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My birthday is coming up soon. I mention this for no particular reason!

Hmm.

I am so excited for this!

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, O knaves

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
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Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?

Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.

Sure, I would be happy to!

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Congratulations! That's fantastic news; can't wait to read!

Screenshot that says Louisiana's health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations State's surgeon general presents illness-preventing jabs as personal choice in move that experts call 'infuriating' US politics - live updates Marina Dunbar and Ramon Antonio Vargas in New Orleans Fri 14 Feb 2025 12.56 EST

Screenshot that says Louisiana's deadly whooping cough outbreak is now its worst in 35 years WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Rosemary Westwood f Published September 3, 2025

Started/Going in Louisiana

368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants

Happy to hear of this ruling, but also frustrated that my book, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org and used by Anthropic, does not appear to have been registered for US copyright, and is thus not eligible. Live and learn -- I think I always assumed registration was automatic!

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).

* pin it & share it *

Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

1803 engraving of a balloon aflame with people falling out and onlookers pointing.

Going into the fall semester like….

Who could have seen this coming? MIT researchers find that only ~5% of businesses using AI are seeing growth, adding to earlier research showing AI only completed 30% of the tasks it was assigned. Is that a bubble pop I hear?

mlq.ai/media/quarte...

This looks great - just ordered!

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

"The Myth of the Useless Humanist" vs "Humanities myths, busted" a letter to colleagues

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
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Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh OOUUuuwwwwaaaaaa ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah

i think about this tweet every single day

Oh no!!! Awful!

This is really, really sad. A superb press with a great list run by a fantastic editor. With the loss of this lively, reliable, rigorous avenue, our field gets smaller and quieter.

Cover image of Neil Kraus’s The Fantasy Economy: Neoliberalism inequality and the education reform movement

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes.

“The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

Promoting the idea that higher education is antiquated & failing is a win for corporations bc (1) it gives them a product to sell-ed tech-that will supposedly fix our broken teaching and (2) it deflects attention away from the real problem which is systemic assaults by corporate America on workers.

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

AI Eroded Doctors’ Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study Artificial intelligence, touted for its potential to transform medicine, led to some doctors losing skills after just a few months in a new study.

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Private eye article about “Austen novel finally being adapted for screen”, “stopped the constant adaptations of Fanny Burney, Maria Edgeworth, William Makepeace Thackeray and Ann Radcliffe”

@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you :)