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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe ......

Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 13d

Revenge will come when she's old enough to spout things you have said and realizes OMG I sound (or worse: I've become) like my mother!

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 26d

understood!

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · 26d

Asking for technical information: would that help in view of the fact that a fair amount of uni activity (emails, e.g., and I assume anything else done on uni computers?) are archived?

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Sep 5

Second proofs thing sent!

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Sasha Senderovich 🌻 @returnstosender.bsky.social · Aug 18

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

I've now been allowed and asked to share more details about what's going down at the University of Oregon, which involves imminent announcement of firings, among others, of tenure-track and tenured faculty. Given the units impacted (see below), please share this with your professional networks in related disciplines and start getting ready to put pressure (or begin putting pressure already) on the University of Oregon upper admin to abandon this alleged plan before they finalize it.

It appears that, with no prior consultations, the departments of Religion and Classics (two separate units), and the programs in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies, German & Scandinavian, Judaic Studies, Arabic Studies, and Holocaust Studies (the latter five all parts of a previously-consolidated mega unit called the Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages) are facing imminent announcement of elimination (expected the week of Sept 7), with layoffs of pre-tenure, tenured, and career faculty in these units. The reason given is "financial exigency" -- upper administrations of several universities across the country (and in blue states like Oregon also) appear to be giddy to use the context of Trump attacks on higher ed to dismantle the humanities.

Faculty at OU won a faculty union not long ago; this may be, in part, a retaliation for that, I've been told. The union is working with AAUP, etc.; my understanding is that the maximum spotlight is needed at this point.

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John Ma 🇺🇦 @nakhthor.bsky.social · Aug 11

www.universityofcalifornia.edu/get-involved...

Stand Up for UC

We must stand together to protect our students, staff, faculty and our mission.

www.universityofcalifornia.edu

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Eric J. Harvey, Ph.D. @blindscholar.bsky.social · Aug 4

Planning to spam the timeline for the next 2 weeks to make sure as many people as possible can get a copy during the free period. Stay tuned for increasingly unhinged posts as I find ways to amuse myself

Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Cambridge Core - Economic History - Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

www.cambridge.org

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Aug 3

Did you feel it?

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just sent a thing back to the editors. Two things crept up to fill its place!

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · May 31

You get a night off!

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Apr 4

Hats off to the Federation of State Humanities Councils, and the southern state councils for leading the way in speaking up about what they're losing with the NEH funding cuts.

Cuts to NEH and Humanities Councils: What Southern States Will Lose - Federation of State Humanities Councils

www.statehumanities.org

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · Mar 25

We will not blindly follow illegal orders because Donald Trump wrote them down on a piece of paper.

Illinois follows the laws of the land – not the decrees of an aspiring king hell bent on disenfranchising millions of voters who deserve to have their voice heard.

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Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social · Mar 10

We are offering two FREE, online semi-intensive short courses in #Phoenician and Punic #language in April 🏛️ 🏺

Elementary course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/eleme...

Intermediate course info: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/inter...

Share and Apply by 22 March!

Elementary Phoenician – Grammar and Inscriptions

ics.sas.ac.uk

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Mar 4

And here in the US, with the shutdown of the weather service, those 20,000 residents might get no warnings.

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LeftIdaho4Good @leftidaho4good.bsky.social · Feb 27

vaccinate your child. As a survivor of the measles, I lost much of my eyesight but am guaranteed immunity. My son, as an adult, just went and received a booster to ensure the 97% effectiveness that he can have with the vaccine. It is a PREVENTABLE DISEASE.

Kristina Killgrove @killgrove.bsky.social · Feb 27

😬

Health officials announce confirmed measles case in Kentucky

Health officials with the Kentucky Department for Public Health and Franklin County Health Department announced a confirmed case of measles identified in an adult Kentucky resident.

www.wkyt.com

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Quinn Dombrowski @quinnanya.me · Feb 24

It's hard to describe what a feat this is, and shouldered by a much smaller group than the folks who captured the data. @asegerberg.bsky.social has been chipping away at this database for years. Rescuing data is hard, but curating & publishing it is a much harder, lonely slog. Prepare for it.

sucho-org.bsky.social @sucho-org.bsky.social · Feb 24

Today marks the 3rd anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. SUCHO has now made publicly available the 50 TB of cultural heritage data archived from websites ranging from national archives to local museums, 3D tours of churches to children’s art centers. www.sucho.org/press-releas...

Screenshot of the SUCHO database of web-archived content

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Feb 17

That 10% of what just got cut from Education.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Feb 12

Priceless ;)

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Feb 12

letter sent to my rep (former speaker Pelosi)! @homophonous.bsky.social has gotten me into active letter writing mode

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Feb 9

My Superb Owl pick

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · Feb 7

“Do not bend your neck for that which cuts necks.”

A Sumerian proverb, as relevant today as it was thousands of years ago.

Photo of a fragment of a clay tablet shaped a bit like a diamond. Although it is only a fragment, the cuneiform text on it is well-preserved. There is a vertical line down the centre which indicates it once had at least two columns. The colour is reddish brown

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Jan 29

Give the workshop talk. There is no excuse for such inconsiderate treatment of a guest speaker.

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Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Jan 28

Thank you for posting Miriam! I've never made such calls, and there is no better time than now to start. Thanks for the head-start with the script and list of contacts!!!

Laurie Pearce @pearcele.bsky.social · Jan 28

Please post when/where that appears!

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