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quote from the article: "William Wenthe, a poetry professor, didn’t mark his course as potentially controversial, though he told me that he was worried: He teaches T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland, which includes a male character from Greek mythology who becomes a woman. Could a Texan politician object to that? Censorship infantilizes students, he said: 'They’re old enough to vote. They’re all old enough to fight and die for this country. And you’re treating them like babies.'"

I graduated from @utaustin.bsky.social. I once felt so much gratitude for that. Many native Texans are, like me, Mexican American. These changes to the state's public institutions are awful to see. As one quoted prof, an expert on the Soviet Union, puts it, it's vibes authoritarianism.

quote from the article: "The University of Texas at Austin, the flagship school of the UT system, announced last month that it was eliminating majors in Africana studies, Mexican American and Latino studies, women’s and gender studies, and race and migration studies. More than 100 courses have been flagged for removal from the core curriculum, primarily ones relating to slavery, race, gender, sexuality, and the environment. Consolidating majors isn’t necessarily nefarious, nor is rethinking a core curriculum (a central group of courses from which students must take a certain number to graduate). But these changes are happening, Lauren Gutterman, an American studies professor at UT, told me, 'entirely because of the political context.'”

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

For the Monday morning crowd! I wrote about DTF St Louis and the wonderfully strange TV Steven Conrad has made over the years (Patriot! Perpetual Grace LTD!), and why all that textual idiosyncrasy hits so good right now lareviewofbooks.org/article/dtf-...

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Nonpredictive Texts | Los Angeles Review of Books

Exploring ‘DTF St. Louis’ and the anti-algorithmic worlds of Steven Conrad.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

some descriptive statistics here on the civility industrial complex on college campuses that I haven’t seen analyzed before www.uncivilcollective.org/resources

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AAUP-Ohio State @osuaaup.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Excited to share that our AAUP-OSU team will be running in today’s fundraiser for CRIS, which has been doing such critical work for years in supporting refugees and immigrants in our city.

Announcement for fundraiser 5K for CRIS - which supports refugees and immigrants in Columbus, Ohio

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Last weekend I had the honor of intro-ing a talk/book signing w/ @dbellonby.bsky.social, co-ed of Victorian Gaslighting. Diana also talked abt her essay in this book—New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions. I’ve been thinking about her talk—& the book—all week. sunypress.edu/Books/N/New-...

The cover of New Rape Studies: Humanistic Interventions

Edited by
Michael T. Dango
Erin A. Spampinato
Doreen Thierauf

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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I have known entire endeavors that didn't happen because they would be on Teams

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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

Finally read it this summer. Surreal and claustrophobic in the best way.

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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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Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

and this one leans heavily & with smart and thought-provoking purpose into the label of the "crazed," at least the book does - read it!

book cover of Virginia Feito's novel Victorian Psycho

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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

Which makes it all the more gutting that humanities fields and departments are constantly the ones on the chopping block. And are even more risk now because of university-AI partnerships at universities.

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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

'Liminal' in its original context meant a transitional space, but now the meaning has slipped a little, become something closer to “uncanny”: a place that isn’t for you. A place that, maybe, isn’t for anyone."

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

the world we were promised by our parents’ generation isn’t really for us anymore. Many younger people feel stuck, trapped in an economic and social loop from which there is no apparent escape.

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

That many of these creators are either Gen Z or younger Millennials should not go unremarked; nor should the fact that the spaces in which these stories take place are spaces that were largely created by older generations. It’s an artistic trend that reflects our fractured reality:

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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

Or to put it another way bsky.app/profile/roop...

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

how to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place."

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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

particularly those that are oftentimes marginalized. The Humanities explain how things have been different, could have been different, could be different now, and may be different in the future. They are about possible worlds."

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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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