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have tenured some of the people I just listed. I'm super glad that they found success, enough of it to gloat, if they wished, over their former institutions.

I think the tenure process is strict for good reasons. It's also true that Princeton in the eighties was /really/ conservative in how it went about things - so much so, however, that dressing the right way could get you hired in the first place, or at least my mentor said so. And I personally would

Anyway, full disclosure, I'm a Princeton alum. I'm not a neutral observer. But I also think Carson is the kind of writer who puts a halo on the Nobel Prize, rather than the Nobel Prize putting a halo on her, so

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that not enough people could be found to act as peer reviewers in the tenure case. I won't give my personal opinion of each of those cases, but that's the kind of thing that... it's a really strict process. Each of those schools would probably gladly hire those scholars now that they're successful.

he was teaching television studies, and apparently Yale was especially upset that he was teaching it in the same room that was used to teach Shakespeare; he joined the faculty at MIT. Another didn't get tenure at a school I won't name, because it's recent, because her work was so interdisciplinary

Here are some other reasons people lost tenure at similar schools that I know of: a scholar didn't get tenure at Princeton because he was writing magazine pieces, which aren't peer reviewed, instead of scholarly articles; he became a famous literary critic. Another didn't get tenure at Yale because

Maybe, idk. I'm not confident that a classics department could give tenure to someone whose first book isn't in the discipline of classics. I say this as a huge admirer of Anne Carson, and as someone who knows perfectly well that Princeton would jump to have her on the faculty today.

Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 15h

I know of a few scholars who were denied tenure at similar schools because their writing didn't fit a very specific framework, which made tenure difficult, either because their work wasn't peer reviewed or they had no peers who could review them. Many became famous for their writing later.

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 15h

was, and her literary legacy absolutely followed up on that promise. She could have written a very staid tenure book, gotten tenure (being a woman would have made that more difficult, but), and then pivoted to her art. She didn't. I think she didn't because she's the real thing.

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 15h

I will reluctantly come to the defense of Princeton on this one. The book she was writing wasn't, as far as I can tell, a tenure book in the field of classics. It was a book of an extraordinary and completely different kind. That she had so urgently to follow her art - that shows what an artist she

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Dash Silva @dashsilva.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Melville’s editor checking in and touching base:

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Julian R. Silverman @manhattanscientist.bsky.social · 16h

Hidden is my syllabus is the call number for a book that relates to the final project theme. Take a pic with it and you get a point on an exam. I do this so I can learn who the nerds are week one. My student made a video of finding the book and got over 100k likes in TikTok. Win win win?

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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 08/10/2026

Stories are one of the most effective technologies for connecting one mind to another.

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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

my Econ dept at UMass Amherst is hiring 🎺 I love my job; our students and faculty are excellent, and we have a strong faculty union pls reach out if you or an excellent candidate you know is applying deadline 11/15 careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...

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Pollyanna Rhee 이채영 @parhee.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

UIUC is seeking candidates for a 1-year Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral associate whose research focuses on the economic, political, or technological challenges confronting US universities in the past and present. Incredibly timely and you'd work with great people! networks.h-net.org/jobs/70532/u...

networks.h-net.org

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 22/01/2018

“Now by far the strangest thing that humans do — he is firm on this — is history. This asking.” Herodotus, Anne Carson, Nox

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Noah Webster's Dictionary Online - 1806, 1828 @nwdictionary.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Maryland, n. one of the United States webstersdictionaryonline.com/1806/az/00216

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The award will allow her to purchase up to six new Icelandic sweaters

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Francesca Giannetti @jofrankie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Still a few more slots in my Data Visualization with Embroidery workshop next 10/15 in the DH Lab at Alexander Library, Rutgers. I'll be preparing supply kits for in person attendees (online attendance is possible too). 🥰 🧵🪡 libcal.rutgers.edu/event/17621114 #criticalmaking #dhmakes

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Data Visualization with Embroidery

What do wartime, espionnage, and steganography have in common? Embroidery! Come for a brief history of data visualization in textiles and a hands-on activity in which we will learn...

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Are you an undergrad, graduate student, or Post-doc in STEM? Want to switch to science writing? The AAAS Mass Media Fellowship places students in working newsrooms nationwide for 10 weeks in summer. It's PAID! 📝https://massmedia.secure-platform.com/a/page/About

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship. Deadline January 4 2027. Images are a man writing and a woman holding a microphone.

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:

science.org

‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research

Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Dad: "You know that the trees here don't turn at the same time, they just kind of go when they feel like it."

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion

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Matt Shaw @matthewshaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today in conservation

wander off into the Southwark backstreets to consult the Globe's impressive holdings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books or its considerable research library.
We were glad to see that the new research centre's holdings include plenty of material relating to Globe productions, including a script for the Titus Andronicus staged in 2014 that infamously prompted numerous members of the audience to faint. A script for that Titus is appropriately stained with fake blood, which will continue to pose a challenge to its archi-vists: it will affect the stability of the paper even in storage".

TLS 2 Oct 26

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Applications are now open for the following RBS opportunities: —𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 —𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗙𝗖𝗕 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 —𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 Details at rarebookschool.org/scholarships-fellowships

A graphic with a dark green and white background features a cut-out image of a Black man from the Nuremberg Chronicles holding a pair of medieval-style folding spectacles. White text against the green reads, “Applications are now open for Rare Book School’s 2026–27 scholarships & fellowships. Take a look today!” Black and red text against the white section of the graphic lists the funding opportunities and deadlines: All RBS-Awarded Scholarships: Apply by 1 November. The Andrew W. Mellon SoFCB Junior Fellows Program: Apply by 20 November. The M. S. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography & Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources: Apply by 6 December.” At the bottom, white text on a horizontal black bar reads, “Learn more about these and other RBS funding opportunities at rarebookschool.org/scholarships-fellowships.”

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I wear your granddad's clothes, I look incredible

A man in an old fashion plate who looks very satisfied with his enormous coat

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Elyse Graham @elysegraham.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I sometimes wonder whether public service announcements back in the day were as scary as I remember them being, but I will never check

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Bring back engraved invitation tickets to university lectures! Look at this beauty from 1798: an invitation to a lecture on "Dramatic Literature" at the School of Eloquence on 3rd May 1798. #academicchatter

a paper invitation ticket to Professor Nogo's Lecture on Dramatic Literature. Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1983-U-1926

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DH2027 @adho-conferences.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The #DH2027 CfP is open! Join us in Galway, Ireland, 28 June–3 July 2027, for #DH2027, on the theme "Creativity". 📖 Call for Proposals: dh2027.adho.org/cfp/ 📤 Submit via ConfTool starting Oct 7, 00:00 Irish time: www.conftool.pro/dh2027/ Deadline: 20 November 2026, 23:59 AoE.

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Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Great opportunity for emerging scholars to do research at two excellent libraries/ research centers for #earlymodern architecture.

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Nicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

89% of SBE NSF grants were never awarded!! My field (Cognitive Neuroscience) is included in this gutting, as are so many others. Plenty of horror stories in the same space are also coming from NIH. It’s not just delaying research; it’s labs shutting down and a next gen that won’t be trained.

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No worries, Matt. We can leave it there. I was just explaining that I think advocating for machine-made genre fiction comes from a place of contempt, not enthusiasm. You're importing the notion of enthusiasm and then, very reasonably, arguing against it. But we're probably circling the same idea.

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Not enthusiasm, but disdain for the readers at issue, and no notion that they'll want, or that they deserve, more than machine-generated fiction.

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We read her differently, then. I think, at best, she's saying that readers who check to see how many chili peppers a book's content rates, which is the subject of the article she's replying to, deserve machine-made fiction, because they're reading it already and it makes no difference. I disagree.

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JCO, to me, sounds like she's advocating for it, because everybody wears machine-made clothes and recognizes it as a basically good thing. But I recognize now that you're taking it as a diagnosis and will read you in that spirit.

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I guess if JCO is being ironic and you're agreeing with that ironic take - in that case, I'm just misunderstanding.

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The market for Gothic literature was immense in the 19th century. Gothic literature, especially when it was written by women for women, was also doing politics. I wouldn't trust AI with writing those stories, because those stories were doing something important that maybe a human needs to do.

I don't know. I watch human-made vertical dramas, and I would genuinely suggest (1) that they have a very big audience and (2) that their default politics are different from those of AI dramas that are similar in every other respect. It's smuggling something different into the same package.

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Like, I know it's a self-own to say what videos are on your feed, because it suggests that's what the algorithm has picked for you, but the AI-generated vertical stories on my feed are... like, a lot of them are about blood purity. And that's not at all what I like. Maybe they're just like that.

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I genuinely don't get this one. Genre fiction carries way bigger political freight than literary fiction. I don't trust the default politics of AI enough to entrust it with popular storytelling.

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