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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2h

I asked but lizard declined to be named. Still bitter about the cat, I think

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2h

update: I have a house lizard now. We’re friends, I think?

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16h

I’ll just never sleep again I guess it’s totally fine

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 16h

My cat brought a lizard into the house and then it escaped her maw and now I can’t find it and I guess this is just my life now: roommate to two sworn enemies, both of which may climb into my bed while I slumber at any moment but whatever it’s fine

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 22h

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 23h

I am a runner and I never want to hear the words “luteal phase” again. Some skepticism about these hyperbolic claims about what you should and should not do for like a quarter of your life is so overdue

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

“Dingy” is such a great adjective—beloved by Wharton and James but entirely out of favor now, or at least evacuated of class connotations. So much is truly dingy though! Most medical waiting rooms. Airports. Airplanes. Every place where money can buy insulation from inconvenience for a select few.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 1d

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

Especially glad for the “practical materials“ chapter at the end, which is great if you are someone who cares not only to read closely, but also convince students it’s a worthwhile thing to do.

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

In the category of good things entering the world of ideas: this smart and beautifully conceived collection of essays close reading superlative close readings from @johannawinant.bsky.social @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social from @princetonupress.bsky.social

Book cover with title: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, Ed. Sinykin and Winant

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 2d

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...

contingentmagazine.org

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 2d

I love it when a seemingly normal human reveals themselves to be a Horse Person. I love horses too, but, like, theoretically. The commitment! The logistics! The rich personal backstory this all implies!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 2d

"one lopsided battle after another, by communities and individuals, some with ideologies and many with nothing but a stubborn and principled unwillingness to accept what is unacceptable"

David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 4d

I made an extremely belated return to @flaminghydra.com with this bit about my long winter of depressing '70s cinema and the righteous and unreasonable defiance of One Battle After Another. flaminghydra.com/issue-416/

Struggle cinema

David Roth on 'One Battle After Another'

flaminghydra.com

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Benjamín Schultz-Figueroa @benjaminschultzfig.bsky.social · 4d

It really is striking how much they want us to see images of their own brutality. The pretense of being anything but a exercise in violence has all but disappeared.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 4d

Gestapo posting about their work.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 6d

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 6d

Of course we connect with students who share our interests and proclivities and habits, but the real challenge—maybe especially for the humanities—is to bring in everyone else

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 6d

There is this very human impulse to extrapolate from one's own experience assumptions about the experience of others (even while we also—simultaneously—like to think of ourselves as special flowers) and sometimes this really backfires for teachers especially ...

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 6d

Should be said too that colleges have encouraged etexts in the name of economic accessibility, but then turn around and contract with bookstores to create systems where students pay flat fee for ebooks but never actually get to own them…

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 6d

Seconding this. Also this is anecdotal, but having become accustomed to the ease of finding stuff immediately online, I think they’re not as accustomed to the process of seeking out physical books, or as willing to pay for them. Digital reading, piecemeal

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 6d

AI Bubble Watch: I've now spoken with multiple Writing Program Administrators who have seen dramatically increased usage of Writing Center resources early in Fall term. Is this, as @bcmerchant.bsky.social terms it, the "Luddite Renaissance"?

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 8d

“Sometimes it’s just good to get everyone together“ said every clueless admin, and also the Secretary of Defense

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d

Horrifying— Barbara Gomes Marques went with her US citizen husband and lawyer on 9/16 to a green card appointment at USCIS office in downtown LA where she was tricked into walking down a hallway away from them, was snatched by ICE and never came back. She now faces imminent deportation in Louisiana.

Los Angeles man demands answers after wife was detained at scheduled green card meeting

A man is speaking out and asking for help after his wife was detained by federal agents at the end of a scheduled green card hearing in downtown Los Angeles in early September.

www.cbsnews.com

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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 8d

The faces of those generals in that pointless military thing = every early morning faculty meeting I’ve ever had to attend

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 9d

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education

Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

nepc.colorado.edu

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