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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 3h

Been teaching here ten year and today is the first day i've use my office phone.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 7h

via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.

VolkswagenStiftung @volkswagenstiftung.de · 27d

New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...

Transatlantic Bridge Professorships

The programme is aimed at professors at US universities who are conducting research on the future of democracy, fundamental rights and academic freedom, or the future of transatlantic relations and wh...

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 1d

Available for pre-order. Looking forward to this volume

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s arrival

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2d

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 2d

How a Hospital Takeover Changed How We Treat Addiction in America www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

How a Hospital Takeover Changed How We Treat Addiction in America

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 3d

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 3d

“The right’s war on the academy and education is part of a generational war over what young people, especially young white people, will be taught and how they will be socialized."
www.bostonreview.net/articles/bui...

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 4d

Today’s arrival

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 4d

Two icons! citylights.com/events/achy-...

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 4d

I just got off a call with a group of young people who were seeking some guidance for a project they have launched in their community. Folks, I can tell you that we are blessed in this generation. They are smart and importantly so damn compassionate. ALSO, they know more than we did at their age.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 5d

Experimenting with a new concept using @queermedieval.bsky.social’s Portland Frog woodcut. Embracing goofiness as protest.

A poster in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads:

VIVE LA
RIBBITSTANCE

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 4d

Finding his light

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Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 5d

Lisa Moore: "like the medieval monks and nuns who buried precious manuscripts to hide them from the kings who burned their abbeys, we will preserve this knowledge and progress for another time in the future."

Tita Chico @titachico.bsky.social · 5d

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After 35 years at UT Austin, I hardly recognize my university | Opinion

What was once a beacon of access and discovery is now fighting for its soul and mission as political attacks upend norms, rules and rights, Lisa L. Moore writes.

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Ursula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 5d

Just read this which was a nice grounding for today's work.

Building a Political Home - Boston Review

Activist and scholar Cathy J. Cohen on winning power in the midst of a “generational war.”

www.bostonreview.net

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 5d

Caught the cat mid yawn, but like how he looks like he’s asking to speak to the manager.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 6d

Appreciate the colleague who reminded me that fun is part of what do too. Needed the reminder, especially now that everything feels so unfun.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 6d

Harlem from today’s train

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8d

it's national taco day! stellar mexicanist ignacio sanchez prado has a new book right on time!

TACO, in the bloomsbury object lessons series.

chicago, go celebrate with a taco and support our neighbors in little village, pilsen, logan, everywhere

www.bloomsbury.com/us/taco-9798...

Taco

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food…

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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 7d

“The NAFTA Novel remains the literary form of a diminutive bourgeois class: the lettered colonials tasked with mediating between the elites of Mexico and the United States. But the latter elite no longer has use for such cosmopolitan intermediaries.”

The NAFTA Novel | Nicolás Medina Mora

For all its utopianism, the NAFTA Novel remains the literary form of a diminutive bourgeois class.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 8d

Today’s arrival

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 8d

Sometimes when I hear Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights,” I think, she was eighteen and stayed up late and created that.

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Lisa Diedrich @lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 8d

Stuart Hall took Thatcherism seriously & tried to understand its affective & aspirational appeal. Trumpism operates differently, as @cnewf.bsky.social notes, but the need to offer a cultural & political counter-strategy is key. I keep thinking about Hall’s adept use of new forms of media.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 9d

Great call to arms by @cnewf.bsky.social, following the tactic of Jed Esty's "Future of Decline" by looking to Stuart Hall & the New Left, & urging us to forego "private agency within our universities" in favor of "collective agency by running them."

Academics Must Seize the Means of Knowledge Production - Public Books

Trumpism has canceled the knowledge society.

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 8d

Scholarship opportunity: Black and Latino men, undergrads, deadline applicants 10/31

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Laura McGrath @lbmcgrath.bsky.social · 9d

Teaching this banger, so I thought I'd take the opportunity to remind you that @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I always welcome pitches for the Culture Industries section of Public Books! Bring us your wonkiest, your galaxy-brainest, your in-the-weeds-iest!
www.publicbooks.org/how-the-new-...

How the “New York Times” Covers Black Writers - Public Books

There has long been a fear that media only makes room for one Black writer at a time. But that’s always been difficult to prove—until now.

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