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Faculty Publication: Te Pūrere

Orchid Tierney, William P. Rice Associate Professor of Literature, has 3 poems included in the new anthology Te Pūrere: Te Paenga Kōrero ā Ngā Kaitito Toi o Aotearoa/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets from Cold Hub Press. DESCRIPTION There are…
Faculty Publication: Te Pūrere
Orchid Tierney, William P. Rice Associate Professor of Literature, has 3 poems included in the new anthology Te Pūrere: Te Paenga Kōrero ā Ngā Kaitito Toi o Aotearoa/The Exodus: The Anthology of Expatriate New Zealand Poets from Cold Hub Press. DESCRIPTION There are myriad Aotearoa New Zealand poets who live overseas; several eminent, others relatively unknown. This significant anthology is the first to give voice to these expatriate Kiwi and their distinct perspectives, widening the parameters of New Zealand poetry well beyond its shores.
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October 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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🚨Come work with me at @propublica.org!
We are hiring a reporter to cover higher education — the best beat there is. 🏫

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Higher Education Reporter, National
New York City, United States
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October 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Robert Hackerman still at it, I see.

www.smbc-comics.com?id=2526 via @zachweinersmith.bsky.social (from 2012!)
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-02-20
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2012-02-20
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October 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"when the urge to resume doomscrolling hits (our brains asking for dopamine), make a choice to be creative instead. Satisfy the brain’s desire for dopamine by making something, instead of chasing that hit from the Internet. " - @wilwheaton.net
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in the mirror hypnotized I’m haunted
Yesterday, I mentioned on Bluesky that I’d heard this guy suggest a way to break the doomscrolling Ouroboros we all seem to be stuck in right now: when the urge to resume doomscrolling hits (…
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September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Faculty Publication: False Promises

Ric Sheffield, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, has published False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio, with Swallow Press. DESCRIPTION In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through…
Faculty Publication: False Promises
Ric Sheffield, Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Legal Studies, has published False Promises: The Struggle for Black Voting Rights in 1800s Ohio, with Swallow Press. DESCRIPTION In False Promises, the fight for Black voting rights in Ohio comes alive through narratives of men of color who defied the state’s nineteenth-century restrictions on suffrage. Though ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment ostensibly extended the franchise, state election laws still forced men of color into a perilous struggle for full citizenship. Ric S. Sheffield depicts their courage and determination, revealing their humanity through stories of sacrifice, resistance, and hope.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Faculty Performance: Before an Immense Sky

Kora Radella, Assistant Professor of Dance, is premiering a duet, Before an Immense Sky, with music by Ross Feller, Professor of Music, at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival on September 26th & 27th, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Before an Immense Sky is…
Faculty Performance: Before an Immense Sky
Kora Radella, Assistant Professor of Dance, is premiering a duet, Before an Immense Sky, with music by Ross Feller, Professor of Music, at the Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival on September 26th & 27th, 2025 at 7:30 PM. Before an Immense Sky is danced by Kenyon seniors Dasha Aminia and Diego Connolly and is one of eight dances chosen out of 169 festival submissions. 
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September 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"Decisions that fail to take direct feedback from the community – leveraging their expertise and their understanding of their needs – are doomed to fail." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Trump is wrong. I've been homeless. I wasn't a criminal, I just needed a home. | Opinion
Every day, I am thankful that I got off the streets. But it wasn't from a jail cell, and it wasn't at the direction of law enforcement.
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September 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Faculty News: A Twist on Ancient Technology

Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology, will give a talk titled "A Twist on Ancient Technology: Fiber, String, and More" for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Human Origins Today series on September 18, 2025. SUMMARY The…
Faculty News: A Twist on Ancient Technology
Bruce Hardy, J. Kenneth Smail Professor of Anthropology, will give a talk titled "A Twist on Ancient Technology: Fiber, String, and More" for the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Human Origins Today series on September 18, 2025. SUMMARY The early archaeological record consists primarily of two things- stones and bones. And yet, we know that the material culture of the past had to be predominantly organic in nature.
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September 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.

‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.

But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
September 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 15! THANK YOU to everyone who has already made a submission... and help us spread the word.
For #ReclaimOpen25, every proposal is also a blog post. We will publish all accepted submissions on the conference blog which will also be the conference schedule. Submissions are now open reclaimopen.com
September 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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How can academia best support neurodiverse faculty and staff?

Join us tomorrow as the Forum hosts Rebecca Pope-Ruark and Lee Skallerup Bessette to discuss their new Johns Hopkins University Press book.

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September 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wow. I'm glad I was tall enough to go on that ride. Brilliant thread.
It's seven years since we posted on Twitter about how kids kept coming into the library asking if we had any books about FORTNITE. We didn't back then, and we'd never heard of it so we tried asking what it was.
September 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Present company excluded but I wish more people realized that good teachers are the product of *years* of training and education and professional development and mentorship and practice, not magicians who go into the classroom and just wing it on Charisma.
September 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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Been stewing on this one for a minute. No more dead grandparents jokes, please #HigherEd?
August 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Ohio is (reportedly) the first state to require school districts to write AI policies. www.wosu.org/2025-08-25/o...
Ohio is first state in the U.S. to require K-12 public schools to adopt AI policies
Through the budget that was signed into law last month, Ohio has become the first state to require K-12 public schools to adopt policies on artificial intelligence.
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August 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“The pope will be from Chicago” sounds like an 1880s Republican’s dire prediction for if we don’t stop Irish immigration
May 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Interesting article on how @propublica.org used an LLM to analyze Cruz' list of supposedly "woke" science grants. Like, with prompts and everything. link.propublica.net/view/5f0a0ae...
March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.
January 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In about 20 minutes (10 AM Eastern) we'll be getting the cooking club together on #ds106radio to make the station some birthday cakes for its 14th birthday on Thursday! You can join along at listen.ds106rad.io ! (even pancakes are kind of baking...)
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January 18, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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free internet #radio show DJ'ed by @joemurphy.bsky.social
#music for the next hour or so at listen.ds106rad.io
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January 18, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Fascinating. Learning styles are less useless than we've been saying. (Seems like the same basic advice, though. Multiple modalities good; matching to preferences probably not worth the effort compared to other practices.)
My reaction to my meta analysis on matching instruction to learning styles indicating a small benefit
(Evidence isn’t the best, but there does seem to be something, much to my dismay)

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Are learning styles a neuromyth?
YouTube video by Virginia Clinton-Lisell
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January 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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I was forged in the (Angel)fire.
December 13, 2024 at 10:09 PM
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love the concept of "streaming reparations"
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It’s #BandcampFriday which means is a perfect time to support artists by embracing this antidote to poor streaming income for the majority of acts during Spotify Wrapped & Apple Replay season

This was one of my ideas to make the most of year-end lists from this week’s @drownedinsound.org newsletter
December 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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Write grants?

Read this.
The best first sentence of a grant application I've read was (paraphrasing), "Tool X is widely used to do task Y; we will make it accessible to people living with condition Z (13% of the population) so that it is more equitable and more widely used". Let's unpack why, because there's a lesson. 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 10:17 PM