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name a publication more openly committed to its own obsolescence

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

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...

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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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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 3h

one week of tech free classes in the books, 76 students, not a single complaint

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

now that Carnegie Mellon has announced its record $3 billion gift I’m pleased to share that I am ready to serve as Director of Academic Writing and Being Normal

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

ICYMI Jennifer Doyle and Semiotext(e) have made her book, Campus Sex, Campus Security (2015) open access

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I know it's corny but damn if the classroom isn't one of the last remaining sacred spaces

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

missing from this argument is the fact that Williams is an extraordinarily rich college with students who are overall very well-prepared for college—essentially none of this is generalizable even to a flagship university, much less any other higher education institution

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Opinion | 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.

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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If colleges want to build for a post-AI world that values human creativity, they should be throwing money at writing programs, not only because they are on the front lines of grappling with this sea change, but because they have the capacity to teach something that's genuinely NOT replicable by AI.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A great example of a postliteracy argument that seems rooted in pedagogical innovation (or Platonic retvrn, lol) but which will actually be used to justify further defunding and ed tech creep. It won't be the last www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

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Opinion | 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.

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Brandon Walsh @walshbr.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Student journalists consistently showing more courage and ability to meet the moment than anyone in positions of power.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Inspired by a co-instructor, I have decided to try memorizing one poem a week along with my students. If gen AI is really like having a robot go to the gym for you, then this should be a good workout.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 28/09/2026

white queen plums, painted by bertha heiges, 1903

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

am I just getting old or is the arc of media nostalgia getting shorter and more recursive? why am I seeing shorts of the wire while the most popular movie in theaters is about a reality show from 2004?

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

please everyone give it up for my dog who apparently spent the better part of today listening to "everything is romantic" on repeat while hanging out in my apartment alone

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

luckily this feeling will never haunt me one day in my life

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

real “that summer feeling” hours

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

we are absolutely not going with “promptstitute”

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

they’re saying that movies are back for good?

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

at the estate sale with every other upper middle class housewife in the greater chicagoland area ama

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

coping with fall allergies by watching barefoot contessa for the first time

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who’s writing the licensed to ill 40th anni essay and could it be me

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

it’s been raining in Chicago for over 1000 years

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

what if I audited this course, what then

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

at the park earlier reading on a bench and turned around to see who said "that's a goofy dog" about c and it was stephen malkmus

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

taking a different tack: for those who have served on search committees, how would you characterize the best of the genre? theory + anecdote? manifesto? narrative nonfiction? something else? (name it)

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good morning! I'm rewriting my teaching statement and am finding the genre kind of stale. If you like yours and feel comfortable sharing it with me, I'd be grateful. Thank you!

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Good morning! I'm rewriting my teaching statement and am finding the genre kind of stale. If you like yours and feel comfortable sharing it with me, I'd be grateful. Thank you!

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

what if this veggie sandwich fixes every problem

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

has anyone read any good analysis of the anthropomorphism of AI agents (and capital)?

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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

In 1924, the year this picture of the Grand Canyon was painted, Gunnar Widforss exhibited a large group of works depicting scenes from US National Parks. An art critic at the time considered Widforss as 'possibly the greatest watercolorist in America today.'

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Once every year or two I have a dream that I am fly fishing with Hugh Kenner (I have never been fly fishing). The dream varies each time—sometimes my waders spring a leak, sometimes I struggle with the bait. Last night we caught something, but I woke up before we could see the end of the line.

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

butterfly ranunculus snapdragon bouquet hates to see me coming

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

why does he look like he's protein maxxing

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

attention chicago i'm looking for a ticket to grouper sunday thank you god bless

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

there's so much good stuff out in print this week (n+1, the baffler, critical inquiry). it's awe-inspiring to see so many smarties continue to write and think and critique in public!

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

my dog is always befriending random men

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

aside from ASU and now Syracuse, are there other universities launching content creation centers/majors?

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

this moody queen just opened up

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Sarah Osment @smosment.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For four years I've taught FGLI students headed to Princeton, many of whom are not US citizens. Teaching them is always a dream—they are curious, eager, hardworking, focused—but watching them navigate visa hurdles is harrowing & sometimes heartbreaking. Very glad orgs & unions are stepping up.

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old fruit pictures @pomological.xor.blue · 31/08/2026

hachiya persimmons, painted by amanda almira newton, 1917

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