Some days, I'm so grateful that my generalist job lets me pursue my academic sidequests. Today, I look at my schedule and see a couple of weeks of just Shakespeare ahead. I'm feeling so deeply thankful to be living the dream I worked so freaking hard for.

treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.

It was such a slap in the face,” says one HarperCollins employee. “We’ve been making valid business cases for years to be paid a healthy salary, and instead they spent that money on software that most of us don’t really want.”

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting

Workers at three major publishing houses tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech.

wired.com

Historians, assemble! I have a student interested in the history of true crime and depictions of female criminals in the media. Looking for secondary sources.

Pssst! We're walking through the venue today talking about plans for special events. You're definitely going to want to apply for this (full CFP at link below; apps due Dec 7). Pass it on!

Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · last mo.

🎉Midwest Victorian Studies conference CFP alert🎉 Aviva Briefel is keynote speaker. Theme is Detection—not just detectives, but also medical mysteries, tech innovations, colonial extraction, plant species discovery & everything in between. April 1-3 in Minneapolis. Please apply/pass it on!

In today’s exciting bookmail, our departmental reading room has just acquired my awesome friend and colleague @jamieparis.bsky.social ’s latest book! Read it, order it for your library, and attend this afternoon’s online launch!

By popular demand (OK, a handful of “eeek, I missed the deadline. Can I still submit” emails), we’ve decided to extend the deadline until 16th October. Who knew a CfP deadline coinciding with teaching ramping up would cause such havoc?! #Skystorians

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

Good morning, comrades! Let's start the week with some thoughts on institutional and student emailing.

A big mazel tov to the 5 men who he molested when they were boys and his students. I hope you sleep better tonight. May his memory be obliterated.

Reuters@reuters.com · last wk.

Dennis Hastert, former US House speaker and admitted child molester, dies at 84 reut.rs/4yw8SBn

Good morning, comrades! Let's start the week with some thoughts on institutional and student emailing.

4 October 1936. Battle of Cable Street took place in Cable Street, Whitechapel, London. It was a clash between the Metropolitan Police, protecting a march by the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Sir Oswald Mosley and various anti-fascist and Jewish demonstrators.

Ohio 49% Sherrod Brown (D) 46% Jon Husted (R) Iowa 48% Ashley Hinson (R) 47% Josh Turek (D)

Democratic Senate nominees are now leading or tied in five reliably Republican states, according to a new NYT/Siena poll. Kansas 45% Adam Hamilton (D) 45% Roger Marshall (R) Texas 51% James Talarico (D) 45% Ken Paxton (R) Alaska 50% Mary Peltola (D) 43% Dan Sullivan (R)

We won’t be stringent on the deadline, but it the official deadline is today!

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.

Canadians: remember that today goes way beyond the orange shirt. Open that wallet! I've just donated to the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre in Nunavut - join me!

Iva Cheung@ivacheung.com · 2w ago

Happy first birthday to *After the Feast*—my little cookbooklet meant to share ways to reduce food waste and make the most out of your turkey-dinner leftovers! The PDF is free to download, and print copies support the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

Happy first birthday to *After the Feast*—my little cookbooklet meant to share ways to reduce food waste and make the most out of your turkey-dinner leftovers! The PDF is free to download, and print copies support the Qajuqturvik Community Food Centre. ivacheung.com/2025/09/afte...

After the Feast: A Turkey Leftovers Cookbooklet - Iva Cheung

After a couple decades of editing and indexing cookbooks, I took a stab at writing (a small!) one. After the Feast brings together 25-ish of my favourite ways to use up the leftovers from big turkey d...

ivacheung.com

🚨🎉🎉The catalogue for the groundbreaking @Folger.edu exhibit “‘To Hear Her Speak’: Black Women in Shakespeare” is live & open source. But if you are an academic, PLEASE ask your library to buy a copy. We need to show lasting interest in these times! asu.pressbooks.pub/to-hear-her-...

Acknowledgments – To Hear Her Speak

Recovers a previously hidden theater and performance history of Black women engaging with Shakespeare as actors, playwrights, costume designers, and directors.

asu.pressbooks.pub

my book IRISH SHAKESPEARES lands in a month’s time: it’s already on Google Books should you fancy a sneak peek books.google.co.uk/books?id=los...

Irish Shakespeares

Irish Shakespeares explores performances, adaptations, and appropriations of Shakespeare in Irish theatrical contexts, and how they articulate concerns and conversations about gender and sexual politi...

books.google.co.uk

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

You best believe I'm teaching this infographic tomorrow:

The thing I hate most about Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is that, if I want to do my work, I need to have my phone next to me. Don't they realize that I will do less work with my phone next to me?

#NewBook announcement I am editing an anthology of Black Food writing

Doublespeak. @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social said: "Our position is … to respect decisions of international courts and … to support, at all times, people who are suffering, including in Gaza...and to ensure that crimes against humanity are addressed as such..." www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-...

Canada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrant

Israeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law

middleeasteye.net

A reminder that Netanyahu is wanted by the ICC for the crime of using starvation as a weapon of war

The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · 3w ago

Boasting to the world of his mass terrorist atrocity:

For the NYT I wrote about Ed Sheeran, the fantasy of political neutrality and the politics of self-interest www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...

Opinion | Ed Sheeran, Macklemore and Why Politics Is So Hard for Celebrities

Celebrities use the facade of neutrality as shelter, as a place to take refuge.

nytimes.com

A note on Yom Kippur and the Jewish community where I grew up: our tickets to get into synagogue were Israeli bond donation cards. The sermon was ALWAYS about the importance of Israel and investing in Israel.

On October 8th, I am doing a virtual book launch with Haley Cotter, sponsored by the University of Alabama. Please consider joining us for what should be an interesting discussion and spreading the word about the book launch within your networks

Hi Friends! Please think about the Stuart Drama Conference in Liverpool. CFP due in October!

Marissa Nicosia@nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stuart Drama Conference! Liverpool, 2027 CFP due in October stuartdrama.com/cfp/stuart-d... I've been dreaming and scheming about this conference with @racheljwillie.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social for nearly a year now.