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Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social · 5d

This is a wonderful meditation on what AI cannot do.

Alex Shevrin Venet @asv.bsky.social · 5d

wowwww this is incredibly beautiful. tagging some friends who will love this: @ladyofsardines.bsky.social @heymrsbond.com @marcusluther.bsky.social

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 7d

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

CFP: A Time of Monsters

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Sarah C E Ross @sarahceross.bsky.social · 8d

Job alert! University of Auckland, lectureship in English, in the long 19th century:

jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversit...

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · 16d

Quick note! We are aware that our Google search results contain some bogus information. The issue is being dealt with, but for now, use another search engine to find our articles, or go straight to www.jprstudies.org and use our search box there! The site itself is not impacted.

Journal of Popular Romance Studies

The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is an interdisciplinary journal exploring popular romance media and other instances of romantic love in global culture.

www.jprstudies.org

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · 18d

Random question: I have a vague recollection of an American short story about immigrants who bring their gods with them. By a female author, maybe early 20th century? (I realise this is also the plot of the novel American Gods). Does anyone have a title or author for this? Or am I hallucinating it?

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 20d

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Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 20d

Portland! This is the week! Pop on your best mask and come talk about sapphics and Gothics and historical romance!
everout.com/portland/eve...
#Romancelandia

Alexandra Vasti at Grand Gesture Books in Portland, OR - Thursday, September 25 - EverOut Portland

🥀AUTHOR ANNOUNCEMENT🥀 Please join us at Grand Gesture Books on Thursday, September 25th at 7pm as we welcome USA Today bestselling author @alexandravasti to our store! She’ll be here to discuss her ne...

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · 21d

I just deleted my Academia account. You can find me easily enough elsewhere. If you need a copy of a chapter or article and cannot get it through your library, I would be extremely delighted to find a request in my inbox!

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 21d

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Maggie Hennefeld @hennefem.bsky.social · 21d

In addition to cancelling your Disney accounts, now is also a great time to delete academia.edu

Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · 24d

This is very exciting!!

Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social · 24d

Coolest call for book proposals!

#romance #power #desire #AcademicSky #booksky #academicwriting #books

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Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social · 26d

I had to write about it.

The idea that the existence of functional agencies of regulation and oversight for workplaces is now part of the fantasy of romance is MIND BLOWING and also terrifyingly accurate.

(Sidenote: A Corps of Health and Safety is a hilarious title and I love it.)

Regulation and Oversight Now Part of the Fantasy of Romance | Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

Smart Bitches, Trashy Books

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Jodi McAlister @jodimca.bsky.social · Sep 11

My latest book An Academic Affair is now out in the UK! This is the first of my books to get a proper print release there (exciting!). I hope you enjoy reading about my totally-only-getting-married-on-paper rival academics as much as I did writing them. www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/An-Aca...

A graphic reading "out now in the UK!" The book An Academic Affair (featuring cartoon images of a white man and woman holding stacks of books and glaring at each other) is sitting on a marble surface next to a pink scarf.

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𝕰𝔦𝖑𝔢𝖊𝔫 𝔐. 𝕳𝔲𝖓𝔱 @eileenmhunt.bsky.social · Sep 10

Breathtaking! Thanks to Oxford World’s Classics for making this dual edition of Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ & ‘The Journal of Sorrow’ possible & beautiful! Out in Feb in UK, May in US—in the bicentennial year of these literary masterpieces.

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am very excited to announce the CfP for our Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman" for JPRS! Please share widely 😀

Journal of Popular Romance Studies @jprstudies.bsky.social · Aug 7

CfP 🚨 The Journal of Popular Romance Studies is now accepting paper submissions for its Special Issue "Romancing the Posthuman", focusing on romance, critical love studies and posthumanism:

📆 Deadline: 31 October 2025
📄 Send 300-word abstracts
➕ More information: www.jprstudies.org/submissions/...

Special Issue Call for Papers | Journal of Popular Romance Studies

JPRS publishes special issues on a range of topics relating to the study of romantic love and its representations. These issues contain at least 3 articles on their shared topic, as well as an introdu...

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SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social · Sep 8

Artist Danny Flynn sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/flynn_... was born on this day, so here's some of his cover art 1989-1990. 1: Brian Stableford "Journey to the Centre", 2: CJ Cherryh "Hunter of Worlds", 3: Robert t A Heinlein "Red Planet", 4: Adrienne Martine-Barnes "The Sea Sword":

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Aug 28

This looks amazing! Very valuable work.

Natalie Hopwood @nrhopwood.bsky.social · Aug 28

@necron-network.bsky.social is coming to @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026!

This in-person roundtable is open to all current NECRON members. To get involved, email Natalie Hopwood ([email protected]) with a short bio and a brief overview of what you want to say by 15th Sept.

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · Aug 20

I saw a job posting for a heritage project focused on Romany history. I wasn't sure how visible it would be so wanted to share so that the job gets seen by the people whose history it is focusing on.

Give it a share, perhaps?

museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk/job/learning...

Learning Co-ordinator (Project) | Museum Studies | University of Leicester

museum-services-jobs.le.ac.uk

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Laura Vivanco @lauravivanco.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've submitted a proposal and, even if my proposal isn't accepted, I'd love to see the volume succeed in getting to publication, because it's important to know how romance is shaped by/helps to shape what's going on in the world.

Eric Selinger @emselinger.bsky.social · Aug 20

Deadline extended (to September 30) for essay proposals: Love and Resistance: Popular Romance Fiction and the Right, 2015-2025. drive.google.com/file/d/1p63T...

Love and Resistance CFP.pdf

drive.google.com

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Aug 20

What a beautiful piece from RK Russel in the Guardian!
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

I played in the NFL. Outrage over male cheerleaders is really about attempts to control masculinity

Sport has long been used to police what it means to be a man. But inclusivity on the sidelines reflects the game’s true power: bringing people together

www.theguardian.com

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Jul 24

I love this! It articulates something about the mind-body dualism that I have never seen in relation to romance before but that makes complete sense.

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Javaria Farooqui @javariafarooqui.bsky.social · Jul 23

Just saw some 2nd anniversary posts for the #Barbie movie, so I replug my paper on its challenging reception in urban Pakistan:
From a toy to a tool: the reception of Barbie and cultural ambiguity in contemporary Pakistan - Javaria Farooqui, 2024 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#AcademicSky

From a toy to a tool: the reception of Barbie and cultural ambiguity in contemporary Pakistan - Javaria Farooqui, 2024

Barbie (2023) garnered enormous international box office success, stirring arguments about women's empowerment in popular media and academic circles. This ...

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Hi! Would it be possible for you to link to the actual article? I don't get access through my library but would find this very useful for my (humanities) students.

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yes this!

Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Jul 21

Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies

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Rob Horning @robhorning.bsky.social · Jul 17

"What such machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them people devote themselves more to the spectacle of thought than to thought itself." (from Baudrillard, The Transparency of Evil)

If men create intelligent machines, or fantasize about them, it is either because
they secretly despair of their own intelligence or because they are in danger of
succumbing to the weight of a monstrous and useless intelligence which they
seek to exorcize by transferring it to machines, where they can play with it and
make fun of it. By entrusting this burdensome intelligence to machines we are
released from any responsibility to knowledge, much as entrusting power to
politicians allows us to disdain any aspiration of our own to power.
If men dream of machines that are unique, that are endowed with genius, it
is because they despair of their own uniqueness, or because they prefer to do
without it - to enjoy it by proxy, so to speak, thanks to machines. What such
machines offer is the spectacle of thought, and in manipulating them peopl

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Jul 10

Some more Mexico City!

Courtyard of Frida Kahlo House Museum, trees and plants surrounded by a yellow ledge, red floor, blue walls, green gates.

Hanna in the garden of the Frida Kahlo House Museum

A sage-green Art Deco buidling called Edificio San Jose in neighborhood La Condesa

A white car decorated with Disney characters Stitch and his boojiboo Angel surrounded by hearts

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Hanna Hoorenman @hannahoorenman.bsky.social · Jul 9

A little belatedly I'm sharing some of the gorgeous places and and people I encountered in Mexico City, during and after our amazing #IASPR conference at UNAM.

Hanna drinking from a coconut with a straw

Fountain with statue of two coyotes in Coyoacan

The library building of UNAM with a mosaic mural by Juan O'Gorman

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