I've confirmed that the UK's new Sovereign AI Fund does no due diligence on whether AI companies use copyrighted work without permission before investing in them. It took me 3 Freedom of Information requests to find this out: 🧵 1/10

Half the planet is having a massive fight about how to correctly interpret an Ancient Greek poem but go ahead, close some more humanities departments.

'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Have you checked out the newest issue of Restoration yet? Restoration 49.2 is available open access on Project MUSE! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55568

Project MUSE - Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700-Volume 49, Number 2, Fall 2025

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Oh My, how many cuties….

The anatomy of an AI-supported academic article is becoming more apparent. I desk reviewed ~70 manuscripts this week for our journal. Reckon 20ish had significant AI assistance. On top of hundreds of others recently I'm starting to see patterns. Are other editors are seeing the same or similar? 1/

Permanent lecturer position for a forensic anthropologist at our department!

Baylor Anthropology@bayloranthro.bsky.social · 3w ago

The Department of Anthropology at Baylor University seeks a permanent full-time lecturer to teach four courses per fall/spring semesters in a thriving forensic science minor. For full details, see: apply.interfolio.com/186896

Where are the #WestWing fan-scholars at?

Call for Papers: Religion, Morality, and the American Presidency – The West Wing at 30

Religion, Morality, and the American Presidency: The West Wing at 30 Edited by Ilaria W. Biano Deadline: September 30, 2026 Premiering in 1999, The West Wing quickly became one of the most influent…

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📣 Call for Papers - Special issue of Early Popular Visual Culture Theme: Digital Methods, Artificial Intelligence, and the Study of Silent Cinema Guest editors: Adelheid Hefberger and Mario Slugan 🗓️ Deadlines for abstracts: Monday, 3 August 2026

Brilliant. "Queerness is also an emphatic no to the cisgender, male-centric, ableist, White, inflexible way we've been taught that we "must" live from a young age." www.advocate.com/opinion/quee...

I’m queer, not gay. It matters.

Responding to a recent New York Times guest essay, child and adolescent psychiatrist Chase T. M. Anderson explains why "queer" better reflects their identity, politics, and vision for LGBTQ+ liberatio...

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🚨We’re seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. Deadline for applications: 7 August 2026. Please share in your networks!👇

History Workshop@historyworkshop.org.uk · last mo.

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead (The Underground Railroad / The Nickel Boys) is coming to Winnipeg! The bestselling author will speak at the Winnipeg Art Gallery before a conversation with host @davidarobertson.bsky.social. New tickets available! - mailchi.mp/grant/colson...

Colson Whitehead's visit is just a month away!

Get your tickets now for a very special evening with #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time Pulitzer winner Colson Whitehead as he visits Winnipeg in support of COOL MACHINE. Hosted by Davi...

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American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ASECS) 2027 Conference in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3. For those considering submitting a panel proposal (just a title and a description) this has to be done before July 18th, 2026 #C18

Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

While I don't have children, my sister shared how harrowing it is, indeed, to watch your child injected with multiple shots early in life, but reminding oneself that the reason we do this is because otherwise, most children will die, can be a helpful motivator. www.propublica.org/article/vita...

What I Can’t Forget About the Babies Who Died After Not Receiving a Vitamin K Shot

Babies have died after not receiving the vitamin K shot at birth. Their autopsy records underscore how preventable their deaths could have been.

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With alt text, for those of us with disabilities, and also those trying to read this on their phones: Please like this reply to make it come near the top, but don't follow me for it, that's not what I'm trying to achieve.

This is one of the reasons I hate the framing of “discovery” — a beautiful graphic novel doesn’t need to erase the academic work it draws from. Now more than ever we should remember scholarship is human-made — & academic books often cost FAR more to research/write/publish than they will EVER make.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”

Why nurses' unions are fighting for AI guardrails

Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.

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I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Research confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Landmark new research shows the risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30 is now ‘close to zero' after the HPV vaccine.

HPV vaccine: Key questions answered as cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in women under 24 - follow live

BBC health journalists answer key questions as research suggests the HPV vaccine has prevented 200 deaths from cervical cancer in England.

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We're starting a journal! We're looking for ideas for pieces that we can fold into the proposal that will go to an interested press, with the hope that if the press take the journal on we'll starting publishing in 2028. #smellstudies #sensorystudies #smellhistory #smells

Smell Studies Journal@smellstudies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Call for Papers for the Smell Studies Journal

I also recently saw some stats on the gender divide re ai. I can’t help but think that women and people of color have had to fight so hard to be in academia that we are more resistant to the lure of ai.

Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

Reading this thread I simply cannot fathom the speed with which some scholars *resign* their vocation the moment the option to defer to AI arises. I fought many years for the privilege to write and teach. Even if AI *could* do my job (it can’t) they will have to pry it from my cold dead hands

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

Can anyone suggest any articles relating to the importance of writing in the 18th century, relating to travel. I don’t mean actual travel writing in the sense of narratives and guidebook, but rather the physical act of writing, and the importance of writing equipment for travellers.

It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.

Romanticism folks, I am looking for new contributors for The Year's Work in English Studies (YWES). YWES is an annual review of scholarly work. It's the largest & most comprehensive work of its kind. I am looking for two people to join the poetry team and one person to take over drama.

Entering month 6 of Mamdani's NYC & Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, & Murder is down 21%—all without "Adding 5000 new cops." Instead, he's invested in public safety free childcare, food, and better funded schools. Safer cities come from investing in people—not punishments.

Hey, Pony people, I find myself with the sudden need to find a (lightly) damaged Red Roses, the Perfume Puff unicorn from G1, for customization purposes. The only one on eBay is too nice to use as a custom base.