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Erica Buchberger

@ericabuchberger.bsky.social
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History Professor | Early Medievalist | Academic Editor. DPhil@Univ Oxford. Homesick for WI. Opinions mine not employer's, share does not necessarily mean endorse. www.ericabuchberger.com

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12h
Hard to know if this guy or Newsom is working harder to nuke their '28 primary chances.
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This playful cat completely made the window cleaner’s day. Original post
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Bradford Vivian @bradvivian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If this isn’t blatant viewpoint discrimination, then I don’t know what is. “The Office of the Provost rejected 57 of 77 applications from the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis to retain core curriculum status for the 2027-28 academic year . . . 1/2 thedailytexan.com/2026/09/24/u...
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University rejects over 30 courses of a COLA department’s requested core curriculum courses,
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story and headline incorrectly stated the number and percentage of courses of Social and Cultural Analysis that were rejected by the Office of the Provost due...
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Dr. Leonard Bright @drleonardbright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Texas legislators and universities can’t claim to support viewpoint diversity while endorsing viewpoint discrimination. Genuine intellectual diversity requires allowing competing perspectives—even unpopular ones—to be expressed, examined, and debated.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 02/10/2026
The rush to accuse, without anything approaching due diligence, artists of using "AI," should be treated with contempt. An artist gets their work *ripped off* to train a plagiarism machine, which then shits out inferior versions of that work, so then you accuse the artist of using "AI"? Fuck you.
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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I am so fucking tired of women being asked to absorb life-altering trauma so men's lives don't become life-alteringly inconvenient.
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Larkin Francis, PhD, MSW @mwfrancis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PLEASE ask me for my article! It's always a thrill to know that someone wants to read it, and I hate that knowledge is gatekept like this. Not only do we not get paid if you pay the fee, but we have to pay the journal thousands of dollars for the "privilege" of making it open-access (not paywalled)
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"...calling a text extruded from an LLM a ‘history’ is, quite literally, a category error. There are far too many deliberations, choices, and cares in the production of a history for it to be something statistically generated, a mere algorithmic derivative." #NoAIintheclassroom #skystorians
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Well, I'll be damned. They finally found a spine.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#DamnatioMemoriae2029
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A real problem with concerns about oil prices spiking even more than they already have is that people cannot do anymore to mitigate increased costs. There's already been mass layoffs, SNAP cuts, plus higher energy and food prices. The unnecessary US-Canada trade war. People are exhausted.
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Danny Page @danny.page · 17/09/2026
God bless @atherton.bsky.social for this succinct wisdom
Kelsey D. Atherton - tweet from 2019

Oh, you're experiencing a structural problem? Have you ever considered trying different personal choices instead?
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day, everybody. Hey, remember when this was a joke?
theonion.com
Supreme Court Upholds Bill Of Rights In 5-4 Decision
WASHINGTON—In a landmark decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court narrowly ruled to uphold the Bill of Rights, the very tenets upon which American society is based. "After carefully considering the rel...
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🎃 Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Trans rights is inherently a bodily autonomy issue. Just like abortion rights is. We can't have gender equity or reproductive freedom without trans rights. Full stop. You can yell at me and make up shit that you claim I've said if it makes you feel better. I don't care. I'm right. And you know it.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is the way. Let these centers power themselves with solar and wind.
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Meghan Wilson Duff 🦑 @mwduff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just hear @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social's permission structure in this. It's corporate greed, consolidation, & control that is killing us. Here we are wasting f-ing time discussing if the gadget is alive, debating toys instead of the men holding the remote controls while they steal & wreak havoc.
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/09/2026
the mold whispering into JK Rowling's subconscious: "you should put on your website a list of every mean thing you think anyone's ever said about you just in case someone doesn't know you're in the Epstein files"
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Rank and file Democrats want fighters for candidates. Most of us don't care if they're "establishment" Democrats or if they're DSA. If they will fight for Democratic principles they are getting support and it's paying off for them.
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BonnieHuval @bonniehuval.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Now two major transport routes covering about 1/3 of global oil are essentially shut, not just the Strait of Hormuz but also Bab el-Mandeb. Take a look at how you are situated. Whatever you can to do brace, I hope you will not put it off any longer. bonniehuval.substack.com/p/hormuz-bab...
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Hormuz + Bab el-Mandeb = Crisis
Main audience: everyone
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
CHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION This is *very* important where there's been obvious voter suppression, but also generally a good idea. Check that you're *ACTUALLY* registered here ⬇️ & then check again every 1-2 weeks. Pls ask others to do the same! (Not registered?➡️ www.nass.org/can-i-vote/r...)
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Voter Registration Status | NASS
Not sure if you're already registered, or need to update your information? Select your state in the drop down menu to check.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 08/09/2026
I'm just really tired of programmers and others who find this stuff genuinely life changing lecturing everybody else about how it's "changing human nature" or whatever. It isn't, sorry. That's a personal thing for you and your circle.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"ultimate danger remains that, when institutions comply with authoritarian wishes, the govt will just ask for greater and greater concessions. After all, if you give a mouse a cookie, he’s going to ask for a glass of milk." The anatomy of a coup d’université www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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That Same Ol’ Authoritarian Playbook
Throughout history, autocrats have gone after higher ed finances to control institutions’ culture.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A microcosm of my frustration with 🇺🇸 political media for years now. The AfD in 🇩🇪 is, if anything, <less> far right & authoritarian than the GOP, but neither @nytimes.com nor any other major media outlet regularly calls them a far right party. But as soon as it’s 🇩🇪, right in the headline. Every time.
Global Party survey data on party
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Michael Birtwhistle @salfordmh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Recommending AI seems analogous to recommending cowboy builders. "Do them a little sketch and they'll knock something up for you straightaway! And it's cheap; no planning permission; no learning about building codes! People are just afraid of builders!"
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026
I mean there has been massive historic disinvestment in public higher education. www.asanet.org/footnotes-ar...
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Connecting Disinvestment in Public Higher Education, Rising Tuition, and Student Debt | American Sociological Association
Government disinvestment in public higher education and the rise in college tuition over the last forty years are fundamental and interconnected factors
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God @thegodshow.com · 04/09/2026
Thou shalt not ask permission from the Republicans, thou shalt just knock his monuments down, like he did to the East Wing.
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Thou Shalt Take Down All Of Trump’s Monuments
Throw him into the trashcan of history.
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/09/2026
I’m learning that a lot of you think that you will instantly know which part of the “80% correct” is indeed correct and so search will be just fine I mean imagine that 80% of your food is safe to eat but there’s no information on recalls. Good luck!
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 02/09/2026
And here in Utah, most of it is about taxes and kickbacks to government officials. We have elected officials who are making money off of selling the land while tech companies will billions of $$ in investment are given almost 100% tax breaks while citizens have property taxes increased.
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The gig is up in the very first sentence of the Supreme Court's per curiam opinion on the Trump ballroom (emphasis added): "In October 2025, the *federal government* started a project to replace the East Wing of the White House." They've collapsed the legislative branch into the unitary executive.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
i guess in a world where it seems like the corruption is truly endless and often unpunished, it's *kinda* funny that George Santos is the one guy who like never gets away with it
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Charlotte Canning @cmcanning.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In solidarity, I am re-upping this piece from last spring.
dallasnews.com
Indoctrination isn't happening at UT, despite what regents say
UT professor argues claims of widespread campus indoctrination are unfounded, citing research showing students feel free to think independently.
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Austin McCoy @austinmccoy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Yeah, I was happy to read @jamellebouie.net ‘s comments in this exchange. The timeline supporting the critique that “wokeness” of 2020 undermined Democrats in 2024 when Biden won in 2020 😂 1. That’s rightwing framing, which has sought to rewrite the history of spring/summer 2020
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"Here’s an opportunity to move past the job-training consensus that has left our universities stripped threadbare and too driven by trends and vibes. But I promise you, students want real educations and will come for them, rather than be forced to listen to a CEO tell them that capitalism rocks."
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Perry: Republicans fought ‘indoctrination.’ Now they’re telling students what to study.
The conservative attack on higher education in states like Iowa is hard to watch. But it also provides an opportunity for blue states like Minnesota.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
happy first day of school! teaching college does not get easier. below are some resources for solidarity, courage, inspiration, collaboration first: assignment ideas, syllabus language, memes and more for the pro-learning classroom against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Perhaps this is the beginning of her work from the World to Come
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Dolly Parton: Damn Straight! You Points
Alt: Dolly Parton: Damn Straight! You Points
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Espooky Hispanic Pixie Dreamgirl @bocadelperro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Fuck. Tim Curry too??
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Republicans have spent the last year trying to defund Dolly Parton
article about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Indianaarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Kentuckyarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Missouriiarticle about proposed GOP cuts to Imagination Library in Washington
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 25/08/2026
Viewpoint diversity is the opposite of peer review. You should not be leading a university if you don’t believe in peer review asheeshksi.substack.com/p/producing-...
The fact that conservative scholarship is underrepresented in our institutions ultimately means that the left gets flabbier because it’s not being tested and challenged in the way it ought to be. At the same time, the right, to the extent that it moves outside the university and finds itself in think tanks and is not subject to challenges or critiques from the center and the left, becomes more radicalized. This is not just a problem for our institutions. It’s a problem for America. So I do feel urgency in trying to remedy this issue. It was my colleague Steve Teles, who wrote in The Chronicle about this, who said he was hard pressed to identify a single tenured conservative scholar in the social sciences and humanities at Hopkins. I took that as a very serious critique
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
'A number of faculty members at Texas A&M University–Victoria have quit after the university announced in late June that full-time faculty are required to be on campus for eight hours a day, five days per week this fall.' 1/3
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Faculty Quit as Texas University Orders Them Back to Campus
The new policy, announced in June, is a response to a Texas law restricting remote work for public university faculty. The Texas AAUP says it has prompted chaos and tears.
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Make late antiquity go absolutely *viral*, this is what Bluesky is for.
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I think a lot of people don't really understand that the reports of Russian forces looting museums in occupied Ukraine (particularly Kherson prior to liberation) were not just "soldiers being soldiers" but rather an extremely intentional occupation policy meant to steal cultural heritage
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Make Dickens Fiction Again
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Late Bloomer @ltblmr69.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The whole point of LEGITIMATE research is NOT to impose an agenda on the outcome. What she is proposing will produce "results" that cannot be trusted. When that happens, we are all at risk.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Mamdani is succeeding in part by projecting joy Ossoff is succeeding in part by projecting steely ferocity We’re in a moment when attitude is nearly as powerful as ideology, because we all need courage. And these are two ways of summoning it
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
because the #1 value-add of AI (and tech in general) is passing accountability to someone/thing else
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 18/08/2026
What I don't get is why publishers are acting so reflexively. Why not conduct your own investigation? Why not ask to look at previous drafts and compare them? Why rely on a fire extinguisher sold by an arsonist?
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