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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Never sleep on a @rscar.bsky.social publication! Can't wait to read this one!

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 03/10/2026

Higher ed leaders are doing "decline of public trust" discourse in order to avoid talking about all the things they've done to undermine their institutions, including exploiting contingent faculty labor, attacking student protest, and underfunding the humanities

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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

they feel like wards against AI cultists

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

We lifelong book hoarders are now vindicated: we inhabit precious stores of non-AI-infested work

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Ed Sheeran the coward: We must defer to the oligarchs, simply no choice. It's out of my hands. Zach Bryan the hero: Naw, you can just say fuck it and fuck them.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 02/10/2026

When you compare how much right-wing funding is going into their version of the humanities in higher ed ("civil discourse," "civic thought," "intellectual freedom") vs how little public or private funding there is for peer-reviewed humanities scholarship & teaching, it really makes you think.

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Dustin A. Chacón @lingdustin.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've heard people make claims that AI would lead to a new Renaissance, but I didn't imagine it'd happen like this:

Screenshot of a Tweet from Pope Leo XIV. It reads:

"In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgen to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity."

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The last few years have been hard on independent student newspapers, which rely on ad revenue and donations, as they've been on journalism more broadly. If you're cheering for the reporters at the Cornell Daily Sun (as you should) consider tossing a few bucks toward them or an equivalent publication

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Student newspapers are keeping journalistic integrity alive

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Justin Joque @jjoque.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

phallogocentrism; ontotheology; metaphysics; and value form

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“Enjoy your sex crimes!” - my child to me as they leave me to dissociate to season 13 of Law and Order: SVU

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Minerva Archer @minervaarcher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“If unions didn’t work, there wouldn’t be so much effort spent on crushing them.” Cannot overstate how worth your while it is to spend 9 minutes watching @phirephoenix.com’s talk

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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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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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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Currently teaching a course in which students have the option of submitting all assignments via online dropbox or in class, printed or handwritten. Same with in-class worksheets. Was not prepared for how absolutely delightful it is to receive handwritten work from students again 😭❤️

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Eric Lotze @ericlotze.com · 28/09/2026

I read @fritinancy.bsky.social religiously, but I’m going to need a second coffee to steel myself before I open this email

An email preview that says: “Nancy Friedman/
/Three words of the week/
Pervert glasses, meat proxy, vagmaxxing.”

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The Bookseller @thebookseller.com · 27/09/2026

ICYMI: Shakespeare’s Globe has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive. 👇

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

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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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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

If you’re bored this Saturday morning, read the final paragraph of Chapter 44 of MOBY DICK. It’s incredible

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the river to the sea Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!” Quoth the Raven, “Macklemore.”

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.

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ICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?

Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Spare a thought for @derekbjenkins.bsky.social, who is so tired and just had to come downstairs to ask me to turn down the Eminem, and was met with a righteous IT’S LIBRA SEASON DEREK

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen is an eighteenth-century novel

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rob mclennan @robmclennan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

newly posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : folio : Scrapbook : edited by Manahil Bandukwala Conyer Clayton : Ellen Chang-Richardson : Grace : Misha Solomon : Dani Spinosa : Jade Wallace : Sanna Wani periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/foli...

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 21/09/2026

Reasonably horrifying that we have built the sort of technological infrastructure for which this is necessary

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression

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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bleak reminder that we used to see hundreds of academic jobs in the humanities posted every year at this time. Now there are maybe 3 tenure-track English lit jobs in all of Canada. AI is only further devaluing the arts in ways that are decimating how we teach and secure future positions.

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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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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not not to brag: I really did have the Kennedy Center debacle on my Venus square Pluto bingo card

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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"Technology views the earth as a resource, something to be colonised, not as something that people need to live." Wendy Liu (@dellsystem) in our second conversation of this year’s Reading the Crisis series, Technology. Watch the full conversation: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/readi...

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

JOB. York University Humanities Department Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities www.academicwork.ca/jobs/asst-pr...

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Asst. Professor, Indigenous Women and Cultures of Resistance, Dept. of Humanities

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

Colleges could subsidize books for students rather than paying for premium versions of ChatGPT

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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Librarians! Zine-Makers! This new Temporary Services zine (made with @doormouse12.bsky.social) is for you! We interviewed 4 public librarians that maintain zine collections and the result is a beautiful 44 page booklet. See and learn how they do it! $10.00 (or $3.00 PDF) from www.halfletterpress.com

From the front and back cover of the booklet:

Public Librarians Discuss Zine Collections

We asked librarians at four public libraries to talk about their library’s zine collection. What advice can they share with zine makers that want to get their work into a public library, or librarians that want to start a collection at their library? Was it hard to convince others that zines are a resource that the library should collect? What collecting models did they follow? How did they build the collection?

Interviewees:

Tim Devin / Somerville Public Library
(Somerville, MA)
Angi Brzycki & Ziba Pérez /
Los Angeles Public Library
(Los Angeles, CA)
Alicia Tate / Multnomah County Library
(Portland, OR)
Alina Josan / The Free Library of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, PA)

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My kid approached their phys ed teacher about a handout on weight training that included AI-generated images that were completely preposterous and misleading. They said, “I know you’re probably not in charge of this, but I just wanted to show you how stupid these AI images are” …

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Literally found myself giving this pitch to my class yesterday, felt like a time traveler from the past sent to save their souls

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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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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Susan Choi not pulling punches on Maurie McInnis at Yale: "With these responses to the Trump administration, President McInnis has actively normalized what is not normal. She has actively given credence to what is incredible. This is the very essence of collaboration."

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Happy birthday to David Wojnarowicz, groundbreaking artist, writer & activist, who raged raged raged against inequity and injustice at every turn. If he hadn’t died of AIDS, like so many leading lights of his generation, he would have been 72 years old today (thread)

A black-and-white photograph of artist & writer David Wojnarowicz, with added elements including red and yellow flames along the right side of his body, and maps over his face and neck

A photo of artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a jacket; on the back is a pink triangle and the legend, "If I die of AIDS-forget burial-just drop my body on the steps of the F.D.A."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

One way to look at this is that regents/boards that make the final decisions about universities are effectively political appointees or private moneyed interests determined to impose their ideological views on higher education. Attacking faculty governance is one way to do it.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“Auburn University’s Board of Trustees dissolved its faculty senate in June with little notice to faculty in order to comply with a state law that does not apply to the university. On Friday, more than 100 faculty and community members gathered … to protest the decision.” www.al.com/news/2026/09...

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Protesters speak out against ‘climate of fear’ after Auburn University dissolves faculty senate

Auburn’s decision came after the Alabama Legislature put limits on the powers of faculty senates.

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Been looking through the syllabi for the courses I took and TAed for in college and grad school, and goddamn, so much good teaching happened in the age of reading and writing when profs had the freedom to make a killer reading list and just see where things went from there

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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

FIRST NAME RACHEL LAST NAME MCBUCKETS

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

So delighted our university campus store removed the books section to make space for what really matters

A display of McMaster University branded athletic wear in a section of the store labeled “lululemon”

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm reading introductory posts from my students in Intro to Medical Humanities where I used @zugenia.bsky.social's Where Do We Know From to have them talk about their intellectual interests and how they found these interests. It is so thrilling to hear what drives one's students

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John Keating: Words & Ideas Can Change the World

ALT: John Keating: Words & Ideas Can Change the World

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Happy Labor Day - and I'm proud to be a member of United University Professions and grateful to the bargaining team for our new contract, which includes protections from those who would use AI technologies against workers.

A screenshot of a summary of the UUP's new contract. The summary reads, "Artificial Intelligence. New Contract Article on Artificial Intelligence. Establishes a groundbreaking new Article 44 on Artificial Intelligence. UUP is among the first bargaining units in the country to establish grievable AI protections in contract language. The article contains the following two provisions: • The ultimate accountability for work completed and actions made by, or in conjunction with, AI systems must rest with human beings. • Courses shall be o^ered under the direction and responsibility of the assigned human instructor of record or other human instructional personnel, consistent with applicable law, accreditation requirements, academic policy, and this Agreement.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026

Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 06/09/2026

We know how to teach books in the age of AI: small classes, close reading, research-engaged learning (which is how you ’let students see you struggle’). The issue is nobody will hire and pay the requisite # of faculty to offer this.

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

News: Mayor Mamdani wants 116th Street to return to public access. NYC Law Dept in a lawsuit: “The City supports reopening of the walkway through the Columbia University Campus to the public." It's been closed off for almost 3 years.

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