Emily B. Stanback

It will also disconnect students from each other—and in a world fractured by various flavors of technofascism, I cannot think of a more disastrous thing (which is likely partly why AI fetishists are pushing for AI in schools and universities)

Well I guess I'm going to be kicked off of Bluesky soon... 🫠

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No, I don't think there is any need for you, me or anyone to have access to ChatGPT or CoPilot just to help you plan your kid's birthday party, or find nearby restaurants, or plan your holiday for you, or do your homework for you, or write your book review for you, all to see the world burn.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Ha. I was thinking just yesterday that I'm probably going to need to rewatch season 1 of severance.

Ooh what's the name of this album??? I have a dog and kids and self who might benefit

"You use "long eighteenth century" a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another. I do see in your bibliography that there is a book that uses this. If you want to keep "long" here, please provide a brief explanation of what you mean. After that, I see no need to keep reminding your readers of it..

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time.

"You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

I’d love it if you could add me! Following others from the starter packs now!

Anyway, I’ve been thinking a lot recently about how much I’ve been changed by Mississippi, and how much of a privilege it’s been to teach at USM.

So many of the Civil Rights leaders commemorated in the museum are/were from MS, and so many of the atrocities memorialized took place in MS—including the lynching of Emmett Till and the firebombing of Vernon Dahmer’s house in Hattiesburg, where I now live.

Exterior of Woolworth Co. / International Civil Rights Museum

Memorial of names and footprints inlaid in sidewalk outside of Woolworth lunch counter / International Civil Rights Museum for leaders in lunch counter protest

Detail from top of Woolworth / International Civil Rights Museum

In Greensboro, NC for a family wedding and snuck off to go to the International Civil Rights Museum, the site of the famous 1960 Woolworth lunch counter protest—a week before teaching Anne Moody in my World Literature course.

The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

you could ask your library to order if you want

A pedagogy essay about disability and teaching I wrote in 2016 as I was preparing to complete my doctorate has finally appeared in Romantic Circles Reviews & Receptions: www.romantic-circles.org/index.php/pr...

Wow

On top of a brown wooden table is a COVID test with two lines indicating it is positive.

Social media can be a cruel place. Amidst all the muck, there are glimmers of hope. I wrote about disabled outrage and a recent hashtag I created on Twitter #PodSaveJon

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2024/01/02/d...

The Call for Papers for BARS' 2024 Conference, Romantic Making and Unmaking, is now available. The conference will take place at the University of Glasgow from July 23rd-25th and online August 1st-2nd.
Deadline for proposals Friday January 19th 2024. Full details here: bars.ac.uk/conference20...

Churchyard with long grass in the sunset. Church has a tower, there are big trees nearby. A few gravestones emerge from the grass, but basically walking through here would be a deathtrap of hidden masonry. Pretty though.

We're advertising a really fun interdisciplinary PhD on the biodiversity of churchyards and the barriers and opportunities of community-driven biodiversity action: Churchyards as a microcosm for biodiversity gains in the UK's cultural landscapes. Apply here: www.york.ac.uk/professorial...

LOVE the drama of this Italian fan, c.1806 – forget flowers and lovers, give me NIGHTSCAPE VOLCANOES 🌋🌋🌋

🪭 at the Met Museum: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #18c #19c #histsci

Emily Stanback in a green shirt and orange mask with an “I Voted” sticker

Election Day!

This looks great! Looking forward to reading it!

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology