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Rachel M. Hartnett, PhD
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Assistant Professor of English at the College of Coastal Georgia. Research includes postcolonialism, U.S. empire, popular culture, & adaptation studies. She/her/hers.
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Ryan Gosling dressed in pink as Ken in the Barbie movie with the text “my job is just Email”
December 10, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.
Picture of Commander William T. Riker from Star Trek: The Next Generation (played by Jonathan Frakes)
December 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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They should do MyChart Wrapped
December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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how your email finds me
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Wide, wet and serious about this bath.

Bathing American Robins are always a joy to behold. #birds 🌿
A brown bird with an orange breast is mid bath in a shallow stream. It faces the camera with an incredibly serious expression and has all its breast feathers puffed out so it looks enormous.
December 3, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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The answer for me - in the classroom - has been to use universal design principles. I don’t give tests, my assignments are open book & can be submitted in multiple ways, I give extensions to anyone who asks. People have family emergencies, work demands, get ill… An inclusive class helps more people.
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 9d
Balancing "no person with a disability should be denied accommodations" with "it's important to discourage non-disabled people from pretending to be disabled to take advantage of these accommodations" is really difficult and I don't have a great answer for what anyone should do about it.
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I have so much grading to do, ergo I have an overwhelming need to clean every surface in my apartment including the inside of the fridge
December 3, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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⚠️ DEADLINE TODAY!!! ⚠️ Get your abstract in for the LFA/AAS joint conference on Adaptation & Collaboration, to be held online February 19-20 2026 🖥️
adaptstudies.bsky.social Association of Adaptation Studies @adaptstudies.bsky.social · Nov 3
🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review

👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance”

📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026
📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026

Please share widely!
❓Reach out if you have any questions!
The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 1) The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 2) The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 3) The EUROCALL Review Call for papers - Thematic issue: Openness in Language Education: Global and research pedagogical innovation and critical resistance (Page 4)
November 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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The more you have to lose by not doing your job, the less likely you are to farm it out to a bullshit generator
carnage4life.bsky.social Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 13d
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.

I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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I have been reading all the "students these days" threads from various sides and I have an essay's worth of thoughts -- there's a lot of complexity and heterogeneity that is hard to communicate on social media. There are a couple of things I will say here though. 1/
November 29, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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VERY. GROUCHY. HERON.
🦉
A submature Great Blue Heron is all fluffed out and hunched up and standing on one leg in a marshy area. He looks PISSED OFF.
November 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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🧵 Before Hollywood turned her green, L. Frank Baum’s Wicked Witch of the West looked very different… & she appears only briefly in the 1900 book. 📚
🧙🏼Check out her earliest depictions in these images, & explore more Oz history on our blog ⤵️
blog.archive.org/2025/11/17/t...

#PublicDomain #Oz #Wicked
A collage of W.W. Denslow illustrations from the original The Wonderful Wizard of Oz book. Clockwise from top: the book cover featuring the Cowardly Lion; the Wicked Witch ready to strike Toto with her umbrella; Dorothy holding the empty bucket as the Wicked Witch dissolves after being doused with water; the first illustration of the Wicked Witch, wearing a tall, pointed hat, seated, with her hands upon the handle of her umbrella.
November 21, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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this sounds like a great idea. luckily there are no extremely serious consequences to providing false information to the Internal Revenue Service
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 23d
TurboTax is about to be integrated into ChatGPT, where customers will be guided through tasks tied to their tax filings or financial profile by the AI chatbot.

TurboTax owner Intuit is also paying OpenAI more than $100 million a year to power AI agents.
November 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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Call for chapters! Amy Tooth Murphy and I are editing the Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory, and we are seeking contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners. See our full call here. oralhistory.org/2025/11/11/c...
Call for Chapters: Routledge Handbook of Oral History Theory - Oral History Association
Co-editors George Severs and Amy Tooth Murphy are inviting expressions of interest to contributechapters to the forthcoming Routledge Oral History Theory
oralhistory.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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🔆 LFA/AAS Joint Conference (ONLINE ONLY): Adaptation and Collaboration, 19-20 Feb 2026

✍️ Submit your proposal here by 1 December 2025: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
LFA/AAS Online Conference 2026: Adaptation and Collaboration February 19-20, 2026 When the online joint LFA/AAS conference began in the heyday of a global pandemic, the goal and theme was connection: to meet and mingle with scholars from across the world when circumstances made in-person connection untenable. Now, with half a decade under our belts and increasingly complex global problems facing our cultures and communities, it becomes crucial to think about the ways that adaptations (and adaptation scholars) of all kinds can find strength through an ethic and theory of collaboration, one that recognizes the ways adaptations have always been collaborative and explores new possibilities for intergroup cooperation We invite scholars from all disciplines to submit 8-10 minute presentations on the intersection of textual adaptation (intertextuality, intermediality, industries, and auteurs) and collaboration (cooperation, collective action, interdisciplinarity, and academic partnerships) writ broadly. While we welcome any unique interpretations of this theme, possible approaches could include: Adaptation as a collaborative practice between authors and adapters, readers and viewers, scholars and practitioners, or texts and technologies Adapting (with) non-human collaborators Adaptations that theorize or explore themes of collaboration and collective action Adaptation’s role in collaborative pedagogies Adapting for the sake of international/interdisciplinary collaboration Adapting collaborative technologies for artistic production and cultural reception We particularly encourage presentations and panels which foster cooperation across disciplines and/or bring the spirit of collaboration into the panel format itself – experimentation is welcome! Please submit abstracts using this Google Form by 1 December 2025. All inquiries may be directed to adaptationjointconference@gmail.com We will notify everyone whose proposals are accepted for presentation by mid-December.
November 3, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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👉 👉 The call is HERE for AAS 2026: Adaptation and Aurality, hosted by Burman University in beautiful Alberta, Canada!

✍️ Proposals due 15 December 2025
🗓️ Conference 7-10 July 2026

Full details posted on the AAS website: www.adaptation.uk.com/aas-conferen...
Introduction to the Call for Papers for the Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2026: Adaptation and Aurality. The conference will be hosted at Burman University in Alberta, Canada. A list of suggested topics on the theme of Adaptation and Aurality A short bio and photo of the keynote speaker for AAS 2026, poet/musician/scholar Dr. Sonnet L'Abbé (Vancouver Island University). Submission guidelines and contact information. For further inquiries please write to aas2026@burmanu.ca
October 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Dr. King was sentenced to 6 months hard labor because of this arrest.
October 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Two paths diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one more traveled by;
Because the wood is still a full ecosystem and leaving the maintained path can damage it,
Also I don't want ticks or wet socks
A photo of an open section in an autumn forest, there is a rocky dirt path on the right and a half-formed path through tall grasses and possibly reeds to the left.
October 13, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY!

Corn was created by Indigenous farmers in southern Mexico and Guatemala about 10K years. When European colonizers got to North American, Indigenous People had been growing it for thousands of years + cultivated beans, squash, potatoes and tomatoes. #Indigenous
October 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Some environmental good news for once:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Green turtle bounces back from brink in conservation 'win'
Once endangered due to hunting, it is making a strong recovery thanks to global conservation efforts.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Trying to include Hamilton in your American lit courses? Who isn't?! Check out Rachel Hartnett's published lesson on Hamilton on Adaptation Today's website, and consider submitting your own materials by October 1!!
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“‘In New York You Can Be a New Man’: Adapting American Mythology in Hamilton”
Author: Rachel M. Hartnett, College of Coastal Georgia, Survey of American LiteraturePeer-Reviewers: Kathryn McClain and James FleuryWebsite Developer: Kristen Figgins Summary This l…
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September 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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There's still time to sign up for the 5th To Be Continued... online conference, which launches this Thursday 18 September! Join us to talk about David Lynch, copyright, franchises, and legacies with a stellar group of scholars!
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Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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September 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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From my cold, double- tapping fingers
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Sep 3
I refuse to give em dashes to the AI
September 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were unforgettable, complex, and real.

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#redpopnews
Remembering Graham Greene: A Life of Talent, Heart, and Groundbreaking Achievements
On September 1, 2025, we lost a true legend. Graham Greene, Oneida from Six Nations Reserve, walked on at the age of 73. Over the span of more than 175 acting credits, he gave us characters that were ...
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September 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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Adaptation, seriality, film, media, literature, and cultural studies scholars, come to the fifth annual online To Be Continued conference, Sept. 18-19! Presenter and (free) registration information can be found on this flyer. Hope to see you there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TBC5 flyer 2025 final.docx
To Be Continued 5 Defining, Producing, Performing, Consuming, and Theorizing Serials and Adaptations A Zoom Symposium, 18–19 September 2025 Organizers: Julie Grossman (Le Moyne College), Thomas Leitch...
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August 20, 2025 at 11:01 PM