Talia Schaffer

@taliaschaffer.bsky.social

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I like thinking about Victorian care, disability, feminism, and also cooking (not necessarily Victorian).

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

Roses are red,
They look nice on a shrine
Here is the skull,
Of St. Valentine.

(Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar

Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com · 3d

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 9d

If you’re around NYC 6 March and want to chat about care, vulnerability, and the Gothic, you should truck down to the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar

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Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social · 10d

📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Director of Editorial, Design, and Production (REMOTE)

Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practic...

cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 13d

CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.

Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 18d

Ok, I’m in tears now. Our era has its anthem. Thank you, Bruce.

Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 18d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 18d

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 18d

Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...

Eyes on ICE: Document and Record

YouTube video by No Kings

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 18d

Beautifully put, and absolutely right.

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18d

This excerpt from @adamserwer.bsky.social's latest points to something that Alex Pretti's vocation as a nurse brought to mind: What we're seeing in Minneapolis is resistance, but resistance based on care.

I've said before that what we need is a care economy. What we're getting is a care resistance.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18d

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 19d

Never forget that it was decentralized, autonomous, grassroots direct action that achieved this victory.

Not politicians, parties, or petitioning.

Let this be the first in a series of victories in which we drive out all the forces of repression and tear down all the structures of oppression.

From Rapid Response to Revolutionary Social Change

Participants in the rapid response networks in the Twin Cities describe their experiences and reflect on how these neworks could contribute to revolutionary social change.

crimethinc.com

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Diane Zorich @dzorich.bsky.social · 19d

Job posting: Public Affairs Specialist @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Closes: February 13, 2026; Salary: $85,447 - $111,087

Public Affairs Specialist IS-1035-11

Job Opening: Public Affairs Specialist IS-1035-11 at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC.

trustcareers.si.edu

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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 20d

Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library.

Details in link.

Please share :)

Emerging Writer's Residency 2026 - Nottingham City of Literature

A paid residency for emerging writers. Applications are open to explore the feminist archive at the Nottingham Women's Library.

nottinghamcityofliterature.com

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 21d

Jews in Minneapolis are holding a Havdalah service tonight (7:30-8 pm ET) to come together as a Jewish community to find hope and strength in our tradition.

Join them here to separate the sacred from the profane:
templeisrael.zoom.us/j/81682319533

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 22d

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23d

The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.

Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.

MinnMax @minnmax.com · 23d

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

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Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 26d

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford

An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Tyler Horan @tylerhoran.bsky.social · Jan 9

Sharing this Assistant Professor position in Science, Technology & Society Studies at Maastricht University. The role focuses on sustainability and environmental challenges - great fit for STS scholars working at the intersection of technology and society. #AcademicJobs #STS

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jan 8

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026.

As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas.

This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday.

To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community.

We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome.

Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students.

With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.

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Shelly Eversley @shellyeversley.bsky.social · Dec 30

We are still accepting applications for a #tenured #associateprofessor in #QueerStudies @blsbaruch.bsky.social with an appointment @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! Besides the base salary, there’s summer salary and research support. Application deadline is now Jan 5.

cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Jobs | City University of New York

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 23

Last post for the year to say that @jcblibrary.bsky.social we've been thinking hard about how to support scholars and scholarship amidst the multi-dimensional crises for humanities research. We remain committed to our traditional fellowships (indeed in the wake of NEH revocation we expanded), but 1/

Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Dec 21

Recommending this to absolutely everyone!
www.publicbooks.org/victorian-ma...

Victorian Materialisms, Crip Realities - Public Books

Raised-text print in the 19th century transformed literacy, reading practices, media representations of blindness, medical and journalistic discourse, and, most importantly, the everyday lives of blin...

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · Dec 17

For civilians: an academic dept typically has to out maneuver other depts to get a tenure line! I tell grad students applying to red state jobs to indicate that they are familiar with & would be happy spending a decade or more there. A single sentence has moved them to the top of a pile. 1/

Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Dec 16

@sinsleyh.bsky.social offers a characteristically thoughtful, generous and appreciative assessment of Austeniana. I want to read the graphic novel!

Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Dec 16

Stephanie Insley Hershinow surveys recent Austen-related works on Jane Austen's 250th birthday: "Austen offers endless opportunity for examination and reexamination; still, it might be fair to ask what more one can say about our dear Jane." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/happy-birthday-jane/

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Dr. Natalie Mendoza @drmendozan.bsky.social · Dec 16

🗃️ My History Department is hiring for a tenure track position in Native American history. See link for details!

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant or Associate Professor of History

jobs.colorado.edu

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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · Dec 16

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Derek Silva @derekcrim.bsky.social · Dec 14

There is an absolute fucking scandal going down at The New School, wherein at appears that the university is funnelling to a MEMBER OF THE SCHOOL’S BOARD while purging faculty and staff.

This should be headline news.

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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · Dec 3

What a devastating and brilliant article on "education’s auto-cannibalism: universities consuming their own purpose while cheerfully marketing the tools of their undoing." But the good news is that our students are fighting their institutions' betrayal.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...