Michelle Burnham
@curiousmonolith.bsky.social
Prof at Santa Clara University. 🏳️🌈 Writer of books on American literature. Editor of Re-Editions series at Lever Press. WNBA fan. Writing a book on the 1970s. Reclaimer of bad texts and decades.
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Let’s say you had the opportunity to assign college students *1* thing (article, video, podcast) to help them understand what edtech is, how it’s funded, who benefits from it, and how it preys on their data. What hits these bases in a comprehensive, up-to-date, and powerful way?
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Let’s say you had the opportunity to assign college students *1* thing (article, video, podcast) to help them understand what edtech is, how it’s funded, who benefits from it, and how it preys on their data. What hits these bases in a comprehensive, up-to-date, and powerful way?
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Cutting lines or even whole departments is the frontal assault on higher ed, but another low key war of attrition is the slow accumulation of grinding, meaningless additional tasks concerning syllabus templates, learning outcomes, institutional pablum, and ever more intricate evaluation hoops.
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes
I wrote about my love affair with Hulu’s All’s Fair, a show that seems like trash until you realize: it’s pure melodrama. Lowbrow culture, meet highbrow theory.
"All's Fair" is Pure Melodrama
and it's delicious
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December 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I wrote about my love affair with Hulu’s All’s Fair, a show that seems like trash until you realize: it’s pure melodrama. Lowbrow culture, meet highbrow theory.
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The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
November 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
The Boston Globe identified the companies in Massachusetts that employ the most SNAP recipients. A key stat: "In Massachusetts, 74% of working-age recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are employed, half of them full-time."
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
Full article: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/28/m...
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Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
Read Palestinian Speculative Fiction Reading List
The following is a growing reading list for the #ReadPalestinianSpecFic challenge. This is a work in progress to create a list of all available Palestinian speculative fiction. Novels: Novels by Na…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Some of you may know that I curate a huge reading list if Palestinian fantasy, science fiction, and horror. It is not up to date… Please comment if you identify as Palestinian, or if you know of something that should be in the list! Please share for visibility. soniasulaiman.com/readpalestin...
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Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Historian here he is right and regrettably the AHA is wrong on AI and its classroom use www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
Can’t wait to read this book!
Hey historians! If you need something to help you recover from all of the holiday gluttony tomorrow, I will be chatting about my new book with the incomparable Karin Wulf on Monday 12/1 at noon! 🗃️
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JCB Reads: Casey Schmitt's The Predatory Sea. Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean | John Carter Brown Library
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November 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Can’t wait to read this book!
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A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A bilingual Dano-Norwegian/northern Sámi catechism from 1728, afaik the first printed book in Northern Sámi
Uh, this is wild
Author Thomas King learned he is not Indigenous after an investigation concluded into his ancestry.
He says he fully believed he was Indigenous and does not need to apologize.
To speak more we talk to producer, actor and writer Georgina Lightning.
He says he fully believed he was Indigenous and does not need to apologize.
To speak more we talk to producer, actor and writer Georgina Lightning.
Author Thomas King says he is not Indigenous after investigation results | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Uh, this is wild
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The American academy has to ask whether it is ethical to have any in-person conference under Trump
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
ICE detains University of Oklahoma professor with H-1B visa, colleague says
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington DC.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:19 AM
The American academy has to ask whether it is ethical to have any in-person conference under Trump
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
www.newsweek.com/ice-detains-...
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It's wild that he funds two systems that are incompatible with each other: intellectualism and conservatism. He only cares about the University of Oregon's football team and nothing else.
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It's wild that he funds two systems that are incompatible with each other: intellectualism and conservatism. He only cares about the University of Oregon's football team and nothing else.
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1/2. After California passed a law to curb legacy and donor admissions at colleges and universities, Stanford decided to stop accepting funding from state student aid programs “in order to comply with recent California legislation.”
www.highereddive.com/news/stanfor...
www.highereddive.com/news/stanfor...
Stanford says no to state student aid, yes to legacy and donor admissions
The highly selective university will forgo California financial aid for students to circumvent a new law aimed at curbing the admissions practices.
www.highereddive.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
1/2. After California passed a law to curb legacy and donor admissions at colleges and universities, Stanford decided to stop accepting funding from state student aid programs “in order to comply with recent California legislation.”
www.highereddive.com/news/stanfor...
www.highereddive.com/news/stanfor...
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I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
THIS IS SO COOL
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
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A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
THIS IS SO COOL
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i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
November 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
i just reviewed 50+ applications for an arts award and most of them were written by chatgpt. And then the other reviewers said they put them into Gemini to rank them. At a certain point, if everyone is giving their thinking entirely over to AI, why are we even bothering with any of this anymore?
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Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Here's a twist for this #Thanksgiving recipe: swap mac and cheese for a creamy #risotto with #honeynut squash, #pancetta, and fontina this #Friendsgiving.
Hear us out: Try serving this cheesy risotto at Friendsgiving instead of the usual mac & cheese
Here's a hot take: Swap mac and cheese for a creamy risotto with honeynut squash, pancetta, and fontina this Friendsgiving.
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here's a twist for this #Thanksgiving recipe: swap mac and cheese for a creamy #risotto with #honeynut squash, #pancetta, and fontina this #Friendsgiving.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
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November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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Strange Horizons is open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors!
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If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit.
#fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
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#fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
Fiction Submission Guidelines
How to submit a story to Strange Horizons.
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November 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Strange Horizons is open to fiction submissions from Indigenous authors!
The window will close after 500 stories are received.
More information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit.
#fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
The window will close after 500 stories are received.
More information: strangehorizons.com/submit/ficti...
If you submitted in April or June, you CANNOT submit.
#fiction #shortstories #fantasy #sciencefiction #scifi
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For me, it’s been the New York Review of Books, and what a joy.
I’ve wanted to brag about my Christmas gift last year and here’s my chance.
I got the whole family matching magazine subs! Adults got Southern Cultures, OA, Bitter Southerner, The Sun, & New Yorker. Kid got Lux, Oyla, and later we added The Onion.
We always have stuff to talk about!
I got the whole family matching magazine subs! Adults got Southern Cultures, OA, Bitter Southerner, The Sun, & New Yorker. Kid got Lux, Oyla, and later we added The Onion.
We always have stuff to talk about!
I got out of the habit of reading magazines bc of the social pressure of writers reading what's trendy/popular or frankly expected of you.
This year, I've dedicated myself back to reading magazines and I'm truly having the time of my life.
This year, I've dedicated myself back to reading magazines and I'm truly having the time of my life.
November 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
For me, it’s been the New York Review of Books, and what a joy.
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20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate are now compiled into an easily searchable repository. Find it here:
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epstein’s Estate
Easily find every mention of Trump, Clinton, blackmail, and potential sex crimes in the thousands of private messages between Epstein and his close associates.
www.beltway.news
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
20,000 documents from Epstein’s estate are now compiled into an easily searchable repository. Find it here:
LOL
This is a real flight school, teaching people to fly planes!!! Like????
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
LOL
This man is extremely dangerous.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 3:33 AM
This man is extremely dangerous.
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Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
November 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior