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dr. christopher

@eatthatbee.bsky.social

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Medievalist • Assistant Professor of medieval literature @ Southeastern Louisiana University • University of California, Riverside, PhD feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him opinions expressed are my own

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · Nov 8

To those who may not know me:

I’m an assistant professor of English in Louisiana; I teach medieval literature. I work at the intersection of Middle English manuscripts, aesthetics, affect, and queerness. Talk to me about the Middle English Cleanness.

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 1h

At this point, just write the paper yourself???

Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 3h

Seeing people nonchalantly post stuff like makes me feel like I'm going crazy honestly.

A post from an academic on blue sky that says: "I'm learning about "prompt engineering" when asking LLMs to extract data. I now add this to all instructions:

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Be concise, analytic, and specific (cite page/figure if provided). If essential info is missing, keep going but flag Unclear and exact data needed. Never invent data.

#academicsky"

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 2h

i think my check got lost in the mail

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 21h

If anything, it’d steel my resolve to finish them.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 1d

i haven't read this Poe story yet

Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 2d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Alex Blechman @alexblechman.bsky.social · Sep 3

The Coca-Cola Freestyle machine is an echo chamber. Good luck finding nuanced debates about hot button issues on that touch screen. It’s just soda names and flavored syrups

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredibly cool!

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 2d

The border between holidays has never been more palpable!

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 2d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 3d

i hate how stupid this all is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Dr Oz: "Drugs for lung diseases are discounted massively. The president highlighted 650%. Significant discounts ... "

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 3d

I'm not a dentist, but I think the size of that extracted tooth might've been the issue there.

Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 3d

Today was fun: medical manuscripts this morning at Edinburgh CRC (ms 314, ms 170; ms 168). Followed by an urban foraging lecture (quite medicine based) and 16th C recipes at the historical reconstruction lab. So interesting!

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 3d

don’t threaten me with a good timr

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 5d

AND IT IS OPEN ACCESS?

gorgeous

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 5d

HOW EXCITING

J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 5d

It's true: I wrote a book. And what's more, the book is done and soon you'll be able to own a copy. And what's more more, if you want a hard copy you can order one for 50% off now, with the code SAR50. And if you want it digitally, it'll be open access!

www.arc-humanities.org/978180270163...

Trans Histories of the Medieval Book - Arc Humanities Press

Archival collections are political spaces: the decisions that govern whose histories are preserved, when, and by whom are not neutral. They reflect the commu...

www.arc-humanities.org

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Elizabeth Boyle @thecelticist.bsky.social · 5d

Reminds me of this excellent sign that I saw at the Tubman African American Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Piano, which once belonged to Little Richard, with a sign on it saying "Do not attempt to play Little Richard's piano. He will know."

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 5d

Dolly please; I can't handle this.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 6d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 6d

wow got some good news i wasn’t anticipating 🥳

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 6d

BEHOLD! A bespoke (and abridged) Arma Christi roll featuring matching text from the O Vernicle poem associated with the images!

Produced by my graduate students for this weeks seminar: “When is a text not a codex?”

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 8d

While much of the British Library's digital collections remains down, consider using Southeastern Louisiana's fully hosted and digitized copy of the Book of Margery Kempe [MS Add. 61823] (a project completed by my predecessor Joel Fredell) if you have any Kempe-ian needs.

english.selu.edu/kempe/

The Book of Margery Kempe

english.selu.edu

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 8d

their concert sounds boring as hell lmao

𝕋𝕙𝕖 ℍ𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕗 ℂ𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕒 ℙ𝕠𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕥 @thoc.bsky.social · 8d

It’s irrelevant that Bad Bunny is American… by birth … and Catholic… by birth…

Because it’s not *really* about citizenship or faith for them, & it never has been. Those are just *wink* lil’ code words for what they really mean…

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 8d

You beat me to it! Medieval and early modern practices of book reuse and recycling is fascinating.

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 8d

happy sunday to those who celebrate

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · 9d

This is called a communications degree. Or an English degree. My uni library has a podcast studio and several programs have classes that allow students to create a podcast for an assignment. This is like making a degree in Excel or Word

"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 9d

Syracuse University, which costs $100,000 per year, has opened a school to give degrees in podcasting and social media influencing 🫥

Betting on the Creator Economy, Syracuse University Opens Academic Center for Podcasters and Influencers

The shift in course offerings follows a recent decision to pause admission for 20 undergraduate majors, including fine arts and digital humanities.

www.artnews.com

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dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 9d

I’m going to have my grad students get crafty and create an Arma Christi roll with some poster board, colored pencils, and a dream

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 11d

truly an inspired spelling of ‘sausages’

dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social · 11d

turns out i’ve been a clown my whole life