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Brendan Cantwell @cantb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and now Florida bar undocumented students from enrolling in public universities. I see this as part of a wider project to resegretgste higher education. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

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Florida Bars Undocumented Students From Public Universities

The Florida Board of Governors voted Thursday to bar undocumented students from attending selective institutions in the state’s public university system.

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In news that will surprise absolutely no one in HE... ‘It notes that institutions “routinely” hire consultancies for these restructures as well as change management specialists, however, these processes often introduce additional management layers, “adding cost rather than removing it”…’

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Restructuring ‘too often adding cost rather than removing it’

Universities are ‘underestimating’ the challenges caused by outsourcing services amid major professional services staff redundancies, report warns

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

On the bus. Can't make one of the stops. A bear lives there, and we don't want to disturb it. I love New Mexico!

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're thrilled to be supporting Across Two Seas, a symposium put together by Denva Gallant at Rice University. This lineup is incredible, and there is travel funding for folks in the @folger.edu Institute consortium! Don't sleep on this one: acrosstwoseas.com #RaceB4Race

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Across Two Seas

A Symposium at Rice University

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Available for pre-order (The exhibition opens October 18th @folger.edu) Patricia Akhimie’s work here is phenomenal. Featuring work by @profkfh.bsky.social and yours truly.

Cover to the forthcoming To Hear Her Speak: Black Women and Shakespeare

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ZephDrouhin @zephtx.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I swear everything turns up on YT eventually. I used to love doing this Jane Fonda workout. youtu.be/Mso_hzfhe1E?...

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Jane Fonda's 45-Minute Easy Going Workout: Full Body Barre, Abs, and Aerobics

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

In a moment of self-realization, I have learned that I love to spite people more than I hate AI. And I fucking hate AI!

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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Should I do a 🧵 on my just-published article on how one of the most trusted - and most expensive - antiquities dealers was faking the paperwork to make freshly looted artifacts look like they had long, legal ownership histories? I should. But I'm so tired. Tomorrow! hyperallergic.com/why-do-so-ma...

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Why Do So Many Museums Hold a Convicted Antiquity Dealer’s Treasures?

After The Met returned a Roman bust connected to Phoenix Ancient Art, the question of what will happen to other works sold by the gallery to dozens of US institutions remains open.

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Omg you all! My book was reviewed at Reception, issue 17 by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes! "Otaño Gracia invites us to revisit medieval Arthuriana from the perspective of sources often dismissed as derivative. But more than an invitation, she offers a navigational chart and a compas." Swooning!

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Folks, no one has a RIGHT to higher office. OK? You aren't "canceling" anyone when you decide NOT TO SUPPORT THEIR QUEST FOR MORE POWER. Please let's be SERIOUS. This is not what is meant by "no one is disposable." I'm begging people to focus and use your brains. That man can still make a LIVING.

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Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

While all these deaths have hit me, Nolan Wells has truly made me weep. He goes out with all of his white friends, and they return without him. This is the America that has always existed, but people feel very emboldened under this trash-administration.

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If anyone without access to PMLA would like a copy to the cluster, feel free to DM me with an email. I am happy to send them your way!

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This! I was told so often that I couldn't write as if good writing is an inherent thing you're born with and not a skill that takes time and practice. My writing needed work because I am a non English speaker who hadn't had to write consistently in English before grad school. I needed practice.

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Rootless Suburbian @rootless.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Do these people understand what going public with an accusation like this does to a woman's life? Her courage astounds me.

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Where @tnflorvil.bsky.social and I, among other things, point out that arguments against scholars of the past as anachronistic and/or too political are a white supremacist attack against the humanities (and in some ways against the scientific method).

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

In this edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I offer an overview of a good book about the influence of civil rights organizing in Harlem; recommend several articles, podcasts, films, and photo essays; and more… open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #40

Rants, Musings and More

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asking how people can partake in joyful acts during a period of immense suffering leads me to believe this is your first time at the suffering rodeo.

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katherine mckittrick @demonicgrounds.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

(1) there is a good book by joy james called “Transcending the Talented Tenth.” I think about it a lot. she reminds us that scholarly stardom (oft masked as leadership) is flawed, that it reproduces inequities at the level of mentorship…

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Strikers might win games, but goalies make sure you don't lose them. I always tell people that, for me, being a goalie is about protecting your team and not losing. If the goalies don't let a ball in, it's 0 - 0, a tie. You can't win without goals, but you can certainly lose without a good goalie.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Well that's a thorough summary. One of the best articulations of university governance for a public audience that I've seen in a while.

Screenshot of article which reads: This is how you end up with an elite university where the president can drive his car into a group of students and be lauded by the board. The president and the trustees are on the same team. The students are on the other team. The trustees know Kotlikoff will reliably enforce their agenda, including cracking down on protests that might be bad for cashflow. It almost doesn’t matter what he does; if there’s any conceivable defense, they’ll keep him in place. (If not, they’ll replace him with someone else who can talk about loving free speech while moving to crush it in practice.) Kotlikoff, after all, has already proved his worth: It was on his watch that Cornell agreed to pay $60 million to the U.S. government to get Trump to unfreeze its research grants.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

update: bsky.app/profile/lizs...

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Whenever I cross to the otherworld, I get spit back out to the real world. Bah!

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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

ICE could never have built such a large-scale deportation machine without the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement. In a new @inquest.bsky.social excerpt, Peter Mancina traces how jails became "force multipliers" and how the immigrant rights movement pushes back. Read on:

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Force Multipliers - Peter Mancina - Inquest

ICE could never have created a large-scale deportation machine if it hadn’t enjoyed the voluntary assistance of local law enforcement.

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 22/05/2026

With the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy, the U.S. continues to incarcerate more people than any other country. Nearly 2 million people are locked up in the U.S., according to @prisonpolicy.org’s 2026 report.

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U.S. Remains World Leader in Number of People Incarcerated

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

The So What welcomes your articles! Email thesowhatpub@gmail.com with your submissions exploring the ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and medievalisms, as well as short, pedagogical and/or creative pieces.

A white rabbit is surrounded by human remains and text that reads, "Feeling Cute, Might Maul a Knight Later." The image is from a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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The So What @thesowhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Applications are open for the 2026/2027 Arthuriana Editorial Fellowship, beginning fall of 2026. Fellows will work with the Arthuriana team to understand the nuances of publishing an academic journal.

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Dayanna Knight @dayannaknight.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My edits are officially submitted for my visual essay and reflection piece. My very kind reviewers both said its understandable, accessible, and stunning. Boom! Coloring book slinging archaeologist can do peer review journals too, even if its a bit of a slower timeline as an independent scholar.

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Man Performing the Good Boy Dance

Alt: Man Performing the Good Boy Dance

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Anyway "harvard" is not "higher ed" and everyone should read @josheyler.bsky.social's book.

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Failing Our Future

How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It

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April Glick Pulito @aprilglick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

We lost Felipe Staiti from Enanitos Verdes! Enanitos Verdes is one of the greatest Latin American rock bands of the last 30 decades. If you don't know them, today is a good day to listen to their music, celebrate one of the greatest, and learn more about the rest of the world. Easy assignment

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R.J. Huneke @rj.rjhuneke.com · 09/05/2026

“Gen AI… is a vampire. It is built to suck up water, power, rare earth metals, and the vast swath of human culture that was digitized and published on the internet for the common good. In return for these precious resources, gen AI gives us slop. It is eating our planet whole.“

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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Carin Ruff @carinr.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🚨 #medievalsky 🚨 Middle English Dictionary update via FB: "In its 100-year history, MED has enjoyed periods of support, and periods when that support was lacking. It is about to enter on one of the latter. After this year...UMich will no longer fund ongoing editorial work and maintenance." 🧵

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

We are ostensibly a free country and the degree to which we don’t know what is actually going on in a vast network of “camps” on our own soil in the year 2026 is….. something we are probably never going to come close to actually grappling with as a country

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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

"in wrenching interviews, Palestinians have recounted to me a pattern of widespread Israeli sexual violence against men, women and even children — by soldiers, settlers, interrogators in the Shin Bet internal security agency and, above all, prison guards." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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Nahir I. Otaño Gracia @nahir.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I just came up with the perfect comeback for something that happened two years ago! LOL!

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

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Opinion | The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians

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