Gillian Gower, PhD

exciting! congratulations!

I do not regret to inform everyone that the words you choose and the order in which you arrange them still matter

She reported her professor. Then the Reddit comments poured in. Part one of an investigation into an online smear campaign that followed a complaint against a music school.

Smear campaigns in Reddit comments have become a fixture of celebrity legal dramas, but they aren't just affecting public figures. For @spitfirenews.com, I investigated anonymous online attacks against a woman who reported a music professor for sexual harassment.
spitfirenews.com/p/she-report...

Thanks, Jo 🖤

I guess this is confirmation that normies do not know the difference between literature reviews and bibliographies

note to self: bsky is for everyone's worst political takes, not your feelings

thanks, but I am really not looking for "just leave academia" right now

gotcha

there's a whole section on cosmetics in the Trotula, isn't there?

Co-sign. My dissertation was about elite women in the late Middle Ages. Privileged? Yes. Tough as nails? Also yes.

Lots of people assume elite women in the past were soft creatures but they weren't. The woman in question here had experienced a miscarriage that left her bleeding for months and she could only walk three or four miles before she had to stop and catch her breath.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

Ding-dong! The Dutch Fish Doorbell needs you to help migrating fish A Dutch lock is closed for the spring, and its employees want you to tell them when migrating fish come knocking by ringing a digital doorbell

Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... 🧪

If you're not specifically researching Nazis and hate movements, you really need to stop posting on X.

In particular, no D politician or progressive group should be on X now. Get the hell off. You endanger the people who come to see your posts there AND you expose yourself to Nazi propaganda.

I have made a terrible mistake (started going through a stack of old papers)

You laugh but unfortunately I have actually heard people make this argument about film scores

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

Yep!

University of Bluesky when

(Congrats!)

An open manuscript showing the index of names.

Got to perform my fave pedagogical parlor trick today, which was to pull out our manuscript containing quires from a 13C Bible w an alphabetical index of Hebrew names and their Latin interpretations, and ask a student in class with a Bible name if they want me to look it up & tell them its meaning.

that sound you just heard is every millennial bisexual on this website losing their minds

I have read this essay before on microfiche in a 1970s zine

if you hadn’t included the link I would have sworn up and down this was an old xojane piece

“Previous generations didn't care very much about the distinction between sapphic labels”

This is how you know the right-wing conviction that schools are teaching LGBTQ+ history is a complete and utter fiction

Interesting. I avoid the Discover tab like the plague.

starting to think it might not be the best idea to encourage Big Accounts to do punditry on issues in which they have no expertise

Thank you for your service

Oh you want to wear sk8r boi pants and vans?

Then you're naming files for MSDOS.

hear the music Felix Mendelssohn called "too much"! henselpushers.org/k2q

Hey Bay Area,