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JSA Lowe
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she/her | just another poet with a cat | teaches film and creative writing | studies danmei/dangai and fanfiction | masterless ronin, island dweller, matcha enjoyer, winter sparrow | we must hurry if we are going to dance | http://jsalowe.com
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JSA Lowe @jsalowe.com · Oct 9
"Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter’s day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. The sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while, but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing." Bede, Eccelesiastical History of the English People
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transasianfan.bsky.social
CfP: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium happening next May @ NUS, Singapore. More announcements to come, but we're hoping this will kickstart conversations and collaborations for scholars in the region working on transcultural fandom

#AcademicSky #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #CfPs
Call for Papers: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium Description of the CfP A list of potential topics for the symposium Details of the organising committee, 500 word abstract + 100 word short bio to be emailed by 1 Feb 2026 to transasianfan@gmail.com
December 4, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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bookshop.bsky.social
The number of people acting shocked by this amazes me, frankly, since we've been predicting exactly this— and seeing AI slop taking over google searches — for years now.

Also we MUST stop using "hallucination," which frames this is an unfortunate quirky fluke. It is the program's intended behavior.
andrew.heiss.phd Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Dec 15
Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
jsalowe.com
Feeling the cliff unmorsel from our heels
And knowing balance gone, we smile, and stay
A little, whirling our arms like desperate wheels.

[James Agee]
seeshespeak.bsky.social Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social · Dec 12
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.

That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.

I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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markharris.bsky.social
This...should have been two separate emails.
From People magazine: "Kate Middleton wears most dramatic tiara yet, skeletal remains found in drained swamp"
December 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
jsalowe.com
me: i will not apply for anything else! i have too much to do and it's just not—
this: [appears]
me: …after i apply for this, i will not apply for anything else
transasianfan.bsky.social Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social · Dec 4
CfP: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium happening next May @ NUS, Singapore. More announcements to come, but we're hoping this will kickstart conversations and collaborations for scholars in the region working on transcultural fandom

#AcademicSky #FanStudies #TransculturalFandom #CfPs
Call for Papers: Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom Symposium Description of the CfP A list of potential topics for the symposium Details of the organising committee, 500 word abstract + 100 word short bio to be emailed by 1 Feb 2026 to transasianfan@gmail.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
jsalowe.com
i only have 40 in my film section in the spring and i am 100% doing this. thank you for the idea, op!
amandaannklein.bsky.social Deluded Wine Mom @amandaannklein.bsky.social · Dec 5
This semester I'm doing something new & possibly insane: 15-min, one-on-one, in-person, oral final exams w/ all 105 students in my fall classes. I put a Google sheet into Canvas and students selected their times. That's over 26 hours of student meetings. Why did I do this to myself? A few reasons:
December 5, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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unenthusiast.com
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Norman Rockwell's Freedom of Speech but it's Ellen Ripley
November 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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roxanneshirazi.bsky.social
It’s Saturday night and I am editing PDFs (for reasons) and this section on assessment from a 1999 writing text jumped out at me, not least because of all the ~discourse~ on here about student writing
Addressing Assessment: Assessment often drives instruction. If assessments ask for certain kinds of skills, teachers feel compelled to teach these skills explicitly. As a result, increasing amounts of time are given over to "nuts and bolts" or to "bits and pieces" and soon, teachers lament, the larger picture is lost. What began as an attempt to certify that students have achieved a certain level of mastery in language development has turned into its op-posite: reducing literacy development to a series of hurdles that often have little to do with actual competence in reading and writing. Skills-based teaching, as just described, does help some students pass their assessment tests. Often it does not. LBW has tried to address this discrepancy by asking why. No responsible teacher would argue that levels of competence should not be determined or that both teachers and students should not be held accountable for what they have or have not accomplished in any given school year or academic subject. So where is the problem? LBW teachers concluded that current measures of assessment, however well-intentioned and well-informed, do not measure real literacy development. LBW teachers, similar to teachers everywhere, do not resent standards per se. But they do resent standards imposed from without that do not reflect either the realities of their classrooms or the lives and languages of their students. They resent such standards and the necessity of teaching to them when this endeavor gets in the way of what they truly want to teach: literacy instruction based on reading, writing, conversation, dialogue, debate, reflection and social action. LBW teachers (again, like many teachers elsewhere) find themselves in an uncomfortable position. Wanting to do their best for their students, not wanting to short-change them in any way whatsoever, they devise the best methods they can to help their students pass their assessment tests.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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lrb.co.uk
The air
all around me knows
not to hold anything
for long. Bc it is this unison of

breath, this unison of
mind the big wind is
after.

From ‘Demonstration’, a new poem by @joriegraham.bsky.social

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Jorie Graham · Poem: ‘Demonstration’
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
jsalowe.com
We must hurry if we are going to dance.
Oh, we have time, I think.
—till there’s no time left. That’s what time means.
When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning,
we will be alone, on an empty shore.
Then we will dance. Is this a waltz?
It will serve.

[Sir Tom Stoppard 1937–2025]
the ending of Arcadia, 1993, by tom stoppard. requiescat in pace.
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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lunarriviera.info
fork found in kitchen
daebakpodcast.bsky.social Alisa @ Daebak Podcast @daebakpodcast.bsky.social · Nov 21
Hollywood producer discovers** women enjoy watching hot men romance each other

**Discovers something that has been known for decades in Asia

#BLDrama #HeatedRivalry

www.teenvogue.com/story/inside...
Quote from a Teen Vogue article about the gay hockey drama Heated Rivalry: Goldstein-Couto, in particular, understood the unexpected target audience for gay male romance. “These are books written by women, consumed largely by women,” Tierney says. “I always said, ‘Once you film this, gay men will watch it, but we’ll watch anything with gay men in it. We’re not wildly discerning in that way, and we’re starved for stories. But the secret fan base of this is women, and that is a much bigger target than just queer people or queer men, or whatever the assumption was.’”
November 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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bergoesbueno.bsky.social
whomst among us hasn't gone along with an idea that we don't necessarily agree with just because a hot person suggested it
November 21, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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asherelbein.bsky.social
I cosign every single word of this

anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it. But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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suzannerblack.bsky.social
My first monograph, 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction', will be published by
@lsupress.bsky.social on 16 May 2026!

It connects contemporary fiction, fanfiction and literary theory.

See lsupress.org/978080718642... for more details.
Cover of book 'Between Novel and Network: Technology and Literary Form in Fiction and Fanfiction.
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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fcoppa.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Reading Fanfiction/ Fanfiction Reading
If you have a 3000-4000 literary close reading of a fanfiction story burning to get out, please be in touch! :D
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October 27, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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fanstudies.bsky.social
New article ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Alfred W T Lo, Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age, Applied Linguistics, 2025.

#FanStudies

doi.org/10.1093/appl...
Culture travellers: Theorizing transculturing through transcultural fandom in the GenAI age
Abstract. This paper develops transculturing as a new theoretical–analytical approach for understanding how culture is creatively, critically, and imaginat
doi.org
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 PM
jsalowe.com
we need this man on here NOW #academicsky
It is here that the frame breaks. I’ve told you how this plays out where I work but I do so in full confidence that you know your own version of it, wherever you are—and if you didn’t a few months ago, you do now. It’s startling, the velocity with which a decades-long crisis in the humanities has, with the flourish of a few quick Executive Orders, become a crisis of the university, full stop. As promised by the feverish Project 2025 document, the full-scale war on the institutions of American higher education has kicked into its blitzkrieg phase. No one knows where it will end, or what will end with it. The aim, clearly, is scalar ruin. Meanwhile, we in the battered and bruised humanities suddenly find ourselves shoulder to shoulder with a lot of new-convert comrades. Friends one and all: welcome.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
jsalowe.com
DON'T THREATEN ME with a good time
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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augustaquarius.bsky.social
Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) 5 December 2025, 10:30 - 16:15

www.aru.ac.uk/events/brain...
Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the Enshittification of the Internet: A Symposium (Virtual) - ARU
Join us online on 5 December for a symposium investigating the recent phenomena of Brain Rot, AI Slop, and the so-called 'great Internet let down'.
www.aru.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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scmsfaas.bsky.social
Join us for our first event of 25-26! A discussion of Fandom for Us, by Us by @alfredmartin.bsky.social, on Friday, Nov. 14 on Zoom. More info and registration: tinyurl.com/fandomforus
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
jsalowe.com
four by jean valentine [via sean singer]
October 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
jsalowe.com
"Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter’s day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. The sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while, but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing." Bede, Eccelesiastical History of the English People
October 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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discussingfilm.net
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘KILL BILL’ movies will be released in theaters as one complete movie on December 5.

• Will include a never-before-seen 7-minute animated sequence

• Select presentations will be in 70mm and 35mm
October 1, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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melstanfill.bsky.social
if you're thinking about coming to do a #fanstudies PhD with me, here's your chance to learn more.
ucftandt.bsky.social UCF Texts & Technology PhD @ucftandt.bsky.social · Sep 30
Thinking about pursuing a PhD with T&T? We've got TWO upcoming information sessions. The first will be Wednesday, October 15 at 6pm. Sign up here! applynow.graduate.ucf.edu/register/?id...
Texts & Technology PhD October Open House
applynow.graduate.ucf.edu
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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mattzollerseitz.bsky.social
Here's a diversion for you all: contributors to @ebertvoices.bsky.social wrote about 11 of the late, great Robert Redford's performances. My pick is Sneakers. Everybody else's entries are fantastic, and there are some surprises. www.rogerebert.com/features/the...
The Golden Boy: 11 of Our Favorite Robert Redford Performances | Features | Roger Ebert
The staff picks some of our favorite performances from the late screen legend, from "Barefoot in the Park" to "All the President's Men."
www.rogerebert.com
September 18, 2025 at 8:06 PM