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DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICS OF UNFEELING @DukePress | @phdivaspodcast | Associate Professor | BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker | Co-Director @qUCL.bsky.social | rhymes w fine from the colonies https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected

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Amy Wilcockson@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social · 2d ago

One of the best things about being Comms Officer for BARS is working alongside a wonderful Communications Fellow!! If you're interested in helping me run the BARS Blog and social media feeds for the next academic year (and receive a stipend for doing so!!!), please check out the link below ⤵️

British Association for Romantic Studies@bars.bsky.social · 6d ago

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

Ben Williamson@benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 22h ago

From journal editing experience, LLMs appear to be *undoing* the good research of non-English speaking scholars. You can see signs of a solid study in a manuscript that chat or claude et al - used for "editing only" - have otherwise *wrecked*. I keep suggesting they try again without AI "editing."

Simon Davies@simonfd.bsky.social · yesterday

People will complain about the deadening effect 'AI' has on writing, then a few sentences later say that it has potential to help non-English speakers publish their work in English. It can't be both. Yes, it will put their work into English, but it will be bland, plagiarised slop English.

Sandeep Bakshi@sandeepbak.bsky.social · 2d ago

Not a summer of respite with leaden-heart for Prof Arday. Several of us are going back to work, incl. myself. We're sick of racism & opportunities passing us by, but mediocre rubbish white academics aren't even adequately reprimanded upon ‘serious misconduct’. www.independent.co.uk/news/educati...

Oxford professor failed to credit work of Chinese colleagues in award-winning book

More sanctions would have been imposed if collaborators were not from China, academics claim

independent.co.uk

Evan Hayles Gledhill@gothicbodies.bsky.social · 2d ago

Hahahaha. Hahahaha. Hahahaha Ofc she's donating her own books. This isn't charity, it's promo. Arguably, Dolly's Imagination Library is more in the tradition of mutual aid, and that's why it works!

The Bookseller@thebookseller.com · 2d ago

More than 200,000 print editions and audiobooks of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone will be donated to schools, libraries and hospitals across the UK, US and other territories worldwide. Read more 👇

adrian de leon@aadeleon.bsky.social · 2w ago

Academic folks: I've got two PhD students on the market this year, broadly within Global Asias and geography. (One on postwar environmental remediation in Vietnam, the other on infrastructure and aesthetics in Hong Kong.) Would love some leads on postdocs, esp. in this changing landscape. Thanks!!!

johnedwinmason@johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 4d ago

One more great thing about Dolly. She was a paid-up union member — American Federation of Musicians, Local 257, Nashville. And she had been for 58 years. www.afm.org/2026/08/afm-...

AFM Statement on the Passing of Dolly Parton

Today, the entire community of professional musicians mourns the loss of an irreplaceable icon and a generous heart: Dolly Parton. While the world knows her as a global superstar and philanthropist…

afm.org

AFL-CIO@aflcio.org · 4d ago

Dolly Parton knew what it was like to struggle as she fought for working families her whole career. From providing free books to kids to giving working women our "9 to 5" anthem, she was an icon and an inspiration. Rest in power to our union sister. We will always love you.

A photo of Dolly Parton sitting at a desk and talking on the phone in a scene from the movie 9 to 5.
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 4d ago

Didn't know this until today but Dolly Parton had a transsexual man named Jason Pirro work as her Hollywood chauffeur in the 1980s, per an interview he gave to The Sun in 1990. "Dolly has been good to me...Dolly knows all about me."

SEXY SECRETS OF DOILY PARTON'S UMO DRIVER-HE USED TO BE A SHE DOLLY PARTON is being chauffeured around Hollywood by a 300-lb. transsexual who has had an operation to change from a woman into a ian. The country queen shares 44-year-old Jason Pirro's secret" and has promised to help the obese, tuxedo-outfitted driver attain his goal to become a movie director. "Dolly has been good to me," Jason told STAR. "I'm not real coafortable talking about ayself. Dolly knows all about me and is a very nice lady. "Whenever Dolly coaes into Hollywood for a aeeting, or for business, or for filaing, or just staying here, she calls ae and I drive her around." Court papers obtained by STAR show Pirro legally changed his naae froa Susan Ann to Jason in 198B because of "sex- reassignaent.* Jason underwent a sex- change operation in 1982. Jason, who has a beard and wears his thinning reddish-brown hair in a ponytaiI, caae to Hollywood 10 years ago. At the time, he was taking hormone tablets and dressing as a «an. He got a job as a lino driver. Dolly has said that there's nothing wrong with transsexuals. "If I were a nan I'd be a drag queen," she admits. "1 enjoy being a trashy dresser and 1 love gaudy things. I love to play with hair and makeup." Jason studied theater as a coed at Syracuse University, but after eight years at college. left without graduating. Despite chat, Jason has a genius-level I.Q. of 144. A fasily friend says Susan was in her aid - 30's when she decided to have doctors transfora her into a ian. "Jason has tried to sake the family feel comfortable with the situation. Even by the time he started to grow facial hair and his voice was getting deeper, if we'd slip and call him Susie, he'd just hug us and say, 'That's OK." "He's a loving warm, caring human being. He teaches transcendental meditation. He has never had an enemy. People just take a liking to him. He has that …
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4d ago

1. AFM, the labor union representing professional musicians in North America, is paying tribute to Dolly Parton, who was a member of its Nashville Local 257 for 58 years. AFM says that for decades, Dolly consistently filed union contracts for her recording sessions, live gigs and tours.

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Prem Sikka@premnsikka.bsky.social · 4d ago

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields. Damage caused by carbon pollution from the oil/gas production, between £119bn and £336bn. Benefit, £28.7bn. Oil/Gas would be sold in world markets, not just kept for the UK.

Climate damage would obliterate any economic benefits of new North Sea fields, analysis shows

Exclusive: Economic harm of CO2 pollution from Rosebank and Jackdaw forecast to far outweigh any boost to UK

theguardian.com

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d ago

I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

Dr. Divya (offline 🔔)@divyampersaud.com · 6d ago

Race science characterizes mainstream research in anthropology, archaeology, psychology, and fields like geology and astronomy as well. The rigorous checks result in that. Regardless, we mustn't ever give equal rhetorical playing field to nazism. Do not cede an inch to the imperialists.

Sasha Gusev@sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 7d ago

Academia is a unique space where people can pursue controversial questions wherever they lead. If the work is pseudoscience (and, in my view, Cofnas' race science clearly is), academia has effective channels for response: public criticism and peer-review.