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Roberto Rey Agudo

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Language Program Director for Spanish & Portuguese at Dartmouth.

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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super excited to bring @lollardfish.bsky.social to Dartmouth for a talk and a workshop on public scholarship! More info and registration here: leslie.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/09... Sponsored by Dartmouth's Leslie Center for the Humaniites and Dartmouth Dialogues.
Poster for a talk by David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Monday October 5, 2026, 5-6:30pm, Dartmouth Hall 105); and bio ("For over a decade, David M. Perry has been helping academics craft timely, compelling opinion pieces that translate research into public discourse and build author platforms. A columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune, he has just published (bold, cursive) The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook (end bold, cursive), (Johns Hopkins University Press), in which he's collected his years of experience, experiments, mistakes, and triumphs in order to provide a guideto everyone who wants to bring their expertise to bigger audiences.") Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).Poster for a workshop with David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Workshop: Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Tuesday October 6, 2026, 2-5pm, Irving Institute Room 375); and workshop description: This an active learning workshop. Bring one or more ideas for a public-facing writing project that you might like to try. It doesn't have to bedirectly connected to your academic discipline or field. David will present for about half the time and try to answer all your questions--including about counting this work for tenure and promotion, dealing with the good and bad of social media, and how to fit this kind of work into an academic career--and then you'll do some writing on your own. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Super excited to bring @lollardfish.bsky.social to Dartmouth for a talk and a workshop on public scholarship! More info and registration here: leslie.dartmouth.edu/news/2026/09... Sponsored by Dartmouth's Leslie Center for the Humaniites and Dartmouth Dialogues.
Poster for a talk by David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Monday October 5, 2026, 5-6:30pm, Dartmouth Hall 105); and bio ("For over a decade, David M. Perry has been helping academics craft timely, compelling opinion pieces that translate research into public discourse and build author platforms. A columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune, he has just published (bold, cursive) The Public Scholar: A Practical Handbook (end bold, cursive), (Johns Hopkins University Press), in which he's collected his years of experience, experiments, mistakes, and triumphs in order to provide a guideto everyone who wants to bring their expertise to bigger audiences.") Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).Poster for a workshop with David Perry, including QR code to register; title (Workshop: Making Public Scholarship Count); date, time, and location (Tuesday October 6, 2026, 2-5pm, Irving Institute Room 375); and workshop description: This an active learning workshop. Bring one or more ideas for a public-facing writing project that you might like to try. It doesn't have to bedirectly connected to your academic discipline or field. David will present for about half the time and try to answer all your questions--including about counting this work for tenure and promotion, dealing with the good and bad of social media, and how to fit this kind of work into an academic career--and then you'll do some writing on your own. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and Dartmouth Dialogues. Picture of author (white middle-aged man sporting a beard, wearing a hat and a white scarf, black blazer and light blue shirt against a winter tree landscape).
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Provost quickly losing faculty's trust: "the formulation and enforcement of AI-related rules at Dartmouth may become practically unworkable unless the issues surrounding Provost Schnell’s recent published work are resolved transparently, decisively and promptly." www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
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Herron and Levin: Our Independent Evaluation of Provost Schnell’s Washington Post Column
This analysis identifies substantive errors and omissions that are characteristic of AI-generated text and that would be practically inconceivable if the column had been written by a human expert in t...
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I saw this yesterday, and I chuckled at first. This is embarrassing and demoralizing. (Also, I'd hate for people to take away from this article that Pangram is the way to go. No more love for Pangram than for any other form of Gen AI).
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
There is always a Habsburg meme. One for quarter finals.
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unCivil @uncivilcollective.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We tracked the right-wing funding networks behind the civility-industrial complex. At @theguardian.com, @alicesperi.bsky.social uses our research to explore the explosive growth of "civility" and "dialogue" programs on campuses across the U.S.: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
El Mundial de fútbol y la discriminación lingüística elpais.com/us/2026-06-1...
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La FIFA rectifica y permite el español en todas las ruedas de prensa
La polémica se había iniciado en las conferencias de Vinicius y Hakimi en Estados Unidos, donde se impidió a los periodistas hispanohablantes hacer preguntas en su idioma
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Pizza Squirrel
Squirrel holding and nibbling a slice of pizza over a metal crate, next to a tree trunk
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Pizza Squirrel
Squirrel holding and nibbling a slice of pizza over a metal crate, next to a tree trunk
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Multilingualism in the Upper Valley: "Current ELL students [in the Lebanon school system] include speakers of Punjabi, Cambodian, Afrikaans, Arabic, Hindi, Gujariti, Portuguese, Spanish, Filipino and Vietnamese." vnews.com/2026/01/31/u...
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A Look Back: The linguistic evolution of Upper Valley - Valley News
Discover the fascinating history of language and immigration in the Upper Valley, from the influx of European immigrants to the current wave of non-English speakers.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Boston No Kings
Man at a rally wearing a banana costume holding a sign in Spanish that says “trump me la pela.”Woman at a No Kings rally wearing jeans, a long sleeve grey shirt with rainbow lettering, and a clear plastic umbrella. Each panel in the umbrella has a letter-sized sign. They say “it’s so bad the introverts are here,” “god forbid a girl want liberty and Justice for all,” and “brought my mom, a sign and our voices.”
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dartmouthspport.bsky.social @dartmouthspport.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Language learning is multidimensional! Carla Berrocal, an illustrator, recently visited Dartmouth for a student collaborated project, "Border la Libertad - La Historic de Mariana Bracety." Check out the panels in Baker-Berry library today! #dartmouthcollege #spport #languagelearning #art 👏
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Also April 5 protests organized by @50501movement.bsky.social—the more protests, the less apathetic!
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
"Another way to put that is that A.I. wants workers who make decisions based on expertise without an institution that creates and certifies that expertise. Expertise without experts." Hopefully the ghosts of MOOCs will soon be joined by the ghosts of AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
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Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If you’re in the Boston area this weekend protest.boston
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Boston Protest List
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I wrote about the executive order claiming to designate English as official language of the US, which feels like years ago, and I am happy it came out in the local newspaper @valleynews.bsky.social www.vnews.com/Column-Unoff...
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Column: There’s no law that says ‘speak English’
English still is not the official language of the United States. On March 1, President Trump issued EO 14223, Designating English as the Official Language of the Unites States. But executive orders ar...
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I decided to start a #thread 🧵 of stories about legal residents and tourists being (illegally) arrested, detained and/or deported by the Trump regime. I'll only post stories from serious sources, as rumors and conspiracies are really not needed in this authoritarian moment.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
I wrote about the executive order claiming to designate English as official language of the US, which feels like years ago, and I am happy it came out in the local newspaper @valleynews.bsky.social www.vnews.com/Column-Unoff...
vnews.com
Column: There’s no law that says ‘speak English’
English still is not the official language of the United States. On March 1, President Trump issued EO 14223, Designating English as the Official Language of the Unites States. But executive orders ar...
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
I defy Bret Stephens to go to Columbia or Berkeley for one single day. Just an absurd caricature. Turn off your laptop (which is feeding you a handful of extreme, unrepresentative anecdotes) and walk around.
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New Hampshire Public Radio @nhpr.org · 14/03/2025
A New Hampshire man with a green card was detained by immigration officers at Logan Airport and is being held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Donald W. Wyatt detention facility in Central Falls, Rhode Island. www.nhpr.org/nh-news/2025...
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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Depressing how often NH senators have voted with the majority in cabinet appointments and now this
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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It appears the Trump Admin is shutting down the Dept of Education's International and Foreign Language Education unit, which funds and administers University and graduate foreign language study throughout the country and overseas. If true, an act of national sabotage. www.ed.gov/about/ed-off...
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Kris Knisely @krisknisely.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Language educators: Want to do some concrete good in the face of (gestures around) & co-create nonbinary languaging resources? Check out this professional group (basically an OER incubator putting teachers & languagers together to make free gender-just language resources). Tell a friend💜
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Students in Spanish 9 partnered remotely with Spanish-speaking seniors at Vida Senior Center. They got to talk to them, learn from them, and today we're celebrating together with a presentation of student work. 5pm at Filene Auditorium (Moore Hall) for those @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
It's remarkable how many journalists don't know what an executive order is. English is not the official language of the US govt any more than it was a week ago. An EO is no more than the President's directive to exec branch officials about what *his* policies and what he directs them to **do**.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Trump’s new exec order making English the only official language of the US—for the first time in its history—is lost in the barrage of other news. Its premise is a lie: the US constitution’s ratification depended on the doc’s translation into German and Dutch
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King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
I read the EO so you don’t have too. Nothing screams unity like imposing it; nothing screams you care about an issue like executive ordering on Saturday evening.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The executive order making English the official language is out. Putting aside the dubious legality of establishing an official language by fiat, the only thing of substance is revoking Clinton’s EO 13166 mandating language services in federal services.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Do a mitzvah and help spread the news of this local Vermont protest intended to make J D Vance’s lovely ski vacation less lovely first thing tomorrow morning www.waterburyroundabout.org/opinion-arch...
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LETTER: Demonstration organizers share details ahead of vice president’s visit — Waterbury Roundabout
To the Community: Protest the destructive and illegal actions of the Trump/Vance administration in Waitsfield, Vermont.
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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Trump decrees that English is the official language of the US, rescinds a federal mandate that requires agencies and institutions that receive federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers
independent.co.uk
Trump’s latest executive order designates English as the official language of the US
Services that receive federal funding will no longer be required to provide assistance to non-English speakers
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
It was a matter of time. Unlike previous legislative attempts, touted as symbolical, the key thing is exempting federal agencies and federally-funded from language services. Think health, housing, justice, education… www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
independent.co.uk
Trump’s latest executive order designates English as the official language of the US
Services that receive federal funding will no longer be required to provide assistance to non-English speakers
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Language teachers in the US: it can be hard to think about how to address the fascist take-over. A modest curricular intervención can be pivoting a consumer-based framework (eg buying clothes, dining out, etc) to mutual support and community (clothes and food bank donations, etc) whenever possible
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Notably absent from NYT’s resident linguist, author of Woke Racism, is the discussion of blatant anti woke, anti-DEI racism in his latest opinion on the “woke right,” which gets the that’s language change for you treatment
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Congrats to @michaelerard.bsky.social on the long awaited publication of Bye Bye I Live You! Spellbound by the prelude, and enjoying the mix of reporting and accessible scholarship that’s a hallmark of his books.
Cover of the book “Bye Bye I Love You. The Story of our First and Last Words” by Michael Erard. Title in lowercase with a blue to hold gradient gont color. Subtitle in uppercase, dark blue. White Background.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Happening at Dartmouth on 2/10 an 2/11 2/10 Voices of Resistance: Gender Advocacy and Education (7pm Shabazz) with Olimplia Coral Melo, Martha Ortega Zárate, Bel Olid. 2/11: Fostering Gender-Just Language in Higher Education (11am Haldeman 042) with Professor Bel Olid
Poster for event "Voices of Resistance: Gender Advocacy, and Education". Purple background, three silhouetted heads in pink, a hand holding a megaphone. The text includes bios for the three presenters (Olimpia Coral Melo, Bel Olid, Martha Orthega Zárate) and date and location--Monday February 10, 2025 at 7pm. At Shabazz, 32 N Main St, Hanover. At the bottom, against a green background, logos of the event sponsors. Description for the event reads: Join us to this panel with a focus on gender violence, its impact on marginalized communities, and the transformative potential of education, advocacy, and legal reform.Purple background and picture of Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz wearing a red pleated dress with one shoulder and arm exposed. Title reads #LeyOlimpia with a logo reminiscent of the symbol for women but with a fist raised inside the circle. Subtitle: Olimpia Coral Melo Cruz Defender of digital spaces free of violence for women and girls. Longer description of the event, as well as date and location: February 10, 2025, 7pm, at Shabazz, 32 N Main St, Hanover NH. Green banner at the bottom with logos of event sponsors.Picture of Professor Bel Olid with short blue hair, wearing a full zip hooded fleece jacket in burgundy. Blurry urban background. On the right, a vertical band in semi-opaque slate gray contains the descriptive text for the event. Title: Fostering Gender-Just Language in Higher Education. A short description of the talk is followed by event information: Haldeman 042 at 11am, Tuesday February 11, 2025. At the bottom of the poster there is a green banner with the logos of the event sponsors.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
It was a matter of time before language profiling led to ICE arrests. Milwaukee, WI. Puerto Rican family taken to a detention center for speaking Spanish. www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
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Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee
Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.
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Aura Bogado @aurabogado.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship: www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
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Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee
Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
By yours truly. It feels good to write again a long hiatus theconversation.com/sorry-i-didn...
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‘Sorry, I didn’t get that’: AI misunderstands some people’s words more than others
Speaking with an AI bot can be amusing and even helpful – if it understands you. How well AIs do that is a matter of whose speech they’ve been trained on.
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Yuliya Komska @ykomska.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
Labov was all that Chomsky failed to be. RIP www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Dentro, Mediterráneo; fuera, Nueva Inglaterra
Close up of a flowering lemon tree in a terracotta pot, indoors; outside you can see snow and bare trees. Flowering lemon tree in a terracotta pot, indoors; outside you can see snow and bare trees
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In the other place I used to keep a thread of hate speech and hate crimes motivated by language. This is a grim entry in that list. abcnews.go.com/US/migrant-t...
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Migrant teen killed, another injured, after being asked if they spoke English: Police
Officials say two migrant teens were victims in a New York City stabbing and one died.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sharing this piece about the reopening of Notre Dame written by someone dear to me theconversation.com/notre-dame-r...
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Notre Dame reopens in Paris 5 years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions
For the French, the 850-year-old Gothic cathedral has been both a source of inspiration and a symbol of the nation’s glorious past.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT
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HUMANITIES WORKS – posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sharing this piece about the reopening of Notre Dame written by someone dear to me theconversation.com/notre-dame-r...
theconversation.com
Notre Dame reopens in Paris 5 years after fire – its reconstruction preserves the past and illuminates France’s modern ambitions
For the French, the 850-year-old Gothic cathedral has been both a source of inspiration and a symbol of the nation’s glorious past.
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 17/09/2024
Okay fine I'll post mine
Blue Sky badge: Celebrating 10M users #665,212 Blue Sky Elder Certified First 10% Joined August 21, 2023
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 11/09/2024
Hey Dartmouth area friends! Come join the first fall run of OutRunning, an LGBTQIA+ friendly running club. 6pm DOC House. For the slow, the fast, and everybody in between
Upper Valley’s @OutRunningClub in purple letters underneath a logo depicting a running shoe outlined in purple, pink, light blue, orange, and yellow. The shoe has two stick figure legs also in purple showing a running motion. White background.
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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 06/08/2024
My work on Kamala Harris' speech style is featured in today's Berkeley News! news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/06/a...
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A UC Berkeley linguist explores what Kamala Harris's voice and speech reveal about her identity - Berkeley News
"When we talk about Kamala Harris as a modern candidate, she is in some ways embodying all of the ways the country has moved on from the idea that you can only be one thing at once."
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Roberto Rey Agudo @robertoreyagudo.bsky.social · 17/07/2024
Now that he is the VP nominee, Vance is the most prominent legislator to propose establishing English as official language in the US. His English Language Unity Act bill is stuck in limbo, but it represents yet another instance of positions once seen as fringe becoming mainstream.
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