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Daphne M. | incidental writer/full time student
@daphnemwrites.bsky.social
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Fun for the Summer WC: 33634

Back in school for a BA in AMES, minoring in Finnish
Writer
Aspiring polyglot and literary translator
Fan of adult coloring books
Dog lover
Human cat bed
Schizoaffective
Working on the first draft of my first novel!
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Daphne M. | incidental writer/full time student @daphnemwrites.bsky.social · Aug 6
FUN FOR THE SUMMER

It's important to me to tell love stories of people with schizoaffective as we're often only cast as the villains in thrillers. I want this story to be one where it influences the plot, but never the lovingness. I hope people see themselves in Mae.

#QuestPit #W #A #R #OwnVoices
A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My jaw wouldn't relax. It had been tight all day, clamped down so hard it ached almost from the minute I had woken up. It had been another day of starting with the as needed anxiety med. I had taken two of the three doses I was allotted daily by that point. Under the brackets it says: Jack Greyson @daphnemwrites A white background with a quote above a paint streak boxed in on the sides that reads: Breathe. My skin was buzzing In the past it often did that. It would buzz like wasps were trapped under my skin and desperate to get out. Every nerve would feel stretched beyond imagination. I would begin to believe something evil was trapped under my skin, begging for release. Tactile hallucinations they were called. Before I knew that term I called them demons. Under the brackets it says: Mae Carpenter @daphnemwrites A collage of four images and text in the middle. From the top left clockwise: a woman sewing with a sewing machine, rose gold balloon letters that say love, a woman in a sweater and underwear posed suggestively, and 6 light pink hearts on a lighter pink background. A white and pink background with minimal decoration. It says Fun for the Summer. Mae and Jack haven't talked in four years, but when she comes to stay with their mutual friend and Jack's roommate Will, sparks fly. Now they can't keeo their hands off of each other and are providing the chaos and stability the other needs. There's just two problems...Mae is technically married to Will for his benefits. And she returns to Seattle at the end of the summer.
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desfitzgerald.bsky.social
Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.
A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions: Style Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data. #academicsky"
October 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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simsjames.bsky.social
“‘Bending the knee’ has become the most popular Washington exercise because obsequiousness promises to improve the health of your bottom line. Whether you’re a trustee…or CEO…you are now engaged in servility cross-training.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social #HigherEd #AcademicSky
simsjames.bsky.social James Sims @simsjames.bsky.social · Oct 13
“We must be steadfast in opposition to extortion under the guise of dealmaking, and we must create alliances rooted in a common devotion to freedom of inquiry…We have rejected tyranny before, and we can do it again.” — Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social in @thebulwark.com #HigherEd
What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?
Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.
open.substack.com
October 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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helenrottier.bsky.social
Academia was never supposed to run like this - competitive, precarious, racing to produce and accumulate. Many researchers are trying to identify solutions, and we need to work together to do so. #AcademicSky
October 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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jedbrown.org
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
For help with attribution and sourcing, Grammarly is releasing a citation finder agent that automatically generates correctly formatted citations backing up claims in a piece of writing, and an expert review agent that provides personalized, topic-specific feedback. Screenshot from Grammarly's demo of inserting a post-hoc citation. https://www.grammarly.com/ai-agents/citation-finder
August 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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drjacekdebiec.bsky.social
"In our view, America’s leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence... Therefore, with respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education.”
#AcademicSky
www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits
"With respect, we cannot support the proposed approach to addressing the issues facing higher education,” the Massachusetts Institute of Technology president wrote in a letter.
www.nbcnews.com
October 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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keithwdickinson.bsky.social
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
daphnemwrites.bsky.social
Currently listening to Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise. It's masterfully done in how deeply uncomfortable it makes you feel at times. It's so beautiful written though which only adds to the sense of horror and at times disgust. Disgust at men, (internalized) misogyny, and the system. #booksky
October 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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fsmith827.bsky.social
I like listening to the Romance in Colour podcast when it drops on Fridays.

This episode features a fun conversation between @richardwriteson.bsky.social, host, with romance author Aria Daze.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
✍🏾📚💕
#Romancelandia #BookSky #BlackBookSky #BlackRomance
Season 7, Episode 3: Take Me Thru There (ft. Aria Daze)
Podcast Episode · Romance in Colour · 10/10/2025 · 58m
podcasts.apple.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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antonhur.com
My novel TOWARD ETERNITY is now available in paperback, *run* to your local bookstore to get a copy now!!! www.harpercollins.com/products/tow...
Front cover of Toward Eternity paperback
July 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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parisvivian.bsky.social
A reclusive immortal.
His mysteriously wilting crop of telephone-flowers.
A biology student determined to find the cause.
A very busy summer awaits…

Kobo: kobo.com/ebook/a-summer-with-the-immortal
Itch: parisvivian.itch.io/a-summer-with-the-immortal

#BookSky #IndieAuthor #Sapphic

💙📚🪐
🌈📚⚔️
🧡🦄📚
A graphic featuring the cover of A Summer with the Immortal with labeled arrows around it. The cover is mostly light green. In the centre is a red lily with a long stamen shaped like a three-pronged radio antenna. Labels read: Mutagenic phenomenon. F/F with a meet-cute. Autistic MC and LI. Fantastical biotech. Environmental politics. Ancient ruins with strange secrets. Library love.
October 9, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
👾 futuristic world
☣️ dystopia! ✨with magic✨
📝 600+ pages
🔥 grumpy x sunshine
🗡️ revenge
🍃 lots of plants
💪 close friendships

🔖 book link: mybook.to/QVgAoK
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/these-violen...
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/59...

#booksky
these violent nights by rebecca crunden kindle cover; image shows a neon city with four black figures, two men and two women; there's a moon in the background around the text.
October 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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bookspotlight.bsky.social
🚀 spaceships
🌡️ dark conspiracies
🎭 brotherhood
❌ no romance
🐛 strange creatures
🤖 futuristic
🪐 other worlds
🐈 a rescue cat

🔖 universal link: mybook.to/schU
💌 itch.io link: rebecca-crunden.itch.io/dust-lightning
📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/56...

#booksky
kindle cover for dust & lightning by rebecca crunden; image shows a dark planet in purple lighting, a moon in the background, volcano canyons below
October 5, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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museinrevolt.bsky.social
"No hate! No fear!
Immigrants are welcome here"
October 5, 2025 at 6:37 PM
daphnemwrites.bsky.social
Currently reading A Perfect Day to be Alone and I definitely lean more genre than litfic, so sometimes I read litfic and wonder "what even is the plot here?" That being said, I'm enjoying the book. Just like, I'm 52% through it and wondering where are we going with this? #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 9:12 PM
daphnemwrites.bsky.social
I have to go to the dentist on Tuesday (and the 17th) and I just....oh gods. I have a massive phobia of the dentist and having depression mode dental hygiene practices doesn't help. But I'm pretty sure I have a cavity and I need a cleaning. This era of my life I'm putting my dental health first.
October 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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rafmbatista.bsky.social
If you are on the academic job market this year, I think it's worth reading this post + consider inquiring about this at places you interview.

Schools that sign this "compact" will be–by nature of what they will now be exposed to–a very different place from the place you applied to. #AcademicSky
fishkin.bsky.social Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · Oct 4
I thought I'd put the administration's proposed "compact" with universities in context, so I wrote the blog post below.

It's especially for journalists covering this story!

Many details about how the compact itself works and why the administration has retreated to this strategy.
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
balkin.blogspot.com
October 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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wamsleylab.bsky.social
Would you agree to FORMALLY SURVEY THE IDEOLOGIES OF FACULTY IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF YOUR COLLEGE, and to "transform or abolish" any that "belittle" "conservative ideas"?

That's what Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence." demands.

#edusky #academicsky

www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
" Signatories commit themselves to revising governance structures as necessary to create such an environment, including but not limited to transforming or abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas. Given the importance of academic freedom to the marketplace of ideas, signatories shall adopt a policy protecting academic freedom in classrooms, teaching, research, and scholarship. Such policies also shall recognize that academic freedom is not absolute, and universities shall adopt policies that prevent discriminatory, threatening, harassing, or other behaviors that abridge the rights of other members of the university community. Signatories commit to rigorous, good faith, empirical assessment of a broad spectrum of viewpoints among faculty, students, and staff at all levels and to sharing the results of such assessments with the public; and to seek such a broad spectrum of viewpoints not just in the university as a whole, but within every field, department, school, and teaching unit. "
October 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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dmalinowski.bsky.social
As a fellow Cal State faculty member who has been informed that our *personal information* may have been shared with the EEOC over the same phony allegations, I want to say ⚡️I 100% SUPPORT Newsom’s plan to instantly deny state support to any school joining this authoritarian ‘compact’⚡️
#AcademicSky
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · Oct 3
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
California vows to ‘instantly’ cut funding to universities that cave to Trump ‘compact’
Governor Gavin Newsom urges schools not to sign ‘radical agreement’ to cuts to departments, students and speech Any California universities that sign the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” will “instantly” lose their state funding, California governor Gavin Newsom said in a statement. The Trump administration on Wednesday offered nine prominent universities, including the University of Southern California, the chance to sign a “compact” that asks the universities to close academic departments that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas”, limit the proportion of international undergraduate students to 15% , accept the administration’s definition of gender and ban the consideration of race or sex in hiring and admissions, in exchange for “substantial and meaningful federal grants”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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hopkinspress.bsky.social
As Banned Books Week nears, Philip Nel warns against the ways institutional book banning efforts lead to self-censorship

Read "Being Banned Is Not an Award" in the new issue of Bookbird

Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

tinyurl.com/3hy62uye

#AcademicSky
“Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read. And, worse, official acts of censorship beget quiet censorship, done in anticipation of criticism. As frequently banned author Malinda Lo writes, "Self-censorship is possibly the most difficult kind of censorship to fight because it is generally not publicly admitted. It's done quietly, in private. If nobody knows it's happening, how can anyone object?"” "Being Banned Is Not an Award" Philip Nel Bookbird A Journal of International Children's Literature Volume 63, Number 3, 2025 Read free thru 31 October 2025 Illustrated with the cover art from the new issue of Bookbird
October 3, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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johnhorgan.bsky.social
American Association of University Professors: Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts

www.aaup.org/news/univers...

#highered #academicsky
Universities Must Reject Trump Admin "Loyalty Oath" Compacts
The AAUP and AFT warn that the Trump administration’s offer to give preferential treatment to colleges and universities in exchange for allegiance to a partisan ideological agenda is entirely corrupt.
www.aaup.org
October 3, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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gothamgirlblue.com
Even a passing knowledge of Black history will make clear that not only was this level of destruction possible, it was inevitable. “Did you know they’d shut down US AID?” I mean these are the same people who closed all public schools in a county rather than desegregate. Yes. Yes I did.
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 30
I don't think the people expressing surprise about things the Trump administration is doing understand how absolutely fucking crazymaking each of your posts is for Black and Indigenous folks who called *all of this* and sat through people talking about "respecting norms" for years
September 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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faineg.bsky.social
the amount of raw, unadulterated fear that many Americans have of even small cities is never going to stop being darkly hilarious to me
September 28, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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insidehighered.com
Charlie Kirk: Hero of ‘Civil Discourse’ or Fount of Division?

Pointing to the slain activist’s inflammatory statements about minority groups, some are pushing back—at their own peril—against the right’s framing of him as an emblem of quality discourse. https://bit.ly/42clCiM

#EDUSky #AcademicSky
Charlie Kirk in front of a split blue and red background with people arguing in the color blocks.
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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jackiegardina.bsky.social
On Wednesday, October 1, listen to @joshpasek.com, @umich.edu, and David Rabben, @utaustin.bsky.social discuss how current political pressures are undermining academic freedom and what boards need to do to protect it. #academicsky @utaustinaaup.bsky.social

agb.org/events/webin...
The Integral Relationship Between Board Independence and Academic Freedom
Join this webinar to explore the foundational role of board independence in preserving academic freedom and protecting the core mission of higher education, the pursuit of knowledge.
agb.org
September 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM