Erin Grievances
@erinbartram.bsky.social
Historian of religion & gender in the 19th c US, drinker of tea in the 21st c US. Museum educator at MTH&M. Wrote some quit lit you may have read. Founder & editor at contingentmagazine.org. Former academic. Sings with Voices of Concinnity. She/her.
Somehow there's a connection between this and the death of Google Reader. The danger in letting people find and access other people's creations was that there was money being made there but it wasn't being made by Google. They're sure taken care of that.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Somehow there's a connection between this and the death of Google Reader. The danger in letting people find and access other people's creations was that there was money being made there but it wasn't being made by Google. They're sure taken care of that.
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NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Apropos of an awkward moment with a coworker recently: do you know what the term one-holer means?
November 25, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Apropos of an awkward moment with a coworker recently: do you know what the term one-holer means?
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Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively.
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Enrollment by international students from China dropped by 3 percent, from India by 4 percent, and enrollment from students from Mexico has flatlined. Here are the likely consequences for Texas' education and economy:
The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas
The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.
www.texasobserver.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Where I work, grad student enrollment in Engineering and Business is down 70% and 40%, respectively.
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
Now, to cover the loss in revenue from these Departments, the rest of the colleges have to take MASSIVE hits. History Dept alone has cut/closed 6 TT lines. Forget about raises or salary equity. 🫠
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Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Same for literary studies. Non-tenure-track lit studies scholars I know you're out there and publishing articles and books. And if you're tenure-track and know NTT authors, let me know about their work! I can reach out and confirm that they're cool with being listed.
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For the What's History Feed 🗃️.
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For the What's History Feed 🗃️.
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
This is a fantastic opportunity for historians off the tenure track (including NTT, contingent, and independent scholars, archivists and librarians, museum workers and other public history folks) to spread the word about their publications.
✍🏽📚📄
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Between the "modern school is why kids have anxiety" and "men can only be okay if women give them more babies" discourses of the day, I find myself wishing that Americans could engage with their non-Civil War 19th century history a bit more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Between the "modern school is why kids have anxiety" and "men can only be okay if women give them more babies" discourses of the day, I find myself wishing that Americans could engage with their non-Civil War 19th century history a bit more.
No better typo in a church song sheet.
November 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
No better typo in a church song sheet.
You can see their equally ill-equipped pit crew members wandering the aisles of grocery stores all week.
the “thanksgiving food is bad” discourse raises its ugly head every year, but the truth remains that thanksgiving food can be amazing as long as you know how to cook. the problem is we’re throwing a few million sunday drivers directly into a grand prix
I think this is unfair to turkey. turkey is good but hard to cook well because it is so damn big. turkey *parts* are great but lack the esthetic appeal of a centerpiece bird.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 PM
You can see their equally ill-equipped pit crew members wandering the aisles of grocery stores all week.
I'm working on an upcoming @contingent-mag.bsky.social project and went back to see if this post was still online. What you're seeing here, folks, is how someone who doesn't know they have ADHD yet manages the intellectual labor of a dissertation. YIKES. usreligion.blogspot.com/2016/03/rese...
Research Tools and the Dissertation II
Today's post comes to us from Erin Bartram. Erin completed her Ph.D. in December 2015 at the University of Connecticut. She studies 19th cen...
usreligion.blogspot.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:43 AM
I'm working on an upcoming @contingent-mag.bsky.social project and went back to see if this post was still online. What you're seeing here, folks, is how someone who doesn't know they have ADHD yet manages the intellectual labor of a dissertation. YIKES. usreligion.blogspot.com/2016/03/rese...
A real millennial nightmare moment: my laptop died and I had to use the Small Internet to buy a replacement, precisely the kind of purchase that should only happen on the Big Internet!
November 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
A real millennial nightmare moment: my laptop died and I had to use the Small Internet to buy a replacement, precisely the kind of purchase that should only happen on the Big Internet!
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If you’d like to join our board, drop us a line!
Contingent Board Nominations
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November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If you think what we do is worthwhile and want to help us do it better, consider joining our board! *very low time commitment*
Is it lore if everyone on academic twitter knew about it for a hot second?
November 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Is it lore if everyone on academic twitter knew about it for a hot second?
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If you’d like to join our board, drop us a line!
Contingent Board Nominations
Contingent is looking for some new board members! We’re looking for folks who are committed to the magazine’s mission and want to help us shape how we carry it out in a changing media and academic lan...
contingentmagazine.org
November 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you’d like to join our board, drop us a line!
The conversations that I have heard at Christmas craft fairs about tariffs are going to radicalize a whole other sector of the American populace.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
The conversations that I have heard at Christmas craft fairs about tariffs are going to radicalize a whole other sector of the American populace.
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All of Bluesky this morning:
a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
Alt: a person holding a bag with a note that says dead dove do not eat
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All of Bluesky this morning:
I am almost glad that my laptop broke a few hours ago so I did not have to be involved in the replies to this post
We went to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum today and I saw a great response to the claim that we can’t have DC statehood because it would make the flag look funny.
November 22, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I am almost glad that my laptop broke a few hours ago so I did not have to be involved in the replies to this post
We went to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum today and I saw a great response to the claim that we can’t have DC statehood because it would make the flag look funny.
November 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
We went to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum today and I saw a great response to the claim that we can’t have DC statehood because it would make the flag look funny.
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THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
He said "Amen" straight into the drop
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
THE POPE HAS THROWN A RAVE
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
I am now experiencing FOMO about the Pope's rave
god, cyberpunk novels of my teenagerhood weren't weird ENOUGH
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Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.
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Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Thank you to @erinbartram.bsky.social for the idea as a public scholarly companion to Contingent's end of year list of publications from non-tenure track historians.
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Submissions for @contingent-mag.bsky.social are due by November 29th if you haven't submitted yet!
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
contingentmagazine.org
November 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Calling all contingent historians and their editors--if you haven't submitted for this year's lists, why not? Seriously, these are our most highly read pieces of the year. They are a great way to get your scholarship in front of people and SELL YOUR BOOKS.
Starting to get drafts in for @contingent-mag.bsky.social's December series "A Time of Monsters" and I need you to know how much I wanted to call this series "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" but knew we would get sued.
November 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Starting to get drafts in for @contingent-mag.bsky.social's December series "A Time of Monsters" and I need you to know how much I wanted to call this series "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" but knew we would get sued.
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when you lightly touch miette with the side of your foot
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
when you lightly touch miette with the side of your foot
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In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.
November 21, 2025 at 12:13 AM
In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.