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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So much of the "quit wasting time and money on humanities programs" comes from dudes with humanities degrees from the Ivies. They get to have a broad, liberal, meaningful education, but it's narrow, lifeless career prep for the rest of y'all.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We can't wait! You can register for the webinar here: shakespeare-webinar-pericles.eventbrite.co.uk

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Josh Eyler @josheyler.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Major kudos to MIT, who just put out a report about AI on their campus that lucidly explains the threat posed by AI to cognition and the student experience, while at the same time prioritizes learning, students, and the value of education. 1/x aiandeducation.mit.edu/report/

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Report – AI and Education

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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

If you want to learn more about how Shakespeare’s plays may be approached differently in the twenty-first century, take a look at Professor Emma Smith’s free webinar series, where she discusses a different Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare title each month: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith - YouTube

In this free webinar series, Shakespeare expert Professor Emma Smith will be discussing a different Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare title each month. Emm...

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Best thing about turning 65 tomorrow: my birthday #Spiderman movie treat will be $3.00 cheaper! Also (for Canadians) Sobey’s on Tuesdays and Shopper’s Drug Mart on Thursdays!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

To all those teachinge and learninge yn these moost difficult tymes, take pryde yn what you have been able to do. As ignorance and pettiness assail educacioun, and as Gen A.I. doth muck everyethinge up, it ys so vital to reade, to discuss, to wryte, to imagine, to create, to dreame. You rock.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Reading this as one of my many tasks today. Very downcast to see all those universities founded in the 1960s to foster the whole person, communities of hope and the conditions of freedom... ripped apart and trashed just a couple of generations later. For no good reason.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

'The key findings were said to be “surprisingly simple”: “a good student academic experience ultimately comes down to quality teaching, access to in person interaction with teachers and a strong sense of belonging”.' 2/3

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What Matters Most? 20 years of the student experience - HEPI

Half of students miss one-third of their lectures. 20 years of data show undergraduates are struggling to access the high-quality teaching, in-person interactions and satisfying student experience the...

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Definitely a Midsummer Night’s Dream come true for this Shakespeare geek: “Shannon from Canada” got called up to the Globe stage to play Moonshine! The actors were so kind and supportive, and I even had a line! A lively and immersive production — see it if you can!

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Gen A.I. barons want us talkinge alone on our phones to a demon thei created, and not goinge places and being wyth each othir yn art and joy and communitye. Thei want cinemas to shut downe and broadwaye to go darke. Thei want wryteres to stop writinge. Thei want to build hell and have us pay for it.

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Stephen Lewis spoke eloquently here when he received an honorary degree from my university. And when I happened to recognize him in London, and overheard him trying to figure out how to get to Victoria Station, I got the chance to give him directions and to tell him how much I admired his work.

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Stephen Lewis, Canadian politician, diplomat and journalist, dead at 88 | CBC News

Former politician, diplomat and activist Stephen Lewis has died at age 88.

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Carole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

❌👑 except...

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 28/03/2026

But kings and mightiest potentates must die, For that’s the end of human misery.

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Excited to hear that the 2nd edition of "Queer Shakespeare" edited by Goran Stanivukovic is forthcoming on 11 June 2026 This edition contains 5 new essays incl: Lee Hansen 'Queer/Crip Ovidian (dis)inheritances in "Venus and Adonis"' [posted with permission] www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-sha...

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Queer Shakespeare

The go-to resource for understanding desire, same-sex and trans eroticism in Shakespeare's texts, as well as in stage performance and in textual criticism, this…

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Today, we’ll talk about challenged, named, and censored books in my children’s lit class, and I have yet another new example to bring them to show the urgency of the issue. And yes, librarians are heroes on the front lines of resistance to tyranny.

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Stratford Festival @stratfest.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Shakespeare has a way of "compressing everything into a real crystal." Step into the rehearsal hall as Antoni Cimolino shapes a bold new production of The Tempest. Secure your seats to experience theatre at the height of its power: ow.ly/gOUe50YxPps #SFTempest #SF2026 #StratfordFestival

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

This whole concept in LOTR is one of my favourite parts of the whole book. “Evil fucks up because evil people fundamentally cannot imagine that others are not motivated by the same things as them” is another theme that feels relevant right now

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

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Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com · 19/02/2026

Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." —FDR, 1937

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 23/01/2026

what would you think To be thus used? this is the strangers case; And this your mountainish inhumanity.

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

“But in these cases/ We still have judgment here, that we but teach/ Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return/ To plague th’ inventor: this even-handed justice/ Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice/ To our own lips.” All leaders should read Macbeth. Not as a leadership manual.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 24/12/2025

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

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Shane Anderson 🏳️‍🌈 @shaneanderson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

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Liza @lizamezzo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

One of the glories of London is that it’s a true world city, despite the efforts of small minds and shrivelled hearts. Everyone’s from everywhere, but we’re all Londoners, and so it’s always been.

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Day 4 of 5 for #ungrading interviews for first-year portfolios and for third-year learning letters, and wow, that’s exhausting work for a serious introvert. But there was also joy and opportunities for connection, and it still beats sitting alone in my office grading. (But now there is wine.)

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WISE Planet @wiseplanet.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We remember: 🌹 Geneviève Bergeron 🌹 Hélène Colgan 🌹 Nathalie Croteau 🌹 Barbara Daigneault 🌹 Anne-Marie Edward 🌹 Maud Haviernick 🌹 Maryse Laganière 🌹 Maryse Leclair 🌹 Anne-Marie Lemay 🌹 Sonia Pelletier 🌹 Michèle Richard 🌹 Annie St-Arneault 🌹 Annie Turcotte 🌹 Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Love the Rose! They were so great with my students when we visited in 2019.

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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Okay, so let's do officially do this! a slow-read of Macbeth with Sunday discussion threads starting November 23rd! #SundayMacbethChat Everyone's welcome! And just like Beloved, I am definitely going to be looking at this with very-fresh (i.e. humble) eyes! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Shannon Murray @shannonkmmurray.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Rereading The Hobbit, which my students voted in as our last novel for a Children’s Lit class. This line got me: “If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, the world would be a merrier place.“ Amen.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Tech wythout heart ys a horror. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 29/10/2025

I doubt not then but innocence shall make False accusation blush, and tyranny Tremble at patience.

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Patrick Durdel @pdurdel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I realized today that my article on source study and the plot of romeo and juliet was published online a few days ago! i'm very proud of this one & if you're working on R+J or teaching the play, please check it out

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 11/09/2025

The evil that men do lives after them

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Fancy 24 hours of free, online talks? Friday 12th to Saturday 13th September 2025 🌎🎭📚🌍🎭📚🌏🎭📚🌎🎭📚 Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice Information & Registration here 👇 share.google/su0xxpbwbaDb...

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Globe4Globe 2025: Shakespeare & Environmental Justice

The Globe4Globe event draws together scholars, practitioners, activists and educators to explore how Shakespeare's works relate to environmental justice.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Our subjects need to be allowed to be their subjects, or else their value will fail." Useful reminder of what's happening to our jobs and disciplines.

Every worker who has lost their job in academia due to the spurious metrics and financial troubles that have become the norm is a victim of constructive dismissal. More and more we are asked to take our energy away from what we were primarily hired to do to work more and more on proving our financial value. The power behind this is real, and opposing it and defending our colleagues from the worst consequences requires rigorous strategy as well as action. However, we should also defend our rightful place in society as centres of tradition and learning, and demand recognition as worthy in our own right.

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