Erin Keating

Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night:

Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!

Judge nixes Justice Department subpoena of telehealth trans health care provider The Trump administration sought not to investigate but to intimidate QueerDoc, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead wrote.

The Trump administration sought not to investigate but to intimidate QueerDoc, U.S. District Judge Jamal Whitehead wrote.

early modern centres (@srsrensoc.bsky.social)

Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

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I want all the judgmental assholes to think what it must be like to live on $700/ month. Come the F on. Get some empathy.

Tired of seeing people saying "his mom took Tylenol" when they see a fascist being a fascist. Stop using autistic people to explain fascism/racism.

Rob Schneider isn't like that because he's autistic, he's just a piece of shit scumbag.

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

I need this sticker 😻💀

Day 24 of Emmanuel Garcia being in federal custody.

He’s a 15 year old autistic boy who went missing 4 weeks ago. Houston PD found him, contacted ICE & his Mom is fighting to get him back

She’s not allowed to visit him.

They’re keeping a disabled kid from his family & the media is largely silent

Billie Eilish Calls on Billionaires to Support People in Need: 'No Hate, But Give Your Money Away' Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million from 'Hit Me Hard and Soft' tour to charity and calls on billionaires to support people in need during hard times.

I don't see a lot of people talking about this, so I want to highlight something GOOD

Billie Eilish stood in a room full of billionaires and said "you're billionaires... Why?"

She donated 11.5 MILLION DOLLARS to food equity and climate orgs, which Stephen Colbert announced to said billionaires.

🔊 Applications for the tenure-track illuminate global challenge fellowships at Queen’s are now open!
Comes with 5 years protected research time, a PhD studentship, & 60k start-up. I had one of these before getting my FLF, happy to chat to anyone interested!

www.qub.ac.uk/Research/fel...

Do you have an essay that contribute to our understanding of Anglophone literature/history/culture,1660-1700 or explores how the Restoration impacts other periods, including our current moment? We encourage submissions from scholars at any career stage, with or without university affiliation.

Maybe the thing that gives me a pulse-pounding throbbing headache is when I think of how techbros sold ChatGPT to universities as ‘revolutionizing’ higher education and our institutions just forked over money without even asking for actual evidence

SNAP is probably the most effective federal dollar we spend in terms of long term domestic economic outcomes.

that isn’t why you should support it; you should support it because it is a moral imperative to feed the hungry.

but it’s why even a growth-oriented ghoul shouldn’t oppose it.

I loved Krull and watched it many times as a child but only today realized that was Liam Neeson. Definitely time for a rewatch!

Did you know that the North American Society for Oceanic History has book awards for maritime & naval history & archaeology? If your book on a topic in those categories has a 2025 original copyright, you’re probably eligible for consideration for this year. Give me a shout if you want to know more!

Birth! Death!! Domestic Religion!!!

Come along (or join online) to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social's talk at the @ihr.bsky.social next Thursday.

This is the Canada ad Trump lost his mind over. Shocker, he’s lying—it is Reagan’s real voice.

He’s now cutting off trade with Canada because he’s scared it could mess with the Supreme Court case over his “reciprocal” tariffs.

AI can pry Oxford commas and em dashes from my cold, lifeless, and dead hands—and I dare someone to say something to me about it

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

Heyyyy we desperately need more archaeologists to volunteer to answer questions from students via video chat through @skypeascientist.bsky.social.

We have 80 unmatched teams. We’ve already matched 650 😵‍💫

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"The analysis found 45% of all AI answers to questions about news and current affairs had at least one significant issue; 31% had missing, misleading, or incorrect attributions, and 20% contained major accuracy issues."
www.ebu.ch/Report/MIS-B...

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Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Image from airplane. Foggy suburban housing in the distance with mix of green and brown fields crossed by roads in the foreground.

Hello Regina! Looking forward to catching up with the CSECS crew over the next few days 💜 #csecs2025

Time for a key-word search! We searched for "libertinism" in all the previous articles published in Restoration. Check out the results in the thread below:

Using ChatGPT

Nineteen Eighty-Four is an absurdist rom com about the practical difficulties of having an affair, which Orwell wrote a dystopian exploration of totalitarianism to disguise the fact he was either having an affair, or had spent six months pondering exactly how he would do it if he did.