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Jon Nichols

@jon276.bsky.social
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Author of “Requiem for a College.” Substack: Loving the Alien. Husband, dog dad, English and rhetoric professor, writer, advocate. University of Berwyn.

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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Follow up.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
From my friend Jason Chapman. Yes, it’s AI, but it’s funny. I knew there was a reason “V” stuck with me for 40+ years. David Icke, I take back everything I ever said about you.
An AI satire mashing up the 80s miniseries “V” with a recent White House visitor.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Looking at the fantastic science fiction art of Marcel Deneuve. Here are samples.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today is the day! On this day 60 years ago, Star Trek debuted! While it would be another 11 years before I’d get to it, my life would never be the same. #startrek
Today is the 60the anniversary of the premiere of Star Trek.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Does anyone else think of this when they read “Hugging Face” #tech
A face hugger from the Alien franchise.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cool visualization of Roy’s soliloquy via Jason Chapman.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“College leaders are cutting programs, laying off faculty—and digging into endowments to pay expenses.” via WSJ. #academicsky #selfpromosaturday #selfpromotionsaturday #writer www.amazon.com/Requiem-Coll...
Requiem for a College by Jonathan Nichols
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Chicago today. 40 miles east of me.
Photo of Chicago today engulfed by smoke from Canadian fires.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Got this meme from someone on X. All credit to them. #svengoolie
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
My friend @daveygandthe.bsky.social has written a tremendous book and I need to tell everyone about it. Unfortunately, I no longer have long form writing platform, so I’m going to do it here. #books #writer 1/
“The Man in the Clock” by David G. Cookson.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Via @newyorker.com
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This Gen Xer ain’t playin’ with these research paper corrections. #academicsky #teamrhetoric
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
This episode has *everything.* #metvbatman
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Reading is creativity. Via @parisreview.bsky.social
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Via @newyorker.com
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Saw this on my commute to campus. It’s a corner where most always you’ll see someone unhoused. Those few things plus clothes. All they have the world. Thoughts like that can stay with you the rest of the day.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
“So it’s agreed. We close the college and the non-tenured get 40 days pay as severance.” It happens at small colleges. See reply. #academicsky #writer
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It’s that time of year again. #mla #duranduran #academicsky
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Chronicle. Saying what I’ve been saying for years. See reply. #writer
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In my entire career in higher education, I have *never* seen a better answer to a quiz question. ENG 102 FYC #academicsky
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
In my entire career in higher education, I have *never* seen a better answer to a quiz question. ENG 102 FYC #academicsky
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
It’s William Shatner’s birthday! Oh Captain my Captain! #startrek
Happy Birthday to William Shatner!
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Credit to the original artist. #startrek
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Found on IG.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Via The New Yorker.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This one might not be much, but just *look* at the description of the next episode! #metvsuperman
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
😂
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
If I still drank… #Camus
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Facts. #startrek
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I needed this today. #startrek
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The science fiction future we were promised.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Well when you put it that way… (Not my meme.)
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This is Bell Biv DeVoe. Their manifesto is inspiring my pitch for my next book: “My book is mentally literary, smoothed out on the comp-rhet tip with a pop media studies feel appeal.” #academicsky #literary #comprhet #teamrhetoric #mediastudies #bellbivdevoe
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you joy.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
How things are around here today.
Tauntaun on the planet Hoth.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
“Where were you the day that David Bowie died?” -David J. Hard to believe it’s been 10 years.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it. #academicsky #academiclife
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Reading the heck out of this book over break. #academicsky #teamrhetoric #writing #AI
“More Than Words” by John Warner.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Via The New Yorker.
A tech bro claims inspiration from science fiction novels he misread that warn about unbridled technology.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Santa brought me new Sven gear for Saturdays. #Svengoolie
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
‘Tis Boxing Day, and you couldn’t ask for finer British weather. This pic is from walking Tony earlier on the moors. What’s more, we’re headed into an even-numbered year, and that means I’m obsessively preparing for my favorite class of all, British Literature. God Save the King!
Fog.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A friend posted this on FB. Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Milk, cookies, shoes and ammo mags left out for John McClane.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Like sheep gathered around the Monolith. Via @newyorker.com
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Every. Damn. Time.
Spock’s death at the end of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
When I’m told, “Looks like you need to do some networking. :) “
Batman saying “I’m not really a people person.”
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
You and me both.
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Calvin and Hobbes where Calvin says “When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
My fellow Trekkies will get it. 🖖
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Kafka and I would’ve gotten on well.
Picture of Gregor Samsa as an insect in Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” speculating it would be worse to be an insect waking up one morning to find you’re now a guy with a job.”
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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I’m a descriptive grammarian, but even I have my limits.
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