Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Excited to see such strong signals from Burnham & EU leaders about a path to Britain rejoining EU. But god, why are Labour SO BAD at messaging? “We’ll consult a bunch of think tanks, conduct endless polls, stick our fingers in the wind…” Fucking stand for something! 042
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Isn't she lovely?! My new book GOOD LOOKS & BAD MANNERS, on the long, unruly history of American women in Paris, is now available for pre-order (releases April 2027). Right now, Barnes & Noble is offering 25% off the cover price, in all formats, until Friday. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/good-looks...barnesandnoble.comGood Looks & Bad Manners: American Women Who Shook Up Paris, from the Belle Epoque to the New WaveBarnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership. 164
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Years of attacks on the humanities have made humanities professors especially susceptible to the “don’t be left behind“ nonsense, I think - also seemingly unable to robustly defend their skills and the value of their work. 200
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The most useful parenting advice I picked up online was “postpartum lasts three years.” 091
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I really struggle with how to respond when an otherwise smart writer refers to “cancel culture” without quotation marks. It feels nitpicky to call it out, but also important not to normalize bullshit! 152
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Didn’t Johnny Baby get any ill-fitting shiny shoes? 030
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 19/07/2026Tonight we all dine at 10 PM 71204158
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsAmanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 19/07/2026That was a goal but Argentina gets different rules as we all know 24943138
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 19/07/2026YOU get a yellow card… and YOU get a yellow card - this ref is making up for lost time on these whiny little neck-tats 020
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsTony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Cross sport comparison: Argentina is a team of one Connor McDavid and 10 Tkachuk brothers. 021
Reposted by Joanna Scuttsmaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday. 115111512404
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Haven’t we all kicked a stray Mike Leigh character in the butt & given up a potentially tournament ending penalty? 010
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsJosiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont... 381335450
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsTony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Jo & I finally watched L'Important C'est d'Aimer, the neo-giallo classic starring Romy Schneider, Fabio Testi & Klaus Kinski, that was shot partly in our apartment. It's such a sexy, trashy gem. This might count as self-doxxing, if we weren't moving out this weekend after 3½ years.boxd.itA ★★★★ review of That Most Important Thing: Love (1975)This is not (much of) a review of L'Important C'est d'Aimer. This will be (mostly) me bragging about the fact that I've been living in this film's "apartment" space for the last 3½ years. Sorry in adv... 062
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsBrosephine Wires, Perennial Soup-Lover @joparkerbear.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Can’t sleep? Simple methods that work: • study hurricane forecast • who hates me • what did i forget • relive supreme humiliation • win 12-yr-old argument • buried alive? could happen • what i did vs should have done • dead people i miss • what if i’m bad • why do i say stuff • what’s my fuckin deal 1080542171
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Every now and then one little piece of the omnigrift will get to you - this got me. These pathetic, cheap, conniving little bastards. 020
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsEize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 25/07/2025"Got any ideas for that Beech-Nut Gum ad?" "I was thinking a circus clown and strong man sharing a couple sticks backstage." "And they're in love, right?" "Of course they're in love." 362737818
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Apéro in the playground, pizza and a late-night bat-watching party to close out the school year. 030
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 01/07/2026The Paris heatwave broke… some thoughts on what comes next open.substack.com/pub/joannasc...open.substack.comOn the brink of summerForests, gardens, and the search for a common paradise 132
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsJosh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I know this is not the biggest concern going these days, but it stresses me out that basically every artist/writer/critic is now expected to create their own tiny empire instead of getting paid by any existing entity to perform a job they've worked to get good at!!!! 20495121623
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 18/06/2026On Gertrude Stein’s roast chicken habits, Deborah Levy, and what counts as truth in biography. substack.com/@joannascutt...substack.comOn the road with Gertrude SteinAn adventure in citation, and roast chicken 020
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 17/06/2026This is an enlightening thread. I definitely recognize that pervading sense among students that they have been abandoned. 082
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsTony H @tonyhightower.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I'm hangin with the FRENCH Like I'm Damn, Judi DENCH My 'Bert is CAMEM- Pastises, I SLAM 'EM 231
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsTom McAllister @tmcallister.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Cape Verde keeper is in his 40s, so there's a chance he's on bluesky 03611
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 13/06/2026and sat out there until 2:30 in the morning, and then came back at 4am to make sure the job was done 11337227
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 06/06/2026What if my next book just… didn’t… have… footnotes??? 110
Reposted by Joanna Scuttsderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Photos of newly arrived immigrants at Ellis Island. Augustus Sherman took the photos between 1902 and 1920 when he worked as the Chief Registry Clerk. Striking to me how the outfits all look good because they have a discernible silhouette (shape and drape). 14480831344
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 04/06/2026“Sometimes there’s a book in your mind and you can’t find it because you have so many books!” Sorry, kid. Apples, trees. 130
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Sooooo it looks like the NEH is in the process of reimbursing canceled grants… 1141
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 27/05/2026It’s happened. I have been asked to “hop on a call” to discuss a grade (with the gradee) 010
Reposted by Joanna Scuttsphylan @phylan.website · 21/05/2026GUY WHO INVENTED SPRINKLES: they're sweet and great for lots of stuff! I'm going to call them sprinkles because you sprinkle them on, heh. yours are neat too! what are you going to call them GUY WHO INVENTED NONPAREILS: *flicking cigarette* you are a fucking joke 528054
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsHannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I promised myself when I left my position at NEH that after a year had passed, I'd write something about my experience as an un/under/employed former fed. Here it is: halperta.com/public%20wri...halperta.comSabbaticalIn March of 2025, I left my job as a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities. 65523
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Last week a judge ruled that DOGE acted illegally in cancelling 1,400 humanities grants in spring 2025, including mine. Figure I would share a bit about what this has all meant: open.substack.com/pub/joannasc...open.substack.comThieves in the nightWhen the richest man in the world comes for your grant, and what comes next. 0189
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsLincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 13/05/2026In general, the focus on what professors do in the classroom is wrong. The focus should be on how the administrators run schools. Administrations hiring more fulltime faculty and reducing class sizes would go much farther to addressing the problem than any ideas about "engaging assignments" 315829
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsWomen's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026⏰️ Still time to apply for our £500 research bursary! It is open to masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians who research women’s and gender history, particularly for those working on Scottish themes. 🗓 Deadline 31st May 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...womenshistoryscotland.orgWHS Research Bursary – Women's History Scotland 02030
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Well I’m not NOT curious: FKA twigs as Josephine Baker in a new biopic?! 010
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 10/05/2026All of these things--casualization of academic labor, censorship, the insistence that academic research of any kind can be done by AI--are part of a longer project of devaluing academic work, especially in the humanities. You only work this hard to DEvalue something if it's valuable--and a threat. 3777242
Reposted by Joanna ScuttsEmma Pearson @emmapearson.bsky.social · 09/05/2026And to think that modern Olympic champions just get boring old medals #TranslationFail 171
Reposted by Joanna Scuttsjom123.bsky.social @jom123.bsky.social · 08/05/2026The judge got it: "Prior to joining the Trump Administration, neither Fox nor Cavanaugh had any experience in government. . .In fact, as both were in their twenties, they did not have much experience in anything at all -- certainly not in anything remotely related to the humanities." 0142
Joanna Scutts @joannascutts.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Yep, a real carrot and many many sticks situation 120