Emily Harrington
@emilyharrington.bsky.social
teacher, scholar, nineteenth-century poetry, women writers, fin-de-siècle, aesthetics
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Standing on my desk right now.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Standing on my desk right now.
And yet we can't afford to hire English professors, even though we have waitlisted classes.
Wilhoit’s Law for universities: “There must be athletics programs that budgets protect but do not bind alongside academic programs that budgets bind but do not protect.”
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
“The [CU athletics has] a $27M deficit… needing $11.9M in university support”
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/202...
CU projects record deficit driven by player costs, Sanders’ salary
The Univ. of Colorado athletic department is projecting that it will run a $27M deficit during the current FY ending in June 2026, in addition to needing $11.9M in institutional support from the unive...
www.sportsbusinessjournal.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
And yet we can't afford to hire English professors, even though we have waitlisted classes.
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Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
December 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Ready to start a movement that argues universities should spend money on their core functions, rather than flashy nonsense. Such as teaching and research for example.
But we can't hire more tenure-line faculty; we need to hire contingent faculty and pay them poorly.
This year, universities are giving $228 million to football coaches who failed at coaching football so that they won't coach football anymore.
December 2, 2025 at 7:59 PM
But we can't hire more tenure-line faculty; we need to hire contingent faculty and pay them poorly.
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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Me: I can catch up on grading over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can catch up on writing over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can cook an ambitious thanksgiving meal
Also me: (Forgets elementary school also takes off for Thanksgiving)
Wednesday before Thanksgiving:
Also me: I can catch up on writing over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can cook an ambitious thanksgiving meal
Also me: (Forgets elementary school also takes off for Thanksgiving)
Wednesday before Thanksgiving:
November 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Me: I can catch up on grading over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can catch up on writing over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can cook an ambitious thanksgiving meal
Also me: (Forgets elementary school also takes off for Thanksgiving)
Wednesday before Thanksgiving:
Also me: I can catch up on writing over Thanksgiving break
Also me: I can cook an ambitious thanksgiving meal
Also me: (Forgets elementary school also takes off for Thanksgiving)
Wednesday before Thanksgiving:
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No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
October 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
No neede for expensyve consultinge firmes. Heere ys a planne for excellent higher education:
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
1) Hire manye facultye
2) Small class syzes
3) Emphasyze engagemente & delighte
4) Sustayne & cultivate a varietye of fieldes and disciplines, even currentlye unfashionable ones -- thys ys ed, not retail
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
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OK, that model is our model press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century
A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises
press.princeton.edu
October 24, 2025 at 2:20 PM
OK, that model is our model press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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i teared up when i read these beautiful words from the CEOs of KKR investments, the current co-owners of Instructure/Canvas & therefore architects of the outage now making it so none of my students can access any learning materials
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
i teared up when i read these beautiful words from the CEOs of KKR investments, the current co-owners of Instructure/Canvas & therefore architects of the outage now making it so none of my students can access any learning materials
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The bad scenario I see people talking about (MT Sweeney on here e.g.) is a real face to face liberal arts education for the children of the elite and intellectuals, religious/patriotic charter schools for the middle class, and basically kid jail/work programs for the poor kids
October 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The bad scenario I see people talking about (MT Sweeney on here e.g.) is a real face to face liberal arts education for the children of the elite and intellectuals, religious/patriotic charter schools for the middle class, and basically kid jail/work programs for the poor kids
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Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Found in a 1904 edition of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on Hathi Trust. I like to think of Ethel and Maud that year, underneath a bough with a book of verses, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and "thou."
September 24, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Found in a 1904 edition of Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam on Hathi Trust. I like to think of Ethel and Maud that year, underneath a bough with a book of verses, a loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and "thou."
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Shut up and take my money
I love voting for new Lego ideas, even though I rarely buy them.
I want this one so badly though.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
I want this one so badly though.
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
September 24, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Shut up and take my money
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“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709
Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709
September 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.”
Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709
Samuel Johnson, born on this day in 1709
The pitchbot is 🔥 these days.
JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
September 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The pitchbot is 🔥 these days.
Shame on you, Polis.
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
September 11, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Shame on you, Polis.
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I still want swords to be turned to plowshares, even when the guy who loved swords gets killed by one
September 11, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I still want swords to be turned to plowshares, even when the guy who loved swords gets killed by one
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A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
September 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
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everyone should read the distinguished Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt's great piece on Trump's senseless dismantling of American science; but it would be nice to see leading specialists in the hard sciences make comparable public defenses of the humanities
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
www.nytimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
everyone should read the distinguished Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt's great piece on Trump's senseless dismantling of American science; but it would be nice to see leading specialists in the hard sciences make comparable public defenses of the humanities
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...
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So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
August 27, 2025 at 9:09 PM
So many adults have to fail a child before he ends up 10 years old telling CNN about the mass shooting he lived through this morning
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love to live in 2025
August 26, 2025 at 7:10 PM
love to live in 2025
An excellent bit of close reading on the way the Open AI CEO is wasteful even in his own kitchen:
Three things we learned about Sam Altman by scoping his kitchen
All Drizzle, no sizzle
www.ft.com
August 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
An excellent bit of close reading on the way the Open AI CEO is wasteful even in his own kitchen:
The best tomato toast is, hands down, pan con tomate, with olive oil and garlic. I will not be taking questions at this time.
I Tried Every Possible Method for Making Tomato Toast and the Winner Was Abundantly Clear
Spoiler: There's barely a wrong way.
www.thekitchn.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
The best tomato toast is, hands down, pan con tomate, with olive oil and garlic. I will not be taking questions at this time.