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aohsu @aohsusometimesy.bsky.social · 12h

Petty footnotes are load bearing. I realize academia is being destroyed from the outside, but we also need petty footnotes to make sure academia is motivated enough to get out of bed in the morning

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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah, I’d love if some of them could do something about, say, endometriosis. But the machine that stole my book along with thousands of others, and got me confused with another Mara Wilson who died? I want nothing to do with it.

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 3h

I want this to be Ishiguro trying to write ‘Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day’ sooooo badly. Nobody disabuse me, please. Let me live in that world

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 16h

I wasn’t fucking nervous before, BUT I AM NOW

A trade card for Carter’s Little Nerve Pills, featuring a huge bipedal frog managing a baby

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 17h

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 21h

formally alert close reading —showing the meanings coded into syntax, exposing the lie that all discourse is mere content—is what we teach students, & what separates the work of literary criticism from sociology, history, & theory—so honestly this is the most meaningful compliment to me 🙏🌿

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Universities cannot expect researchers to take risks if they are repeatedly at risk of redundancy while losing professional services support, grappling with the gratuitous vagaries of home and international student number swings and both teaching and assessing in an age of unregulated AI.

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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026

My partner had never seen the work of genius that is the ‘tea consent’ video, so now I’m sharing it here again, because consent explained through the vehicle of tea is the most British thing ever. And also really fucking important.

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Tea and Consent

YouTube video by Thames Valley Police

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No she’s not.

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Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

😮 Amazing!

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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Rob 🏳️‍🌈 @rotster.net · 01/10/2026

Good morning, children, welcome to your first day at School. Your 5 years of play are over and the rest of your lives will be spent in service to capital, specifically, to my billionaire friends that make my life very comfortable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Employers should teach primary-age children about work, Milburn says

The author of a major report into youth activity in the UK says children as young as four should be learning about careers.

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Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Enjoyable piece on the 'bromantasy boom' & the reading culture that sustains men who read romance - the article itself is more nuanced and intriguing than the phrase itself. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

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The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’

It’s often assumed straight men are not interested in romantic fiction – but many are sharing their passion in forums online

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 30/09/2026

He’s a tin, but he can’t spell.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A corollary to this important point about AI & invisible labor is that, 100% of the time, the dudes most obsessed with onboarding LLMs into classrooms either suck deeply at teaching or are not teachers at all but instead lifelong administrators who think teaching is “generating feedback” & that’s it

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Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This comment on YouTube! 😅👌

Comment on YouTube by @Stephen_The_Waxing_Lyricist on the prize of 75,000 hats: ‘Who wants to be a milliner?’

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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Most TV is just this now.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Sophie Weinberg @sophie-rose-reads.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Putting out a #bookhistory bat signal: does anyone have any resources on the history+production of ink balls/ball leathers? Finding it difficult to locate sources on preparing sheepskin for non-leather, non-parchment purposes…

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Humans who make stuff know it’s laughably easy to make it total dogshit with one tiny mistake, by not paying total attention, and exerting a grip on every department like a vice. The barrier to access for storytelling isn’t technology and money. It’s care.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is gorgeous!

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Karie Bookish @kariebookish.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We need more adaptations of steamy romance between equals with a hefty dose of yearning, served with joy & hope.

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I just had a very good seminar on this beautiful book by Jessica Love, on my Children’s Lit module for trainee teachers. What a joy to teach ❤️

The cover of Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

A page from Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love

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Will Sherwood @willsherwood.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I'm thrilled and proud to announce that I completed and submitted my PhD thesis on #Tolkien and British #Romanticism this morning. What an incredible start to a sunny week! Now, does anyone have any jobs for someone with extensive teaching experience?! Time to put this knowledge to good use!

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 28/09/2026

Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. The Scarleter Letter

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

In practice, AI literacy doesn’t start with building the tool for your personal use. It starts with understanding yourself as a collection of tasks who should subcontract those out to a machine. Almost no regular person’s life currently exists as such.

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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New ECR opportunity, courtesy of JVC and BAVS. Please spread the word as widely as you can!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026

Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#bookhistory question: is anyone working on the incidence / history of early 19th-century facsimiles / reprints of early printed works (especially in English)? Does anyone know of any past studies into this category? 🙏

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Joyce Park @troutgirl.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MLA style for a journal article: comma separators in the footnote, full stop separators in the bibliography. Why??!? 😭😭😭

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do not carry a cold beverage in their presence. Politely decline any drinks or sweetmeats they may offer. Keep a plain iron nail in your left trouser pocket and a sachet or paper twist of coarse salt in your right shoe. Enter and leave your chair moving clockwise. Follow up with a thank-you note.

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 25/09/2026

On the plane to Albuquerque! If I don’t come back, avenge me on the asshole of your choice!

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You may find this content disturbing…

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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026

The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!

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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · 24/09/2026

Pals I see you sharing links to London Daily & need you to know it's AI bullshit. The Louise Michel is real, Banksy really funded it, but that started in 2020 & the LD link people are sharing is timestamped to today but written as if it's 2020 & elides all the actual journalism about it.

Screenshot reads as follows:

Welcome to London Daily, an innovative and unique news experiment driven by advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Our AI system conducts extensive research and fact-checking, presenting a non-biased and diverse perspective on each topic. It meticulously filters out biased or manipulated content, offering you factual summaries essential for your knowledge as an informed citizen.

Our aim is not to replace mainstream media but to provide you with succinct summaries of key headlines, encouraging you to explore these stories in greater depth through your favorite mainstream news sources.

As a privately funded, non-profit initiative, our mission is to provide a concise and comprehensive overview of current events as part of a broader project to enhance fact-checking and AI journalism for journalists and publishers worldwide.

We are building a tool that will help professional journalists and traditional mainstream news outlets enhance their news delivery, boost their readership, ease their workload, and lower their costs while increasing their productivity—all aimed at improving content reliability and readability.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: Over 400 New Yorkers are risking arrest in a mass anti-war sit-in outside the United Nations during Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech to say: Stop the genocide and stop arming Israel.

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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

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Kate Tuttle @katekilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I like to make one glaring mistake each time I post, as a little gift to the many copyeditors I count among my friends.

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I just gave a fantasy lit. talk to some *very* bright highschoolers, and I think I passed some kind of test because when challenged, I could explain what the Omegaverse is 💪🏻

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Maria Damkjær @mdamkjaer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I keep going on about Nordic representations of power, and this is the perfect encapsulation. Prime ministers of Greenland and Denmark having a beer after the signing yesterday

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Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You want to see Walter, the Exeter College cat, sitting just beside where Inspector Morse keels over? Course you do!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 22/09/2026

The recording of our conversation with @jrvaldez.bsky.social, Sharin Schroeder + Caroline Jones on making the most of your conference experiences is now live! Just in time to get cracking on all those CFPs you're working on, right? #RSVPDigiEvents Watch now: youtu.be/vvRu4u8F-mE

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How to Conference Effectively: A Professional Development Conversation

YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

EARLY MODERN ENGLISH

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Spodomancy @spodomancy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Also of course "you are still basically a child but we think you have inherent qualities that make you a leader, here's a crowd of creatures who may well seem barely human to you, now lead them into battle" is not just "you are a Pevensey" but also "you are a subaltern in 1914"

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great news, and looking forward to a book historian becoming Chief Exec of the UK Space Agency sometime soon in this brave new world!

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Will Tattersdill @tattersdill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is still something I wish "normal" British people knew more about. Migrating here is unbelievably and unjustly expensive

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

anyone know academic indexers interested in work coming up imminently (it’s a multi authored handbook style publication)? self promo welcome!

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