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Neuro folks of Bsky, are there any treatments for Parkinson’s patients that help with dementia symptoms like memory loss, confusion, or incoherence? My mom’s cognition is deteriorating, but her dr says it’s just the progress of the disease and there’s nothing to be done. #parkinsons #neurosky

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Great to see my chapter "Postmortem Comparatism" for Worlds of Comparative Literature: The ACLA State of the Discipline Report (eds. Waïl S. Hassan and Shu-mei Shih) finally out! It's open-access, and you can download the chapter by clicking the button on the top bar.

Earlier this year, Princeton was forced to end its 133-year honor code tradition of unproctored exams due to rampant AI-based cheating. This does not seem to have given the administration the slightest pause.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just got an email announcing that Princeton is offering ChatGPT accounts to all undergrads next semester. Looking forward to other helpful innovations lIke giving them unlimited heroin or free handguns

LLMs aren’t “peers” so it makes no sense for them to do peer review. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Generative AI Is Not Our Peer

Automation can make many good things possible, but let’s not pretend it’s something it isn’t.

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IMPORTANT AI on campus is cognitive theft, data theft, job theft, healthcare destruction (universities ARE healthcare) AND it is also spectacular risk to campus retirees connect the dots, grasp the whole picture, learn from AAUP, get in formation

Britt Paris@hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 4w ago

Join TODAY at 3pm ET and tell your colleagues! our 5th installment of our AI toolkit series about how the AI bubble affects us in higher ed and what to do about it. We will be joined by leaders from TIAA Divest!, Majority Action, and Make the Road. Register here www.aaup.org/event/higher...

Book launch today! My new book, "Why You Should Read More Fiction" (Johns Hopkins), is part of a wave of digital humanities work that explains why reading fiction is so important for our minds, especially right now. I hope you'll pick up a copy and spread the word. #digitalhumanities #fiction

‘If we are to believe Fred, he remained faithful to Sartre his whole life. When he moves on to Marxism, he doesn’t abandon the insights into style, expression and consciousness developed in his first book.’ Toril Moi on Fredric Jameson, online now from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Toril Moi · Fredric Jameson as Reader: Fredric the Great

Fredric Jameson seemed to me to have read absolutely everything. He was the very antithesis of the intellectual type I...

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I got proofs for my book NO PLACE FOR HOME: TERROR AND RACE IN LITERATURE AFTER 9/11 from @uminnpress.bsky.social! The press has also offered a 30% discount for those who pre-order before January 1st! To order, click the link in my bio.

I am happy to announce that I will be guest-editing a special issue on postcolonial graphic novels and comic books in the next year. Please see the details of the cfp below, and share widely. If there are any questions, please email me at shrivastavan@sacredheart.edu.

I will not only be relieved but truly *ecstatic* to be wrong, if more and better studies soon start showing that AI actually improves learning and cognitive motivation. But so far they all show the opposite, and that is consistent with the evidence that I and other educators are seeing on the ground

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · last mo.

We are soon going to have to come to grips with the fact that this shit is asbestos for the mind

Proofs are finally in! This essay should be out soon, hopefully by later this month. It is such a dream to be published by New Literary History! Super excited!

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...

Special issue alert of the Journal of World Literature World Literature and Environmental Humanities, edited by Delia Ungureanu and David Damrosch. brill.com/view/journal... @easlce.bsky.social @complitgccuny.bsky.social @dgb-langlitcult.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social

Journal of World Literature Volume 11 Issue 3: Special Issue: World Literature and Environmental Humanities, edited by Delia Ungureanu and David Damrosch (2026)

"Volume 11 (2026): Issue 3 (Aug 2026): Special Issue: World Literature and Environmental Humanities, edited by Delia Ungureanu and David Damrosch" published on 11 Aug 2026 by Brill.

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Delighted that my translation of Geetanjali Shree’s Our City that Year is in this excellent long list from @womenintranslation.bsky.social ! 🧿

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation@womenintranslation.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Announcing the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation Longlist 2026! The list of 13 titles from 12 languages includes novels, poetry, short fiction, and memoir. The prize is judged in 2026 by Arifa Akbar, Véronique Tadjo, Boyd Tonkin. For the full list and announcement: tinyurl.com/394cypw6

From this day on 2012: probably the most popular thing I’ve ever drawn.

New journal issue of Studies in World Cinema Indigenous cinemas from South-Asia, edited by Shohini Chaudhuri and Swapna Gopinath brill.com/view/journal... Contact: see www.brill.com/SWC @themhra.bsky.social @scmstudies.bsky.social @asianstudies.org @scmstudies.bsky.social

Studies in World Cinema Volume 6 Issue 1: Special issue: Indigenous Cinemas from South Asia, guest edited by Shohini Chaudhuri and Swapna Gopinath (2026)

"Volume 6 (2026): Issue 1 (Feb 2026): Special issue: Indigenous Cinemas from South Asia, guest edited by Shohini Chaudhuri and Swapna Gopinath" published on 18 Mar 2026 by Brill.

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Spring 2027 courses are ready to roll. Now, just hoping for good enrollment 🤞🏾

I am thrilled to announce that the American Studies Program at Boston University will be accepting new PhD Students for the 27/28 academic year. These are fully funded, unionized, 5-year positions, with 4 semesters of guaranteed dissertation fellowship in years 4 & 5.

Please check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode where I speak to @shreedaisy.bsky.social about her fantastic new novel, Alice Sees Ghosts. Link below: newbooksnetwork.com/alice-sees-g...

I have long admired & followed @amitbaishya.bsky.social’s work, so I was delighted to find this wonderful book in my mailbox today. Many thanks, Amit, for generously sending me a copy from your own personal stash. I can’t wait to read it and then have a conversation with you about it.

CFP: "Views from the Global South: New Horizons in World Literature" ACLA 2027 seminar! It explores new disciplinary horizons that emerge from the comparative friction between the categories “world literature” and “Global South.” There are plans for a possible follow-up publication.

Combined and uneven modernism seminar for the upcoming ACLA. In person, U of Houston, 20-23 May, 2027. How do peripheral literatures register, model, and think the historical and material configurations of the world system? www.acla.org/seminar/f2f2...

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

AI is the largest theft of labor in history, but the case doesn't go far enough -- AI steals not only from journalists and researchers but from authors throughout history, from policymakers and legal writers, from photographers and artists in every medium.

Elisabeth R. Anker@libankerdc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

AI training is the largest theft of labor in history

Came home after a long day of work to find this beautiful gift! Thank you so much @shreedaisy.bsky.social! This absolutely made my day! 🩷🩷