Dr. Amanda J Summers
@amandajsummers.bsky.social
Philly Philly. Go Birds. Also a historian, I guess 🤷🏻♀️ VAP @ Oberlin https://www.oberlin.edu/amanda-summers Writes on colonial LatAm/Caribbean/Iberian Atlantic - embodied experiences of incarceration/sex/violence and prison hijinks from the 17th century
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I used this image for my final slide on incomplete conquests and the myth of pacification. My students did not know this image. Send help and recommendations for a cheap retirement home.
I think I'm just only going to publish in edited volumes with people I actually know now I guess. (My first foray into a journal pub has gone ridiculously unprofessionally anyway)
Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 2d agoA new startup plans to set AI agents loose in academic publications. Editing or reviewing for a journal could ultimately be about responding to the demand to curate high quality academic content for AI agents to crawl and collect valuable knowledge tokens. www.redpine.ai/insights/pub...
I feel like Sherrod Brown’s team watch Ossof last night because every ad break this morning is like “Here’s all the money that Sen Husted took from Epstein and his buddies” and like, finally.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.
I had such severe imposter syndrome starting out this week. I have since received extremely kind messages from some of the senior scholars who shaped my work. My god did I need that kindness. Thank you to the generous senior scholars everywhere. Y’all mean more than you know.
HBD TO ME I’M GOING TO THE LINC GO BIRDS! 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
I forgot to defrost something for dinner tonight. So after I left my office, i popped into one of the restaurants off campus for a quick bite. Its trivia night. An older lady came over to me and recruited me for her team. Then she recruited another couple who came in. And we placed 2nd!
All these streaming services and not a single one will let me watch the Birds today… All these IR players and we’re ahead coming out of the half and I can’t even see it.
Twin Flames SNL: Flames on the Side of My Face
Alt: Flames on the Side of My Face from Clue
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Great opportunity for emerging scholars to do research at two excellent libraries/ research centers for #earlymodern architecture.
ArtHist@arthist-net.bsky.social · last wk.STIP: Tablinum Fellowships, Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin and CISA Palladio https://arthist.net/archive/54523
In 1974, Cornell lecturer Lin Farley began recognizing a pattern in the experiences women shared in her Women and Work course: women were being pushed out of jobs by men’s sexual behavior. Farley coined the term, “sexual harassment.”
I wrote three whole pasta scraps today. (That was supposed to say paragraphs but autocorrect had other ideas and I left it)
Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment
Alt: Jeb Bush's Iconic 'Please Clap' Moment
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Oh! I got an email from the AHN about PARES, because I asked if they could send me an image of a file there during the outage, and they said PARES should all be fixed now or in the near future because they did a big upgrade. So yay for being able to research from a distance again!
Happy Scorpio Season!!! I kicked it off in class yesterday by using Jack Skellington as an example of historian curiosity. (What’s this? What’s this!) My students do not know who Jack Skellington is. I am no longer “cool”.
Jack Skellington Thinking
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I literally said to Portia this morning, there's gonna be a shield law lawsuit soon. I didn't think it would be TODAY. Louisiana, Arkansas, and Alabama have filed a bill of complaint with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, Massachusetts, and California. Hold on to your butts.
ag.state.la.us
Grateful beyond belief to be at Oberlin where I can enjoy the Conservatory live every day instead of whatever AI is doing.
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music
Mass shootings, multiple suicides, families torn apart by AI ‘psychosis’ and now his tech is hacking governments around the world.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoMany people are asking.
Hi good morning. Cornell’s statement made by Ken Kimball is disgusting. Keep writing them. This is not ok. vp-univrelations@cornell.edu
Eagles' offense, defense, coaching all sucked in front of a national audience.
And ending with the salute from the person wearing the Dawkins jersey was chef’s kiss. #GoBirds 🦅
Douglas Reyes-CeroÑ@dreyesceron.bsky.social · 2w agoThe Star Spangled Banner being played by the Mariachi Herencia de Mexico band before the Bears-Eagles game in Chicago on Monday Night Football was a deeply cool thing to see tonight
THE NFL HAS A MARIACHI BAND PLAYING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM ON MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
While we’re talking about campus sexual violence, I want to revisit the recent history of a topic where we have seen some of the biggest backslides: Expelling rapists from school.
Literally anything my guy. A fart noise. The jerkoff motion and telling the guy to get a hobby that’s not bothering women. Ask her a question that gets her out of the room. “That’s gross” “who raised you” “say that again into my phone I’m on my way to HR anyway”. Communicate WE DON’T DO THAT HERE
It’s kind of exhausting when there’s studies being like when women speak up, no matter how, the issue is dismissed and the women are fired but a man says “hey that’s gross” and entire companies change almost immediately And men go: but how can *I* help it’s hard to speak up what do I even say :(
