Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 13/10/2026I can no longer recall how I found out about David Stirrup's Indigenous Studies reading group during the pandemic, but the Center for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies quite literally changed the landscape of literary studies for me in the past 5 years. Please give this a listen! 020 2
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Reading is dead but on this Long Island Rail Road train I'm reading Doireann ní Gríofa, Ray has Kafka open next to me, the woman in front has the New Yorker, the fella across the aisle is midway through Brothers Karamazov and his pal by the window has preserved their privacy by choosing a kindle 031 3
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeDan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It turns out PEN America was extraordinarily sloppy in their reporting, writing tendentiously on behalf of Israel. Anyway, it was intense, and I'm proud of what we accomplished, and I hope you'll read it and listen to the podcast. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...jewishcurrents.orgWhat PEN America Got Wrong About Antisemitism in PublishingMisleading anecdotes, flawed data, and oversimplified analyses are at the heart of a narrative of Jewish exclusion promoted by the free expression… 1244 24
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeRachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 08/10/2026A dissertation I advised became this perfect book and yes I am absolutely going to make this my entire personality 181 8
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeAnil Dash @anildash.com · 05/10/2026I can’t emphasize this enough — “AI” wasn’t born corrupt and toxic. For ~75 years, it was mathematicians and scientists doing interesting, thoughtful work and trying to solve problems, making only the usual human mistakes. What “AI” did to machine learning is as tragic as what it did to artists. 281121208 1.1K
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeNPR @npr.org · 06/10/2026Activists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border, the last of a grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. (via @kjzz.org) n.pr/4hKJ79Bn.prAt least 10 arrested at Arizona-Mexico border as 250-year-old cottonwood tree cut down for wallActivists have spent the last 70 days camped around and inside a cottonwood tree right along the border in the tiny town of Lochiel. The tree was the last of an old grove estimated to be up to 250 years old. 40630290 630
Reposted by Ria Banerjeetrick or treat, smell my feet, Josh is going to post a skeet @shmeppy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026What about flying a kite, is that allowed 131 3
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 01/10/2026They’re pandering to the Downton Abbey Americans (derogatory) just like Netflix is pandering to the ”I put on the tv for background noise” brigade. The background noise people are the bulk of viewers but the rabid, loyal fans are the base of a successful entertainment endeavor and Netflix is likestatic.klipy.comReasonsimbroke Larry DavidALT: Reasonsimbroke Larry David 2463 46
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeElizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 29/09/2026at a certain point I don't know how to interpret this kind of bad-faith higher ed think piece other than as a death-driven attempt to tank the whole enterprise and then scab for it www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...nytimes.comOpinion | I’m a College Professor. Writing Isn’t as Important as We Think. (Gift Article)If I do not treat writing as essential for achieving thought, it is not clear why I should force my students to. 191 9
Reposted by Ria BanerjeePublic Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026“What emerges is a longform rejoinder to the idea that the working class is any less sensitive or articulate than the educated, and a correction to the conceit that something called ‘unskilled labor’ exists.” New at PB: @ryanboyd.bsky.social on the Works Progress Administration archives.publicbooks.orgLong-Distance Talkers: The Great Depression Speaks - Public BooksDuring the Great Depression, the Works Progress Administration conducted thousands of interviews among American workers. Anne Trubek's “American Made” gives them new voice. 064 6
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeErin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 29/09/2026would anyone from a non elite college like to write about this for Contingent because you know we would publish it 910849 108
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Also, all this “frontier AI” nomenclature is so laughably colonialist that it has to be on purpose. 🙄 51265111 1.3K
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nemesis movie for what it has done to people my age and their expectations of literature classrooms 010 1
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeThe Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Looks like a Wednesday. 0336 33
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Problems I had with Chronovisor: . The way Beatrice holds her wine glass would leave her with bad company and warmed white . Wearing a bangle on one's right hand as a right handed writer is hard! Though cinematic . Restored videotape wouldn't run easily but maybe it's Yale Club tape player magic 000 0
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Beatrice Courte is my spirit animal because I too love to read esoteric magazines, find some colleagues boring, and rarely ever write 110 1
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Chronovisor the paperwork movie that humanists have been aching for! Researching the ineffable in an empty library while wearing crisp monochrome pieces I haven't laundered myself – yes please! 140 4
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 08/09/2026"Books are not drugs" I say to my student who is staring fixedly at my copy of All That Is Solid Melts Into Air on the table between us. "But they kind of are though," he replies. 010 1
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Avoiding my homework (Tristam Shandy book club) but my h.w. isn't avoiding me (Sterne ref cropping up in my Montaigne biography) 280 8
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Have once more foiled the thunderstorms predicted for today by carrying umbrellas around all day 010 1
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeRia Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The group chat as a kind of "neighbourhood" – so good! Speaking of which: submit your proposals for our Neighbourhood Modernisms cluster on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print+. Details on the listserve! 🌱 121 2
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The group chat as a kind of "neighbourhood" – so good! Speaking of which: submit your proposals for our Neighbourhood Modernisms cluster on @mmodernity.bsky.social Print+. Details on the listserve! 🌱 121 2
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 03/09/2026So sorry for your loss.. lovely Isidore. I'm lucky to have a number of best friends but still miss little Bela 120 2
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeNatalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Is The Wiki still out there and are they keeping tabs on which jobs are the scab jobs, which jobs are the fake jobs, which jobs are the right-wing dark money jobs, etc? 152 5
Reposted by Ria Banerjeevijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026🙏🏾 threadgilliyerprieto.lnk.to/Fifteenthreadgilliyerprieto.lnk.toHenry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - FifteenListen to Fifteen by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto. 062 6
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Apropos: At the doctor's this morning, my usually calm doc suddenly squealed aloud because she got a text that someone bit her kid at camp. "There's blood" she said and showed me a photo of the back of her child's neck. "Human spit is the worst for cuts. Better to get dog spit on you." 000 0
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Doing even the most blah things (committee work!) with Janet is so fun and inspiring 🌱 100 1
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeC. Bukowski @thishurt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Television used to MEAN something in this country. 🧐 4761731961 6.2K
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeStephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 21/08/2026It’s here! From the team that brought you Clarissa 2025, join us to read a rollicking delight of a novel. Whether you’re rereading or reading for the first time, there are lots of ways to join. We’ll have weekly Substack posts and bimonthly hybrid meetings. 68734 87
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Essential reading. Many things to say, one of which is that @theatlantic.com and @chronicle.com might consider doing some very basic fact-checking in future before gleefully and self-servingly packaging unsubstantiated, bad, and in fact harmful takes by TAH as searing truth-telling. 06923 69
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Hello eco critics! So Jamaica Kincaid in her garden phase is... kind of a trip, right? The kind that's full of frustration and missed connections and delays...? 000 0
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeJessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My whole childless life I’ve been told when you become a parent your heart opens up to a new special magical kind of love, apparently a love so strong it will let children die of entirely preventable illnesses. 421748438 1.7K
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It's 'English major graduated recently' season at our neighbourhood free library 🌻 030 3
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeDevin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!! 1617334 173
Reposted by Ria Banerjeehammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 11/08/2026can't have global warming if we smash every thermometersubscriber.politicopro.comPOLITICO Pro: NOAA to end support for Arctic climate change reportThe authors were informed Monday of the action, which jeopardizes public dissemination of the report on the fast-changing region. 0297 29
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeUnited Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 11/08/2026"Mary" works in the flower fields after she finishes her day in the strawberry fields in order to afford her families rent & food. "I cut and bunch 100s of sunflowers and snapdragons. Flowers are very expensive at the store, but we just earn min wage. It isn't fair. " #WeFeedYou 10601175 601
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Really annoyed about the concept of clock time, calendars; might become a Bergsonian 010 1
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Just been a day of public solidarity against bad behavior in midtown NYC 010 1
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Everyone on line at the dmv this morning disapproving of one woman's chat-and-cut attempt 110 1
Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Me and a busful of old ladies tut-tutting at the angry lost tourist who couldn't understand directions and told our bus driver to get their head out of their ass 130 3
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeSandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Moral of the story : think twice before you cite translators who are serious about their work. Just because they're women doesn't mean they'll be grateful for whatever attention! 1112 11
Reposted by Ria BanerjeeDr. Laura Hartmann-Villalta @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social · 02/08/2026friends, I'm looking for a statistic on how many academic jobs there were in 2025-2026. where can I find this info? any recent year would be GRAND (hard to prove a negative, I know, but point me in a direction???) also looking to compare with a year in the 90s...just not sure where to find stats?? 142 4
