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Gemma Sharpe

@gemmasharpe.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof in Art History, Cold War internationalism, Modernism in Pakistan and South Asia | GC-CUNY alum | Cleveland based | From across the pond

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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I could do this all day, but you get the point(s). Trust in higher ed ≠ trust in Ivy Leagues. Budgets are moral documents and if you want to examine trust in higher ed, look at how states prioritize public higher education.
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James Ryan @jdryan08.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The combined undergraduate and graduate student populations of all Ivy League schools is about 140,000 students. The CUNY system alone is 250,000.
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Admins wondering why there's a demographic cliff.
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Sunday Scaries but you're an academic and it's nearly the last week of summer... 🤢
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This should be self evident but clearly isn’t. From @lewisgoodall.com
The problem is not that higher education has failed as an engine of social mobility. It is that, for too long, it has been treated as the only engine. The curriculum is not the problem which is driving our NEET malaise; the weakness of local economies is. Any Labour administration should therefore tread very carefully before dismantling any part of the comprehensive educational settlement created by the Labour governments of the 1960s. Burnham's proposals also misunderstand the multi-layered nature of the modern university, which in many cases is as likely to offer vocational courses as strictly academic ones.
In any case, let's stop the obsession with STEM subjects and
"practical" training. There is already too much snobbery in the assumption that working-class students are somehow less interested in the arts and humanities. And we've never needed those graduates more. In an age in which we are already outsourcing so much of our critical thinking to machines, and in which none of us can be entirely sure of the truth of what we see, where the world's complexity is ever deepening, subjects like philosophy, history, political science, linguistics, classics and literature have rarely been more important.
I'm sure our English graduate prime minister might agree.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
4. It's less fine to waste your expensive diverse cast by terrible screen-writing, giving them zero convincing characterization or attempt to make us care about the relationships, and tokenism.
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.” 🔥🔥🔥
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
how very dare you
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
100 best novels of all time: 100. art 99. refuses 98. the 97. quantitative 96. logic 95. of 94. ranking . . . 1. giovanni’s room
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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
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Magic Rectangle @magicrectangle.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
“Your budget is being illegally slashed with zero oversight, here’s why it’s your fault actually” articles are going wild these last few years
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Ah. Thank you. I have also thought recently about the consequence of my argument, which was: higher ed was marketing a palatable version of femininity to counter culture war claims of deviant feminists. One consequence is coding “wine moms” as domestic terrorists — a hop, skip, and a jump.
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Funny as my mind has been drifting to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's essay on Bama Rush the last few days. Beyond the gender prescience, how Rush is the perfect rightwing foil to real community-building. Rush "community" as self-interested, exclusive, hierarchical, tidy and aesthetically pleasing, etc
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Opinion | In Alabama, White Tide Rushes On (Published 2023)
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
protip: to exclude economics journals from the search add "capitalism"
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Could someone invent a "Private Equity Lookup" app so I can check whether the family run "since 1875" local business isn't in fact a subsidiary of Billionaires International LLC? Something like those barcode apps that tell you when your moisturizer is full of arsenic would be awesome, thanks.
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Ipsita Chatterjea (she/her) @ichatterjea.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcK...
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Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose
YouTube video by UnAmericanBandstand
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Sighs in art historian…
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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
As I was just saying. They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
REPEAT AFTER ME (but really, after Neil Kraus): Wage stagnation and underemployment are not problems that education can fix. We cannot "upskill" students into well-paying jobs that do. not. exist.
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
when i review an article charitably
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Elisabeth R. Anker @libankerdc.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History
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MarianaTrench @marianatrench-88.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
One anthropomorphic evolutionary event I didn’t see coming was the rise of the public utility and service sector into metaphorical powerhouses on social media, and I’m here for it 💯%!
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
So rich to tell an indigenous artist that they're not taking up enough space... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?
The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
by the end of this class students will gain insight into u.s. history while developing their skills as composers of rap interpretations of major historical events
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This is not OK www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...
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Reform, with 0.7% of all MPs, featured in 25% of BBC's recent 10pm news bulletins
Astonishingly, a party with 18 times as many MPs as Reform has received one-third less coverage on BBC News at 10.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
It would be good if these kinds of retrospectives, as well as cultural coverage in general, included a look at the institutions' records in the political economy. Lowry's tenure included multiple rounds of bitter union action, including a 134-day strike in 2000, over low wages and poor healthcare.
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He’s Left MoMA Smarter, Richer and at a Crossroads
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Colby Chamberlain @colbychamberlain.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
I’m giving a talk at e-flux on Thursday 9/25, 7:30pm, “The Fluxhouse Cooperatives and the Future of the City.” The program will also include a performance of Maciunas’s “Solo for Violin” by Laura Ortman. www.e-flux.com/events/67832...
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George Maciunas: Lecture and Performance - Events - e-flux
An evening dedicated to George Maciunas, featuring a lecture by Colby Chamberlain and a performance by Laura Ortman of work by Maciunas.
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Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
If you have any lingering questions about how @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social could be both African and Asian, I talked to four artists whose backgrounds echo his; and whose work involves telling such stories. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/a...
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For South Asian Artists, Identity Doesn’t Fit in a Box
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21/08/2025
it's related I think to how liberal funders and institutions are allergic to spending on progressive media (eg how CAP shuttered ThinkProgress). rather than invest in that kind of long-term project the money vanishes into the election consultant maw
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Say it again for those in the back: HUMANITIES USUALLY SUBSIDIZE STEM at most R1s. Yes we have receipts.
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you work in higher ed, you need to get your folks together and end the use of course evals or at least bar their consideration in evaluation, promotion, and hiring. This needed to happen yesterday because they don't measure learning, they measure instructor gender, but now it's a snitch pool.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Second hand embarrassment causes me physical pain. Forgive my bluntness, but my pelvic floor sort of cramps when I see it. I watched 1/2 of Saved by the Bell with my eyes closed because Screech hurt my stomach. I’m basically bleeding out watching this ad.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
We are in a weird space. Expertise has to yield to populism to preserve the institutions that confer expertise but the market is using fake populism to juice every bit of profitable expertise before it all goes boom. Shorter: the managerial class, yo.
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
No one is “replacing” teachers with AI. People are redistributing money to tech companies for AI and replacing permanent salaried workers with contingent, poorly paid ones whose labor is to patch together the system that is being broken by AI.
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Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst @profirmf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
oh no the bad guys can’t imagine doing anything societally responsible and ethically competent with one’s privilege it’s almost as if the quiet part is loud like the point of privilege is to hoard it and lord it over others huh weird
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentations of their consultants
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Rome @romanperry.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The average age of Apollo 11 Mission Control was 28 years old. The oldest was 36.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Facts. But instead of creating a narrative pitting faculty v. staff in terms of pay/ equity, the better narrative is faculty & staff on the same side v. administrators who are paid vastly better than both. Oh, & the exhausted assistant in this example works for & was hired by… administrators.
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ceasar @portocan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I was fine with the protests against the king until they threw the tea into the ocean.
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Got a first smile out of our newborn reading the Trump/Musk tweets out loud
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025
63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Do yourselves a favor and read this article. The best satirists of British culture quaintness couldn’t have come up with better: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Brenda the buzzard terrorises children at Havering primary school
Pupils told to play indoors because of attacks by bird of prey, which follow strikes by hawk near Luton
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Or let’s try a bigger idea: we give proper support public libraries doing their best to provide research access and databases to the *entire* reading public? Not just private institutions and the current/former academic class 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Gemma Sharpe @gemmasharpe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
We dismiss the fruits and labor of culture and care little for intellectual property, creativity and expertise.
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Shannon Carey @scmaestra.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
After years of head-scratching, I think we all viscerally understand how (not necessarily why) the 1918 flu pandemic was memory holed.
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