Covid and flu shots acquired!

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities, a volume on AI and DH in the long-running Minnesota Debates in DH book series. To be co-edited by @zentralwerkstatt.org, @laurenfklein.bsky.social, @lnakamura.bsky.social, and myself. Deadline Nov. 1. Please share widely! dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/page/cfp-gen...

CFP: Generative Digital Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works

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Time for this classic again.

If you've got some time in the next few days, the September #Wikipedia editathon to show solidarity with the new Wikimedia union is behind its goal of editing 10,000 articles. You can help by registering, finding a relevant article, & making it a little better! 📚 meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

I've been doing such a good job sticking to my promise to myself to not buy fast fashion, and then I find out that Old Navy is selling Muppet Christmas Carol pajamas. I caved in basically five seconds. In my defense, it's been a rough couple of weeks?

Jesus Christ Cornell

Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂@thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 5d ago

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

Also wow okay are we POSING, is this your next AUTHOR PHOTO, Mr. FANCY-PANTS (not wearing pants)

the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.

If you are a graduate student in the humanities (construed as broadly as possible), what is the MOST EXCITING book published in the last five years to you? Please repost if you’re not a graduate student!

Campus rape is really widespread; statistics suggest a significant percent of women who go to college will be raped there; feminism opened up a good conversation about it around 2012-13; it's weird when people treated Cornell like an isolated rather than dramatic example of a pervasive problem.

The fact that only ONE animated show is on this list further proves the stigma towards animation is still alive and kicking, which is a damn shame. No Primal, no Arcane, no Scavengers Reign, no Blue Eyed Samurai, no Avatar The Last Airbender. Like C’MON PEOPLE.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · last wk.

Here’s The New York Times 100 Best TV Shows of the 21st Century: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Some work days feel like a slog. Other days you get to go to interesting talks with amazing historians, and then go to a meeting with the student leader of the LEGO club at your university to see if the club can make a LEGO replica of your library in time for the renovation!

Happy Dolly Parton Day! blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2026/09... It was a joy to write this! 📚

Dolly Parton Day (9/25) - Duke University Libraries Blogs

Today is Dolly Parton Day! (9/25 is a fun pun on 9 to 5).  Since Dolly Parton did so much to help put books into the hands of children, it feels right for the library to celebrate her on this day! We’...

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When you spend enough time in academia you will notice class based distinctions on career outcomes that have more to do with culture than with talent or work. You’ll also notice the improbably high share of faculty members who had at least one parent who is/was a faculty member. 

Roopika Risam@roopikarisam.bsky.social · 2w ago

An important read about class and academic jobs www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...

I don’t always love it when they play music when I swim. I like to let my mind drift. But this morning my favorite lifeguard was playing Robyn. I was feeling it!

Thousands of supporters gathered outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on the evening of Sept. 18, following the vote to close the center for at least two years for repairs. Read more: https://wapo.st/4rhwDug

There are three constitutional amendments on all NC ballots. Learn more about them and check out this one-pager about them: ow.ly/lXLu50ZNv7V @publicschoolsfirstnc.org

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Cool cool, so every time I read an Austen book I will encounter a character who is a little bit embarrassing, and I will invariably see myself in said embarrassing character. Is that correct? Is this her whole deal? I'm not even done with chapter one!

3. That college is about reading for “the workforce.” No, it’s about development for the adult force. Of which work is a part. 4/

I was lucky enough to sit down for an extended interview about We the Platform with the endlessly creative @tomcomitta.bsky.social. We talked about experimental writing, the early days of the Web, mail art, and escaping the doom loop around literary study. lareviewofbooks.org/article/we-t...

Literary Web 2.0 | Los Angeles Review of Books

Is it the end of reading or a brand-new era?

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This is what happens when a director conflates a parable with real-world nuance. No, we don't need to "both sides" this tale because Dickens wrote the story as it was meant to be understood. Scrooge made mistakes and needed a wakeup call. That's it.

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · last mo.

The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...

Reading resumes for a position, and I know candidates are doing these laundry lists at the beginning of resumes (called things like "professional summaries") to get through computer systems. So I don't blame them, but I feel like I'm skimming through junk to find out if they have the right degrees.

you'll never guess what the context for this post is

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The damned in hell are not more powerful for the fact that the fires do not consume them; it is part and parcel of their torment.

Moomin character quiz

Official list of where in NC the rabid goats have been www.ncdhhs.gov/news/press-r...

Having a needed quiet day. There’s also a napping husband on the other side of the couch next to me. lol

Rabies is 100% fatal if untreated. Please help spread the word about the exposure at the Farm Adventures mobile petting zoo in North Carolina. The vaccine is incredibly effective and will save your life. Also…. Rabies at a petting zoo!?!? www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Four baby goats at mobile petting zoo in North Carolina test positive for rabies

The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services said the petting zoo held events involving children and elderly people between July 28 and Thursday.

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