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@troynovaunt.bsky.social
she/her. English literature, medievalist, singer in the band, recovering indoor cat. In both research and life, resisting being reductive about religion. I don’t speak for my institution, and it doesn’t speak for me. Expect posts about academic freedom.
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Immigration is good, actually.
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occasionally my brain will show its shitty hand by throwing down a lazy ace: “and you haven’t bought a house *either*!”
December 1, 2025 at 10:47 PM
occasionally my brain will show its shitty hand by throwing down a lazy ace: “and you haven’t bought a house *either*!”
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be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
December 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
be the bitch doing something yourself that you want to see in the world
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Surely my gutted, stripped-for-parts institutions will be able to reproduce themselves
December 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Surely my gutted, stripped-for-parts institutions will be able to reproduce themselves
Man I was looking everywhere for this one when there was the headline about the pope telling catholic educators to focus on more than career competencies
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Man I was looking everywhere for this one when there was the headline about the pope telling catholic educators to focus on more than career competencies
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Putting up your tree? Have new cats/kittens?
Check out my time tested method!
Check out my time tested method!
So you wanna put up a Christmas tree, but you have cats. You’ve come to the right place!
You’ll need-
Patience
A tree (real or artificial doesn’t matter)
Weights for the base (sandbags or dumbbells) 1/
You’ll need-
Patience
A tree (real or artificial doesn’t matter)
Weights for the base (sandbags or dumbbells) 1/
November 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Putting up your tree? Have new cats/kittens?
Check out my time tested method!
Check out my time tested method!
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We gotta revive the ‘80s style family sitcom so we can have Very Special Episodes about sports gambling apps and letting AI talk you into eating a handgun and whatever else this evil ass culture is doing to kids. People my age still cut up plastic rings to save sea life, that shit 100% worked
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How is there not some avant-garde movie that's from the neighbors' perspectives during the events of Rear Window?
November 29, 2025 at 5:49 PM
How is there not some avant-garde movie that's from the neighbors' perspectives during the events of Rear Window?
Read the whole thread
The entire purpose of building research on a citational structure is that the inevitable flaws are traceable and stable enough in their location that the overall field structure can take those mistakes/debates into account as part of the field discourse.
November 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Read the whole thread
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Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
I would love to see detailed reporting about how these deals come together. This one looks like an inside job even more than Columbia’s.
I’ll look at it in more depth later but Northwestern’s agreement seems more campus-specific than previous deals and imposes restrictions on campus conduct beyond what others ave agreed to. Northwestern seems to have surrendered autonomy to a shocking extent. www.northwestern.edu/president/do...
November 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Still haven't read the full agreement because I deserve nice things occasionally. But there's really a need for a propublica-type investigation into the social network of these boards, presidents, & donors with the admin. At the same time, exploring the similarities and differences across deals.
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More than half of employers expect a flat or declining job market for recent college grads in ’26, a five-year high.
National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Outlook surveys
November 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
More than half of employers expect a flat or declining job market for recent college grads in ’26, a five-year high.
National Association of Colleges and Employers Job Outlook surveys
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On international students:
November 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
On international students:
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h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
November 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
h/t @adamwren.bsky.social
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
Michael Bohacek, a Republican state senator from Indiana who has a daughter with down syndrome, says he will vote against redistricting in Indiana after Trump used the word "retarded."
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"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
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It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme. www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"...the researchers tell WIRED that the verse is too dangerous to share with the public."
📃✍️💥👀
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It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.
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Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
LSU confirms Kelly was fired 'without cause' and is owed his full $54 million buyout
Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has received a letter from LSU confirming that he was fired without cause and is owed his full $54 million buyout.
apnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Endowing a faculty position runs about $2–3 million, in case you were wondering
My mother (a historian of science) are and I are arguing about the salience of this now
It's Friday, and apparently bluesky is ready for this fun revelation:
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
Dinosaurs lived on the other side the Galaxy.
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My mother (a historian of science) are and I are arguing about the salience of this now
In not particularly festive news, this fascinating story has been haunting me since I read it first thing this morning
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In not particularly festive news, this fascinating story has been haunting me since I read it first thing this morning
I have now done a beef roast with a reverse sear method! And it was AMAZING. Also I made chimichurri.
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I have now done a beef roast with a reverse sear method! And it was AMAZING. Also I made chimichurri.
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Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
November 27, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Another year, another end-of-semester infographic presentation from my students. Here's a map showing Alcuin's letter network.
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MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
MY NAME IS OZYMANDIAS KING OF KINGS
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nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 AM
nuzzi / lizza misconduct imo enabled the destruction of so much public health & scientific research — and a resurgence in measles in the US. this is not petty tabloid gossip or inside baseball. that they went undetected or were rewarded while great reporters were laid off? it’s a huge system failure
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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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Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer
November 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Bold, bin-raiding raccoons may have a surprising answer
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."