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Through Mary’s Eyes: Enslavement, Marriage, and Black Women’s Subjectivity — INSURRECT! “In providing a compelling microhistorical lens into the intersections of enslavement, marriage, Christianity, and women’s subjectivity, the Mary-Hylas case exemplifies the layered experiences of Blac...

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Reduction in Northwestern’s Workforce: Leadership Notes - Northwestern University In response to challenges we have been articulating since November, Northwestern has taken several measures to protect the University’s long-term financial stability.

I was laid off from Northwestern University today, along with 200 other people. 📚 www.northwestern.edu/leadership-n...

ICYMI: The big news over the weekend is movement in a positive direction that will hopefully bring relief to our grantees, though unfortunately, National Endowment for the Humanities staff will not see any justice regarding our mass terminations from this ruling. #NEH

14 Republican senators urge White House to release delayed NIH funds Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) is leading the letter making the ask of OMB director Russ Vought.

PA Senator McCormick (who is never in his Philly office) signed on to this; turns out all the screaming outside his office we did earlier this year worked! Thanks to AAUP and @higheredlabor.bsky.social

In the past I’ve had Intro to DH students write process blogs after in class activities & labs, now I’m considering asking them to write process journals by hand with “unhinged journal prompts” (as seen on TikTok)

Tonight is a good night to bring up––once again––how I attribute my scholarly methodologies, habits, and perspectives to the fact that 80% of my readings in undergrad were shitty photocopies of my profs' books.

The timing of this news & Drexel just announcing yesterday that we are switching to Canvas by 2027 🥴

[W4G] Life Funds for Gaza Scholars, writers, educators & artists -- stop sending funds to the orgs & institutions that continue to double down on their allegiance to the death machines of Zionism and empire. Send funds to support life in Gaza instead!  Resign and donate your membership fees Refuse to attend their conferences and donate

Academics, if you need a reason, in these urgent times, reminder that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social has set up a tab where you can redirect membership fees and conference costs from AHA, MLA, AWP & PEN to the Sameer Project, run by Palestinians open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/w4g...

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

Image of a nearly empty vial of insulin with text superimposed: "When the insulin runs out--a foray into insurance-induced rage."

From romcom to Shakespearean tragedy: my life on hold in the broken insurance loop: open.substack.com/pub/emdillon...

Something about the way LLMs build in the idea that to find something out, you shouldn't read an already existing text that other people have also read (ew!); you should get fresh text generated just for you. Each time, new disposable text.

I'm struggling with how much to change the assignments in my grad-level class to make them less LLMable.

This thread is me thinking out loud, and I'd just love to hear perspectives from others in higher ed.

Fundamentally: I care more about students doing things than I care about assessment. 🧵

One million starved children and no shortage of food

this is one of the worst crimes in human history and the entire global north and all of us in it share the responsibility

In the next few months I get to have two gum grafting surgeries to fix gum recession that is related to the years I did not have dental insurance in graduate school. Just more evidence that Northeastern’s grad union (GENU-UAW) deserves a strong contract

Heath Communism in vertical blue letters in white cover W4G pre-order Adler-Bolton, Beatrice & Artie Vierkant: Healrh Commuism

The paperback ed. of hosts of the Death Panel podcast’s Beatrice Adler Bolton and Artie Vierkant’s Health Communism is now available for preorder thru our online bookstore.

All proceeds to the Sameer Project’s medical campaign:

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Posting about famine is not the same as trying to stop it, alleviate it, interrupt it.

Survival funds were survival funds 21 months ago. Spend a moment contemplating what they are now.

Help six families eat. Anything less, forget. 560/1900 by Friday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Gonna have to drop everything to write about how the company running these Prompt Engineering Certificates (with laundered brand equity) was created by a Venture Capital firm.

Not “funded” or “bankrolled.” The VCs imagined it, invented it, built it, then installed their hand-picked “founder.”

Join Our Team! The editing collective at Nursing Clio is seeking three new staff members: one Book Reviews Editor and two new Editors! Nursing Clio is a volunteer-run, open access, collaborative blog project that…

Nursing Clio is looking for new editors! My time at NC has been truly life changing, both personally & professionally. Join us! We're looking for essay editors & someone to help us do more book reviews and author interviews. Details here: nursingclio.org/about/staff/... #histmed #dishist

Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage. In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...

ICYMI: what digging around actual original sources and analysing is like: buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

I've seen some talk about how we are witnessing the end of the professoriate as we know it and this may be true, but I think it's bigger: it's the decimation of the mission-oriented profession.

Want to make a middle-class living serving the public good? Capitalism doesn't want that for you.

Huge congrats to the postdocs !! 🥳😎

Anywho, as I tell the young people in my life whom I love deeply, this is your time to create beautiful works of art, to throw the most fun parties you can for no money, and to fight like hell for a future worthy of you. This is NOT a time to retreat into yourself and to forgo the world.

Today is the LAST DAY to vote! Postdocs and Research Associates, make your way to Houston Hall today before 7pm to vote YES!

extremely helpful thread here:

Friends, please share!

Proofs are ready for @skeuomorphpress.org's edition of Ursula K. Le Guin’s "A Rant About Technology." I am so pleased with this book—in many ways our 1st real book project

Details about how to get one through our fundraiser at skeuomorph.ischool.illinois.edu/le-guin-book...

I'm really asking everyone to please stop using Alligator Alcatraz. This is not a descriptor that makes sense. These are concentration camps.

If I was still a postdoc at Penn, I would absolutely be voting YES in the election next week. Solidarity to the current postdocs and research associates who are doing incredible work, despite an unusually intense anti-union campaign

I saw this last week and I felt extremely emotional. 10 years. That's how long this took and it should not have taken this long. www.nrdc.org/press-releas... - I thought also of all of the activists including Little Miss Flint who have CONTINUED to fight for all of these years.

Harvard will remove more than 800 students on research-based stipends from its graduate student union, capitalizing on recent National Labor Relations Board rulings to deal a crushing blow to student labor organizing. The University announced the change in emails to faculty and leaders of the Harvard Graduate Student Union-United Automobile Workers on Wednesday. The union’s membership list will be updated on Thursday. In the message to the HGSU-UAW, Harvard wrote that stipend recipients are not considered employees under the National Labor Relations Act “and do not have the right to unionize.” “Harvard has never agreed that non-employees should be included in the unit,” the message read.

Harvard, aka Resistance U, is taking advantage of the Trumpist NLRB to crush its grad student union by stripping it of 800 members.

Sounds about right.

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