Anindita Basu Sempere
@anindita.org
PM at Performant Software. PhD & MFA. Digital Humanities, place, poetics, Elizabeth Bishop, poetry, children's lit. She/her. Lived in Lausanne for over a decade and now relearning the US.
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Anindita Basu Sempere
@anindita.org
· Nov 10
Welcome new folks! Happy to see so much activity here. I’m interested in place-related work, writing, all things Elizabeth Bishop, pedagogy and learning, poetry, children’s lit, crafting, nature & soccer/football. I’m a professional digital humanist. I love to hear about what people are working on.
I love a productive board meeting. I also love when we disagree on something and then reach a unanimous decision through discussion. Gives me hope.
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I love a productive board meeting. I also love when we disagree on something and then reach a unanimous decision through discussion. Gives me hope.
A is brilliant (which we knew). The kid *despises* brain rot. So M trolled A, and A said, “6 7!” And the kid went “Noooo!”
So. Kid attempted to Rickroll me at piano, and I yelled “6 7!”
Instant silence.
Ohhh the power of an effective troll…
(Clearly we deserve each other!)
So. Kid attempted to Rickroll me at piano, and I yelled “6 7!”
Instant silence.
Ohhh the power of an effective troll…
(Clearly we deserve each other!)
December 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
A is brilliant (which we knew). The kid *despises* brain rot. So M trolled A, and A said, “6 7!” And the kid went “Noooo!”
So. Kid attempted to Rickroll me at piano, and I yelled “6 7!”
Instant silence.
Ohhh the power of an effective troll…
(Clearly we deserve each other!)
So. Kid attempted to Rickroll me at piano, and I yelled “6 7!”
Instant silence.
Ohhh the power of an effective troll…
(Clearly we deserve each other!)
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In bookstores today! It's "We Will Rise Again," a book of hard-won hope in this dark season. I co-edited it with the wondrous @older.bsky.social and @drkarenlord.bsky.social -- it's an anthology of speculative stories and essays about protest and resistance! www.simonandschuster.com/books/We-Wil...
December 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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“Do you want the history lesson or the invoice?” Whew. 🔥
December 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
“Do you want the history lesson or the invoice?” Whew. 🔥
😂
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
😂
Snow!!! Giant flakes coming down. And school is ON. Proper New England.
December 2, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Snow!!! Giant flakes coming down. And school is ON. Proper New England.
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Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/...
Treasure Island at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#books #literature
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/...
Treasure Island at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#books #literature
December 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Literary Maps: Real Maps for Imaginary Places
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/...
Treasure Island at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#books #literature
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/12/...
Treasure Island at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#books #literature
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Whew... okay, launching two fundraising campaigns in as many days and still need to work on the spring college fair. But it's all getting done a little bit at a time.
(End of year + Giving Tuesday = busy time for the PTO and for the ed resource grant board)
(End of year + Giving Tuesday = busy time for the PTO and for the ed resource grant board)
December 2, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Whew... okay, launching two fundraising campaigns in as many days and still need to work on the spring college fair. But it's all getting done a little bit at a time.
(End of year + Giving Tuesday = busy time for the PTO and for the ed resource grant board)
(End of year + Giving Tuesday = busy time for the PTO and for the ed resource grant board)
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🎁📚 People who acquire books for middle schoolers: many banger recs await you in the replies to this post
This year’s holiday recs request: Moar Books for child (12) who finally got to read the Murderbots and loved them the most, but is not ready for Locked Tomb levels of grief and death. Preferences in next post.
December 2, 2025 at 1:03 AM
🎁📚 People who acquire books for middle schoolers: many banger recs await you in the replies to this post
Right? I went to poetry school. I have a degree in em dashes!
I don't need AI to help me overuse em dashes. I've been doing that on my own since middle school.
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
December 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Right? I went to poetry school. I have a degree in em dashes!
Ah the northern childhood ritual of constantly checking the weather forecast and hoping for a snow day…
December 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Ah the northern childhood ritual of constantly checking the weather forecast and hoping for a snow day…
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This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.
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This is HUGE news, that was reported right before Thanksgiving. I just looked online and, sure enough, all the grants that our PhD students normally apply for are not accepting applications this cycle. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But right now, this is a devastating set back.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is HUGE news, that was reported right before Thanksgiving. I just looked online and, sure enough, all the grants that our PhD students normally apply for are not accepting applications this cycle. Maybe they will come back, maybe they won't. But right now, this is a devastating set back.
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Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!
Introducing the 'Software Paper': New ways to publish on research software in Computational Humanities Research
When Lauren Tilton first approached me about joining the Computational Humanities Research (CHR) journal’s Editorial Board as an Associate Editor, the thing that made the invitation so compelling and ...
www.cambridge.org
December 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Do you write research software for the humanities?
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
Consider writing a software paper to share your work!
Reach out to me, @nolauren.bsky.social , or any of the other editors at the CHR journal with your questions or ideas.
I am officially old -- I just asked my kid for tech help, and the kid immediately showed me how to do the thing 😭
(To be fair, I asked because I was sure M knew this specific thing. But oooof the speed of the response followed by the thumbs up. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)
(To be fair, I asked because I was sure M knew this specific thing. But oooof the speed of the response followed by the thumbs up. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I am officially old -- I just asked my kid for tech help, and the kid immediately showed me how to do the thing 😭
(To be fair, I asked because I was sure M knew this specific thing. But oooof the speed of the response followed by the thumbs up. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)
(To be fair, I asked because I was sure M knew this specific thing. But oooof the speed of the response followed by the thumbs up. I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.)
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it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
November 30, 2025 at 5:30 AM
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago
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A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
November 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A story Stoppard told several times, in several places:
This is very cool -- a US map made of all the rivers in the country.
All of the Rivers
Perhaps inspired by All Streets, Ben Fry’s map of all the streets in the US, Nelson Minar built a US map out of all the rive
kottke.org
November 29, 2025 at 7:57 PM
This is very cool -- a US map made of all the rivers in the country.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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“Reading Elizabeth Bishop” is £13.50 in the EUP sale… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
Reading Elizabeth Bishop
Reading Elizabeth Bishop
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
“Reading Elizabeth Bishop” is £13.50 in the EUP sale… edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...
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“Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop” is just £12.50 in the EUP sale (Paul Muldoon, Hermione Lee, Anne Fadiman, Angela Leighton… and others!) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-letter-....
Letter Writing Among Poets
Letter Writing Among Poets
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
“Letter Writing Among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop” is just £12.50 in the EUP sale (Paul Muldoon, Hermione Lee, Anne Fadiman, Angela Leighton… and others!) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-letter-....
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Snapping turtles
Coatimundis
Botos (pink river dolphins)
Common marmosets
Puffins
Snapping turtles
Coatimundis
Botos (pink river dolphins)
Common marmosets
Puffins
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
black bear
ringneck pheasant
armadillo
osprey
marabou stork
black bear
ringneck pheasant
armadillo
osprey
marabou stork
Coyote
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
Moose
Bear
Hammerhead shark
Sea lion
November 29, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Snapping turtles
Coatimundis
Botos (pink river dolphins)
Common marmosets
Puffins
Snapping turtles
Coatimundis
Botos (pink river dolphins)
Common marmosets
Puffins
Me: Okay, I'm going to do an A2 milk test. I'm going to use A2 dairy in a pie because if it doesn't work, it'll still be worth it.
A: Maybe try a small amount of A2 first? And maybe don't start with cream? Or get tested and see if casein really *is* the issue?
M: Pie isn't worth it, Maman.
Me: PIE.
A: Maybe try a small amount of A2 first? And maybe don't start with cream? Or get tested and see if casein really *is* the issue?
M: Pie isn't worth it, Maman.
Me: PIE.
November 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Me: Okay, I'm going to do an A2 milk test. I'm going to use A2 dairy in a pie because if it doesn't work, it'll still be worth it.
A: Maybe try a small amount of A2 first? And maybe don't start with cream? Or get tested and see if casein really *is* the issue?
M: Pie isn't worth it, Maman.
Me: PIE.
A: Maybe try a small amount of A2 first? And maybe don't start with cream? Or get tested and see if casein really *is* the issue?
M: Pie isn't worth it, Maman.
Me: PIE.
Why are these homelands “broken”? What broke them?
<insert Gandhi quote on Western Civilization>
<insert Gandhi quote on Western Civilization>
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Why are these homelands “broken”? What broke them?
<insert Gandhi quote on Western Civilization>
<insert Gandhi quote on Western Civilization>