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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, reviewers are a genuine issue, this I understand. I would have appreciated a clarification after five months, I think.

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe I should wait another week and email the editor through normal email. I contacted them through the same system as well.

Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · 10h

A little over five months. Is that unreasonable?

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · 11h

I have a genuine question. Is it okay to withdraw a piece of it has been under review for an unreasonable timeframe, with no response from the journal? And what according to you is a reasonable timeframe for response?

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Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 6d

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 6d

So, not content with John Allen Chau forcing his obnoxious, law-breaking and likely disease-ridden self into the midst of the North Sentinelese and getting himself killed, now there is a movie making a saint of this man?

Colonizers gonna colonize, I suppose.

The poster for the movie Last Days showing the actor playing John Allen Chau looking beatifically up into the light while green ocean water swirls around him. The general effect is one of him as a saint. To the right of the poster, a North Sentinelese man rows himself in a boat. The text reads Based on a True Story, Last Days,

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · 8d

It's not rude to write to a journal after five months, right? Peer review systems are under immense stress, I know.

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call634-5789 @call634-5789.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sunday's Mic Drop

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Χοδαδαδίος Ρεζαχανίδης, PhD, KRT, Duc de Téhéran @sasanianshah.bsky.social · Aug 16

In Samarqand, we’re staying at a small hotel which used to be the house of a local Bukharan Jewish merchant & healer. It has a prayer room that is stunning & covered with all sorts of amazing symbols. It’s a wonderful bonus I did not imagine we’ll get in this trip.

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Tiffany Leigh Rose from the Dead 🖤🪦🥀 @tlrose.bsky.social · Aug 16

Portrait of a Cat who is Not Supposed to be on the Counter 2025 #Caturday

A very adorable tabby cat showing us her backside while she walks across the bathroom counter she doesn't care she isn't supposed to be on

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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · Aug 16

A giant mudskipper at Sungei Buloh Wetlands, Singapore.
Such comical looking creatures 😄

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Colum Graham @clmgrhm.bsky.social · Aug 12

Interesting post on @newmandala.bsky.social www.newmandala.org/instagrammin...

Instagramming colonialism in Surabaya - New Mandala

On what’s lost when the Dutch East Indies is recalled as a time of picturesque sophistication

www.newmandala.org

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jul 17

I wish rich people could figure out that helping others makes your brain feel good and they could do that instead of being deeply evil

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Hex Anderson @dexanderson.com · Jul 14

Andrea Gibson has died.

All I know of hate
is that it will never
beat the love out of me.

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · Jun 25

Myself, aunty: Mira Nair's son is he? Mmhmm good for him, his mum is great

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Jun 22

Computers used to scream every time they connected to the Internet. They knew. They tried to warn us. We did not listen.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Jun 22

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · Jun 20

TIL that Terry Eagleton dedicated 'On Evil' to Henry Kissinger.

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Chris Warren @chrisvvarren.bsky.social · Jun 19

Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English is thrilled to announce an exciting new PhD program in Computational Cultural Studies. We will begin to accept applications this Fall with an inaugural cohort to begin in 2026.
www.cmu.edu/dietrich/eng...

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Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social · Jun 14

The poplar trees in Leh remind me so much of my childhood in Moscow - poplar ‘snow’ everywhere.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Jun 13

I just submitted my book for peer review. After 15 years of thinking, researching, and writing, and, as I keep saying, an NEH this year to finish up. I’m furious about the gutting of that institution, which makes so much knowledge possible. I hope this book eventually lives up to that honor.

Screen shot of my table of contents: The Racialization of Print
By Joseph Rezek, Boston University
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North
Carolina Press (under contract)
For peer review only, do not cite or circulate without permission.
Introduction: Print's Racialization over the longue durée
Chapter 1. The Europeanization of Print in the Early Anglophone Atlantic

Chapter 2. Nominal White Authorship at the end of the Seventeenth Century

Chapter 3. Race, Gender, and Genius in the Eighteenth Century

Chapter 4. Phillis Wheatley and Her Books

Chapter 5. Haiti's Media Revolution

Chapter 6. Native American Print Sovereignty, 1826-1837

Chapter 7. The Specimen Logic of Print in the Nineteenth Century

Bibliography

Word Count: 142,647

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The Bibliographical Society of America @bibsocamer.bsky.social · Jun 11

We're thrilled to announce a new fellowship opportunity: The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Ephemera! This $3,000 fellowship supports the bibliographical study of printed Spanish-language ephemeral items printed prior to 1850. More info on the BSA website.

White headline text on a pink background announcing new fellowship opportunity in Hispanic Ephemera

Image of 19th century document, written in Spanish, on a pink background. “Broadside proclamation by the viceroy communicating a Royal Order from José de Gálvez, (Mexico, 1780). Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego”

Pink text on a white background with details about the Hispanic Ephemera fellowship

White text on pink background with instructions to go to bibsocamer.org for more information

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · Jun 8

Nepal.

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · Jun 4

Is it possible for western academics to maybe not photograph the slides prepared by young south Asian research scholars at their first large conference, or is it too much to ask?

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Swati Moitra @swatiatrest.bsky.social · May 23

In recent years, as PhD programmes became indescribably tough to get into, as the academic environment became more and more hostile, we told our students to leave for greener pastures.

Where now?

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