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Crystal Lake

@crystal-b-lake.bsky.social

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Writer, editor, & English professor in Dayton, OH. Artifacts: How We Think & Write About Found Objects. Co-founder: the-rambling.com. From rural Appalachia & writing about it. Posts are my own. She/her.

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 28

Fire up your typing fingers, friends, because I can’t wait to read your essays as a new member of PMLA’s advisory board starting this summer.

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Lee Konstantinou @lkonstan.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...

Peer Review Paranoia

The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.

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Shannon Hale @shannonhale.bsky.social · Aug 21

my college kid was heartbroken when on the first day of class the professor said "I used to spend 3 weeks teaching this part, but just have AI create it for you and we'll skip it." Skipping the most creative part of the work. The part my kid most looked forward to.

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great idea!

Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Aug 21

…protein bars, safety pins, stain-remover pens, chapsticks, cough drops, ibuprofen, dry-erase markers, menstrual products, bandaids. Essentially, all the stuff you never knew you needed to have at the office until you really needed it. What else would you put in such a kit?

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here’s a thing I’ve started to do: leave a little “Survival Kit” for our graduate student instructors in their offices before the first day of classes. It includes…

picture of a white mesh office supply caddy filled with the items listed in the post

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Aug 20

Your keynote and reflection workshop were so inspiring, Cate! Thank YOU for leading our conversations about higher education in the directions they need to go!

Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Aug 18

It was such a joy today to get to fan girl all the way out and introduce our graduate student instructors in English to Catherine Denial, whose work has influenced so much of the work I’ve been doing these last several years with our grad program. 😍

photograph of 8 graduate students standing with Catherine Denial.

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Jul 22

Any other Hopkins authors get the LLM licensing email? Thoughts?

Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Jul 12

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Sabotage

Beastie Boys · Ill Communication · Song · 1994

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Jul 12

“Work a little harder. / Work another way.”

Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Jun 25

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · Jun 25

I do a lot of my reading now via ebooks, but for a certain kind of academic reading where you’re trying to get a sense of the whole book while diving in and out here and there—spot checking, skimming, reading closely, checking citations—there’s no substitute for the physical thing in your hands.

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · May 26

There are whole movies that don’t have the twists and turns of this paragraph.

Since the eighties, LuPone has been based in Connecticut. Years ago, she and Johnston got a flock of chickens and named them Marilyn, Rita, Eartha, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Fabulous Miller Sisters (Pia, Alexandra, and Marie-Chantal). All but three were massacred in a raccoon attack. "It was horrific," LuPone said. "There was blood and feathers and guts all over the place when my husband heard me screaming. He came down in this Victoria's Secret underwear, barefoot. We looked in the hen hut, and there was the raccoon, basically looking at us, going, I ain't finished.'"

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · May 23

This books sounds amazing! Congratulations!

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · May 7

The work of the ACLS matters now more than ever, and I’m floored by the honor of being among this year’s awardees!

American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · May 7

ACLS awards 36 Project Development Grants, the largest cohort in the history of the program: bit.ly/4iPRP4A

The $5,000 grants support scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles who are undertaking promising research in the #humanities and #socialsciences.

ACLS Awards 36 Project Development Grants

Project Development Grants support faculty in teaching-intensive roles pursuing research in the humanities and social sciences

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Apr 24

Let ‘em cook!

Book stack: Shows of London Milton on Film Pleasures of the Imagination Act of Reading The Spectator vol 3 Storythinking Reading in the Brain

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Apr 10

In my happy place.

Title page for Archibald Alison’s Essays on the Nature and Principles of Taste (1790)

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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · Apr 9

Here's a VERY Rare Book!
Dare I say.... a UNICORN?

How could I (almost) miss that it's #NationalUnicornDay?
#volvelle #interactive #popup
#NewberryLibrary
i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Apr 9

Data providers like EBSCO, ProQuest, Sage + Cengage are “implementing “local controls” on databases, particularly related to health + race. ‘Under even the smallest of threats, the co’s have provided the tools or have secretly put on the tools… that apply the content blocking on these systems”

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Apr 8

I guess even the cats are angry hedge fund managers now, and nothing makes sense anymore.

picture of a cat wearing a neck tie and shaking its “fist”

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Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Mar 30

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads:

"BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 28

Fire up your typing fingers, friends, because I can’t wait to read your essays as a new member of PMLA’s advisory board starting this summer.

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 23

For all you #severance fans, don’t sleep on this brilliant essay about the show by the one and only @drew-strombeck.bsky.social.

the-rambling.com/2022/10/21/i...

Living to Work in Severance - The Rambling

In this essay, Andrew Strombeck considers how Severance reminds its viewers that the Always-Be-Hustling era masks grim truths about work. As long as we view work as a place to find our best selves, we...

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 20

So grateful for and impressed by the work you did in this role, Kathy!!!! Our field is the better for it! ❤️

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 20

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Book Review Editor! Deadline to apply is April 15. Details are at asecs.org/publications...

Eighteenth-Century Studies – ASECS

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Crystal Lake @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social · Mar 13

Delighted to feature this essay—a must-read for anyone interested in eighteenth-century numismatics—as part of the Vetusta Monumenta project!

neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · Mar 13

A ‘thematic essay’ by me on coins & medals for Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, A Digital Edition. Thanks to @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social for making it happen! #c18th #c18 #18thc @antiquaries.bsky.social scalar.missouri.edu/vm/thematic-...

Vetusta Monumenta: Coins and Medals

Vetusta Monumenta, Thematic Essay: Coins and Medals. By Neil Guthrie.

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