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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 13h

I opened an article on Acrobat and when Acrobat AI assistant prompted to summarize it, I accidentally clicked "view summary" instead of closing the box and it was wild. It kept saying "Colombian Exchange" when the article very clearly said "Columbian Exchange." LOL. So smart.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm working on my Spring US #FoodHistory syllabus and (re)reading "The Price of Bread: The New York City Flour Riot and the Paradox of Capitalist Food Systems" from 2014. The riot happened in 1837, but the rioters' cries for "bread, meat, rent, fuel! — their prices must come down!" seem evergreen.

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Benjamin Park @benjaminepark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I really wish more people realize the conservative crackdown taking place at public universities affects way, way more people than the overstated and overdramatized issues at the Ivies.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being raped should not be a price women have to pay for partying. Drinking and doing drugs does not automatically mean you consent to sex of any sort, or anything else, for that matter.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All updated and ready to go. Just in time to start working on the new prep I have for the spring semester.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was doing what I thought were the finishing touches on my Fall B classes when I remembered that between the Spring and the Fall I had to switch to the new edition of the textbook for one prep so now I have to change the slides and test banks. Thankfully the book's organization stayed the same.

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Critical Role: Laura Bailey Sighs

ALT: Critical Role: Laura Bailey Sighs

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Four weeks into the academic year and the ID situation remains the same.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The quilting community is once again in turmoil over lack of diversity. And the president of the company in question claiming that he just didn't know ... in 2026. The MALE president of a company that is in a female-dominated industry in terms of consumers and producers.

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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this is fantastic and I learned something new

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the highest authorities in our universities are using AI to do their work how can we, as faculty, even attempt to get students to grasp that using AI to do their work is not acceptable and is cheating, not to mention it's stopping them from developing many important skills? It's a losing battle.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"NYC might have Mamdani but the fooderati are being bamboozled." Great piece by @aliciadkennedy.bsky.social www.aliciakennedy.news/p/is-food-fl...

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Is Food Flopping?

Or has it never really peaked?

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I made a couple of small 100% rye sourdough loaves (tourte de seigle) yesterday. They are curing and will slice them tomorrow. Can’t wait to dig in. The rye is NY-grown, and stone ground less than 1 mile from my apartment in Brooklyn.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Sad to see Tartine on this list. You know who's not PE backed? Me! Línea Bakery, my microbakery, my passion project, my second job, has been built with my own blood, sweat, and tears. I'm at the Battery Park City farmers market almost every Sunday 9am-2pm. If you're in New York, come buy some bread!

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

One moment you're young and carefree, backpacking alone across Egypt, no cell phones, no tech, and the next you're in your kitchen at 10pm measuring the pH of your sourdough starters with lab-grade equipment.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Doing battle with Canvas today, setting up my Fall B classes, which I'm redesigning a bit. Why does it always take ten times as long as you think it will?

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You can buy a $480 box to keep your $60 rye loaf. This whole thing has to be some kind of social experiment or maybe performance art.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I read about this yesterday as I got home from picking up 25 lbs of freshly milled Hudson Valley rye from NYC's only stone mill, which is a five minute drive from me in Brooklyn. I know how much the very best rye flour you can buy locally costs. I know the labor involved. This loaf is not worth $60.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today’s round of bagels. Same batch, just longer cold proofing. About 38 hours vs yesterday’s 14 or so.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I made some very good bagels for my family today. #yeastmasters

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I was looking to go see Coyote vs. ACME this weekend and I'm horrified at the cost of going to the movies. $70 for three people to just get butts on seats. Nevermind concessions. Plus, everything has to be booked ahead and has assigned seating, all of which really kills any sort of spontaneity.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I don't want anyone to complain ever again about the price of my baked goods.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

"Postpartum" has entered the colloquial lexicon and it drives me crazy because people keep misusing it. "She had postpartum" (often used derogatorily). Yes, everyone who delivers a baby has a postpartum period! It literally means after birth. What you mean is postpartum depression. Just say that!

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Power Rangers Dino Fury: It's Rant O'Clock!

ALT: Power Rangers Dino Fury: It's Rant O'Clock!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I was on a group Zoom call where one of the participants was sharing his screen. He accidentally shared the one where Gemini is ingesting our call, summarizing it in realtime, and offering reply suggestions. I didn’t even know that was a thing! So even when talking to a human, it might be a bot.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So, my kid just started college in a CUNY school today. Last week he went to get the ID card and the ID system was down. Today he was told it would work again some time in September. WTF? The school requires ID to enter the buildings so in the mean every new student needs to sign in instead.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I'm constantly torn between "I should write an article. I should turn my dissertation into a book" and "what's the point? There are no jobs and the end of my VAP appointment will probably be the end of my academic career for good." Felt despair; might delete later.

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What Can You Do Shrug

ALT: What Can You Do Shrug

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The 4th installment of Passport to Eat is El Salvador! I made blended black beans and fried ripe plantains. In this project, I’m cooking one dish from every country in the world. #foodculture passporttoeat.substack.com/p/4-el-salva...

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#4: El Salvador. Blended Black Beans and Fried Ripe Plantains

With Recipe

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

“If you want research led teaching then at a minimum you have to allow teaching staff time to *read* and incorporate new research” I say every year as I object, again, to a workload model that allows 50mins prep per 1 hour teaching.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

It's been 5 days since this fiasco started. Marley Spoon has taken thousands and thousands of people's money, not fulfilled their end of the contract, and cut off all customer service. Some people are receiving boxes with nothing but the ice packs. At this point this is willful fraud and theft.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I can't solve a societal impulse to treat college as a credentialing stamp instead of an education. I can just choose to put my energy into students who want the education instead.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Question for the academic hive mind. As I’ve talked about ad nauseam, I recently earned an Associate in Applied Science in Culinary Arts and a certificate in bread baking. Is that something that I should put in my CV? I’m a food historian, which matters, I suppose. My field is US/Colonial America.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Enjoying my last day of summer before my teaching contract starts again. It's been a long three months and I didn't do most of the things I wanted to do 😂 😭

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Marley Spoon, the meal kit company, royally screwed up this week's orders for customers all over the country. It's so bad that some people got only a huge box, cooling packs and all, with only panko in it. Most of the items for my three meals were missing. One meal "kit" had only chicken broth.

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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

One more time...

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Last semester I transitioned all my discussion assignments for the second half of the US survey from Canvas to Kritik and now I'm doing the same with the first half of the survey. I had forgotten how much mental energy that process takes.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Hey, look, I actually made something and posted about it! Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread open.substack.com/pub/historic... #histfood #culinaryhistory #foodhistory #foodculture

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Reconstructing Panis Quadratus, Pompeii's Famous Bread

Thanks for reading Historical Foodways!

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I never again want to hear that I should turn my AC to 80F in a heat wave.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I’m feeling quite smug about this lunch I just made, if I’m being honest 😂 My own bread, and with the exception of the salt and olive oil, it’s all local ingredients from farms I can name, thanks to the farmers market and the CSA. Nice little peach caprese.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Not me googling the professor who will be teaching my child US Since 1865 at CUNY in the Fall...

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Betty Briggs on Laptop in Twin Peaks

ALT: Betty Briggs on Laptop in Twin Peaks

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/07/2026

I was speaking with Mitch McConnell by phone for twenty minutes when he said, "hey, what's Lindsay Graham doing here?"

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

One more Trump supporter — Lindsay Graham — lost in the Senate. In their obituary for him @theguardian.com quotes Graham’s famous quote (on Twitter from 2016): “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed … and we will deserve it.”

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Lindsey Graham, key ally of Donald Trump, has died after sudden illness, his office says

Republican senator had served in the Senate since 2003 and was a sharp critic of Trump before becoming one of his most loyal backers

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Today I mixed, fermented, and shaped 35kg/77lbs of sourdough, which is 36 loaves of bread, plus some brioche dough, by myself in my NYC apartment kitchen, using my own two hands and a small spiral mixer that can only do 5kg at a time. Things were learned.

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

It turns out it would probably be better to confide in the bear too.

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Juneisy Hawkins @junehawk.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This just arrived. Made my day. Unfortunate acronym still.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 07/07/2026

When it inevitably comes out that McConnell hasn’t been conscious since his collapse on June 14, let’s all remember that the Senate Majority Leader and Whip said they’d talked to him the day after he got CPR and that he was “engaged” (both of them used that exact word!) and would be back soon.

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