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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 1d

Mascot rave actually seems like an incredibly effective tactic. There's absolutely no way to spin that the dancing unicorn was threatening.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 1d

Sent this q to VICTORIA, but also figure I should ask here — does anyone know of scholarship on strategies that advertisers (e.g. of fraudulent or illegal goods or services) used to evade surveillence, esp in Victorian Britain? Or strategies that advertisers used to track responses to ads in +

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 23h

#EarlyModern

EarlyModernista @ellierycroft.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know of any good scholarship on John Fletcher's The Elder Brother?

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 1d

Had a great time chatting with David from Four Corners of the Page in my new Malazan video on heroes and heroism. #MBotF #Erikson #booktube #fantasy
youtu.be/a8lnvxurH1I

Heroes and Heroism in Malazan with Four Corners of the Page *SPOILERS*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

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Erin Keating @drerinnerung.bsky.social · 1d

Had a great time chatting with David from Four Corners of the Page in my new Malazan video on heroes and heroism. #MBotF #Erikson #booktube #fantasy
youtu.be/a8lnvxurH1I

Heroes and Heroism in Malazan with Four Corners of the Page *SPOILERS*

YouTube video by Dr. Erinnerung

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 2d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 1d

This is true for students too. Yes there are many factors impacting student reading, but working 30+ hours a week to be able to afford college is definitely one of them.

Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 2d

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 8d

Studies in Comics
General CFP

Papers are welcomed for Studies in Comics, a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary academic journal that aims to describe the nature of comics, to identify the medium as a distinct art form and to address its formal properties.

More 👉https://ow.ly/iUA550X2EZo

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Dr Rebecca Williams @augustaquarius.bsky.social · 5d

Call for Papers

Scandalisation across media: New scandal trajectories, temporalities, and actors

Nordic Journal of Media Studies

www.nordicom.gu.se/en/latest/ne...

Call for Papers: Scandalisation across media: New scandal trajectories, temporalities, and actors | Nordicom

www.nordicom.gu.se

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Intellect Books @intellectbooks.bsky.social · 15d

Film International
Special Issue Calls for Papers: ‘Popular Music and Identity in Cinema’

We welcome submissions that explore the relationships between popular music and the representation and communication of identity in cinema.

Deadline: 1 Feb 2026

👉ow.ly/7tgE50WZjuC

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3d

In a rural corner of Louisiana, Meta is building one of the world's largest data centers, a $10 billion behemoth as big as 70 football fields that will consume more power in a day than the entire city of New Orleans at the peak of summer.

New Meta Data Center Needs Twice as Much Energy as New Orleans

Meta is constructing its largest data center yet: a $10 billion facility in Louisiana requiring more than twice as much electricity as New Orleans.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · 6d

New book ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship

Edited By Louisa Ellen Stein, Samantha Close

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

The Routledge Handbook of Fan Video and Digital Authorship

This cutting-edge collection explores the histories, aesthetics, and cultural work of fan video across a wide variety of manifestations and genres. Editors Louisa Ellen Stein and Samantha Close have a...

www.routledge.com

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Sophie G. Einwächter @einwaechter.bsky.social · 8d

Call for a Themed Issue on “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance”! There will also be a workshop on Feb 27th, 2026! Authors are invited to present and develop their ideas in dialogue with peers. The workshop will be in 2026, on Feb. 27th (Marburg University). Deadline: December 1st! #FanStudies

Nina Heise @ninaheise.bsky.social · 14d

The CfP for the 1st themed issue of our journal Fandom | Cultures | Research is out & I'm especially excited for this one, since it combines two of the things I'm most interested in: #fanstudies & #memorystudies. Added bonus: a workshop in Marburg in Feb 26.

journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/announce...

Call for Abstracts - Themed Issue 2/26 & Accompanying Workshop: “Fan Practices of Memory and Remembrance” | Fandom | Cultures | Research

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Anthony Bale FBA @realmandeville.bsky.social · 7d

Medieval Literature faculty vacancy: Assistant Professor (Medieval British Literature), English Department, School of Arts & Sciences, Hunter College, CUNY

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

Jobs | City University of New York

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 10d

I made a free printable bookmark you can use for any banned books week (or before or after!) displays, books, etc., that gives people *action items* for defending the right to read.

buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

A Free Printable Bookmark About Book Censorship

Print these free bookmarks to help engage your friends, family, and community in the fight against book bans.

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 13d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 12d

This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.

Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 13d

I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.

Juan Meneses | Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination @dissentum.bsky.social · 13d

Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 14d

The kids are alright

Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 14d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 15d

"Feed fanfic into capitalism, and it comes out shaped like capitalism."

@readingtheend.bsky.social dissects the trend pulling fanfiction through the traditional publishing pipeline (and what it means for fandom):

reactormag.com/with-the-ser...

With the Serial Numbers Filed Off: The Problem with Trad Pub Fanfic - Reactor

Jenny Hamilton looks closer at three Dramione fics-turned-novels publishing this year.

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Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 14d

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.”

What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time

One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that could transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 15d

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday.

The closure of Allenby effectively seals off the non-Jewish population of the West Bank from the outside world, as IDF attacks and settler pogroms accelerate.

www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

Israel to close West Bank crossing to Jordan indefinitely starting Wednesday | CBC News

Israel will indefinitely close the only crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan from Wednesday, days after reopening it following a shooting that killed two Israeli soldiers.

www.cbc.ca

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 16d

For anyone looking to do textmining on EEBO-TCP texts, this is a brilliant resource. #EarlyModern

John Ladd @jrladd.com · 16d

Yes! You can download all of EP’s texts and metadata: earlyprint.org/download/. Our texts on are on Bitbucket instead of GitHub, but they work similarly.

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A collaborative effort—centered doubly at Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis—to transform the early English print record, from 1473 to the early 1700s, into a linguisticall...

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Diamanda Hagan @diamandahagan.bsky.social · Aug 29

So regularly destroyed is trans stuff that it's an obscure fact that 2 words beginning with trans (transfeminate and transection) were in English dictionaries to describe someone who 'changed sex' from the mid 1600s until well into the 20th century.

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 20d

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896

The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

www.timeshighereducation.com

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