Emily Steinlight
@emilysteinlight.bsky.social
assoc prof at Penn English (c19 British lit, novel theory, mass politics, labor, history of science), author of Populating the Novel
Post pies please
November 28, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Post pies please
Do we still do this? Happy Thanksgiving all!
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Do we still do this? Happy Thanksgiving all!
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This is why AAUP and PSC-CUNY members and allies turned up outside Rowan's office. And why we'll do it again.
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is why AAUP and PSC-CUNY members and allies turned up outside Rowan's office. And why we'll do it again.
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This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
To bear out this rosy projection, HSBC assumes that OpenAI will become "as ubiquitous [...] as Microsoft 365" (345mm users worldwide) while bringing in 10x the number of users (3bn).
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is
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The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
“Data Crunch”: AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals
A new report titled “Data Crunch: How the AI Boom Threatens to Entrench Fossil Fuels and Compromise Climate Goals” from the Center for Biological Diversity warns the booming artificial intelligence in...
www.democracynow.org
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The U.S. is the biggest emitter of carbon emissions from AI, making up 45% of the world’s emissions.
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Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.
November 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Today, @aaup.org @aaup-penn.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org outside Apollo Global Management's Midtown office to protest Marc Rowan's "Compact for Higher Education". PSC-CUNY President James Davis explains why this assault on higher ed undermines academic freedoms and our democracy itself.
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On Friday, November 7th, join students, educators, and defenders of higher ed at Rowan's NYC office to tell him loud and clear: we won't let his loyalty oath turn our education system into Trump’s brainwashing factory.
Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊
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Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊
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November 7: Hands Off Higher Ed: No Compact! No Loyalty Oaths!
Protest Marc Rowan, the billionaire oligarch behind Trump's "Compact" for colleges and universities, outside his private equity firm, Apollo Global Management.
Defend the freedom to teach, learn, re...
actionnetwork.org
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
On Friday, November 7th, join students, educators, and defenders of higher ed at Rowan's NYC office to tell him loud and clear: we won't let his loyalty oath turn our education system into Trump’s brainwashing factory.
Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊
actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-n...
Hands Off Higher Ed! ✊
actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-n...
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“If the strike happens this month, it would mark the union's third national work stoppage in the past year…Starbucks Workers United, which started in upstate New York in 2021, has grown to represent more than 9,500 baristas across 550 Starbucks cafes…”
BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.
Starbucks unionized workers say they'll strike on Nov. 13 if coffee giant doesn't finalize contract
Union members say they are ready to strike on the chain's Red Cup Day if Starbucks doesn't finalize a contract with their union by then.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“If the strike happens this month, it would mark the union's third national work stoppage in the past year…Starbucks Workers United, which started in upstate New York in 2021, has grown to represent more than 9,500 baristas across 550 Starbucks cafes…”
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"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
October 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"This is not the same thing as persuading people that the thing itself matters: they usually know it does. The task is to persuade people that they matter: they know they usually don’t."
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
haven't seen it said better than @alybatt.bsky.social says it here
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BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name
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like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.
October 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
like so many days since the blitz, today was terrifying. but the terror is outpaced by the burning hot solidarity of parents blocking school streets, hundreds of neighbors walking patrol, bicyclists chasing SUVs broadcasting whereabouts, and whistling winemoms bringing the fire of one thousand suns.
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Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.
@veenadubal.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.
@veenadubal.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Public universities that sign onto Trump's "Loyalty Oath" will violate the constitutional rights of their students.🤯
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.
@veenadubal.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal breaks down why in this clip from our recent AAUP TV update.
@veenadubal.bsky.social
#DefendHigherEd
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Never a bad time to re-up this fabulous website.
we've got you covered, assignments, short readings, syllabus language, o captain speeches, the works! against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
against-a-i.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Never a bad time to re-up this fabulous website.
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week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions
IDK, man. School started 2 weeks ago for us, and once again students remind me that they’re so curious and interested in the world and anxious to ask big questions. We hear that these questions are no longer useful or relevant, but wherever that’s coming from, it’s not what students believe.
October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions
“This is the fast that I desire:
Unlock the fetters of wickedness,
Untie the cords of injustice.
Let the oppressed go free,
Break every yoke.
Share your bread with the hungry,
And welcome the homeless into your house”
Unlock the fetters of wickedness,
Untie the cords of injustice.
Let the oppressed go free,
Break every yoke.
Share your bread with the hungry,
And welcome the homeless into your house”
how dare the flotilla remind us of our sins on Yom Kippur
October 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“This is the fast that I desire:
Unlock the fetters of wickedness,
Untie the cords of injustice.
Let the oppressed go free,
Break every yoke.
Share your bread with the hungry,
And welcome the homeless into your house”
Unlock the fetters of wickedness,
Untie the cords of injustice.
Let the oppressed go free,
Break every yoke.
Share your bread with the hungry,
And welcome the homeless into your house”
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
www.courtlistener.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university
Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
September 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university
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[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
Lyric Logic | Columbia University Press
Between the Civil War and the Cold War, American literary modernism and philosophy both grappled with the challenge of novelty and the chance to make it new.... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
September 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
[clears throat]...I have another book coming out in the near future
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
if you'd like to read a bit about LYRIC LOGIC, there are some very generous blurbs over at @columbiaup.bsky.social
(my thanks to Marjorie Levinson, Oren Izenberg, Theo Davis, Nan Z. Da, and also @philipleventhal.bsky.social)
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universities ARE healthcare!
Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers
the dangerous results of bare bones funding
a HALLOWEEN HELU event!
Weds Oct 29
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/23/o...
Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers
the dangerous results of bare bones funding
a HALLOWEEN HELU event!
Weds Oct 29
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/23/o...
September 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
universities ARE healthcare!
Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers
the dangerous results of bare bones funding
a HALLOWEEN HELU event!
Weds Oct 29
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/23/o...
Skeleton Crews at Academic Medical Centers
the dangerous results of bare bones funding
a HALLOWEEN HELU event!
Weds Oct 29
higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/23/o...
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Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net
A post from Feeding the
networks.h-net.org
September 26, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.
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This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.
I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.
Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!
September 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.
In my smash the machines era / in my deciphering undergrads’ penmanship and appreciating handmade thoughts era
September 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
In my smash the machines era / in my deciphering undergrads’ penmanship and appreciating handmade thoughts era
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Support union workers by signing our No Contract No Coffee pledge! Help 12,000 baristas fight corporate greed and win contracts with fair pay and protections!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
No Contract, No Coffee Pledge
Baristas are the most important part of the Starbucks experience. Baristas open the stores every morning and close them every night. They greet customers, make the coffee, clean up the spills, a...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Support union workers by signing our No Contract No Coffee pledge! Help 12,000 baristas fight corporate greed and win contracts with fair pay and protections!
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
bit.ly/NoContractNoCoffee
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WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT?
novelist Kashana Cauley visits UIC 10/28! @kashana.blacksky.app
in conversation w Professors Anna Kornbluh+Jason Wozniak of The Debt Collective
books for sale on site + free in advance to English majors thanks to Simon & Schuster
huminst.uic.edu/events/the-p...
novelist Kashana Cauley visits UIC 10/28! @kashana.blacksky.app
in conversation w Professors Anna Kornbluh+Jason Wozniak of The Debt Collective
books for sale on site + free in advance to English majors thanks to Simon & Schuster
huminst.uic.edu/events/the-p...
September 25, 2025 at 11:42 AM
WHAT'S FUNNY ABOUT STUDENT DEBT?
novelist Kashana Cauley visits UIC 10/28! @kashana.blacksky.app
in conversation w Professors Anna Kornbluh+Jason Wozniak of The Debt Collective
books for sale on site + free in advance to English majors thanks to Simon & Schuster
huminst.uic.edu/events/the-p...
novelist Kashana Cauley visits UIC 10/28! @kashana.blacksky.app
in conversation w Professors Anna Kornbluh+Jason Wozniak of The Debt Collective
books for sale on site + free in advance to English majors thanks to Simon & Schuster
huminst.uic.edu/events/the-p...
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Re-upping this list of "Against GenAI" resources - updated, with more links! catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...
Against Generative AI – Cate Denial
catherinedenial.org
September 18, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Re-upping this list of "Against GenAI" resources - updated, with more links! catherinedenial.org/blog/uncateg...