Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonCrystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room + 7948161678
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Can we please collectively change the definition of "Champagne Socialist" to mean "a socialist who likes Champagne and thinks it should be accessible to everyone"? 000
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonMichael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 17/02/2026In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps: How dumplings spread around the world (tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!) 9504190
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca Robinsoneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026All this impending snow. Reminds me that now we enter into the 24th of 24 micro-seasons: “Greater Cold” #大寒 - the coldest period of the year. Yet also, a period anticipating the beginning of spring and the warmth of the coming lunar new year. [Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920] 931192
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026I promise you, GenAI is not “the bad one.” It’s just one bad one among a whole host of bad ones. 216735
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonDr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026 385363724
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonMade in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 10/12/2025When the Hong Kong fire occurred, initial international media coverage focused on bamboo scaffolding. This Orientalised and exoticised the tragedy, obscuring the fact that it was not just an accident, but an outcome shaped by long-term neglect and inequality, writes @tingguowrites.bsky.social.madeinchinajournal.comThe Distance Between Us | Made in China JournalA week after the devastating fire that claimed at least 159 lives in Hong Kong on 26 November, people were still queuing daily for hours until after midnight to join the mourning. As flowers, gifts, a... 24326
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonIngrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/11/2025Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version) (all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW) 4497
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca Robinsondan mentos @danmentos.com · 17/10/2025oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter 525066955
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025There is a new Pynchon novel coming out next week and I will finish my chapter before that. There is a new Pynchon novel coming out next week and I will finish my chapter before that. There is a new Pynchon novel coming out next week and I will finish my chapter before that. There is a new Pynchon n 000
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Academics, take a look - we are all on this list 000
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 05/09/2025My new academic year resolution and calendar of commitments 020
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 31/08/2025I'm rewatching Tron (1982) and I feel like all today's AI bros must have seen it and thought Dillinger was the good guy 000
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 30/08/2025This book was truly a delight. It has sausage dogs, stalker ghosts, ancient archivists, and even Pompeian penises! 000
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 14/08/2025“Spending as little tuition as possible on educating students, and (instead) investing in start-ups ... This is why I say the University of Chicago’s leadership and trustees run it as a tax-free technology incubator.” www.compactmag.com/article/the-...compactmag.comThe Crisis of the University Started Long Before TrumpThe University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do... 1267
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonJoel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 13/08/20253 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge. 06917
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonArbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social · 11/08/2025The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza. 81072683
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 09/08/2025So it *does* have the depression of a PhD student after all 000
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonSiobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Sharon I bloody died Sharon. Sharon they sent me to bloody heaven. Where are the bloody flames Sharon. Sharon it’s all bloody choir music up here Sharon. Sharon for fucks sake all the white is bloody blinding me up here Sharon 11388471697
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonSonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 28/06/2025Read books. Say no. 18825
Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 20/06/2025It doesn't always come through, but sometimes the inspiration that comes from last minute panic is *chef's kiss 000
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonLexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social · 14/05/2025The new AF1 arriving from Qatar 063
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca RobinsonJoel Chan @kjoules.org · 10/04/2025Did RTHK just re-hire their old social media team? 42813
Reposted by Dr. Rebecca Robinsondr. Marcel Piss 🥜 @drpiss.bsky.social · 09/04/2025right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk soul brother right about now the funk soul brother check it out now the funk sou 10192092807
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Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rkgmcmrlwobvdajgjmxlvfya/bafkreif4d6ed7me5yiyrd2vxlyfxrv3r6ke3mnzh6hubf5dhbsoqmwy4ji)
