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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 13h

UChicago, like any other college, gets vastly more women applicants than men. And yet, its undergrad student body is disproportionately male. chicagomaroon.com/53804/viewpo...

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Creating a Manosphere at the University of Chicago

Why does the University of Chicago reject so many women?

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christina @formeresq.bsky.social · 6h

I haven’t been able to engage much with worries about the future since i unknowingly joined the permanent underclass in 2021 by not buying a home

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12h

It’s just going to get prettier from here

A red brick, Gilded Age mansion with coordinate painting and woodwork silhouette against a cloudless blue October sky. There are trees with green leaves and golden leaves and red leaves all around it.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 12h

It’s just going to get prettier from here

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Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

If you never thought you'd ever hear a group of Anything Muppets from SESAME STREET sing the Blood, Sweat & Tears song "Spinning Wheel", well, never say never... (Oh, and keep an eye on the puff of smoke, knowing that it's coordinated between a performer & a separate cued smoke mechanism)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 22h

This was one of my favorite things to teach but I eventually restricted it to my women's history class because teaching it in US II was just too exhausting. It's always good to revisit.

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Redstocking Manifesto (1969)

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The Mark Twain House & Museum @marktwainhouse.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On November 7, The Mark Twain House & Museum will bring together writers, editors, scholars, journalists, and educators for Creative Writing in the Age of AI, a day of conversation about creativity, authorship, copyright, education, and the future of the written word marktwainaward.org/ai-symposium

A digital graphic for the Mark Twain House Creative Writing in the Age of AI symposium on November 7, 2026

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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.

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Jane, actually @maidofbeans.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The last time I said "I'm fine" and truly meant it, Pluto was still a planet.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

got my only retirement account during the first trump administration (forced on me by my vap institution) and it really did teach me the value of never ever looking at that shit

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As the person organizing it, I will tell you this applies en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

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Betteridge's law of headlines - Wikipedia

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Just to be clear, we think Betteridge’s law applies here.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Feels like one of those “why did I even bother” weeks already.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We think we've picked a particularly cromulent theme for our 2026 December issue. Keep your eyes peeled for a CFP in the next few weeks.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It may be easier to debate these issues when they aren't personal to you, but just because it's easier doesn't mean it's good to do it. There's a way to do it without giving ground so maybe that's what's always happening but I dunno.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That being said, I don't know that it's super helpful for the relatively inviolable folks to sit down and have protracted conversations with those who'd wish the rest of us harm. There's a point where you're just validating the idea that the lives of other people are something to be debated.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think if you can't immediately think of a right you've lost or gained because of your identity in the past couple of decades you don't get to tell others they should simply sit down for conversations with people who disagree with them.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We have one by the same artist at the museum!

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(Yes they did a blessing of the animals too, but I wasn’t there for that.)

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Missa Gaia in a Franciscan church ending with Cubberly puppets? It’s a Connecticut Transitus!

A gold sparkly sun puppet operated by a man

a puppet styled as a black woman in a colorful dress with plants as hair

Two large puppets operated by people wearing them in the back of a bright Catholic Church.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Genuinely I don’t think he’s helping me in my attempts to stop being like this because he is genuinely wrong about everything and the rest of us who are like this in our lives are much less wrong about things.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I'm so excited to take part in this conversation about AI and human creativity and to have the chance to learn from so many interesting panelists. Human conversation with human writers!

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T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That whopping 1.9% of GDP is even starker when compared to what's going on elsewhere in the economy. Here's a chart from that WSJ piece. Note the timeline. Trump took office in late January 2025. 3/

A chart showing that data center construction spending has grown steadily since December 2023, while private construction in all other areas has plunged since Trump took office.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've been thinking about the line from the Port Huron Statement: "Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation in the experiment with living." This symposium is ostensibly about creative writing but it's really about how we keep writing/reading/thinking.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In person: $75 general, $50 members, $30 students and educators—includes lots of coffee, light snacks, and lunch. Streaming: $10 general, free for members. Every ticket holder gets access to the recording after, so live streamers/non-EST ppl don’t have to sit at their computers all day.

Join us on Saturday November 7th from 9:30am to 3pm for Creative Writing in the Age of Al at The Mark
Twain House & Museum.
This day-long symposium will explore the philosophical, ethical, and legal aspects of generative Al and human creativity, the experiences of established and aspiring authors and editors in this critical moment, and the ways generative Al is reshaping how we read, engage with, and teach the literary arts. Gathering together scholars, authors, editors, educators, and critics from around the country, we'll explore how generative Al prompts us to think more about creative writing, what we value about it, and how we can best uphold those values going forward.

Symposium Schedule
9:30-10:00 Breakfast reception
10:00-10:30 Introductory remarks from John Warner, who will serve as the day's moderator
10:30-11:15 Frameworks
• Jeff Dixon, Professor of Sociology, College of the Holy Cross
• Bhamati Viswanathan, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Suffolk University Law School
• Damien P. Williams, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Data Science, University of North
Carolina Charlotte
11:15-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Authors and editors
• David Baldacci, novelist
• Lydia Millet, writer and winner of the 2026 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award
• Emily Hockaday, poet and editor of Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine

12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:00 Teaching, learning, and reading
• Ron Charles, book critic
• Jane Rosenzweig, former director of the Harvard
Writing Center
• Matt Seybold, Associate Professor of American Literature & Mark Twain Studies, Elmira College
2:00-2:15 Coffee break
2:15-3:00 What Now? What Next?
• Roundtable with all participants

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Also I get that it's a bit but "can't believe I agree with the Pope" is perhaps least convincing when it's about supporting human artists.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Believe me, many of my colleagues have "ugh, too academic" in a holster ready to go whenever they read my writing so I am very careful. (Also I edit a magazine for a general audience and literally design and deliver programs to six-year-olds but can't be trusted not to use "jargon")

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spent all day refining a press release for our upcoming symposium on Creative Writing in the Age of AI and then . . . he just tweeted it out.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

AI companies boasting about their latest metrics and accomplishments is like curtains for Zoosha but maybe you do need to pay attention to Zoosha because they're ruining the whole world.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's a good day when you get new rep.

Two staves of SATB choral music in latin full of groovy accidentals.

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cornell PR: "A continuation of the false narrative that there were minimal consequences in this case is irresponsible, will make victims feel less safe and supported, and will perpetuate the underreporting of sexual assault." PR Pro: "It is hard for so many problems to exist in one sentence."

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Cornell, the DA and the communication choices that deepened a crisis - PR Daily

Communications is shaping -- and worsening -- the alleged gang rape at Cornell University.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

from his lips to Wally's cue cards

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Someone like @mattseybold.bsky.social probably knows the answer to this--were there personnel changes that fostered this shift (because it definitely wasn't always this bad) or were the built-in incentives of the publication itself always going to move things in this direction as the vibes shifted?

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oh-jane.bsky.social @oh-jane.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"there were four courses 1st boiled 2d roasted 3d desert 4th fruit, all of which he put on without mistake. The only mishap was his spilling a finger bowl over one of the council (Mr Lovening I think)"

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emma burnett @slashnburnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Amirite tho

White text on yellow-orange ombré background that reads:
Don't let Al ruin your writing.
It's your writing.
Ruin it yourself.

Amirite

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We seek a historian specializing in the modern history of science, technology, & medicine ... and will consider applicants who specialize in any scientific practice in any part of the world since 1600." App review begins Nov 6, so after election results. 👀 faculty.utexas.edu/career/193102 #HistSTM

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Faculty Careers - The University of Texas at Austin

Unleash your intellectual power by joining a world-renowned faculty that is solving the world's most urgent problems. At UT Austin, we provide you the freedom to blaze trails, follow your curiosity, e...

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Dr Hannah M. Rowland @hannahmrowland.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hope your day was better than Darwin’s, on this day 165 years ago

I am very poorly today & very stupid & hate everybody &everything.

Charles Darwin
Letter to Charles Lyell
1st October 1861

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to have our 2026 winner! As with last year, it’s a short story collection.

2026 MARK TWAIN AWARD
Lydia Millet
Atavists
"Twain's sardonic humor when it comes to human nature is on full display."
The Mark Twain House & Museum

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Dina Strasser @dinaeliz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Lydia Millet's work is WONDERFUL. Funny, odd, luminous.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Excited to have our 2026 winner! As with last year, it’s a short story collection.

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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

in Carrie, do you think newly inaugurated President Gerald Ford would be able to cope with a teenage girl killing some 500 people in a small town in Maine because it turns out ESP is real or do you think Ed Muskie eats his lunch in the following 1976 election?

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I think Gorsuch is functionally Episcopalian but it seems just as bad if not worse to have the Catholics and Episcopalians as a team on this issue.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

don't tell my boyfriend/it's not what he's made for

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

and sure, joy is always important. but it sort of drew a real line between those for whom it was a visceral experience and those for whom it was an intellectual exercise. also we were being real wet blankets and they just wanted to have fun /s

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I still remember an afternoon on Twitter when every woman was posting in a blind rage about the Kavanaugh hearings, just *seething* over what was happening, and all of a sudden the game started and instantly all of those voices were swamped by every guy on the site excitedly talking about football.

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