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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I have yeeted the LMS my uni has paid for and which you were probably thinking helps you teach Forgive me it was surveillant so mid and so broke

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Canvas is still down with the aws outage, so I got extra research time! #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

If anything, I'm using em dashes MORE now. GenAI can't have them.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Thinking today of a younger me who found, in a moment of serendipity, a young woman's archived letters that sparked my entire research trajectory. 2019 Me would be delighted. #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Spent 1.5 hours this morning letting myself follow research trails and transcribe a few recipes. Best way to spend a morning, honestly. #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

That's why her hair's so big. It's full of rum. (Rhum Agricole made from sugarcane.) #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Another morning writing with @sofiawithaphd.bsky.social that was very productive, if short. Early morning continues to work for my scattered brain. Write before our brains say no! #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

One difficult thing about writing about receipt books is that there are so many interesting recipes I wish I could try. What if that weird recipe DOES help my migraines? The recipe was recorded and used for a reason, after all. I draw the line at using rabbit urine, though. #acwrimoments

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

The palpable relief of reading a syntactically awkward student paper nevertheless brimming with ideas they’re trying on after having to consume the stale cardboard generalities of a Chat GPT essay.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

On Fridays, we let our brains follow their bliss. I accidentally-on-purpose started a new side project this morning. #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Help I want to start another writing project before the others are done #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Getting up super early in the morning to write before the kids wake up isn't my favorite -- I'm very tired -- but the sense of accomplishment I feel from writing every day is worth it. #acwrimoments

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Over a week after the end of the semester, three students made me a digital card together and sent it today. ❤️ A few days ago, a student (that I had for three consecutive semesters!) sent me her review of Sunrise on the Reaping, which she read purely for enjoyment. I love teaching.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I'm looking through a 17th-century commonplace book of medicinal recipes and this woman gives a recipe for "a vomit to cleer yr body, a fine gentle thing." MA'AM.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

I just want to teach them to write...

I'm Julius Ceasar being stabbed to death by ChatGPT, Google Search AI, Grammarly, Microsoft AutoCorrect

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

A student just told me she ordered the rest of the Twilight series books (after we read the first one in class) and "started a little library" with her cousin and I couldn't be more delighted. Imagine the journey she's begun.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A student named Frankenstein's monster Dennis in their adaptation project. DENNIS.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

One of my students says she's "10 toes down behind my girl, Moll Flanders." She supports women's rights, but also women's wrongs.

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Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

Ever wonder how women learned about experimental science during the long eighteenth century? Join me (for free!) at 5 pm (GMT) on 21 November to hear more my research on the topic: www.youtube.com/live/veM-pG9... #histsci #histSTM #hps #sts #women

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

There's always one quiet class each semester. Pulling out all my tricks to get them talking. Today's strategy involves no talking at all: silent discussion!

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Starting a quick, fluffy read as a reward for (1) organizing a math-themed family costume (number line), (2) making dinner before taking the family to math-o-ween, and (3) submitting another job application. I deserve a treat.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Not me reading Twilight in a coffee shop on a Sunday morning with a lavender honey latte and calling it *class prep*

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

I taught the first 4 chapters of Twilight today because I'm a very serious goose. The students are LOVING being experts on vampires after reading stories/novels/films all semester. And now I hand them Twilight to see what happens? *chef's kiss*

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Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social · 09/10/2024

Recipes and circulation of knowledge - a CFP for a january conference in Paris at the Institut d’Histoire de l’Art. Food historians ! #recipebook #manuals #earlymodern 🗃️ #18c #flavors networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Painting of a still life followed by the text of the CFP available at the link in my message

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Excited to hear Deanna Koretsky and @profchander.bsky.social discuss The Black Vampyre today! Just taught this wild text a couple of weeks ago.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

I had students draw Dracula today based on the text description, and we had a lot of fun figuring out what his "long, white mustache" might look like. Apparently, most of my students' default referent for "vampire" is the dad from the movie Hotel Transylvania.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 24/08/2024

Today, one of my students told me she didn't find me insufferable 😌

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John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social · 30/07/2024

From the Barcelona ISECS early career seminar earlier this month, @susannah-sm.bsky.social with Ananya Kabir of KCL and Heena Goswami of U Delhi. Sorry not to have any good photos of Susannah's great talk , "Ruination, Chronic Illness, and Networks of Care in the Long Eighteenth Century."

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

PSA: I know its become a sort of rallying meme but trust me white folks, you do not want to be asking your desi friends/colleagues "are you team coconut" just had someone try that and the results were... not good. Just don't. It won't end well.

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Kevin Joel Berland @starfish1.bsky.social · 22/07/2024

Okay, AI is not about to be a threat to academic research and publishing. It's already here. Taylor & Francis has sold Routledge "data" to Microsoft without consent of authors. www.thebookseller.com/news/academi...

thebookseller.com

Academic authors 'shocked' after Taylor & Francis sells access to their research to Microsoft AI

Authors claim they have not been told about the AI deal, were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 06/07/2024

A student just emailed me that they're reading the Throne of Glass series and that she hopes Celaena and Chaol are "endgame." Don't worry, I won't ruin it for her. But the joy I feel when students keep emailing about books is exquisite. This will sustain me for days.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 10/06/2024

Reskeet with how old you are using a vague proxy: I had one of those pocket-sized digital cameras to hang on my wrist. Mine was teal.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

My brain is all over the place today. Glad today's writing tasks were revision of one (short-ish) thing and researching another.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

Spent a large portion of the morning poring over the book fair flyer -- it's BOGO!!! -- to plan kiddo's possible selections. It's one of the best feelings and a lovely way to spend 7am.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

The #18thc enthusiasm for having useful information ready to hand knew no bounds. Here's a printed handkerchief that records around its edges the going rates in London for hackney cabs, hackney chairs, & Thames watermen, & the distances between principal cities in Britain. Who needs a smartphone?

Red and white handkerchief. Its borders are formed by illustrated vignettes of various themes involving 18th century transport. The rates for those forms of transport are given alongside the pictures.

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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 20/05/2024

Today the Board at St. Norbert College wrote to deny all applications for tenure and promotion. 4 of the 5 faculty still up for tenure were in the humanities, and 2 of the 5 were in my discipline of English, which means humanities has now lost 18 positions, and English has gone from 8 faculty to 3.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

I'm just a girl, sitting at her messy desk, trying to write, while her kid sounds out words and reads next to her.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 16/05/2024

Texas already defunded public schools by about 90% over the tenure of Rick Perry while I was those schools. There isn't much more funding to cut, and yet here we are.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 15/05/2024

Lily Greenberg Call ran Berkely's AIPAC affiliate group, worked on Biden & Harris's presidential campaigns, and worked in the Biden White House, until today Now, she's the 1st Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of US support for Israel’s war on Gaza apnews.com/article/resi...

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Interior Dept staffer becomes first Jewish Biden appointee to publicly resign over war in Gaza

An Interior Department staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of U.S. support for Israel’s war in Gaza.

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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

happy dracula going out in his lizard fashion day to you all

15 May. — Once more have I seen the Count go out in his lizard fashion.

excerpt from Dracula

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 11/05/2024

One of my students says that Tamlin would "eat up Wordle" and this is an a t t a c k

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 09/05/2024

Check out the #cfp for the special issue of Studies in the Novel @lydiacooper.bsky.social and I are guest editing on disease and disability in the novel. Please share widely and please consider auottong www.studiesinthenovel.org/submit/call-...

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Call for Papers | Studies in the Novel

Call for Papers for a Special Issue: Disability and Disease in the Novel Editors: Dr. Lydia R. Cooper (University of Seattle) and Dr. Matthew L. Reznicek (University of Minnesota)

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 10/05/2024

Has anyone taught a vampire lit course recently? Are you willing to share your thoughts or reading list? I'd love to hear about it. I have some ideas but I'm too excited about the idea to think clearly (read: my tentative reading list is already way out of control.)

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

As we gather to consider the nation’s finest and most courageous journalism, the Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk. We would also like to acknowledge the extraordinary real-time reporting of student journalists at Columbia University, where the Pulitzer Prizes are housed, as the New York Police Department was called onto campus on Tuesday night. In the spirit of press freedom, these students worked to document a major national news event under difficult and dangerous circumstances and at risk of arrest.

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Reading the end-of-semester reflections from students is always a bright spot. We worked hard together, and this semester had its own challenges, but they read books and wrote meaningful things. I am grateful.

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BOO! k HistoriAAAH 🎃 @book-historia.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

I’m visiting the Lawrence Public Library and found what is possibly the strongest opener for any book ever

A book drawn by a child, showing a swaddled baby in a bed captioned “When I was a baby, I was evil”

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Susannah Sanford McDaniel @susannah-sm.bsky.social · 27/04/2024

On top of all The Horrors happening globally, my favorite brewery is closing forever today. Fort Worth is getting a little less funky.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/04/2024

ATTN NEW YORKERS The NY Public Library has a plea out for signatures to push the city not to cut their budget and force them to reduce collections, end services, reduce maintenance, and close 2 days a week. It takes mere seconds to sign. They need 50,000. Pleas sign and SHARE WIDELY

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