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melanie newport @melanienewport.bsky.social · 5h

simple, beautiful bystander intervention and genius way to make community values legible

Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 5h

Context for the whistles (though the above is about Rogers Park/Edgewater, not Little Village): blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/17/i...

In Little Village, Residents Are Blowing Actual Whistles To Warn Neighbors About ICE

Residents have equipped themselves with bright orange whistles amid ramped-up ICE arrests. "People could hear that noise, and if they don’t have legal status, go the other way," one immigrant advocate...

blockclubchicago.org

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Robin James @robinjames.bsky.social · 7h

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Paul C(innamon) Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 8h

“In the days after the killing, speculation swirled online that the attacker was an asylum seeker, or it had been racially motivated, or that Ahmad was a drug dealer. None of this was true.”

These are the citizen neighbours we are enjoined to love over strangers.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A teenager fled horror in Syria – only to be murdered on a sunny day in Huddersfield

Ahmad Al Ibrahim, 16, was looking to make some friends but died after what should have been an innocuous encounter with Alfie Franco

www.theguardian.com

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 8h

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 9h

Maybe Visit from the Goon Squad? Very culture industry, not much criticism, but the PowerPoint is gold

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 10h

Next week, Oct 16 at 7:00 pm EDT, join The Center for Fiction in welcoming Urmila Seshagiri for a conversation with Anne Fernald on Virginia Woolf's first work of experimental fiction, The Life of Violet.

Learn more about the in-person or virtual event: buff.ly/skNckUg

The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories by Virginia Woolf, edited by Urmila Seshagiri

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10h

This really gets to the heart of it!

Annie Abrams @annieabrams.bsky.social · 12h

why isn’t it good enough to call something excellent high school? a full four years to grow seems like a boon to me, why rush it?

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 10h

This film is great -- catch it if you haven't seen it

Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 1d

London: Come listen to me prattle on about trans history (and watch Framing Agnes!) at this free event at Birkbeck next week! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Haunted Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 11h

nothing like watching a presentation about ed tech tools to radicalize you against them

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 14h

just watched a dozen people ask microsoft copilot experts their most pressing questions and those questions were 90% “how do i turn it off?” and “when i turn it off, is it really off or is it spying on me?”

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 10h

What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium at all controllable by the occupant or occupants,—a mast, an oar, a nine-inch cable, a telegraph wire, or a strand of cobweb, it is all the same.

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David Higgins @davidhiggins.bsky.social · 11h

CFP: 'Poetry's Environments', University of Leeds, June 2026.

About poetry and the natural environment in relation to the environments in which it is written, experienced, performed, preserved, and studied.

Please submit a proposal! Deadline 5 December.

conferences.leeds.ac.uk/poetryenviro...

Call for Proposals | Poetry's Environments

conferences.leeds.ac.uk

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 13h

congratulations to nobel prize in literature winner László Krasznahorkai

Klaproth @klaproth.bsky.social · 4d

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 15h

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

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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Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social · 18h

I am delighted with this review of my new book in The New Statesman. The reviewer really gets what the book is all about.

www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

When did opera become elitist?

Alexandra Wilson’s history of the art form in Britain shows how it used to appeal to everyone, from miners to lords

www.newstatesman.com

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Matt Ryan @mattdjryan.bsky.social · 1d

This is incredible news, and shows the incredible power of collective action. The fight against the neoliberal university (my own included) goes on, but its nice to hear some good news for a change.

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 1d

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 1d

Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.

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Stephen Shapiro @stephenshapiro.bsky.social · 1d

theboar.org/2025/10/nati...

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 1d

“In the letter, the government said it would be “reprioritising” the funding of post-16 education in England to focus on “larger than normal maths and high-value A-level programmes to support the pipeline of students for priority sectors””. Grim.

Labour cuts funding for state school IB diplomas

The sudden decision may mean the IB program is only available in private schools

observer.co.uk

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Lisa Stampnitzky @lisastampnitzky.bsky.social · 1d

This really is beyond parody

Thomas M. Keck @tmksyracuse.bsky.social · 1d

Weber State administrators told student they couldn't present their research on the state's anti-DEI law at an on-campus conference on censorship(!) unless they removed all mentions of DEI from their slides

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Weber State Censors, Then Cancels, Censorship Conference

University officials said that several planned presentations violated a Utah state law banning diversity, equity and inclusion at public universities.

www.insidehighered.com

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Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 1d

"Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read.[O]fficial acts of censorship beget quiet censorship...in anticipation of criticism. Out of fear or simply to avoid extra work in the future, library staff remove books, limit access...or don't purchase the books at all."

Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 1d

Philip Nel warns against the ways institutional book banning efforts lead to self-censorship

Read "Being Banned Is Not an Award" in the new issue of Bookbird

Free on @projectmuse.bsky.social thru 31 October

tinyurl.com/3hy62uye

#AcademicSky #BannedBooksWeek

“Having one's book banned is not a prize. It's an assault on the right to read. And, worse, official acts of censorship beget quiet censorship, done in anticipation of criticism.

As frequently banned author Malinda Lo writes, "Self-censorship is possibly the most difficult kind of censorship to fight because it is generally not publicly admitted. It's done quietly, in private. If nobody knows it's happening, how can anyone object?"”

"Being Banned Is Not an Award"
Philip Nel

Bookbird
A Journal of International Children's Literature
Volume 63, Number 3, 2025

Read free thru 31 October 2025

Illustrated with the cover art from the new issue of Bookbird

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 1d

Pretty outrageous tbh

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests Universities in the UK reassured arms companies they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests, according to internal emails. One university said it would conduct “active monitoring of social media” for any evidence of plans to demonstrate against Rolls-Royce at a careers fair. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 1d

Sign. Join. Go to the meeting. The first instinct is to keep your head down, get the work done, hope someone louder or smarter or whatever helps. But that's the coordination problem of fascism: if you, yes you, ordinary person who's never done this before, do nothing then we all lose.

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

sign and share and join AAUP actionnetwork.org/petitions/tr...

Trump Higher Ed Compact 2025

We stand for education—for science, for students and for freedom—and against this backward, anti-American policy. We call on university leaders, faculty, staff and students to unite in rejecting the T...

actionnetwork.org

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing a great new video for our (funded!) History MA here at Virginia Tech. Feel free to reach out to me with any questions or info for students who may be interested: #academicsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzZl...

Inside the Master of History Program at Virginia Tech

YouTube video by Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences

www.youtube.com

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · 2d

Today I'm thinking about the fact that the first Black person elected to Congress, John Willis Menard in 1868, was never sworn in and seated.

He won a special election for the US House in Louisiana after the previous rep died, but his white opponent (a Democrat, of course) contested the election.

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