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Alicia Spencer-Hall
@aspencerhall.bsky.social
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Writer. Researcher. Editor. Genderqueer femme. Crip. She/they. // medieval lit / media / gender / disability / pop culture // https://linktr.ee/aspencerhall
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · Nov 18
So I wrote a book about Twitter. Medieval Twitter to be exact---the interconnections between Twitter's textual modes & medieval literary culture(s), plus medievalists' use of Twitter and the #MedievalTwitter hashtag

www.arc-humanities.org/978194240195...

@archumanities.bsky.social #MedievalSky 🗃️
Front cover of "Medieval Twitter" by Alicia Spencer-Hall, published by Arc Humanities Press in October 2024. Series: Arc Impact. On a bright, textured blue background, neon pink birds from medieval manuscripts circle three medieval monks. The monk on the left reacts with a heart, the middle monk, agog, retweets, and the monk on the right wags his finger, tweeting a response. This pioneering monograph provocatively explodes current research paradigms for the modern and the medieval by showing that Twitter shares key similarities with medieval literary forms, texts, and narrative techniques. Analyzing tweets with medieval texts, and vice versa, Spencer-Hall initiates readers into an innovative methodology of interdisciplinary literary criticism, posing vital questions about the politics of medievalism today. Chapters include brand-new readings of The Owl and the Nightingale, the Chastelaine de Vergi, and Marie de France’s Laüstic, and arresting insights into troubadour style, Margery Kempe, and #MedievalTwitter. The book culminates in a medieval(ist) reading of Twitter’s premature demise, and Elon Musk’s medievalism. Throughout, points of contact and divergence are dissected, re-contextualizing the socio-cultural meaning of communication and texts across the temporal divide.
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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h
My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 7h
🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT
UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu #EducationalLiberty #SaveUT
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 5h
I don’t think we’re talking enough about the fact that we successfully took back the frog. Like it has been a meme for the alt right for years now, and thanks to these Portland inflatable costumes, we’re taking it back
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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd @aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 4h
People go on about how research is isolating but rarely acknowledge how much worse this can be as a disabled, chronically ill or neurodivergent researcher.

Find your people via remote co-working sessions with out the usual bullshit: join our new Spark Sessions, starting Tues 14 Oct @ 10:30am BST
Spark Sessions: Virtual Co-Working Spaces for Tired Researchers
Unapologetically pro-disability and intersectional virtual co-working sessions designed to give you the time and space you need to get your sh*t done.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 9h
When I was your age, searching for a phrase in quotes returned results for that exact phrase
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 16h
One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books
A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023
www.theguardian.com
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 13h
It was two OUP books.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h
The humanities grad school papers on this dynamic are gonna go on forever.
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 20h
there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif
Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes
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Dr Bryony Coombs @bryonycoombs.bsky.social · 5h
I think my previous post got censored, but I do think you need to see this little guy and his enormous tooth - as he points to where it hurts! 🦷
(From a medical ms - Edinburgh CRC ms 314)
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Dial M for Marfurder @mostlymartha.bsky.social · 5h
Once again I am reminded that someone can be a prominent member of a marginalized group and still be a huge jerk. Sometimes they can even be a huge jerk to other, different marginalized people.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 6h
youfeellikeshit.com my therapist told me about this. it's a little walk through on how to feel better when you feel like shit. im working through it now. it is, delightfully, in twine
Need a nap?
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 5h
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social · 7h
I am writing this because it has swiftly become crystal clear to me that many people have no idea what is happening or how this works. Here is a thread for non-academics to put into context what just happened to Dr. Mark Bray, a fellow historian.
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👁️🍄🪸 @bloomfilters.bsky.social · 10h
may your lattes be oatmilk'd and brews be cold. blue hair and pronouns for young and for old
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Rain Drop @rainofdroplets.bsky.social · 10h
this will be the american civil war greeting as the woke agenda marches to war for the right to have nonbinary baristas
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 7h
I knowwwwww
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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 11h
“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 10h
Your service will be remembered for generations 💜
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 15h
Right????
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h
www.wweek.com/culture/2025...
Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 21h
Fleabag season 3 writes itself
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 23h
Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.
Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 16h
New analysis shows over 15,000 university job cuts and c. 4,000 courses "shuttered"
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1422...
#Highered #Edchat #students #research
New analysis shows over 15,000 university job cuts as UCU launches UK wide strike ballot
Universities have announced cuts equivalent to over 15,000 jobs in the last year.
www.ucu.org.uk
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 16h
The perfect genderqueer shirt doesn't exi--
An oversized cotton button-down shirt. The upper portion features a classic shirting panel in pale blue, while the lower half shifts into a playful polka dot print for visual contrast. Diagonally placed floral sequin embellishments sweep across the front forming the border between the two fabrics
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Alicia Spencer-Hall @aspencerhall.bsky.social · 16h
Yeah if a colleague asked me to beta read or PR a piece of work that had undeclared AI-generated text in, I would be beyond pissed at the misuse of my time
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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 16h
Recently gave a colleague feedback on a paper that was partly written with ChatGPT. What did I learn from this and how should we deal with cases like this? Here are some thoughts 🧵(1/x)
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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 22h
donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell
An inflatable frog costume
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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 20h
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
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Ashley C. Ford @smashfizzle.bsky.social · 2d
Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.
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PJR23 @stixx23.bsky.social · 2d
I hear she has supported school bands as well: www.thepinknews.com/2022/10/10/d...
Dolly Parton quietly funded Black school bands: 'The woman is a national treasure'
Dolly Parton paid for band uniforms and instruments for kids at majority Black high schools with zero publicity, a writer has revealed.
www.thepinknews.com
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