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Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Ohio State Fair had a poster contest. The winner was awarded $1000. I present to you, the winner:

I highly recommend Dr Zoe Copeman's newest, "Negotiating Their Medical Authority: The Life Writings of Frances Burney, Hester Thrale, and Anne Lister." #C18L #medicalhumanities #feminist ojs.unito.it/index.php/ri...

1. @robdelaney.bsky.social is the best read and smartest person in Hollywood/London 2. The dizzying adrenaline of talking about Moby-Dick with him every day was amazing and I think is contagious if you subscribe to the podcast?!? 3. Our digressions are EPIC and rival Melville's 4. 🐳 4 life

Rob Delaney@robdelaney.bsky.social · 5d ago

1. This was so fun to make I almost threw up every day. 2. This is the trailer on YouTube if that’s how you’ve chosen to live your life: youtu.be/IZYZaRWwYR4?... 3. I’d be super grateful to anyone who reposted the post above. 4. Have any Qs about it for me? I’ll endeavor to answer! 5. Get in!🚣🏾‍♀️

Nearly 1 in 4 Ohioans with student loans is at least a year behind on payments signalohio.org/ohio-student...

Nearly 1 in 4 Ohioans with student loans is at least a year behind on payments

Student loan defaults jumped by 4.2 million in a year, an AP analysis finds. In Ohio, 429,000 borrowers are at least a year behind on payments.

signalohio.org

@miriamposner.com's SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN, out in October from @yalepress.bsky.social, which offers a timely lesson on how capitalism shapes software design--and thus what we can and cannot know about the information (and people) our software rests upon. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 5/

Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

yalebooks.yale.edu

Britt Rusert's AFRIC-AMERICAN PICTURE GALLERY, out in September with @dukepress.bsky.social, which reanimates and theorizes William J. Wilson's speculative museum of Black art, decades if not centuries before an actual museum of Black art came to be: www.dukeupress.edu/the-afric-am... 4/

The Afric-American Picture Gallery: William J. Wilson's Speculative Museum of Black Art

dukeupress.edu

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

pennpress.org

One of the nicest and most unexpected pleasures of having worked on a book for so long is that all of the friends you make along the way, who have also been working on their books for so long, eventually finish those books--all at the same time! I am feeling so much vicarious pride in 1/

Two gifts for you to start the week: a photo of my new puppy checking out my author copies hot off the press; and a coupon to pre-order my new book for 20% off. Please share! (The puppy hasn't chewed my books yet even though he has destroyed two library books so far. His taste skews historical YA)

"Say his name!" - Child takes the charge in leading protests in Wisconsin following the killing of Corey Ruiz by police via @JTCestkowski LIVE NOW ⬇️

The issue is: how does the academy apportion authority and resources and employment. Why are there so few tenured and full Black professors, especially women?

an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slop

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

nytimes.com

like gravity is a theory

We Need to Talk About Pedocon Theory

The connection between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein is no accident, but reveals a deep logic at the heart of reactionary politics.

liberalcurrents.com

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.

Becoming a parent lowers women's chances of getting university jobs and tenure, and reduces their publication output. www.nature.com/articles/d41... according to a Danish study. The reason is that women have almost five times the amount of childcare responsibilities than men have.

Motherhood derails women’s academic careers — these data reveal how and why

Mothers in academia take on considerably more childcare-related responsibilities than do fathers.

nature.com

Highly recommended! 👇

School for Poetic Computation@sfpc.study · 2w ago

✎⋆⑅˚₊ APPLICATIONS OPEN! ⋆⑅˚₊ New classes this Fall at the School for Poetic Computation! This season's classes invite us to connect with the transformative power of experimentation. Apply by Fri, Aug 7 at 11:59pm ET 🔗 sfpc.study/sessions/fal...

Who better to promulgate racism and white supremacy than an unalloyed misogynist, with the requisite commitment to violently enforcing unjust hierarchies? katemanne.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

This is What Happens When You Empower Domestic Abusers

A snapshot of ICE killer David Brouillette’s abusive and violent history

katemanne.substack.com

Here it is, my 285th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

#ScholarSunday Thread 285 (7/19/26) – Black and White and Read All Over

Here it is, my 285th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, &...

blackwhiteandread.com

”The neighborhood public school, one of the worst-rated in our city, but we now understand those ratings to be meaningless. We love our school! The staff and the families make it such a special place. My kids are having a great experience, and I’m very happy. And yet friends all think we are crazy.”

Slate@slate.com · 3w ago

Dear Care and Feeding: My friends have no problem insulting our parenting decision. If I tell them what I really think, it might end the friendship. slate.trib.al/xXNlIQk

Very happy to say that you can now Pre-Order "Faculties: A Dialogue on Inciting Constructive Change in Destructive Times" and get 30% off with CODE E26FCLTS. (Paperback is $18.17)(@dukepress.bsky.social) Here's the link: dukeupress.edu/faculties

from mathematics and poetic meter to mathematics and modernism to mathematics as literature

The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics. These connections range from math...

link.springer.com

Pavel Andrade@pavelandrade.com · 3w ago

a crochet technique rooted in the concept of a mapping cylinder in algebraic topology

@duvernay.bsky.social is bringing the 14th Amendment to @netflix.com. 14th. a documentary on birthright citizenship and equal protection, arrives this fall and our Director @sifill.bsky.social is featured in the film. Who gets counted in America? We're about to find out deadline.com/2026/07/ava-...

Ava DuVernay & Netflix Reteam For Constitutional Documentary '14th'

A decade after Ava DuVernay's award-winning 13th debuted on Netflix, the filmmaker & streamer have reteamed for Constitutional documentary '14th'.

deadline.com

Excellent response to Vanderbilt report on literary studies: “The actual epistemological crisis we are entering now is one better exemplified by the Vanderbilt report’s AI-generated analyses: automated data collection, sloppy analysis, and a growing sprawl of LLM-generated pseudo-evidence.”

Gabriel Hankins@gabrielh.bsky.social · 3w ago

My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...

Just anecdotally, as someone trying to advance feminist thought in public: there are fewer places willing to take such pieces, and fewer audiences willing to engage with even the most elementary and remedial feminist ideas.

Today is Ida B. Wells-Barnett's birthday. Wells-Barnett dated many men, married "late," delayed wedding 3x for her speaking tour, in 1890s took hyphenated married name, traveled with nursing baby for political work, named a daughter Ida Jr., and wrote petty stuff about other women in her diary. ❤️

Trump claimed during the 2024 campaign that he wanted to leave abortion to the states. His pick for Attorney General, and his former personal lawyer, just said a nationwide abortion ban is on the table

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 3w ago

NEW: Under questioning from Senator Ted Cruz, acting AG Todd Blanche said he would review Biden-era DOJ guidance on the Comstock Act if confirmed to the role. Comstock is an 1873 anti-obscenity law that conservatives want to use to stop the mailing of abortion pills in all 50 states @autonomynews.co

250 years ago this week, Lord Dunmore shook the colonies: “All indented servants, Negroes, or others (appertaining to rebels)… free, that are able and willing to bear arms.” Dunmore’s Proclamation changed the Revolution. 🎧 Hear the full story: benfranklinsworld.com/424 #AmericanRevolution

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

Jesse Locker@jessemlocker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Giving myself a headache in the archives

It's public schools or nothing.

I’m especially interested in students who are choosing to write their own papers and artists who are supporting one another and organizing against AI-generated art.

I knew that the photo would likely bring only negative attention to the woman. Because people rarely reach out to Black women who are in danger with actual offers of help and resources. They just like to gawk, send useless words, and keep it moving.