Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social
Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️🌈 • opinions my own
I keep wondering how people like this deal with questions at conferences or from their students, since they clearly don’t put in the effort to learn or ponder anything themselves. Or do they have the LLMs handle those too?
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.
I literally don’t use AI for anything. And where it’s forced down my throat (eg automated receptionists) it’s made my life strictly worse. I would welcome it disappearing overnight.
Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social · 16h agoI have one answer.
You will still certainly not regret assigning my book
Terrence Peterson@tgpeterson.bsky.social · 2y agoI will even zoom into your course
The waning appetite for book reviews is really depressing. I used to write tons of them and slowly over time, each publication I used to write for seems to have lost interest in them.
Personally as a Jewish American I would appreciate if “Protestant unspecified” candidates kept us out of their mouths
Honestly living for thr drama. Definitely agree with Oates though www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
The novelist suggested Wilson should have been ‘a wee bit more thoughtful and respectful’ towards a film-maker who may have helped boost her book sales
theguardian.com
I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”
Apparently Emily Wilson has reached the hey kids get off my lawn stage of her career.
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Thank you for having me! It was a wonderful conversation with a lovely audience
Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social · 4w agoWith huge thanks to @schuneke.bsky.social for his brilliant talk @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on his moving & incisive book, I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany. Special thanks to @williamrossjones.bsky.social for the insightful conversation. And thanks to all who braved the heat!
Happy Fourth and happy 250th. I find myself re-reading FDR’s third inaugural address often these days. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
My book baby has arrived! 🤩 Not for the first time, my wonderful editors @yalebooks.bsky.social have delightfully surprised me: the colours on the jacket catch the light (I'm told it's called 'spot gloss')! It really is a thing of beauty. #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️
Im so exhausted by this pattern. Historians spend years in the archives to write detailed accounts of the past. Only for journalists, doctors, podcasters, and now cartoonists, to swoop in and get paid a lot of money to trot out the same work, "uncovering hidden histories" that are not at all hidden.
Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride
Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck? Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. “Intellectually, it’s not acceptable,” two science historians argue. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Clicking on the links now reveals blank pages and empty PDFs. "Intellectually, it’s not acceptable.”...
arstechnica.com
One thing I’ve noticed after 6 months as co-editor of the Journal of Social History: younger scholars at less wealthy institutions and with less secure employment are more likely to say yes as reviewers. Senior scholars at elite institutions rarely do. Smdh
TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.I hate this guy so much
This kind of thing is exactly why tenure is supposed to exist. Professors aren’t supposed to fear they may lose their job if they say something politically unpopular.
Jen Mercieca@jenmercieca.bsky.social · last mo."An Indiana University instructor who showed a graphic in class that listed the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has lost her job." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...
The Supreme Court is rolling back Americans’ rights to bodily autonomy and privacy. Samuel Huneke asks whether it’s time to rethink staking the former in the latter.
Privation Nation | Samuel Huneke
The right to privacy was always an unsteady foundation on which to advance protections for queers.
thebaffler.com
More of this please.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
25% is enormous! If it were 5% we'd be justified in pulling the plug on the whole thing
Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2mo agoDoctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Utter nonsense. Once again AI exists for people too lazy to think for themselves.
Peter Whitewood@pwhitewood.bsky.social · 2mo agoRebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
Excited to share the cover of "Racism and Antiracism in Divided Germany," a forthcoming book I co-edited with Lauren Stokes. A history of racism and antiracist activism in East, West, and unified Germany—and why it matters today. 30% off from Cornell UP with code 09BCARD: tinyurl.com/RADGcornell
