Matthew L Reznicek
@drreznicek.bsky.social
Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs. Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
If you don’t welcome the Cat in the Hat, that’s a violation of Seuss’s law.
I made this for my students last year and there are some links at the end to professional advice! docs.google.com/presentation... For more “real” advice, I tend to search for something like “annotations + libguide” in order to get librarians’ resources.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
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Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?
How do you cook up a symphony? You heat it in the Beethoven.
Why science must reinforce its social contract. Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society’s interests. By Peter Gluckman www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Why science must reinforce its social contract
Questions of public trust can be addressed only through better communication and research that meets society’s interests.
nature.com
The big DSA/Dem split is over the DSA folks who want a more European-ish Democratic party and the ones who despise the Democratic party.
Democratic-Socialists ❌ Social Democrats ✅
How to solve the DSA problem.
lnk.thebulwark.com
Mni Sóta Makoce—the land where the sky reflects in the water.
Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social · 8h agoMinneapolis just now
Fat lady finally singing — AP calls Michigan for Abdul El-Sayed, dealing another blow to the Dem establishment and raising some critical questions: Can lefty Democrats translate grassroots enthusiasm into statewide wins? Does El-Sayed have enough time to consolidate support after a nasty primary?
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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One-minute lesson narrated by @sifill.bsky.social on the significance of the 14th Amendment in the @250to250.bsky.social series by @hcrichardson.bsky.social Learn more by following The 14th Amendment Center @the14thcenter.bsky.social at Howard University Law School. youtu.be/l347V4pJF5E?...
Fourteenth Amendment, Narrated by Sherrilyn Ifill
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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You know which classical composer would've had a hobby as a lumberjack? Chopin would.
Germany investigates drone carrying ‘explosive device’ near Ukrainian plane at busy airport
Germany investigates drone carrying ‘explosive device’ near Ukrainian plane at busy airport
Nato ‘aware’ of drone sighting near Ukrainian plane at German airport after ‘security incident’
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Talking to Huddie Ledbetter Showing pictures on the wall Whispering in the hall
If you were to teach a novel about the Magdalene Laundries, which would you choose?
Need/Emergency by Benjamin Lewis Robinson is out! "Need/Emergency articulates an illuminating argument about the special relation between theatricality and politics in the modern era." —Kevin McLaughlin, Brown University https://ow.ly/C55050ZvYGg
The Department of Metaphor would like a word
Sky News@news.sky.com · yesterdaySunken Nazi warships emerge from the Danube as water levels drop to record lows
US Constitution checks and balances update.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Studies in Romanticism is thrilled to announce the publication of its Summer 2026 issue, a special issue titled "Mediating the More-Than-Human"! The issue is available open access via Project Muse @projectmuse.bsky.social: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57172.
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One of the things that has made the loss of Glen Hansard so hard is just how easy it is to overlook the people who fight every day to make art, to make the world more beautiful, to ask us to see the transcendent.
I’m morbidly curious to FOIA myself sometime.
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Police surveillance is no longer creeping in. It's here, and the latest Last Week Tonight lays out just how vast the ecosystem has become, with John Oliver quoting from Andrew Guthrie Ferguson's "Your Data Will Be Used Against You" on air. @lastweektonight.com @profferguson.bsky.social
"Gender-flipped Shakespeare isn’t woke. He invented it. The RSC’s decision to cast Sharon D Clarke as a lesbian Othello may provoke purists, but the bard has always toyed with sex and desire." www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what...
Gender-flipped Shakespeare isn’t woke. He invented it
The RSC’s decision to cast Sharon D Clarke as a lesbian Othello may provoke purists, but the bard has always toyed with sex and desire
telegraph.co.uk
Glen Hansard funeral: Crowds begin to gather ahead of service in Dublin
Glen Hansard funeral: Crowds begin to gather ahead of service in Dublin
Mourners paid tribute to Hansard’s ‘generous spirit’ at a public wake on Monday
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Lay me down in silence easy to be born again. For Glen Hansard