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Dr. Rebecca Robinson

@rerob.bsky.social
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Historian of early China @ umontreal

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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'm curious, would you reject the submission if it used AI, or simply decline to review?
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I've sent it to my incoming MA student already. And the info went out to the CETASE list as well
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Looking forward to it!
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Damn tired 🍁 @ohcarolinian.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
3 panel Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“

By Aram J. French
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
War and memoranda of understanding
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
That's basically how I felt too. Visually pretty but pretty empty
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
King of Sploot
Brown and white dog splooting on a white tile floor
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Crystal Fleming is on sabbatical @alwaystheself.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
I'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 +
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Can we please collectively change the definition of "Champagne Socialist" to mean "a socialist who likes Champagne and thinks it should be accessible to everyone"?
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Insiders say that the new Odyssey film is actually just Matt Damon reading the list of ships
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Ten Inch Nails
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
In 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!)
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
All 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]
Woodblock snowscene of Tokyo about a century ago. 
Kawase Hasui, Evening Snow at Terashima Village, 1920, from Twelve Scenes of Tokyo (Tôkyô jûnidai)]
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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
I promise you, GenAI is not “the bad one.” It’s just one bad one among a whole host of bad ones.
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Zhuangzi is still on Tumblr
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Friendly reminder
A woman wearing a t-shirt which says "don't do school, ear your drugs, stay in vegetables"
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Must be. I am having a hard time readapting 🥶
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
No
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Made in China Journal @madeinchinajournal.com · 10/12/2025
When 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.com
The Distance Between Us | Made in China Journal
A 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...
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Soon all USA government documents will be written in wingdings
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I mean, with those cheekbones, who wouldn't?
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I used to have an annual Christmas party where we'd deep fry food and watch Die Hard, and, yes, it was called "Fry Hard"
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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 25/11/2025
Vulgar Marxism implies a Clean Edit Marxism, a Kidz Bop Marxism, a Marxism (Taylor's version) (all flavors of Marxism are, according to managers, NSFW)
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Can someone ask about compassion? Who is more compassionate, him, or, say, Mother Theresa
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
There are a number of artists who do brush stroke tattoos who could definitely pull something like this off. Unfortunately the one I know is in Korea!
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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 17/10/2025
oh you’re a nihilist? name zero things that matter
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Did they base their decisions off of the HK hotel quarantine support group reviews?
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Happy birthday!
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
🤣
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Félicitations!
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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 novel coming out next week and I will finish my chapter before that. There is a new Pynchon n
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
This one prefers to be a burrito @darthbluesky.bsky.social
A whippet wrapped in a blanket
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
New office skeletons
Three skeletons statues doing hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil in front of a plant
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Looks great!
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 13/09/2025
Please enjoy some jellyfish
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Academics, take a look - we are all on this list
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My new academic year resolution and calendar of commitments
Whiteboard with dates and "SAY NO" circled
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I'm rewatching Tron (1982) and I feel like all today's AI bros must have seen it and thought Dillinger was the good guy
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This book was truly a delight. It has sausage dogs, stalker ghosts, ancient archivists, and even Pompeian penises!
The book Julius Julius by Aurora Stewart de Peña
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Two bees on a white cosmos flower
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tom Clancy's Satanic Verses
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Sonja 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.com
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The 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...
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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
3 crucial roles for the university: to preserve, transmit, and create knowledge.
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
I'm curious to know what the name of the folder is 😅
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Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The 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.
Anas Al-Sharif أنس الشريف @
This is my will and my final message. If these words reach you, know that Israel has succeeded in killing me and silencing my voice.
First, peace be upon you and Allah's mercy and blessings.
Allah knows I gave every effort and all my strength to be a support and a voice for my people, ever since I opened my eyes to life in the alleys and streets of the Jabalia refugee camp.
My hope was that Allah would extend my life so l could return with my family and loved ones to our original town of occupied Asqalan (Al-Majdal). But Allah's will came first, and His decree is final. I have lived through pain in all its details, tasted suffering and loss many times, yet I never once hesitated to convey the truth as it is, without distortion or falsification—so that Allah may bear witness against those who stayed silent, those who accepted our killing, those who choked our breath, and whose hearts were unmoved by the scattered remains of our children and women, doing nothing to stop the massacre that our people have faced for more than a year and a half.I entrust you with Palestine—the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world. I entrust you with its people, with its wronged and innocent children who never had the time to dream or live in safety and peace. Their pure bodies were crushed under thousands of tons of Israeli bombs and missiles, torn apart and scattered across the walls.
I urge you not to let chains silence you, nor borders restrain you. Be bridges toward the liberation of the land and its people, until the sun of dignity and freedom rises over our stolen homeland. I entrust you to take care of my family. I entrust you with my beloved daughter Sham, the light of my eyes, whom I never got the chance to watch grow up as I had dreamed.
I entrust you with my dear son Salah, whom I had wished to support and accompany through life until he grew strong enough to carry my burden and continue the mission.I entrust you with my beloved mother, whose blessed prayers brought me to where l am, whose supplications were my fortress and whose light guided my path. I pray that Allah grants her strength and rewards her on my behalf with the best of rewards.
I also entrust you with my lifelong companion, my beloved wife, Umm Salah (Bayan), from whom the war separated me for many long days and months. Yet she remained faithful to our bond, steadfast as the trunk of an olive tree that does not bend-patient, trusting in Allah, and carrying the responsibility in my absence with all her strength and faith.
I urge you to stand by them, to be their support after Allah Almighty. If I die, I die steadfast upon my principles. I testify before Allah that I am content with His decree, certain of meeting Him, and assured that what is with Allah is better and everlasting.O Allah, accept me among the martyrs, forgive my past and future sins, and make my blood a light that illuminates the path of freedom for my people and my family. Forgive me if I have fallen short, and pray for me with mercy, for I kept my promise and never changed or betrayed it.
Do not forget Gaza... And do not forget me in your sincere prayers for forgiveness and acceptance.
Anas Jamal Al-Sharif
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This is what our beloved Anas requested to be published upon his martyrdom.
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
So it *does* have the depression of a PhD student after all
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
I just asked for a map of Hong Kong and this is what it gave me. Lamma island is taking over!
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Dr. Rebecca Robinson @rerob.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Does it also have PhD level depression?
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