My chair, Matthieu Boyd, keeping himself out of trouble… He’s published a new translation of the early Irish epic Táin Bó Cúailnge, “The Cattle-Raid of Cooley.” #irishlit #translation https://www.fdu.edu/news/professor-publishes-new-translation-of-irelands-national-epic/

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

First opera performed in the Alix Goolden Hall was John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera. #victoria https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/imagining-the-future-of-victoria-s-troubled-pandora-avenue-1.7649912

@carrideen This! So much this, Carrie… Though I also think there’s something broader and worse. Twitter did all those things *by* mirroring the coteries of academia. Hot Takes of Higher Ed produced the follower counts, and elitist hierarchies of status were the batteries in the megaphone […]

I made the blogger's mistake of thinking those relationships were real. I did buy everyone's books, if I liked them online. I came to their Zoom book release parties, and attended their talks on panels. I even read their books, and shared them with students! But I think it was because my […]

I'm guest editing an issue of Journal of Sonic Studies addressing radical organizing and sonic practice. Call for proposals and details at the link. Please share and get in touch if you're interested to submit. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/558606/558713

@Virginicus I published Dennis’s (excellent) book. 😁 I was focused more on issues of allusion in prose but reflecting tye approaches typical of modernist poetry. It’s part of a larger project mainly in late modernism and allusion broadly, but I’m fascinated by tye work right now on the […]

@Virginicus Dennis Wise’s work by any chance?

Giving this conference paper for #vicfa in less than an hour, and I feel like it’s going to be a lot of fun while working out something challenging…

“Pamela Dean, Allusion, and the Word Incarnate The Mythic Method in Modern Fantasy and Its Modernist Frame”

📚 **Are books a hobby or a necessity for wellbeing? New research shows the link between reading and better mental health**

"_Of the adults surveyed, 37% said that reading had helped them learn something new, and 16% reported that books made them feel less lonely. One in four adults also […]

@carrideen Weirdly, I can almost picture that…

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

It's weird to me how little known #terryfox is outside of #canada

https://youtu.be/3BzyHYZgMz8

#cancer

@OrionKidder I am also very boring… Most of it’s still Josquin des Prez, so it’s not like there are new songs.

@OrionKidder You know, I literally have the same albums on my phone today as I had on my iPod 20 years ago. They’re the same albums I had on CD in my car before that. Because I have never subscribed to a music service. Ever.

And there he is… And Kerry!!

I’m watching a fab documentary on poets of Vernon, and my very first thought was “Jason’s involved because of this type.” Now I’m waiting to see…

Tuesday Thoughts: One of the skills that is often appreciated is the ability to work under pressure. I get it. There are times when pressure is, unfortunately, necessary. I've experienced it and I'll experience it again.

What I don't understand are situations where pressure is created simply to […]

bbs enthusiasts might remember the name Telegard - a bbs server written based on wwiv's source code and hugely popular with the ibm pc/ms-dos crowd

telegard had a long and tumultuous history by its authors, and its own source was eventually leaked and was modded […]

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"From 2003 to 2023, the share of Americans who read for pleasure fell 40 percent, a sharp decline that is part of a continuing downward trend."

Here, in my view, is one clear contributor of our becoming an increasingly less empathetic, less intellectual, less capable of critical thought […]

Since we’re entering a new school year, a thought on grading rubrics…

I see lots and lots of “tick the box and enumerate” rubrics. They’re everywhere. These can be very weak for grading qualitative work. They can be useful for descriptive feedback, but I keep running into people who fail to […]

Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.

I can’t believe this place isn’t using the Coldplay concert meme… #coldplay #donair

24 July 1834 – Edward Taylor Fletcher contracted cholera in the pandemic and wrote about it in 1885. I edited this piece during the COVID-19 pandemic, and it changed how I read everything the man ever wrote… (the book is free online, so take a peak!) […]