Melissa McLeod

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Is it possible that we just don’t “get” The Overstory yet?

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AND b/c I’m opposed to AI for climate reasons. But I feel I should understand the efficiency claims before I 💩 on them

Serious question: wouldn’t it take as much time to get the prompt right for AI to write your memo/email as it would to write the memo/email yourself? Haven’t tried it b/c it seems like extra work.

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Don’t skip it! Lots of good qualities.The structure is innovative and some of the characters are very well drawn. It’s v good but I expected great

Am I the only one who thinks Powers’s The Overstory is overwritten or am I late to the party?

Reading with great interest. Teaching a freshman composition course this fall called Narrating Global Problems. Reading Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower (climate change) and Ali Smith’s Companion Piece (COVID) and interspersing with history/non-fiction.

NPR CEO Katherine Maher addresses future of federal funding for public media Katherine Maher, president and CEO of National Public Radio, talks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about the White House proposal to eliminate federal funding for public media.

This helped me…

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2 tenure-track Asst or Assoc professor jobs in History/Anthropology of Science, Technology & Medicine at
Carnegie Mellon U to begin in August 2026. Tech & social change or environmental & social impacts of STM; time period & geographic specialization open.
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Deadline: Sep 15, 2025

Business professor here — Whenever parents ask me if I’d recommend my discipline, I’m honest with them. My undergrad is a double major in English Language & English Literature and I know I got more out of it than I would’ve a BBA.

Now a humanities-informed b-school, that would be ideal!!

Embarrassed to confess I hadn’t thought of this

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it's always a good day to talk about HUMANITIES WORKS

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Fellowships

Researchers!

Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications.

Deadline is July 31.

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I remember parents (always parents) at open days asking "what can s/he do with an English degree?" I answered that 75% of graduate jobs did not specify a subject. Employers wanted intelligent, resourceful people with transferable skills. English and humanities grads were ideal.

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Norton has a some nice posters on English major employment. They also have "The Norton Survey of English Majors: A Student Perspective (April 2021-April 2022)".

Got that in America too

Also great

At a glance I thought this said Fartbots 🤔

Put this in the wrong reply😑 look under “reports”

Look under “reports”

Wonder if we could get a Bluesky group on English major employment stats/ articles to share.

Best recent stats or articles on why majoring in English is valuable?

I'm looking for easily digestible stats for recruitment materials: e.g. X number of graduates are employed within Y timeframe; English majors are X behind only Y graduates in job satisfaction.

Thanks!

Humanities Indicators website has published reports on this and can sort by states. English specific seems harder to find. I’m watching this space cuz I’m doing the exact same thing for my dept

Ok but we’ve got ‘sup