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OMG yay, congratulations!! Can’t wait to read! 🎉🎉

If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...

This is a fantastic volume, so proud to be a part of it! I am especially glad to be part of the community of scholars working of 18c science and culture who have connected with each other through the ASECS science studies caucus

Cover of Histories of Science: Natural Philosophy in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World, which features poppy in three stages of flowering (Johanna Helena Harolt) alongside an eighteenth-century illustration of vials from Two Glass Containers for Scientific Experiments with Liquids (1666).

Thrilled to share that *Histories of Science* is finally out in the world! Dave and I are so grateful to @uvapress.bsky.social and have been honored to work with such brilliant contributors @tobiasmenely.bsky.social @aaronrhanlon.com @qu1x0tical.bsky.social

We've published a list of resources from the Information Exchange about the NEH Appeals Process that was hosted by ACH, AHA and MLA earlier this week. buff.ly/JVOBxP0

3 ways to fight for the NEH:

1) Talk loudly about humanities research and public programming

2) Join @modernlanguage.bsky.social and/or @historians.org because the more members we have, the more clout we have.

3) Help fund this lawsuit through Paving the Way: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

NEH just sent new guidance about terminated awards that includes the following: "7. Appeals--NEH is not offering a means of dispute resolution"

Yet that is clearly at odds with the Terms & Conditions for Orgs governing our awards. They are trying to discourage appeals. Submit them anyway.

If you've had an NEH grant terminated, join us tomorrow (4/30) at 11 a.m. ET for an information exchange about the NEH appeal process hosted by the MLA's @jasonrhody.bsky.social, @nolauren.bsky.social from @ach.bsky.social‬, and Sarah Weicksel from @historians.org: ach.org/news/2025/04...

I am leading a bipartisan and bicameral effort to denounce the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities and to demand POTUS and NEH Acting Director Michael McDonald restore funding for grant recipients.

@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov we need you to speak up for the NEH! So far, DOGE has terminated 43 grants in the state of IL, totaling ~$11.7M dollars. That is less than one thousandth of the federal budget, but it makes a HUGE difference for our state! Please help us protect this agency!

Receipts: impact.ach.org

You can use this @ach.bsky.social created tool to look up the impact of DOGE cuts to NEH funding for your state and congressional district! Then call/email/tag your reps to help us SAVE THE NEH. #savetheneh

@schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov @pelosi.house.gov What are California Senators and Representatives doing to save NEH funding and staff?

If your NEH grant was rescinded, contact your representative and help @humanitiesall.bsky.social track grant terminations by using this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

URGENT: Save the NEH

I just wrote to all of my congressional representatives to plead them to support the NEH, for everyone, for public history, for scholarship, for teaching, for all of it. I used this widget: very easy, it has a template, and automatically looks up the emails of your representatives. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Serious question: has anyone with an NEH grant or cooperative agreement NOT been told it’s canceled? This week has been a bloodbath for so many of us.

URGENT: Save the NEH I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.

Please contact your member of congress to ask them to save the NEH. p2a.co/DdtlGIT

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Do not fuck with librarians; they know everything, and incredibly organized, and will come for your ass (I can't wait)

I spent the last five years serving public history, arts, and culture at NEH. Please take a moment to let your representatives know you support NEH. Or read on and I can tell you a little bit about why I believe in public funding for the humanities.

regional public Us serve the vast majority of the 20 million students enrolled in higher ed, are largest employers in countless regions, and are being demolished for the oligarch’s pleasure

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On Wonder Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - On Wonder

Good news!

My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social !

Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025.

Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world!

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DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

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Absolutely. They’ll be getting lots of feedback through email and phone calls now. The lack of awareness/care about the extractivist nature of AI or what it means to impose this on such a diverse student population/overworked faculty is shocking even for this admin.

The CSU's literally *shutting majors & firing faculty* at the same time as it *pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies* for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.

Dr. Mildred García serves as chancellor of the California State University and can be reached at:

(562) 951-4000

csu-chancellor@calstate.edu

California State University Chancellor
401 Golden Shore Long Beach, CA 90802-4210

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In case anyone is wondering, there was zero faculty consultation about this. Do better, CSU!

The University has had a budget deficit for several years. It is attributable to a variety of factors – cost of personnel, price increases for supplies and utilities, inflation – but the main reason is declining enrollment. Student tuition and fees, combined with enrollment-based funding from The California State University, are the major sources of revenue in the university budget. Sonoma State’s enrollment has dropped 38% since its peak in 2015. Remember that to close budget gaps, over the past two years the university has employed a variety of methods – including voluntary employee separations, strategic personnel reductions, academic and operational streamlining, shared services, hiring freezes, and prudent use of reserves. Unfortunately, the actions taken so far, difficult though they have been, are not enough. Further steps must be taken to

fully close the budget gap and ensure Sonoma State’s financial capacity to best serve its current and future students and adapt to a changing higher education landscape. The financial options have now narrowed to a small set of actions – elimination of programs and departments, non-renewal of faculty contracts (both tenured and adjunct), and more layoffs of staff and administration. Consequently, today, approximately 46 university faculty – both tenured and adjunct – will receive notice that their contracts will not be renewed for 2025-26. Additional lecturers will receive notice that no work will be available in fall 2025. Four management positions and 12 staff positions also will be eliminated. Additionally, several academic departments and programs will be combined, downsized, and/or eliminated as follows:

Programs identified for elimination: Administrative Services Credential in ELSE; Art History BA; Art Studio BFA; Dance BA; Earth and Environmental Sciences BA; Economics BA; Education Leadership MA; English MA; French BA; Geology BS; German Minor; Global Studies BA; History MA; Interdisciplinary Studies BA; Interdisciplinary Studies MA; Philosophy BA; Physical Science BA; Physics BA; Physics BS; Public Administration MPA; Spanish MA; Theatre Arts BA; Women and Gender Studies BA. ● Departments identified for closure: Art History; Economics; Geology; Philosophy; Theater/Dance; Women and Gender Studies. ● Program mergers: Ethnic Studies (current departments of American Multicultural Studies, Chicano and Latino Studies, and Native American Studies) will be

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences

Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

For any members of the CSUN community, please request help from the Matador Relief Fund if you've been displaced by the #LAFires
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