Julia Leyda (she/her)
@julia-leyda.bsky.social
jaded academic | new Norwegian | chronically ill | ace woke pinko SJW | surviving mainly on film, TV, SFF novels
- doesn't suffer fools
- gleefully uses block function
- mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia
- movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
- doesn't suffer fools
- gleefully uses block function
- mastodon https://hcommons.social/@julia
- movies https://letterboxd.com/jleyda
Pinned
a woman with her eyes closed and the words that sounds nice above her
Alt: a woman (actor Patti Harrison in Together Together) with her eyes closed and the words that sounds nice below her
media.tenor.com
My latest article, co-authored with Nicole Seymour, outlines a theory of #aromantic and #asexual film aesthetics exemplified in a reading of Together Together (Nikole Beckwith, 2021). It's in Camera Obscura journal and I have PDFs if you can't get through the paywall.
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
👀🎞️🖤🤍💜
doi.org/10.1215/0270...
👀🎞️🖤🤍💜
Definitely right about Harrow and Henry. Both have stuck with me, albeit in different registers.
The Everlasting is uniquely brilliant yet at times recalls 1984, Hild, and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Thank you for this, @alixeharrow.bsky.social !!
The Everlasting is uniquely brilliant yet at times recalls 1984, Hild, and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Thank you for this, @alixeharrow.bsky.social !!
end of year lists are slightly silly and necessarily imperfect but: this is so cool thank you npr 🥹
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
www.npr.org/2025/12/03/n...
Here are 8 novels NPR staff and critics loved in 2025
Every year, we ask NPR staff and book critics to share their favorite titles in our annual Books We Love guide. Here are 8 fiction picks that were standout stars.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Definitely right about Harrow and Henry. Both have stuck with me, albeit in different registers.
The Everlasting is uniquely brilliant yet at times recalls 1984, Hild, and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Thank you for this, @alixeharrow.bsky.social !!
The Everlasting is uniquely brilliant yet at times recalls 1984, Hild, and This Is How You Lose the Time War. Thank you for this, @alixeharrow.bsky.social !!
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End-of-semester commitments felt like too much? Bowing out gracefully is sometimes necessary, as tricky as that is to do. As you ponder your needs in the coming year, keep these tips in mind to navigate the delicate art of backing out.
ideasonfire.net/backing-out-...
#TenureTrack
ideasonfire.net/backing-out-...
#TenureTrack
December 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
End-of-semester commitments felt like too much? Bowing out gracefully is sometimes necessary, as tricky as that is to do. As you ponder your needs in the coming year, keep these tips in mind to navigate the delicate art of backing out.
ideasonfire.net/backing-out-...
#TenureTrack
ideasonfire.net/backing-out-...
#TenureTrack
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"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
Dear Committee Members, As part of the faculty review process, I am pleased to report to you on my work. In this letter, I will offer information ...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"Under my leadership, we have instituted an assessment program where we assess how we assess what we already assessed, using learning outcomes that include all of the buzzwords someone in admin told us were important."
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📢 We are pleased to host a seminar by Professor Jason Mittell (Professor of Film and American Studies, Middlebury College, USA), a leading figure in film and media studies and director of the acclaimed Workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College.
December 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
📢 We are pleased to host a seminar by Professor Jason Mittell (Professor of Film and American Studies, Middlebury College, USA), a leading figure in film and media studies and director of the acclaimed Workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College.
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I felt exceedingly well prepared for this print-and-fold ornament thanks to our zine-making experiments last month.
The Greenhouse Christmas tree is now 120% better thanks to this new ornament. You can make your own! www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/dam/jcr:a46f...
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I felt exceedingly well prepared for this print-and-fold ornament thanks to our zine-making experiments last month.
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Apps for black feminist theory summer institute due 12/15. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out. I can promise a week of exciting intellectual conversation, a delightful community of graduate students working on black feminist theory from an array of perspectives, and cookies.
Year 5 of the Black Feminist Theory Summer Institute: Applications are open, more info on our website. Please spread the word.
December 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Apps for black feminist theory summer institute due 12/15. If you have questions, please feel free to reach out. I can promise a week of exciting intellectual conversation, a delightful community of graduate students working on black feminist theory from an array of perspectives, and cookies.
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Clearly I now need to drop all my other work and watch seven seasons of Mad Men, for science
December 2, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Clearly I now need to drop all my other work and watch seven seasons of Mad Men, for science
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YEAH THE BIGGER JOY IS WHEN UR SMART FRIEND & FELLOW WRITER LIKES YOUR BOOK 😭 this is the most generous thread
Truly is there any bigger joy than reading a friend’s smart, nuanced, passionate book and being suffused with love and pride and critical hope? I think not
Also: I cried a lot!
Also: I cried a lot!
November 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
YEAH THE BIGGER JOY IS WHEN UR SMART FRIEND & FELLOW WRITER LIKES YOUR BOOK 😭 this is the most generous thread
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cannot express how much my weekend has been improved by watching, for the first time!, BOUND (1996)
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
cannot express how much my weekend has been improved by watching, for the first time!, BOUND (1996)
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bring back Monologues!! let actors swish around in capes and deliver speeches, as god intended!!! abandon grim hyper-realism in favor of Theater!!!!!!
i think about "i burn my decency for someone else's future" all the time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3RC...
Andor | Luthen Rael’s Monologue | Disney+
YouTube video by Star Wars
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
bring back Monologues!! let actors swish around in capes and deliver speeches, as god intended!!! abandon grim hyper-realism in favor of Theater!!!!!!
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I wrote some for-the-layman stuff. www.sfwa.org/2021/01/26/c...
"Cities That Think Like Planets": On Writing Sustainable Cities in Science Fiction - SFWA - The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
by Arkady Martine Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in The SFWA Bulletin #215. On the dining-room table which has […]
www.sfwa.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
I wrote some for-the-layman stuff. www.sfwa.org/2021/01/26/c...
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Yet nothing changes here in Australia.
No mask recommendations, little airborne controls, no far UVC. Visit a Dr & they act like you’re wrong for avoiding infection from a vascular/neurotrophic virus. We can’t even get up to date vax.
What an absolute failure @albomp.bsky.social has been on Covid.
No mask recommendations, little airborne controls, no far UVC. Visit a Dr & they act like you’re wrong for avoiding infection from a vascular/neurotrophic virus. We can’t even get up to date vax.
What an absolute failure @albomp.bsky.social has been on Covid.
From NCNED in Australia:
Altered brain tissue microstructure and neurochemical profiles in long COVID and recovered COVID-19 individuals: A multimodal MRI study
Free fulltext:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#LongCovid #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
Altered brain tissue microstructure and neurochemical profiles in long COVID and recovered COVID-19 individuals: A multimodal MRI study
Free fulltext:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#LongCovid #COVIDBrain #NeuroPASC
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Yet nothing changes here in Australia.
No mask recommendations, little airborne controls, no far UVC. Visit a Dr & they act like you’re wrong for avoiding infection from a vascular/neurotrophic virus. We can’t even get up to date vax.
What an absolute failure @albomp.bsky.social has been on Covid.
No mask recommendations, little airborne controls, no far UVC. Visit a Dr & they act like you’re wrong for avoiding infection from a vascular/neurotrophic virus. We can’t even get up to date vax.
What an absolute failure @albomp.bsky.social has been on Covid.
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It hasn’t been a total flop. As a tool for spotting douchebags it’s been a perfect 10.
Tesla’s Cybertruck is turning 2. It’s been a big flop.
CEO Elon Musk once described the Cybertruck as Tesla’s “best ever” product. But demand for the controversial pickup truck has dried up.
www.marketwatch.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
It hasn’t been a total flop. As a tool for spotting douchebags it’s been a perfect 10.
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i'm finding... heterogeneity... in my students' levels of engagement, preparedness, follow-thru. I'm also assigning less work than i used to (fewer pages of rdg, lower word count assignments, shoveling points their way)
i find it curious that 99% of the commentary i've seen does not mention covid.
i find it curious that 99% of the commentary i've seen does not mention covid.
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
i'm finding... heterogeneity... in my students' levels of engagement, preparedness, follow-thru. I'm also assigning less work than i used to (fewer pages of rdg, lower word count assignments, shoveling points their way)
i find it curious that 99% of the commentary i've seen does not mention covid.
i find it curious that 99% of the commentary i've seen does not mention covid.
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Subscribe to The Onion to keep up with the latest tech developments
November 30, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Subscribe to The Onion to keep up with the latest tech developments
November 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
AI Is Hollowing Out Higher Education
Olivia Guest & Iris van Rooij urge teachers and scholars to reject tools that commodify learning, deskill students, and promote illiteracy.
www.project-syndicate.org
October 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
“The deskilling, denigration, and displacement of teachers and scholars have historically been central to fascist takeovers, since educators serve as bulwarks against propaganda, anti-intellectualism, and illiteracy.” — @olivia.science
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...
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The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)!
@anjalanggaat.bsky.social
@haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway.
@anjalanggaat.bsky.social
@haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway.
October 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
The book is finally sent to print, and we could not be prouder (or more exhausted)!
@anjalanggaat.bsky.social
@haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway.
@anjalanggaat.bsky.social
@haraldol.bsky.social
«Usynlig til stede» deals with photography and society in Norway after 1945 and highlights several new perspectives on how photography has changed Norway.
Yes interesting!
Armadillo
Rattlesnake
Marten
Moose
Badger
Armadillo
Rattlesnake
Marten
Moose
Badger
ooh I like this one
baboon
giraffe
moose
flying fish
cobra
baboon
giraffe
moose
flying fish
cobra
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
Caribou
Ravens
Seals
Kea
Turkeys
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Yes interesting!
Armadillo
Rattlesnake
Marten
Moose
Badger
Armadillo
Rattlesnake
Marten
Moose
Badger
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"Good grief. This year feels heavier, doesn’t it? Heavy in the air, in the bare grocery aisles, in the empty pit of our stomachs. Heavy in the way people say, 'It’s okay, we’ll make do.'"
Thanksgiving’s Going to Be a Tough One This Year, Charlie Brown
Making popcorn again, huh, Snoopy? Keep it up. Sounds like pure nostalgia, especially with the way this year’s been going. I bet Linus would’ve cal...
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November 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
"Good grief. This year feels heavier, doesn’t it? Heavy in the air, in the bare grocery aisles, in the empty pit of our stomachs. Heavy in the way people say, 'It’s okay, we’ll make do.'"
A movie set and filmed where I'm from.
November 23, 2025 at 7:37 PM
A movie set and filmed where I'm from.
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Huh
"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
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Huh
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Old Danish Christmas stamp sheets, 1960s/1970s. www.presentandcorrect.com/collections/...
Shipping worldwide
Shipping worldwide
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Old Danish Christmas stamp sheets, 1960s/1970s. www.presentandcorrect.com/collections/...
Shipping worldwide
Shipping worldwide
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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.