Gillian Gower, PhD

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!

Every time I think history can no longer surprise me I find out about something completely new and wild. This time it’s Stalinist genetics and may I just say, on information and belief, what the actual fuck

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,

Yeah and frankly I just don’t think we need to rile ourselves up over whatever hateful garbage the tabloids are doing for clicks. The NY Post and Daily Mail are unreliable sources, film at 11

this website would be significantly better if we didn’t amplify every bonkers headline or batshit bigoted conspiracy theory running amok on x the antisemitism app

ughhhhh

over and over they say it out loud: big ideas for the elite class, and only widget grunts for the working people.

ideas are for everybody. art is for everybody. education is for everybody.

The radical revival of the Welsh women’s hat Learn more about the traditional Welsh women's hat, a historic symbol of resistance.

If you are unfamiliar with het Gymreig, please enjoy

May your Welsh cakes be delicious and your Welsh hats be weird

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus to all who celebrate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

In order to understand UK politics in 2026 you must realise that a plumber & plasterer doesn't represent the interests of the working class because she is left-wing but a wealthy broadcaster & former academic does represent the interests of the working class because he is right-wing. Hope this helps

Water your word documents once weekly, preferably with your tears

This image from 1588 shows a tree with big bound books grewing instead of fruits. This tree starts in a house organ that is played from a well-dressed woman and a man. The image of part of. abook praising the art of making books, you may find it here if you fancy: http://diglib.hab.de/drucke/uh-20/start.htm

Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.