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Meira Kensky

@meirazk.bsky.social
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Advising Director, Professional Problem Solver, Religious Studies Scholar, Organizational Entrepreneur. My views however misguided, are always my own. Wahoowa! 🧡💙

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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 11h
Enormous thanks to @thetattooedprof.bsky.social for an inspired and inspiring series of workshops today!
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 22h
Went the wrong way out of the rotunda, time for a selfie
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌎= 🧛
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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Job posting here in the UVA Library's DH Center. The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities is searching for a "Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist." Not listed in the ad, but anticipated salary range is $85-95k. jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/UO...
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Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Information Management, Services & Technology at University of Virginia
Apply for Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Information Management, Services & Technology at Univer...
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is a weird thing to say.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s both, okay??
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Y'all I just caught the Kennedy Center claiming it isn't closing while telling vendors it's closing and now they're selling all of their Steinway pianos www.alternet.org/alternet-exc...
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Kennedy Center moves to sell all of its Steinway pianos
Photos show piano movers rolling massive Steinway grand pianos through the red-carpeted halls of the Kennedy Center this week.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yeah, you know my team is hosting @thetattooedprof.bsky.social tomorrow! You jealous??
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This Meira is a Ya on this
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MEIRYA — Tea, Reimagined.
MEIRYA brings the ritual, nuance and heritage of tea into a new world of craft and celebration. Green and Jasmine Tea Craft Beer.
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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Cornell University Police Department “did not inform Mr. Van Houten’s office that Jane Doe had said she had been raped.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/n...
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Statement Written by Police in Cornell Assault Case Omitted Her Claim She Was Raped (Gift Article)
Documents obtained by The New York Times show that the campus police at Cornell University sent a condensed statement to a prosecutor, who then declined to bring charges.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I’m obviously jaded and cynical but I agree with one of these words, “Recommend”
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Loved this. Colleagues, I will not notice if you bring a beverage while I am interviewing you. I can’t promise not to notice what you’re wearing, though.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Have to admit I don’t love the title “the Final Problem,” Netflix
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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...
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CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities
Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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uvajewishstudies.bsky.social @uvajewishstudies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UVA Jewish Studies to appoint forensic archaeologist Kevin Colls as Professor of Practice in 2027. Learn more about Dr. Colls and his incoming field school for Holocaust Archaeology: jewishstudies.as.virginia.edu/uva-jewish-s...
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I regret to inform all of you that once again I was overlooked for the MacArthur
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Omg go Hawkeyes
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I made some slides, by which I mean I stared at blank slides while thinking about what I was trying to say
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 29/09/2026
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was actually this checkbox
Stay signed in
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A pretty enormous part of expertise is knowing what work not to do.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Unbelievably good lecture by Daniel Mendelssohn on adapting the Odyssey!!
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Help I’m in meetings straight through 10-5 tomorrow followed by a lecture at 5 followed by a dinner
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Tired Man Falling Down at Home
Alt: Please don’t make me go to work
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James F. McGrath (ReligionProf) @religionprof.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A Pilgrim Among Pilgrims www.commonwealmagazine.org/corcoran-leo...
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A Pilgrim Among Pilgrims
By participating in the rituals of a Lourdes pilgrimage, Pope Leo will join in a broader search for healing and peace.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 27/08/2026
did bluesky hear about Miss Teen Indiana’s Garfield costume
A young woman in a Garfield inspired outfit with a Garfield headdressThe young woman from the first photo is holding a lasagna that says “lasagna my love language”missinteenusa Tonight, Indiana is going Garfield!
My state costume celebrates one of Indiana's most iconic creations-Garfield, created by fellow Hoosier Jim Davis.
Born in Marion and raised in Fairmount, Davis turned an orange cat with a big personality into a character recognized and loved around the world.
But this costume represents more than a famous Hoosier.
The hand-painted comic panels on my skirt share messages inspired by my initiative, Captivating Confidence:
"Our differences are what make us beautiful."
"If we don't have love, we have nothing."
"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."
To me, true confidence is found in embracing what makes each of us different and recognizing that our greatest beauty comes from within. I am so excited to bring a little Hoosier humor, creativity and confidence to the Miss Teen USA stage tonight!
This one-of-a-kind costume was inspired by my vision and brought to life by Indianapolis-based costume designer, Jess West. @jesswestcostumes
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I don’t think I can watch the Different World reboot, I care about that show too much
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there are only three narratives in fiction: 1) the hero's journey 2) a stranger comes to town 3) a greedy developer is going to tear down our beloved community center...UNLESS we put on the greatest breakdance show this town's ever seen
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i bring an iced coffee to the interview. only it’s not for me, it’s for the interviewer. and it’s laced with a sedative. when she comes to, she’s wearing my clothes and i’m in her office. her car keys don’t work. i’m with her husband. her kids don’t recognize her. coming soon from A24.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Having to set my alarm for work on a Saturday 👎. Having to set my alarm for work on a Saturday because one of my Fellows is piloting an innovative major discernment morning retreat 😍😍🧡💙💪
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Friends, the grade inflation battle is not about grades. It is not even about whether students really “deserve” to get those grades. It is a proxy battle over whether or not some faculty deserve to be faculty.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Girl dinner
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
“On Tuesday, department chair Danielle Clealand told faculty in the Social and Cultural Analysis Department that the provost’s office rejected all women’s and gender studies courses from counting toward UT’s core, according to an email reviewed by the Statesman.”
statesman.com
UT cuts all women and gender classes from core curriculum, drops race classes
The provost’s office also eliminated dozens of courses on race from counting toward the core curriculum.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Okay, I’m ready to prepare my teammates for advising season
Oh dear, a moral
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Bring your own Hemlock
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This was literally an Onion bit from 26 years ago.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
First of all: no. Second: wtf
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Congrats, every health insurer just went bankrupt
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My days are long and often difficult but it’s such an honor to be working for one of the best public schools in the nation, and I still can’t believe they let me do this
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Dr. Sarah Gunning: Why Would They Do That?
ALT: Dr. Sarah Gunning: Why Would They Do That?
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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, it was in the mid-50s in Massachusetts today, necessitating I repost this, the only true work of journalism in American history:
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Mr. Autumn Man Walking Down Street With Cup Of Coffee, Wearing Sweater Over Plaid Collared Shirt
BOSTON—The twigs and acorns crunching pleasurably beneath his boots, Mr. Autumn Man Dennis Clemons, 32, reportedly strolled down Massachusetts Avenue on Wednesday wearing a gray sweater over a plaid c...
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Have this tattooed on my lower back
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Anyway, panic is a psy-op. Stay furious. Stay serious. Organize.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Well if there’s one thing I can for sure do, it’s write a 100 word abstract
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Now, just personally, I would have considered the crocodiles
The assessment did not consider the crocodiles but instead looked at "how the course would perform under a range of conditions, weather patterns, water levels and flood risk at both Games time and throughout the period leading into the Games".
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
PAKISTAN IN CRISIS MODE: MARKETS TO SHUT BY 9 PM, FUEL USE SLASHED 50%, FOREIGN TRAVEL RESTRICTED
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
* VIRGINIA GOVERNOR SAYS STATE IS BANNING NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS FOR DATA CENTERS, REQUIRING STRICTER PERMITTING AND CLEAN ENERGY MANDATES FOR THE SERVER WAREHOUSES @reuters.com
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I reject the premise and methodology of the new Chronicle article on middle Managers. They separate academic support - including libraries and advising - from core institutional functions. If you do not think academic support is a core institutional function, I will not engage with you.
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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am SORRY for sharing something that was posted on the other place, but this is too good.
The future pope at a party with a caption “they don’t know I’m the future pope”
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This did not go well on For All Mankind
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Josh Pizzuto-Pomaco @joshpizpom.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
EXC: 90 programmes in Edinburgh University's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are to be closed. The casualties, which include 48 language and literature programmes, will be 'taught out', w/ no admissions after 2027. @heraldscotland.bsky.social www.heraldscotland.com/news/2655839...
heraldscotland.com
Ninety programmes to close at leading university as savings plan takes shape
According to the document, a total of 90 programmes will be “taught out” over the next several years, including 48 in the School of Language.
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Meira Kensky @meirazk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What an article by @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social! When are we hanging out, Matthew???
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