Reposted by Jacob RomanowGwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers 292110824025
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Biology is applied chemistry is applied physics is applied math is applied logic is applied English QED 051
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Surely one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. A prolific, important songwriter with a voice that could make you cry and a wit that could make you gasp. The King. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...theguardian.comMighty Sparrow, the Trinidad and Tobago singer known as the ‘calypso king of the world’, dies aged 91Slinger Francisco, who performed as the Mighty Sparrow, died on Sunday surrounded by family in New York 020
Reposted by Jacob RomanowMother Jones @motherjones.com · 23/09/2026Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.motherjones.comNewsom vetoes bill that would ban extraditions for abortion and gender-affirming careCalifornia’s pro-repro rights governor rejects a key protection that 18 blue states have enshrined into law. 1931112461
Reposted by Jacob RomanowPloughshares Literary Journal @pshares.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I am used to dealing with the dead." Read Sarah Tindal Kareem's essay, "Vita Nova," in the Summer 2026 issue of Ploughshares: pshares.org/issue-article/vita-nova 096
Reposted by Jacob Romanowe.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h... 412765431
Reposted by Jacob RomanowNick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The State AGs were on pace to kill the Paramount/Warner Bros by litigation and delay until Gavin Newsom stepped in and turned the tide. Now the Trump loyalist Ellisons will control CNN and HBO. Don't ever, ever forget that Newsom stabbed us in the back www.wsj.com/business/med...wsj.comExclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against ParamountThe California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs. 24841321667
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Give us a Bass Persuades/Come On Fhqwhgads mashup, cowards 010
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 20/09/2026I think Donald Trump is letting the Eritrean government get away with the Tigray genocide in exchange for them fighting the Houthis for control of the Red Sea www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...washingtonpost.comUS lifts sanctions targeting Eritrea's ruling party and the militaryThe United States has lifted sanctions against Eritrea’s ruling party and military, according to the U.S. Department of the Treasury 02211
Reposted by Jacob RomanowJacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Everyone knows you shouldn't represent yourself in court; humanists defending the humanities is bad for the humanities and bad for the defense of the humanities and that is why they want us to do it (not to say we never should—but we should get real about why we're being asked). 1223
Reposted by Jacob RomanowTobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Great thread altogether, but this is the point I keep returning to over the last four years. The rest of us are in many ways along for the ride of the tech sector attempting to enforce labor discipline on a highly trained workforce w a tool that potentially is increasing their leverage. 1175
Reposted by Jacob RomanowJim Cardillo @jimcardillo.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Godspeed Cheetah Chrome of the Dead Boys. A true pioneer. 121
Reposted by Jacob RomanowEzra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Fun fact: in our polling of battleground states, about 60% of voters said it is a “top” or “high” priority for Congress to investigate and hold Musk accountable. Lean into it Dems. He’s a cartoon villain - treat him like one. 5745251113
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The hype machine loves asking about how tech alters our understanding of self (and of course it does, as ever) but chronically avoids asking how tech alters our understanding of (human) others—that is instructive 000
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDa Sparrow @sparrowstrike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026People don’t want to hear diseases just happen. It scares them to death. They need it to be because of malign actors or because they didn’t take the right thing. The fact that it could happen to anyone, anytime, just because is terrifying because you can’t control it. Whether autism/covid it’s fear. 1168667
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously. 4331331632
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDaniel Gilmore @gilmored85.bsky.social · 28/08/2026American Left discard of your consumerist worldview of politics challenge (impossible) 28312
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026Genuinely abundant, cheap, accessible energy has vastly more liberatory potential than AI, for vastly more people -- especially more poor people. Which, I guess, is your answer. 171797474
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Actually, NO reading "counts." Counts for what? For whom? Are we competing to get a pizza party? Do you count how many times a year you go swimming or drink a cup of coffee? Thinking and feeling are not side hustles 141
Reposted by Jacob RomanowSarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The ag lobby really, really, really, really, really, really, really wants you to think AI is the reason reservoirs are going empty. It's not. It's agriculture. 7236461228
Reposted by Jacob RomanowElizabeth Greeniaus @elizabethcg.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Obviously the V-word has been the headline here, but I love Jake’s piece for the way it demonstrates the illuminating power of distinctly *literary* expertise. 021
Reposted by Jacob Romanowdave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 13/08/2026yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect 89160223696
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Between this and the Clinton comments on El-Sayed, I'm starting to think that the Bluesky obsession with misleading headlines (and I'm guilty of that too) is actually a reaction to Bluesky people being incredibly credulous headline readers 020
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Imagine thinking in 2026 that negativity makes you unable to foster public engagement 060
Reposted by Jacob RomanowMegan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I wrote about this a few years ago for New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession, particularly the paradox of the increasing demand for specialization on the job market vs the generalist reality most of us teach within: escholarship.org/uc/item/7gn2...escholarship.org 0121
Reposted by Jacob RomanowEmily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Jake Romanow offers such a lucid and incisive analysis of the stakes of expanding and contracting the “Victorian” (and of that term’s interpretive vs institutional uses). A must-read that I look forward to teaching in the coming years! 052
Reposted by Jacob RomanowDuncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Oh look, JK Rowling's chequebook-waving has emboldened the ADF, a Christofascist hate group that has been pouring millions into the UK to fund court cases and lobbying against abortion rights, equal marriage rights, Pride events etc., to go on the attack as well. Top standing up for women, Joanne!thecatholicherald.comChristian charities challenge Amnesty report labelling them ‘anti-rights’A letter led by ADF International UK urges the Charity Commission to affirm that charities may engage in public debate without being labelled a threat to human rights 15514197
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 31/07/2026This article is revelatory and urgent; run don't walk. 0101
Reposted by Jacob RomanowLauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The Victorian as a literary tradition: "I propose that this version of Victorian—narrow rather than 'wide,' transnational without a presumption of being global—might itself help us undiscipline; by centering objects over methods, we might loosen the self-regarding perpetuation of discipline itself." 081
Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My article "Provincializing Victorian Studies" is out in the latest PMLA. It's many years in the making—thanks for reading. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgProvincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions | PMLA | Cambridge CoreProvincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions - Volume 141 Issue 2 34011
Reposted by Jacob Romanowrax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 29/07/2026in the big rock candy mountain / the posters are all sane / and the normal even thoughtful comments / pour like summer rain 932955
Reposted by Jacob RomanowNick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 28/07/2026"Without air conditioning, each 1°F increase in school year temperature reduces the amount learned that year by one percent. Our estimates imply that the benefits of school air conditioning likely outweigh the costs in most of the US, particularly given future predicted climate change."hks.harvard.eduHeat and LearningWe provide the first evidence that cumulative heat exposure inhibits cognitive skill development and that school air conditioning can mitigate this effect. Student fixed effects models using 10 millio... 1126
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026the best day for the presidents of every R1 to hold a press conference screaming that higher ed is our second largest export and destroying it is economic sabotage and soft power detonation was Jan 21st 2025. the next best day is tomorrow. 7780257
Reposted by Jacob RomanowEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 19/07/2026 I say this with all love for speculative fiction: let's put our scientific resources towards real problems. (And we should also be putting more resources into literature and literary scholarship, but call it what it is. Also, I doubt the SFF community wants these clowns either.) >> 418217
Reposted by Jacob RomanowArtforum @artforum.com · 08/07/2026Detroit Institute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons has announced the discovery of a previously unattributed Diego Velázquez portrait. Writing in the Prado's ARS Magazine, he used archival research and X-ray imaging to attribute "The Count-Duke of Olivares in Armor" (1626) to the painter.artforum.comDetroit Institute of Arts Director Attributes 17th-Century Portrait To Diego VelázquezDetroit Insitute of Arts director Salvador Salort-Pons has announced the discovery of a new Velázquez, held in a private collection 011
Reposted by Jacob RomanowTaniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Note that Healey oversees the only state agency in a blue state that has a 287g contract with ICE. boltsmag.org/massachusett... 216754
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAcademe @academemagazine.bsky.social · 14/07/2026New on Academe Blog:academeblog.orgAcademic Freedom and the Palestine Exception at PrincetonBY JOAN W. SCOTT Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber has carefully curated his public reputation as a defender of free speech and academic freedom against the wanton attacks by the… 076
Reposted by Jacob RomanowTrung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026Hot take, but I kinda think Mr Bennet sees himself in LYDIA, and that’s why he’s so resigned about his kid’s bad behavior!!! Sure he and Elizabeth love books and being snarky assholes, but Elizabeth is part of his ideal self, and Lydia is his indiscreet and impetuous youth. 1384544
Reposted by Jacob RomanowAlina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Great thread from Matt. 2124
Reposted by Jacob RomanowPookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2025The reason why older generations burnt the shit out of their meat and boiled the shit out of their vegetables, was your kid died if you didn't. Medium rare steaks and roasted Brussels sprouts are a side effect of an intact food safety infrastructure 25100734063