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yeah I'm glad I'm not in a discipline with preprints because I don't think I've ever written anything worth publishing (academically) until the entire process was complete

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Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I have (with, admittedly, a professional stake in the issue) been sharing this tidbit everywhere I can for the past few months. bsky.app/profile/levi...

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Nvidie @dervine7.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ok I know it's not the main issue but identifying *jazz* as peripheral in *academic music studies* is insane

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

somewhat uncomfortable constantly marketing my work but I have good reason for it buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

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The "free speech" government fired me

"Free speech" advocates are killing free speech

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

if you think someone who wrote such a book might be useful in developmental editing for yours my contact info is in bio and I am open to work for very reasonable rates

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

my father always told me if academia didn't work out I should try to be @chrislhayes.bsky.social and I think the skillset is rather different

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

yeah the possibilities for making your hardware your own again are really exciting. our TV is old enough to drive because I don't want a smart TV-- but one that did only what I wanted, how I wanted, would be quite nice

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

I generally don't think it's wise to try to chase commercial success as an academic, university presses are great, etc. but it's not as if I'm getting money for research elsewhere

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

if you're an academic with any experience or thoughts on getting a literary agent and publishing with the larger trade presses I would love to hear from you, DMs are open

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

ooh lightbulbs going on immediately where did you hear about this?

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

perhaps the only Marxist intellectual history recommended by the Financial Times (as one of their best summer 2026 books!), reviewers have also commented on CONTROL SCIENCE's "thriller" pacing, surprising humor, and relevance to current events

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 09/10/2026

NEW YOON HA LEE SPACE OPERA THIS IS NOT A DRILL NEW YOON HA LEE SPACE OPERA seriously. If you haven't read the Machineries of Empire series... ooh boy are you in for a treat

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Jennifer Berkshire @jenniferberkshire.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I wrote about how the hollowing out of higher education is hurting rural students. Wisconsin is an extreme cautionary tale but rising inequality and the obsessive focus on ROI are happening everywhere barnraisingmedia.com/gutting-two-...

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Gutting Two-Year Colleges Leaves Rural Students Behind

Experts warns the demise of Wisconsin’s two-year liberal arts transfer colleges represents the equivalent of “desertification” of education for rural and first-generation students.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

one more reshare for the morning folks

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

I was happy with my revenge musical Anthony Hopkins vehicle but this is even better, excellent

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

a lot of adjuncts explaining to our parents this week that no this doesn't mean winning the Nobel prize is a viable backup option

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 09/10/2026

what have I done (revenge musical)

A BULLET FOR THE ENCORE, a fictional revenge musical featuring Anthony Hopkins

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

wrote about Jean-Paul Marat's medical practice and metaphysics, thorny debates about consciousness and the soul, and why we should be honest and humble about what we don't know buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

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Jean-Paul Marat's Fluid Soul and Gonorrhea Cure

With some warnings for AI critics and doomers alike

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

originally was going to be behind the paywall but I have a fun thing on an 18th-cent. oarmaker for that instead that should be a better value proposition for my much-appreciated paying susbcribers

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

this was not an attempt to be relevant re public executions, and unfortunately i just saw that right after this went up, but that is another place not to be like marat

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 08/10/2026

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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buttondown.com

Jean-Paul Marat's Fluid Soul and Gonorrhea Cure

With some warnings for AI critics and doomers alike

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 08/10/2026

Developments since Isaiah landed his official national DSA endorsement: - a second billboard - breaking 2nd fundraising goal donate more here: secure.actblue.com/donate/isaia... We can win. We can break the GOP supermajority and elect the first socialist in Kansas in over 100 years.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

now let me take a big sip of coffee and see how rhode island is doing

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

this is not the only reason things are rough-- decades of adjunctification are even more important-- but it does not help

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

the most powerful men on earth hate universities and want the people who work for and study at them to suffer

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

my wife and I actually had this in costa rica on our honeymoon. 10/10 minus the fact that I can't look at a squash again without having flashbacks

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Kevin Zollman @kevinzollman.com · 08/10/2026

Mercantilism is really intuitively appealing. I think it's genuinely difficult to get people to recognize that a country's wealth just works differently than a person or company. I think this is the fundamental reason that we don't want businesspeople running the country.

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

If you're casting about for amusement in London on the evening of Friday 20 November, I'm giving a talk at KCL on mushrooms and social reproduction. They've got a bit of security at the building, so if you're not at KCL but would like to go, contact aaron.rosenberg at kcl dot ac dot uk

Teal green event poster with a close-up image of pink oyster mushrooms. Text reads:

Natalia Cecire, University of Sussex. Plasticities. Friday Nov 20 2026, Bush House SE 4.16, 5-6:30 pm. King's College London Department of English Environmental Humanities.

"Plasticities," the title of the talk, is in the Barbie typeface.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

anyone can come and go, but this applies to people and not necessarily stuff. customs checks are fine and good and would work better when people can freely move

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

I like this and agree!

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 08/10/2026

the only way to truly bury this round of far right political activity is to make open borders a constitutional rule and democratic norm. like establishing democracy or abolishing slavery that will take time and effort, but the only way to avoid fighting this forever is to win

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

it's about dockside workers in the late 18th century, the origins of mechanization and abolition and revolution, and extremely specific timber management debates. time sure has flown-- i've now spent a decade writing about shipbuilders

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

peer review reports for book 2 have arrived and I'm excited to get this ship shape and then to a shelf near you

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Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Education should be about exploration,” the letter reads. “We want to go to school to connect with people, discover things, and learn....We can’t now, because of the rigidity of the new lesson plans and rules makes it almost impossible to explore new ideas...”

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Hundreds of Fort Worth ISD students sign petition against scripted lessons

A student-written petition has been signed by more than 900 Fort Worth ISD students as of Tuesday morning.

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

the secretary of defense is also a khorne cultist! really what we are seeing is what happens when you don't have enough Tzeentchians arounds

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

"summarize an email" is not something I need. contextual search in my inbox would be occasionally useful but copilot can't even do that, let alone the mass transcription and organizational stuff I'm running through local models and personal subscriptions

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

My institution is spending who knows how much on big subscriptions that are so useless I'm having to do everything myself to get anything out of LLMs. I can already write syllabi! I'm never going to let anyone else write for me! What I want is tools that can do things I couldn't. Copilot is not that

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

it also had no heat, no antilock brakes, and a thriving ecosystem within the upholstery

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Henry Snow @henrys.now · 07/10/2026

the new star wars racer delightfully simulates the experience of yelling at your vehicle and hoping it won't explode, which I haven't had since I sold "old blue," by beloved first car, a Chevy Blazer that threatened to roll over and kill me any time it wasn't driving in a straight line

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