What do you think he’s dreaming about?

What about the rest of you? What academic work do you come back to again and again, and always find something new? (I guess this is the academic equivalent of "Name five movies you know you've seen more than five times." Let's see what the academic equivalent of The Princess Bride is!)

Leila Walker@lwalker.bsky.social · 6h ago

One of my favorite things to do as an academic is revisit scholarship I read ten or so years ago, that transformed my thinking at the time, and realize how much richer it is when I have ten more years of knowledge to appreciate it. Today it's Dahlia Porter's "Specimen Poetics."

One of my favorite things to do as an academic is revisit scholarship I read ten or so years ago, that transformed my thinking at the time, and realize how much richer it is when I have ten more years of knowledge to appreciate it. Today it's Dahlia Porter's "Specimen Poetics."

I was really tempted to back out of this project because writing has felt like such a chore lately (and god forbid I do any chores), but I'm so glad I didn't. It's been a long time since writing made me feel like *myself* the way that this paper does. I mean, for now at least. Anyway, here's a cat.

Leila Walker@lwalker.bsky.social · yesterday

Don’t let my research get in the way of your sleep, Chester.

Don’t let my research get in the way of your sleep, Chester.

Smoking cigarettes was an excellent excuse to stand up, walk around, and give myself time to collect my thoughts while writing. I rarely think about or miss smoking anymore, but today I could really use a cigarette break.

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

For the first time ever, I initiated a family group text. For the love of god. My 98-year-old grandma is in Spokane. And I am freaking the fuck out.

Lopez Daydreams@lopezfun.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

It's *wild* as a person who used LLMs for academic reasons like 15 years ago, seeing how copyright workarounds for Hathitrust led to large-scale use of copyrighted work to train corporate AIs, and how topic modeling turned into demographic modeling. Capitalism ruins everything.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 6d ago

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

This does not bode well for my upcoming week of research leave.

Can you BELIEVE this magnificent creature’s human had the AUDACITY to take the print-out he was using as a BED RIGHT OUT FROM UNDER HIM. The absolute nerve.

New study from the scientists who first exposed Theranos's lack of scientific research published in peer-reviewed journals.

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Today’s biggest AI startups make no shortage of bold promises. Yet a new preprint suggests many of these firms barely participate in one of science’s most fundamental practices: publicly documenting discoveries in scientific literature so other researchers can evaluate and build on them"

Can you imagine being so deeply incurious about the world that you didn't care about the histories, knowledges, worldviews built into the structure of the world's rarest languages? How deeply sad. (For the New Yorker author. Not for the activists preserving endangered languages.)

Putting together my OER grant report, and like, how do I even answer this. Challenges: Adjuncts I was working with were fired. Classes we developed were canceled. We have no chief librarian. What is the lesson learned? Austerity measures destroy grant-funded programs?

The president of my college is finally resigning in disgrace, but the situation remains bleak. Our search for a chief librarian was canceled and the adjuncts we hired as stop-gaps when we couldn't replace retired faculty have all been cut. How are we supposed to support students in these conditions?

Save Queens College: deep cuts hurting campus - PSC CUNY

Devastating cuts at Queens College are impacting workloads, services and education. PSC members are fighting back.

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Hey #C18 folks, there's a new Consortium for the History of Science and Medicine working group on Science Studies in the Long Eighteenth-Century. You should make sure you join here www.chstm.org/group/scienc...

Grief is a refrigerator full of leftovers you know you will never eat.

I come back to this note a lot when things are hard, from when I met the Beat poet Ruth Weiss. We all save each other.

Well SOMEONE just won the internet.

Eric Haywood@erichaywood.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mitch isn’t dead, they just sent him to live at Taylor Farms where he could run free

You used to be able to order small sizes of Chinese food! We used to have a society!

We watched Dirty Dancing tonight for Fun Movie Night, and (a) It is absolutely the best movie ever made, and (b) I first watched this movie at age 8 in 1988 and wow the 80s were a special time.

This is a decision being made by people who have never had to work in their entire fucking lives. I will do “daylight savings time” in hell.

Holland Oates@phinsphan.bsky.social · 3w ago

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

Wouldn’t it be funny if we got that Argentina-France face-off FIFA wanted so bad?

This dialogue, from Charlotte Smith's "Conversations Introducing Poetry" (1804), hits uncomfortably close to home today.

Can you guess why we call him Best Friend Hammy?

I genuinely love this app sometimes

Steffen Hope@hopesteffen.bsky.social · 4w ago

I respect someone who doesn't blindly follow the crowd, but this is also a case of an overcorrection that presents an alternative view of the past that is equally one-sided. Here's a - hopefully short - thread on both this particular issue & on historical overcorrections as a phenomenon. (1/n)

What this headline doesn't tell you is that Gillibrand's son literally named his company APEC.

David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 4w ago

Kirsten Gillibrand's son, right out of college, getting a $300 million valuation on his "trade stocks as derivatives" company is a particularly ugly payoff for the Senator's stalwart crypto support, writes our friends at @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social. prospect.org/2026/07/08/n...

Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s survey forms.gle/v4VkJ9mW8StC... I am working on a book chapter for a book provisionally titled Transnational Queer & Feminist Archives. In the chapter, I examine how people navigate complex 2020s demands, stressors, and restrictions. 📚 📜 Please share!

Queer & / or Feminist Archives in the 2020s

My name is Jenna Freedman, and I'm the founder and former Director of the Barnard Zine Library and an adjunct lecturer at the Queens College School of Information Studies. I am working on a book chapt...

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VARgentina is right.

Jordan Uhl@jordanuhl.com · 4w ago

With just a few minutes left, VARgentina and the refs appear poised to advance to the quarterfinals.

Egypt has never been so robbed since the British Museum left the country