Elaine Sullivan
@eesull.bsky.social
Assistant Prof studying African art. Probably just going to follow along for now.
Absolute Belgian-ness displayed here
« Une erreur grave a été commise » : une employée du 112 refuse de répondre en français lors d’un appel d’urgence
« Une erreur grave a été commise » : une employée du 112 refuse de répondre en français lors d’un appel d’urgence
www.lesoir.be
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Absolute Belgian-ness displayed here
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The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
October 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.
Having the realization that all the pedagogy "experts" I look to for advice on being a good teacher haven't taught undergrads in the past year, aka the Age of ChatGPT
October 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Having the realization that all the pedagogy "experts" I look to for advice on being a good teacher haven't taught undergrads in the past year, aka the Age of ChatGPT
My favorite
CHOTINER:
JOHN CAGE:
CHOTINER:
CAGE:
CHOTINER: ?
CAGE: This interview is over.
JOHN CAGE:
CHOTINER:
CAGE:
CHOTINER: ?
CAGE: This interview is over.
September 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
My favorite
Writing an email well after 11 PM to colleagues, I think to myself oh well, now everyone will know I keep crazy hours. (Accompanied by worrying that this seems unprofessional.) Received multiple replies within 10 minutes.
September 19, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Writing an email well after 11 PM to colleagues, I think to myself oh well, now everyone will know I keep crazy hours. (Accompanied by worrying that this seems unprofessional.) Received multiple replies within 10 minutes.
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the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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August 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
the crisis in which the University of Chicago is now engulfed -- one entirely of its own making, and which has led to the (hopefully temporary) suspension of admissions into numerous PhD programs in the humanities -- represents I think a seismic event in the history of American higher education
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Had my first teaching anxiety dream of the year. First Monday of August - right on time!
August 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Had my first teaching anxiety dream of the year. First Monday of August - right on time!
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Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
Removable media that I still have from the 90s/00s and its survival rate at bringing data from then into the 2020s.
3.5" Floppy Disks: 30%
5.25" Floppy Disks: 70%
CDR/RWs: 5%
DVDR/RWs: 10%
Syquests: 0%
CF/SDs: 20%
Zip Disks: 96%
3.5" Floppy Disks: 30%
5.25" Floppy Disks: 70%
CDR/RWs: 5%
DVDR/RWs: 10%
Syquests: 0%
CF/SDs: 20%
Zip Disks: 96%
July 30, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Occasionally we remind people that paper is the most stable long-term storage medium* and it's always a surprise.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
*Unless you're into carving your own stele, in which case you might have some significant long-term storage SPACE problems.
Brother Guy!! I got to meet him when I did a summer class in Rome and it was an absolute highlight
Meet the Pope’s M.I.T.-educated, sci-fi-loving astronomer.
The Vatican Observatory Looks to the Heavens
It’s run by a Michigan-born Jesuit—and a meteorite expert—known as the Pope’s Astronomer.
www.newyorker.com
July 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Brother Guy!! I got to meet him when I did a summer class in Rome and it was an absolute highlight
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The Luba/Lunda kingdoms are underrated as historical actors in early modern Central Africa
July 26, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The Luba/Lunda kingdoms are underrated as historical actors in early modern Central Africa
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Best part about a land-grant university will forever be the ice cream from our own dairy
July 25, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Best part about a land-grant university will forever be the ice cream from our own dairy
Exactly what I worried would happen happened: my univ gave me a fancy laptop with not a lot of storage bc everything is in the cloud, but now I'm in Nigeria with terrible wifi and I can't access my photos for a presentation
June 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Exactly what I worried would happen happened: my univ gave me a fancy laptop with not a lot of storage bc everything is in the cloud, but now I'm in Nigeria with terrible wifi and I can't access my photos for a presentation
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The main reason the federal budget cuts are now an existential threat for higher education is that states stopped funding higher education over the last 40 years. UW is but one illustrative example:
June 1, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The main reason the federal budget cuts are now an existential threat for higher education is that states stopped funding higher education over the last 40 years. UW is but one illustrative example:
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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
May 27, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.
May 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There’s an advantage we in the humanities have, which never before struck me as an advantage: it’s a lot harder to stop us when we don’t need labs.
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Thanks to @greg.org for highlighting a fascinating discussion of an incredibly fragile sculpture in unbaked mud by artist David Hammons and the numerous challenges it presented to MoMA conservators greg.org/archive/2024...
May 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Thanks to @greg.org for highlighting a fascinating discussion of an incredibly fragile sculpture in unbaked mud by artist David Hammons and the numerous challenges it presented to MoMA conservators greg.org/archive/2024...
I recently saw a presentation about the history of this museum and it was great! I am really looking forward to learning more!
Trailer-type video for the new @mkepublicmuseum.bsky.social, now renamed the Nature and Culture Museum of Wisconsin. I'm rooting for them to pull this off! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKYu...
Introducing the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin, Coming in 2027
YouTube video by Milwaukee Public Museum
www.youtube.com
May 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I recently saw a presentation about the history of this museum and it was great! I am really looking forward to learning more!
Ok but would Europe like to steal America’s art historians? Asking for a friend
Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Ok but would Europe like to steal America’s art historians? Asking for a friend
My university (Wisconsin) got maternity leave LAST YEAR
I have a new piece coming out with @chronicle.com on the problem of pregnancy in academia. a sneak peek:
“an academic I spoke with told me a prof looked at his pregnant advisee & sneered, ‘once could be construed as an accident. it now looks like you’re doing this on purpose’”
“an academic I spoke with told me a prof looked at his pregnant advisee & sneered, ‘once could be construed as an accident. it now looks like you’re doing this on purpose’”
April 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
My university (Wisconsin) got maternity leave LAST YEAR
This is my neighbor! (Fitting for this to be my fist post)
The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar
Goals
Goals
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This is my neighbor! (Fitting for this to be my fist post)