iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Yes to this, and, no matter how old you are, make a plan for your pets! #wills #death #estates #PlanAhead #MaskUp

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

But the moment deserves more than clever. And we are not talking about the obsolescence of writing as an abstract. We are talking about actively depriving people of access to participation in a democracy.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The fight over who gets the office armchair: a story in three parts.

part 1: a black and white cat perches on the arm of an oversized armchair. a hand is on his back, and he looks indignant. The photo is taken from the seat of the armchair.

Part 2: a close-up of the cat's face, half imploding and half giving shame that he should have to implore.

Part 3: the black and white cat sits, looking self-possessed, in the center of an oversized armchair.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026

hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08...

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Voters will decide whether to enshrine marriage equality in Virginia
VPM | By Jahd Khalil and Adrienne Hoar McGibbon
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 20/09/2026

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING SHIT. The easiest way to tell that trans women are women is that the right is so desperate to control what they do with their bodies. WE HAVE EVERYTHING IN COMMON.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Greek specialists! A question from the trenches of copy-editing! I referred to the act of handlessly producing an image (that is, the NOUN referring to the act of miraculous production) as acheiropoesis. Wonderful copy-editor asks whether I mean acheiropoietos. Help please

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Harris Feinsod @handle.invalid · 14/09/2026

Finishing a first book in literary studies? Don't miss the Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award. Applications due Nov 15. (You can submit with or without a contract, though in either event there is a brief publisher's application to join your author submission). www.acla.org/prize-awards...

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Helen Tartar First Book Subvention Award | American Comparative Literature Association

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scwiba @scwiba.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This man won his primary by 30 points.

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Rejoining society after a month lost to finalizing copy edits on our /Asexualities/ book, and planning on locking in plans for this #aromanticism reading group soon, so if you're interested in joining us for some aro reading please do fill out the form in the next few days!

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The Hugh G Dick papers include all his correspondence, which I read about a decade ago (he worked on a text I was editing) -- and in one letter he advised a new journal to change its name bc its acronym sounded a bit naughty. Hugh G Dick knew exactly what he was doing by publishing as Hugh G Dick.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Particularly proud of my department for our jointly written policy statement on AI usage, which affirms so much of what we do / why we do it in English and Creative Writing rather than merely condemns or punishes : www.kenyon.edu/academics/de...

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Statement on AI Use

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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Or keeping them imprisoned

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I’ve had this convo privately enough times in the last week to go public: I don’t think there is any valuable way to use AI in a history classroom.

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Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Word. I can’t speak definitively about STEM (although I have strong suspicions), but I would add that this is absolutely true for any & all humanities classrooms. Our central emphases are our students’ skills & ideas & voices, & genAI is the enemy of every single one of those. Full. Stop.

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A Camel With a Hump @acamelwithahump.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The use of AI in classrooms shifts the focus from process to product.

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Michael Eber @ebermichael.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We've extended the deadline for submissions for "Queer and Trans Medieval Communities" at next year's @imc-leeds.bsky.social to *8 September*! If you work on any aspect of medieval trans and queer communitie(s), please consider sending in an abstract. We'd love to hear from you!

As the existence of the trans and queer community is under constant and increasing threat across the world – with alt-right political rhetoric in the West seeking to rupture solidarity for and within the global queer community – the work of the historian has never been more vital. Historians have long found solidarity and recognition of queer experiences and practices with individuals and groups of the past. In concert with the wealth of current research being produced in trans and queer medieval studies, this panel session responds to the urgency of this present moment. In the face of existential threats, we recognise the importance of finding community with one another, which includes understanding our community has a history. This panel session seeks not only to contribute to transtemporal and scholarly trans and queer community building, but to better understand what historical trans and queer communities and practices may have looked like – including the mechanisms and structures that attempted to preclude such community formations. Engaging with and making legible such histories constitutes an act of compassion both with historical actors and with living members of our community today. It also constitutes an act of resistance, by finding existence and continuity in community.
Presentations may address but are not limited to the following topics:
-Cultivating cross-temporal queer and trans community
-How trans and genderqueer experiences manifest in the Middle Ages
-Spaces in which queer/trans community could be manifested in the Middle Ages
-Communal failure/loss of community
-A failing or absence of a trans and queer community
-Texts, codes, etc. used in constituting queer/trans communities in the Middle Ages
-Methodologies available for talking about trans/queer communities
EXTENDED TO 8 SEPTEMBER
TITLE, ABSTRACT (200 WORDS) AND BIO (150 WORDS) TO:
Michael Eber michael.eber@uni-koeln.de
Hannah Victoria hjohnson@aup.edu
Oliver Wilkin o.lg-wilkin@outlook.com

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

PS you can tell this poster was made by a human because of how .... basic my drawing skills are.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

ICE has fallen out of the headlines but July marked the largest number of migrant detentions ever on record. Five migrants have died in ICE custody in the last two months. It's also currently impossible to legally migrate to this country, as 100% of visa applications have been paused.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Here's another tenure-track job. This is for Canadian studies at Western University in London Ontario, the forest city. www.uwo.ca/facultyrelat...

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

💚🤍🖤 Happy Aromantic Spectrum Visibility Day! 💚🤍🖤 To celebrate: a poster I made to let people know of an aromanticism studies reading group I'm planning to (co-)organize this Fall. If you're interested in potentially joining us, please fill out a registration form at tinyurl.com/AroRG26 .

A poster with a hand-drawn stack of books in the center; the book spines are colored in to be the aro flag (from the top: dark green, light green, white, grey, black). The books are stacked roughly in the shape of a heart (very roughly), and a green arrow shoots through them.

The text on top reads: An invitation to an aromanticism studies reading group. The text below reads: Every few weeks | Fall 2026 | on Zoom. More info and registration, https://tinyurl.com/AroRG26

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2025-26: the first year Canadian universities employed more tenured/TT professors over the age of 70 than under the age of 35.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Im not sure if this will reach the people it needs to, but if you have assigned my work in your courses any time between January 2023 and now, would you please let me know? And would you be able to share a syllabus or evidence? For interim review purposes? TIA! first name.last name@utoronto.ca

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

It feels like industry is waiting for universities to come up with ideas about how they can use Ai and all I can think is: it is not my job to make your business more profitable.

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Kate Jackson @katejackson.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

No one had to think super hard about how to make a washing machine useful. A telephone. A vacuum cleaner. So why do our bosses have to constantly challenge us to find something, anything, for which AI might be helpful If your customers don’t find your product useful, that’s a you-problem

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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 20/08/2026

I cannot begin to count the amount of technology tools I have been told in the last 20 years that I need to teach my students how to use because they were the future. 95% of them are gone. A tool is a tool.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.

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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The University of Toronto is advertising a tenure-track job in Global Anglophone Literature and Postcolonial Theory. I pasted information below. Full details: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-... Closing Date: October 15, 2026

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Assistant Professor - Global Anglophone Literature

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Cavendish news: I've officially signed on to edit the (somehow non-existent) Cambridge Companion to Margaret Cavendish!! Some of y'all will be bothered by me in the coming months; I can't wait to bring your research into undergrad classrooms and induct more scholars into the study of #MarCav

A seventeenth-century engraving of a woman (Margaret Cavendish) with long curly hair and a long gown sitting at a desk, with paper, a pen, and a bell on the tabletop. She wears a small crown in her hair, and is surrounded by little nekkid babies who prepare to lower a laurel crown onto her head. In the foreground is a poem reading (regularized):

Studious she is and all alone
Most visitants, when she has none,
Her library on which she looks,
It is her head, her thoughts her books.
Scorning dead ashes without fire
For her own flames do her inspire.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I think we can agree that AI detectors are out. But universities are ignoring the fact that faculty cannot really out-design assessments to meet the challenges of this moment. We need sustained institutional support to be the best teachers we can be, and we aren't getting 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

An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

More anti-slop weapons: a web font that sends different text to the 'AI' scrapers compared to what is read by humans, i.e. what the text actually says. Not sure it's all that useful but it sure is fun to fight back. www.creativebloq.com/design/fonts...

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This free font "poisons" AI

Hate AI? Then you might want to try ShieldFont.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

it's a monday afternoon at the end of july, of course we're writing syllabi against-a-i.com is here for you! and if you're a humanities teacher who's developed materials you'd like to contribute as we glow up for fall, PLEASE SEND! against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 26/07/2026

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

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Liza Blake 🏹 ♠️ @medrenliza.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

In asexuality studies we would call this "compulsory sexuality", and as Sherronda J. Brown reminds us in the intro to Refusing Compulsory Sexuality, there is a *lot* of overlap btwn CS and rare culture.

Book cover in pink and purple showing thr full title of Brown's book: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Todd Blanche is violating federal law by covering up the Epstein files. Rather than confirming him as attorney general, the Senate ought to demand his prosecution.

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Cal Horton (they/them) @fiercemum.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Just had meeting with kiddo's school. She has been fully supported, treated with full equality & dignity for years. All of that changes from September. Full segregation & humiliation across the board. The school staff cried in the meeting. This will absolutely lead to children's deaths 1/2

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It's tedious to have to litigate every disclosure of sexual violence against a powerful or hell even not-powerful man in terms of "credibility" and "corroboration," when everyone knows that what's at stake is not whether the specific allegation is true but whether it matters.

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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

‼️ The deadline to apply for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Society for Renaissance Studies Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship is fast approaching. Applications must be submitted by 15 July 2026. Full details and the application portal can be found on our website: rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

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Apply: Scholars of Colour Scholarship | Society for Renaissance Studies

Promoting the study of the Renaissance since 1967

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/07/2026

I have not really talked about this guy for months because if we are being real he milkshake ducked A VERY LONG TIME AGO and I didn’t want to add to the discourse, but for god’s sake stop acting like men are owed massive power unless proven otherwise.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 07/07/2026

You aren’t putting him in jail. You’re just letting him continue on his perfectly fine life without being one of the hundred most powerful people in the country.

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

5/ There is clearly NO SHORTAGE OF CASH at Exeter 6/ Don’t believe the hype - out of touch managers are trying to trash our fantastic uni. Our student numbers are strong, our disciplines are strong, our finances are strong. Let’s keep it that way and #DefendExeterUni

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Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Missed the VC’s speech? Lucky you. Here’s the financial highlights! 1/ Confirmed Exeter uni is STILL IN SURPLUS for 25/26 2/ The top 16 execs at Exeter have a combined pay packet of nearly £4m 3/ The VC has a pay packet of nearly £400k a year 4/ Our cash reserves are going up, year on year [1/2]

Greg and Tom from the HBO show succession, with text saying "you can't do anything with five million"

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