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Kate Lusheck

@klusheck.bsky.social
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Professor of early modern European art @ University of San Francisco | Author of Rubens and the Eloquence of Drawing | Newfoundland mom and lover of nature I Interested in all sorts of things

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Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
This is a beautiful essay by @peter-wehner.bsky.social, worth your time: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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What If AI Is the End of the World?
The dramatic warnings of doom have fed an atmosphere of despair. But there are more constructive responses.
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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park, Maryland #earlymodern
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Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park
Alicia Volk, Univ. of Maryland. University of Maryland, College Park, 01.07.2027, Bewerbungsschluss: 15.10.2026
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@rijksmuseum.bsky.social and @museodelprado.es Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History "The Rijksmuseum and the Museo Nacional del Prado announce an in-depth research partnership focusing on women in art and history." www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/press/pre...
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Rijksmuseum and Museo Nacional del Prado Launch Landmark Partnership on Women in Art and History - Rijksmuseum
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“A company like Meta can justify the development of this technology based on all of these assumptions that there must be a social good here in a moment when wins for disabled people are depressingly rare.”
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Brian Jay Jones @brianjayjones.com · 24/09/2026
Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.
A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
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71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Paul Simon pays tribute to the victims of 9/11 by performing “The Sound of Silence.”
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Baltimore Banner @thebaltimorebanner.com · 08/09/2026
Head of Smithsonian will step down amid President Trump’s fights to transform institution
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Head of Smithsonian will step down amid President Trump’s fights to transform institution
Lonnie G. Bunch III will step down as secretary of the Smithsonian by the end of the year amid President Donald Trump's efforts to transform the institution.
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Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Chair of Art History at Oxford advert is now live, and the important bit is this: "We welcome applications from candidates with expertise in any area of the History of Art". You've got till October 19 to apply or tell somebody else to. A wonderful job, go for it. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Congratulations to Sarah Joan Moran on the publication of her new book Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
The front cover of a book. The featured image is a soberly dressed woman wearing a white head covering, with her right hand resting on her left, both hands held in front of her. Her right forefinger is inserted into the pages of a small book with a black cover that she holds in her right hand.
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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
250 million birds flew across America last night, tracked by radar. Migration season is upon us, and it’s wilder than you could imagine. Birdcast’s live migration maps and forecasts (from Cornell Lab of Ornithology) are brilliant, and you can find them here. birdcast.org/migration-to...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Yayoi Kusama (1929-2026) RIP
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 24/08/2026
I don’t see much good news nowadays, but this discovery has me *grinning*. An Egyptian mummy was found with THE ILIAD on its abdomen. Not some religious scripture, but Homer’s epic poem. It dates from from Egypt’s Roman period, so roughly sixteen centuries ago.
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Egyptian mummy unearthed with literary text on abdomen in first ever find | CNN
Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... One of the most beautiful and ancient places in the United States is about to ruined by drilling.
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Trump plan to allow drilling near US world heritage site sparks alarm
Administration’s plan to scrap drilling-free buffer zone around New Mexico site prompts scrutiny from Unesco
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Dr Sarah Corrigan @corrigans.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
⬇️ Glorious marginalia thread… ⬇️
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Leonardo da Vinci's cats (and dragon) for International Cat Day..
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 05/08/2026
it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This
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How I became the villain of El Cerrito’s Nextdoor
“I had a panic attack. Then I wrote an apology letter.”
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Upwards of 200,00 people may have lost their jobs today; or will in the upcoming days. There is a palpable sense of fear among the Haitian community right now. They need your support.
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marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
My favourite bit so far in the build-up to the Bayeux Tapestry exhibition has been the projection of Tapestry scenes onto the White Cliffs of Dover plus a heartfelt "merci". tinyurl.com/ytm9hrzj
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Lighting up the white cliffs of Dover
I have found myself surprisingly moved by the arrival in London of The Bayeux Tapestry. I have seen it in France and have studied it on the page. I was
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UIS Observatory @uisobservatory.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I’d like to make it clear for all the people following me what the sheer gravity of the news is. Without this facility we can’t ensure constant communication with spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. If this facility is off-line, the Artemis program cannot send a crew to the Moon.
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Kelly Lynne D’Angelo ✨ @kellylynnedang.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please blow up the public comment (included below): BREAKING NEWS (7/15) — The administration wants to destroy Chaco Canyon without consulting Tribal Nations. It’s an irreplaceable historic & cultural site with 4,700 archeological sites that could be lost to the bulldozers of oil & gas development
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Thanks to this lovely nonna, here's a recipe for making the real deal spaghetti alla carbonara. [🍝 nonnasilviofficial] Original post
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Christophe Plantin printed a number of school editions, including Virgil’s Aeneid, with wide margins & generous line spacing for students’ notes. This copy is especially remarkable: it belonged to his grandson, the young Balthasar I Moretus. Judging by his aannotations, he was a diligent student!
Detail of two facing pages, on the left handwritten notes, on the right the heavily annotated printed Latin textTitle page of the book, reading ‘Pvbl. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidos Liber VI.’ It contains a woodcut engraving of Plantin’s printer’s mark and his imprint.The first page of the main text with notes in between the lines and margins facing an interleaved page filled with handwritten notes. Detail of het book with an ink stain.
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Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I usually like fireworks but am now hours into what feels like a war zone in SF/Bernal Heights. Even the best earplugs are barely making a difference. Please make it stop.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM
Therefore, this Dicastery, in the faithful exercise of the functions entrusted to it, considers it necessary to state that this act constituted the delict of schism, with the canonical consequences for the sacred ministers and lay faithful involved. Indeed, as was already declared in 1988, "such disobedience-which implies in practice the rejection of the Roman primacy—constitutes a schismatic act" (cf. John Paul II, Apostolic Letter Ecclesia Dei, 3).
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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
probably the biggest mistake of modern academia is assuming real insight can only be found at higher levels of abstraction when in fact it has always been at the intersection of the abstract and the concrete
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Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
No surprise here! What’s baffling is how little university administrators touting expensive, tech-heavy “future-ready” initiatives want to look at data that touts the benefits of the arts and humanities. It’s as if they can’t stand the idea that the liberal arts might help save higher ed after all.
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Peter Hartlaub @peterhartlaub.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
My wife @kellyhartlaub.bsky.social & I heard from so many who loved this story. Including my son! (“Did you hear about the Oakland teacher who ran into her Cape Verde student at a watch party?” … “That’s my friend Jill!”) Glad the world is seeing @jilltucker.bsky.social is the absolute best. 🇨🇻🗞️❤️
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Michael E. Carter @deckofcarterhist.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I might have to crowbar it in awkwardly but this is going in my 18th century lecture.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 23/06/2026
Merlin, the pet duck in a mini Mexico shirt who likes carnitas tacos and has become a viral sensation and an unofficial mascot of the World Cup, met Mexico's president.
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Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡 @sevensugars.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
for some context, this is one of Kievan Rus’ great monasteries. I’m speechless.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
NASA Perseverance rover captures what a Martian night really looks like from the ground
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Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Pleased to report that I have once more returned to #BookHistory Paradise, aka the Plantin-Moretus Museum. I saw some pages from musical liturgica in the workshop and became teary. I love this place (and its collections) so much. #MusicalBookHistory
The workshop at the Plantin Moretus museum. To the left are cases of type and to the right are presses.
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Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
With pro-AI graduation speakers getting rightfully booed out of the room by Gen Z this year, it was so refreshing to have Rita Moreno as our graduation speaker today. You can’t imagine how many undergrads stopped to thank her when crossing the stage. Fiery, funny, wise, no BS. Breath of fresh air.
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Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Some people may remember that the majority of series editors resigned last summer in protest against Amsterdam University Press' sale of their film and media program to Taylor & Francis/Routledge. T&F and Routledge, while formerly respectable publishers, are now / mediastudies.hypotheses.org/6850
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Sale of the Amsterdam University Press (AUP) film, media and communication list to Taylor & Francis – Resignation of series editors and editorial board members
It is with great dismay that we, the undersigned, learned that the film, media and communication list of Amsterdam University Press (AUP) has been taken over by Taylor & Francis, a subsidiary of Infor...
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Robert Boure @bob31.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Et vous, comment allez vous ?
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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
The RKD is being transformed into a knowledge center on Dutch art www.codart.nl/museums/rkd-...
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RKD Announces New Direction as Knowledge Center - CODART
The RKD – Netherlands Institute for Art History has announced a new direction, redefining itself as a knowledge center for the visual arts of the Low Countries. For decades, the RKD has supported prof...
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I think I'd say ... Don't run universities like a business; run them like universities. Not everything is assimilable to some other market-based category. Universities have their origins, and in many ways find their deepest purposes, in a medieval world very different from our own.
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 05/05/2026
Obviously university admin don't realize this, but they are destroying the "value proposition" of their institutions. The more you make a university like a tech company, the more you give people a reason to NOT be part of it. Google will hire you w/o a college degree.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Must-read @inaeoh.bsky.social interview with an art historian on the Met Gala being Bezosed www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Why Lauren Sánchez Bezos is storming the gates of the Met Gala
An art historian explains why Sánchez Bezos "will never be elegant."
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/05/2026
We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.
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Kate Lusheck @klusheck.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Dogs are one of the good things we have going now. Let’s find a home for Nuno
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 20/04/2026
From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks
It's the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue-
"Homer, I don't want you to do that."
"Then I won't do it."Then the next day, when I get up, the script's been written.
It's lousy, but it's a script. The hard part is done. It's like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I've taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.
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John Hamilton Farr @jhfarr.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is wonderful.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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