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More than 150 members at Tate Galleries are taking seven consecutive days of strike action from tomorrow (26) until 2 December. Pickets will be taking place at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate Modern – so please support them.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More than 150 members at Tate Galleries are taking seven consecutive days of strike action from tomorrow (26) until 2 December. Pickets will be taking place at Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, and Tate Modern – so please support them.
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
www.pcs.org.uk/news-events/...
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How it started / How it's going
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
How it started / How it's going
It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
November 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
It's almost six years old and the book designer's choice of typeface was widely praised www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
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
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
This is fucked. I had one of these to support my research in grad school, and I was on the review panel after I became a professor. (Also, there was a review happening like right now—I wonder what is happening with those proposals?)
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i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 AM
i think about this fanon quote at least two or three times a week
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Santa Claus is still a woman on.ft.com/4oocnEr | opinion
Santa Claus is still a woman
There is something particularly stubborn about gender roles at Christmas
on.ft.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Santa Claus is still a woman on.ft.com/4oocnEr | opinion
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ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
In world of AI, Michigan State University Extension bets on human expertise - Bridge Michigan
For 118 years, Michigan State University Extension has existed to serve the public with programs ranging from canning classes to soil testing and financial literacy workshops. Now, it aims to bill its...
bridgemi.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
ready, set, go:
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
real schools seeing real market advantage in real classes with real brains
“Artificial Intelligence may be able to write you a song, develop a presentation or help you write a script...But MSU is real experts with real answers. No AI needed.”
bridgemi.com/quality-life...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget
The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
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"She has recognized, perhaps rightly, that there is no place for women like her in Trump’s halls of power. So she’s building herself an escape route."
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
Opinion | Has Marjorie Taylor Greene Really Seen the Light?
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"She has recognized, perhaps rightly, that there is no place for women like her in Trump’s halls of power. So she’s building herself an escape route."
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
@tressiemcphd.bsky.social cutting through the MTG's redemption discourse.
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On 29 Nov, I’ll be interviewing the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun & his Dutch translator Djûke Poppinga.
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Ghayath Almadhoun - Wintertuinfestival
www.wintertuinfestival.nl
November 26, 2025 at 7:40 AM
On 29 Nov, I’ll be interviewing the Palestinian-Syrian poet Ghayath Almadhoun & his Dutch translator Djûke Poppinga.
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
Every day is a day of international solidarity with the Palestinian people.
@actionbooks.bsky.social
@uitgjurgenmaas.bsky.social
www.wintertuinfestival.nl/en/blog/prog...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
How can this be treated as anything other than a national emergency
“exiting the market”
November 25, 2025 at 6:54 PM
How can this be treated as anything other than a national emergency
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“A poignant appraisal of readers’ quest to find intimacy with the authors they love.” @kdclewin.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Writer’s Room (Feb. 17, 2026) earned a positive review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Read the full review here:
The Writer’s Room: The Hidden Worlds That Shape the Books We Love by Katie Da Cunha Lewin
Literature lecturer Lewin debuts with an insightful exploration of the spaces where famous writers crafted their most influentia...
www.publishersweekly.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:21 PM
“A poignant appraisal of readers’ quest to find intimacy with the authors they love.” @kdclewin.bsky.social’s forthcoming The Writer’s Room (Feb. 17, 2026) earned a positive review in @publisherswkly.bsky.social. Read the full review here:
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It's not *just* academics and students (two groups that Starmer's Labour despise and see as undesirable) who populate universities. They employ vast work forces! There are administrators, cleaners, cafeteria staff, gardeners, post workers, builders all dependent on their university remaining open.
November 25, 2025 at 12:53 PM
It's not *just* academics and students (two groups that Starmer's Labour despise and see as undesirable) who populate universities. They employ vast work forces! There are administrators, cleaners, cafeteria staff, gardeners, post workers, builders all dependent on their university remaining open.
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We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
$8.75M Investment Supports ‘Research Resilience’… | Maryland Today
UMD, MPower Funds Combine to Help Preserve Institutional Capabilities, Lab Operations and More
today.umd.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We @uam-umd.bsky.social won. Faculty packed town halls, talked to their colleagues and collected hundreds of petition signatures. Now UMD is coughing up $8.75m, during a deficit, to fund faculty whose research is under attack. Not enough, but a helluva thing for a union the state calls illegal.
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A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts.
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A huge turnout in Nottingham today, around 300 staff and students standing together against cuts.
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
Powerful speeches, real solidarity, and a clear message: we won’t let our universities be dismantled.
We are the university. ✊if you’ve not voted there is still time! Get it in!
@uonucu.bsky.social
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Reflecting on this bit, about tuition fees, over lunch. This comment shows me just how little Smith understands UK HE. In an uncapped system driven by reputation and student choice, raising the fee itself does not, in fact, represent any financial stability. It only intensifies the market pressure.
Smith mow spinning tuition fee increases with inflation as a "remarkable certainty about income" that private sector would envy. Reply is that national insurance rises completely wipe that out.
November 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reflecting on this bit, about tuition fees, over lunch. This comment shows me just how little Smith understands UK HE. In an uncapped system driven by reputation and student choice, raising the fee itself does not, in fact, represent any financial stability. It only intensifies the market pressure.
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University in the UK is already astonishingly narrow. My husband & I both did five year undergrads (Canada) as did most people we know. We do the same level of specialisation (if not more) but also so much breadth. Our schooling is much mire broad as well. The UK gov wants us all to be technicians.
"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.
per this morning's education committee.
per this morning's education committee.
November 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
University in the UK is already astonishingly narrow. My husband & I both did five year undergrads (Canada) as did most people we know. We do the same level of specialisation (if not more) but also so much breadth. Our schooling is much mire broad as well. The UK gov wants us all to be technicians.
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here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
November 25, 2025 at 10:16 AM
here's your headline:
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
They (OfS) still expect 45% of ALL universities to report a deficit this academic year. They are not accounting for "significant variation" across the system (i.e. different types and sizes of institution).
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Staff are united against course closures.
Students are united against course closures.
Community members are united against course closures.
When will this university listen?
Students are united against course closures.
Community members are united against course closures.
When will this university listen?
Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
November 25, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Staff are united against course closures.
Students are united against course closures.
Community members are united against course closures.
When will this university listen?
Students are united against course closures.
Community members are united against course closures.
When will this university listen?
"Clarivate extrait le commun (qui reste un commun), bénéficie de sa valeur perçue actuelle en termes d’ouverture et de couverture élargie, et surtout, bénéficiera de sa valeur intrinsèque future à mesure que la communauté améliorera la qualité des données." It's the whole reason the gov likes OA
Nice exploration of Clarivate's "commons washing"
OpenAlex intégré au Web of Science, ou la capture du travail des “commoners” | carnetist.hypotheses.org/2572
November 25, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"Clarivate extrait le commun (qui reste un commun), bénéficie de sa valeur perçue actuelle en termes d’ouverture et de couverture élargie, et surtout, bénéficiera de sa valeur intrinsèque future à mesure que la communauté améliorera la qualité des données." It's the whole reason the gov likes OA
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Ever since I started teaching Gertrude Stein, 2, 3 years ago, my life has significantly improved in the areas of experiencing brilliance and hilarity. Highly recommend.
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Ever since I started teaching Gertrude Stein, 2, 3 years ago, my life has significantly improved in the areas of experiencing brilliance and hilarity. Highly recommend.
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On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."
OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."