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Melody Jue

@melodyjue.bsky.social

Professor, UCSB English Ocean humanities, media, STS, SF πŸ™πŸ πŸͺΌπŸ‘πŸ¦€πŸ¦­πŸ³πŸ¦ˆπŸ¬

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I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

19.07.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 386    πŸ” 348    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 4
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#Southwest flight from Vegas to SBA had engine failure mid flight. Thought we were going to die. These are the fire engines coming to check it out.

11.07.2025 07:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Layover flight in Vegas is β€œtoo heavy” to depart in 106F weather… yay

07.07.2025 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One week after terminating the employment of over 100 staff at the National Endowment for the Humanities, the agency posts four open positions...but we who are now unemployed are not "eligible" to apply for them.

The absolute cruelty is more apparent than ever. #NEH

17.06.2025 16:22 β€” πŸ‘ 93    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Fulbright Board Quits, Accusing Trump Administration of Political Interference The board of the prestigious program told the State Department it had no right to cancel scholarships for nearly 200 American professors and researchers.
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Informatics of Domination Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriar

Informatics of Domination is out with @dukepress.bsky.social! I co-edited this experimental collection with Zach Blas + @melodyjue.bsky.social across years + countless zoom chats. I remain stunned by the brilliance of our 50 contributors: read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/3...

08.05.2025 12:20 β€” πŸ‘ 22    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 4
Coral-colored book cover of the book Coralations

Coral-colored book cover of the book Coralations

Listen up! The latest episode of @asleecocast.bsky.social podcast is out, and our guest is ocean humanities expert @melodyjue.bsky.social, discussing her new work Coralations. www.asle.org/stay-informe... #envhum

21.05.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

16.05.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2767    πŸ” 958    πŸ’¬ 83    πŸ“Œ 45
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UniversitΓ€t Basel: Four-Year Postdoc Position on Contemporary US/Anglophone Science Fictions at the University of Basel 80% Funded by the Claudine und Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation, the four-year project β€œAnglo Genres for Atlantic Futures: Contemporary Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, and Science Fictions” is directed...

Four year postdoc in sf studies: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

11.05.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

Juliana Spahr, The Many Lives of Joshua Clover (1962–2025)

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

06.05.2025 20:03 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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'How come I can’t breathe?': Musk's data company draws a backlash in Memphis The company’s turbines β€” enough to power 280,000 homes β€” run without emission controls in an area that leads Tennessee in asthma hospitalizations.

If you are using chat bots, this is what you are choosing.

06.05.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 5

Watched it years ago but wasn’t sure what to do with it. Priscilla Wald put it on my radar

02.05.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Coralations A captivating meditation on coral beyond iconic tropical coralsCoralations is a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our...

Thanks! And yeah… recommend this coral other book instead, which did not have a fascist prehistory: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791812...

02.05.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Impressionen unter Wasser - Wikipedia

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02.05.2025 01:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.

Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.

The new experimental collection "Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , & Jennifer Rhee, addresses formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the 21st century. Read the intro for free now!
https://buff.ly/4jU7Nwk

11.02.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 6
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Just Published: In 'Informatics of Domination,' edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social, and @jsrhee.bsky.social, published by @dukepress.bsky.social, we were all set the task of writing about one entry each from Donna Haraway's famous chart in her 1984 legendary cyborg manifesto.

07.04.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.

Cover of Informatics of Domination, edited by Zack Blas, Melody Jue, and Jennifer Rhee. The cover features and bright white title text against a stark black background, with information about the contributors in a light gray text. The text is located at the top of the cover, above a series of intersecting parallel and perpindicular lines that are rendered in a black, gray and white gradient.

"Informatics of Domination," edited by Zach Blas, @melodyjue.bsky.social , and Jennifer Rhee, is one of the great new titles we have coming out this May! #MediaStudies #TechnologyStudies
buff.ly/BWX6cDK

01.05.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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