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Lauren Eriks Cline
@lerikscline.bsky.social
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teaching lit; writing about C19 performance, spectators, narrative; opinions my own; she/they
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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · Dec 11
For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social I wrote about how the finale of *Lost* is good, actually - and about how the grief-time signature of the show belongs to the early aughts.
Seriality and Slow Grief | Los Angeles Review of Books
Lauren Eriks Cline looks back at 20 years of the TV series “Lost” and the lessons it holds for us today.
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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 21h
The fit speaks for itself, clearly.
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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 22h
Big AI perfec t size for put students in to l/earn! inside very Smart and Normal students learn soundly put student in AI school. no problems ever in ai because good Data and Surveillance for behavior in portfolio. Ai yes a place for student can trust AI for giveing good teach to student. friend AI
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 1d
"Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of technology or artificial intelligence are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures on Christianity that connected gov oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future"

www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 1d
🚨🚨 @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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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 3d
Students presented their novel adaptations today, including a Northanger Abbey board game, an artist’s portfolio for an animated Woman of Colour, John Watson’s true crime podcast, and a Dungeons and Dragons and Dracula one-shot.

I really love the classroom.
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NEH Union - AFGE L3403 @nehafge3403.bsky.social · 4d
The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 4d
How much smaller the federal workforce is now vs. a year ago
Ed Dept 42%
OPM 33%
HUD 31%
Treasury 29%
Defense (civilian jobs) 22%
Small Biz Admin 21%
Energy 20%
Interior 15%
HHS 14%
SSA 11%
EPA 10%
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Much Smaller Is the Federal Work Force? Shutdown Plans Offer a Clue.
The number of federal employees has been trimmed by thousands since President Trump took office, according to contingency plans drawn up by federal agencies.
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cass @cassiusa.bsky.social · 3d
I am very happy to rarely use the internet for work at this point but I am collecting sample research proposals for my MA methods students! If anyone has any laying around, especially if they are Media Studies -adjacent, I'd be super stoked to receive them. Thank you!
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4d
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
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“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 4d
And join us for the virtual launch on October 30th at 6:30pm with luminaries Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan!!! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...
The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery, and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Kim Hall in conversation with Patricia A. Matthew, Debapriya Sarkar, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, and Jennifer Morgan; moderated by Tapiwa Gambura
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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 5d
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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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 6d
"The proposed 'compact' for unis is similar in a key respect to this govt’s actions across many areas of law & policy...replacing the regularity & fairness of law w highly discretionary systems that ensure all sorts of entities & institutions will face the govt...as supplicants in need of largesse."
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d
for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
Balkinization: The Art of Replacing the Law with the Deal
A group blog on constitutional law, theory, and politics
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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 8d
What a gorgeous, sweet girl and what a heartbreaking loss. Thinking of you and all who had the joy of being loved by Millie.
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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 8d
Y’all students LOVED this. And I love that students in rural southern Georgia have now been subjected to Prince Far I (and Bedward, of course)
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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · 13d
I am building a class in World Lit around Alexander Bedward, re: the Prince Far I song, and I had no idea how deep the well was. There are like a million recordings of “Dip Dem Bedward,” spanning decades. A very fun rabbit hole.
DIP THEM BEDWARD + VERSION ⬥Prince Pompadoe⬥
YouTube video by Scratch The Upsetter
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AAUP @aaup.org · 11d
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥

Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.

Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 10d
Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.
Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
The AAUP and partners sued to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14d
But “elite” refers to people who have power and status, not people who know what they’re talking about. And the kind of cumulative, focused training that builds academic expertise produces understanding that is qualitatively different from what a random person can learn from the internet or chatGPT.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 14d
The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 14d
Universities are moving rapidly to comply with laws that don't exist.
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Texas Conference of the AAUP @texasaaup.bsky.social · 14d
“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...
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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 15d
I'm over the moon that my book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in the not too distant future.
Book contract language for Brian Glavey's Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17d
With a lot of gratitude to NHC for the safe space to incubate this lecture, CITAP for supporting my Fellowship application, and the Thomas Wolfe Prize committee and UNC English & Creative Writing Department for the honor.
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National Humanities Center @natlhumanities.bsky.social · 17d
Congratulations to Tressie McMillan Cottom (NHC Fellow, 2025–26), recipient of the 2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize.

As this year’s recipient, Cottom will deliver the annual Thomas Wolfe Lecture on September 30 at UNC-Chapel Hill.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Aug 23
A tiny announcement about this year’s Thomas Wolfe prize.

englishcomplit.unc.edu/program/wolfe/

Sep. 30.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 20d
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 21d
"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 25d
Congratulations!!! What fabulous news for all.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 11
"We are again confronting a massive attack on the very foundations of democratic education + the stakes feel even higher. In the 50s the targets were individual teachers—communists progressives liberals +their leftwing unions. Now the target is the system itself" www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Sep 9
unions are for everybody
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Sep 9
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Have Private Equity Landlords Met Their Match?
A new campaign from the Tenant Union Federation is uniting hundreds of tenants in four states to take on the mega-corporation that owns their homes.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · Sep 8
A protest flyer features a crowd holding signs and banners against ICE and detention centers. Text reads: "EMERGENCY PROTEST!!! ICE OUT OF CHICAGO! Tuesday, Sept 9th at 5PM, Ida B Wells & Michigan." Logos appear at the top.
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toth the raven, nevermore 🐦‍⬛ @thescrvnr.bsky.social · Sep 6
'broken things' is a year old today! I've been making music for most of my life in one way or another, but this is the thing I've made that I love the most. ameliacourthouse.bandcamp.com/album/broken...
Tweet from a listener: "One of my fav records I’ve discovered this year. magical and compelling in a way that is hard to achieve in longer form ambient music. Her treatment of the hymn at the end of the record is just sublime. Soundtrack for a revelatory day"
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