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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 20h

Oh my, this is lovely:

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Human Error Is the Point: On Teaching College During the Rise of AI - The Rumpus

My syllabus is a mess of half-remembered intentions. I re-use icebreakers that I know don’t work. I forget to grade the first assignment until Week Four. I write emails that begin with “So sorry for t...

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 1d

Finding myself in a constant cycle of being energized by my teaching and my wonderful students, yet exhausted by the news and general state of the world is... taking a lot out of me, it must be said!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 7d

We will accept submissions for our annual book prizes from 01 Jan to 28 Feb 2026. Books of any academic discipline will be considered providing that they approach the French colonial experience from a historical perspective. Please contact [email protected] with any questions.

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Nghi Vo @nghivo.bsky.social · 8d

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay!

Keep AI out of translation!

White text on a red field.

Text reads: Translators are NOT traitors, with letters in bolder white offering the message "Translators NOT AI."

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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
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 19d

Georgetown/DC friends: I'll be presenting my work on football, gender, and feminist movements in France at the G+JI research colloquium on Oct 3rd. Always happy to see friendly faces in the audience ;)

genderjustice.georgetown.edu/colloquia/re...

Research Colloquium 2025 - Gender+ Justice Initiative

Friday, October 3, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM | In-Person Event | Our annual Colloquia serves as a opportunity to bring together faculty and scholars from across Georgetown and neighboring universities...

genderjustice.georgetown.edu

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 19d

Georgetown/DC friends: I'll be presenting my work on football, gender, and feminist movements in France at the G+JI research colloquium on Oct 3rd. Always happy to see friendly faces in the audience ;)

genderjustice.georgetown.edu/colloquia/re...

Research Colloquium 2025 - Gender+ Justice Initiative

Friday, October 3, 2025 | 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM | In-Person Event | Our annual Colloquia serves as a opportunity to bring together faculty and scholars from across Georgetown and neighboring universities...

genderjustice.georgetown.edu

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 23d

I can absolutely feel the infinite re-readability this book has in store for me!

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 23d

(but on a more serious note, now that I'm done - *sob* - I will take recommendations for the best secondary literature about Middlemarch, because I am for SURE never going to be done thinking about this book)

erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 23d

You're telling me there are only 8 works tagged for Middlemarch on AO3? EIGHT?!

idk what it says about me that I fully expected to find AUs where Dorothea finally gets to go to grad school (at NYU) and Will Ladislaw is a bisexual wife guy from Brooklyn who's teaching himself to play the guitar

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 23d

I... don't know what to do with myself now? Read a whole bunch of analysis, I guess

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 23d

sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine .

ALT: sadness from inside out is crying and saying it 's ok ... i 'm fine .

media.tenor.com

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · 25d

I am one chapter away from the end of Middlemarch, and feeling anticipatorily bereft

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · Sep 3

Been a fan of Loyalty Books ever since we did a kick ass event together back in 2023, sounds like they’re in real trouble thanks to DC being occupied by the military. Go buy some books!

Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · Sep 3

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."

you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence

The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.

www.publishersweekly.com

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Hannah Bluish @hannahbluish.bsky.social · Aug 17

People love it

The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social

A red journal cover with white and black short lines of different lengths with the journal title, 'Australian Journal of French Studies' written in white serif text on a purple and red metallic striped background, with the journal synopsis, 'Devoted to French and Francophone literature, culture and society' written in white serif text to the right.

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 13

YES, THREAD PLEASE

(we've reached the part where Celia has just had her baby, and everything George Eliot has to say about that baby is funny to me)

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 13

It would truly bring me great joy to know I had indirectly subjected students (in another field at a different institution!) to my enthusiasm for making ridiculous memes 😂

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 13

thank you!

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 12

lol thank you. I feel Eliot really teed this one up for me with the line about how Casaubon didn't "call the future volumes a tomb; he called them the Key to all Mythologies" which made me laugh harder than I have in a while

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 12

i promise to share any more memes that my ridiculous brain comes up with! I'm having the best time reading it

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 12

lol I am delighted to have found my (small but enthusiastic) audience for this nonsense 😂

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 12

cc @nathankhensley.bsky.social, as promised 😂

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Aug 12

the horrors persist, but so do the poor quality and unhinged nature of my Middlemarch memes

clippy the paperclip asking "It looks like you're writing a key to all mythologies? Would you like a tomb instead?"

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erinktwohig.bsky.social @erinktwohig.bsky.social · Jul 18

I will 100% tag you in the next one 😂

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