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Pamela K Gilbert

@pamelakgilbert.bsky.social

Nineteenth century British Literature, history of the body and medicine.

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 6h ago

We’ve depleted our missiles. Trump was unaware. Hegseth thought his deputy told Trump. It’s partly why Trump had to call of his escalation against Iran. Other than that, everything’s fine: wapo.st/4hQVTF0

Trump, Hegseth clashed at Camp David over Iran missile depletion concerns

At a Camp David summit this weekend, President Trump demanded answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over extreme munitions shortages.

wapo.st

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump administration admits, in court filings, that it canceled billions in federal grants not for policy or performance reasons, but because recipients lived in blue states. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Months later, in court filings, federal officials indicated there was little else that had informed the final decision about which grants to cancel.

“With one exception,” a lawyer for the Energy Department conceded in a court filing this month, “the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic-caucusing senators.”

The lawyer acknowledged that none of the grants were included in the October terminations “based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor.”

In contrast, the administration left untouched hundreds of additional energy grants in states that were represented by Republicans and had backed Mr. Trump in the last election, even though the Energy Department had recommended canceling them, the government confirmed in the July court filing.

The cancellations coincided with a broader White House effort at the time to pressure Democratic lawmakers to cave in a fight over funding that had shut down the government. That month, Mr. Trump had vocalized the strategy: He threatened openly to slash what he described as “Democrat agencies,” while Mr. Vought announced a series of additional spending cuts targeting other Democratic-led states.

Megan McIntyre @rcmeg.bsky.social · 2w ago

NCTE has just summarily killed a 77-year-old organization that has shaped how writing is understood, taught, and learned, in higher education in particular. No member involvement. No transparency. No process to speak of. With friends and fellow educators like these, I guess who needs enemies.

Kendall Gerdes 📚🦕@kendalljoy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Here it is, folks. @ncte.org Executive Committee votes to "de-charter its special topics conference CCCC," i.e., to shitcan the Cs. mailchi.mp/ncte/ncte-up...

Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 2w ago

There it is. #CCCC #NCTE

Email from NCTE Executive Committee acknowledging messages received and the following:

For many years, the Conference on College Composition & Communication (CCCC) played a critical role in serving the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) & its mission. In recent years, however, CCCC has struggled with its fiscal sustainability, declining participation, & governance challenges. As a result, earlier today the Executive Committee of NCTE made the difficult decision to de-charter its special topics conference CCCC. To clarify, today’s decision to de-charter does not mean that NCTE has altered its commitment to supporting teachers at the college and university level. This is exemplified by the fact that the NCTE College Section is thriving. The process in making this decision spanned several years, with attempts to work collaboratively with CCCC’s executive committees across multiple iterations. While the organization appreciates the years of collaboration with CCCC, after deep evaluation and thoughtful consideration, the Executive Committee concluded this step was necessary to more effectively serve the college English and writing and composition community and NCTE membership as a whole.

Although this has been a very difficult decision, we are excited about the future. This change will allow us to provide better support to the college English and writing and composition community. In the coming days and weeks, we will be working hard to make this transition as smooth as possible. We thank CCCC, its leaders, and its members for its many years of contributions and look forward to continuing to involve the composition, rhetoric, and writing communities as we move forward. NCTE remains devoted to improving the teaching and learning of English and the language arts at all levels of education. As future planning takes place, NCTE will communicate updates.

A transition team focused on supporting composition, rhetoric, & writing studies will be named imminently.

Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social · 2w ago

Any news yet??

Dr. Jennifer (she/her)@drjags.bsky.social · 2w ago

Does anyone know when the vote happens at NCTE? Is there still time to write them?

Jill Galvan @jillgal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Petition to draw national attention to UT-Austin's outrageous denial of Dr. Chaar López's tenure on the basis of his research into border-surveillance technology.

Texas Conference of the AAUP@texasaaup.bsky.social · 2w ago

⭐️⭐️Open Letter Concerning the Tenure Denial of Dr. Iván Chaar López⭐️⭐️ “The future of academic freedom depends upon institutions demonstrating that difficult scholarship will be evaluated on its merits and that faculty governance remains a meaningful safeguard against arbitrary decision making.”

Sea(n) Otter 🦦@seemtoggle.bsky.social · 2w ago

This CCCC/NCTE situation has me back on Facebook, but there may be some hope for us. Helpful tips on this post regarding the current situation: www.facebook.com/share/p/1D6f...

Screenshot 1 of 2 from a public Facebook post from Kathleen Blake Yancey with the following information:

About CCCC.
****Please share widely.****
It is my understanding that the full NCTE Executive Committee has NOT voted to dissolve CCCC.
It is my understanding that the NCTE Executive Committee is meeting tomorrow when a single vague item about CCCC is on the agenda. That would be the time when such a vote could be taken.
It is therefore my understanding that *regardless* of what CCCC officers have been told, CCCC has NOT YET been dissolved. The Executive Committee would have to approve such a decision.
Given this understanding, I encourage all interested parties to please look at the list of NCTE Executive Committee members below, and if you know one or more of them, CONTACT THEM IMMEDIATELY.
Points you might consider sharing:
1. CCCC is a member conference of NCTE, much like the Whole Language group. When WLU got into trouble years ago, some callled for its dissolution. But NCTE did not dissolve WLU; we worked with them so as to help them. WLU is still an NCTE member conference today. That's what an ethic of care requires.
2. The NCTE College Section, which has apparently been identified as a substitute for CCCC, is a wonderful group currently led by Jonathan Bush, who is himself designing some terrific programming for that group. The NCTE College Section, however, is not a writing-specific group: it's a group for all college teachers and teacher-scholars--and I say this as the former Chair of the College Section who helped craft its mission statement, one still guiding the College Section today. By way of contrast, CCCC is a group dedicated to writing at the college level; it provides a home for teachers and scholars of writing, and a home for the discipline they have created over 7 decades. Given advancements in technologies, especially, AI, this group is more important than ever.

Screenshot 2 of 2 from a public Facebook post from Kathleen Blake Yancey with the following information:

3. My understanding is that the CCCC officers were given a period of less than 2 months to provide a budget plan assuring sustainability; that's not enough time to make such a plan, nor to work with the CCCC Executive Committee to enact it.
4. The Executive Director of NCTE is the Secretary Treasurer of CCCC. Unfortunately, she has not attended CCCC for at least two years and thus has not reported in person to CCCC members at the CCCC business meetings, My understanding is also that she has not provided detailed budgets to the CCCC officers. My assumption is that due diligence on the part of a Secretary Treasurer would entail such actions--attending meetings, providing specific financial information, and prudently guiding the organization. That was the standard when I was Chair of CCCC. I'm not sure how one could dissolve an organization that its own Treasurer Secretary failed to adequately serve. I am sure that the Executive Director can herself be directed to take up these actions.
THE NCTE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
https://ncte.org/about/leadership/

Michelle Chen @michellechn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Apparently there's still time to contact the NCTE executive committee before they have the final vote on #CCCC! Antero Garcia antero.garcia@stanford.edu Detra Price price.151@osu.edu Jamal A. Cooks jcooks@chabotcollege.edu Tonya B. Perry tperry@miles.edu Jonathan Bush jonathan.bush@wmich.edu

CCCC Kathleen Blake yancey

About CCCC. ****Please share widely.**** It is my understanding that the full NCTE Executive Committee has NOT voted to dissolve CCCC. It is my understanding that the NCTE Executive Committee is meet...

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Michelle Chen@michellechn.bsky.social · 2w ago

Guys. This SUCKS. I'm relatively new to #CCCC but it very quickly became one of my favorite conferences. Whatever happens though, I know you #teamrhetoric scholars will keep up the important advocacy and social justice work in the field. nolite te bastardes carborundorum

Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social · 2w ago

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Donnie Johnson Sackey@donniejsackey.bsky.social · 2w ago

A couple hours ago, I woke up to messages about CCCC being dissolved and absorbed into NCTE's College Section. I don't know what this means for the 2027 conference, but I do know it'll be different, if it's held at all.

Pamela K Gilbert @pamelakgilbert.bsky.social · 2w ago

@aclu.org @aaup.org

Dan Libertz@dlib24.bsky.social · 2w ago

From Kathleen Blake Yancey with clearest info about possible actions: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Roberto S. Leon @rleon1.bsky.social · 2w ago

@ncte.org is un-American. If anyone would be expected to uphold the Constitutional rights of freedom of speech, press, and assembly, it would be NCTE. If they won't fight for us, who will? I encourage our CCCC leaders to, in true American fashion, declare independence from NCTE.

Donnie Johnson Sackey@donniejsackey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Susan (George) Schorn @susanschorn.bsky.social · 2w ago

I would expect a mass exodus of composition scholars and teachers from NCTE. This will degrade the value of NCTE membership for those who stay. I would also expect CCCC members to re-group elsewhere, possibly in alliance with some branch of the C-WPA (www.wpacouncil.org/aws/CWPA/pt/...)

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SlavaUkraini033 @slavaukraini033.bsky.social · 3w ago

Overnight, Russia carried out the largest ever ballistic missile attack since the beginning of the war, targeting Kyiv. According to preliminary figures, the following was used: ~ 38 Iskander-M ballistic missiles. ~ 6 Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Exeter University confuses Higher Education Academy and British Academy. It's just too telling in the context of the redundancy announcements.

Historians awarded Fellowships of the Higher Education Academy

A pair of world-renowned history scholars have been recognised for their work after being elected Fellows of the Higher Education Academy. Professor Jane Whittle and Professor Mark Jackson were among ...

news.exeter.ac.uk

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 3w ago

‘Thousands of university job cuts in humanities and social sciences are creating widespread cold spots for languages, classics and theology degrees, the British Academy has warned’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 4w ago

If Jared Kushner paid €110m to buy an island in Albania that has no fresh water from a guy who did not own it, it would help explain why his negotiations with Iran on behalf of the US have not been entirely successful

Shibley Telhami@stelhami.bsky.social · 4w ago

Businessman who sold land for Kushner resort in Albania suspected of faking the deeds www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 4w ago

That way you can't hold us to our expressed ideals!

Simon Hewitt@leedshewitt.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social · 4w ago

“It appears that the decision to retract the papers was a human error and we can confirm that no software or ‘bot’ would have been involved in the process.” (Based on this photo, Max Planck is skeptical...still, it's good that his previously retracted papers are back online.) #histSTM #physics 🗃️📜

Science Magazine@science.org · 4w ago

Springer Nature has reversed the more than decade-old retraction of two papers by legendary physicist and Nobel laureate Max Planck, saying the initial action was based on human error. https://scim.ag/3TouJuS

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

WA Whistles@wawhistles.bsky.social · 4w ago

ICE is surging in the Seattle area. (Map shows activity in the last week) Do you have your whistle with you?

Map of ICE sightings from iceout.org, 7/1-7/8, showing Puget sound area between Fort Lewis and Marysville.

ClaireG 🏴‍☠️🏳️‍🌈@clairegregoryau.bsky.social · last mo.

Been a long time since I've laughed this hard at a headline, well done AP 😆 apnews.com/article/neil...

A screenshot of a headline from the Associated Press that reads, Australian officials ask fans to respect the privacy of Neil, a 1-ton seal who respects nothing

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last mo.

Combing through humanities students, while combing over STEM students, while closing Humanities programmes and making Humanities academics redundant as surplus to the employability agenda. The market, in 2026.

Lauri Donahue@lauridonahue.bsky.social · last mo.

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.

glad congress isn’t alive to see this

Bill Prady@billprady.com · last mo.

There were two entities: America 250, a bipartisan organization chartered by Congress, and Freedom 250, a Trump-backed group. Companies intending to donate to America250 were supplied routing and account numbers that directed their funds to Freedom 250. wapo.st/4fe4Whs

shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · last mo.

the writers on this season of the trump show really need to dial it back

Anthony's Spinning Circles here too!@circlesspinning.bsky.social · last mo.

Maga taking shelter in the National Museum of African-American History And Culture!

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · last mo.

Horrific footage from the aftermath of Russia's massive overnight attack on Kyiv. Russia killed at least 13 people. Eighty-six others, including children,were injured. Rescuers are still searching for people trapped under the rubble. The attack lasted more than 11 hours.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · last mo.

Kyiv now‼️‼️

Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · last mo.

idly wondering how you ever become so evil and afraid that you could propose sterilizing all foreign visitors to your land because you are so terrified of the "contagion" of other races

Paul Graf@paulginva.bsky.social · last mo.

Quite the meltdown on the postliberal right today....

Sean Davis @seanmdav

Several ways forward here given the choice of Roberts/Barrett to nullify the 14th Amendment and extra-constitutionally replace it with their own language:

1) Nullification. States issue birth certificates, and they can just stop issuing them to non-citizens. Roberts/Barrett can deal with the fallout and litigate each birth individually.

2) Pack the court. If Robert wants to be a politician who writes laws instead of a judge, then he can fight with 10 more unelected legislators in robes.

3) Deny entry to all pregnant foreigners.

4) Deny entry to all female foreigners.

5) Require sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry.

6) Dissolution of the Union. A nation which can't even restrict who gets to be a citizen isn't a nation.

7) Amend the Constitution. This is pointless, because once a judge decides he can rewrite the Constitution at will (as Roberts and Barrett did today), the actual text is meaningless. But this is what most GOP politicians gravitate towards because they are useless.

If you think all these options are not great, understand that that is what happens when unelected judges decide that they are in charge of the country and get to write its laws.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · last mo.

Well, this is fabulous. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The ‘Mad Scientist’ Behind Graham Platner’s Scandal-Plagued Rise

Dan Moraff rushed the vetting of the Maine Senate candidate. He says he’s trying to blow up the way Democrats run campaigns.

wsj.com

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“I carry with me a photo of a Muslim child who, during my visit to Lebanon, was standing there holding a sign that said ‘Welcome, Pope Leo,’ and in this latest phase of the war, he was killed. “As a Church, I say again: as a pastor, I cannot be in favor of war.” — Pope Leo XIV

Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thousands gather at a peaceful anti-racism rally in Belfast as the crowd chants, "Refugees are welcome here”🙏

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2mo ago