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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

JOB POSTING: SJSU Dept of Humanities is hiring Asst Prof of #DH . H&A has grt grp of #digitalhumanists thinking broadly & creatively about our world + new DH Center + incredible student groups + funding for convos re ethical tech, speaker series, etc. Due: 12/1/26 jobs.sjsu.edu/sj/en-us/job...

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San José State University - Details - Assistant Professor in Dept Humanities - Digital Humanities

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Justin Smith, Ph.D. @justinsmithphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My institution, Randolph-Macon College, is hiring! We're looking for a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Contemporary/21st-c. Global Anglophone Literature! Apply at the link below and share widely: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My department is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor of Public History! I am on the committee so please let me know if you have questions and please feel free to share! Job ID 303951. campus.kennesaw.edu/faculty-staf...

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find your next great career opportunity by finding jobs through the Department of Human Resources at Kennesaw State University!

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Alex Winter @alexwinter.com · 08/09/2026

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

Postcard graphic with large text saying "Save the Date for Douglass Day" Below that, text reads "Celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the Black Press" and the date "2.11.2027" followed by the web address DouglassDay.org.

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

More to say soon... but. WE DID IT, Y'ALL. WE DID IT.

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Swinging into high gear for another year of Douglass Day! Wild that it'll be our 11th year! 🎂

Screenshot of a Google Shared Drive with folders for each year of Douglass Day from 2017 to 2027.

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Brook @hasbrouckie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Great listen, librarians are cool, valuable and necessary

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UNC Press @uncpress.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Are you writing a book on Black Women's History? We're now accepting applications for our 2026/27 Black Women's History Series Incubator 🎉 Get your application in now! uncpress.org/black-womens-history-s…

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Aromanticism & Asexuality Research Network @aroaceresearch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Working on intimacy in all its forms? Apply for a post-doc at @clsrleeds.bsky.social, home of the aro/ace research network!

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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

🚨🚨🚨 SCHOLARLY RESOURCE MUTUAL AID ALERT She said she would make the humanities resource mutual aid relay device herself. Hosting it because I've got the hosting capacity for now and it was the easy button. Presenting: The Resource Exchange! www.meganfaragher.com/resourceexch...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/06/2026

additionally, if there is ANY possible non racist motive for an explicitly racist action, Alito says you must accept it as the actual motivation. meanwhile, ANY use of race consciousness to prevent or alleviate discrimination is unconstitutional under “equal protection”

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The Roberts Court has been turning anti-discrimination law upside down for years. Its approach came into particular focus in May, with Louisiana v. Callais, in which it determined that not allowing Louisiana’s government to dilute Black votes was racist. In that case, Alito insisted that forcing the state to draw a second majority-Black congressional district would be an “unconstitutional racial gerrymander” because Republicans were entitled to discriminate against Black voters if they argued that their purpose was partisan instead of racist. The Court reaffirmed that position in a subsequent case dealing with Alabama, after a lower court had found ample evidence of deliberate racial discrimination, as opposed to the discriminatory effect of the Louisiana map.

Mullin now sets up an even more impossible double standard. If the government wants to discriminate against Black people, any pretext will do. “As long as there is a plausible basis—any plausible articulable basis—for the government’s action, then the Court will look to that basis as sufficient,” Aderson Francois, a law professor at Georgetown University, told me, “even in the face of evidence that government actors were motivated by animus.” If a Black person wants to prove they’ve been discriminated against, however, no amount of evidence will suffice.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

“If Democrats win, Congress will do its job again” is a wild message from the current Speaker of the House

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Peer Review in 2026: check refs first. I pull three random claims and related citations, go to the paper. If it’s real, see if the paper looks like it connects to the claim. If 2/3 don’t align, check 7 more, or until I hit 5 that don’t connect. At that point; AI or not; the paper is uncredible.

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 31/05/2026

saw a guy wearing a t-shirt that read "THERE IS NO CLOUD, JUST SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER" and it took my last shred of self-control not to thank him for his service

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AALCS @aalcs.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This year, we are excited to have five organized panels at the 2026 ALA Conference in Chicago. Looking forward to engaging with you all!

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Aubrey is in the forest byeee 💖🏳️‍🌈 @clericofthevoid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

For the record, this proposal specifically targets gender identity. You have until May 22nd to submit a comment

In a Public Notice released on April 22,2026, the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments
about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB)
should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to "transgender and gender non-binary programming" and "the discussion or promotion
of gender identity themes."

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/05/2026

i have been writing about the virginia supreme court decision with a certain amount of analytical detachment but if i’m being honest i’m also fucking furious i took the time to go vote and then my ballot got tossed out by these dipshits

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm working on a piece I'm slightly behind on for @liberalcurrents.com on reconstruction. And I'm always struck by the fact that we only needed the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, and Fair Housing Act because the state and federal governments just ignored the Reconstruction Amendments.

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singlecatlady23.bsky.social @singlecatlady23.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 02/05/2026

Frederick Douglass in 1883, after the Civil Rights Cases were handed down, cut to the chase: "O for a Supreme Court of the United States which shall be as true to the claims of humanity as the Supreme Court formerly was to the demands of slavery! omeka.coloredconventions.org/files/origin...

Excerpt of Frederick Douglass speech:

O for a Supreme Court of the United States which shall be as true to the claims of humanity as the Supreme Court formerly was to the demands of slavery! When that day comes, as come it will, a Civil Rights Bill will not be declared unconstitutional and void, in utter and flagrant disregard of the objects and intentions of the National legislature by which it was enacted, and of the rights plainly secured by the Constitution.

This decision of the Supreme Court admits that the Fourteenth Amendment is a prohibition on the States. It admits that a State shall not abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, but commits the seeming absurdity of allowing the people of a State to do what it prohibits the State itself from doing.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2026

this line from alito’s opinion, that the question before the court was “whether compliance with the Voting Rights Act should be added to our very short list of compelling interests that can justify racial discrimination,” is truly orwellian

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Did I not spend two classes going over where to find, how to read, and how to integrate secondary sources? Did I simply hallucinate spending two classes going over where to find, how to read, and how to integrate secondary sources?

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Trump: I’m going to put ICE in the airports, where they will target and arrest all the illegals, especially Somalis, because I hate the Democrats Headlines: Trump puts ICE officers in airports to ease long lines, provide relief for weary travelers

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I've decided that instead of wasting my own time to see if Grammarly has stolen my name and writing for use their business, I'd just email them to opt out and make them waste some time cleaning up their own goddamn mess. www.platformer.news/grammarly-ex...

Grammarly declined my request to interview CEO Shishir Mehrotra today. But it told me that in response to criticisms, it will allow experts to opt out of the feature by emailing expertoptout@superhuman.com.

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I don’t have the energy rn to express how horrific this is. Please submit a public comment.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Friends! We did it!! Transcribe 2026 saw more than 8,000 people transform 37,790 pages. We are 100% done! "There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883

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Zooniverse @zooniverse.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

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The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all! Transcribe the Colored Conventions www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

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The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

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Zooniverse @zooniverse.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

✨ On 2/13, join us as we host Douglass Day 2026! This annual celebration honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass and brings together volunteers to transcribe Black history. Find guides to help you bring Douglass Day into your college and K12 classrooms and register via the newsletter linked below.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

When I resigned as co-chair of the National Association of Black Journalists convention after their decision to platform Trump, I took a lot of heat for it. I was told “Black journalists are going to expose his racism and save America” Today, the Trump regime is arresting Black journalists.

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Postdoctoral positions available at Yale's Digital Ethics Center. They are renewable for up to 4 years, and provide plenty of benefits. Highly successful postdocs can be promoted to a faculty position after 2 years. Please apply and share with interested candidates 🤓 dec.yale.edu/join-us...

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Justin Smith, Ph.D. @justinsmithphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Deadline in 5 days! We would love to have you come present with us!

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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Writing is hard. It can feel lonely too, the process itself and then releasing it to the world. That’s why as much as I can, I love giving writers their flowers

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captbullett @captbullettp.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Accessibility without verifiability isn’t clarity—it’s risk transfer. AI summaries don’t simplify truth; they abstract accountability. If readers can’t validate claims, the output degrades from aid to liability.

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