Thanks to @emergencycampaign.bsky.social for an already fiery meeting on how we can protect Pell ✊️✊️
Dr. Elysia Balavage
@drgreasefire.bsky.social
Transnational modernist | Doing 'nothing', modernist readings of nihilism, and working-class food culture 📚💥 | SRU @apscuf.org Contingent Faculty Committee Co-chair ✊️ | Book Reviews Editor for @spacebjournal.bsky.social United we bargain. Divided we beg.
I don't need to sell y'all on how important Pell grants are to working-class students or how egregious it is that these grants are under threat. Attend this virtual meeting if you can!
July 29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW! – Higher Education Labor United
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I don't need to sell y'all on how important Pell grants are to working-class students or how egregious it is that these grants are under threat. Attend this virtual meeting if you can!
July 29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW! – Higher Education Labor United
higheredlaborunited.org
“The United States leads the world in research because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, collaborate openly and publish their findings—without political interference." —AFT/AAUP statement www.aft.org/press-releas...
AFT, AAUP Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to ...
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Proud to be one of the co-authors of a major new @aaup.org report on the variety of (extorted) compliance agreements that some universities and colleges have come to with the current Trump administration: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro...
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Kept this little bit from my diss days on my whiteboard. It still makes me smile, especially the line from Tool's "Schism" 🔗🔗
Modernism and Environment enthusiasts! Check out the TWO latest installments of our “Letters from the Field" blog series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print+ "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog! Do read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
Letters from the Field: #2 and #3 | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I write from Tampa, Florida, where last year’s back-to-back hurricanes have subsided into this year’s drought, and where I have been thinking obsessively about the university as environmental infrastructure. Like Virginia Woolf’s narrator Mary Beton in A Room of One’s Own, I have “sat down on the banks of a river” on a university campus. I’ve thought about how this place
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There is so much to celebrate from 1926... a hearty "thank you" to those who've offered to write a contribution! We've got room for a few more, so please reach out here or at spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com if interested 😄📚
The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945@spacebjournal.bsky.social · last mo.The Space Between Journal is establishing a "centenary celebration of literature" as part of the Book Reviews section! We are currently collecting short 1926 reading recommendations for the November issue. If you are interested in writing a contribution, please contact us for more details!
It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals, in libraries, in childcare, etc etc
Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa@benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 3w agoA really interesting piece on reducing AI cheating in the classroom from a Professor of English and former Dean of Humanities at University of Utah. The solutions? Smaller classes, lower teaching loads for faculty, and in-person classes.
✨ MotL 92 is live! ✨ We speak with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment & training in the US as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 moneyontheleft.org/2026/07/02/p...
We are standing together on Sept. 28. Join us in Harrisburg. Learn more at www.apscuf.org/sept28rally/ #AffordableCollegeNow
"...campuses are on much more stable ground than administrators claim, that shrinking the faculty ranks or cutting academic programs is unnecessary, and that if there is bloat, it’s at the highest ranks of the institutions." And... "Cut administrative expenses, especially highly paid staff." 💯
The Faculty’s Numbers Man
When professors want to dispute cuts, they turn to Howard Bunsis. Is he just telling them what they want to hear?
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Belgium players mock Trump with his own dance before ending US run: ‘He’s gonna be so mad’ www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...
Belgium players mock Trump with his own dance before ending US run: ‘He’s gonna be so mad’
The Belgium men's soccer team handily defeated the United States 4-1 Monday night, but not before Belgium players mocked President Donald Trump by imitating his signature dance on the field – capping ...
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945@spacebjournal.bsky.social · last mo.The Space Between Journal is establishing a "centenary celebration of literature" as part of the Book Reviews section! We are currently collecting short 1926 reading recommendations for the November issue. If you are interested in writing a contribution, please contact us for more details!
Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire are under threat c.org/ytqX5wZFxS
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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
MSA folks - in Loughborough or not, you can check me out on the virtual session beginning in 20 minutes! I'll be talking about Naomi Mitchison and Wyndham Lewis's collaboration Beyond This Limit. Imagine getting to see more art like this? 12:15 Virtual session, RM 2!
Humans are on the @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social virtual menu today at 14:45 / 9:45EST! Check us out! #WeirdModernisms
Glad to see @spacebjournal.bsky.social @spacebetween.bsky.social represented at @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms…
What a fantastic forthcoming event by @modernistudies.bsky.social, @moderniststudies.bsky.social, AMSN, MADS, @modernism-asia.bsky.social, SEM, The Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, and HASE! Such cool things happening in the world of modernism 😁
Hi @moderniststudies.bsky.social MSA conference attendees! Anyone going to Loughborough and need a room? A friend had to cancel her trip so it's up for grabs. DM for details. The Peacock Inn from July 1 - 4, twin room with ensuite for £270 (might be negotiable) RTs much appreciated pls!
If anyone is interested in reviewing this open-access bibliography for our 2026 issue, please get in touch! Either on here or via spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com...
Krzysztof Fordoński - Forsterian Professor@forster1970.bsky.social · 2mo agoE. M. Forster: A Bibliography of Critical Studies, Translations, and Adaptations is now available for free as PDF or EPUB format! www.wuw.pl/product-pol-... #emforster #youneedit #literature
📣 CFP: 'Weird Modernisms' TMR Special Issue 📝 We are looking for contributions of conference reports, interviews, Q&As, and similar pieces, covering both the in-person and virtual conference. ⏰ If you are interested in being involved with the issue, please email tmr@bams.ac.uk by 12 June 2026.
📚📚📚 My book A Bright Cold Day: The Wonder of George Orwell is out in paperback today (4 June 2026)! It re-reads Orwell's concern with politics and justice by seeing it through the magic of the ordinary. 📚📚📚 #georgeorwell #orwell @oneworldbooks.bsky.social oneworld-publications.com/work/a-brigh...
A Bright Cold Day | Oneworld
When we think about George Orwell, we imagine an angular, moustachioed sceptic crouched over a typewriter, who – between puffs on his cigarette – composes effortless streams of prose, unadorned but ex...
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Burning thoughts? Fresh perspectives? Ideas for a cluster? Send them our way!! We welcome submissions and queries from scholars of all ranks and institutional affiliation status. #Modwrite
#OtD 29 May 1946 the Rochester general strike ended in victory after just one day. They won union recognition, the reinstatement for hundreds of city workers who had been fired for forming a union, and dropping of all charges against pickets. Learn more: www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
