iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.

Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Ping Zhu, a literature professor at University of California, San Diego, who researches Chinese feminism and literature, said the novel is compatible with the Chinese government’s vision of women’s equality — one that can coexist with traditional gender roles and the heterosexual nuclear family"

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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’

The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When invited by uni admin learn how to use Canvas for "Program Learning Outcomes Assessment," I said "shove it," nicely:

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Poems don't often make me laugh but this one did nearly have me rolling on my side. So excited to have @notquitehydepark.bsky.social speaking at CU Boulder today.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026

More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.

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Girish M. Duvvuri @gmduvvuri.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The open secret to pedagogy research is that small class sizes/maximizing educator attention per pupil is the simplest, most effective, and unfortunately the least attractive to administration thing you can do to improve learning outcomes.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We keep discussing ”strategies” for teaching in the age of AI to avoid talking about resources. It’s so boring!! The strategy is invest $ to hire people, lower class size, support research-engaged learning & stop measuring the worth of disciplines in relation to # of enrollments and majors.

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Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Rick Steves >>>>>> Don Bluth for light Russian Revolution history

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David B Hobbs @deebeehobbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Imagining a Chronicle of Restaurants that every week is like “Are chefs lazy liars? We asked twelve customers who did not tip”

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Stentor Danielson @chefstentor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Congratulations to our new union comrades at Penn State! Especially glad to hear the union covers temporary and part time faculty as well, to head off attempts to pit adjunct and TT against each other. www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

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Penn State faculty vote to unionize in one of PA’s largest public sector union elections

“This is an historic union election and the largest union election in Pennsylvania’s public sector in nearly five decades.”

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David Karol @davidkarol.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Need to set it up so some admin can take credit for "architecting and spearheading the implementation of the handwriting initiative"

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

In the comments: ”I'll just note that Canvas is no longer a pedagogical tool; in its current iteration and ownership structure, faculty and students are trapped in a digital learning environment that mines our labor without consent or privacy and intellectual property protections.”

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

absolutely miss me with this horrific infantile shit. the accent is darkly funny, since it reveals the pretentious, self-regarding class vanity—the fussy preening & ineradicable elitism of putatively "populist" discourse on higher ed—at the core of this dangerous anti-intellectual project

Passage from NYer article criticizing the elitism of higher education but using an accent aigu for elite. "For the next few weeks of this column, I will dig into questions about the viability of the American university system. The pressures on higher education seem extraordinary, even to someone like me, who is generally convinced that real change is rare, perhaps especially when it comes to America’s tried-and-tested system for replicating its élites."

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Imagine if this were reversed. Imagine if the Provost of a Milwaukee-based private college with no previous experience in litigation were, like, “I will run your law firm now. Give me the highest salary & the maximum decision-making power. How hard can it be?!?”

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

More like an attempt to avoid a conversation.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 25/03/2026

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

photograph or a poster on cream colored paper. "Dear President Ambar,
we are writing to you on a typewriter that is over 70 years old. This is a
machine that we all know well. With it, we misspell words without the crutch of spell check or generative AI and we think intently about every phrase we pound out. As we force ourselves, for once, to slow down, we engage in a cognitive dialogue with ourselves. We do not seek perfection because we know that education is about the growing and challenging of our young minds' potential, not the chasing of institutional 'gold-star' approval. We do not believe that your so-called 'Year of AI Exploration; providing enterprise ChatGPT and Google Gemini subscriptions to every Oberlin student aligns with our college's founding principles. You claim that this year will be one of experimentation, not adoption. But even just one semester of accepted (encouraged even) chat bot use will jettison our student body down a lazy and irredeemable tunnel of intellectual destruction. We are a college grounded in learning and labor, which now risks straying from these rooted ideals. With ChatGPT at the helm, our emails, essays,and discussion posts will be generated for us, not by us. And let's not fool ourselves. This is precisely what these platforms will be used for by our busy, anxious student body. We see your vision for this year as.advancing the college's 'businessification'--an alarming trend also seen in the takeover of our beloved library cafe by a 'bookstore' with no books in stock and an app replacing customer service. In one instance, the college assumes we want efficiency at all costs through automated rather than hand pulled coffee. In the other lies the false belief that we simply desire to turn in an essay, regardless of how little we've written of it." there's more that doesn't fit in the 2000 character limit :(

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

in 1977, Roland Barthes declared grammar to be a form of fascism today the fascists are the enemies of grammar

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

"surfaces"--is that what it's doing with experts' work?

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Airdrop 50,000 copies of Middlemarch with parachutes attached over every campus in America and then over the western half of Brooklyn

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Stephanie Burt @notquitehydepark.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This is like if the Red Skull fought Dr Doom

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

One day in the future, this is going to hang on the wall of a museum exhibit people visit in silence.

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This letter from faculty and grad students in Natural Language Processing at CU Boulder is 🔥 "The annual expenditure of two million dollars could and should be reallocated to initiatives with tangible benefit for our campus communities."

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GPT Agreement Dissent Letter

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Twin Cities' horrors continue though media has moved on. Families are still in hiding (schools w/virtual options till April), ICE still abducting people w/disregard for law, ongoing need for rent relief. Here's one hyper-local effort from my trusted colleague. Please RT even if you can't donate.

artistic poster of a wolf and a hand and garlands of wildflowers; the text reads "March rent financial mutual aid needed. Supporting 11 families. Current goal: $7,000.00. Venmo: @Emma-Torzs"

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

CU's decision to help stem OpenAI's cash flow problems by creating more of its own cash flow problems by paying them $2 million per year did not involve faculty or any shared governance.

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I made copies of the intro for my students and have been handing out extras like an evangelist with bibles to anyone who shows up at my office. A colleague (who then bought the book!) wrote to thank me for "the most useful teaching book I’ve bumped into in a long time."

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

CALL FOR PITCHES @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not. Details below!

Close Reading Is For Everyone
Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant

Call for Pitches

Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail?

If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step.

We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it.

Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Being a professor is like Picture of Dorian Gray except it’s the students who stay young and full of life while you decay year after year in front of them

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Kirsti @kst.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

👏👏👏👏👏

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

This semester's syllabus diatribe: And don’t even think about using AI to read, either! If you’re not going to read the sentences written by George Eliot, to struggle with them and to parse them with your own brain, then what even is the point of being in this class?

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Who knew that Des Esseintes had a penthouse in Ann Arbor?

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Standing on my desk right now.

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

And yet we can't afford to hire English professors, even though we have waitlisted classes.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.

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Emily Harrington @emilyharrington.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

But we can't hire more tenure-line faculty; we need to hire contingent faculty and pay them poorly.

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singular locus sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 26/11/2025

Me: I can catch up on grading over Thanksgiving break Also me: I can catch up on writing over Thanksgiving break Also me: I can cook an ambitious thanksgiving meal Also me: (Forgets elementary school also takes off for Thanksgiving) Wednesday before Thanksgiving:

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education: 1) Hire manye facultye 2) Small class syzes 3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte 4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

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