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The public scholarship project. 👩🏻‍💻 Academic editing: christinagessler.com 📰 Newsletter: https://christinagessler.substack.com 🎙️ Academic Life podcast: Apple, NBN, etc Knowledge is a public good. #AcademicSky #WritingSky #BookSky #Skystorians #BookTok

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Tracie Canada@traciecanada.bsky.social · yesterday

Wonderful to chat with Christina Gessler about my book! Really appreciate the time and space to talk through some of the main issues that come up in the book. Follow the link to see our conversation 📚

Academic Life 🌎📚@academiclife.bsky.social · 2d ago

@traciecanada.bsky.social joins me for a deep dive into 📚 Tackling the Everyday in this week’s newsletter. Find it here. ⬇️ christinagessler.substack.com/p/tackling-t... @ucpress.bsky.social @americanstudier.bsky.social #AcademicSky #SportSky #BookSky

The cover of the book Tackling The Everyday: Race and Nation in Big-Time College Football by Tracie Canada forms the cover art for this week’s issue of the Academic Life newsletter.
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There

A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.

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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 2w ago

Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week (although I'm headed back to Boston later today), here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ +

#ScholarSunday Thread 286 (7/26/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Live from Philly, where both LeBron & I took our talents this week, here’s my 286th #ScholarSunday thread of great writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add mor...

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Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago

UT Austin doubles down on denial of tenure to leading borderlands tech scholar: “In an emailed statement to Inside Higher Ed, a UT spokesperson said, ‘Tenure is privilege, not a right.’” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Border Surveillance Scholar Denied Tenure at UT Austin

Border-surveillance scholar Iván Chaar López was denied tenure at the University of Texas at Austin after being recommended by more than 30 scholars, The Austin-American Statesman reported.

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Feminist Studies Journal@feministstudies.bsky.social · 3w ago

Final call! Seeking short pieces on gender & sports (e.g. trans athletes and SCOTUS, colorism in sports, NIL, sexualization of athletes, antiblackness, ideas of "fairness," history of women in sports, politics of country club sports) - 1,500 words (ish). Details on our website. Please submit by 8/1!

Ryan LaRochelle@rlarochelle.bsky.social · 2w ago

🚨Attention American Political Development Scholars🚨 We are excited to announce a new APD Workshop Series where scholars--especially grad students, post-docs, junior faculty, and folks at institutions with limited research budgets--can present works-in progress. sites.google.com/maine.edu/ap...

APD Workshop Series

Mission: The APD Workshop Series provides opportunities for scholars of American Political Development--especially advanced graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and faculty at institutions wi...

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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 3w ago

Here it is, my 285th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 285 (7/19/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 285th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, &...

blackwhiteandread.com

Zinn Education Project@zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

#tdih 1854: African American schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings was thrown off a New York streetcar while on way to church. Next day a rally was held to support her. She took 3rd Ave Railway Company to court. Frederick Douglass publicized case. She won. 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/el...

July 16, 1854: Elizabeth Jennings Graham

Schoolteacher Elizabeth Jennings Graham successfully challenged racist streetcar policies in New York City.

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Caleb Ward@calebw.bsky.social · 3w ago

👏👏 “We can learn to work & speak when afraid in the same way we’ve learned to work and speak when we’re tired. For we’ve been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition.” (Audre Lorde)

Marcel LaFlamme@marcellaflamme.bsky.social · last mo.

My favorite piece of #America250 trivia, which I learned at the Newseum (RIP). Our republic, multilingual from the start. cardinalnews.org/2026/07/02/t...

The first newspaper to report on the Declaration of Independence published in German

There was only one newspaper in Philadelphia that published on Friday, July 5, 1776. It was a German-language newspaper and got the scoop about what the Continenal Congress had done the day before.

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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 284 (7/12/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 284th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy,...

blackwhiteandread.com

Kate Jewell@katejewell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Okay friends, this summer I’m really trying to…what is the technical phrase? Oh right: chill the f out. What’s a small, easy thing you will do this summer to check out for a minute? Any good books to read? Today I’m taking a mini vacation day trip to see my mom’s garden.

Valena Beety@valenabeety.bsky.social · last mo.

We have all heard histories of wrongful convictions of women. I spoke about the Salem witch trials on @academiclife.bsky.social with Dr. Christina Gessler and how women have been persecuted and convicted of no-crime offenses for centuries. Listen to the full episode wherever you get podcasts.