the next issue of our journal. Probably tomorrow. Been working all day on setting up a new production workflow like a real grown up journal with development, staging and production servers. Wayne Graham would be proud. I even have a test suite now! Where is Wayne anyway?
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I thought it was just me and bad luck in Hamden, CT. But apparently this is national. Who knew.
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Massive thanks to @archive.org & @rs4vp.org ! Both orgs (& their people) helped to realize a scholar's most difficult project. Grateful for generosity of #digitalhumanities #dh #periodicals #19c #bookhistory all year 💙Thx @elotroalex.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social for the call to action!
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 17/08/2026
A 19-year-old in Texas has spent nearly a year raising her 13-year-old sister after their parents were detained by ICE and deported to Honduras. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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U.S. citizen teens left behind when ICE deported their parents
After their mom and dad were deported, two Fort Worth teens went nearly a year before seeing their parents.
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
there are so many grifters and violent men in positions of power in the academy who are committing serious crimes, sexually harassing students, producing false research for fascists, and aiding and funding genocide. they feel no shame, they face no consequence, and no one is hounding them to death.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I maintain that it is still possible to write in such a way that agentic AI cannot write before we do, and that it might be worth the trouble. 🧵
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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is so, so good
I have to be blunt here: Our critics are really fucking stupid, and we’ve given them way too much leeway to conjure senile fantasies out of their own illiteracy. We need to stop taking their trolling in good faith, and we need to stop apologizing for our work. The truth is that every purportedly obvious problem with humanities writing—every bogeyman of bias, difficulty, obscurity, and irrelevance—dissolves into something else, something much more interesting, as soon as we wade into the spaces where the scholarship exists.
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The first person to finish my draft is the world's foremost expert on the subject (in my opinion). I may have given her an aneurism. Just received her 4th email listing in painful detail why my reading of this poem is the wrongest to ever wrong. Holding out for my second reader!! 😃🤞🏼
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 08/08/2026
Replace Muslim with most any other minority community and it would warrant expulsion or at least censure But this vile dehumanizing hate targeted at Americans who are Muslim is accepted as legitimate political discourse and no one blinks
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Finally saw Odysseus. I thought it was a neat allegory for the fall of the American empire and the international neoliberal order because of forever wars and the way we treat immigrants. People still mad that it was not about the bronze age?
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hello, gorgeous 🌸
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Over the last couple years reading, and especially collective modes of reading, have come to mean ever more to me. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social’s challenge from earlier this week helped me see why. I’m going to double down on building community around books. I hope you will too.
theamericanvandal.com
Neuroplasticity As A Praxis
We Can Read Our Way Out Of Autocracy
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/08/2026
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
bloomberg.com
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Siddhartha Mitter @siddharthamitter.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
The signatories to this letter start with Stiglitz and Rodrik and go on to encompass pretty much everyone brilliant and decent in the economics field worldwide. Prof. Reddy’s scholarship is deeply grounded in human dignity and wellbeing — in the direct lineage of his teacher, the great Amartya Sen.
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Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School
Open Letter Concerning Academic Freedom, Tenure, and the Future of the New School We, the undersigned, write to express our concern regarding recent restructuring decisions at the New School, includin...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Applications are due by end-of-day ET this Friday, August 7! Please join us — and please share!
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Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Done with the book manuscript. Took me a year, which not bad. This is not exactly the book I promised the press. Now to convince them that I'm not insane. Hopefully they won't get cold feet, and I have to spend extra time finding one that gets it.🤞🏼
Image of the cover of the manuscript. The title reads Césaire Unbound: An Essay on the Fragments of a Poem (1941–1944) by Alex Gil.Table of contents, page 1. The table includes Frontmatter and Chapters with page numbers.Table of Contents page 2. The table continues the list of chapters and includes the Backmatter
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm posting my #DH2026 talk abstract here, as they can be slightly hard to find in the huge official book of abstracts: A never-ending story: supporting access to museum and library collections (in the UK) www.miaridge.com/dh20206-pres...
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DH20206 presentation: A never-ending story: supporting access to museum and library collections (in the UK) - mia ridge
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 30/07/2026
ICYMI: at the current pace, ICE will have booked over 800,000 people into detention by year's end and close to 1.75 million by the end of the term. Most people released from detention are now deported. See the graphs. austinkocher.substack.com/p/over-60000...
austinkocher.substack.com
https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/over-600000-people-booked-into-ice
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