Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 6hI remember getting the 'why do you' version of this question once when I, contingent postdoc, was interviewing for a permanent position. I answered well enough but it really took a lot to not go 'I've got less than a year on my current contract, why do you think?' 010
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 6hMy apartment in LA does not have AC, which means I currently consist almost entirely of sweat, spite, and mikan-flavoured popsicles 000
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosJeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Annihilation always makes Halloween lists, so I thought I'd do a thread of creepy reads. Starting today with a flat-out modern masterpiece, Max Lury's No Ghosts. Thoroughly contemporary and disturbing grounded in deep characterization, and, in part, outdoing Back Rooms while also its own thing. 1 635934
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The Greek system should be put to the torch and the earth salted so nothing can grow in its place. 1026832
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosTom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note. 543307752
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosJerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 23/09/2026me: no worries (galadriel voice) but they were all of them deceived, for another worry was made 242625615
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosSmooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us 9186661871
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH. 21846193
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosNicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy! 180140896477
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosSarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026 129171453030
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosBridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026They made sad beige toys for children, from the popular short form internet video series “Don’t make sad beige toys for sad beige children, by Werner Herzog” youtu.be/KqnBkwDuYI0?...youtu.beBest of Sad Beige Werner HerzogYouTube video by Sad Beige 1103
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosKira Leigh 🏳️⚧️ @kiraleigh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026people explaining how much they love their cats has got to be my favorite genre of posts. like, yes. please talk about your angels with me. share pictures. tell me all their habits. i want my bsky experience to be folks loving their cats. 150120276
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosElle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign 24550411565
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Can't get a moment's peace on this bloody planet. 1426890889
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 31/08/2026The non-hard surfaces in my entire apartment basically include: the couch and a small rug next to the couch and yet! and yet 020
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Academic job alert! TT assistant professor in Assyriology/Cuneiform Studies at Berkeley: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05496aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor -Assyriology (Cuneiform Cultures)- Department of Middle Eastern Languages and CulturesUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 020
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/08/2026And the other 3 months we are expected to do the unpaid work of research and writing and course prep for the sake of our career, as opposed to the paid and supported parts of our job. 915222
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 14/08/2026This is documentary 0214
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosThomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I think I've put enough structures in place in my classes that I'm not going to bother hunting AI work. There are consequences, they are clear and they are drastic, but if I catch you, well, you get the hammer, and if I don't, you're wasting your money and your potential and your education. 821716
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosEllen Muehlberger @emuehlbe.bsky.social · 06/08/2026This! Once you steal all the existing analysis and feed it into the machine and tell everyone to use the machine, where will the new analysis come from? 25211
Reposted by Gina Konstantopoulosalix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys 1515353740
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I just sneezed and spooked Tinycat next to me, so that's my evening 010
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026To help relieve work stress, don't answer emails on the weekend. Also on weekdays after 5 PM turn off your email. On Mondays, don't log into your email until after noon. Before logging in on Tuesday burn your computer and erase your identity. By Wednesday morning gather supplies and escape into the 11799194
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosAnnette Yoshiko Reed @annetteyreed.bsky.social · 01/08/2026August as an academic 82074290
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosMatt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 21/07/2026just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards 1591560509
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Does anyone have favorite references on the interdisciplinarity penalty (people doing interdisciplinary work are underrewarded in their appointing departments, run centers and degrees without resources or dedicated hires, go to double committee meetings, etc.)? 1218259
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosInnsmouth Looksmaxxing @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Benoit Blanc (incredulous): Is this nominally august chamber even fully cognizant of how many of its number have slipped the veil? 02302453
Reposted by Gina Konstantopoulosmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 12/07/2026i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world 1581012155
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosCatherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 11/07/2026I know it’s a weird thing to say. But I saw both Labyrinth and Legend in the theater when I was 7 and I was never the same human again as I was before. Those movies came out two months apart, by the way. Nobody asked 1986 to go as hard as it did. 1986 didn’t give a fuck it came to party. 4085275
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In the entirety of my apartment, I have one small rug under a coffee table. Everything else is tile/bare floor. Guess where the floofs throw up 90% of the time just guess 100
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 07/07/2026Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups. 6886991641
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Revisiting an old talk on the history of Assyriology and realized I missed out on the chance to use this for George Smith and his 1876 mid-excavation demise and I may never recover: 010
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207463773
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 04/07/2026On repeat to set the mood for the day (okay, toss-up between this and "Guillotine" by Arcana) www.youtube.com/watch?v=im9F...youtube.comBeautify the BootstrapsYouTube video by Kata - Topic 000
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosEthan M. Aldridge @ethanmaldridge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Happy Independence Day 2275532149
Gina Konstantopoulos @gvkonsta.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Today's tangent: translating some lines of Sumerian has required a good 20 minutes on the pros/cons of sprouting grains. still not sure about the pros/cons but it has helped settle the translation, so there is that 020
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/07/2026NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g... 4426571469
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 01/07/2026I am not certain, but I think this might be the greatest thread (and greatest use of alt text) of all time. 12461140
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/06/2026Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous. 1065240405421
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosUrsula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction: 242009539
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosThor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Reporting live from New Yorkstatic.klipy.comLenin Rises: Must Crush Capitalism!Alt: Lenin Rises: Must Crush Capitalism! 81014167
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosRiverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool 67156674145
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/06/2026‘You are legally required to be indoctrinated at the Center for Intellectual Freedom’ 930599
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosDaniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 15/06/2026You don't have to answer the door for the Feds. Do not voluntarily talk to the Feds. If they have a warrant signed by an actual judge, then they can do precisely what the warrant says. But DO NOT TALK TO THE FEDS. Do not answer the door. If you're arrested, your only words are "I want a lawyer." 6469122773
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosNick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Every time I’m in Central Park I get so mad at LA golf courses all over again 2631
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosMcSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 09/06/2026"I know this might seem surprising coming from me, but considering that the price of bread is currently skyrocketing, Trump spending millions on a red, white, and blue drenched octagon is a real slap in the face to John Q. Plebeian."buff.lyI am Emperor Caligula, and Even I Think the White House UFC Event is a Bit Much“I know this might seem surprising coming from me. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no stranger to bread and circuses. But considering that the price of bread is ... 320156
Reposted by Gina KonstantopoulosAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 09/06/2026hey its actually a gigantic problem that 1 of the 2 major political parties in this country are consistently claiming any election they dont win has been “stolen” or “rigged” 27485941705