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Zsuzsa Kaldy @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social · 2d

Faculty colleagues, please let your students know about our PhD program in Developmental and Brain Sciences at UMass Boston! Online info session coming up on 10/22 at 4.30 pm. Applications are due 12/1/25
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Developmental & Brain Sciences PhD

UMass Boston's Developmental and Brain Sciences (DBS) PhD is a research-intensive program focused on understanding cognition, perception, and behavior when underlying neural and hormonal mechanisms ar...

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 2d

It's a new issue of Shakespeare Bulletin, and it's free to read!

#S20 #OpenAccess via @projectmuse.bsky.social

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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 2d

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway.

📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · 2d

UNY-PRC has developed a digital archive that helps bring together materials from system-affected people alongside hard-to-access state records on policing, alongside state records that are often difficult to access by researchers. Everyone is welcome to join.

Register at bit.ly/4mVbdAd
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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · 25d

Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Prioritize your writing this fall by joining this regular community of committed writers on Zoom. Bring friends. 🗃️ #academicsky

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Aug 2

We have a last-minute opening for our summer retreat, and we are able to offer a deep discount. Come write with us, and start your fall semester with real progress on your project and some new friends. 🗃️ #Academicsky

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Hernandez D. Stroud @stroud.bsky.social · Jul 27

New York is about to make all prison phone calls free. This move will make it easier for the state’s over 30,000 prisoners to stay connected to loved ones, saving them over $13 million a year. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/n...

Prisoners’ Phone Calls Will Soon Be Free in New York State

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 23

Join us. Sign up here: uny-prc.org/writing-work...
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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 22

Applications open for January 3-9, 2026 Retreat in Central NY. Start 2026 by making substantial progress on your writing project. We provide nourishing food and hot coffee. You bring the brain power and writing materials. #skystorians #AcademicSky
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UNY-PRC Writing Retreats - Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium

Come write with us. Escape to a beautiful home in Upstate New York with other folks writing about policing, the carceral state, liberation, and related fields. Enjoy semi-structured morning and aftern...

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 16

Join our monthly UNY-PRC Writing Workshop. On Aug 8, 3-4:30pm EST, we'll discuss new work from Dr. Camilla Fojas, Foundation Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Sign up to receive the paper & Zoom link. #AcademicSky #Skystorians

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Writing Workshop - Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium

UNY-PRC Writing Workshop Once a month, Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium (UNY-PRC) hosts a writing workshop. An article or chapter-length draft is circulated a week prior to the Zoom meeti...

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 12

Congrats Ty Thomas and Carissa Bayack, two UNY-PRC interns who contributed to this guide.

UNY-PRC offers internships in interdisciplinary undergraduate research and our students have presented at the AHA among other national conferences.

Clio and the Contemporary @cliocontemporary.bsky.social · Jul 12

Check out this advice from undergrads who are on the other side of their first conference. This would be great for a methods or research seminar syllabus and a handy tool for PAT advisors. 🗃️

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Presenting at your First Undergraduate Academic Conference: A Guide FOR Students BY Students

Presenting original research at an academic conference is a major achievement for undergraduate students. Take some advice from undergrads who have not only survived their first academic conference…

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 12

It's mid-July. How's your summer writing project going?

Join the UNY-PRC Working Group, Tuesdays 10am-noon EST on Zoom, and write in quiet solidarity with others.

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Working Group – Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium

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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium @unyprc.bsky.social · Jul 12

Founded in 2023, UNY-PRC is a network of interdisciplinary scholars, political activists, and community members impacted by the criminal legal system. We believe in the radical power of collaborative documentation and research to critically examine the carceral state.
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Upstate New York Policing Research Consortium – Research | Collaboration | Advocacy

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