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Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

MODERN ENGLISH: I’ll stop the world and melt with you

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Guy Gavriel Kay @guygavrielkay.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Kind of Burne-Jones to label them, avoid viewer confusion.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hi all, LSU is hiring for the long 18th century. Come be my colleague!! Please feel free to share and send it to anyone you might know that is on the market! I'm happy to answer any questions. lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

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Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The details aren't quite up on the website yet, but @dancingmedievalist.bsky.social and I are organizing a subtheme for the 2027 @sewaneemedieval.bsky.social that I'm extremely excited about. Deadline for abstracts is 10/15, give us all your authentic/inauthentic hot takes!

Scandalous In/Authenticity
Megan L. Cook | Colby College | mlcook@colby.edu
Clint Morrison, Jr. | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater | morrisoc@uww.edu

In response to the conference theme, this thread invites panels and papers that consider moments in medieval literature and culture in which authenticity or inauthenticity becomes a site of scandal, concern, or disruption. Such moments of epistemic crisis inevitably raise foundational questions about perception, the nature of truth, and social norms and cohesion.

Recent work on authenticity and inauthenticity has considered the complicated relationship between the concept of the “original” and the “forgery” respectively, emphasizing their mutually constitutive status. What can we learn about structures of meaning-making in and about the Middle Ages by considering instances disputed, ambiguous, or contested authenticity?

Papers might consider these issues within a range of frameworks, including:
the textual (canon, attribution, translation, apocrypha and pseudepigrapha)
the ludic (disguise, performance, impostors)
the religious (discernment, heresy and orthodoxy, relics)
the aesthetic (artifice, imitation, copying)
the moral (forgery, hypocrisy, deceit)
the political (public attitude, accountability, narrative, sovereignty, succession)

We also welcome proposals that consider questions of authenticity and inauthenticity in the Middle Ages diachronically, whether by looking to medieval ideas about the biblical and classical past, or to post-medieval explorations of the Middle Ages through medievalism, historiography, or even hoax.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I said some things about AI and reading and writing and the robots who run so fast and dance so hard their asses explode. pjmaciak.substack.com/p/butts-on-f...

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Butts on Fire

Some notes on AI at the start of a new school year

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'll post more as I come up with them, and please share yours. I'm syllabus planning with: against-a-i.com and @isanchezprado.bsky.social 's excellent notebook assignment, described here ignaciosanchezprado.substack.com/p/a-year-of-...

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AGAINST AI -

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/08/2026

"AI" has existed in its current form for barely four years and the fact that it's jammed up the cognitive development of an entire generation that fast (and that there's a specific overclass of techofascists who are deeply thrilled about this) is a big damn red flag. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

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What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Fifteen years ago, in the classroom, wikipedia was annoying because it was hard to describe to kids who relied on it why it wasn't a good source to cite in a paper. Now, it's the final remaining example of citational responsibility any of them have ever seen.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Also, the performance Steve Way gives, of a disabled character that desires, is really notable and fantastic here I think. He is also really funny in a gallows humor sort of way, not the affable crip.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What if they made a season of The Wire about the patriarchy? That show is called FURIOUS, and it's incredible. newrepublic.com/article/2142...

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In Furious, The Serial Killer Is Not The Real Villain

In the new Hulu show, both the killer on the loose and the detectives pursuing her are righteously angry women.

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Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Ok now I've read it and this is fully going right at the start of my fall ma lit theory syllabus

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Fellow early modernists: can anyone recommend a good article that introduces/examines the notion of the history of knowledge in early modern Europe? I'd like to assign one in my graduate seminar. Many thanks! #earlymodern 🗃️

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

This seems like a ridiculous take, and substitutes some kind of nostalgic memory of college students of yesteryear. Who says mom and dad are picking up the bills? Who says they aren't working year-round? Forcing college students to do absentee will drive down their vote.

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Happy fall from Throughlines! This month, we're sharing new contributions from Jonathan Hsy 許維成, on teaching Chaucer through adaptations, and Jennifer L. Morgan, on reading the resistance of enslaved women in the historical archive. Find their videos, resources, and syllabi at Throughlines.org

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

This actually is the root of a lot of my anger and frustration, and yes, grief. I spent years crafting accessible classrooms, advocating for tech, and now every measure I use for access is misused by (mostly able-bodied) students who want to cheat with gAI. And our institutions are no fucking help.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I spent years fighting for tech in the classroom for disability access reasons, arguing that no, accommodation wasn't enough, go for universal design. I've given up. I've lost. AI humping motherfuckers ruined it. As they ruin everything.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Since we are doing this discourse again: I probably talked to more undergraduates about grad school in the humanities than most people, as it’s part of my job as an advisor. My message: people do all kinds of shit in their 20s, and going to grad school aint the worst if you’re funded for it.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Ive been saying this for a while, when you see the hype around "AI" through a disability studies lens, you really do see that so much of the hype and fantasies are about defeating death, but also "curing/conquering" disability. Many powerful people in SV are aging, and it terrifies them.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Re THAT Stock article, and if you don't think this is harmful, Ive tried to convince at least two elders and my mother to use a cane because they needed it, and each time, they refused violently because "it was shameful" This is how people overextend and hurt themselves, becoming more disabled.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/04/2026

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

there is something about visible disability tech/prosthetics that catalyzes ableism. Ive never confronted as many brazen questions about my epilepsy as when Charlie was my seizure alert dog. The technology/animal becomes the material focus of all that rage and suspicion re disability.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

something in there about how prosthetics and disability tech catalyzes ableism, in a way that not using prosthetics and disability tech does not. Same with service animals. The technologies, sentient or not, become the catalyst for a flood of suspicion, distrust, anger and ableism.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Also, all of this hate is related; all of this hate is built on an irrational terror of the figure of the non-normate, and the supposed threats that we pose to their lily white lives

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This from Vanderbilt looks extraordinarily a) broad, b) vague, and c) at odds with free speech. Like faculty fail both if they suppress or promote political ideas? Which is it? There is no meaningful criteria here, except to give the institution a justification to selectively punish.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

keeping a notes journal is one of the assignments for both my humanities courses this fall. I also encourage students to draw and doodle when they feel it works. And many of them do....love seeing them draw smallpox vaccination scars, etc. Or map lectures.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

As others (including Wilson!) note - It's fine to make a modern guy with modern guy problems but call it The Odyssey. That's wholly in line with how myth is used. It's not fine (with me) to write really bad sentences. That's when I nope out.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

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I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to make text files, built a semantic search index, and can just let my agents roam free to answer questions, fact-check, dig up interesting stories, quotes, etc. It takes a lot of the hard work out, as well as a lot of the human error. 2/2

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Quoting s'thing @cnygren.bsky.social & I are publishing soon: "the literacy argument is being made in advance of its necessity...it presumes a state in which those who are “AI illiterate” are disempowered, precisely in order to make an argument in favor of compulsory indoctrination in its use."

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Ok this is great. Enjoying reading while I have my coffee.

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SMLN 🦋🍂 @somaybelikeno.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Beclowned" will be a part of my daily vocabulary from now on.

Richard Dawkins recently beclowned himself by opining in a right-wing outlet that Anthropic’s LLM chatbot Claude—who he renamed “Claudia”—is conscious after spending a mere three days enjoying its flattery.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Why am I not surprised he's on the AI train?

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Begging you, reporters everywhere: stop using this framing. Anyone anywhere at any time can have an underlying condition. That has only become more true as you decided to join the war on COVID on the side of COVID. People with fallible bodies—all of us—deserve to not shit themselves to death.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

If you have an academic in your life, please be gentle with them this weekend because they're probably freaking the fuck out.

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

No, it's not okay to use genAI for research- or writing-adjacent activities. Those actions are also part of writing and thinking and research! Don't fall for the con of genAI boosters. Hang onto your humanity. 2/ buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

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The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

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Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Reade to the ende of thys! From Oliver J. Rosten, "On functional representations of the conformal algebra" Theoretical Physics (2017):

The acknowledgements at the end of an academic article include the following: "This paper is dedicated to the memory of my friend, Francis Dolan, who died, tragically, in 2011. It is gratifying that I have been able to honour him with work which substantially overlaps with his research interests... I am firmly of the conviction that the psychological brutality of the post-doctoral system played a strong underlying role in Francis's death. I would like to take this opportunity, should anyone be listening, to urge those within academia in roles of leadership to do far more to protect members of the community suffering from mental health problems, particularly during the most vulnerable stages of their careers."

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

So. I've been sitting on some news! I have received word that my book is coming out at the end of October, and I have been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. There are too many of you to thank for your help and support along the way.

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I have a joke about Lycaon but I know you'd eat it up.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/04/2026

I don’t think I realized I had any latent Challenger trauma until right about now My kid’s like “neat!” and I’m like 🫣

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026

Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.

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Joel @sentantiq.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

"The choice of Epic Fury for this campaign tells me they haven’t been reading Homer at all. If they have, they have failed to understand what epic means." neoskosmos.com/en/2026/03/1...

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Sing, goddess, of epic rage: The irony behind "Epic Fury"

The U.S. military's latest operation evokes Homeric rage—but its meaning is lost on the leaders who named it, while war's human cost is already unfolding

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Sayinge "thys technologye ys the future" Ys an ideological move

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Rick Godden @rickgodden.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"By removing writing from reporters’ workloads..."

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