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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · 2d

I'll be talking about weird stuff, queer stuff, and befriending spirits (the usual); and my fellow roundtablers have all sorts of brilliant things to say about the collective experience of history and religiosity, focusing on writers ranging from Du Bois to Brand to Didion and Fitzgerald. 🖤

Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · 2d

@moderniststudies.bsky.social friends, come hang on Saturday morning (10:15 in Jefferson) with the Hidden Histories of Faith and Grief roundtable!

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · 16d

To the list of things I never thought I'd be explaining to students, this week, may I add: Seabiscuit

Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · Aug 4

Today's #ModWrite is about summoning the dead.

Image from interview with David Lynch, with text from the interviewer asking Lynch to elaborate on what he had previously said (that is, Eraserhead is his most spiritual movie), to which Lynch replies, "no."

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Aug 1

Yep. I think the wording is vague & will be seeking clarification, but the status quo for Canvas's in-house AI features was that they had to be turned on/off by systems administrator, not instructors. So, depending on your institution, this may be a vector for faculty organizing, like, now.

Michael Barany @mbarany.com · Aug 1

"settings available down to course level" tells me that uni admins are still going to opt everyone in and make it somewhere between a pain and impossible to turn off for individual courses, it's clear the "opt-in" model here is mainly top level

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jul 29

IMPORTANT: “‘At many public universities, syllabi are considered intellectual property. As such, professors are not required to share their syllabi in response to public records requests. Check your university policy prior to complying advance.’"

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Conservative Org. Requests Materials for 70 Chapel Hill Courses

The Oversight Project, founded by the Heritage Foundation, is using an open records request to search for terms like “DEI” and “gender identity.” Faculty say it encroaches on academic freedom.

www.insidehighered.com

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American Historical Association @historians.org · Jul 25

History educators, are you looking for a new way to get students involved in the classroom this coming academic year? Check out #AHRSyllabus — freely available teaching modules designed to look “under the hood” at how current historians do the work of history 🗃️:

#AHRSyllabus - AHA

About #AHRSyllabus The #AHRSyllabus is a collaborative project designed to help teachers and students look "under the hood" at how historians in the early 21st century do the work of history. Each con...

www.historians.org

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The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Jul 16

Wuthering Heights is an AIDS novel btw

The Second Mrs. de ShinyGoth👻 @ghostingdani.bsky.social · Jul 16

Talking about Duane and AIDS in class today.

A photo of Duane Puryear holding his iconic AIDS quilt panel: My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead…

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Michael Lombardi-Nash @lombardinash.bsky.social · Jul 14

Before Stonewall, before Pride, before the word “queer” was reclaimed—there were voices that refused to be silenced. Edited by Magnus Hirschfeld. Writings that dared to speak truth about homosexuality. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries #MagnusHirschfeld #lgbtqHistory
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHHVPXTG

Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IX Part 2 of 2 (1908)

Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IX Part 2 of 2 (1908) [Hirschfeld, Magnus, Lombardi-Nash, Michael] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Annual of Sexual Intermediaries Volume IX Part 2 of 2 (1908)

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · Jul 11

I just went to a new eye doctor last week who, upon seeing my (multiple) prescriptions, commented "oh, those are fun ones!"

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · Jul 4

I have been screaming from the top of this hill for years! Shit gets weird and things would be so much more fun if we just acknowledged it.

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Spenser Dispenser @spenserdispenser.bsky.social · Jun 29

Vntill the witches speech she gan to heare,

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 21

One of the first things I do with freshman undergrads is to compile a sense of how much reading they do in a day (texts, websites, memes etc) to make clear that not liking reading three volume novels is *not* the same thing as not reading.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Jun 20

Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.

What’s Happening to Reading?

For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.

www.newyorker.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jun 17

Kind of wish academic papers could come with 1980s style sword and sorcery cover images.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jun 11

writing is whack-a-mole against incorrect autocorrect, insidious unsolicited summaries, unwanted artificial unintelligence, , ,

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Kenji @elementaleucology.com · Jun 8

Public transit keeps love alive.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Jun 8

I’m at O’Hare airport, where, 14 years ago this week, instead of getting on my flight home, I exited the airport, took the blue line back into the city to chase down a man I had met that weekend and totally fallen for. Anyway now we’ve been married for 11 years and have 8yo twins.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · May 29

Imagine thinking mushrooms aren’t beautiful, how stupid

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · May 28

of course, I am geographically located deep in the Bible Belt, but nothing else about my internet use would suggest that I'd be interested in this content. I turned off personalized ads and have since been getting ads for buying toothpaste wholesale–which, honestly, I can live with

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · May 28

yup – I managed to stave off Hallow prayer app ads on YouTube for a few months, but they've just recently come back and the avenues for supposedly customizing ads on Google Services have become much more opaque

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Erin Yanota @yanotes.bsky.social · Mar 15

from The Color of Pomegranates (1969)

Screenshot from the 1969 film, The Color of Pomegranates: two frames of a boy lying on a rooftop with a series of open books. Text reads: "Books must be well kept and read, for books are Soul and Life."

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Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 7

Don't forget the new Abridged Submission Call is now open! See www.abridged.zone/abridged-0-1... for info! #poetry #art

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Kim TallBear @kimtallbear.bsky.social · Mar 3

Supportive academics & community members! Please sign this Google Docs letter b4 March 10.

Written by Chris Andersen, Dean Faculty of Native Studies UAlberta & Rob Innes, Chair, Indigenous Studies, McMaster U. in support of #Indigenous Studies at #York U, which administrators propose cutting.

Indigenous Studies Response to York’s Suspension of their Program

Dear Dean McMurtry, Provost Peters, and President Lenton, As two Indigenous studies administrators (Dr. Chris Andersen is the Dean of the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Dr....

docs.google.com

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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · Mar 4

My partner justifying listening to Teenage Dirtbag: ‘like T S Eliot says, it has an awareness of its own form’

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Grist @grist.org · Feb 13

Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land.

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

grist.org/justice/biso...

#Prison #Incarceration #Jails #Climate #Tribes

Bison, not prison: Activists buy a prison site to rewild the land

A coal mine was the first to wreck the land. Now activists want to keep another extractive industry from taking root there: prisons.

grist.org

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Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder @nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · Feb 12

I think one (of many) ways to fight fascism is to keep reading, informing ourselves, and discussing unsavory histories. I have hope that reading circles, discussion groups, and solo reading can help us make sense of the world, and our place in it. 1/8

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