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Stephanie Russo

@drstephr.bsky.social

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Historical fiction, Anne Boleyn, Jane Austen, pop girlies and fitness. Currently writing about counterfactual historical fiction. Australia's most important member of the BeyHive. Alena Smith stan. Editor of the Journal of Historical Fictions

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · Apr 16

If you use the code 25AFLY2 you can receive a 20% discount on pre-orders of the paperback version of The Anachronistic Turn! www.routledge.com/The-Anachron...

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television

The Anachronistic Turn: Historical Fiction, Drama, Film and Television is the first study to investigate the ways in which the creative use of anachronism in historical fictions can allow us to rethin...

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector

The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it came...

defector.com

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 2d

Students using AI is definitely the thing that is going to break me. Not even failing grades work as a deterrent.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

In her case, she seems to be stuck in a deeply strange arrested development

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

Somehow I can't relate to being either a billionaire or being perpetually 16

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

I honestly cannot stand her music. I don't get it at all and her lyrics are cringe as hell

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

I never usually comment about Taylor but I have to say, Charli's song was about complex professional jealousy and ambivalence (and not personal at all), and to respond to that with "you must be gay for me and also you do cocaine" would be cringe for a 12-year-old.

Todd in the Shadows @shadowtodd.bsky.social · 6d

This Charli XCX diss track is just the worst, her worst since Reputation

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

Oooh, happy birthday to her and how clever of her to be born on Mean Girls day!

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Makkon @makkon.bsky.social · 6d

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

I don't know, if you're going to describe yourself as an "English teacher" (lol), I'd expect you to have some reading comprehension skills

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

Precisely

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

Actors are hot therefore AI is fine.

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

JFC I feel dumber for reading this

Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 6d

It's October 3rd

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 7d

Can we just admire Jane Fonda, please? She is a true patriot, inspiration, and role model.

"When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity."

Text from the Variety article on the sub quoted piece:

In a letter inviting her peers to join the re-established group, Fonda writes: "I'm 87 years old. I've seen war, repression, protest, and backlash. I've been celebrated, and I've been branded an enemy of the state. But I can tell you this: this is the most frightening moment of my life. When I feel scared, I look to history. I wish there were a secret playbook with all the answers — but there never has been. The only thing that has ever worked — time and time again — is solidarity: binding together, finding bravery in numbers too big to ignore, and standing up for one another."

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 7d

The proliferation of online disinformation targeted at women, which falsely claims that the most effective forms of woman-controlled contraception are dangerous, is an underrated part of the right’s weaponization of epistemic collapse.

Reproductive Freedom for All @reproductivefreedomforall.org · 7d

ALWAYS consult your doctor before making any decisions about your reproductive health care, and look out for your peers by calling out disinformation online.

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 8d

A new variant in the "AI makes false case citations" emerges jade.io/article/1156...

43. In support of their application, the renters have cited a number of

supposed authorities. In reality none of the cases referenced

actually exist. When questioned about these, the renters advised

the authorities were copied from the Al summary that resulted
from a simple Google search.

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 8d

The president of the United States openly bragging about turning the army on to its own citizens to violently quell dissent and centrist men still calling for "civil debate"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Trump: "The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places & we're gonna straighten them out one by one. This is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within"

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 9d

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11d

One for the “who could have seen this coming “ crowd

Headline from October 2024: Kamala’s newest lie: Trump will send the army after you

Headline from September 2025: Trump says he’s sending troops to Portland

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 12d

ChatGPT Edu is built for conning education executives into subsidising and edu-washing planet-burning slop machines via non-consensual access to young people’s creativity AND DATA while attacking their ability to learn. At a university.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 19d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social · 14d

Finally, if you work, study or care about the university sector, write to the Minister Jason Clare, write to chair of the Inquiry Senator Marielle Smith and urge them to act.

www.aph.gov.au/Senators_and...

Hon Jason Clare MP

Parliamentarian

www.aph.gov.au

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Marija Taflaga @marijataflaga.bsky.social · 14d

open.spotify.com/episode/1OPE...

In this week's DS episode @jennaprice.bsky.social, Sinclair Davidson, Mark and I discuss the governance crisis in the Australian University sector.

It is telling when folk from across the political spectrum agree on the problem and most of the solution

A thread🧵

Universities in crisis

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Stephanie Russo @drstephr.bsky.social · 12d

Shocking yet unsurprising conduct by Uni execs

Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d

Even the external barrister hired to do the internal review of a NSW GIPA (FoI) decision was told it didn't exist. But it did. It had been emailed to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Prof. Kathryn McGrath, as requested. She said she discussed it with the VC. The VC signed the contract!

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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 12d

University of Technology Sydney ordered a spreadsheet from KPMG targeting individual academics by research income, which might contravene the bargaining agreement. They repeatedly denied it even existed for several info requests. But that wasn't true. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/educati...

Exclusive: University sought secret KPMG staff spreadsheet

The University of Technology Sydney denied the existence of a KPMG spreadsheet ranking the research performance of academics, in breach of its EBA, until it was forced to release it.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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