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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

"administrators have allowed the idea that enough ambiguity, enough he-said-she-said, enough familial connections, enough money will allow you to get off scot-free. We call on Cornell to publish the standard by which a suspension in a sexual assault case is lifted."

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A little plug for Jane the Virgin, not on NYT's list at all (annoying but not surprising). It's rare to find a show that creative with genre and form and winkingly self-aware yet committed to its characters. One of the best shows of that era.

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Listening to academic administrators talk about the loss of trust in academia, the need to listen to what the public want us to focus on—without any recognition that this crisis is in large part manufactured by bad faith actors.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Some great help for the grad app season

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Lisa L. Moore @lisalmoore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you happen to be in Texas or Atlanta, I would love to see you at one of my upcoming book events!

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

But of the list so far, PEN15 should be on there twice.

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Christopher McKnight Nichols @cmcknichols.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Unlike the advocates for so-called "ideological diversity" and even "absolute free speech," who say & do next to nothing re: actual issues of student speech, @aaup.org & @osuaaup.bsky.social are standing up for student free speech, (despite OSU chalking ban & threats!) + supporting academic freedom

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

never forget that our universities fired and expelled people for opposing this

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Just to be honest: it's exhausting, the discourse economy that values negativity about speculative activism

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 19/09/2026

It's very clear that companies are generating racist and sexist controversy as a brand strategy, e.g., Sydney Sweeney, Converse.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“Operations designed to insist that everything is fine inevitably betray the fact that this is not the case. And indeed, everything is not fine.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar

On the economics of AI.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

What a (deliberate) distraction the term AI "agent" has been from the real human agents of his current mess. Humanists & storytelling experts are so well equipped to understand this moment in the terms @tressiemcphd.bsky.social lays out immaculately here. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

we're hosting a daylong workshop on how to track the financial interests of university trustees who offer such funding, how to work for legislative protections and workplace protections in the classroom and far beyond, join us! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Creepy-bullseye reading of Backrooms by @emilyhughes.bsky.social in terms of a "liminal aesthetic." Gothicizing Benjamin: "Contemporary online culture’s version of the liminal aesthetic has been having a moment recently.

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Emily @irmavep.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My book REWRITING THE MECHANIC comes out in in a month! Please preorder to read the 18th-century prehistory of the tech bro (aka the way that literary speculations crafted the models of technological power that still shape our horizons of possibility) www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/rew...

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Rewriting the Mechanic

Rewriting the Mechanic examines how written descriptions, circulating across genres in eighteenth-century Britain, transformed certain mechanical arts by imagining them as newly innovative, authoritat...

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Important evidence because nationally, including here in Ohio, legislators creating these laws sometimes deny the loss of faculty they produce. Bad news for universities, students (who also leave), and local communities.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds hits all the right beats, can be fun, character-deep, or a mind-bender. Ep. 2 this season, "The Griffin Incident," was one of my favorites so far. Masterful and formally tight generic mashup, risky foray into horror. With a killer last shot (not this one below).

Person in a Federation uniform surrounded by several beings with grotesque faces.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

great thread on higher ed, especially starting here

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature version of humanity." "The issues the mathematical community faces now are similar to issues that other scientific and creative professions are facing, and indicate issues that all of humanity might face:

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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics

I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The NYT gave @astra.bsky.social & @naomiaklein.bsky.social a video header!!! I have never known a Leftist to get one. It’s usually reserved for humanizing reactionaries like Henry Kissinger & Jordan Peterson. Holy shit. We are going to win, y’all.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026

Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Same, & resharing what I do to accommodate disabilities: pose no laptops as a 2 wks' trial. They can discontinue after if they want - & during the 2 wks, offer notes if they feel disadvantaged at all. Most continue no-laptops post-2 wks. But no one's spotlighted before or after for using a computer.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Another one about Furious. This piece gets so well why the show's so gripping. It embodies an anger, especially now in the wake of a MeToo movement that hardly went far enough, and then spilled out into the immediate backlash we're in now.

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Opinion | ‘Furious’ Is the First Thriller Made for a Post-Epstein World (Gift Article)

“Furious,” the new police procedural on Hulu, turns out to be the perfect thriller for a post-Epstein world.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seeing many critiques of this recent Chronicle piece this week. It fits into a genre I posted about yesterday of setting up a straw man ("go ahead and despise AI all you want"). The faculty I've worked have very nuanced concerns about AI and aren't "pretending AI does not exist" /1

Now is the time to think much more clearly about what we ask students to do and why. Simply dropping a prompt into an LLM and harvesting the results is not sufficient as either a beginning or an end to humanities work. The American Historical Association and Modern Language Association have started to articulate more detailed answers to these difficult questions, emphasizing AI literacy and the notion that “expertise must precede AI reliance.” But that leaves the hard work to each faculty member: translating their own specialized expertise into pedagogy and determining how to help students build up a foundational level of knowledge in their subject against this new background. Retreating to blue books and pretending AI does not exist is not the answer.

So go ahead and despise LLMs all you want — but recognize that your ability to catch what they get wrong is the very skill set you want to cultivate in your students. It is on you to help them build it.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I’m a Dartmouth professor. Pres. Beilock implies in this piece that she speaks for us as a college. She does not. I don’t permit AI in my classroom. Not because it stole my work; because as I wrote in @chronicle.com, most of my students hate it—and feel betrayed by the college—even more than I do.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Stop closing public universities' humanities depts for false financial reasons. "Humanities education, including Religious Studies, helps inure students to authoritarian thinking. At their best, the Humanities are attentive to the frictions that create lived experiences—

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The series Furious was surprisingly good. Emmy Rossum transformed what could have been a stock role. Hard to watch, not one actor wasted.

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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

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John MacNeill Miller @snarlsdickens.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Victorianists, our Emily Wilson moment is coming

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hey! Just sent off the final version of my book coming out next year-ish, so excited!

title page for "The Quiet Fight: Marriage, Time, and the Fiction of Love Trouble," together with a table of contents

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

A helpful thing I heard recently abt student AI use is that a big reason it's become so naturalized is that students think it keeps them competitive w/ peers who are using it. So I started the semester by clueing them in: it's just the opposite - students using it produce some of the poorest work.

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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

i’m always nervous on the first day of classes but it helps to find mail like this at my office

porscha fermanis’s new book “settler fiction from the southern hemisphere “

book series description

RACE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURES AND CULTURES
Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures (RNCLC) brings together critical work on the material and intellectual histories of race across the long nineteenth century. The series considers such issues as enslavement, abolition, race science, colonial expansion, and indigeneity in relation to cultural production and consumption across the globe. Focused on underexplored nineteenth-century archives, RNCLC nevertheless pays particular attention to the relevance of the period's racial formations to the contemporary moment. Titles included proceed from the conviction that understanding this key moment in the history of race enables us to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the structures inherited from the nineteenth century.
Series Editors
Manu Samriti Chander, Georgetown University
Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

19th-century - modern researchers, take note!

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

To support fair pay, workload, contracts, and conditions of academic freedom for non-tenure-track faculty, please read our AAUP NTT committee's petition and sign! There's a button for faculty and one for allies. Demanding just treatment for a sizable portion of our ranks.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah

An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Did it. It's hard to know what to say about this one. Can something so straight-faced & thin on the ground by any measure of ideas or plot & with a few 80s references thrown in really be graced with the label of parody or homage? But it was fun.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Seeing that movie with Anne Hathaway and dinosaurs tonight

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was moved to hear from a trans former student this week about how much it helped her figure out her gender expression to read Jan Morris in my class back in 2018. I always introduce Morris as a trans pioneer, and that was who she needed to find. A reminder that a syllabus can change lives.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

universities are not run by leftist profs they are run by corporate profiteer board members siphoning public $$ to tech partnerships "An Inside Higher Ed analysis of SEC filings turned up dozens of presidents paid handsomely for sitting on corporate boards." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

the 10 presidents in Inside Higher Ed’s analysis who earned the most from outside board service in 2025.

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Supposedly, people are losing faith in college because its return on investment is low - lots of problems with that claim. Meanwhile, there's a strange silence when it comes to discussing AI's effects on young adults' job prospects.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

A site created by his former students

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