Kirsten Saxton

If you're on Academia[dot]edu, heads up that they've started making AI-generated "podcasts" of the work that's uploaded there. It's enabled by default. You have to opt out. Don't play the file. (It believe it's not actually generated until you play it). Just opt out. www.academia.edu/settings#ai-...

well shit

The entire field of 19th century studies is about how wrong this summation is

#19c

well it is certainly not the first as Northeastern did this with Claude months ago--every student, every teacher, every staff member. Ugh.

Job standing in front of a car

Bradford, job and two friends hanging at dodger stadium

Bradford and job sitting in his car

Bradford, Job and two friends hanging

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity.

ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/. New issue just released. Scholarship on Aphra Behn, pedagogy Concise Collections on Teaching Phyllis Wheatley Peters and much more.
#17c #18c #pride #indigeneity

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils Jump to Your State: Alabama | Arkansas | Georgia | Kentucky | Louisiana | Mississippi | North Carolina | Oklahoma | Tennessee | Texas On Monday, March 31, the Federation … Read more

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

The public colleges of New York, Texas, and California are great engines of social mobility in America. They move many born in the lower 20% of income to the top 20%.

Our most elite universities move smaller numbers from the bottom 20% income to the top 1%.

Paper: www.nber.org/system/files...

Small thing to do for your visa/green-card grads rn. Make sure they collect the numbers of several *trusted* senior faculty and family/friends. Then teach them how to set up an action button that texts everyone at once with one button/Siri. Share location enabled. www.google.com/search?clien...

Good job @NU and shame on the silent Ivies

Declaration To Defend Research Against U.S. Government Censorship This Declaration is a call to action for the scholarly communication community and additional stakeholders to condemn and resist recent acts by the U.S. government to censor scholarly research. We ca...

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Picture of the table of contents for the journal, available through the linked page

True story: the last thing I did as Associate Editor of Studies in Romanticism was solicit this *very timely* forum on Transromanticsm - it has now been published in the current issue - and is OPEN ACCESS for 1 month. Thrilled to receive the issue in the mail too

muse.jhu.edu/journal/754

@cignahealthcare.bsky.social Really? Seriously????

Listen to the Firespitters: Seven Poetry Books to Read This February It’s a new year, which means it’s yet another occasion to be the same old unbudgeable person as last year while grumbling to oneself, new year, new me. (I can’t read that phrase without thinking of…

check out Juliana Spahr's new collection "In the six ars poeticas, she sings of the dark times but also of coral, the pop song's possible liberation, and the love of comrades." together.https://lithub.com/listen-to-the-firespitters-seven-poetry-books-to-read-this-february/

Here's where you can go to email them your complaint: www.nps.gov/ston/contact...

Holy cow.

This is deep in the weeds, and people outside science departments and deans' offices won't have a clue what it means. But the NIH has just capped indirect costs on all current and future grants at 15%.

The STEM budget of every research university has just been absolutely shot to hell.

Updates on National Endowment for the Arts FY 2026 Grant Opportunities The National Endowment for the Arts is updating its FY 2026 grant guidelines, with deadlines in March and July 2025. These changes impact organizations applying in the Grants for Arts Projects or Chal...

So, the National Endowment for the Arts announced today that they are reworking the guidelines for all 2026 grants and will be prioritizing projects that center the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It's now just a propaganda fund.

www.arts.gov/news/press-r...

Bait Ball Psychoanalysis — Parapraxis Juliana Spahr

www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/bai...
Xo xo

Lair ’28: Trump’s executive orders require a collective response in higher education Serving the Brown community since 1891

yes please
"In their email to the Brown community, President Paxson and Provost Doyle asserted that administrators “are also prepared to exercise (their) legal right to advocate against laws, regulations or other actions that compromise Brown's mission.” www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Stop
Complying

Fred Moten said "The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly."

We're hosting our next conference this coming October -- "Always Here: Non-Binary Gender, Trans Identities, and Queerness in the Global Middle Ages (c. 250-1650)."

Please send us your abstracts!

Delighted that the DTA now has an Oakland campus presence!

‘He feels empowered’: DeSantis kicks off takeover of second liberal Florida school Republican governor installs conservatives including self-described anti-feminist to University of West Florida board

welp yikes www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A job, working with me and other cool people supporting the Humanities at NU northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Who is working on the not enshittified version of Meta? Having a hard time leaving that Nazi site bc of its less public social emotional connection to folks (friends from HS, college, grad school, former students & colleagues I care about but am not in intimate text/convo connection with).

As well as fighting for abolition

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a whole lotta joy to see this out in the world; I remember that little conference room convo at the AB conference when we were like, can we make an open access 18th c feminist scholarly journal? Why yes, yes we could! Check out this kick ass edition! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...