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Nissa Ren Cannon @nissaren.bsky.social · 1d

There are few things that make me happier than the fact that William James’ house looks like this at Halloween.

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La Firuláis ΘΔ @thegonzalez.bsky.social · 1d

The best Dracula adaptations leave in the cowboy.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 1d

One exam question I've had luck with is to divide all our works into two or three columns, and tell students to pick one from each and demonstrate course synthesis by constructing an argument that connects them.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 1d

a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone and shouting .

ALT: a woman in a red dress is holding a microphone and shouting .

media.tenor.com

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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 2d

"Sora 2, an elaborate regency romance where everyone is wearing a live duck for a hat (each duck is also wearing a hat) , prestige drama"

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Original. I love both.

Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the theater was pretty full. (Tickets at this place are $3.50.) People still want to go to the movies; they just don't want to have to drop $100 per family to do it.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Local theater had The Addams Family on the big screen tonight. I have never seen another pair of actors doing horny as well as Raul Julia and Angelica Huston, and I doubt I ever will. Just the absolute horniest.

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Chris Loar @chrisloar.bsky.social · 2d

Scholars of eighteenth-century topics: consider submitting your work to *Digital Defoe*. We publish essays on Defoe, but also on his "contemporaries," which we're inclined to interpret broadly. More info here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2025/10/...

cfp | call for papers

call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 2d

It is SO nice. Now she actually hears the phone ring when we call, too -- it had been years.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 2d

The new ones can bluetooth to your smart phone! Speaker phones no more!!

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Oh God. My mom finally got decent hearing aids, and the mercy it has been for ALL OF US, I can't even tell you.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Okay but also very weird, since the entire premise of the Dune universe is AI tried to kill all the humans and it's been extremely banned for eons. And that doesn't seem to come up?

Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 2d

Speakers: ON!

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Keegan Lannon @keeganlannon.bsky.social · 2d

It’s up! @biblioracle.bsky.social asked me to contribute a guest column to Inside Higher Education on alternative grading and studying it’s efficacy.

How Will We Know Alternative Grading Reduces Harm?

A guest post from University of Illinois at Chicago lecturer Keegan Lannon on wrestling with alternative grading.

www.insidehighered.com

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 2d

“Women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700.
Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historical record, women contributed to all the most important areas of the economy, such as agriculture, commerce, and care.”

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

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David Chen @davechen.bsky.social · 3d

Broadcasting LIVE right now with @amazingspidertalk.com and @patrickklepek.bsky.social to discuss the season 2 finale of PEACEMAKER. Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TjN...

Did the 'Peacemaker' Season 2 Finale Stick the Landing?

YouTube video by Decoding TV

www.youtube.com

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

😂

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

As opposed to lab-grown potatoes? They're cut too thin and they don't taste good, is my issue.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Lay’s is America’s top-selling brand of potato chips. Its maker doesn’t think it has been clear enough to consumers the chips are made with farm-grown potatoes.

PepsiCo’s Plan to Boost Lay’s Sales: ‘Real Potatoes’

The soda and snacks giant is giving products a MAHA-era makeover with natural ingredients.

on.wsj.com

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

Wow that is quite a ratio

Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

Good luck!!

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

Campus shop. The hardest part (and I mean it took me weeks) was figuring out who to talk to to get everything set up!

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 3d

I'm back to using them. Seems to be working fine -- I allow my students to use handwritten notes taken in their readers on the final, so they can see a benefit.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 4d

Question for c-18 theater people (paging @emmcgirr.bsky.social) -- what did women performing in breeches wear for their tops? Did they use stays or jumps? Did they hang loose, so to speak? I feel like I should know this but I have no idea.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 5d

Ha! My mother is a master weaver and this absolutely tracks.