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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 13m

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 22m

Rise up, fight back! ✊🏽http://edsource.org/?page_id=742822

UPDATE: Faculty union sues CSU to shield personal information from Trump

The latest education news updates from EdSource.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 16m

If you need more stories and data, I’ve been publishing on women and silent film music for a long time! 😃This current project is a book on race and gender in silent film music.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 18m

That was true for many of the women I’ve found working as cinema musicians—it was a respectable job for women that paid the bills, women often had piano-playing skills due to social norms, and the “parlor” music they usually knew worked beautifully for film accompaniment.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 29m

Wow! Too bad she didn’t talk more about it with you. I love hearing what people remember.

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The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.com · 55m

NEW! After the initial introduction of intimacy coordinators to film & TV productions following #MeToo, the industry seems to have soured on the position. Do intimacy coordinators stifle creativity? Do they keep actors safe? Erica W Smith investigates:

Eight Years After #MeToo, the Intimacy Coordinator Backlash Has Arrived

Intimacy coordinators were supposed to make sets safer. Instead, they've become a flashpoint.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 1h

There is a lot about fitting well with the actions & moods in the film, but also a lot of "don't use those terrible crass popular songs" advice. George Tyacke (1914): “Such pathetic ballads as ‘Scratch my back, my blue-eyed Mabel’ [….] are doubtless very edifying to some deranged intellects."

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 2h

Writing about the two earliest guides to accompanying (silent) film and what they tell us about taste, ambition, the accompanists themselves, and how cinemas wanted to be seen by prospective audiences.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 3h

I've updated my document that tackles four of the common arguments used to encourage teachers to use AI.

I hope this will be helpful to those educators wanting to push back on AI mania.

Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet

Help Sheet: Resisting AI Mania in Schools K-12 educators are under increasing pressure to use—and have students use—a wide range of AI tools. (The term “AI” is used loosely here, just as it is by man...

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 4h

It was excellent!

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 8h

Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.

A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??"
In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!".
In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!".
In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".

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Audra Wolfe @audrajwolfe.bsky.social · 4h

My best advice to aspiring authors of scholarly books is to read other scholarly books recently published by your target press. This may seem obvious and yet is not!

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 23h

Our latest weekly roundup is out, with news about multiple attacks on medication abortion, a whole lot of garbage emanating from Missouri and Texas, and some good news in Colorado:

Louisiana Sues FDA Over Abortion Pills, Texas Healthcare Workers Arrested, and More: October 13 News Roundup

Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

www.autonomynews.co

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 7h

Bliss!

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 8h

FYI I strongly encourage any Ohio State faculty instructors who face issues like these restrictions on conference attendance, use of research funds, etc, to let @osuaaup.bsky.social know by filling out our Campus Concern Form so we can support you: www.aaup-osu.org/campus-conce...

Campus Concern
Form
Campus is under threat by new federal and state laws, including SB1, funding cuts, and ICE abductions. OSU is a large institution, and AAUP-OSU can only organize faculty support and resistance when we are aware of what is happening, so we want to hear from you.
Submit a Concern ^

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Bona Books 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🤘🏼 @bonabooks.bsky.social · 9h

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We're ravenously seeking:

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 2d

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians.

The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22h

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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 23h

Our latest weekly roundup is out, with news about multiple attacks on medication abortion, a whole lot of garbage emanating from Missouri and Texas, and some good news in Colorado:

Louisiana Sues FDA Over Abortion Pills, Texas Healthcare Workers Arrested, and More: October 13 News Roundup

Plus, what you missed on Autonomy News last week.

www.autonomynews.co

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 21h

Yes!

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Deborah McDowell @dem8z.bsky.social · 1d

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!!

The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know how many times to point out that is absolutely ghoulish and non-consensual and disgusting behavior.
To exploit the image of a dead woman who was also exploited in real life so you can live out your momentary fantasies of "what is possible" with AI is bad science journalism, also.
Sick.

October 10, 2025

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Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Happen Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Screenshot includes an AI generated image of what looks like a human cross between Daenaerys Targaryen and Marilyn Monroe on the back of a dragon.

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 21h

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 21h

Please include alt text!

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Kendra Preston Leonard (she/her) @kleonardphd.bsky.social · 21h

Sympathy. Past Kendra didn’t put in full citations in a paper and Now Kendra had to spend 3 hours looking them all back up.

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