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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 56m

I get that podcasts need to make money and in order to make money they need to get traction on TikTok or whatever, but I gotta tell you, I am not looking for an extended taste test of random snack foods in the middle of an interview with a musician when they could be talking about synth patches

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bleak reminder that we used to see hundreds of academic jobs in the humanities posted every year at this time. Now there are maybe 3 tenure-track English lit jobs in all of Canada. AI is only further devaluing the arts in ways that are decimating how we teach and secure future positions.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

unfortunately it turns out that not spending a lot of time on this website is good for me

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Once again, the median pay for an adjunct professor in the United States of America is $3,500 per course. Not per month, per course.

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Erin K. Maher @erinkmaher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

*shrieks in former adjunct*

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

why is google scholar always hassling me about updating my articles? listen, google scholar, when the time to update my articles comes, it is I who will let YOU know

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Been looking through the syllabi for the courses I took and TAed for in college and grad school, and goddamn, so much good teaching happened in the age of reading and writing when profs had the freedom to make a killer reading list and just see where things went from there

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Definitionally, a piece of writing cannot be Quit Lit if the author did not, in fact, Quit.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I cannot adequately express the extent to which I do not require an "AI Search Assistant" to navigate the Oxford English Dictionary

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A festschrift is an edited collection of papers published in honor of an academic's retirement or other major professional milestone. But what would the opposite of a festschrift be?

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The least believable part of ALIAS is that Francie's restaurant started turning a profit in less than a year. The second least believable part of ALIAS is that Sydney Bristow had time to be a spy AND a double agent AND do a PhD in English at UCLA

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

But nothing beats the obstetrics textbook wherein one of the authors made his wife do the index, so she slips this one in:

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been trying to keep this account a little more professional, which is obviously why I'm here to complain about how exhausting it can be to hang out with normies who have never read any critical theory. People are really out there just doing bare minimum 2000s girl power marketplace feminism

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

and you thought YOUR department chair was a jerk, part the second

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Hester Pangs @hesterpangs.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

finding Dolly Parton photos at work and then finding out that her fans booed Dennis Kucinich for interrupting her show was the thing I needed to learn today.

concert review that mentions the awkward moment when Dennis Kucinich surprised Dolly Parton with a key to the city of Cleveland in the middle of her concert.

Dolly Parton being presented with the key to the city by Dennis Kucinich

Dolly Parton at Blossom on August 24th, 1978.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

and you thought YOUR department chair was a jerk

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

My favorite Dolly Parton anecdote is a story she told about almost crashing her car when she heard Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" on the radio. My second favorite Dolly anecdote is that when Elvis wanted to cover that song, he demanded half the publishing rights & Dolly said no.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

The amount of American Top 40 music I’ve heard since landing in Barcelona is bumming me out. And I’ve been here for less than three hours.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

If you want to find conservatives in academe look at university administrations. There are some liberals there, but not many

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Gender studies might be the most vindicated academic field of all time

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Penelope was over there re-weaving the same death shroud over and over for 17 years just to avoid marrying a guy with takes from 2002.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 06/08/2026

@rweingarten.bsky.social, this is a horror. Teachers cited in this article say they're using "A.i." to develop lesson plans for kids with disabilities and imply that they're feeding student data into LLMs. This is using untested, dangerous teach on vulnerable kids AND possibly violating privacy law.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Another reminder that, amidst the myriad challenges facing academia, researchers also have to re-imagine the political economy of publishing. The biggest academic publishers (Wiley, Springer, Elsevier, etc) are also among the most restrictive and rapacious.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I don't want to have a timely take. I want to spend months thinking deeply about all one thousand words of my opinion on something that happened approximately ten to tens of hundreds of years ago, as God and Fatima al-Fihri intended

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Describing a signed review of a blockbuster movie as equivalent to getting a nasty peer review on a journal article that maybe ten people will read from beginning to end is crazy work, by the way

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It’s hard to launch a campaign to “grow public trust in academia” when the campaign to erode public trust in academia has been so successful there’s barely anyone left to make the case.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Under no circumstances should you read this plot summary out loud to the screenwriter in your life. They will have too many questions about "the why" and "the core wound" and "does the tattoo blink" when you're just trying to laugh about the Sex Purge synopsis

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

In the same way that being bitten by a werewolf make you a werewolf, arguing with an academic makes you an academic

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I love you all but you are incredibly (understandably) reactive. It’s making you SO easily manipulated by rage baiters. When you see something without context, a headline or a snippet of a quote, take a deep breath and look into it to see if you really should be upset. Please protect your hearts.

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Patrick McCray @patrickmccray.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

When people ask me why I hate AI, in terms of my job, this is the part I say over and over - the destruction, for no good reason, of a social contract.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you're teaching a course on writing about music this coming fall, here's something for your students to chew on. I'm not sure if my favourite part is the bit towards the end where the reviewer blames new music on COVID, but it certainly is a sentence that is in there.

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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

those rolling stacks you'll find in any big state school library

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

If you teach music history responsibly, inevitably someone will inform you that you are doing it wrong by failing to focus on "the music itself", meaning "the notes on the page". The notes, being representative of specific pitches, are quantifiable in ways that history and politics simply are not.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The tone of some of this relentless Emily Wilson discourse has to be nightmare fuel for anyone even thinking about doing public scholarship

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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

will the historian who puts the last fact in order please turn out the lights

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I am once again recommending that if you, a professor, proudly announce that you are using a commercial LLM to decide which historical facts are important and/or interesting, you should have your tenure revoked.

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Rebecca Fachner @rebeccafachner.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

If history were just facts, we’d all agree on it. We don’t. That’s what history is. The disagreement and interpretation

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This isn't just an example of bad faith scholarship conducted with a deep misunderstanding of what the field of history actually is. It's also lazy as shit.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I doubt anyone would criticize research publications in medicine or engineering as ‘gatekeepy’ or ‘for elites’ - ie inscrutable to laypeople. They should be inscrutable to laypeople. They are inscrutable to me! But humanities scholarship does not NEED to be legible to laypeople.

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Saw a post on another platform critiquing scholarly publishing for being ‘gatekeepy’ and ‘for elites’ and I hate to break it to you but specialized peer reviewed research for highly-trained experts is…quality assured material for a narrow professional audience

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This afternoon I have the privilege of sitting in on a former graduate student’s doctoral dissertation defense. I wrote her many glowing recommendation letters, all highly deserved. Back then, I thought the payoff was seeing her get into her dream doctoral program. I was wrong: this is even better.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My modest wish for myself is to once again sit in a room with other people who want to learn things and talk about the books and essays we read this week. My big expensive brain does not require an LLM to do that; it requires an employment contract.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The very people who accuse others of "staying silent" are SILENT THEMSELVES ON 1000 issues a day which is NORMAL because you are ONE PERSON & simply cannot have takes on every single thing.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

"Enrollment data posted on archives of Illinois Tech’s website show a loss of approximately 1,200 international graduate students between the fall of 2024 and 2025 — a significant decline for a school that enrolled 7,500 students overall last year."

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

One effective way to resist late-stage capitalism is to develop strongly-held values and act accordingly.

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ve, the ghost of information past @vortexegg.com · 01/08/2026

Rejecting LLMs isn’t about rejecting their utility or failing to be aware of their power —it’s about rejecting that political project; born out of an awareness that any use of these machines at all promulgates that project and assembles me into adjacent responsibility for its commission.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I interviewed for a different publisher with offices in the same building. Then I worked in one of the shops on the ground floor. It was an interesting place to work, especially if you got to see inside the storerooms upstairs, which I did.

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Jillian @nogoodwyfe.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am also curious with supplemental Qs 1) do you have children or caretaking roles 2) how often can you afford/do you buy takeout or prepared food 3) how often do you exercise 4) how often do you see friends/family you don’t live with

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Emily, a Two-Shoes-Gooder @rebelmusicteach.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Billy Corgan is aiming for that Gen Alpha nostalgia & the good will that Olivia Rodrigo is bringing to SO many artists (including Corgan’s pal, Robert Smith) but unfortunately this will all be ruined by Billy Corgan opening his mouth.

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WOR$T GIRL IN ACADEMIA @medievaliste.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Is there some way I can communicate to drivers in Los Angeles that instead of obstructing traffic, you can simply… go around the block? I know the blocks here are big, but good news: you are in a car. You’ll be fine.

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