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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This has been my most deeply held belief since I was very small, and nothing has ever or will ever change my mind; indeed every botched execution, every wrongly convicted person exonerated after death or years on death row, every single thing I’ve ever read or seen has only convinced me more

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Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We are a cruel, barbaric country, and the taking of a life is evil, and the taking of a life by the state is a monstrous evil, and as long as we continue to do it we will continue to be a cruel, barbaric country

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's always a relevant Auden poem; this penultimate stanza from "The Shield of Achilles" has been in my head for the last week: A ragged urchin, aimless and alone, Loitered about that vacancy; a bird Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.

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Sari Altschuler @sarialtschuler.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

It's real! Too many people to thank, but I'm feeling so very grateful for the years of conversation, learning, and generosity that made this book possible. More about the book below --

Left hand holds a white hardcover book. The top half features an American flag with ASL alphabet replacing stars. Bottom half reads “before disability. A history of American citizenship. Sari Altschuler” in blue, red, and off-white text.

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Katherine Stiles @katherinestiles.org · 05/05/2026

· #AcademicSky · #EduSky · #AI · “A study that claimed OpenAI’s ChatGPT can positively impact student learning has been retracted nearly one year after publication. The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited ‘discrepancies’ in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions.”

arstechnica.com

Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags

The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Why is #EduSky almost entirely organizations posting? It's cool that I can see posts in Welsh (from "Qualifications Wales"), but where are the actual people?

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

We are gamifying our kids so that tech bros can become billionaires. The capture of education, which is to say our future, by tech is as serious a crisis as any we face. #EduSky #AcademicSky www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/t...

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In Backlash Against Tech in Schools, Parents Are Winning Rollbacks

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

What's wrong with this subhead? (Boston Globe)

Photo of CEO of Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston looking smug with the headline "Beth Israel Lahey Health's CEO had a vision. It's finally paying off" and the subhead "Despite challenges, the state's second-largest health system posteed a $100 million operating gain last year for the first time in four years."

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

"Including Saturday’s attack [on Brown University], there have been more mass shootings in 2025 than there are days in the year." (Boston Globe)

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Apparently, 28 people are right now looking at the same copper dustpan on the Ace Hardware website that I am. For some reason, I find that surprising.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Just found myself, as one does, on the North Carolina Sweet Potatoes website, and I'm sorry to say there's a recipe on there for "S'mores sweetpotato quesadilla."

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Psyched to be in Massachusetts right now – just got my Covid shot at the CVS down the street. Plenty of appointments open; pharmacist was happy to see me. (Flu too.)

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Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Adding just six hours of media literacy training to an American Government course significantly improved students’ ability to identify credible sources and boosted their confidence in evaluating where information comes from. theconversation.com/college-stud...

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College students are bombarded by misinformation, so this professor taught them fact-checking 101 − here’s what happened

Just 2½ hours of online instruction made students a lot better at identifying misinformation on YouTube and TikTok.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Start of Globe article re VT: “All the dairy farmers who voted for Trump were under the impression they weren’t going to come on farms and take our guys,” said Machia, 37. “It’s happening more than we’d like. It’s scaring the farming community and we’re like, ‘This wasn’t supposed to happen.’”

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Could you all just stop using the word "grandmas" Could you just stop

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It stuns me how many ppl on this site scorn anyone who dares to be over 50 in public. Would you prefer that "grannies"—about whose histories you know, btw, nothing—NOT show up at rallies? Newsflash: Old people are just PEOPLE who were lucky enough to get OLD. We'd like you to have that option too.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Percy Shelley in 1819 An old, mad, blind, despised, and dying King; Princes, the dregs of their dull race, who flow Through public scorn,—mud from a muddy spring; Rulers who neither see nor feel nor know, But leechlike to their fainting country cling Till they drop, blind in blood, without a blow.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Carolyn Forché (1981) on American obliviousness : There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

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alex roberts @lexlanham.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

fantastic @timemagazine.bsky.social read about my @nusl.bsky.social colleague dick daynard who led the country in coming after big tobacco & is now taking on sports betting & the deceptive marketing practices the industry relies on to attract & addict consumers 🤩 time.com/7209769/spor...

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The Man Who Took On Big Tobacco Has a New Target: Sports Betting

Law professor Richard Daynard says gambling isn't just a popular pastime–it's a major public-health problem

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I think a lot about Eve Sedgwick's observation about weaponized ignorance in politics: "If M. Mitterand knows English but Mr. Reagan lacks--as he did lack--French, it is the urbane M. Mitterand who must negotiate in an acquired tongue, the ignorant Mr. Reagan who may dilate in his native one."

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Curious about what those with knowledge about #mentalhealth or #depression think: Is this (another) tech dystopia, or useful tool? home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/02...

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Phone App Uses AI to Detect Depression From Facial Cues | Dartmouth

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Joe Newberry @joenewberry.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I wrote this song, "I Will Join You When I Can," a few years back, and I share it here in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It began life as I thought about what Dr. King said to the audience in Memphis the night before he died, "I may not get there with you..."

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I Will Join You When I Can

YouTube video by Joe Newberry

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

In case others were, like me, not sure what an EO can and cannot do, here's the @19thnews.org: "This use of executive power has limits: [EOs] can be revoked by the next president, challenged in court or checked by Congress. . . .

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Sometimes the NYT is just plain funny: "We’re excited to offer the consumer more wearing occasions through our diversified bottoms portfolio," said Janine Chilton-Faust, Levi’s global vice president of men’s design. Diversified bottoms FTW!

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

NYT doing A+ Trumpwashing this a.m. in an article about his inauguration portrait. "Stars such as Carrie Underwood"--"such as" doing a lot of work there. And "reminiscent of the purposeful pose he struck for his mugshot"--quite a phrase to be writing about the president-elect.

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ProfLauraG @victorianlaura.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Turns out (so far) that the thing I'm going to miss from FB is my neighborhood free/swap site. When I screw up and buy large instead of tall garbage bags, how will they find their forever home?

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W. Caleb McDaniel @wcaleb.org · 03/01/2025

In January 2026, I am slated to begin a term as editor of the Journal of Southern History at Rice, and the SHA is looking for a New Book Review Editor at another institution to work with me. Please apply! Review of applications begins this month.

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Scott Stein @sstein.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

There are now 50 creative writing professors in the "Creative Writing Teachers" starter pack. If you teach creative writing in college, let me know I should add you. #academicsky #writing #teaching go.bsky.app/8c9ephm

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Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · 10/12/2024

“[Gross's] storytelling makes us uncomfortable, and it should. She complicates the ways scholars have simplistically understood capricious acts of violence.” —@kcarterjackson.bsky.social on Kali N. Gross’ Vengeance Feminism buff.ly/3DlalTm

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