Ernst Gerhardt
@eeseejee.bsky.social
Assoc. Prof, medieval + Tudor drama, Shakespeare.
Same here! 😭
Me too!!!!!
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Same here! 😭
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Bitterfinger
October 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.
Who is this advertising for?
Who is this advertising for?
September 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I am begging everyone with my heart and soul to read a fucking book. If you haven’t done it in a long time, you can still do it. A lot of people are investing in illiteracy futures right now, and they’re playing in your face trying to get you to pay for your own ignorance.
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I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better
I’m not looking at colleges with my kids for some years yet but the question about staffing in particular is one I think every parent should ask
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I think it’s hard for outsiders to grasp how low staff and faculty morale get at universities where everyone’s job gets worse every year because there’s a hiring freeze and program cuts and any real money is locked up in new projects meant to help higher admin shine so they can move somewhere better
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2026 CSRS Conference, June 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. 2026 SCÉR colloque, juin 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. Announcement with Call for Article Abstracts / Annonce avec Appel à communications: csrs-scer.com/congress-202...
Congress 2026 | Congrès 2026
Announcement: 2026 CSRS/SCÉR 50th Golden Anniversary Conference Call for Article Abstracts In celebration of its golden anniversary, the Canadian Society for Renaissance Studies / Société canadienn…
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August 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
2026 CSRS Conference, June 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. 2026 SCÉR colloque, juin 6-8, l'Université de Montréal. Announcement with Call for Article Abstracts / Annonce avec Appel à communications: csrs-scer.com/congress-202...
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We barely read (well) now and it’s a problem. I don’t think A.I. will end reading but even mid market penetration for this mid-tech will diminish negative feedback for poor readers. So I hope I die before it all comes to a head.
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
www.newyorker.com
June 21, 2025 at 12:58 PM
We barely read (well) now and it’s a problem. I don’t think A.I. will end reading but even mid market penetration for this mid-tech will diminish negative feedback for poor readers. So I hope I die before it all comes to a head.
Sounds about right.
June 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Sounds about right.
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Gah, he called it a Bomb but that’s Bouchard. That was a Wallbanger
June 13, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Gah, he called it a Bomb but that’s Bouchard. That was a Wallbanger
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For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/
May 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
For those who missed it: The English Short Titles Catalogue (ESTC) has finally been relaunched with the help of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) following the cyber-attack on the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Find it here: datb.cerl.org/estc/
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I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
May 14, 2025 at 1:29 PM
I think in part the higher education funding crisis and the LLM-teaching crisis actually strike at the same problem, which is that education doesn't work without a broad, society-wide sense that the *actual content* of education - not the credential - is valuable.
Play la bamba, baby!
April 26, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Play la bamba, baby!
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Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record
Hereford Cathedral Library holds a fragmentary seventeenth-century letter addressed to a ‘Mrs Shakspaire’, concerning her husband’s dealings with a fatherless apprentice named John Butte or Butts. ...
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April 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Be my colleague? We're hiring in Indigenous Interdisciplinary Studies, a tenure-track position focused on cultural expression. Scholars/creators of media and literature may find this particularly important. Deadline: 25 May, 2025. laurentian.ca/careers/facu...
April 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Be my colleague? We're hiring in Indigenous Interdisciplinary Studies, a tenure-track position focused on cultural expression. Scholars/creators of media and literature may find this particularly important. Deadline: 25 May, 2025. laurentian.ca/careers/facu...
Two contradictions in this statement. First, Canada currently "works"; it's not perfect but it's far from broken. Second, you don't annex a country unless you need something they have. If Canada is so empty of value, why make it a state? Just leave it alone.
Trump: "To be honest with you, Canada only works as a state. We don't need anything they have. As a state it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at a map, they drew an artificial line right through it."
March 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Two contradictions in this statement. First, Canada currently "works"; it's not perfect but it's far from broken. Second, you don't annex a country unless you need something they have. If Canada is so empty of value, why make it a state? Just leave it alone.
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crucial context for the embrace of ChatGPT
University administrators are being ordered by outright facists to destroy their mission of intellectual inquiry and they are proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that their mission statements were nothing but empty slogans.
March 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
crucial context for the embrace of ChatGPT
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Welcome to the Republic of Quillette
Let’s talk about this a bit.
TL;DR First and foremost - it’s a lie, that’s not what the study was for. And the lie is told as pictured because contrary to popular belief - these bigots do in fact know about and hate trans men.
TL;DR First and foremost - it’s a lie, that’s not what the study was for. And the lie is told as pictured because contrary to popular belief - these bigots do in fact know about and hate trans men.
March 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Welcome to the Republic of Quillette
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Article 5, the mutual defence pact which makes up the backbone of the NATO agreement, has been enacted only once and in that case every member nation responded with support.
It was on 9/11.
It was on 9/11.
REPORTER: Are you gonna make it US policy that the US wouldn't defend NATO countries that don't pay their fair share?
TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.
TRUMP: Well, I think it's common sense. If they don't pay I'm not gonna defend them. No, I'm not gonna defend them.
March 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Article 5, the mutual defence pact which makes up the backbone of the NATO agreement, has been enacted only once and in that case every member nation responded with support.
It was on 9/11.
It was on 9/11.
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This note appears in a mid-16c printed copy of an interlude I'm editing. I haven't made any headway in reading it. Any ideas from anyone here?
December 6, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This note appears in a mid-16c printed copy of an interlude I'm editing. I haven't made any headway in reading it. Any ideas from anyone here?
One of my research projects has led to examining some printers' woodcut ornamental initials. I thought I'd try to learn how to make prints myself to get a better idea of what's involved. I've been practicing with lino-cutting, and while far from perfect, I'm fairly happy with the progress so far.
November 16, 2024 at 6:06 PM
One of my research projects has led to examining some printers' woodcut ornamental initials. I thought I'd try to learn how to make prints myself to get a better idea of what's involved. I've been practicing with lino-cutting, and while far from perfect, I'm fairly happy with the progress so far.
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In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...
A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT
Site web d’Arthur Perret, enseignant-chercheur en SIC.
www.arthurperret.fr
November 15, 2024 at 7:41 AM
In response to OpenAI’s recent ‘A Student’s Guide to Writing with ChatGPT’, Arthur Perret (maître de conferénces, Jean Moulin Lyon 3) writes a line-by-line rebuttal — A Student’s Guide to Not Writing with ChatGPT www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11...