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Sören Hammerschmidt

@sorham.bsky.social
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he/him. 18th-c. literature & community college stanning in the desert. prof by day, goth 24/7. luddite by choice & out of conviction.

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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Humanities will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no humanities.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
going to start thinking of futurologists not as people who ✨discern what the future will be like✨ but rather as people who 🛂discern what sort of labour force powerful people in the present would prefer to have at their disposal when they get there🛂
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236
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Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
IDEA: rehabilitation centers for the modern, digitally ravaged attention span They could feature activities like lectures, seminar-style discussions, and reading. They could be called colleges, or maybe universities.
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
The first panel shows Sarah, the protagonist, working at a desk. A brain next to her says, "We need to take breaks!"
The second panel zooms in on Sarah's face. She is annoyed. She says, "What if I don't listen to you?"
The third panel shows the brain smiling.
The fourth panel shows the brain reaching towards a lever. The brain says, "I'LL MAKE YOU."
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Create an unnecessary sequel by adding an -er to a book’s title. Tristram Shandyer: Now With More Shandy
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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today's academic job posting bugaboo: your job posting should list the actual salary range, in numbers (even if it sucks) and the actual teaching load, in numbers (even if it is heavy).
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is it. This puts the discourse to rest. 🤣
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the 18th-cent. movie we've all been waiting for, folks!
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Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Can anyone point me in the direct of nice images of early modern female scribes at work?
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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
There's still time to submit to #ASECS! Please consider submitting to my roundtable on #18c weaponized misinformation, a topic which is sadly relevant right now.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If you exchange the ability to read books and perhaps even write them for the ability to ask a machine to tell you about them or to put words in your mouth, you have not made a good trade. You have not traded like for like or worse for better. And that is the exchange being proposed
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Carlisle Yingst @ceyingst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
also should have mentioned, for anyone in the Midlothian vicinity, the exhibition itself is still open until the 24th of October, Wednesday-Sunday, and is free! (info here: nationalminingmuseum.com/whatson/jaso...)
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Jason & The Coal Mining Adventure - Exhibition (FREE) - National Mining Museum
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
whenever an author says they used AI to check for "style" I think: that's what superegos is for! that's what dialectical thought is for! that's what generalized anxiety that makes you question everything you've ever thought is for! that's what a social-media-tuned knack for reading the room is for!
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
an author just asked a very common Q: will they get a new contract to replace their advance contract once their book is approved by the editorial board for publication? answer: no! advance contracts are "real," if conditional I wrote about this a while back: www.chronicle.com/article/when...
chronicle.com
Advice | ‘When Will I Get a Book Contract?’
The answer can vary from press to press, editor to editor, and project to project.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
One of the best things I’ve read in a long time, an essay by my friend Sarah. pshares.org/issue-articl...
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This 🧵 sounds exactly like everything I have ever experienced from @britishairdesk.bsky.social "service" & care after flight delays, cancellations, etc. stranded me AT HEATHROW.
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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A poster for my October lecture in Toronto!
Poster for “Joseph Brant’s Unwritten History” lecture, featuring a painting of Joseph Brant in regalia, event info, and speaker Dr. Robbie Richardson, University of Glasgow.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
When people say “Bluesky is a toxic anti-AI place” I hope they are talking about me 🙏
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com
Title: Gentlemen! Are you in want of a wife? Allow our algorithm to assist!

Image: a series of yes/no questions for that lead to different outcomes. 

Questions include “are you rich?”, “are you dashing?”, “are you a rake” and “are you a vicar?”

Outcomes include “You win the most beautiful daughter of the richest man in the county!”, “You remain a bachelor”, “You marry a dowdy cousin” and “You rescue a 23-year-old from Spinsterhood”.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
been thinkin about how robots are gonna kill us
Scratchy drawing of a two panel comic.
Panel 1: 
Titled:“How we thought robots would kill us”
A robot shoots a human to death with a gun. It screams “Die flesh sack”

Panel 2:
Titled “How robots will actually kill us”
A MediBot is injecting something into a humans arm. The bot says “Whooops. I injected you with cancer instead of insulin. That’s on me”
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"Slop merchant realizes that slop fed on slop will produce more slop and eventually die of slop poisoning." But please tell me more about how all of these people are geniuses who should absolutely run everything.
futurism.com
Microsoft Director Admitted in Internal Document That AI Is Creating a "Doom Loop" That Destroys the News Media by Stealing Its Content Without Providing Anything in Return, in Turn Making the AI Usel...
A Microsoft executive admitted that AI companies like itself were plundering websites without giving them in return.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is why I have now embraced my unadulterated, cringe-worthy, faith and belief in the truly unique ability of humans to be humans and to express their humanity in art and self-reflection. And I include all humanities disciplines in the “self-reflection” part.
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Letterform Archive @letterformarchive.org · 19/09/2026
New from Letterform Archive Books, the first of a new line featuring reproductions of our favorite collections: Creative Papers. letterformarchive.org/shop/wood-ty... #WoodType #HarrildAndSons #Stationery #GiftWrap #TypeSpecimens #Typography
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Wood Type Creative Papers: Nineteenth-Century Letterforms on Display (For Gift Wrap, Crafting, Decor & more) | Letterform Archive
16 oversize sheets featuring the bold letters and vibrant colors designed to captivate audiences near and far In the 1800s, as people migrated to urban centers, and the walls of the city increasingly ...
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tomorrow! Online! Free!
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Dr SpookyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
youtu.be/ydrtF45-y-g?...
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Salt-N-Pepa - Let's Talk About Sex (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SaltNPepaVEVO
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
SOCRATES: Picture the following in your mind. Imagine human beings living in an underground cave-like residence. Shadows are cast on the wall by a fire Glaucon: so the shadows are like people! Have we discovered a new intelligence?!? SOCRATES: Glaucon: I, for one, welcome our new Shadow Lords!
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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hi and good afternoon, @dlspratt.bsky.social and @vivzp.bsky.social are meeting with me today to discuss The Doctor In In for ASECS in Portland. Here's some topics we discussed with people in 2026. Feel free to add and request:
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
if you are reviewing an unpublished manuscript and you have the sheer unmitigated audacity, cheek, gall and laziness to upload it into an LLM to generate a review, let me tell you, you should be shunned and tarred and feathered
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
If you are willing to drop $47 million on AI services but unwilling to invest in research support & infrastructure for humanities faculty & students, you show that austerity is a choice. It’s not “too expensive” to give people the resources they need; you just don’t want to. bsky.app/profile/ashe...
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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Don’t miss the deadline! Individual abstracts for the #ASECS2027 Annual Meeting in Portland are due Sept. 25, 2026. Find sessions, submission details, and more: asecs.org/2027-annual-...
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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Shout it from the rooftops.
chronicle.com
Opinion | Higher Ed’s Middle-Manager Problem
It’s time to get serious about administrative bloat.
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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
LA folks! "A Semiotic Square for Violent Bear," the short film I made with @derekbjenkins.bsky.social, will be playing at the Festival of (In)appropriation at Los Angeles Filmforum on October 24th! festivalofinappropriation.com/current-fest...
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Current Festival
Premiering at Los Angeles Filmforum (2220 Arts + Archives) on Saturday, October 24 at 1pm! Further screenings to be announced. The 2026 edition of the Festival of (In)appropriation – Festival…
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Ben Wurgaft @benwurgaft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
big allergy attack caused by the sexual activity of plants led me to coin the new term "snyphilis" you're welcome.
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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is still the best metaphor
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
So the answer to "during his time on earth, did Jesus ever see an armadillo?" is: "the armadillo is nocturnal so it really all depends on what time of day it was when the Devil got round to showing him the Americas."
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Stephanie Insley Hershinow @sinsleyh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It *IS* a romp! I so enjoyed reading this and can’t wait for you to get the chance.
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Sören Hammerschmidt @sorham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Now *this* is how you do horror.
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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Ich askid ChatGPT," Well Ich askid the stones, and the forest, and the starres, and the mountaynes, and the moone daunsinge above, and what thei seyde was learninge, and dreames, and growinge thinges, and makinge art, and a flawed honest worlde wher we talke to each othir and care about each othir.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The professors and instructors who turn classrooms back into spaces for reading and discussion, are going to leave the biggest legacies in this world. Everyone one else will disappear into LLM wallpaper proxies and derivatives. 
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Ros Ballaster @ballasterros.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social
jobs.ac.uk
Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Thomas Warton Professorship of English Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The fallacy that University leaders pushing AI are falling into is thinking that the point of undergraduate research is to find things out. It isn't. What students find out is typically already generally known. The point of undergraduate research is to learn how to find things out.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We are all humanists now...again.
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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! 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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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I missed this feature last month :) "The sign shop, which is part of the NYC Department of Transportation, has a staff of 46 workers, including seven letterers who lay out signs by hand and a blacksmith who makes custom brackets to securely attach signs to traffic poles."
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There Are Over 1 Million N.Y.C. Street Signs. Here’s How They Are Made.
From Cornelia Street to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the 46 workers in this Queens building bring to life the words and symbols that guide the city.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
when you work at the BPAF but you’re beginning to realize there’s not going to be a successful IPO
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