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Laura Kremmel

@lkremmel.bsky.social
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Associate Prof: Gothic/Horror, 18th/19th C Brit Lit, Health Hum, History of Med, Death Studies, Disability Studies | Amateur Artist and cemetery enthusiast I do not use AI for anything, professionally or personally. All opinions my own.

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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 13h
11 and 12, parasites and plagues: two novels for our time. I wrote about both in The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century.
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WIRED @wired.com · 09/10/2026
More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Finally finding a few minutes to sort through my brief summer research at @wellcomecollection.bsky.social... before diving into midterm grading. What a semester! 🫩
Open book of poems by Anne Hunter
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Jack Lynch @jacklynch000.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
READER OF THE DAY, 10 OCTOBER 2026 Rebecca Campbell, Do Not Disturb (2010)
Painting of a man in an armchair seen in profile; begging him is a vast wall of books on shelves
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Book recs 9 and 10: I can't think of two more different novels except that they've both faced banning and censorship.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A dramatic cover for a strange book. Outsold Dracula, which was published around the same time.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Finally, today's #7. One of the most disturbing books I've ever read. The first half is quite incredible.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Book #6: Spider. I love McGrath's work. This is, in turns, disturbing and beautiful.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Books #4 and #5: Two Melmoths. Both excellent! Sarah Perry's book also teaches really well.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Behind in posting these! #2 and #3: The Monk and Zofloya. Can't seem to stop reading or writing about them.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Stop making movie adaptations of recent books that I haven't had time to read yet!
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The paperback is here!!! Thank you to @uniwalespress.bsky.social! I'm so proud to make this work more accessible to folks! 💀
Skeleton doll with copy of Romantic Medicine and the Gothic ImaginationSkull toy with copy of Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Great chance to post my all-time favorite headline
The Radium Water Worked Fine Until His Jaw Came Off
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
That's next on my list! It's a cemetery near where I used to live, just outside Boston.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Back to painting class! 😎
Painting of a cemetery
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Posting daily October reading recs on my office door, in no particular order. October 1 is Bird Box, by Josh Malerman. I devoured this during an international flight shortly after it came out. One of the most horrific birth scenes I've ever read. Don't watch the bad movie adaptation.
Pictures posted to office door
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Another fabulous discussion of the Morbidly Curious Book Club in Lewiston last night. Mixed reviews on this one, though I overall liked it.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Love this!
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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...
Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Who is the audience for this?? 🎈🤡
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.
A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with 
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Someone on here said that Altman’s eyes are identical to Elizabeth Holmes’ in that teaser and now I can never unsee it
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Stanford University...is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a campus banner." feels like a South Park episode. what are we doing here yall www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
sfchronicle.com
Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad
Stanford University is facing criticism for using generative AI to change the photo of a Hispanic male student into a non-existent Black woman for a dining hall advertisement.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
UK only! Sometime in November/December for US copies.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Paperback #pubday for Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination! www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti...
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University of Wales Press @uniwalespress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New in Paperback! 'Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination' by @lkremmel.bsky.social demonstrates how Gothic literature experiments with and subverts Romantic medical debates to reassess the power of nonnormative bodies. 📚️ www.uwp.co.uk/book/romanti...
‘This volume is an exhilarating exploration of the shadowy hinterland that was shared by medical discourse and Gothic writing in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries. As major a contribution to Gothic Studies as it is to the fields of Romanticism and the Medical Humanities more broadly, Romantic Medicine is an extraordinary feat of critical revivification that infuses fresh life-blood into the pathological corpus of early Gothic romance, poetry and drama.’

Dale Townshend, Professor of Gothic Literature, Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
📣📣 Protect vaccines: Make a public comment DEADLINE: Sun Sept 20 📝 www.regulations.gov/document/HHS... Lots of anti-vaxxers have already commented 😨 - now it’s up to all of us to add some common-sense points. Confused about what’s going on? Let’s dive in (🧵)
regulations.gov
Regulations.gov
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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trustees: what do you do Humanists: well, like all of us around here we make better people T: what’s the margin on those H: hey? T: what do you sell them for H: come again T: you said you make people, how much do they go for H: T: are you an idiot? H: T: ok program cancelled
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hey, @panslabyrinth20.bsky.social, come to Niagara Falls!
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."
bu.edu
New Learning Outcomes Announced | English
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Genius
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fancy coming to work with me at the British Library? Part time for 18 months, collecting oral histories about covid and thinking about covid commemoration. www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/jobs/job/228...
nationalmuseums.org.uk
Jobs - National Museum Directors' Council Website
Association of directors and chief executives of the UK's national museums, galleries, libraries and archives.
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 15/09/2026
Please admire this slop-guide to the U.S. government that my kid received in his ninth grade government class. “Watergsstate Impreachment Imeachment bolity Precedent”
A sort of map of US government, with lots of arrows and words. It’s labelled “SIMPLIFIED CONCEPT MAP: U.S. GOVERNMENT.”Close up of the diagram:

Example: Watergate Impeachment Key 2473 - Watergsstate Impreachment
Imeachment bolitiy Precedent
Legislative Checks
Executive
Veto
No
Executive Cheeks
Example:
Washington's 2-Ter-in Precedent
Example 3: Impeachment Precedent Key 2016 - Declares political inconinitional comnoladunt precedions hutsite avothov Uncostitutional: Bleachmens on the divisience of the Barizon Precedent
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🙅🏽No, AI is not helping worker productivity🙅🏽We dispel 5 common myths in my new video, Myths Around AI and Productivity. The first myth is that AI will improve productivity, which studies not only largely contradict, but sometimes suggest the opposite effect. youtu.be/3BO0iy91lfU
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's never done anything for this one.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Exactly! I read way better British fantasy when I was little. There were wizards before HP...
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
*Whispers* Harry potter isn't even very good. Mediocre at best.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
@thebulwark.com did a supercut of all the prior times Trump said he was going to give Americans a $5000 check or whatever. It is glorious
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Whoa
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Dolly Parton's take on AI in 2023: “I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing. I’m sure it’s a good thing for scientists or medical things. But when it comes to trying to duplicate a human being and every little thing they are, it don’t seem right to me. It’s too much.”
gizmodo.com
Dolly Parton's Sister Asks People to Stop Posting AI Slop of the Legendary Singer
"I hope nobody can ever replicate me or what I do. AI is a scary thing," said Dolly Parton in 2023.
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Laura Kremmel @lkremmel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I wish AI companies would go the way of Theranos. They've hoovered up more money and are worse than useless. And those tech bros are 10x more psycho.
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Elizabeth Holmes jumpscare
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YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, a documentary by Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim.
Featuring Elizabeth Holmes. Only in theaters this October.
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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
An aside: you'd get a hell of a vibrant intellectual culture if you did hire and pay for the requisite number of faculty, as a bonus.
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science
openletter.earth
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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