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Kate Crowe @kcrowe.bsky.social · 2h

"Faculty were not consulted" 👀

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 7h

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 8h

Seeing many posts about how ICE isn't trained. That's not really the problem. The problem is what they were sent to do, not whether they're qualified to do it.

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Sasha Ann Panaram @sashapanaram.bsky.social · 1d

"[Toni] Morrison’s skill as an editor surely made her a better writer, but it undeniably took time and energy away from her own work, and it was never fully appreciated as an intellectual endeavor in itself." -- Marina Magloire via @thenation.com

“To Free Someone Else”: Toni Morrison the Book Editor

A recent book on her career in publishing makes the case that the great American novelist should also be seen as a pathbreaking editor.

www.thenation.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 3h

I heard of undergrad on a Trek email list, my PhD from C18-L listserv (a post about Joe Millionaire, so I owe something to reality TV too)

My co-godparent/honorary brother I met on Livejournal, as well as my best friend outside my dept during my PhD.

My current research program started as tweets.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 12h

one thing I learned during 2020 is that "less than lethal" munitions are explicitly designed to be shot into the ground so they lose velocity and bounce up into people and the reason I didn't know that before is literally NO ONE has ever deployed them that way.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 12h

Reporter's notebook: I actually began working on this story shortly after footage of the incident showed up last month.

But by the time I finally got ahold of folks, the story grew: 2 *other* faith leaders I spoke with *also* reported being shot w/pepper balls while protesting this ICE facility.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 3h

Enough people made encouraging noises that it seems like I should start an RSS feed for the audio versions of my posts, but the downside is that then I have to give it a title and cover art and such and then it’s like a podcast for real and I am unprepared for that headspace.

Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 7h

I pushed publish on two pieces with audio, saw two doctors, had one student meeting & one committee meeting, and pulled 2 plate deadlift (225 lb/102 kg) 5x3 easy.

I would like more of these kinds of days.

(Ironically, the healthcare is to try to answer why I have been tired for years)

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 1d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 5h

One issue I talked about in Slave Revolt on Screen was how the early 2010s burst of energy at Ubisoft & other companies - diversifying characters and narratives - faced a backlash after GamerGate. The women developers who'd made great games NOT celebrating colonization & conquest lost jobs./

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 11h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Shane Liesegang, SJ @sjml.bsky.social · 7h

Pope Leo: Migrants in America are "living witnesses of hope" who "have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life"

To the Participants in the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network
I was pleased to learn of the 115th Annual Meeting of the Catholic Charities USA Network taking place in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and I offer cordial greetings and good wishes to all those participating.
You are gathered together as the Church celebrates the Jubilee Year focused on the virtue of hope, which my venerable predecessor defined as
"the desire and expectation of good things to come, despite our not knowing what the future may bring" (Bull of Indiction of the Ordinary Jubilee of the Year 2025, 1).
Through your 168 diocesan Catholic Charities agencies, you become
"agents of hope" for the millions of people who approach the Church in the United States of America seeking compassion and care. Many of those whom you serve are among the most vulnerable, including migrants and refugees.
As they are not able to rely on their own resources and have to depend on God and the goodness of others, in many ways your ministry makes the Lord's providence concrete for them. Through providing food, shelter, medical care, legal assistance, and many other gestures of kindness, Catholic Charities affiliates across the United States show what Pope Francis often referred to as God's "style" of closeness, compassion, and tenderness.
While those affected by poverty and forced migration face difficult challenges, let us not forget that they can also be witnesses to hope not only through their trust in divine assistance, but also by their resilience in often...

having to overcome many obstacles on their journeys. In a special way, Catholic migrants and refugees have become missionaries of hope in many nations, including your own, by bringing with them a vibrant faith and the popular devotions that often re-energize the parishes who welcome them (cf. Message for the 11]th World Day of Migrants and Refugees).
It might be said that through assisting displaced persons to find their new homes in your country, you also act as bridge builders between nations, cultures and peoples. I encourage you, then, to continue helping the communities who receive these newly arrived brothers and sisters to be living witnesses of hope, recognizing that they have an intrinsic human dignity and are invited to participate fully in community life (cf. ibid.).
Dear friends, I express my heartfelt gratitude for all that you and those who work with your networks do each day to put into practice the Lord's admonition to see and serve him in the poor, hungry, homeless, and people in any kind of need (cf. Mt 25:31-46). May Christ continue to accompany you and give you his joy and peace.
With these sentiments, I entrust the Annual Meeting to the intercession of Mary, Mother of the Church, and I willingly impart my Apostolic Blessing to all in the Catholic Charities USA Network as a pledge of abundant heavenly graces.
From the Vatican, 4 October 2025

Leo PP XIV

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 11h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Sunny Stalter-Pace says, "Go Cubs Go!" @slstalter.bsky.social · 7h

The way that little old ladies who lived there all their lives say it -- "mn-gum-reh"? -- is marvelous.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

If we’re talking regionally, “Mobile” and “Montgomery” are big ones

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 7h

I pushed publish on two pieces with audio, saw two doctors, had one student meeting & one committee meeting, and pulled 2 plate deadlift (225 lb/102 kg) 5x3 easy.

I would like more of these kinds of days.

(Ironically, the healthcare is to try to answer why I have been tired for years)

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Mike Sellraiser III: Sell on Earth @profmikesell.bsky.social · 7h

Being a college professor is weird. The variety of stuff I do on a given day and week to week can be dizzying. It’s genuinely a solid set of labor practices and it can fun! And if you’re unionized and you’re protected by a strong tenure system, even better. But still weird, especially these days.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 7h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 8h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 10h

The Twitterstorians and pedagogy communities on old Twitter totally transformed my relationship to teaching. Met my Covid-and-after writing and knitting groups. Got a book project. Got much better educated about a lot of things I was woefully ignorant about.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 8h

DAMN SON

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dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · 8h

students said they weren’t really poetry fans but loved novels, so i wrote down a line they picked out from jane eyre, scanned it, noted the metrical substitutions and internal rhymes. reader, they took pictures of the chalkboard.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 8h

Some very preliminary thoughts about faith, religion, D&D, and what I see missing from power fantasies.

As always, free to read/listen -- but particularly with this one, need to fig leaf of a subscriber wall.

Ora et Labora -- et Ludere (or, some thoughts on religion in Actual Play) | Dr. Em Friedman

www.patreon.com

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 10h

also seeking advice about printed coursepacks -- my bookstore is useless it seems.

Cara L. Lewis @carallewis.bsky.social · 11h

Does anyone still make coursepacks for students?

Super common when I was in college & grad school, but I imagine putting PDFs on the LMS has mostly (entirely?) replaced it. Anyone just printing out everything for them?

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 11h

File this under DUH but yes

Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 11h

If teachers are told using AI technologies creates time to spend developing relationships with students, and the report’s findings suggest AI technologies undermine these vital relationships, then it seems to me resistance and refusal of AI technologies is the most caring response.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 11h

I know Dolly Parton cussed her sister smooth the fuck out, lol.

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Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social · 12h

@rarebookschool.bsky.social doesn't generally accept high school students but they made an exception for Gauri in my Fragmentology class last summer. I am so proud of her! LOOK WHAT SHE DID! #IIIF #MedievalSky timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices...

Bridging archives: The role of IIIF in global manuscript preservation

India’s manuscript tradition is among the richest in the world, spanning centuries, languages, and disciplines. Yet, much of this vast repository remains fragmented, fragile, and inaccessible. The tec...

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 15h

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16h

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

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Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 13h

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

Siva @sivav.bsky.social · 15h

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

newrepublic.com/article/2013...

Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

How Linda McMahon’s latest “compact” would do deep and permanent harm to American higher education

newrepublic.com

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Eleanor Franzen @eleanorfranzen.bsky.social · 13h

Attending online! Full of interesting tidbits, from what a C18 valet did immediately after unpacking his master's belongings (find a fellow English servant and go drinking) to what these journals don't include (surprisingly, servants rarely wrote about their actual work). #18thcentury #academia

Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 13h

Just listening to @richardjansell.bsky.social talking eloquently about servants and their journals on the grand tour @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

A photo of a seminar room with an audience facing forward. The speaker is at the front behind a podium

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