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There are no epigraphs in my book. Not a single one. Zero.

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I see this kind of thing and laugh too but also wonder if we deserve anything as a species except extinction.

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Don’t worry! I’ve got plenty of battles in the remaining footnotes! Knives out!!!

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 12h

I just cut from my footnotes a petty critique of an another scholar’s argument on a very niche topic.

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The email that announced our university’s switch from Zoom to Teams went to everyone’s junk mail.

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Melissa McLeod @melmac.bsky.social · 12h

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 15h

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEWS: Governor Kathy Huchol of NY appoints the state attorney general Leticia James special prosecutor in the Cornell rape case, effectively removing the local DA. Hochul cites “serious questions” about the Cornell PD’s initial investigation and the DA’s earlier decision not to prosecute.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026
STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL ON CORNELL UNIVERSITY SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE
Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University's campus in October 2024. This has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public's faith, in the District Attorney's ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time.
For this reason, I have issued an executive order appointing Attorney General James as special prosecutor in this case.
As special prosecutor, the Attorney General will investigate this incident and, if warranted, prosecute any offenses arising from that investigation and present evidence to a grand jury.
The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued. This action will ensure that the matter is fully and thoroughly investigated without conflict or bias, and handled independently

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Mark Alan Mattes + Hot Brown Press @markalanmattes.bsky.social · 16h

I spent three weeks manually collating Frederick Douglass’s NARRATIVE and MY BONDAGE AND MY FREEDOM - line by line, word by word, for this 25 page section of my book. And someone recently said to me “But couldn’t AI have done—-“ and NO. Nope. You’ll see! You’ll see what I have done.

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What's your favorite "little library" from film, tv, etc.?

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Boke18 @boke18.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

Discovery about to be a mf

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🦂 Scorpiono (10/24) ♏️ @scorpiono.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026

THE Leticia James?! Oh, shit! Somebody's in biiiiig trouble. 👀

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Auntie Smithbrainz @smithbrainz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well, now. (Good.)

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morque @marknique.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

it’s getting very, very real.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In a new terrifying essay Bill Gates says AI is on track to ruin everybody’s life. This is is not “AI will lead to apocalypse” this is “AI will materially ruin the lives of most people in our country and on the planet if we don’t stop it.” It’s like the Pope’s encyclical without a God

gatesnotes.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Candy corn is the best Halloween candy fight me!!!

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Have a smallish piece of new research at the intersection of humanities & machine learning or cultural analytics to share? Pitch it to @lbmcgrath.bsky.social, the special features editor of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social!

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Jennifer Jordan @sociologyofplants.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I spent several years turning handwritten agricultural census records into a database (!) of 4000 19th century Wisconsin hop farmers. The act of sitting with the original volumes taught me so much (and was joyful!), and made it possible to write the book that arrived in the mail today. 🍺👻✍️

A green and gold book called Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them

A table in a wood-paneled archive with a giant volume of the agricultural census on a wooden table next to a MacBook Air. A pale gentleman looks down upon the scene from an oil painting on the wall.

A page of handwritten agricultural census records from 19th century Wisconsin.

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On my syllabus I had today listed as 9/31

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

jewishcurrents.org

What PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in Publishing

Misleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression…

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

NYT has all the title IX docs from Cornell and they are publishing from them. The docs are horrible and will produce a terrible storm online. End rape culture NOW! Hold men accountable on campus and everywhere else.

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In this footnote I say X scholar “has argued influentially, but incorrectly, that….” and I love that for me. I have earned it.

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Drew @brewsif.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I DREAM of being able to deliver such a cutting blow to a nemesis someday

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Scholars of colour described overpreparing for presentations, ruthlessly analysing their own results before exposing them to scrutiny, softening their conclusions or avoiding research on race altogether." The level of checks I go through often astounds some colleagues

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I cut an adverb my copyeditor had let stand! I have internalized her critiques! I will never use unnecessary adverbs again!

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sincere, but alas, sincerely wrong

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 30/09/2026

*academic standing ovation*

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this footnote I say X scholar “has argued influentially, but incorrectly, that….” and I love that for me. I have earned it.

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Cethan Leahy @cethanleahy.com · 30/09/2026

I think we underrate that JCO came up in 20th century New York literary circles where everyone said five most devastating insults before breakfast and as one of the last one standing, her competition is guys who get sad if their chatbot isn't sufficiently nice to them.

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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I wrote for @thecut.com about the Cornell case and what it says that, at my institution and many others like it, protesters are often punished more harshly than sexual assailants www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Teaching the Tempest this week!! So here I am reading from the play at Ft St Catherine in Bermuda, near the site of the shipwreck that inspired Shakespeare. (i e dad stuff, torturing my family).

Picture of me in a 17c fort reading from the tempest

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This man is a monster. He seeks out women survivors because he hates them. And he hates them because he hates himself. He has harassed me and other women survivors many times over the years. It must end. He should never have a job anywhere.

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Teaching the Tempest this week!! So here I am reading from the play at Ft St Catherine in Bermuda, near the site of the shipwreck that inspired Shakespeare. (i e dad stuff, torturing my family).

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The computer-free classroom is a marvel. I haven’t had discussions like this in years! These students are 🔥

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I will now explain to the copyeditor that one of my sentences is deliberately unhinged.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m doing copyedits for a very long chapter of my book and yes it is three chapters in a trench coat.

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Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236

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I have written to the manager. This cannot stand!!!

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